For those not caught up, there has not been visual proof of Julian being alive since his internet was cut a month ago for a police raid on the embassy. Tweets went out showing that his deadman switch was activated. Cryptographic hashes that have never failed to match what wikileaks later releases are mismatched for the first time. Wikileaks twitter account now possibly compromised, denies anything happened to him, but refuses to provide proof of life. I am unable to tell if their official bitcoin account was compromised, only that it is being used to send a secret message a few days ago.
Results of research I put together:
2016-05-17 ---- Last expense from wikileaks account before embassy incident.
https://blockchain.info/tx/d8459c53ff634dbf15168d44c6c8eff8656eebd12244f5cf8fea779c00041cdc
2016-11-18 ---- First send transaction after incident. Wikileaks account relocates 50 btc to a new address where it still is located.
Part of the transaction goes to another address 189o.
https://blockchain.info/tx/280827ed76ba31e148b4932f0ffcaacf94a8909fd14ab491a377c62c60a97f4f
2016-11-18 ---- 2 minutes later, Wikileaks sends 25 separate transactions directly to the 13LB account all in a 30 minute timespan. During this time, the 189o account forwards all that it received 25 minutes earlier, also to the 13LB account.
https://blockchain.info/address/1HB5XMLmzFVj8ALj6mfBsbifRoD4miY36v?filter=1
2016-11-20 ---- 2 days after this, the 13LB account broadcasts a secret message embedded in public keys: "were fine 8chan post fake"
https://blockchain.info/tx/fc722ce39094500690a4d4676fe475520d6a0af590336b73202010ca260bbd20
2016-11-24 ---- Someone notices the secret broadcast and replies "how wecan trust you" also using messages embedded in public keys, with each transaction being sent from a separate ip address over the span of 60 seconds.
https://blockchain.info/tx/70d67d059dd8d237cb835086132ad3345502bcc92c1ec3b51ffc589444279b38
https://blockchain.info/tx/ebfc2ab00a34ac940f3df37b41508f051e4c16ddc51c22d1a9063f5818414010
https://blockchain.info/tx/3832242ddf925d4e6bdd17cceae85dc166b44653ca2743bc3d189dd89d5591d7
https://blockchain.info/tx/2923e0d471187f52e081925f0f5b56f0d4ec9d7519810fab8a1295f55660db00
UPDATE:
I may have found the 8chan post they are talking about. I do not know for sure what 8chan post this message refers to so apologies if this is an unrelated post that just happens to be related to wikileaks posted around the same time and then deleted. I am guessing 8chan is similar to 4chan in that almost nothing gets deleted, making this seem special.
Original url that was deleted: https://8ch.net/pol/res/8268986.html#8313782
Screenshot prior to removal: 
Alternate possibility for the post they refer to that seems more worthy of response than the one above (there is a lot of misinformation on 8chan) : 
UPDATE TWO:
The fees that were paid on the 25 rapid succession transactions were custom entered and not the default from a bitcoin client, meaning they are also broadcasted information, albeit much more cryptic... perhaps a stenographer lurks? Here are the fees paid on the transactions in chronological order starting with the first fee paid.
Fees sent alongside a transfer of 5 bitcoin: (likely where the broadcasted message starts)
0.00163564
0.00180517
0.00197375
0.00367806
0.00512333
0.00792201
0.02679914
Fees sent alongside a transfer of 2 bitcoin:
0.0046119
Fees sent alongside a transfer of 1 bitcoin:
0.0027409
0.00581708
0.00928726
Fees sent alongside a transfer of 0.5 bitcoin:
0.00427331
0.01413073
Fees sent alongside a transfer of 0.2 bitcoin:
0.00240042
0.01217781
Fees sent alongside a transfer of 0.1 bitcoin:
0.00350569
Fees sent alongside a transfer of 0.05 bitcoin:
0.00749819
Fees sent alongside a transfer of 0.03 bitcoin:
0.00597051
Fees sent alongside a transfer of 0.02 bitcoin:
0.00775485
Fees sent alongside a transfer of 0.01 bitcoin:
0.00665039
Fees sent alongside a transfer of 0.005 bitcoin:
0.0037599
Fees sent alongside a transfer of 0.16099082 bitcoin:
0.00043139
Fees sent alongside a transfer of 0.00070137 bitcoin:
0.00063217
Fees sent alongside a transfer of 0.0003021 bitcoin:
0.00044702
Fees sent alongside a transfer of 0.0004545 bitcoin:
0.00044607
There are 3 possible scenarios and best speculation as to why the message was sent can be different for each.
First: Wikileaks was not compromised in any way, just as their twitter claims. Why send a secret message at all then?
Second: Wikileaks was compromised completely including their bitcoin account. Why would the attackers who want to fake the appearance that wikileaks is still operational send out a secret message like this? Thus far they have been dismissing theories using their twitter not secret vanity address messages.
Third: Wikileaks was compromised except for their bitcoin account which is still in the control of someone from the original wikileaks team. What motive do they have for sending a message this way? Are they under gag order? Why risk broadcasting a message at all?
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