In 2010 all major credit card companies such as Mastercard and Visa but also Paypall tried to close down wikileaks by banning any transactions from wikileaks. This under pressure of the US Government (although they deny it),
Therefor wikileaks was forced to go into bitcoins.
Today Julian Assange tweeted a warm thank you to the US Goverment for the 50.000% return on his bitcoins he both in 2010.
he wrote:
My deepest thanks to the US government, Senator McCain and Senator Lieberman for pushing Visa, MasterCard, Payal, AmEx, Mooneybookers, et al, into erecting an illegal banking blockade against @WikiLeaks starting in 2010. It caused us to invest in Bitcoin — with > 50000% return.
It is estimated that wikileaks now own a 472 million in bitcoins.
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