{"id":33296,"date":"2017-11-23T05:41:29","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T10:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opensource.im\/uncategorized\/wikileaks-julian-assange-claims-he-made-50000-return-on.php"},"modified":"2017-11-23T05:41:29","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T10:41:29","slug":"wikileaks-julian-assange-claims-he-made-50000-return-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/julian-assange-2\/wikileaks-julian-assange-claims-he-made-50000-return-on.php","title":{"rendered":"WikiLeaks&#8217; Julian Assange claims he made 50,000% return on &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange claims his organization has made a 50,000 percent return on bitcoin after investing in the cryptocurrency in 2010  and it's all thanks to the U.S. government.<\/p>\n<p>In a tweet over the weekend, Assange posted a screenshot of bitcoin prices on July 18, 2010 and October 14, 2017 on industry website CoinDesk. In this period, the price of bitcoin went from $0.06 to around $5,814. This represents a 9,689,900 percent increase.<\/p>\n<p>Assange, however, said that he has made a 50,000 percent return, presumably investing in bitcoin over the six-year period.<\/p>\n<p>And the WikiLeaks founder said this was because the U.S. government forced payment companies like Visa and MasterCard to carry out \"an illegal banking blockade\" against his organization.<\/p>\n<p>In 2010, MasterCard blocked its products being used to pay WikiLeaks. Paypal also restricted the account used by WikiLeaks after it said the group has violated its policy.<\/p>\n<p>Assange said that this is the reason WikiLeaks invested in bitcoin. The cryptocurrency allows anonymous payments and can be moved around the world easily. It is, however, very volatile.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Read more:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/10\/16\/wikileaks-julian-assange-bitcoin-50000-percent-return-thanks-to-us-government.html\" title=\"WikiLeaks' Julian Assange claims he made 50,000% return on ...\">WikiLeaks' Julian Assange claims he made 50,000% return on ...<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange claims his organization has made a 50,000 percent return on bitcoin after investing in the cryptocurrency in 2010 and it's all thanks to the U.S. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1599],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-julian-assange-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33296"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}