Neko upisuje sve WikiLeakove zloglasne zapise o avganistanskom ratu Bitcoin

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Neko upisuje sve WikiLeakove zloglasne zapise o avganistanskom ratu Bitcoin

Džulijan Assange holds up a copy of the Guardian newspaper during a press conference in London on July 26, 2010.

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What's started with a mysterious inscription on October 7 may end up turning into the latest global protest in support of journalist and activist Julian Assange.

Kao što je otkriveno Bitcoin Magazine, an unknown "Projekat Spartak" has formed in an attempt to immortalize on bitcoin the classified information that the U.S. government has long alleged Julian Assange illegally provided to journalists in the infamous Afghan War Diary.

Following the inscription, an anonymous individual has contacted Bitcoin Magazine claiming responsibility for the project, which aims to inscribe the tens of thousands of logs from the Afghan War published by Džulijan Assange’s WikiLeaks in July 2010 into the bitcoin blockchain.

These logs created a big upheaval in U.S. media at time they were published, and elicited strong reactions from the country's government. Notably, the content of the logs not only differed from what had been presented in mainstream media but also offered troubling insights into what actually happened in Afghanistan. At times, the logs raised questions about the conduct of some U.S. military operations.

Objavljivanje ratnih dnevnika, koje je koordinisano sa The Guardianom, The New York Timesom i drugima, izazvalo je poticaj unutar vlade. Prva optužnica podignuta protiv Assangea fokusirala se na navodnu zavjeru između njega i Chelsea Manning da se razbije račun na kompjuteru u njenoj vojnoj bazi. Prema optužbama, “primarni cilj zavjere je bio da se olakša Manningovo sticanje i prijenos povjerljivih informacija”.

Međutim, kao prijavljeno by The Intercept, it later became clear that the alleged hacking not only didn’t happen, but it also couldn’t have happened. New testimony, prijavljeno by investigative news site Shadowproof, also showed that Manning already had authorized access to, and the ability to exfiltrate, all of the documents that she was accused of leaking — without receiving any technical help from WikiLeaks.

Istina, optužnica opisuje vrste aktivnosti koje svakodnevno provode mnoge novinske organizacije i novinari, uključujući pribavljanje i objavljivanje istinitih informacija od javnog interesa, komunikaciju između izdavača i izvora, te korištenje alata za šifriranje.

Pored afganistanskih ratnih dnevnika, WikiLeaks je objavio i one iz rata u Iraku. Ova slika prikazuje ranjenog Iračanina kako se ukrcava u kombi tokom napada helikoptera tipa Apache u kojem je ubijeno desetak ljudi u Bagdadu, uključujući dvoje novinara Reutersa 12. jula 2007.

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It seems this backdrop is the context through which Project Spartacus attempts to take a foothold in the bitcoin ecosystem. The project leverages the Ordinals protocol, a metaprotocol for bitcoin that lets anyone add arbitrary data to the original cryptocurrency's blokchain. Given the properties of bitcoin and its decentralized network of nodes, once data is added to its blockchain it can never be removed or altered.

Takva svojstva su naizgled odlična za slučaj upotrebe u borbi protiv cenzure informacija. U tom svjetlu, čini se da projekat Spartak ima za cilj da zauzme stav prema slobodi informacija i znanja, čineći nemogućim da se bilo ko petlja sa podacima koje je Assange riskirao svoj život da bi ih objavio. Novinar se trenutno suočava sa potencijalnim izručenjem u SAD, uprkos tome što je australski državljanin i nije počinio navodna krivična dela na američkom tlu. Ishod procesa izručenja ostaje neizvjestan, a zabrinutost i dalje raste u vezi s njegovom budućnošću i hoće li se ikada vratiti na slobodu.

Project Spartacus's website provides a public interface through which any person can “inscribe” –– Ordinals jargon for adding data to bitcoin –– a war log. There seem to be no fees associated with this action apart from network fees, a necessary component to any transaction submitted to the bitcoin network. The page also features a "donate" button, which opens up a panel through which users can optionally send bitcoin to Assange's cause. Donations are said to go towards supporting the following organizations: Freedom of the Press Foundation, The Information Rights Project and Reporters Without Borders.

A huge rectangular button appears on the main page, reading "Publish War Log." Upon clicking, the process of inscribing a war log is triggered. The user is given the option to choose how many logs to inscribe, with a maximum of 300 war logs per transaction. The user can then select the transaction fee, based on which a total amount for payment is calculated. Upon hitting "continue," the user then is presumably redirected for payment.

Bitcoin: More Than Money?

Commonly seen as a monetary network, bitcoin can also serve as a decentralized and unstoppable publishing technology thanks to the Ordinals protocol. Created last year by bitcoin developer Casey Rodarmor, Ordinals aims to make it easy for anyone to add data to bitcoin –– be it text, image, video, HTML or Markdown.

The development saw a parabolic surge in activity within a short few months. The amount of inscriptions added to bitcoin in the first 200 days following the launch of Ordinals was greater than the number of Ethereum NFTs created in the same 200-day period after nonfungible tokens went live on ETH.

This rise in popularity caused a big fee spike on the bitcoin blockchain, leading some users to complain about the perceived “uselessness” of adding arbitrary data to what should arguably be a monetary network. Since bitcoin is ruled by rules, not rulers, and Ordinals transactions abide by the protocol’s rules, the activity was able to continue and thrive for months, leading to a plethora of applications and new developments being built on the original cryptocurrency.

Projekat Spartacus se bavi popularnim slučajem upotrebe Ordinals-a za izvođenje NFT-a u matičnom lancu kako bi se naizgled fokusirao na potpunu konačnost podataka u decentralizovanom lancu informacija, kojim upravljaju desetine hiljada čvorova u stotinama različitih jurisdikcija širom svijeta.

U tom smislu, Ordinals bi itekako mogao biti vrhunski izdavački alat koji su mnogi u svijetu tražili u borbi protiv cenzure i neovlaštenog pristupa informacijama.

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