‘Cypherpunks have rallied to Assange’ NFT auction raises $52m for WikiLeaks founder
over 3 years in The guardian
Cryptocurrency funds aim to help Assange’s legal defense as he seeks to avoid extradition from the UK to the USAn online auction of digital art raised more than $52m worth of cryptocurrency to help fund Julian Assange’s legal defense, the winning bid coming from a group of supporters who had pooled their money.The Australian-born WikiLeaks founder is battling extradition from Britain to the US, where the authorities want him to face trial on 18 criminal charges including breaking a spying law, after WikiLeaks began to publish thousands of secret classified files and diplomatic cables in 2010. Continue reading...