Julian Assange’s successful investment

Wikileaks, the website posting huge dumps of highly classified military, intelligence and diplomacy data online for everyone to read, has always met strong resistance from different governments of the world, even including the United States authorities, well-equipped with sanctioning tools. Its creator, Julian Assange, even had to hide in various countries. He is currently residing in the Ecuador embassy.

Financial deposits of Wikileaks were blocked by PayPal, Visa and Mastercard. The self-reliant organization had to use cryptocurrency before the concept was known by the public. And during the past weekend, Julian Assange sarcastically thanked the authorities and corporations they decided to ban Wikileaks deposits back in the days when cryptocurrencies were cheap. Now, Mr. Assange states, the organization has 50,000% of revenue.

This story proves that crypto anarchists’ view of cryptocurrency as means to avoid governmental interference, undeniably, has some grounds. Sadly, not only freedom fighters use crypto market to get away from law enforcement…

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