BITCOIN SEASON 2: Julian Assange’s Brother, Gabriel Shipton on Wikileaks & BTC
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🗓️ 2 April 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Julian Assange's brother Gabriel Shipton and Brian Laughlin announce Project Spartacus - an initiative to preserve the Afghan War Logs on Bitcoin's blockchain as ordinals - creating a permanent, uncensorable record.
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Gabriel Shipton, film producer and brother of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, joins us alongside Brian Locklin from Ordinals to discuss Project Spartacus. This ambitious initiative aims to permanently archive the Afghan War Logs on Bitcoin's blockchain through ordinals technology, creating an uncensorable repository of historically significant information. They explore how Bitcoin offers unique censorship resistance, the technical challenges they've overcome, and the potential for Bitcoin to serve as a powerful publishing platform for journalists and freedom advocates.
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Notes:
- Project archives 76,000+ Afghan War Logs on Bitcoin
- Julian Assange was imprisoned for 14 years
- War Logs were previously unavailable at times
- Julian is free but restricted by plea deal
- Bitcoin enabled Wikileaks to survive debanking
- Ordinals offer new censorship-resistant archive
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Timestamps:
00:00 Start
01:25 Project Spartacus
03:18 Before Assange was released
06:36 Ordinalsbot involvement
09:45 Arch
10:17 New financial model for publishing
15:42 Breaking new ground for Ordinals
18:32 Censorship resistant platforms
23:07 Recent wins & losses
29:38 Wrap up
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Bitcoin Season 2. I'm Charlie Spears with Block Space Media. |
| 0:04.1 | Today, we've got Gabriel Shiptan, film producer and family of WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange. |
| 0:10.6 | I've also got a recurring guest on the show, Brian Lockland with OrdnalsBot, |
| 0:15.6 | who's helping them work on Project Spartacus. |
| 0:19.3 | If you're not familiar, we will talk about it. We are putting |
| 0:22.4 | the Afghan war logs on Bitcoin. Before we get started, I want to shout out our sponsor, Arch |
| 0:27.9 | Network, and I will to welcome all the new Coin desk listeners. As for the title of the show, |
| 0:32.0 | Bitcoin's season two, we're kind of figuring it as we go. It's all the new stuff happening |
| 0:36.4 | on Bitcoin, whether it be |
| 0:38.0 | ordinals to deep Bitcoin technical discussion to high-level cultural conversation, ordinals, |
| 0:43.4 | layer twos, the new topics on the oldest blockchain. I like to feature new faces in the Bitcoin |
| 0:50.6 | discourse landscape. |
| 1:03.9 | Okay, so I've got Brian Broughstar Lachlan here and Gabriel Shepton. |
| 1:05.5 | Welcome to Bitcoin's season two, guys. |
| 1:06.8 | Hey, Tyler. Good to be here. |
| 1:08.1 | Yeah, good to be with you. |
| 1:11.2 | And we are recording on three different continents. |
| 1:13.9 | You've got a Brough Star. |
| 1:15.6 | I'm going to say Brough for simplicity. |
| 1:19.9 | Brough in Switzerland and Gabriel in Australia, |
| 1:24.5 | which means we found a very narrow window in which to have this conversation. |
| 1:31.1 | But I want to invite Gabriel, walk me through what Project Spartacus is. |
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