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Algú està inscrivint tots els infames registres de la guerra afganesa de WikiLeak Bitcoin
Julian Assange holds up a copy of the Guardian newspaper during a press conference in London on July 26, 2010.Andrew Winning / arxiu de Reuters
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.
Tal com ho revela Bitcoin Magazine, an unknown "Projecte Spartacus" 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 Julian 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.
La publicació dels registres de guerra, que es va coordinar amb The Guardian, The New York Times i altres, va provocar un estímul dins del govern. La primera acusació presentada contra Assange es va centrar en una suposada conspiració entre ell i Chelsea Manning per trencar un compte en un ordinador de la seva base militar. Segons els càrrecs, "l'objectiu principal de la conspiració era facilitar l'adquisició i la transmissió d'informació classificada per part de Manning".
No obstant això, com informar 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, informar 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.
De fet, l'acusació descriu el tipus d'activitats que realitzen cada dia moltes organitzacions de notícies i periodistes, com ara l'obtenció i la publicació d'informació real d'interès públic, la comunicació entre un editor i una font i l'ús d'eines de xifratge.
A més dels registres de la guerra afganesa, WikiLeaks també va publicar els de la guerra de l'Iraq. Aquesta imatge mostra un iraquià ferit carregat a una furgoneta durant un atac d'helicòpters Apache que va matar una dotzena de persones a Bagdad, inclosos dos membres del personal de notícies de Reuters el 12 de juliol de 2007.Ho Nou fitxer / Reuters
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.
Aquestes propietats són aparentment excel·lents per al cas d'ús de la lluita contra la censura de la informació. Sota aquesta llum, sembla que el Projecte Spartacus pretén adoptar una posició cap a la llibertat d'informació i coneixement, cosa que fa que sigui impossible que ningú es fiqui amb les dades que Assange es va arriscar la seva vida per fer públiques. Actualment, el periodista s'enfronta a una possible extradició als EUA, tot i ser ciutadà australià i no haver comès presumptes delictes en territori nord-americà. El resultat del procés d'extradició segueix sent incert, i les preocupacions continuen creixent pel que fa al seu futur i si mai recuperarà la seva llibertat.
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.
El projecte Spartacus fa un gir al cas d'ús popular d'Ordinals de fer NFT a la cadena mare per centrar-se aparentment en la finalitat completa de les dades en una cadena d'informació descentralitzada, que està gestionada per desenes de milers de nodes en centenars de jurisdiccions diferents d'arreu del món.
En aquest sentit, Ordinals pot ser l'eina de publicació definitiva que molts al món han estat buscant per lluitar contra la censura i la manipulació de la informació.
Font original: Bitcoin Magazine