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Kei te tuhi tetahi i te katoa o WikiLeak's Infamous Afghan War Wars on Bitcoin
Julian Assange holds up a copy of the Guardian newspaper during a press conference in London on July 26, 2010.Andrew Winning / kōnae 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.
I whakaaturia mai e Bitcoin Magazine, an unknown "kaupapa 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.
Ko te whakaputanga o nga raarangi whawhai, i rurukuhia e te Kaitiaki, The New York Times, me etahi atu, i whakaohooho i roto i te kawanatanga. Ko te whakapae tuatahi i tukuna ki a Assange i aro ki te whakapae i te whakapae i waenga i a ia me Chelsea Manning ki te tarai i tetahi kaute i runga i te rorohiko i tana turanga hoia. I runga i nga whakapae, "ko te kaupapa tuatahi o te whakahiatotanga ko te whakangawari i te tango a Manning me te tuku korero kua whakarōpūtia."
Engari, hei korerotia 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, korerotia 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.
Ko te pono, ko te whakapae e whakaatu ana i nga momo mahi e whakahaerehia ana e te maha o nga whakahaere korero me nga kairipoata ia ra, tae atu ki te whiwhi me te whakaputa korero pono mo te hiahia o te iwi, te whakawhitiwhiti korero i waenga i te kaiwhakaputa me te puna, me te whakamahi i nga taputapu whakamunatanga.
I tua atu i nga raarangi mo te Pakanga o Afghan, i whakaputaina ano e WikiLeaks era o te Pakanga o Iraq. Ko tenei pikitia e whakaatu ana i tetahi Iraqi taotū e utaina ana ki runga waka i te whakaekenga a nga waka topatopa Apache i mate te tekau ma rua nga tangata i Baghdad, tae atu ki nga kaimahi korero a Reuters e rua i te Hurae 12, 2007.Ho New / kōnae 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.
He pai te ahua o enei taonga mo te keehi mo te aukati i te aukati korero. I raro i tenei marama, te ahua nei kei te whai a Project Spartacus ki te whai waahi ki te haere noa o nga korero me te matauranga, kia kore ai e taea e tetahi te takahi i nga korero i mate a Assange i tona oranga ki te whakaputa whanui. I tenei wa kei te anga te kairipoata ki te tuku atu ki te US, ahakoa he tangata whenua ia no Ahitereiria me te kore i hara ki te whenua o Amerika. Kare tonu te hua o te mahi tangohanga, kei te tipu haere tonu nga maaharahara mo tona wa kei te heke mai, me te mea ka hoki ano ia i tona herekoretanga.
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.
Ka huri a Project Spartacus i te keehi rongonui a Ordinals mo te mahi i nga NFT i runga i te mekameka whaea kia kaha te aro ki te whakaotinga o nga raraunga i runga i te raarangi korero kua wehea, e whakahaerehia ana e nga mano tini o nga pona i roto i nga rau o nga mana whakahaere huri noa i te ao.
I runga i tenei tikanga, ko Ordinals pea te taputapu whakaputa nui e rapuhia ana e te nuinga o te ao ki te whawhai ki te aukati korero me te raweke.
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