lyuda_kozlovska
Lyudmyla Kozlovska

Why DMs don’t work on #nostr? Almost one week I can’t read my messages, and instead I can see just an empty screen… same problem at Damus and Primal. Any idea?
Please write your messages to my email: [email protected] https://image.nostr.build/46bfac15594a941c5c33785324c54ba684022c6546d00c8f257e42b4e68e6438.jpg

2024-06-19 11:37:15

🚨 WHAT ENABLES DICTATORS TO KILL?
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On 18 June 2024 in #Kyiv, the Tokayev-Nazarbayev regime organised the assassination of Aydos #Sadykov, a Kazakhstani opposition journalist and political refugee in #Ukraine. The shooter executed the journalist's head in front of his wife as they drove up to the courtyard of their flat during daylight hours.
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Sadykov's wife immediately named the one who ordered the political murder - the president of Kazakhstan Tokayev.
Sadykova noted that the family had received regular threats on their lives for criticising Tokayev. On the eve of the assassination, Sadykov released a video statement where he called Tokayev a "puppet of #Putin."
What is #Tokayev doing?
The very next day, fearing international accountability, Tokayev issued a statement "that the priority in the country is the rule of law".
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It is crucial to remind why Tokayev should not be believed. Politics is a world of perceptions. Tokayev understands this well and knows in practice that #propaganda has already helped him escape accountability:
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- for the torture, mass shootings and arbitrary arrests of more than 10,000 peaceful protesters in January 2022;
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- for helping #Russia circumvent international sanctions for 2.5 years;
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- for weaponising the #banking system, anti-money laundering and anti-terrorism laws as a tool to financially exclude critics of the regime domestically and #transnationally;
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- for political persecution through INTERPOL, extraditions, and influencing justice and asylum authorities in Western countries, including the attempted kidnapping of Bota Jardemalie from #Belgium, the hunt by killers for Mukhtar #Ablyazov in #France, and other cases of transnational persecution of opposition and human rights defenders.
It is important to remind that Tokayev's regime gained access to Interpol's databases in December 2023 through a "silver notification". But regime of Tokayev is using not to combat with criminals, but to have just another tool to dispatch killers to an address anywhere in the world with jewellery precision against critics.
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This arbitrariness should be halted. I share this post on #Nostr because the most probably on other social media platforms it will be removed following multiple attacks and demands of Kazakhstani ministry of justice.
But we need to have public support. Only public pressure can help us to get Tokayev's international accountability. https://image.nostr.build/4c5ceb1debc3c660fa69507d7a3cf9e6e8badd8a7f8f237da9b03189009b698a.jpg

2024-06-14 23:27:47

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

2024-06-08 15:40:44

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Thank you! We are in touch already! 🧡

2024-06-07 13:29:05

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I understand your point, but at the end of the day in democracy you can become yourself responsible and hold political office, be elected. Have you tried this?

2024-06-07 00:41:38

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You need to vote for those who support freedom tech and privacy. Otherwise you would not be able to build or developers can be criminalized.
You can and develop when you have at least neural conditions for your activities, access to the education, equipment and investment.

2024-06-06 16:39:28

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Sure, the only thing we need to stop ban of bitcoin mining in the coming weeks, before it is adopted it Norway.

2024-06-05 16:28:38

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Are you Norwegian?

2024-06-04 12:44:35

. @npub1sg6…f63m : We all benefit from open source development projects, but we see very little payback from companies to open source developers.
This is wrong.
#nostr #oslo #protectFreedomTech #bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/4b2842e031570d727c068365f98b29eca1ae64965d1b6843433bd2f8c4d2192a.jpg

2024-06-04 10:46:58

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I dont like this statement to be honest, it makes you easier to put your responsibility to make an effort and defend bitcoin on so-called stupidity of others.
We have in democracies instruments to defend our rights and #freedomtech, so we should exercise it.
If you don’t use it, you lose it.

2024-06-04 10:30:05

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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?

2024-06-04 10:27:20

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Actually I didn’t know that it is possible to do a thread. 🧵 i don’t see that option in Damus. How to do it?

2024-06-04 01:22:17

4/4 What can be done and what we want to organize/need your support for:
1. Urgently gathering/collecting in the written submission to the government and parliament testimonials of Bitcoin miners in #Norway to confront public opinion and change narratives attacking #Bitcoin mining working both locally and nationally.
2. Brining testimonials, conduct in person and public meetings about best practices of Bitcoin mining advising Norway government and inform society how they can benefit from it.

2024-06-04 01:21:58

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.

2024-06-04 01:21:20

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

2024-06-04 01:20:33

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

2024-06-02 06:36:39

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Thanks, but I would not lobby for all crypto, just for #bitcoin and stablecoins, which we use for human rights work.

2024-06-02 06:32:49

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Thanks. Relay.tools does connect 🙈😔 what would you advise to do? https://image.nostr.build/5c647dc970be29cd61a2e1f5c4027a4c8e83b37d68ee421d91cdf78a150fc7e4.jpg

2024-05-30 17:34:34

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Thank you, Car for having me 🧡💪

2024-05-30 16:50:31

Thank you @npub1f4w…kqh9 for having me and discussing why we need joint efforts to protect #freedomtech #bitcoin developers, miners.
We need more advocacy for the neutral regulatory environment in democracies.
More solidarity to support each other and responsibility to avoid attacks/spreading false narratives about bitcoin.
🎧 ep
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2024-05-25 00:23:34

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100 % 🧡
You are guys real inspiration for us, bitcoin activists /defenders in the EU. In the US you have community who supports your fight with knowledge, funds, mobilization of people and share it in many ways, pushing the defence of bitcoin.
In the EU it is total nightmare - few people care… we lost the support of the majority of the European Parliament achieved last year simply because politicians who care about privacy and freedom payment instruments were not supported by EU’s bitcoin community...
so I hope that looking at your work and real threats coming from the regulatory overreach in G7 countries, more bitcoiners understand why they should participate in that fight and defend bitcoin, its developers, investors, users and miners.

