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2026-03-03 11:48:51 UTC

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That usually doesn’t work in this way, unfortunately.

2026-02-24 19:39:30 UTC

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Thank you 💙💛

2026-02-24 18:03:05 UTC

For years ago speed and permissionless of bitcoin helped me collect, buy and deliver protective and medical equipment to Kyiv and Lviv, while the world was wondering how send humanitarian aid to Ukraine.
Thank you #satoshi 💙💛

2025-12-30 09:15:42 UTC

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Thank you! 🎄🎄🎄

2025-12-29 22:00:00 UTC

2025 was an incredibly rewarding year, full of unexpected gifts and meaningful opportunities. With Open Dialogue Foundation, we continued supporting people where it mattered most.
We assisted in delivering hundreds of bionic hands to veterans in Ukraine, exposed in the U.S. Congress and European Parliament the weaponisation of behavioural data, Silver and Purple Notice of #INTERPOL and shed light on transnational financial repression by authoritarian regimes like #Kazakhstan, #Kyrgyzstan, and Russia reaching EU and U.S. citizens and entities.
We contributed proudly to stopping Chat Control regulation again and shared personal stories reminding why we should be especially active in protecting the privacy of payments, communications, and their developers in the digital era.
Encryption of communication and #Bitcoin are the two tools serving as fundamental guarantees for human rights in the digital era.
On a personal note, after years of separation and health challenges, long-pending divorce papers were finally granted this year, and I fully regained my health.
I'm deeply grateful for the people, lessons, and moments that shaped this year. Looking ahead to another wonderful one.
Photo credits: @mkphotons
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2025-12-03 11:00:58 UTC

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I see from your answer that I shouldn’t try because it will be just useless. Have you ever tried to speak to them? Why American bitcoiners can defend and lobby their interests successfully and eu bitcoiners just can only discourage, Im not even mentioning lack of intention to support defending themselves.
What a suicidal mindset?

2025-11-18 09:02:33 UTC

My ‘may I meet you’ comes along with ‘what do you know about #Bitcoin’ and… ‘are you ready to defend #privacy?’ 😂 🧡
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2025-08-24 17:59:49 UTC

Which one is better? ☺️🥰
Photo credit for Matti Keski-Kohtamäki (x/ig: @mkphotons) 🧡🚀
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2025-07-27 21:47:53 UTC

Digital Rights Under Siege: Join BTCHEL Talks!
Join me to discuss why #Bitcoin P2P privacy payment tools, privacy of communication, and travel data protection matter more than ever at BTCHEL conference in #Helsinki (August 14-16)!
Bring anyone who's tired of feeling like their every move is being tracked and wants to do something about it!
Do it before it is too late - we're living through an unprecedented assault on digital privacy:
1. The EU's Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA) is advancing a "zero tolerance for anonymity in crypto" policy, while...
2. Denmark's EU Presidency is fast-tracking #ChatControl regulation for adoption on October 14, 2025.
This isn't just regulatory overreach—it's the architecture of mass surveillance disguised as child protection and combating financial crimes/terrorism.
The consequences are already visible and show how financial surveillance creates real physical and national security dangers:
- kidnapping incidents in #France targeting crypto-assets holders,
- weaponisation of AML/CFT and cybersecurity laws for transnational financial repression in the #EU by authoritarian regimes and their proxies.
When your payment history, communication patterns, and travel data are exposed, you become a target.
For those who don't know - proposed ChatControl means:
- Automatic scanning of ALL private messages, emails, and chats
- Mandatory age verification ending anonymous communication
- Cloud storage monitoring, including your private photos
- App store censorship and digital exclusion of minors
Join me at BTCHEL (August 14-16) to examine new evidence of how Russia's allies are weaponizing cybersecurity and #AML regulations against the EU, #US, and #Western democratic institutions.
In a world where digital and physical converge, privacy of payments, communication, and travel isn't just convenience—it's survival. It protects your life, property, and cultural identity from those who would exploit your data.
See you! 🧡
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2025-07-22 13:08:38 UTC

Good morning ☀️
#Provo has an incredible heart for families. The way this community rallies around parents and children is the most touching thing I’ve ever experienced.
Have you been there ?
Would love to connect with local #bitcoin #Utah community to join efforts in defense of privacy of financial, travel and communication data from the weaponization.
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2025-07-05 17:27:59 UTC

