https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebwdRjXWVKs
The Bitcoin Dictator
Salvadorans. Not you. And almost nobody in Bitcoin will say it.
A NOTE ON WHO THIS IS AIMED AT:
This video is not an attack on El Salvador or its people. For five years I've filmed extraordinary Salvadorans who changed their lives with Bitcoin from the bottom up, because they chose to.
If a state is going to wrap itself in the Bitcoin flag, those of us who believe in what that flag means have a duty to hold it to those values.
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WITH THANKS TO:
Claudia Ortiz — one of only three opposition legislators in El Salvador's 60-seat parliament — for speaking on the record at the Oslo Freedom Forum.
Mike Peterson (Bitcoin Beach) for being one of the few voices on the ground willing to warn the community about state overreach.
The Human Rights Foundation and the Oslo Freedom Forum.
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SOURCES & FURTHER READING:
• OAS / IACHR on the State of Exception and the suspension of Article 24: https://www.oas.org/en/iachr/jsForm/?...
• Human Rights Watch — "El Salvador: New Laws Threaten Free Expression, Privacy": https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/12/12/e...
• Resecurity — the 144GB biometric data leak affecting 5m+ Salvadorans: https://www.resecurity.com/blog/artic...
• Reporting on Chivo wallet freezing CoinJoin/Wasabi transactions: https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/el-salvad...
• IMF Country Report on El Salvador (Bitcoin Law amendments): https://www.imf.org/-/media/files/pub...
• Citizen Lab — Pegasus spyware used against Salvadoran journalists: https://citizenlab.ca/2022/01/project...
• A Cypherpunk's Manifesto, Eric Hughes (1993): https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/m...
Chapters:
0:00 The questions no one in Bitcoin wants to ask
01:15 The Oslo Freedom Forum: dismantling dictatorship
02:03 Q1: Would a real Bitcoin country spy on everyone?
03:34 "Stay quiet, or you are next" — Claudia Ortiz
04:00 A censorship law with a privacy label
04:52 Q2: Chivo, your face, and your money
05:47 Mike Peterson: "Privacy is a right"
06:11 The biometric honeypot leaks
07:22 Q3: Who was Bitcoin Country actually built for?
09:20 Punching up, not down
10:10 Q4: Why is Bitcoin Country so cosy with strongmen?
10:54 "F*** the media" — Stacy Herbert
12:22 Q5: But Joe, what about Europe?
13:25 Protect your privacy (sponsor)
13:43 Q6: Why keep a nation under emergency rule?
15:12 "I'm neutral" — the man who lost three months
16:35 So, is Bukele a dictator?
17:42 Why journalism matters
18:30 Outro
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