Original: Liu Jiaolian
Overnight BTC continued to rebound to the 62k line. Last night, Liu Jiaolian pulled out the time line for the compensation of Mt.Gox and a semi-quantitative analysis in the internal reference again to illustrate a point, that is, some things are not a big negative, but are exaggerated by shorts with ulterior motives, making a fuss, causing trouble, and creating panic. In May, Liu Jiaolian calculated for everyone in the internal reference, based on the amount of Mt.Gox alone, it is enough to absorb it without reaching the depth of 60,000 dollars. Moreover, these legendary chips have not even been released yet, right? It’s just scaring people to death.
Big events happened yesterday. WikiLeaks tweeted that Julian Assange has finally been released and is about to leave the UK to return to his homeland, Australia.
The cell in the high-security Belmarsh Prison is only 3 meters long and 2 meters wide. Assange has been isolated and imprisoned in such a small space, with only 1 hour of outdoor activities per day, for more than 5 years and 1901 days and nights! It is hard to imagine how inhumane this kind of torture is! On Assange, both the British Empire and the United States have torn off all the camouflage of modern civilization, and thrown the “human rights” they use to accuse others into the toilet and flushed it down the drain.
Who is Assange? Why is he so feared, hated, and eager to be eliminated by the global hegemon, the United States? What kind of life intersection does he have with the inventor of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto?
When Liu Jiaolian was writing “Bitcoin History” in 2020, a whole chapter was dedicated to introducing Assange and the whistleblowing website “WikiLeaks” he founded.
“Julian Assange, an Australian programmer, hacker, and the founder, editor-in-chief, and spokesperson of the famous whistleblowing website “WikiLeaks” (wikileaks.org). Assange founded WikiLeaks in 2006, dedicated to helping whistleblowers around the world release exposing materials, so that the highly confidential and anti-human crimes can be exposed to the world.
“Assange’s creed is what he once said on his personal blog: ‘The more an organization is secretive and unjust, the more it will cause fear and panic in its leadership and planning institutions…because, by its very nature, an unjust system is certain to attract opponents. And in many ways, they are not in the minority. Large-scale disclosure will make this unjust system extremely vulnerable in the face of people who seek to replace it with more open forms of governance.'”
Assange almost single-handedly pinned the eight characters on the forehead of the United States – saying all the good things and doing all the bad things.
He has been a member of the cypherpunk organization for a long time. Liu Jiaolian introduced the glorious deeds of the cypherpunks in the second chapter of “Bitcoin History” in 4-7 chapters.
The fourth chapter of the military export introduced that as early as 1991, when American programmer Phil Zimmermann developed a civilian-grade PGP encryption algorithm, the U.S. Department of Justice was prepared to prosecute him.
Absurd? Magical? In a United States that allows individuals to own guns, it does not allow the people to possess a 128-bit encryption algorithm, and even threatens with serious crimes!
This is not only a satire of the Second Amendment (individual gun ownership) of the U.S. Constitution, but also a great irony of American democratic rights. A mathematical algorithm made the empire so vulnerable – “let the officials set fire, but not the people light the lamp.”
No, this precisely shows the cleverness of the American elite ruling class, which attaches more importance to thought control than to firearm control. American law can allow the American people to be well-armed but idiotic, but it will never allow the American people to have the opportunity to use high-intensity 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 a million times more dangerous than bullets and pistols. Bullets and pistols will only enable the American people to fight and kill each other more efficiently; however, encryption algorithms may awaken and unite the American people, and bring down the empire.
Zimmermann played a trick and escaped. He used the First Amendment (freedom of speech) of the U.S. Constitution and published the source code of the encryption algorithm in a book in 1995. The tiger behind him opened its bloody mouth, but bit into iron armor, and had to give up.
Nearly 30 years later, the human rights bottom line of the empire has been lowered a lot. Moreover, Assange is not an American. He cannot enjoy the protection of the civil rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution to ordinary American citizens, but must face the heavy blow of the U.S. judicial long-arm jurisdiction. Who can Assange turn to for justice against such serious unequal rights and obligations?
Assange and the forces that support him have achieved victory after a hard and arduous struggle. But the price of regaining freedom is huge. Assange exchanged his release for a guilty plea. If he refuses to plead guilty, the U.S. Department of Justice will detain him until death. His confession has created an unprecedented successful case for the U.S. Department of Justice: putting a heavy lock on the freedom of the press that has long been touted by the empire. The U.S. government can use the 1917 Espionage Act to arrest and prosecute journalists globally, as long as they “obtain information, record images, or copy any description of information related to national defense, with the intention or reason to believe that this information may be used to harm the United States or benefit any foreign country.”
In the future, if a foreign journalist publishes negative news about the United States or exposes the fact that American soldiers killed civilians, is that considered “harming the United States”? It must be. The U.S. Department of Justice can issue a global arrest warrant for this journalist, arrest and prosecute them, and detain them.
“If criticism is not free, praise is meaningless.”
Assange’s ordeal is a heavy blow to freedom of the press and freedom of speech in the United States. This is not something the author said, but a statement made by independent 2024 U.S. presidential candidate Robert Kennedy:
“Julian Assange has reached a plea agreement and will be freed! I am very happy. He is a hero of our time.
“The bad news is, he had to admit to conspiring to obtain and disclose national defense information. This means that U.S. security agencies have successfully criminalized the news industry and expanded their jurisdiction to non-American citizens worldwide.
“Julian had to accept this fact. He has a heart condition and would have died in prison. But U.S. security agencies have set a terrible precedent and dealt a severe blow to press freedom.”
The moral standards of the U.S. government are clear to the inventor of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto.
So, when Satoshi Nakamoto, also a member of the cypherpunk, learned that Assange was seeking alternative donation channels for WikiLeaks, which had been cut off by the U.S. government, and intended to use BTC, he remained calm and not as excited as other community users.
On December 5, 2010, Satoshi Nakamoto replied, begging WikiLeaks not to attempt to use Bitcoin. He believed that Bitcoin was still in its infancy and the heat brought by WikiLeaks might ruin Bitcoin.
However, as written in Chapter 7 of “Bitcoin History,” “Bitcoin is a decentralized system, open for use without permission or registration, and resistant to censorship. Even the inventor, Satoshi Nakamoto, cannot censor and stop WikiLeaks from using Bitcoin.”
WikiLeaks still went online with BTC donation channels and was reported by the media.
On December 11, 2010, Satoshi Nakamoto left a message on the forum, saying, “It would be better to get this kind of attention in any other situation,” “WikiLeaks has stirred up a hornet’s nest, and a large group of hornets is flying towards us.” Since then, Satoshi Nakamoto disappeared from the public eye.
These cypherpunk heroes have made their great contributions to the global anti-hegemonic cause in their own different ways. Assange is a frontal attack, Snowden is an internal explosion, Zimmermann is a flanking maneuver, and Satoshi Nakamoto is digging at its roots.
They are heroes of the world’s people. The people will always remember them.
Now, Assange is in the final stage of his journey, flying from the U.S. territory of Saipan Island to Australia. Wishing him a safe journey!
