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Where Did WikiLeaks' $25 Million Bitcoin Fortune Go? (thedailybeast.com)
Everyone from early investors to cybercriminals has benefited from the huge spike in the value of bitcoin in the past few weeks. It's a boon for one other outfit that has likely racked up tens of millions of dollars' worth of the cryptocurrency: WikiLeaks. Joseph Cox, reporting for The Daily Beast: The transparency organization may be sitting on a stockpile of bitcoin valued at around $25 million, and has likely exchanged several other large cryptocurrency caches for fiat cash, according to two sources who independently analyzed WikiLeaks's bitcoin transactions. "Last wallet looks like his piggy bank," John Bambenek, a security expert who has previously tracked Neo-Nazis' use of bitcoin, told The Daily Beast, pointing to a specific bitcoin address believed to be linked to WikiLeaks. Since at least 2011, WikiLeaks has allowed supporters to send bitcoin donations. As noted by James Ball, a journalist and former WikiLeaks staffer, whoever is in control of this address -- presumably WikiLeaks -- moved around 3,000 bitcoin, worth $800 each, into a series of other accounts on one day in December 2013.
It's probably in the blockchain.
Between this submission and this other submission that's currently on the front page, the word "nazi" appears 8 times!
Do you know how many times "linux" appears on the front page right now? Zero!
Do you know how many times "programming" appears on the front page right now? Zero!
"internet" only appears twice.
Are Slashdot's editors just imitating the mainstream media and leftists, who have been falsely accusing all sorts of people of being "nazis" lately?
Frankly, this kind of misuse of the term "nazi" only serves to dilute the meaning of that term.
It's getting to the point where when people hear the term "nazi" and they just figure it's yet another false accusation made to attack a political opponent, the shrug their shoulders, and ignore it.
Wikileaks understands keeping 3000 Bitcoin in one wallet address is stupid.
When will journalists actually bother to learn how cryptocurrency works?
news for clicks
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You are literally Hitler!
I'd bet the nightly rate at the Ecuador Embassy isn't cheap.
And still no UTF-8 support.
Right into George W. Bush's pocket.
exchanged several other large cryptocurrency caches for fiat cash
The term is real money. Using the term "fiat cash" makes the author sound like a pretentious ass who's trying to be oh so leet.
No one in normal, every day usage uses the term, "fiat cash". If we're going down that route, we should use a term such as electronic markers to describe bitcoin and the like.
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Even though the media likes to call them right-extremists, the 1930s National Socialists were actually leftists who pitted the "unfairly" successful German Jews (the 1% of their time) against the post-WW1 German commoner, in much the same way that Democrats use class envy to keep themselves in power today.
In the US, real money is defined as gold or silver, as is similar in the Constitutions of several states and the Bretton Woods Agreement.
Historians, economists, and traders use the term 'fiat' all the time, but this may be the first time any of them were accused of being 'leet' rather than 'nerds'.
Why do you have a burr up your ass about a particular economic term?
In addition, he's attacking the author (he sounds pretentious!) and not the substance of the article, or even the reliability of the information given.
"You are literally Hitler!"
'literally' ?
You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.
Is it wrong for an organization that used information stolen from Hillary Clinton by Russian hackers to hack the United States presidential erections for profit?
I think Julian Assange should be executed for betraying Hillary. I voted for Hillary, and I think anyone that opposed her is a right wing neo nazi racist fucktard. Socialism is for fucking RETURDS, and anyone that thinks that the government should have any say on what private organizations, companies, and people do is a fucking piece of shit.
Why has this been marked as troll? It is an innocent joke. Are we this far in lack of humour that in all that nazi/metoo/ecological collapse/Trump deception/what else we have no time for a normal conversation? I guess yes.
Linux users are motherfuckers, asshole, faggots, and grade A dipshits. But, Nazis are still worse and still exist even in 2017. I envision a world without Nazis and Linux zealots. But that world if far, far away.
As long as you don't count the Las Vegas shooting. Paddock had antifa related material in his room.
His bump stocks all had Pepe stickers on them.
You are welcome on my lawn.
I guess you think the Berkeley professor who went around striking people in the head with a bike lock was trying to help his victims with their hairstyle?
As a former EMT in the 9-1-1 system, I've seen more than my fair share of single-strike head injuries that caused significant damage.
As such, there is only one reason for striking someone in the head with a weighted metal obeject: to cause serious bodily harm to them, up to, and including death. Just because the noodly-arm professor was not successful doesn't mean he didn't attempt to do what you claim hasn't happened.
The term of choice used to be "racist", but that's been so overused in the past year and a half that they have to switch to using another word.
I've been following the zeitgeist of this. Until around December of last year, people would flee from the word, conceding the argument to whoever first uses the word to describe the other side. Then in December people started ignoring the word a little, then Jan/Feb people were like "meh" about it, and around March people started (note: started, not widely) embracing the word.
