WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange announced the birth of his daughter on X with a line from Terminator 2. His wife, Stella Assange, also celebrated the arrival on the social media platform.
The couple first announced the pregnancy in September and thanked the supporters who fought for his release.
Julian Assange Shares the Birth With a Terminator 2 Quote
In his post, Julian Assange shared a photo of himself holding the baby. “The future is not set. There is no fate but what we make for ourselves,” the caption reads.
The line comes from the 1991 film Terminator 2: Judgment Day. In the story, it stands for the idea that people can still avert disaster.
Stella Assange, a human rights lawyer, followed up later. She called the girl “so cute…and loud!” and thanked everyone for their messages.
Assange founded WikiLeaks in 2006. The site became known for publishing classified government documents from anonymous sources. Those leaks later led to US charges against him under the Espionage Act.
The pregnancy news came days after Assange returned to X following an eight-year silence. At the time, he said the new life was “thanks to everyone who fought for my freedom.”
Crypto Kept WikiLeaks Funded Through the Banking Blockade
Many of those backers fought with crypto. Visa, Mastercard and PayPal cut WikiLeaks off in December 2010. As a result, the site began accepting Bitcoin in June 2011.
Julian Assange later claimed those coins returned roughly 50,000%. In 2024, an anonymous donor also sent 8 BTC to cover his roughly $500,000 charter-flight debt.
Bitcoin donations have since mattered well beyond WikiLeaks. This year, for example, the IMF credited private donations, not public funds, for El Salvador’s recent Bitcoin reserve growth.
Supporters also pooled 16,593 ETH through AssangeDAO in 2022, worth about $53 million at the time. The DAO splintered weeks later, but its JUSTICE token, which Assange has no role in, still spikes whenever he makes headlines.
The birth news, however, barely moved the token. JUSTICE still trades at roughly double its January level, yet most of its September gains have faded. Daily trading volume has also dropped to a few hundred dollars.
Julian Assange spent more than five years in Belmarsh prison before a 2024 plea deal freed him. His case remains one of the earliest examples of Bitcoin donations replacing blocked payment channels.