🚨 YOUR VOICE NEEDED: CONGRESS SEEKS TESTIMONIES
The US Congress is investigating how authoritarian regimes weaponize financial regulations against American donors supporting democracy. WE NEED YOUR INPUT.
📢 WHY YOUR TESTIMONY MATTERS
Chairman #McGovern asked me directly: "Your testimony calls for the Treasury Department to issue a financial crimes enforcement network advisory highlighting foreign governments' misuse of anti-money laundering/anti-terrorism financing tools to target U.S. entities and residents in transnational repression. Has the Treasury Department made any steps in this regard? If not, what do you think is a productive pressure point?"
This question shows Congress recognizes that the case of American philanthropist Barlyk #Mendygaziyev demonstrates a terrifying trend:
🔻His brother Bekizhan imprisoned in #Kazakhstan as RETALIATION for Barlyk's pro-democracy advocacy
🔻US banks terminated their financial services based on Kazakhstan's false claims and accusations
🔻Kazakhstan exploited AML/CFT laws to silence American donors
🎯 THE BIGGER PICTURE
When authoritarian regimes can:
🔻Turn US financial institutions against democracy donors
🔻Weaponize "anti-extremism", AML, cybersecurity laws and international cooperation mechanisms against civil society and donors transnationally and domestically
🔻Take family members hostage to silence advocacy
Every donor, activist, and NGO becomes vulnerable transnationally
💪 WHY DEFENDING DONORS IS CRITICAL
🔻Democracy movements NEED financial support
🔻Majority of the prodemocracy donors are U.S. philanthropists. They are at risk of being criminalized for supporting human rights if no remedies established
🔻Kazakhstan's playbook is being copied by other autocrats
🔻US financial system is being turned against democracy itself
📝 WHAT CONGRESS NEEDS FROM YOU
Submit testimonies/recommendations on:
🔻How financial debanking affects pro-democracy work in your country
🔻Your experiences with weaponized AML compliance
🔻Policy recommendations to protect legitimate donors
🔻Cases of authoritarian abuse of US financial systems or U.S. financial intelligence (I will explain more in the next post)
🔗 WE HELP YOU TO SUBMIT
Information to the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission:
🔻Send your story to me
🔻Reference: [mention your country] Transnational Financial Repression
🔻Deadline: end of July 2025
When autocrats can silence American donors, democracy loses its lifeline. Your voice can help Congress close these dangerous loopholes.
#DefendDonors #TransnationalRepression #TransnationalFinancialRepression #Congress #Democracy #HumanRights #Philanthropy #CivilSociety #TomLantos #USCongress #AML #CFT
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2025-07-05 17:23:47 UTC

US CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS ON TRANSNATIONAL FINANCIAL REPRESSION
On June 24, 2025, the US House of Representatives held hearings on transnational repression. I had the honor of presenting to the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission one of the most sophisticated methods of persecution—the abuse by undemocratic regimes of financial and cybersecurity regulations, as well as mutual legal assistance agreements, targeting not only government critics but also #American philanthropists, non-governmental organizations, and investors.
My testimony and recommendations addressed two key aspects:
(1) explaining how transnational financial repression is carried out and its impact on the United States, and
(2) how these mechanisms are used to obstruct financial support for pro-democratic movements and humanitarian activities.
Regimes, particularly #Kazakhstan and #Russia, along with their proxies such as Kyrgyzstan's #Bakai Bank, have learned to exploit trust-based mechanisms of international cooperation. This enables dictators to arbitrarily freeze or confiscate assets in the #UnitedStates, deny Americans access to financial services, misuse financial intelligence and personal data, and spread targeted disinformation to undermine organizations' economic reputations and circumvent international sanctions.
By abusing these international agreements, dictators and their proxies can also initiate Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPP suits), depleting their critics residing in Western countries both legally and financially.
One example is the case of American investor and philanthropist Barlyk Mendygaziyev, his family members, and political hostage Bekizhan Mendygaziyev.
I will share more details in the next post.
https://blossom.primal.net/924ff917c772b697cf200385f0f73bef5ce79331095e534db2fec108191ff25a.mp4

2025-04-08 09:18:10 UTC

#asknostr seems doesn’t work.
Are there any videos how to use #Nostr and its new features ?