Then "OK, I'm racist" started popping up, but it wasn't really attached to the *person*, it was attached to the position. One could say "OK, I'm racist" for posting an opinion about strong immigration control. Or "OK, I'm racist" for posting an opinion about limiting visas or voter ID.
Through the summer, "racist" started to be applied to just about everything. Tigers are racist. Perfectionism is a form of racism. Two white parents having a white child is racist. I'm not making that last one up, it's "[...] one of the most powerful forces supporting white supremacy" - don't you know?
Now racist has completely lost its meaning. No one online seems to pay any attention to it at all.
Sexual assault is pretty big right now, but it's fading fast. It was a flash in the pan with people like Harvey Weinstein, but quickly got more ridiculous. You can tell it's on it's way out because Fart rape is a thing.
(Side note: "Trump is literally Hitler" is pretty-much dead, the last nail in that coffin was recognizing Jerusalem as the capitol of Israel.)
So now they need a new word, and it's probably going to be nazis for awhile. Expect this to go on for a couple of months and get progressively more ridiculous, probably though the primaries of next year.
Then Ramadan comes up (May 15 to June15), many terrorist actions will make the news cycle(*), and it's likely that "Islamaphobe" will be the word of the day.
It's basically the fashion industry for words.
(*) Just extrapolating from past years, such as last year viz. London. OK, I'm racist.
The encoding clearly identifies AppleDevice users who don't know how to configure them. That's a plus, actually. It flags those individuals to "the rest of us."
The back side of Antifa flags always have Pepe logos on them. When they flap in the wind is when the riot starts.
Linux users are motherfuckers, asshole, faggots, and grade A dipshits. But, Nazis are still worse and still exist even in 2017. I envision a world without Nazis and Linux zealots. But that world if far, far away.
If it weren't for linux, u couldn't login here and post idiot drivel.....
Based on most of the comments here, I would imagine that the Bitcoins were used to fund the technology that keeps Julian Assange's head alive in a jar in a South American embassy.
But it's hilarious when Russian shitposters out themselves with encoding.
"Bitcoin is for nazis"
This same story is being pushed in every mainstream news outlet.
What a coincidence. I guess they all detected at the same exact time that this is what all their readers really want to read and that they have to run this story to make money. "Conspiracy theories" are clearly of no use here.
Bonus points: casually imply that Wikileaks are neo nazis.
Literally everything - media, education, politics - is being taken over by psychotic brainless drones trained on leftism. It's far, far past the point that this can be sorted out peacefully. Civil War is inevitable at this point. Every day we put it off makes it worse.
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I would love too, but sheâ(TM)s u responsive at the moment.
There are two factions in the world right now.
Nationalists, like in Britain, like in Hungary, and more and more of Europe, slowly but surely dismantling the EU, probably in Russia too (unless Putin really is the US "evil in the closet" puppet), and everywhere a bit.
And fascists, which you might know by the names "neocons" (in the US), "neoliberals" (in Europe), etc, but really perfectly fit the Mussolini's original definition of fascism. Who basically rule the US, the EU, and are mostly under the umbrella of the 500-think-tank strong fascist lobbyist Mont Perelin Society. (Source:
They are both cancer. They are both your and my literal sworn enemies. I don't care if you are "left" or "right". Don’t let them divide us. You are a citizen, with wishes, and right. And I am a citizen, with wishes and rights. Let's respect each other's wishes and not hate or oppress one another. "Leftists" can have their own (totalitarian|safe space) SJW (dis|u)topia. "Rightists" can have their own (totalitarian|libertarian) lawless theocracy or whatever. As long as they do it among themselves, what do we care? I can still be happy for you, no matter how much I might disagree with you. Can you do the same? :)
Proving once again, that any former victim will become that which he hates one day. ... This is the thing that I still fail to get across. Jesus' story specifically is about teaching this simple lesson. Look how that went. So what chances do I have. This comment would probably marked (-2, Troll) if possible. :/
Like people having no qualms wishing murder upon a murderer.
Israel's leadership has no qualms doing genocide against the Palestinians.
Yes, Palestinian leaders also do their own bit of terrorism (as much as they can, not having basically half the world behind them), so they are not really better.
But that does not make the genocide OK. That's my point! Murder does not make murder OK.
And really truly, of ALL people, Israelis are the ones who should know better.
But go tell to the father of the murdered daughter, that murdering the murderer will make him the same as his daughter's murderer.
CAN NOBODY SEE THAT THIS IS MADNESS? :(
Fortunately, the German for National Socialist German Worker's Party doesn't require an umlaut or eszet or anything that Slashdot can't display easily.
"When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
You are literally Hitler! (for pointing that out)
If you want mine your own crypto currency, you need a motherboard with 19 PCIe 1X slots to plug in 19 GPUs and a couple of 1200W PSUs.
You want Nazis?
You want Fascists?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPgyTzqDJhM
https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/844773-mozilla-funding-antifa/