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WikiLeaks Calls For “Global Boycott” Of Coinbase Over Refusal To Allow Online Store
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<p>WikiLeaks has called for a “global blockade” of Coinbase after the &nbsp;world’s biggest Bitcoin brokerage banned the whistleblowing &nbsp;organization’s online store from using its service to accept payments &nbsp;for its store.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The WikiLeaks shop stated that Coinbase blamed the suspension on U.S. &nbsp;financial regulations, which to this writer’s knowledge there are no new &nbsp;regulations for cryptocurrency&nbsp;in the U.S., so it is unclear to what &nbsp;financial&nbsp;regulations Coinbase is referring.&nbsp;</p>
<p>https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/987531916055318528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fcoinivore.com%2F2018%2F04%2F24%2Fwikileaks-calls-for-global-boycott-of-coinbase-over-refusal-to-allow-online-store%2F</p>
<p>https://twitter.com/WikiLeaksShop/status/987510235349663744/photo/1</p>
<p>Andreas Antonopoulos pointed out on Twitter that users were first &nbsp;attracted to Bitcoin as a way to donate to WikiLeaks after PayPal, VISA &nbsp;and Mastercard donations were&nbsp;<a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/business-11938320">cut off</a>&nbsp;in &nbsp;2010. Antonopoulos expressed how Coinbase was repeating&nbsp;history by &nbsp;barring WikiLeaks from using its services for its harmless shop that &nbsp;sells merchandise for its supporters including – T-shirts, coffee mugs, &nbsp;mousepads, posters and the list goes on and on. But one thing the &nbsp;WikiLeaks shop doesn’t sell is weaponry being an anti-war organization, &nbsp;so the ban makes no sense unless it is politically motivated.&nbsp;</p>
<p>https://twitter.com/aantonop/status/987534436811100160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fcoinivore.com%2F2018%2F04%2F24%2Fwikileaks-calls-for-global-boycott-of-coinbase-over-refusal-to-allow-online-store%2F</p>
<p>Last year WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange <a href="https://coinivore.com/2017/10/17/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-thanks-u-s-government-50000-return-bitcoin/">mocked</a> &nbsp;the U.S. government, thanking them for forcing the last blockade&nbsp;noting &nbsp;that WikiLeaks had made an unheard return of 50,000%&nbsp; from &nbsp;hodling&nbsp;Bitcoin since 2010.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Wikileaks has also opted for Litecoin, and they have since expanded recently to&nbsp;<a href="https://coinivore.com/2017/08/09/wikileaks-now-accepts-zcash-donations/">accepting</a>&nbsp;the more secure altcoin Zcash as well.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Litecoin creator Charlie Lee and Assange both <a href="https://coinivore.com/2017/12/19/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-litecoin-creator-charlie-lee-vow-fight-government-censorship/">vowed</a> &nbsp;to fight government censorship using cryptocurrency last December. &nbsp;Around Christmas last year, Lee tweeted in gift-giving spirit that he &nbsp;had sent an unknown donation amount to the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/dec/14/wikileaks-recognised-as-a-media-organisation-by-uk-tribunal">recently recognized</a>&nbsp;media &nbsp;organization (WIKILEAKS) thanking the group by stating “no company or &nbsp;government can stop me. That’s what makes crypto-currency valuable!”&nbsp;</p>
<p>Lee added that people being upset with him for donating to WikiLeaks &nbsp;shows why censorship resistance is so important, stating that if those &nbsp;people could they would stop everyone from donating to WikiLeaks. “The &nbsp;point is, it’s my money and only I decide what I do with it. Period,” &nbsp;Lee <a href="https://twitter.com/SatoshiLite/status/941735556622434304">tweeted</a>.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Lee, known online by his Twitter handle SatoshiLite, has not responded &nbsp;to the news of the WikiLeaks shop being banned from Coinbase, as of the &nbsp;time of this report. But this reporter imagines that he will not be very &nbsp;happy with the news based on his previous sentiments for the &nbsp;organization.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Julian Assange previously expressed that “Bitcoin is the real Occupy Wall st.” &nbsp;</p>
<p>https://twitter.com/JulianAssange/status/941600368588476416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fcoinivore.com%2F2018%2F04%2F24%2Fwikileaks-calls-for-global-boycott-of-coinbase-over-refusal-to-allow-online-store%2F</p>
<p>This comes&nbsp;amid an ongoing illegal blockade against Assange, &nbsp;disconnecting him from the Internet and preventing any visitors to the &nbsp;Ecuadorian Embassy in London. It is a clear violation of his human &nbsp;rights, further isolating Assange from the outside world as his health &nbsp;deteriorates according to doctors who saw Assange in January.&nbsp;</p>
<blockquote>&nbsp;“<a href="https://twitter.com/JulianAssange"><del>@</del><strong>JulianAssange</strong></a> &nbsp;was facing the health consequences of nearly 6 years in arbitrary &nbsp;detention. Since then, he has suffered increasingly punitive and &nbsp;politically-motivated measures to increase his isolation,”&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/SeanLoveMD"><strong>Sean Love, MD</strong>‏</a>&nbsp;tweeted.&nbsp;</blockquote>
<p>WikiLeaks has been accepting cryptocurrencies&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/80774521350668288">since 2011</a>&nbsp;when a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/oct/24/wikileaks-suspends-publishing">banking blockade</a>&nbsp;attempted &nbsp;to cut the non-profit publisher off from its revenue streams. This &nbsp;caused a widespread backlash as the international hacking collective &nbsp;Anonymous took down websites of Mastercard, Visa, and PayPal under&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/dec/08/anonymous-4chan-wikileaks-mastercard-paypal">Operation Payback</a>.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Zcash uses a cryptographic methodology called&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ethnews.com/vitalik-buterin-blog-dives-into-the-math-behind-zk-snarks">zk-Snark</a>, a form of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof">zero-knowledge cryptography</a>, which allows the data of a transmission to be concealed. This means that people who&nbsp;<a href="https://shop.wikileaks.org/donate#dbitcoin">donate to WikiLeaks</a>&nbsp;can send a&nbsp;transaction&nbsp;without anyone or government ever being able to see who sent it or how much was transacted.&nbsp;</p>
<p>WikiLeaks supporters may find this advantageous to still be able to &nbsp;provide support for Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy but not end up on &nbsp;an intelligence agency watch list in the process.&nbsp;</p>
<p>WikiLeaks is notorious for publishing classified government documents that bring transparency to governments all over the world.&nbsp;</p>
<p>You can sign the petition to #ReconnectJulian <a href="https://www.change.org/p/end-julian-assange-s-isolation">here</a> and donate to WikiLeaks through their donation link <a href="https://shop.wikileaks.org/donate#dbitcoin">here</a> or above.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Bitcoin is currently trading at [FIAT:&nbsp;<a href="https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/#markets">$9,212.72</a>] according to Coin Market Cap at the time of this report.&nbsp;</p>
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I wish there would be a lot more competition for Coinbase. I also wish that competition would come in the form of more DEX. I tried Bisq as DEX for exchanging fiat for bitcoin, but there isn't much of a market there and I don't know of any others.
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