Crypto lovers wish to fund the price of Julian Assange’s non-public jet after his spouse Stella shared an ‘emergency’ enchantment to cowl the aircraft’s half 1,000,000 money owed.
Stella Assange claimed that her husband will owe the Australian authorities US$520,000 for the constitution flight to Saipan after which Australia, and has made the pressing enchantment, sharing a hyperlink to a Crowdfunder.
She defined, “He was not permitted to fly commercial airlines or routes to Saipan and onward to Australia. Any contribution big or small is much appreciated.”
Nonetheless, crypto lovers weren’t glad with the fiat-only funding and started suggesting crypto-friendlier choices.
“Please find a way to accept crypto donations — I have no doubt some capable and trustworthy devs will help you set it up!” one consumer mentioned. One other claimed, “Set up crypto donations. It will be reached in 10 minutes.”
One consumer steered {that a} Solana pockets needs to be set up as a substitute whereas somebody, fairly unseriously, hinted {that a} meme token may very well be created. “Hear me out, $ASSANGE,” the put up learn.
Assange was freed at present after years of preventing his extradition to the US. His constitution flight is taking him to Saipan within the Northern Mariana Islands the place he’s anticipated to plead responsible to 1 depend of espionage. In an odd flip of occasions, Assange additionally appears to be utilizing the identical non-public jet utilized by Taylor Swift on a latest flight from Tokyo to Los Angeles.
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The Wikileaks co-founder has relied on the AssangeDAO to boost over 16,500 ETH value $55.2 million at at present’s costs by means of the sale of ‘Justice’ tokens. Silke Noa, a member of the AssangeDAO, mentioned $37 million of those funds have been used for his “legal defense and publicity activities.”
Stella Assange’s fund has raised £50,734 ($64,291) on the time of publication.
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