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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%?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 16 2017, @08:56PM (1 child)
Stop encouraging the clueless to take an interest. It does no good for anyone. God forbid they ask somebody who explains technology to them in a way that gives them just enough clue to be dangerous.
The other option of course, is that Assange has been working with these guys behind the scenes, and this whole thing is a ploy to manipulate the digital currency markets. Is the guy still in London? Anybody know? Perhaps McCain is visiting him on the weekends at a suite at the CIA complex on Route 28, with a gaggle of hookers and a keg of Cognac.
Wouldn't surprise me one bit.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 17 2017, @10:52AM
Most "normal thinking" people wouldn't be doing what he's doing though. We'd have families and lifestyles we'd care more about than some dream. You'd also need to be fairly knowledgeable and intelligent too- thus you'd know what it could potentially cost you and you'd do something else instead.
The saints of the world are willing to sacrifice themselves but they would be off helping the poor and starving in Africa or similar. More importantly the sort of thing Assange does isn't pure and holy enough for the saints.
tldr; only a crazy dick would poke the huge filthy assholes of the world... Don't be surprised to see dick moves from a crazy dick.