Tagged: wikileaks

April 23, 2018 @ 10:15 am By Cali Haan  |  

In a form letter correspondence consistent with the low service levels crypto clients have come expect, Coinbase, operators of the planet’s 11th largest crypto exchange, pulled the plug on payments to the Wikileaks store April 20th. In a screenshot of the letter posted by Wikileaks,… Read More

October 16, 2017 @ 9:32 am By JD Alois  |  

Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks who is holed up in the Embassy of Ecuador in London, is thanking the US government for boosting his investment returns. Assange shares in a tweet that the illegal banking blockade targeting Wikileaks compelled him to look elsewhere to… Read More

June 2, 2015 @ 10:49 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

In an attempt to gain full access in the top-secret Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal, the documentation leaking website, WikiLeaks, has launched a crowdfunding campaign on its own platform to raise $100,000 reward for the remaining chapters of the TPP. The TPP is a “proposed regional regulatory and investment treaty”…. Read More

December 17, 2012 @ 6:48 am By GigaOm  |  

There have been a number of interesting experiments in crowdfunding journalism recently, including topic-specific projects like Syria Deeply and the science journalism of Matter (a magazine co-founded by my former GigaOM colleague Bobbie Johnson) and donations help support other players such as ProPublica and the Texas Tribune. But could… Read More

December 17, 2012 @ 2:34 am By Guardian  |  

Two years ago this month, the major online payment systems – Visa, Mastercard, PayPal and more – cut off one of the world’s most famous journalism organizations from the public. They stopped taking payments on behalf of WikiLeaks and, in the process, highlighted one of the most dangerous threats… Read More