How Julian Assange’s brother Gabriel Shipton and crypto artist Pak raised $74m to free the Wikileaks founder
Pak is a suitably shadowy figure whose identity is unknown. A digital creator, cryptocurrency investor and programmer, they are perhaps the ideal collaborator on a project designed to aid the creator of WikiLeaks.
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But while Shipton will discuss the Censored program at the Australian International Documentary Conference this weekend, don’t expect any insights into Pak.
“I never met him,” he says. “Actually, I don’t even know if it’s a him; I assumed it was a him, just from our conversations, but I never met him. Them.”
Shipton became intrigued by the potential of NFTs as a fundraising tool in 2021, soon after they emerged as an outgrowth of the blockchain technology behind cryptocurrency.
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