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Julian Assange’s Brother, Gabriel Shipton on Wikileaks & BTC
April 02, 2025 · 33 min
Gabriel Shipton, film producer and brother of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, joins us alongside Brian Locklin from Ordinals to discuss Project Spartacus. This ambitious initiative aims to permanently archive the Afghan War Logs on Bitcoin's blockchain through ordinals technology, creating an uncensorable repository of historically significant information. They explore how Bitcoin offers unique censorship resistance, the technical challenges they've overcome, and the potential for Bitcoin to serve as a powerful publishing platform for journalists and freedom advocates. Follow our guests: @GabrielShipton @ordinalsbot @bruffstar Notes: - Project archives 76,000+ Afghan War Logs on Bitcoin - Julian Assange was imprisoned for 14 years - War Logs were previously unavailable at times - Julian is free but restricted by plea deal - Bitcoin enabled Wikileaks to survive debanking - Ordinals offer new censorship-resistant archive Check out our Bitcoin scaling conference! Visit opnext.dev to learn more. Timestamps: 00:00 Start 01:25 Project Spartacus 03:18 Before Assange was released 06:36 Ordinalsbot involvement 09:45   Arch 10:17 New financial model for publishing 15:42 Breaking new ground for Ordinals 18:32 Censorship resistant platforms 23:07 Recent wins & losses 29:38 Wrap up - 👉 Brought to you by Arch Network! Arch brings the speed of Solana & the best of crypto UX to Bitcoin. Tap into the rich app ecosystem on Arch & try out the testnet while you’re still early! Visit arch.network to learn more. - 👋Bitcoin Season 2 is produced Blockspace Media, Bitcoin’s first B2B publication in Bitcoin. Follow us on Twitter and check out our newsletter for the best information in Bitcoin mining, Ordinals and tech! Enjoy the show? Check out our website and newsletter by clicking here. Questions or want to sponsor? hello@blockspace.media Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices