Original | Liu Jiaolian
Overnight, BTC continued to rebound to 62k. Last night, the internal reference of the Teaching Chain once again pulled out the timeline of Mt.Gox compensation over the past six months, as well as semi-quantitative analysis, to illustrate a truth, that is, some things are not bad, but are just used by short sellers with ulterior motives to make a fuss, take the opportunity to create panic. The Teaching Chain calculated it for everyone in the internal reference in May. With just the amount of Mt.Gox, it does not need to be 60,000 dollars to digest and absorb it. What's more, these legendary chips have not flowed out yet, okay? People scare people, scare people to death.
Yesterday, there were many big events. Wikileaks Official Twitter account announced that Julian Assange was finally released and would soon leave the UK and return to his homeland, Australia.
The cell in Belmarsh's maximum security prison is only 3 meters long and 2 meters wide. Assange was isolated and imprisoned in such a small space for 23 hours a day (only 1 hour for him to leave the prison for activities), for more than 5 years, 1901 days and nights! It is hard to imagine what kind of inhuman torture this is! In Assange, the British Empire and the United States have torn off all the disguises of modern civilization, and spit out the "human rights" they use to accuse others all day long into the toilet and flushed it into the sewer.
Who is Assange? Why does the United States, the world's "all-powerful" global hegemon, fear and hate him so much that they want to get rid of him as soon as possible? What is the intersection of his life with Satoshi Nakamoto, the inventor of Bitcoin ?
When Jiao Lian was writing "A History of Bitcoin" in 2020, he used an entire chapter in Episode 6 to introduce Assange and the whistleblower website "Wikileaks" he founded.
“Julian Assange, an Australian programmer and hacker, is the founder, editor-in-chief and spokesperson of the famous whistleblower website “WikiLeaks” (wikileaks.org). WikiLeaks was founded by Assange in 2006 and is dedicated to helping whistleblowers around the world publish revelations, thereby exposing highly confidential information and crimes against humanity that cannot be revealed to the world.
“Assange’s credo is what he once said on his personal blog: “The more secretive and unfair an organization is, the more revelations will cause fear and panic among its leadership and planning bodies… Because, by its very nature, unfair systems will inevitably attract opponents. And in many ways, they do not have the upper hand. Large-scale revelations will make this unjust system extremely vulnerable to those who seek to replace it with more open forms of governance. "”
Assange almost single-handedly affixed eight big words firmly on the forehead of America - saying all the good things and doing all the bad things.
He was a member of the cypherpunk organization very early. In the second chapter of "The History of Bitcoin", chapters 4-7, Jiaolian introduced the glorious deeds of cypherpunks who took up cryptographic weapons and fought against hegemony since the early 1990s.
Chapter 4 on exporting arms introduces that as early as 1991, when American programmer Phil Zimmermann developed the civilian-grade PGP encryption algorithm, the US Department of Justice was ready to prosecute him.
Is it absurd? Is it magical? In the United States, a country that allows individuals to own guns, it is actually not allowed for people to master 128-bit encryption algorithms, and it even threatens to commit felonies!
This is not only an irony to the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution (the right of individuals to bear arms), but also a great irony to American democratic rights. A mathematical algorithm has made the empire so vulnerable that "only the state officials are allowed to set fires, but the people are not allowed to light lamps."
No, this just shows the wisdom of the US elite ruling class, that is, they value thought control far more than gun control. US law can allow the American people to be armed but stupid, but it will never allow the American people to have the opportunity to use high-strength encryption algorithms to transmit thoughts and facts without government surveillance.
Ordinary people think that bullets and pistols are very dangerous. In the eyes of the American elite ruling class, encrypted thoughts and truths are 10 million times more dangerous than bullets and pistols. Bullets and pistols will only make the American people fight and kill each other more efficiently; encryption algorithms, however, may awaken and unite the American people and tear down the empire.
Zimmerman played a trick and escaped. He used the First Amendment of the US Constitution (freedom of speech) to print the source code of the encryption algorithm in a book and published it publicly in 1995. The tiger behind him opened its bloody mouth, but bit on the armor and had to give up in disappointment.
Nearly 30 years have passed, and the human rights bottom line of the empire has been lowered a lot. What's more, Assange is not an American. He cannot be protected by the civil rights stipulated in the US Constitution that ordinary Americans enjoy, but has to be hit hard by the "long-arm jurisdiction" of the US judicial iron fist. For this kind of rogue behavior with serious inequality of rights and obligations, who can Assange go to for justice?
Assange and the forces that support him won the victory after an arduous struggle. However, the price of regaining freedom is huge. Assange pleaded guilty in exchange for his release. If he refused to plead guilty, the US Department of Justice would have imprisoned him until death. His guilty plea created an unprecedented success story for the US Department of Justice: it put shackles on the freedom of the press that the empire has long boasted about. The US government can use the 1917 Espionage Act to arrest and convict journalists around the world at will, as long as they "obtain information, record images, or copy descriptions of any information related to national defense with the intention or reason to believe that such information may be used to harm the United States or to benefit any foreign country."
In the future, if a foreign journalist publishes a negative news about the United States, or exposes the fact that American soldiers killed civilians, will it be considered "harming the United States"? Of course it must be considered. The US Department of Justice can issue a global wanted notice for this journalist, arrest, convict, and detain him.
"If criticism is not free, praise is meaningless."
Assange's experience is a heavy blow to the freedom of the press and freedom of speech in the United States. This is not what I said, but what Robert Kennedy Jr., an independent candidate for the 2024 US presidential election, said:
“Julian Assange has reached a plea deal and is going free! I am so happy. He is a hero.
“The bad news is that he had to plead guilty to conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defense information. This means that the US security establishment has successfully criminalized journalism and extended its jurisdiction to non-US citizens around the world.
“Julian had to accept the fact. He had a heart condition and would have died in prison. But the US security agencies have set a terrible precedent and dealt a heavy blow to press freedom.”
Satoshi Nakamoto, the inventor of Bitcoin, is very clear about the moral standards of the US government.
Therefore, when Satoshi Nakamoto, who is also a member of the cypherpunk, learned that Assange was looking for an alternative donation channel for the WikiLeaks website whose payment channel was blocked by the US government and intended to use BTC, he was very calm and not as excited as other community users.
On December 5, 2010, Satoshi Nakamoto replied to the post, pleading with WikiLeaks not to try to adopt Bitcoin. He believed that Bitcoin was still a baby in its infancy, and the popularity brought by WikiLeaks might destroy Bitcoin.
However, as written in Chapter 7 of “The History of Bitcoin”, “Bitcoin is a decentralized system that is open to use without permission or registration and is resistant to censorship. Even the inventor Satoshi Nakamoto cannot censor and prevent WikiLeaks from using Bitcoin.”
WikiLeaks still launched a BTC donation channel and was reported by the media.
On December 11, 2010, Nakamoto left a message on the forum saying, "It would have been better to get this kind of attention under any other circumstances," and "WikiLeaks has stirred up a hornet's nest, and a swarm of hornets is flying towards us." Since then, Nakamoto has disappeared from the public eye.
These cypherpunk heroes have made great contributions to the global anti-hegemony cause in their own different ways. Assange is a frontal attack, Snowden is an internal explosion, Zimmerman is a flanking attack, and Satoshi Nakamoto is digging for its foundation.
They are all heroes of the people of the world, and the people will always remember them.
Assange is now in transit on the final leg of his flight from the US territory of Saipan to Australia. Wish him a safe journey!
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