2024-05-24 15:25:40

We need more solutions how to use #bitcoin #mining mashings #asic for home heating / home mining and mass adoption.
Decentralized bitcoin mining with an easy navigation for end-users means security for the network and more utility cases, more social benefits and harder to attack, compared to centralized mining pools.
At the Adopting Bitcoin #Arnhem conference we are learning how an old and loud asics became more user friendly and quiet.
https://m.primal.net/ILRA.mov

2024-05-24 15:18:14

Women power at Adopting #Bitcoin #Arnhem 💪 with Bota Jardemalie & Veronika Kuett, we're exploring how to heat businesses with bitcoin mining - something policymakers should learn about. https://image.nostr.build/d152fe29f366837228e2f45d2d1c7ad59aefd58234493ffaa3e7037bc9ac864b.jpg

2024-05-23 02:02:10

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Thank you! 🧡

2024-05-23 01:10:06

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Can you please share the link for the video of the whole event?

2024-05-23 01:06:52

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Italian 🥰🧡🙈 Im lucky with a good pizza chief nearby

2024-05-22 21:57:21

#BITCOINPIZZADAY : symbols that have meaning and bring back trust, hope and enhance building communities 🧡 https://image.nostr.build/47a778b657e8fde8b05c33dcd32de909705d628fa4a898a46fd5037a38cf37c9.jpg

2024-05-22 12:52:42

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He is effective in the communication and definitely not lazy guy to participate in the discussions. This approach allows him to be in the focus. We should use this method for education about privacy and bitcoin.

2024-05-22 01:21:13

FIVE FACTS WHY BITCOIN MINING BENEFITS EU'S ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY
1. European Commission is looking for €584bn of new investments are required by 2030 to upgrade Europe’s grids. What solutions can the #EU adopt?
Our BTC Coalition collected best case studies & testimonials from industry experts to present how #Bitcoin Mining is New Solution to the EU Grid Problem:
🔻Bitcoin mining can facilitate energy transition in the EU, especially to the huge queues of renewables, such as wind & solar that have applied.
🔻As testified in our submission Bob Burnett: "Bitcoin mining is already an industry at the forefront of utilising sources like solar and wind. (…) I strongly encourage the EU, the European Commission and #ESMA to support the development and expansion of Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining in Europe and across the globe."
🔻As noted by Drew Armstrong, President and CEO of the @CathedraBitcoin, a Canadian Bitcoin mining company: “(…) proof-of-work mining can help transform the energy sector for the better, by ensuring no energy goes to waste, thereby potentially reducing the cost of energy for citizens.”
🔻As Kent Halliburton, the CEO and co-founder of Sazmining suggests: “By strategically establishing mining operations, the EU can stimulate private investment in grid enhancement, aligning with long-term goals for energy system decarbonisation and fostering job creation and economic growth within the energy sector.”
2. BITCOIN MINING DEVELOPS NEW OFF-GRID ENERGY SOURCES AND PROMOTES RENEWABLES
🔻As stated by Bob Burnett, CEO of Barefoot Mining (USA): “Bitcoin mining is demonstrating its capability to utilise and even develop new renewable energy sources independently of traditional electricity grids.”
Bitcoin Mining addresses two critical challenges currently recognised by the #EC: (a) lengthy grid connection queues for renewable projects, and (b) the overproduction of renewable energy.
🔻Edouard Dubrana, CEO of Eddu Energy (France) states that: “[t]his industry, although energy-intensive, can adjust its consumption in real time, using surplus energy that would otherwise be wasted. This not only helps stabilise the network by absorbing production peaks but also provides an economic advantage by generating additional revenue for network operators and energy producers. Thus, Bitcoin mining can play a pivotal role in the transition towards a greener and more flexible energy grid, while fostering a circular energy economy.”
🔻Kent Halliburton, the CEO and co-founder of Sazmining Inc., explains how their mining operations optimise surplus hydroelectric energy in Latin America: “Our facilities in Paraguay utilise surplus energy from the Itaipu Dam, one of the largest hydroelectric plants in the world. This energy, which would otherwise potentially go to waste or be sold at lower values to #Brazil due to market oversupply, is efficiently used in our Bitcoin mining operations at 4.3 cents per kWh. Our business's ability to absorb this surplus energy during off-peak times is crucial in preventing energy waste and supporting the economic sustainability of the hydroelectric plant.”
3. SOCIAL & ENVIRONMENTAL USE OF BITCOIN MINING
We challenged #ESMA's discriminatory regulatory language about #Bitcoin mining, misconceptions in discussions in the EU and in the member states of the Council of Europe, like #Norway, #Iceland, that have highlighted concerns about the energy consumption of Bitcoin's #PoW mechanism, notably critiqued in a United Nations study.
The transformational potential of Bitcoin mining for local communities should not be overlooked, that's why we've added more cases about the social and environmental benefits of Bitcoin mining in the new submission:
🔻As Sebastien Gouspillou, CEO of Big Block Data Center testified on “How Bitcoin Mining is Supporting Conservation Efforts at Virunga National Park (#Congo)”. Seb illustrates how the financial challenges of this UNESCO World Heritage site were addressed by leveraging existing hydroelectric infrastructure for mining purposes.
🔻Pierre Rochard testified: "In a recent report, the European Central Bank characterised Bitcoin as an unproductive, energy-intensive technology that lacks social value and presents an obstacle to the EU’s climate goals. Regrettably, the EU has demonstrated similar hostility in its evaluation of Bitcoin and its impact on society. But the EU and @ECB’s estimation of Bitcoin neglects new research from organizations in academia, finance, and human rights that paints a starkly different picture of the world’s most successful cryptocurrency".
🔻Marin Baksa testified: "As the EU continues to develop sustainability indicators for crypto-assets, it is essential to consider emerging technologies that can mitigate the negative externalities associated with Bitcoin mining."
4. BITCOIN MINING AS A SOLUTION FOR EU's COAL REFUSE POLLUTED AREA
🔻The case of Stronghold Digital Mining (#USA) described by Thomas Pacchia illustrates how Bitcoin mining can be a solution in an industrially polluted area.
The company’s two power plants in Pennsylvania turn a hazardous waste product from #coalmining (#coal refuse or #gob) into #energy for Bitcoin mining.
“[R]ather wasting away and polluting people and the environment, coal refuse is instead collected and transported to be sorted, processed, and broken apart. After that, gob reaches a boiler to be burned down, producing electricity which powers Bitcoin mining.”
The uniqueness and value of this application lies in solving the problem of cleaning up this dangerous waste, which is normally most often piled up due to otherwise very low commercial viability.
The value of this application lies in its ability to address the problem of coal refuse, which is typically accumulated due to its low economic viability. By utilising coal refuse, these plants generate electricity that powers Bitcoin mining operations.
The facilities of the Stronghold Digital Mining are “examples of the Bitcoin mining operation which could help the EU member states and other countries in cleaning up and remediating after an ecological disaster. In 2016, there were 324 coal plants in Europe. Each of them produced coal ash, the byproduct left over from burning coal to produce electricity, which can leach into groundwater, pollute waterways, and contains heavy metals considered to be carcinogens,” - notes Thomas Pacchia.
5. BITCOIN MINING HELPS DESALINATION OF WATER, DECARBONISATION OF DISTRICT HEATING NETWORKS AND DATA CENTRES
🔻As described by Marin Baksa, CEO of Barrage Nordx (#Sweden), immersion cooling is “a method that involves submerging servers, including #Bitcoin mining servers, in a non-conductive liquid, which greatly enhances energy efficiency and reduces the environmental impact of these operations.
(..) Unlike air-cooled systems that expel waste heat into the environment, #immersion cooling captures and recycles this heat through a liquid medium. This not only improves thermal management but also contributes to a quieter and more environmentally friendly #datacentre environment.
(…) Additionally, this method facilitates more effective #heat recovery, as the heat transferred to the cooling liquid can reach higher temperatures and be reused more efficiently than air, making it particularly suitable for district [urban] heating.” Practical analysis of this technique was the subject of two reports (2022 and 2023) by #RISE Research Institutes of Sweden AB.
🔻Pierre Rochard, Vice President of Research, Riot Platforms, Inc. notes that: “Bitcoin’s critics have removed context from the conversation surrounding Bitcoin and water consumption.”
Pierre Rochard provides expertise regarding the countries in the #MiddleEast suffering from #water #scarcity and “utilising energy-intensive desalination process, which are using heat from Bitcoin miners to increase the efficiency of desalination. Two companies— Zero Two and Marathon Digital—for example, have built technology to recycle heat from Bitcoin mining rigs to facilitate the #desalination process, allowing them to desalinate more water for the same net cost.”
🔥There is a great potential for synergy between Bitcoin mining and #decarbonisation of district heating systems in the #EU. As bitcoin mining operations scale up to industrial levels and adopt advanced immersion cooling technologies, they also produce significant amounts of waste heat.
This waste heat can be repurposed, offering a sustainable heating solution for district energy systems, which are traditionally powered by combustion of fossil fuels, biomass, or garbage. Most of these systems are shifting to electricity, primarily through heat pump technology, in alignment with the EU's decarbonisation goals.
Co-locating Bitcoin mining facilities with district heating plants creates a mutually beneficial relationship. The waste heat from Bitcoin mining can directly supply the heating needs of these systems, effectively aiding in their transition to cleaner energy sources. This integration can provide an independent source for financing the conversion to electric-based heating systems and significantly reduce the need for financial subsidies.
Examples of such initiatives include companies like @MintgreenHQ in #Canada with the North Vancouver district energy system, and #Hashlabs in Finland, which offering the system that captures the heat generated by Bitcoin mining operations to warm water in a central heating system. In New York, USA, Bitcoin mining is used to heat pools in #bathhouses.
This five facts from the Submission will be presented to the newly elected members of the European Parliament, the European Commission, and all other pertinent EU bodies.
We advocate for a balanced, evidence-based approach in the formulation of regulations that recognise the substantial potential benefits of Bitcoin mining. This approach will not only support the EU’s sustainability goals but also foster innovation and economic growth within the Union.
We are very grateful to Matt Carlsson, MASc, PEng, for his expert review of this submission. ⚡️🫡
LN to donate in Bitcoin and support our advocacy work in the EU and US:
🫡 [email protected]
🫂 [email protected]
We providing more details in written submission:
https://en.odfoundation.eu/content/uploads/2024/05/20.05.2024_odf_bitcoin_mining_eu_elect_grids_eng-1.pdf https://image.nostr.build/49cca40f3592c7650342ad251cb52135cf0b71495cf3d819861d6a9f93a78947.jpg

