This is a short post regarding the recent Jon Matonis wikileaks article:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2012/08/20/wikileaks-bypasses-financial-blockade-with-bitcoin/by economist Robert Wenzel
Fascinating: WikiLeaks Bypasses Financial Blockade With Bitcoin
This is big for both Wikileaks and Bitcoin.
Robert Wenzel (Editor & Publisher EconomicPolicyJournal.com)
2012-08-26
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The ultimate success of bitcoin will depend on the number of people and organizations that use it as a way to operate against interventionist and snooping government. The more government puts pressure on financial transactions by monitoring and controlling transactions, the more it will drive people to use bitcoin,
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