WIKILEAKS FOUNDER JULIAN ASSANGE: “Bitcoin is an extremely important innovation, but not in the way most people think. Bitcoin's real innovation is a globally verifiable proof publishing at a certain time. The whole system is built on that concept, and many other systems can also be built on it. The block chain nails down history, breaking Orwell's dictum of 'He who controls the present controls the past and he who controls the past controls the future'.”(Bitcoin Archive)