2024-05-21 20:02:39

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People want to trust, but want also have mechanisms to verify. #Bitcoin is perfectly playing this role as a tool. For those who don’t need it, they can find other features of Bitcoin. But to claim it as a technology of distrust it is simply misleading and misinformation.

2024-05-21 19:53:31

#Bitcoin is built on a consensus “trust but verify”, or Proof-of-Work.
Bitcoin was created to defend human rights & to RESTORE TRUST, because authoritarian governments systematically abuse trust, abuse power and weaponize banking data.
It is so easy to label with false claims #freedomtech when you enjoy privilege of western world as @harari_yuval and don’t need to use Bitcoin as the only tool against financial transnational repression. https://image.nostr.build/08fa79d16a258281b77db9d1d18ed7570e90be90ea68228a8ecee1f1dd181589.jpg

2024-05-17 20:58:36

Join me to discuss the need to defend Liberty in Tech in livestream event on Thursday, May 23 from 12:30p to 2:30p ET.
How #freedomtech can safeguard from financial exclusion in authoritarian countries?
Why and how we must protect #bitcoin developers, investors, miners and end-users from excessive regulation in the G7?
Free Speech or Double Speak? Jefferson in 1776 or Orwell in 1984? Gold, Dollars, or Bitcoin ETF? Deep Fakes or Truth? What’s a CBDC or a stablecoin?
We will explore all these questions and how emerging technologies have the potential to shape the future of humanity, either ushering in a golden age or enabling a dystopian world controlled by the elite.
Together with me in a live podcast will participate:
Curtis Loftis @TreasurerLoftis , South Carolina State Treasurer
Dr. W. Scott Stornetta @ScottStornetta , Yugen Partners, cited in #Bitcoin Whitepaper & Teacher
Shawnna Hoffman , Guardrail Foundation
David Johnston @DJohnstonEC , Morpheus AI
Carlos Toriello @carlostoriello , Proof of Elections on Bitcoin
Erik Bravik , Manifest Network
SCETA will be livestreaming this event over Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn and X Spaces.
You can sign up at Eventbrite to be notified of events or you can bookmark one of our social media links and join the event May 23 at 12:30p ET.
Facebook - lnkd.in/eZXt9PHf
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Please mark your calendars and attend this informational event! https://image.nostr.build/e6550336f09df0e6349140618db9a08e460474a0789a13e0716fe367090e946b.jpg

