Saturday’s tweet from Julian Assange says it all:

“My deepest thanks to the US government, Senator McCain and Senator Lieberman for pushing Visa, MasterCard, PayPal, AmEx, Moneybookers, et al, into erecting an illegal banking blockade against @WikiLeaks starting in 2010. It caused us to invest in Bitcoin — with > 50000% return.”
Assange’s tweet was accompanied by a graph showing the massive spike in the price of bitcoin — though most of that growth occurred in the last year.

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Source: Slashdot – Julian Assage Taunts US Government For Forcing Wikileaks To Invest In Bitcoin