BITCOIN SEASON 2: Julian Assange’s Brother, Gabriel Shipton on Wikileaks & BTC

Julian Assange's brother Gabriel Shipton and Brian Laughlin announce Project Spartacus - an initiative to preserve the Afghan War Logs on Bitcoin's blockchain as ordinals - creating a permanent, uncensorable record.

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Gabriel Shipton, film producer and brother of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, joins us alongside Brian Locklin from Ordinals to discuss Project Spartacus. This ambitious initiative aims to permanently archive the Afghan War Logs on Bitcoin's blockchain through ordinals technology, creating an uncensorable repository of historically significant information. They explore how Bitcoin offers unique censorship resistance, the technical challenges they've overcome, and the potential for Bitcoin to serve as a powerful publishing platform for journalists and freedom advocates.

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Notes:

- Project archives 76,000+ Afghan War Logs on Bitcoin

- Julian Assange was imprisoned for 14 years

- War Logs were previously unavailable at times

- Julian is free but restricted by plea deal

- Bitcoin enabled Wikileaks to survive debanking

- Ordinals offer new censorship-resistant archive

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Timestamps:

00:00 Start

01:25 Project Spartacus

03:18 Before Assange was released

06:36 Ordinalsbot involvement

09:45 Arch

10:17 New financial model for publishing

15:42 Breaking new ground for Ordinals

18:32 Censorship resistant platforms

23:07 Recent wins & losses

29:38 Wrap up

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