2024-04-25 19:32:33

🧡 my favorite color of #freedom ☺️ https://image.nostr.build/d5a2307001fdc33c90b044b0e297eb13c18ae3c3b8f89f2d888bdd232023b78d.jpg

2024-04-25 13:15:02

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You have a right to think that Im naive. I don’t have a goal to stop you judging.
But the reality is if you just complain in your zone of comfort and don’t move, don’t use privileges and mechanisms you have in your hands given your place of birth by default right now to stop this overreach by the authorities and don’t defend your rights, #freedomtech is going to be criminalized.
Because to enjoy your rights „by default” there were centuries ago people motivated enough to defend freedom not only for themselves, but for the future generations like you.

2024-04-25 02:58:05

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And this is exactly what we need to do. More people speaking up about privacy payment tools and why they are important for everyone - faster we defend our financial freedoms.

2024-04-25 02:25:17

Since US law enforcement agencies have been able to identify a money laundering offence involving this particular wallet, then they are well equipped to detect such crimes, and there is no need to criminalise mixers or #bitcoin wallets as a technology and its developers in general.
This is exactly what we talk about in our meetings with regulators: we understand that US law enforcement has all the tools to track #Bitcoin transactions on the blockchain. That is why real criminals, and even more so oligarchs, use completely different schemes to launder dirty money.
Besides, Western intelligence services are diligently training dictatorial regimes how to recognise both traditional banking and crypto-assets transactions, so the oligarchs have this knowledge from the intelligence services under their control in non-democratic countries. They don't want and don’t need to use such tools.
And to be precise, I definitely think it's very harmful to promote or ask oligarchs, criminals to use your privacy payment tools. It gives more opportunities to weaponise this kind of rhetoric by any kind of government.
Our 15 years of human rights practice shows that real oligarchs prefer other tools for laundering dirty money. For example, the daughter of dictator Nursultan #Nazarbayev, Dariga #Nazarbayeva - #UK law enforcement authorities failed in their attempts to hold her accountable for money laundering. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/apr/08/uk-agency-loses-case-against-ex-kazakh-president-family-aliyev-nazarbayev
Kazakhstani regime used political lobbyists, expensive Western law firms, and the Kazakhstani state apparatus to succeed in laundering her dirty money.
This scheme works for the oligarchs, people who have stolen billions from the budget of a country where their family members have been in power for decades, politically persecuting any dissent, torturing and killing.
They do not need mixers, they have perfectly mastered money laundering schemes through investments in expensive real estate and consultations with former higher officials, top Western law firms.
Mixers and self-hosted wallets, on the other hand, are used by activists who are financially excluded by authoritarian regimes and do not have the privilege to use banking services in general due to political repression.
Moreover, the knowledge of US intelligence agencies is used to financially exclude regime critics and their family members both domestically and transnationally. This is exactly what #Turkey, #Kazakhstan and other regimes do all the time, sharing knowledge gained from Western partners with #Russia, #Iran, #China to repress dissenters abroad.
In less than 5 minutes Kazakhstan blocks fundraising via bank account or @stripe for families of political prisoners, so bitcoin p2p transactions and mixers are currently the only instrument to protect human rights in such authoritarian countries. Regimes can trace such transactions, but they can't stop them and so far it has helped save lives.
Therefore, an effective fight against money laundering would begin not with the criminalisation of privacy payment tools and their developers, but with ending the impunity of authoritarian regimes and their oligarchs in using legal schemes to circumvent sanctions through the banking systems of third countries. https://image.nostr.build/c349d26015a22cf1db76dad933a7752bb4986ef55720154f4dbe67f999c56320.jpg https://image.nostr.build/224b3d0be9bfd139e2d74c1172629518ccd6dbaab20d78d0b92f4e968d4a4cdc.jpg https://image.nostr.build/fe3aee61fe806c37d9a688784bbad901b7fdbc5cccea63bcd09194e063521ab9.jpg

2024-04-25 00:47:15

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Always. It calls protection of human rights, you should expect to be persecuted if you are effective in defending human rights. Unless you build strong enough coalition to resist and make substantial changes. We can and should do it 🧡

2024-04-24 23:46:09

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That is why public discussion is so important, as well as important education of policymakers, public opinion of G7 countries about the abuses of AML/CFT laws and real money laundering.
Real criminals, and even more so oligarchs, use completely different schemes to launder dirty money. For example, the daughter of dictator Nursultan #Nazarbayev, Dariga #Nazarbayeva - #UK law enforcement tried to prosecute her for money laundering. But Kazakhstani authorities used lobbyists, expensive Western law firms, and the Kazakhstani state apparatus to succeed in laundering her dirty money.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/apr/08/uk-agency-loses-case-against-ex-kazakh-president-family-aliyev-nazarbayev
This is a scheme for the real work of the oligarchs, people who have stolen billions from the budget of a country where their family members have been in power for decades, politically persecuting any dissent, torturing and killing.
They do not need mixers, they have perfectly mastered money laundering schemes through investments in expensive real estate and consultations with former higher officials, top law firms.
Besides, Western intelligence services are diligently training dictatorial regimes how to recognise both traditional bankin and crypto-assets transactions, so the oligarchs have this knowledge from the intelligence services under their control in non-democratic countries. They will not use such tools.
Mixers and #bitcoin self-hosted wallets, on the other hand, are used by activists who are financially excluded by authoritarian regimes and do not have the privilege to use banking services in general due to political repression.
Moreover, the knowledge of US intelligence agencies is used to financially exclude regime critics and their family members both domestically and transnationally. This is exactly what Turkey, Kazakhstan and other regimes do all the time, sharing knowledge gained from Western partners with Russia, Iran, China to repress dissenters abroad. In less than 5 minutes Kazakhstan blocks fundraising via bank account or #Stripe for families of political prisoners, so bitcoin p2p transactions and mixers are currently the only instrument to protect human rights in such authoritarian countries. Regimes can trace such transactions, but they can't stop them and so far it has helped save lives.
Therefore, we will continue to defend mixers and self-hosted wallets, and draw the attention of the U.S. and other G7 countries to how in reality the banking systems of third countries like Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkey are used to circumvent Russian sanctions to the extent of hundreds of billions of U.S. dollars and remain unpunished due to abuse of power domestically and abuse AML/CFT laws transnationally.