2025-01-19 19:17:55 UTC

Everyone knows it from birth, but forgets it because we don't use it.
What is it?

2024-12-01 13:30:11 UTC

I survived and Im fighting against debanking as a weapon against critical voices used in western countries.
My family, my Open Dialogue Foundation and business company experienced and are overcoming the fact that our financial data was weaponized to destroy reputation, our families, businesses, to isolate us as critics. Same happened with many still silent tech and #bitcoin businesses in the western world to destroy their competitive proposals.
Im grateful that @pmarca @npub1nwh…409r @npub1dc2…u5hg @davidmarcus @joerogan are voicing these tremendous abuses.
Being critical, competitive and effective against governments abusing power should never be claimed as “high risk”.
Abuse of power through AML/CFT laws without any remedy and accountability should be classified as high risk and top priority to fight against it. Let’s join efforts to eliminate these repressive practices!
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2024-09-18 22:57:06 UTC

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I feel your pain when opening one of them… like this: https://image.nostr.build/296d3f8ed57d69eb8c6b4e956c4aaf2f90c5b5d217baafff7366fc753bdb6e1b.jpg

2024-09-01 13:31:24 UTC

URGENT: PROTECT YOUR PRIVACY COMMUNICATION RIGHT NOW!
on 4th Sept 2024 #ChatControl regulation representatives of EU goverments will resume work based on a secret document according to Patrick #Breyer, former Member of the European Parliament.
Help to mobilize everybody to defend our #privacy of communication and its developers, investors!
If no preventive actions from your side now, this regulation will be endorsed on 12/13 December 2024.
According to the draft regulation dated 28 May (Council document 9093/24), ChatControl deploys to do, for instance:
🔻 “upload moderation”, users of apps and services with chat functions are to be asked whether they accept the indiscriminate and error-prone scanning and possibly reporting of their privately shared images, photos and videos.
🔻Scan by “artificial intelligence” technology previously unknown images and videos;
🔻If a user refuses the scanning, they would be blocked from sending or receiving images, photos, videos and links (Article 10).
🔻End-to-end encrypted services such as Whatsapp or Signal would have to implement the automated searches “prior to transmission” of a message (so-called client-side scanning, Article 10a).
During the last discussion on 24 May, the Council Legal Service made it clear that indiscriminate chat control scanning of non-suspects is still envisioned and remains a violation of fundamental rights.
Nevertheless, most EU governments are determined to go ahead. https://netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/2024/05/2024-05-28_Council_Presidency_LEWP_CSAR_Compromise-texts_9093.pdf
🌎 Tell your goverment and parliamentarians, that the proposal should be rejected altogether!
🔴Is your government in favour?
→ Ask for an explanation and for your government to revert its course.
🟡Is your government abstaining?
→ Ask why and demand that they take a strong stance against chat control.
🟢Is your government opposing?
→ Great, but take a closer look at the reasoning: Some governments like #Germany e.g. only object to the scanning of encrypted communications, but are fine with the indiscriminate scanning of other private and public communication, with the end of anonymous communication by requiring age verification, or with introducing a minimum age for “risky” communication apps. Also critical governments need to do more, exert their influence in the Council of the EU and agree on a joint list of necessary fundamental changes to the proposal. Absent such revision they should ask the European Commission to withdraw the chat control proposal as it stands.
🔴 In favour of ChatControl: France, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden.
🟡Abstained: Estonia, Netherlands, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Austria
🟢 Opposed the proposal: Germany, Poland
When reaching out to your government, the ministries of the interior (in the lead) of justice and of digitisation/telecommunications/economy are your best bet. You can additionally contact the permanent representation of your country with the EU: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/who-is-who/organization/-/organization/COREPER/
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2024-08-15 20:32:46 UTC

