🎉Free speech advocates are celebrating as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is released from a UK prison after five years. Assange, a known crypto enthusiast, often used Bitcoin for global fundraising campaigns during his legal battles. 🎬A resurfaced video shows Assange praising Bitcoin as the "most interesting intellectual development on the internet" since 2009. 🌍

Assange highlighted Bitcoin's multi-jurisdictional nature and its resistance to control by any one power group. He also noted Bitcoin's ability to "defend itself or the people who use it against even the full might of a superpower." 🛡️

Assange also lauded Bitcoin's blockchain for its proof of publication at a specific time, arguing it can "break Orwell’s dictum" that "he who controls the present controls the past." Bitcoin's unalterable ledger of events indeed challenges this notion. 📚

Bitcoin has been used to bypass sanctions and raise funds when traditional methods were blocked. Assange himself raised over $54 million in ETH through AssangeDAO while in jail. He concluded, "You can prove a particular contract happened at a particular time, globally." 🌐

Assange's release and his beliefs about Bitcoin highlight the cryptocurrency's potential as a tool for freedom and resistance. 🚀