2024-04-24 19:47:21

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Amazing news!

2024-04-23 22:01:27

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If you check our submission you will see, that before Trilogue procedure (or it is called „silence procedure”), the draft was very liberal and even recognized crypto-assets as a payment instrument.
https://en.odfoundation.eu/a/725781,building-true-change-btc-coalition-submission-on-the-eu-proposal-for-a-regulation-on-the-prevention-of-money-laundering-or-terrorist-financing/

2024-04-23 21:27:40

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☺️ What are minibuits?

2024-04-23 20:08:25

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Omg! It is amazing! Teach me please how to frame articles on #nostr in that way! ☺️😅🙈

2024-04-23 19:31:43

3. #EU #AML PROPOSAL TARGETS PRIVACY PAYMENT INSTRUMENTS AND FREEDOM TOOLS
The current AMLR version specifically targets self-hosted wallets, ignoring their role as vital financial tools as #Bitcoin for millions of activists facing financial oppression.
Labeled high-risk, self-hosted wallets are now seen as significant money laundering and terrorist financing facilitators. Changes include revisions to Recitals (20) and (21) and the addition of Article (31b) in Charter III, which increases operational and compliance costs, affecting business strategies and client relationships.
The consequences for EU users of self-hosted wallets are serious. Additional compliance checks will complicate, if not block, the conversion of crypto-assets to fiat currency for activists and civil society members already facing financial exclusion. The AMLR overlooks the crucial role of self-hosted wallets in transferring funds to non-democratic or conflict regions, exposing donors and recipients to repression by authoritarian regimes using AML/CFT laws (e.g., in #Belarus, #Kazakhstan, #Turkey).
Smaller clients with self-hosted wallets, viewed as higher risks under Article (31b), may be deprioritized or excluded due to higher transaction compliance costs. This makes them economically unviable for financial institutions, which often favor larger, lower-risk clients for efficiency. The latest AMLR version could effectively ban self-hosted wallets in the EU, significantly impacting the cryptocurrency sector and those vulnerable to oppression.
See our reaction in our Submission: https://en.odfoundation.eu/a/725781,building-true-change-btc-coalition-submission-on-the-eu-proposal-for-a-regulation-on-the-prevention-of-money-laundering-or-terrorist-financing/ https://image.nostr.build/9f0269ec843fd6e399f9e795c266c90af43170334412e3d36b4e6958d43bd2af.jpg https://image.nostr.build/ae5cb7a84266cd45d0789dc4e6abf2d9867e132df47d5b6183bb76bbea46fec4.jpg

2024-04-23 19:21:01

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

2024-04-23 19:20:02

CALL ON EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT TO VOTE AGAINST EU AMLR PROPOSAL NOW!
Tomorrow the European Parliament is going to vote on its latest #EU #AMLR proposal.
Unfortunately, the Trilogue procedure led to the removal of all civil society recommendations, weakening the position of the only directly democratically-elected EU institution—the European Parliament.
This has resulted in:
🔻 a considerable reduction of financial freedoms & increased financial exclusion;
🔻heightened risks of abuse of the AMRL, including the exposure of EU citizens and residents to the potential misuse of their financial data by authoritarian regimes.
Additionally, as the EU sets global financial regulatory standards, the negative language in the AMLR about privacy payment tools, such as self-hosted wallets & mixers, could lead to restrictions on financial freedoms in third countries and increase the potential for financial repression by illiberal regimes.
See our Submission for more details: https://en.odfoundation.eu/a/725781,building-true-change-btc-coalition-submission-on-the-eu-proposal-for-a-regulation-on-the-prevention-of-money-laundering-or-terrorist-financing/

2024-04-02 09:44:58

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Im curious why no one is opposing to such practices? But to be also honest, I wasn’t aware about such practices.

2024-04-01 22:55:07

Guys, if you are in NYC on the 11th of April, come to meet and chat at @PUBKEY #Bitcoin Meetup!
Defending Bitcoin: Activism Against Regulations 😉
#note185q…lnys

2024-04-01 19:57:29

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You are right. But not that obvious before you think about it.

2024-04-01 18:14:10

Consider your car a safe place to be? Well, that's how it is: all in care for your safety, car manufacturers collect driver and passenger data about every movement and action they make. #ProtectYouData
https://m.primal.net/HqRP.mov

2024-03-30 19:15:43

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Could someone explain not technical person how to use it? ☺️🙈

2024-03-30 13:06:51

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

2024-03-26 13:16:56

#Russia classified Open Dialogue Foundation as organisation which poses "a threat to the foundations of the constitutional system, security, or defense capability of the country."
The same "recognition" as a threat to our activities to their abusive powers was previously stated by three regimes: the oligarch Vlad #Plahotniuc’s regime in #Moldova, Kaczynski’s regime in #Poland (both regimes have fallen) and Tokayev-Nazarbayev’s regime in #Kazakhstan.
Join us to help other dictators fallen: donate in #bitcoin Lightning Address: [email protected]
Make voices of politically repressed heard. https://image.nostr.build/d4b9894429dbe473b630bbe2c2696752abf59087d8d56437979b3b12061911da.jpg https://image.nostr.build/658dcf9b46545a0160dbbddb2be77876c52005ac798586835e09aecd86aad6bc.jpg

2024-03-22 13:56:51

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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.