I had the honour of sharing my personal experience with Melanion Capital & Jad #Comair on their podcast about how easy it is to weaponise the financial data of every resident and citizen of Western countries.
The refusal to protect banking secrecy has led to a massive failure in the protection of human rights. #Bitcoin p2p transactions have become the only available tool for the financially repressed and excluded as a consequence of the abuse of AML/CFT laws.
We live in a time when financial institutions have been given the right to police activities of citizens. If your rights are violated by the police, you have the possibility of defence/remedies. However, with financial institutions, there are no such mechanisms due to Financial Action Task Force (FATF) recommendations.
I experienced this first hand when three authoritarian regimes abused my and Open Dialogue Foundation banking data getting it from #Belgium and #Poland.
Banking records obtained by three regimes became a weapon against me and anyone who worked, received our support in different countries or championed our human rights work at the time. I able to continue my human rights work and hold accountable perpetrators of violations of my rights thanks to #freedomtech Bitcoin.
Ironically, AML/CFT laws were created to fight criminals, oligarchs, dictators corrupting western countries. In reality - AML/CFT laws have become the most effective tool for #TransnationalRepression, breaking down all barriers to protect the right to #privacy of #correspondence, #transactions, #movements. If you think that this only applies to dictatorial or authoritarian countries, you are sorely mistaken.
Want to learn more? Listen our 🎙️ Ep32 of ‘Bitcoin Equities Talks’ with Melanion Capital
https://x.com/MelanionCap/status/1810303322319949884
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2024-08-05 21:02:53 UTC

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This is what we see right now. And we got responses that “no plans to conduct public consultations”. Public hearing with just presenting reports doesn't equal to public consultations, which has to impact on the report presented in that public hearing.

2024-08-05 20:26:06 UTC

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You have a right to wait until it is banned and then what? Complain? Move to other jurisdictions? Or you think that with all negative publicity and just few voices in defense negative government report will transform suddenly into a positive law?
In a free society you have privileges to correct wrong regulatory opinions. You can defend your industry, or just wait to see if really someone attempts to limit it. It is your privilege.
I don’t have such privileges and have the only financial tool to lose/be negatively labeled and affect lives of many people I defend from financial exclusion/repression.
And all of that just because there is almost no will from Norwegian bitcoiners to defend themselves.

2024-08-05 17:12:07 UTC

NORWAY IS GOING TO BAN BITCOIN MINING WITHOUT PUBLIC CONSULTATIONS -
WE NEED TO ACT NOW
Norway's Ministry of Digitalisation and Public Administration responded to @ODFoundation that it "has no plans to conduct a public consultation" on a ban on cryptocurrency mining.
There is no doubt that the ban designed to target #Bitcoin mining. Unfortunately, that's a stance of the @Stortinget and the Norwegian government.
https://www.stortinget.no/no/Saker-og-publikasjoner/Publikasjoner/Innstillinger/Stortinget/2023-2024/inns-202324-383s?all=true#m2
🔴 Why we should protect our #freedomtech Bitcoin in #Norway NOW:
(1) Norway is fully integrated in the European Single Market throught the European Economic Area (EEA) and Schengen Agreement. It means Norway can provide its legilsative approach as an input for new legislation for the EU/EEA both:
- during the preparatory phase, when the @EU_Commission is developing proposals;
- during work of expert groups and committees of the European Commission;
- submitting proposals and comments to European Free Trade Association on upcoming legislation.
(2) As a co-founder of the @OECD , Norway sets an example of regulation worldwide and provides its legislative recommedations for global standards.
(3) Norway has historically been a place to meet, share experiences and educate human rights defenders and bitcoiners from around the world.
Norwegian goverment will present its investigation a ban on cryptocurrency mining by the end of 2024.
🔴 What we should do together to prevent Bitcoin mining ban:
(1) Repost this post and join our #BTC Coalition to educate local communities and media about social benefits of Bitcoin mining in Norway and worldwide;
(2) Help us pool resources and best practices to convince Norwegian politicians and media to explore the social benefits of Bitcoin to prevent this repressive regulation;
(3) If you are a Norwegian citizen: write a letter to your legislator and government asking for public consultation and providing arguments about the social benefits of Bitcoin mining for Norway.
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2024-06-14 21:27:47 UTC

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No, PM doesn’t work properly, no notification… im sorry, just opened and replied

2024-06-04 08:30:05 UTC

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I would not hurry with such judgment about Norway, but instead propose to do an effort just like #US #bitcoin community to defend your rights and develop your position/policy approach. It works pretty well in the US, why in the #EU bitcoiners don’t even try to work on that?

