Whether Bitcoin was brought in to help out WikiLeaks or not but it certainly did exactly that.
Although it was not like Linux just to finish any unfinished business such as GNU but quite similarily WikiLeaks and bitcoin also arrived as per an algorithm of spacetime to change the world forever.
Wikileaks and bitcoin made the new age finally began. Altogether they unlocked a previously unseen situation through the history of humankind, ascertaining that internet age is finally going beyond the state-bound phase of civilizations forever. Together they made that irreversible.
Among all the smart creatives around the world none has ever been even comparable with the political brilliance of Julian Assange excepting the inventor of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, who has indeed excelled him the way that if Julian Assange did appreciate any technology with all his heart, it is only bitcoin.
@JulianAssange tweeted on 14 October 2017 at 10.35 pm “My deepest thanks to the US government, Senator McCain and Senator Lieberman for pushing Visa, MasterCard, Payal, AmEx, Mooneybookers, et al, into erecting an illegal banking blockade against @WikiLeaks starting in 2010. It caused us to invest in Bitcoin — with > 50000% return.”
Interestingly Satoshi Nakamoto, fluent in commonwealth english (very much like Julian Assange) with nothing japanese except his pseudonym, absolutely unbothered about anything at all but bothered about personally requesting Julian Assange for not to use bitcoins to spare it an early wrath of the governments.
Whether Bitcoin was brought in to help out WikiLeaks or not but it certainly did exactly that.