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Julian Assange
His banking blockade became Bitcoin's first stress test.
Known as Julian AssangeActive Dec 2010 →
Why they matter
The blockade was the first real-world demonstration of exactly the censorship Bitcoin was built to route around — and the moment Bitcoin's politics became unavoidable, days before Satoshi vanished.
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Founder of WikiLeaks. After Visa, Mastercard and PayPal cut off donations to it in December 2010, supporters turned to Bitcoin — prompting Satoshi's warning that WikiLeaks had "kicked the hornet's nest."