2024-06-03 23:21:58 UTC

3/4 Most MPs support this position and refuse to meet to discuss the issue, not only because of the misunderstanding of Bitcoin, but also because of the lack of public data, submitted to the parliament and government on why #Bitcoin mining is beneficial to #Norway.
We base our conclusion following Open Dialogue Foundation BTC Coalition advocacy efforts since April 2024 to educate major members of political parties across the political spectrum in Norway and contacts with local jornalists.

2024-06-03 23:21:20 UTC

2/4 Why Norwegian policymakers want to ban #Bitcoin mining:
- they “don’t want cryptocurrency [Bitcoin] mining companies” since they look at them as „actors who are looking to "shop" for cheap electricity in Norway“ and “(...) businesses seeking to exploit Norway for cheap energy extraction”.
- since they don't see positive uses cases of Bitcoin mining and Bitcoin in general, the want to ban it. Norwegian policymakers want to keep only data centers “to secure storage of images and communication”, or „which are important to society, and the society-serving computer industry is important to Norway“.
https://www.vg.no/nyheter/i/9zgyxq/regjeringen-slaar-ned-mot-krypto-datasenter-uoensket-i-norge
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bitcoin-miners-face-pressure-norway-071921322.html?guccounter=1

2024-06-03 23:20:33 UTC

We Have to Defend Bitcoin Mining in Norway. Here is why:
1/4 In April 2024, the Norwegian government introduced a legislation to regulate data centers in a way that effectively bans #Bitcoin mining in the country.
This is setting a huge precedent. So far, all attempts to ban bitcoin mining have been referred to the practices of authoritarian/dictatorial countries such as #China. But in the case of #Norway, this country is considered one were bitcoiners teach human rights defenders about freedom technology routinely.
A country known for defending human rights, the Nobel Peace Prize, will be also known to be against Bitcoin mining, which affects not only miners, but all users, developers and investors. https://image.nostr.build/cdb28c279516878c22718f74ff33a11765bba18f640b3afb2732e83c242739dd.jpg

2024-05-21 18:37:24 UTC

OVERCOME DISTRUST WITH BITCOIN
Last week I had the opportunity to share my experience at the Copenhagen Democracy Summit about using #Bitcoin to address #AI fraud in the case of financial exclusion/transnational repression and attempted election fraud.
The main question of the Summit was how to overcome distrust, especially when new technologies in combination with AI that can both enhance and undermine it. Alliance of Democracies Foundation, brought amazing experts, including Peter Erben from The International Foundation for Electoral Systems, Annette Kroeber-Riel, Vice President of Government Affairs and Public Policy at #Google in Europe, and Nanna-Louise Linde, Vice President of European Government Affairs, #Microsoft.
My role was to present my experience and examples of the Bitcoin blockchain technology that civil society is using right now to protect electoral integrity, rule of law and human rights around the world from artificial intelligence fraud.
After all, it is not only smear campaigns or AI fraud that undermine the integrity of elections, but also by cutting off the financial resources needed for independent candidates to run. So Bitcoin technology helps to restore the trust and civil rights, for example:
🧡 protection against massive smear campaigns with AI abuses that lead to the financial exclusion and discrimination of the candidates running for elections, activists, and independent media inside authoritarian countries like Kazakhstan, Belarus, Turkey or lately, even in India.
🧡 provides tools against transnational persecution of critics of authoritarian regimes living abroad.
Transactions via bitcoin's p2p wallet are the only tool to protect such groups in non-democratic states.
🧡 Last, but not least, Bitcoin can safeguard the most important documents that used to determine election results: back in 2023 the Supreme Electoral Tribunal in #Guatemala was able to safeguard so called “raw material” – over 150 000 images of the vote tally sheets thanks to the created solution that they called the "Immutable Backup". This solution is based on the Bitcoin blockchain technology from a startup called Simple Proof. In that way Guatemala’s people were able to protect their input to determine who won the election. These documents were made available to the public in real-time in order for any citizen to be able to audit the process as it happens.
Bitcoin is helping to restore trust based on proof of work. 🧡 https://image.nostr.build/2d20b9918910dc380333e8fd388a3dda03049b60f27b63774889be615fefe221.jpg https://image.nostr.build/dd1a1e9de03aa5de7130b4024cd4d9b35b2a1d8ff8d5542958b1833987ebc758.jpg https://image.nostr.build/37d32e06dbb84c3f858935952a77abac6003040beff2abf50e08162a98fd55c5.jpg

