This episode of Speaking of Bitcoin on the Coin Desk Podcast Network is brought to you by nexo.io.

The support for cypherpunk philosophy is still very strong.

You know, we were able to raise over 52 million in a matter of days,

you know, simply through the messaging that a new era of cypherpunk organization is upon us.

Julian Assange is one of the most important and polarizing journalists of modern times.

If journalism is about speaking truth to power, his organization WikiLeaks has done some of the

most important work over the last decade, publishing leaked materials revealing systemic abuses of trust

and breaches of law that have been hidden behind claims

of national security.

His action towards revealing uncomfortable

and sometimes intolerable truths have cost him dearly.

In June, he will have been incarcerated for a full decade,

first under the protection of an asylum claim

at the Ecuadorian embassy and since 2019

as a prisoner

in one of the harshest jails in the UK. Recently, Mr. Assange was ordered to be extradited from the UK

to the U.S. where he'll face charges that seek to make an example of him and effectively criminalize

the most important sort of journalism, that which seeks to uncover corruption and wrongdoing within

the most powerful institutions in our world today. So this is an important topic. Wikileaks history with cryptocurrency goes all the way back to

before this show began. A decade ago, conventional payment processors took away the media

organization's ability to accept donations, and Bitcoin quickly filled the gap. Today, a similar

effort is underway, pioneered by a community who still believes in the

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