2024-03-22 12:47:42

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You right, you can be treated as a criminal just because someone allowed to abuse power and classified you so.
Just as in #Kazakhstan police has been arresting peaceful protesters with blue balloons since 2018, when opposition announced a protest in support of discrimination of autistic children. Some protesters were even tortured and killed…
Btw, their bank account were frozen since their activities is classified as an “extremism”.
What can be more crazy to arrest parents and supporters who spoke up in defense of autistic children treated inhumanly by the state institutions?
Do you think the Kazakh opposition has given up? https://image.nostr.build/ddca3c84c39c0522535401320da757ca9f0ff67234f4305f3922b715c91434bc.jpg

2024-03-22 12:41:02

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You can and should use your privileges and rights as EU citizen.
We need to concentrate our efforts on the three priorities to change negative language in the regulations:
1. We need support to make it as public as possible that increased AML regulation without provisions to protect privacy and financial freedoms will lead to financial exclusion, human rights violations and abuse. Individual cases of human rights violations, where banking data was abused or people were financially excluded, social use cases of #bitcoin should be discussed as broadly as possible.
2. We need to know citizens of the EU what consequences of such regulation mean for their banking data, if someone decides to abuse it and how #bitcoin servers a remedy for such abuses.
3. We need to change this perception by engaging with elected officials, civil society representatives, and all those with political influence.
This way, they will support our cause and help us protect our financial rights.
We at @ODFoundation are working to make this happen. But to do so, we need your all possible support.
We need you to write articles, reach out to your local officials before the vote on April 22nd, message influential journalists, help us to fundraise to conduct advocacy work and overall, become a spokesperson about the importance of legally protecting our financial freedoms.
If you have more ideas of how to help, let me know in the comments!

2024-03-22 00:54:04

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We are not at that stage of scalability. Not yet… that is why it is important to protect it now, so developers can work on it, investors invest, end-users learn and adopt. It is possible only in democracies in a full scale.

2024-03-22 00:51:19

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That is why we need to act now, before it is too late and be vocal before the 22nd of April.
We need to concentrate our efforts on the three priorities to change negative language in the regulations:
1. We need support to make it as public as possible that increased AML regulation without provisions to protect privacy and financial freedoms will lead to financial exclusion, human rights violations and abuse. Individual cases of human rights violations, where banking data was abused or people were financially excluded, social use cases of #bitcoin should be discussed as broadly as possible.
2. We need to know citizens of the EU what consequences of such regulation mean for their banking data, if someone decides to abuse it and how #bitcoin servers a remedy for such abuses.
3. We need to change this perception by engaging with elected officials, civil society representatives, and all those with political influence.
This way, they will support our cause and help us protect our financial rights.
We at @ODFoundation are working to make this happen. But to do so, we need your all possible support.
We need you to write articles, reach out to your local officials before the vote on April 22nd, message influential journalists, help us to fundraise to conduct advocacy work and overall, become a spokesperson about the importance of legally protecting our financial freedoms.
If you have more ideas of how to help, let me know in the comments!

2024-03-22 00:49:26

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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 23:59:06

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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 22:54:51

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It is very easy to violate the rights when no one is trying to oppose.
It is easy to ban #PoW in the #EU, develop very discriminatory language in policies since just a few bitcoin miners ready to defend themselves and meet with regulators.
Same easy to put very restrictive rules for cash and p2p transactions if just a few voices are standing in defense of financial freedom and privacy rights.
But solidarity of bitcoiners and human rights defenders can make the change. We can’t do all work alone.
We need your support, guys.
We have all instruments,l in hands, but we need to act jointly.

2024-03-21 22:49:40

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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

2024-03-20 13:32:53

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😅 if we discuss something, I want to be sure that all sides have real understanding of terminology we are using. Words matter.
Human rights violations start from words/thinking, same with rescue someone- before releasing person from the prison in dictatorships you need to convince those who have leverage to do so.
Hope you get my point.

2024-03-18 20:02:04

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First I will try to understand who is who on the lists 🤭☺️🙈 https://image.nostr.build/5f6c770efbd7693d351ab8e414e94948fc3605a4d755f313962bd632dc36aa59.jpg

2024-03-18 19:48:18

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How to add someone to the list?

2024-03-18 17:35:40

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 09:50:46

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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?

2024-03-18 01:52:26

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Hm. Still don’t get what you mean ☺️🙈
Could you elaborate more, please?
it is an excellent example how deputies from democratic countries stood in defense of #bitcoin developer who designed on the request of Guatemala’s judges mechanism to protect elections from the AI fraud.

2024-03-18 01:12:50

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What does it mean?

2024-03-18 01:10:40

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Lack of governments brings failed states. Try to travel to countries without governments or dictatorships. Apply to their citizenship and “check” what privileges you would have then.

2024-03-18 01:08:39

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If we don’t use our resources and rights in democracies, no one will ever care about our needs and lives.
But if we join efforts and formulate clear demands, use institutions, public opinion- we can and practice show - will build the rules comfortable for our lives.
Democracies give these privileges, authoritarian regimes kill if you just propose or criticize them. So my proposal is not allow bad actors abuse mechanisms of democracies. Don’t allow abuse and take off our privileges. No one will give power. We have to be systematic in our fight for financial freedom and human rights.

2024-03-18 00:58:36

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Thank you Gigi 🧡

2024-03-18 00:58:02

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Have a look at #Guatemala: https://pace.coe.int/en/files/33143/html https://image.nostr.build/8e6eebc017a9239b0983fe73703c21f6b14c7cbcbf2754c8acb286e487ff0012.jpg

2024-03-18 00:56:04

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I understand your position. I come from 15 years of human rights practice, so I don't like to use comparisons with the worst countries, but still, what country did you grow up in? Were you persecuted, tortured for expressing criticism of the authorities?
Democracies no matter how weak they are now, still give you privileges to criticize and enjoy freedom, or elect other government representatives, be elected to replace those whom you don’t like.
Of course it is responsibility and just few people ready to go through this pass. But still you have these privileges, even if you don’t use them.
While in authoritarian countries people literally dying to get this right for their families and their future. It is a massive of the perspective and privilege you enjoy.

2024-03-17 22:22:46

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Enough to speak with financially excluded, oppressed people, you will see that they need #bitcoin, but have difficulty how to get it. They overcame enough pain and are looking for solutions.
In authoritarian states as #Kazakhstan or #Nigeria activists can’t use exchanges-excluded by regimes; but they also have difficulty to use p2p transactions - regimes prosecute those who help to transact in that way (cash to bitcoin).

2024-03-17 22:02:18

Simply the best music 🧡
https://youtu.be/VuIPlkrPs5Y?si=Nq0xbzSf5mGlDdM1

2024-03-17 17:20:46

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Emotions help us to understand us better and test our limits. That differs us from becoming machines, ignorant. It doesn’t mean we should go fully emotional.
But in principle emotions are a huge human resource to move forward, to overcome and believe, build things seem to be impossible for others.