2024-04-23 23:41:53 UTC

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Show me one thing where power was given, but not taken. Not everyone pretends. Last year European Parliament voted in defense of self-hosted wallets, recognizing crypto assets as a payment and crowdfunding instruments. This year trilogue procedure with involvement of the EU Commission and EU Council ➕ silence of the EU citizens in defense of privacy instruments made EP’s position weak. So we have this very dangerous proposal of AML regulation.
If you don’t defend your rights, if you are tired to defend your rights, you will lose them. Satoshi #Nakomoto understood very well: his freedom tool is about defending rights, defending decentralized power. But as everything, it is also need to have people, ready to develop, speak up in defense themselves and their freedom tools.

2024-04-23 17:21:01 UTC

On behalf of the BTC Coalition, we are recommending MEPs to vote AGAINST the #EU #AMLR proposal and urge you to join our call for three main reasons:
1. EU WILL DEVASTATE CROWDFUNDING FOR ACTIVISTS AND HUMANITARIAN NGOs
NGOs barely receive funds to support human rights or humanitarian aid.
#Crowdfunding, including the use of #Bitcoin in self-hosted wallets, is the last resort.
What is the EU doing?
In the post-Trilogue AMLR draft, all possible crowdfunding platforms, including based on crypto-assets and serving humanitarian purposes, designated as intermediaries, are considered as high-risk ever-evolving Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (ML/TF) channel.
In practice this means fewer and fewer donations, because of:
🔻increased administrative & operational costs,
🔻reduction of the donor base due to invasive due diligence processes,
🔻reduced financial inclusion of smaller entities and projects that traditionally rely on crowdfunding.
The AMLR does not take into account the broader negative impacts on society, resulting in the obstruction or even halting of social, entrepreneurial and humanitarian initiatives. 1/5 https://image.nostr.build/0d03b04e7e6d710c26a31d864561afcd336b4f470d5fdd514f52dbec91e82224.jpg

2024-04-05 16:10:47 UTC

Come to BPI Summit on April 9th in Washington, D.C. to discuss how #Bitcoin helps to resist against dictatorships and why it is our responsibility to protect our financial freedoms. 🧡 https://image.nostr.build/e3f321a62e0f0d62b7f9f3e9db8abfe88991a0e8d51d275b0da4bb5baa1b9247.jpg

2024-03-30 14:18:08 UTC

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I tried, I thought Im using wrong link… apparently not, any advice what should I do ? 🙈☺️
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2024-03-30 12:06:51 UTC

Guys,
How to do a space or transmission on #nostr (I activated purple account)? Is it possible or not yet?

2024-03-22 12:56:51 UTC

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Since you write me in English, you probably had a chance to get educated without much effort contrary to the situation we have in many authoritarian states.
Covid restrictions were possible because just a few opposed. But those who opposed actually did changes that we right now don’t experience restrictions. If you fight back you get what you want. There is always a price for that, obviously.

2024-03-21 23:49:26 UTC

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It works, but nothing solves your problems forever: power never given, it can be only taken. The moment you stop to care your rights, you are going to be abused. That is a reality. So freedoms you enjoy right now were achieved because your grandparents or so fought for them. If you don’t defend them and give up, they will be undoubtedly taken by others.

2024-03-21 22:59:06 UTC

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No need to become criminals. You have a lot of instruments in democracies to change the narrative and regulations, especially in the year of elections. Use your power, don’t allow to degrade you to criminals.

