Non-profit media group Wikileaks has announced that it is now accepting donations in the privacy-oriented cryptocurrency zcash. <\/p>\n
The information sharing siterevealed that it would take the new payment optionin a tweet earlier today. The newsmakes zcash the third cryptocurrency Wikileaks willaccept for donations, joining bitcoin and litecoin. <\/p>\n
Zcash was included as one of the options in a poll the nonprofit held on Twitter at the start of the month. Of the options presented monero, zcash and ethereum (misspelled as \"etherium\" ) zcash garnered 11 percent of the12,204 votes submitted, compared to 21 percent for monero and 45 percent for ethereum. Twenty-three percent opted for \"other\". <\/p>\n
Wikileaks, which gained notoriety for its release of materials including footage from the Iraq War and the emails of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, began accepting bitcoin back in 2011. <\/p>\n
Since then, the cryptocurrencyhas proven to be a popular donation mechanism for the group.As of press time, Wikileaks'bitcoin wallet, for example, has received more than 26,000 transactions to date. <\/p>\n
The group and its founder Julian Assange have tapped the technology for other purposes as well. <\/p>\n
During an Ask Me Anything session on Reddit in January, Assange (who has lived in the London-based embassy for Ecuador since 2o12), useddata from the bitcoin blockchain as a \"proof of life\" mechanism to effectively quash rumors that he was dead. <\/p>\n
Disclosure:CoinDesk is a subsidiary of Digital Currency Group, which has an ownership stake in Zerocoin Electric Company, the developer of zcash. <\/p>\n
Wikileaks image viaGil C\/Shutterstock.com <\/p>\n
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