By Philip Maina
11 hours agoFri Dec 06 2024 10:17:37
Reading Time: 2 minutes
- OridnalsBot is inscribing WikiLeaks’ Afghan War Logs on the Bitcoin blockchain
- OrdinalsBot is conducting the process with the help of other Bitcoiners pseudonymously known as Project Spartacus
- The process is supported by Gabriel Shipton, Julian Assange’s campaign chairman
OrdinalsBot has collaborated with a group of Bitcoiners known as Project Spartacus to preserve WikiLeaks’ Afghan War Logs on the Bitcoin blockchain . The move is supported by Julian Assange’s campaign chairman Gabriel Shipton who thinks it’ll help keep the records for future generations and remove them from a centralized repository where they can be brought down. The inscribing process is scheduled to start next week on December 12 and targets putting over 76,000 articles on the blockchain, allowing the crypto community to own the documents in the form of Bitcoin Ordinals.
It’s a Way To Understand What Happened
Speaking to Decrypt , Shipton said that the move is meant to make the articles immutable and that it aligns with Assange’s efforts to unearth secrets for people to “understand what went on, [and] what happened.”
The article’s Bitcoin Ordinals collection will be known as “Afghan War Diary” and the crypto community will be allowed to mint them as a way to advance Assange and WikiLeaks’ legacy.
The OrdinalsBot’s move is a revival of previous such attempts. In October last year, for example, Project Spartacus started recording the files onto the blockchain.
The logs are made up of confidential military documents leaked by a former U.S. military personnel. The articles were published on WikiLeaks by Assange, something that saw the U.S. government accuse the activitist of putting the lives of U.S. troops in danger.
U.S. Lawmakers Want Assange Pardoned
Some U.S. lawmakers have asked the country’s outgoing president Joe Biden to Pardon Assange as a sign that the United States doesn’t “target or investigate journalists […] for doing their jobs.”
With the launch of a Bitcoin Ordinals collection, it’s to be seen whether Assange’s supporters will mint the collection to show their support.
