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Assange Thanks USA for Forcing Him to Invest in Booming Bitcoin

posted by martyb on Monday October 16 2017, @01:51PM   Printer-friendly
from the silver-(bitcoin)-lining dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

From the Law of Unintended Consequences:

Endurance couch-surfer and WikiLeaker-in-chief Julian Assange has thanked US authorities for the banking blockade that made it hard to donate fiat currencies to his organisation, because it inadvertently enriched the organisation.

The blockade first appeared in 2010, after the United States expressed its ire at WikiLeaks' publication of diplomatic cables. Not long afterwards, Mastercard and Visa stopped processing donations sent to the site.

WikiLeaks sued and won against Visa, but the blockade persisted. The organisation therefore sought alternative funding including Bitcoin.

Which brings us to an Assange Tweet from Sunday, as follows.

My deepest thanks to the US government, Senator McCain and Senator Lieberman for pushing Visa, MasterCard, Payal, AmEx, Mooneybookers, et al, into erecting an illegal banking blockade against @WikiLeaks starting in 2010. It caused us to invest in Bitcoin -- with > 50000% return. pic.twitter.com/9i8D69yxLC
        — Julian Assange 🔹 (@JulianAssange) October 14, 2017

> 50,000%?

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday October 16 2017, @05:53PM (6 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Monday October 16 2017, @05:53PM (#583071) Journal

    We have a bunch of those morons here on this very site. Predictably it's the usual rogues' gallery of authoritarians, alt-right'ers, barely-closeted Neo-Nazis, and sociopaths.

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by Phoenix666 on Monday October 16 2017, @06:31PM (1 child)

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Monday October 16 2017, @06:31PM (#583086) Journal

    They wish they could have been lizard people, but they didn't make the cut.

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    • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday October 16 2017, @07:32PM

      by JoeMerchant (3937) on Monday October 16 2017, @07:32PM (#583126)

      Oh, but they know, or at least know of, several Lizard people who they aspire to be just like...

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  • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday October 16 2017, @10:44PM (3 children)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Monday October 16 2017, @10:44PM (#583202) Homepage

    Who here is an authoritarian?

    I'm not sure that anybody here is a sociopath, either...sociopaths have charisma.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 17 2017, @12:19AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 17 2017, @12:19AM (#583236)

      Well you fit the bill. It is a horrifying charisma, but it seems to charm the other trolls round here. If you're not a sociopath / psychopath at least to SOME degree then I think we need to roll back psychology to the 1300's and just throw you in the pit :D

    • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday October 17 2017, @02:01AM

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday October 17 2017, @02:01AM (#583262) Journal

      Although I'm not a psychologist, I think it's fairly obvious to anyone with open eyes that J-Mo is one of these. I suspect very strongly VLM is too. Uzzard too, most likely, though he has a small kernel of human warmth that makes me wonder sometimes. Entropy for goddamn certain; he may actually be the single worst person on the site and that is stiff competition.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 17 2017, @03:40AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 17 2017, @03:40AM (#583298)

      Some do; others have inherited wealth.

      It's what they lack that is the determining factor: empathy.

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