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He better be careful in Australia being a whistleblower.

https://apnews.com/article/mcbride-whistleblower-court-priso...

Would he need to fuck up? It wouldn't surprise me if they brought up some kind of charge over the DNC leak, I just don't know how good that would look politically right now.

The best move would be for his supporters to disappear him to somewhere in the hills asap tbh.

heard that he has a tax issue that he will be hit with as soon as he returns to the mother country.

Maybe related to the mysterious disappearing $200M+ in bitcoin donations supposed to go to Wikileaks?

"WikiLeaks wallets now contain only 3.265 BTC ($168,000) compared to 4,079 BTC total inflows. Overall, it appears Bitcoin users have donated $1.62 million in BTC to WikiLeaks since it opened donations 13 years ago. If held until today, that BTC would be worth $210 million.

As for what WikiLeaks does with its crypto donations, the group previously said the funds would pay for “WikiLeaks projects, staff, servers and protective infrastructure.” Last week, WikiLeaks made its first transaction in two years when it shifted 10.459 ETH ($31,200) to another address."

https://blockworks.co/news/julian-assange-extradition-wikile...

You can't count the future investment performance when measuring the value of currency. If the Bitcoin were converted to dollars, they wouldn't have appreciated 100 fold.

Especially considering that a substantial part of the value of BTC is the fact that a lot of it has been accidentally destroyed.

I think spending 12 years as a political prisoner will be enough to grant him some breathing space for that.

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