A Bitcoin (BTC) whale donated 8 BTC to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, as reported by Altana Digital Forex Fund Alistair Milne. On the time of writing, the donation is value roughly $492,000, which is sufficient to cowl the prices of the jet Assange used to return to Australia from the UK.

“Assange will therefore arrive in Australia debt free thanks in large part to the generosity of a single Bitcoin whale,” highlighted Milne. On prime of the BTC donation, the WikiLeaks founder additionally acquired over £300,000 in donations paid with fiat currencies.

The whale donation accounts for practically all the quantity acquired by Assange’s Bitcoin pockets, which now has ‎8.1173865 BTC, in accordance to on-chain knowledge explorer mempool.area.

Assange was launched after pleading responsible to unlawfully acquiring and disclosing “classified documents relating to the national defense,” as reported by Bloomberg. He has been unable to return to Australia since 2012 when he broke his bail conceded by the UK authorities and sought refuge in an Ecuadorian embassy. 

In April 2019, after a collection of back-and-forths with Ecuadorian authorities, Assange’s asylum was lifted and he turned incarcerated in London till he was launched this week. Assange’s lawyer, Barry J Pollack, informed journalists in Canberra that plans for a cope with the US authorities had appeared to be going nowhere till the previous month, Bloomberg added. 

“We were not close to any sort of a resolution until a few weeks ago, when the Department of Justice reengaged, and there have been very tense negotiations over the past few weeks,” he stated.