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WikiLeaks Shop, the merchandising arm of WikiLeaks, an international non-profit corporation, wrote on Twitter on April 20th that its account with the cryptographic wallet and the Coinbase exchange has been blocked.
ANNOUNCEMENT: Coinbase has blocked the official @WikiLeaks buy from your platform without notice or explanation. You can continue to donate #Bitcoin to Wikileaks at the address https://t.co/lvhoyhlqUa. #Coinbase #DefendWL #Cryptocurrency #Ethereum #BitcoinCash #ReconnectJulian pic.twitter.com/4BSS023OOk
– WikiLeaks Shop (@WikiLeaksShop) 21 April 2018
The WikiLeaks Shop tweet contains a screen taken from an alleged Coinbase email that states that the organization has violated their Terms of Service and therefore "can no longer [receive] access to [their] service. "Coinbase did not respond to requests for comments on the specificity of the WikiLeaks Shop violation for the printing time.
All proceeds from the store go to WikiLeaks, and customers can pay in Bitcoin, Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash, Dash, Dogecoin, Ethereum, Neo, Namecoin, Vertcoin, Monero and ZCash through Coinpayments.net.
The official Twitter of WikiLeaks has published a request for a "global block" of Coinbase in response to the block:
WikiLeaks will call for a global block of Coinbase next week as an unsuitable member of the crypto community. Coinbase, a great Californian Bitcoin processor, responding to a hidden influence, blocked everything harmlessly @WikiLeaksShop in a decision approved by management. https://t.co/PAldF8b12P
– WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) 21 April 2018
Andreas M. Antonopoulos, a Bitcoin supporter (BTC), tweeted that Coinbase has "repeated the story" since Bitcoin played an important role for WikiLeaks since the nonprofit was not legally able to use traditional banking systems :
We have closed the circle. The interest of many people in bitcoins began when Wikileaks was under an extra judicial embargo by VISA, MC, PayPal and banks. Now Coinbase has repeated the story. Ops. https://t.co/b8HQkoOwyQ
– Andreas M. Antonopoulos (@aantonop) 21 April 2018
Last fall, the leader of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, publicly thanked the US government on Twitter for having forced the organization to rely on Bitcoin due to the banking embargo, giving WikiLeaks a return of 50,000% . Assange also invited WikiLeaks donors to use cryptocurrencies for their donations as a way to avoid this financial blockade. The WikiLeaks website accepts Bitcoin, Litecoin, Monero and ZCash for donations.
Antonopoulos added in a comment to his tweet that this embargo of Coinbase is different from the first as it is "purely symbolic", as there are other cryptographic portfolios out there, but that "symbolism is a rather moving reminder of what centralization and banking regulations mean" ".
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