Nonprofit media organization Wikileaks recently tweeted that it has begun accepting donations of the privacy-oriented digital currency Zcash. The cryptocurrency becomes the third virtual currency accepted by the information sharing site post-obit Bitcoin and Litecoin.

Why Zcash?

Wikileaks decided to accept Zcash equally a new mode of donation despite its poor performance in a survey that was conducted by the nonprofit group in early on Baronial 2022. Of the options presented to the pollsters, Zcash only got 11 pct of the 12,204 votes that were submitted. Its rivals Ethereum and Monero, meanwhile, garnered 45 pct and 21 percent, respectively.

Wikileaks background

Wikileaks is a global nonprofit group that mainly publishes news leaks, secret data, and classified media that are supplied past anonymous sources. Australian Cyberspace activist Julian Assange is widely considered as the founder, managing director, and editor-in-master of the organization.

The organisation became controversial due to its release of classified or otherwise sensitive materials. Wikileaks has published footage and classified documents from the Iraq War, diplomatic "communications" by the US State Section, and emails of 2022 US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

The group started accepting donations in cryptocurrencies in 2022 when information technology allowed contributions in Bitcoin. The digital currency has become a very popular medium for the grouping as its Bitcoin wallet has already registered over 26,000 transactions equally of early on Baronial 2022.

Other uses of Bitcoin

In a Reddit interview in early 2022, Wikileaks founder Assange claimed that the grouping and he, himself, are as well using Bitcoin for other purposes. During the interview, he used data from the Bitcoin Blockchain to evidence that he is still alive, quashing rumors of his untimely demise. Assange has been living in the Ecuadorian embassy in London since 2022.