- In between various writings included to the Bitcoin blockchain through Ordinals, a 7zip file probably associated with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was lately found.
- A Reddit client named “u/sprxzk34620” detailed the r/bitcoin subreddit of the exploration.
- The post informed, “A coded 7zip file probably associated to Julian Assange is concealed in the Bitcoin blockchain.”
- The author also highlighted that the file can be get by interweaving the publish seg of all the output scripts from a particular transaction.
“The secured 7zip file includes a file referred as ‘Julianassange.txt,’ but tries to break the file has not been successful,” the Reddit user further went on stating. Newspersons on the Reddit post questioned why Assange would include this to the Bitcoin blockchain and some named to hypothesis that he made a “dead man’s switch.” “It could be a secured link to the switch or files revealing secrets, one person revealed. Others were dubious and said that a zip file referred to “Julianassange.txt” sounds such as hoax.
Unpremidetly, the transaction of January 5, 2017, with the 7zip file, happened five days prior to Assange reading the Bitcoin blockchain hash from block height i.e, 447,506 in a recorded video. During the same time, many trusted that the whistleblower utilized this strategy to show he was alive. In spite of being alive, Assange revealed that he was not good at the time he was constricted in the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
“Don’t regard some cryptographic proof as verification that I am good,” he highlighted during the time. “I am not. I have been at the same time for eight years. I have not been good the whole time.” From that time, Assange’s Ecuadorian asylum was repealed and he was into custody on April 11, 2019, when police attacked the legation. The contents of the 7zip file are not known till anyone strongly breaks it, as it may not exist to or be linked with Assange at all.
The post of Reddit written by u/sprxzk34620 finished with a heated analysis about if including arbitrary data to the Bitcoin blockchain by Ordinals was a legitimate practice, as it has encouraged disagreement among a few bitcoin advocates. “If everybody is going to post ignorant cat JPEGs on the blockchain, I can keep purchasing new drives for my node … F*** that sh**. Keep it, dense folks,” one Redditor emphasized.