THELOGICALINDIAN - Julian Assange acclimated the Bitcoin Blockchain to prove that hes animate and able-bodied actuality the aboriginal being to accommodate a blockchainbased affidavit of life
After actuality accepted asleep by several internet fans, Julian Assange, editor-in-chief of the WikiLeaks organization, absitively to prove his abundance by account out block #447506 and its hash, which is a cord of numbers and belletrist that are unique to that specific block and absurd to predict.
The block cardinal and its assortment were apprehend out during a during a alive augment on a Reddit AMA (Ask me Anything) session, in acknowledgment to the rumors that he was dead, imprisoned, or in crisis afterwards the Ecuador government cut off his internet access afterward a alternation of leaked emails in October.
As so, Julian Assange has fabricated history as the aboriginal accessible amount to use the Bitcoin blockchain as a proof-of-life. Although he did accomplish a baby aberration back account out the block hash, he was quick to actual it and to prove speculators that he was absolutely animate and that the account was not pre-recorded.
Assange’s best to use the Bitcoin blockchain for this amount does not appear as a abruptness accustomed his affable accord with the cryptocurrency. Even admitting this is a somewhat unusual use-case for Bitcoin, it’s a acceptable footfall up from the book begin in old movies, back bodies acclimated to hold up the day’s newspaper to prove they were still alive.
The blockchain’s cellophane and abiding design make it the absolute adjustment to prove just about anything. Bitcoin can be (and is) acclimated as a agency to abundance information, ensuring it can not be tampered with, censored or deleted, as it would booty abysmal accretion power and electricity to do so. Since the blockchain is public, any advice aural it can be about verified making it the absolute abode to timestamp any information.
Assange’s accord with Bitcoin goes way back. In 2011, Wikileaks became one of the aboriginal organizations to acquire bitcoins for donations, a move that worried Satoshi Nakamoto:
Furthermore, Julian Assange was a cypherpunk and a hacker continued afore Wikileaks. His name was additionally on the commitment account area Satoshi Nakamoto aboriginal appear Bitcoin. According to Peter Todd, a acclaimed Bitcoin able and developer, the two accept ahead met to altercate how Bitcoin/blockchains can be acclimated for acceptance documents. These factors all accord to his ability of Bitcoin and its close workings.
Moreover, this is not the aboriginal time Assange broke the blockchain, although the affidavit was far beneath accurate than the one afresh provided. In October, Julian Assange acclimated it to prove his abundance in acknowledgment to a column created on the angel board, 8chan. In said post, addition impersonating a affiliate of the alignment declared that WikiLeaks cadre had been raided and that they were not in ascendancy of their Twitter account.
A cryptic bulletin was again beatific in the anatomy of outgoing transactions to vanity addresses, which spelled out “We’re Fine 8chan Post Fake.”
Since then, admirers accept additionally beatific their own letters to Assange, including a Happy New Year’s bulletin on the 30th of December, which spelled out “Happy New Year” in three affairs and addition one on the 1st of January, spelling “Where is Proof” in acknowledgment to the aboriginal bulletin created by Assange.
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