2024-03-21 21:49:40 UTC

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There are many draconial provisions in the upcoming #EU #AML Regulation both for cash and to p2p #bitcoin transactions (self-hosted wallets and use of mixers).
Some examples:
(33b) The introduction of a Union-wide limit to large cash payment mitigates the risks associated with the use of large cash payments. However, obliged entities that carry out transactions in cash below this amount remain vulnerable to risks of money laundering and terrorist financing as they provide a point of entry into the Union’s financial system. Therefore, it is necessary to require the application of customer due diligence measures to mitigate the risks of misuse of cash. To ensure that the measures are proportionate with the risks posed by transactions of a value lower than EUR 10 000, such measures should be limited to the identification and verification of the customer and the beneficial owner when carrying out occasional transactions in cash of at least EUR 3 000. This provision does not relieve the obliged entity from conducting all customer due diligence measures whenever there is a suspicion of money laundering or terrorist financing, or from reporting suspicious transactions to the FIU.
(93) The anonymity of crypto-assets exposes them to risks of misuse for criminal purposes. Anonymous crypto-asset ▌accounts as well as other anonymising instruments, do not allow the traceability of crypto-asset transfers, whilst also making it difficult to identify linked transactions that may raise suspicion or to apply to adequate level of customer due diligence. In order to ensure effective application of AML/CFT requirements to crypto-assets, it is necessary to prohibit the provision and the custody of anonymous crypto-asset ▌accounts or accounts allowing for the anonymisation or the increased obfuscation of transactions by crypto-asset service providers, including through anonymity-enhancing coins. The prohibition does not apply to providers of hardware and software or providers of self-hosted wallets insofar as they do not possess access to or control over those crypto-assets wallets.
As we were said by the EU Commission, “the ban on crypto-asset payments not intermediated by a crypto-asset service provider has not been retained given the absence of technical means of enforcing such a requirement at present”. But that exactly shows the direction of the regulatory approach.
This is a huge deterioration of financial and privacy rights after EU Commission and Council put pressure on the EU Parliament and removed all provisions in favor for individual rights, privacy and financial inclusion.
We need your support guys, before it is too late. Final vote on April 22nd.
Full text you can find here:
https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-6220-2024-REV-1/en/pdf

2024-03-18 16:35:40 UTC

REGIMES' WAR AGAINST P2P BITCOIN CASH EXCHANGES HAS BEGUN
Imagine you were born in one of the richest countries in the world, with an area as big as the entire territory of the European Union. All the wealth is in the hands of a narrow group of corrupt oligarchs, while the population of the country simply survives on food loans.
This is what #Kazakhstan looks like today, where the regime is kept in place only through brutal repression and Putin's army, ready to crush peaceful protests at the first call of the Kazakh president.
As soon as you dare to put a like under a post criticising the authorities or participate in a protest, you are declared an extremist, a terrorist, a threat to national security or a money launderer.
The police will not only torture you to death after your arrest, they always take hostages of those you care about most. Your son or daughter may be kidnapped and killed to "make you come to your senses".
Your only chance of escape is to get on EU or US politicians' political prisoner lists. Kazakhstan is very keen on international recognition, trade and these are the only leverages for the release of political prisoners.
But let's look at another situation. You are not an activist. You're just a sympathiser and you've decided to donate to support the politically persecuted or support an opposition movement.
🔻What then? You'll be charged with „funding extremism” or „laundering money” in a secret court. You, your family members will all be financially excluded immediately. You can work informally for cash, but it is becoming increasingly difficult.
In such situations as described above, p2p exchange of cash for #bitcoin becomes the only salvation for you, how to protect your resources from illegal searches by secret police, banal theft and in general safety, transfer of your value.
🔻But the party did not last long: Kazakhstan's regime decided to take the tool away from the financially excluded and criminalise p2p cash-to-cryptocurrency exchanges in line with FATF/G7 recommendations.
Protecting such people as politically repressed is almost impossible for human rights defenders with this approach. This is one of the main factors why negative language towards bitcoin/p2p exchanges should not be allowed in the regulation of democracies.
🔻Kazakhstan primarily targeting those who use p2p transactions, mostly with cash for bitcoin and #USDT. On 12 March 2024, Kazakhstani media reported that a resident of Astana was imprisoned for 2 years and 6 months with confiscation of property for "illegal p2p-exchange of cash for cryptocurrency".
🔻Follow how fast was reaction of regime: on 4 March 2024, the Financial Monitoring Agency of Kazakhstan announced that it "observes the presence of illegal transactions of individuals with cryptocurrency (purchase, sale, payments for goods, works, services, transactions via P2P)".
Already on 12 March, the first demonstrative "verdict" on conducting "illegal" p2p exchanges of cash for cryptocurrency was announced.
🔥Question to #Nostr: What solutions do you have to protect individuals doing #cash to bitcoin p2p exchanges in such countries?
p.s. This is a photo of the family of a peaceful Kazakhstani man, 31-year-old Zasulan #Amangeldinov, a father of three.
He is one of the victims of torture and mass shootings involving Russian troops in January 2022. The reason for his arrest and torture by pouring boiling water on him in the Almaty pre-trial detention centre is that he was a witness and victim of mass shootings. Zhasulan was financially excluded as a „suspected extremist”. https://image.nostr.build/6c232005184526ff8dd062db901d12cd5543774069ab30cb727d941fced72d46.jpg https://image.nostr.build/07db392ff4c3eee48738a498b868e81530197d3fe96243246c5807407c9e101c.jpg https://image.nostr.build/db954b9c16a657291a5517769917be145524c240a1ee3fdfdc2667d55739318c.jpg https://image.nostr.build/b3995837c782730e0d3b75b9213b28f53e86fc6f2e9d810242e35086052f269c.jpg

