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The First Amendment aloof got a above banking addition in the United States. Mainframe, a cryptocurrency startup committed to creating a censorship-resistant messaging system, donated a thousand Ethers to the Freedom of the Press Foundation. The Ether donation will be acclimated to assure journalists and whistleblowers, and advance blockchain technology for defended communications.
The advertisement fabricated bright that Mainframe was motivated by its charge to advice freedoms. “Together, the two organizations allotment a charge to attention abandon of speech, announcement the use of agenda aegis tools, and attention the public’s appropriate to information,” the companies said in a collective columnist release.
At accepted prices, the donation is account $517,760 US.
The allowance marks the aboriginal above donation in cryptocurrency to the Foundation, which has has afresh appear abutment for contributions in Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ether, Litecoin and Zcash.
Journalists and activists accept continued been fellow-travelers with the cryptocurrency community, and the censorship-resistant qualities of blockchain tech accept fabricated it an ideal anatomy of payment. Bitcoin aboriginal bent boilerplate absorption in 2013, back Wikileaks fell beneath a acquittal embargo from above acclaim agenda companies. Cryptocurrencies accept constituted some of Wikileaks’ capital donations anytime since.
The Freedom of the Columnist Foundation, whose directors accommodate Glenn Greenwald, Edward Snowden, Daniel Ellsberg and Laura Poitras, has a declared mission to advance advancing public-interest journalism. It accurately seeks to betrayal bribery and law-breaking amid government representatives. The accumulation was amenable for adopting the money bare to accomplish Chelsea Manning’s cloister transcripts accessible to the columnist and public.
Mainframe, which seeks to advance an incentivized, censorship-proof belvedere for peer-to-peer communications, says that the donation represents a footfall appear greater aegis and aloofness of user data. “The Mainframe aggregation is captivated to be acknowledging the Freedom of the Press Foundation,” said CEO Mick Haggen. “Ultimately, we apprehend the addition to kickstart an advancing accord to bottle these ethics amidst the change of the agenda landscape.”
“The Freedom of the Press Foundation is acutely beholden to Mainframe and their association for the acceptable abutment of our work,” said Trevor Timm, Executive Director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation. “Mainframe shares our charge to attention aloofness and chargeless accent and is acutely affianced in furthering those basal animal rights through their work.”
The Foundation says that the donation will be acclimated to advance technology for the aegis of journalists and activists. It currently leads development in “SecureDrop,” an accessible antecedent belvedere for whistleblowers to aperture advice to journalists. SecureDrop is currently acclimated by over sixty account organizations.
Editor’s Disclaimer: On the admonition of our attorney, and because of the complicated attributes of U.S. law apropos websites that address on banking instruments or balance (or whatever it is that cryptocurrencies may – or may not – eventually end up being, according to the FTC, the SEC, the IRS, the KGB, or whoever), we are appropriate to agenda that the columnist is invested in Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, and Ether, which are mentioned in this article. You will acquisition assorted added disclaimers all over the site. Yay, freedom.
