Quote from: odolvlobo on June 26, 2024, 09:33:42 PM

I'm proud to say that I donated a bunch of those in 2012 after Visa, Mastercard, and Paypal blockaded them. Now that mine are all spent, I wouldn't mind getting a few of those back Wink

Was hoping to get some comments or opinions from people from back then, so you seem to be one of them. The general feeling I got was Bitcoiners on this forum weren't generally supportive, nor thought the focus on Bitcoin thanks to WL was good.

But I wonder if opinions changed since then. Bitcoin has many use cases, and WL being able to accept funding because traditional means weren't available is essentially a direct parallel to my own case as a freelancer just wanting to get paid. Blocked by PayPal, not able to have Visa/MC or even SWIFT in many places where I used to work.

Quote from: NotATether on Today at 06:23:01 AM

Wikileaks should have been doing even better than places like this forum and other sites that have reserves of dozens or hundreds of BTC, but it's felt stagnant ever since law enforcement started closing in on Assange.

So I don't think they've actually got much of a use for all that money but it sure is handy to have around in case the site and servers get shut down or seized and they have to move shop elsewhere.

Yeah, they've not published anything new for years, in all practical purposes it's dead. But keeping documents accessible and distributed, security does cost money. I'm sure his legal fees too...