CD202: EUGENE JARECKI - ASSANGE AND WIKILEAKS - THE SIX BILLION DOLLAR MAN FILM from Citadel Dispatch

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CD202: EUGENE JARECKI - ASSANGE AND WIKILEAKS - THE SIX BILLION DOLLAR MAN FILM

58 minutes Posted May 12, 2026 at 7:34 pm.

Eugene Jarecki and his film

Seven years documenting Assange and the rise of WikiLeaks

WikiLeaks, Bitcoin, and early debanking lesson

Awards won vs. distribution roadblocks

The economics of the film and secure production challenges

Jack Dorsey’s idea: Bitcoiners as producers

Pricing the experiment: 0.01 BTC producer model

Perks for Bitcoin producers and explosive materials

Using Bitcoin to bypass gatekeepers and educate the public

How distribution used to work—and how it broke

Past films, shrinking media bandwidth, and recent examples

Community release vs. influencer gatekeepers

Why controversial topics need community-backed releases

Bringing non-Bitcoiners in and creating FOMO

Hollywood consolidation and the case for a new model

Opaque streamer deals and fear-based censorship

Putting the system on trial—film’s civic mission

Assange, Snowden, and the price of truth

The $6,000,000,000 bounty through IMF and World Bank pressure

Correa, Moreno, and the embassy-to-Belmarsh saga

Beyond the smears: extradition was the goal

Announcing the Bitcoin-only private watch party

Bitcoin’s role in Assange’s flight and what comes next

If this works: a template for future truth-telling films

Closing notes and upcoming episode teaser

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Eugene Jarecki joins to discuss his new Julian Assange documentary The Six Billion Dollar Man, filmed over seven years across 15 countries under high security conditions. We get into WikiLeaks as a breakthrough for whistleblowers, Bitcoin’s early role in keeping WikiLeaks alive after Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal cut it off, and why Assange’s story remains central to freedom of information. Then we go deep on the broken state of film distribution, why legacy media and streamers will not touch the film, Jack Dorsey’s idea to release it through Bitcoiners first, and the experiment to make Bitcoin supporters official producers of the film before a wider release.

The Six Billion Dollar Man: https://thesixbilliondollarman.com
Eugene on Nostr: https://primal.net/eugene

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