2024-03-17 17:17:09

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Thank you for sharing this moments 🌸

2024-03-17 17:13:20

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😂 I did. You actually read a bit of my story

2024-03-17 15:11:09

My 39.
Enjoying the moments of my life:
❤️‍🔥 A moment of weakness: the hardest memories in my 15 years of human rights work are the meetings of families with released political prisoners.
I thought that after having had over 100 such meetings, I could be less emotional.
I can't. An image from my childhood of first losing hope from the lawlessness of the regime towards my family, and then the endless joy of being able to hug my brother, who was released after being kidnapped from the hospital, comes back to me every time.
But every time you feel a wave of joy at the happiness in the eyes of family members in hugs with their loved ones, your pain disappear. You witness the steely hurt in the eyes, the facial expressions from reliving the nightmares of the political prisoners who were released. You see the love that sustained them and helped them through this journey. That moments move you forward and stimulate your work when others disbelieve that it’s possible. Everything is possible.
🧡A moment of strength: I remember vividly the losses, the experienced ups full of love and the painful downs on the way to 39 years. Our love, our feelings and beliefs are getting stronger when we experienced ups and downs, when we fight for our beloved.
I remember the realisation of the moment, how life can be cut short in a matter of days. Everyone you love and everything you love can be shattered. What remains is the memory and the belief that you can overcome, you will love again. You used to say it to other politically repressed who had such experience, and than that moment came to you… you have to listen no matter how hard it was to say.
⚡️Importance of learning: You learn fast how important it is to live in the moment and how important it is to be able to first defeat your own consciousness and the minds of those around you, then the winning in the physical world is a matter of technique. Then comes the moment of power, not only yours but those who are with you in this struggle.
6 years later with this approach you can not only stop but defeat two of the three authoritarian regimes using the whole machinery of power against you and your family, your organisation.
🫶 How to fight back: Yep, it's possible. I have been able to walk this path because of my experience in defending the politically persecuted, friends, my brother who know how to share not only moments of joy but also how to hold a strike. Being all financially isolated, we were able to resist and defeat the attacks of the three regimes thanks to #bitcoin.
#SatoshiNakomoto is unlikely to read this post, but that doesn't mean I want to give him a huge thank you. For being able to stand up, to save the lives of those for whom human rights are not just a set of derring-do phrases and "fresh regret".
How do you feel at 39? Or how do you think you will feel at 39? https://image.nostr.build/ea6eeef3e8f1e1a40c6c8ba03a26b25d2f2d4a4cf1a0305b417d705b13a51cfa.jpg

2024-03-16 19:43:51

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You are absolutely right: if we don’t stop criminalization of #bitcoin #freedomtech in the legislative and judicial approaches of democracies, everyone - developers, bitcoin miners, end-users, investors can be targeted/prosecuted.
The good news, that comparing to the authoritarian regimes in democracies we still have strong instruments how to defend our rights and freedom tools as bitcoin/privacy instruments.
We need to educate legislators and judges on the concrete examples, for instance:
1) how bitcoin privacy tools helps to protect human rights to financially excluded people in the authoritarian states, which are majority in the world.
2) remind that compromising privacy instruments at the time when AI is used by the dictatorships it is a risk for democratic institutions to be manipulated/destroyed.
We did the same in #Guatemala, defending SimpleProof developer Rafael Cordon, whose bitcoin solution helped to protect elections results against AI fraud.
Corrupt regime persecuted Rafael, but we organized campaign to support him, and just one example, that his case was supported by many of deputies. At the end joint pressure help to defend Rafael. So all possible, but we should educate and build our coalition, orange-pill deputies and judges, not just complain.
https://pace.coe.int/en/files/33143/html https://image.nostr.build/8e6eebc017a9239b0983fe73703c21f6b14c7cbcbf2754c8acb286e487ff0012.jpg

2024-03-13 10:56:00

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The best preparation for the future is to use your rights and mechanisms in democracies to fight back, to have neutral legislation language to #bitcoin #freedomtech.
We can and should do it together - educating policymakers in G7 countries. The best combination for that is testimonials of human rights defenders as end-users of bitcoin for payment and crowdfunding and bitcoiners. https://en.odfoundation.eu/a/724918,submission-to-fincen-us-digital-asset-aml-act/

2024-03-13 00:04:53

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

2024-03-09 19:27:54

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Florida?

2024-03-09 16:11:02

#nostr, how to find account of #mostro here? they are doing decentralied p2p #bitcoin exchange. Or they are not yet here?

2024-03-08 14:53:44

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But where do you prefer live? We are not at the stage to live outside the planet. It doesn’t mean Im happy about what is going on in democracies, but Im certainly against authoritarian and dictatorship regimes.
I believe that we should be responsible for the world we live in. Who has to make order of not us? And the most important why someone should please us if we don’t try to make effort for changes?

2024-03-08 13:41:09

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😂👏

2024-03-07 18:47:00

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It is a common practice in such countries as #Kazakhstan. Have a look how police treat peaceful protestors who were wounded and hospitalized during mass protests in January 2022.
Most of them right now at prisons and sentenced for many years as terrorists, their families are financially excluded.
If we or activists in Kazakhstan will fundraise to support them, bank accounts will be frozen in less then 5 minutes.
That is why for us #bitcoin is not something abstract for the future, but very practical right now and the only payment and fundraising tool saving lives right now. https://image.nostr.build/a046b9cfdba298360cc2af36ddd488ed6ca3231fa1dab3069bf21e6cd105bdd4.jpg https://video.nostr.build/ad1be7b78c82e378e007fd1993928937adb6c7ed0ae7f45f384f6d1a9cc268d5.mp4

2024-03-07 16:45:12

“Women rights” and “fight with extremism” in #Kazakhstan at one picture:
🔻 Sandugash #Turlibekova, a single mother of five, in a small town in #Kazakhstan. Sandugash, as a "very dangerous criminal," a criminal case was opened against her & she was detained by a local SWAT team in front of her 5 kids.
Her crime? Being an admin of a WhatsApp group for mothers with many children, where she criticized the authorities for violating their rights.
🔻This photo illustrates “protection of women rights” in #Kazakhstan in practice, an in fact a bright example of abuse of #FATF recommendations by dictators to silent critics. It is just one of thousands cases for the last years of arbitrary arrests/harassment against critics of Tokayev’s regime.
🔻The next step: not only the arbitrary arrest of Sandugash, but total financial exclusion for her and her family members/associates under pretext of the fighting with extremists activities in Kazakhstan. https://image.nostr.build/e82052c6db1626bc3c21317d51ad96dd59452722e054632783310ba7ae134307.jpg

2024-03-07 01:29:33

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So true.
Living in democracies makes people to feel that freedoms are given forever.
Nothing is forever.
Just the opposite: it is the result of the sacrifices and enormous efforts of many previous generations to secure these rights.
If we remain silent, ignoring and accepting the destruction of our rights, it will be our responsibility and even a betrayal to those who sacrificed their lives for our freedoms.

