Wikileaks now accepts bitcoin donations: https://twitter.com/#!/wikileaks/status/80774521350668288

Wikileaks performs a great service for society by making governments and companies more transparent. The fact that anyone can now donate to them without having their payments disabled is a big, big deal. Hopefully more organizations that attack the corrupted status quo will also begin accepting bitcoin donations.

This is good for the acceptance of bitcoin. We often imagine that bitcoin needs to have merchants first, in order for people to have a reason to use bitcoins. But it can work the other way around too. Having lots of people with bitcoins can pressure more merchants into accepting them. With more organizations like Wikileaks accepting bitcoins, this pressure on merchants is increased.