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Julian Assage Taunts US Government For Forcing Wikileaks To Invest In Bitcoin (facebook.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the prisoner's-dilemma dept.

Saturday's tweet from Julian Assange says it all: "My deepest thanks to the US government, Senator McCain and Senator Lieberman for pushing Visa, MasterCard, PayPal, AmEx, Moneybookers, et al, into erecting an illegal banking blockade against @WikiLeaks starting in 2010. It caused us to invest in Bitcoin -- with > 50000% return."
Assange's tweet was accompanied by a graph showing the massive spike in the price of bitcoin -- though most of that growth occurred in the last year.

3 of 195 comments (clear)

  1. Re:ASSSANGGGE!!!! by MightyMartian · · Score: 1, Insightful

    How's the weather in St. Petersburg, comrade?

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  2. Re:ASSSANGGGE!!!! by Dan+East · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You have to admit the genius in this. Why should the US waste money on pursuing him, when he's incarcerated himself through his own paranoia?

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  3. Re: ASSSANGGGE!!!! by Bing+Tsher+E · · Score: 1, Insightful

    "You could have targeted Trump and not Hillary, but chose to disclose malfeasance wherever it was seen!"