2024-03-07 01:21:35

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Help spread the word, persuade other bitcoiners to take the initiative and do the same in the #UK before the election - UK is one of G7 countries. Journalists also need to be educated. You will be surprised how your position and example makes changes.
History and great results are created by the joint efforts of personalities, which capable to unite others around their ideas.

2024-03-07 00:56:02

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So what is the best country for you to live in?

2024-03-06 21:41:43

I'm very grateful to @npub1dnz…x52h and #ForbesCrypto for helping us highlight financial exclusion and transnational repression as a result of dictators abusing #AML/CFT laws. 🙏
To prevent such abuses we share six messages while meeting with #EU and #US policymakers:
📌As human rights defenders, we work with very sensitive information, and financial information is the most sensitive information.
📌Authoritarian regimes and dictatorships use this information both domestically and transnationally to destroy activists, journalists, women's rights organizations, and #LGBT rights organizations.
📌Banking privacy doesn't exist any more: personally I, Open Dialogue Foundation and members of #BTC Coalition testified to the EU and US institutions about such abuses.
📌#Bitcoin and self-custody privacy-protecting payment instruments/wallets are the only tools we can use to uphold human rights.
📌In seven reports we documented how authoritarian regimes use their financial institutions to circumvent sanctions to support each other and avoid accountability for human rights violations.
📌Bitcoin blockchain technology #SimpleProof is an example of how bitcoin can help protect election results from fraud and malicious #AI influence (#Guatemala 's case).
📍Solutions:
▪️G7 policymakers should use neutral regulatory language when it comes to #freedomtech, #bitcoin, privacy payment/crowdfunding instruments.
▪️G7 policymakers should review travel rule and stop sharing financial intelligence knowledge with authoritarian governments to prevent abuses.
More recommendations in our submission to FinCEN:
https://en.odfoundation.eu/a/724918,submission-to-fincen-us-digital-asset-aml-act/ #note1mzn…hykn

2024-03-06 20:26:49

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Also we are talking about very discriminatory approach of the #ESMA and EU Commission.
ESMA is the EU’s financial markets regulator and supervisor.
ESMA is working on the draft report for the EU Commission about the sustainability indicators, and from its methodology language we understand they are going to classify #PoW and #bitcoin mining as unsustainable for environment before 30 June 2024.
This language was used in ESMA's methodology of in the second consultation paper entitled “Technical Standards specifying certain requirements of MiCA (Page 87)”:
https://www.esma.europa.eu/sites/default/files/2023-10/ESMA75-453128700-438_MiCA_Consultation_Paper_2nd_package.pdf https://image.nostr.build/735fb23c701437db37949e482945f08ea89b16c63481c7541903ccd6ca5e14f0.jpg

2024-03-06 20:19:48

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Yes, we are talking about the upcoming AML Regulation in the #EU - we don't have much time - votes should be on 22nd of April in the European Parliament.
We have recently been informed that during the Trialogue, the Commission has removed all financial inclusion provisions we promoted to defend #bitcoin self-hosted wallets/ p2p transactions, protection of the financial data from abuses and vis-à-vis individual customers labelled as "high risk", such as refugees, asylum seekers, human rights defenders, and NGOs and their representatives and associates from the up-to-date draft #AML regulation.
In particular :
Recital 32 a (new)
Recital 86
Recital 93
Recital 94 a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point c
Article 4 a (new) Exemptions for certain providers of crowdfunding services
Article 25 – paragraph 4,
Article 41 a (new) (Article 41a)
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/A-9-2023-0151_EN.html#_section6

2024-03-06 17:22:22

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It is difficult only because we don’t do it.
I know it is difficult to be the first. But #SatoshiNacomoto didn’t afraid to be the first promoting #bitcoin, right? Let’s do our part.
It is difficult to set new standards or defend freedoms, but it is possible and very clear how to do in democracies. Right now we are at the stage of elections in many countries when those who want to be elected will have to listen to us.
We need to use this moment and clearly say our expectations. Im sure in your constituency you have meetings with politicians. Go there and ask build on arguments questions. Prepare your speech. I did the same yesterday and discussion turned out completely.
No one can argue when you expose the weaponization of banking data by the dictators in the EU/democracies. It is uncomfortable fact: there is no protection against such abuses.
The only protection is p2p bitcoin transactions and privacy payments instruments. Politicians and audience don’t know about it. Explain like for children those cases. We will change narrative and win. ⚡️🫶

2024-03-06 16:27:33

So scary.
What @sms witnessed can come to our reality in the #EU and #US:
🤯if no one would come to elect and participate in the elections with clear positions in defense of privacy, human rights and especially financial privacy.
🤯if majority of us stays silent to the regulatory labeling #freedomtech as instruments for “illicit activity, threats for environment or energy security“.
What everyone can do:
🔻Be vocal and support during elections period those politicians and groups who oppose such false narratives and support human rights not in the claim but with specific programs.
🔻Educate both politicians and journalists about the abuses of AML/CFT laws by dictatorship and weaponization of banking data.
🔻Ask politicians from you constituency about that issues as a condition for your support to elect them. Be vocal!
In doing so you protect developers of freedom technologies and bitcoin specifically - they will be targeted first of all in case of adoption of negative regulatory language to set up a chilling effect on the industry.
Human rights and #freedomtech, #bitcoin need protection and active position of its users - all of us. #note1mhc…zkav