2024-03-18 08:50:46 UTC

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Im not only trying, Im doing it and defending rights of those who are ready to scarify their lives to exercise those rights.
Have you tried to live ina failed state and apply for their citizenship to understand the meaning what you are saying?

2024-03-12 23:04:53 UTC

We need to educate policy makers in democracies to use neutral language in legislation towards to #bitcoin #freedomtech instruments. We also need to educate judges.
If we don’t do this, the first who are going to suffer are bitcoin developers, miners and end-users.
Education will prevent repressions. #PoW is a solidarity in defense of our community, not just a bitcoin price celebration. #note1hw6…rsnv

2024-03-05 21:35:55 UTC

It was absolutely amazing experience and meetings during #BitcoinAtlantis!
So happy to reconnect with @npub13lk…lpsy and get his book! 🧡
Btw, we preparing the update of our submission in defense of #PoW in #EU.
Please help us to tag #bitcoin miners and those communities who benefit from #PoW to get as many voices as possible before 19th of March! https://image.nostr.build/8f0b256bd5e83cbd2cbd443dca89f9fb2e881718c4f3866e66e5921fb27fb315.jpg

2024-02-24 16:18:37 UTC

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I didn’t know that it is a case in Netherland. It might be discriminatory approach of the regulation too: Belarus opposition is located and registered in Netherland, they use all crypto donations for their cause.

2024-02-24 15:14:37 UTC

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So funny, how at the earth those guys were expecting to fundraise at #GoFundMe? This is the most discriminating/privileged platform only.
If you want to feel financial exclusion as result of over-regulation implemented AML/CFT rules, then you go there. But definitely not to fundraise.
One of the reasons why we teach other activists to fundraise with #bitcoin because they were financially excluded from this and other platforms.

2024-02-23 23:43:24 UTC

Very good move and congratulations to Riot Blockchain for gathering coalition to file a lawsuit against discriminatory EIA survey!
Good, that in the US there is strong #bitcoin community, defending #PoW #freedomtech.
I wish to have such partnership in the EU…
It is a clear example of difference between democracies and authoritarian states: you can fight back in democracy using institutions/separation of the powers. While in authoritarian states institutions work only against you/all power is gathered by the small group of people and weaponized against dissent. #note1tte…jcgl

2024-02-22 18:50:56 UTC

For those who don’t believe that we can actually do change the language of regulations in democracies, I want to show some examples (proof-of-work) of our BTC Coalition in education of policymakers.
One of the recommendations to 57 members states to reflect at the relevant regulations use of #bitcoin for human rights and humanitarian aid. Link is here:
https://www.oscepa.org/en/documents/annual-sessions/2023-vancouver/declaration-29/4744-vancouver-declaration-eng/file https://image.nostr.build/0a93989ba5e71e0d6022b3c21af9015141cf0d9879a1d5c9fd378eb0040729e4.jpg