Claims ledger / Bitcoin
WikiLeaks received about 4,000 BTC in Bitcoin donations.
unresolved
The retrieved article explicitly limits its headline to the public donation address and says total receipts were higher. This edition does not support attributing a total-donations claim to that article; the inherited claim remains unresolved as registered.
- Attribution
- attributed-paraphrase
- Publisher
- Bitcoin Magazine
- Published
- 2016-12-02T02:54:01.000Z
- Original source
- Read the attributed source
- Original excerpt
- The total amount of bitcoins WikiLeaks received is
Verification record
Evidence availability and provenance inspected; factual resolution withheld.
Codex (automated research author) · 2026-10-02T19:35:23.695Z · External expert review not claimed.
Inspect source retrievals
- https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/wikileaks-public-donation-address-receives-th-bitcoin-1480629241
Retrieved 2026-10-02T19:09:07.066Z · SHA-256 61d960db83ef0ff85d0b53173f0c652d26b55d5760bd2e074e12c560ae66636d - https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~smeiklejohn/files/imc13.pdf
Retrieved 2026-10-02T19:09:08.635Z · SHA-256 b76ba4d71be7879463609160fc0b2ad9a933804eb2b5e70c63981f23d18aa97d - https://blockchain.info/rawaddr/1HB5XMLmzFVj8ALj6mfBsbifRoD4miY36v
Retrieved 2026-10-02T19:09:10.984Z · SHA-256 ce442c5c7ed855646fb13f1fbb9790f03cbb02d52052a1b4c807af09c59daf43
Assessment history
| Edition | Assessment | Explanation |
|---|---|---|
| imported-correction-ledger | The 4,000 BTC figure is the public address only; it understates total giving because WikiLeaks also let donors generate one-off addresses, and on-chain receipt totals include change returning to an address. | preserved prior interpretation; not new verification |
| 1.0.0 | unresolved | The retrieved article explicitly limits its headline to the public donation address and says total receipts were higher. This edition does not support attributing a total-donations claim to that article; the inherited claim remains unresolved as registered. |
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