Julian Assange Reaches Plea Deal With U.S. DoJ

As CoinDesk reported on the time, Assange mentioned that Wikileaks initially kept away from accepting bitcoin to keep away from drawing authorities scrutiny that would hinder the cryptocurrency’s development after a private request from bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto. Later, when going through a monetary blockade, it adopted bitcoin for donations, offering very important funding for Wikileaks and concurrently enhancing BTC’s legitimacy and utility.