In a tweet over the weekend the organisation’s founder Julian Assange thanked US authorities for the banking blockade, Gearsofbiz.com reports.
Assange called out current and former senators John McCain and Joe Lieberman, respectively, for forcing him into seeking alternative sources of funding.
Assange also posted a screenshot of Bitcoin (TIKER: BTC.EXANTE) prices on July 18, 2010 and October 14, 2017 on industry website CoinDesk.
In this period, the price of Bitcoin went from $0.06 to around $5,814.