Good morning, friends!

This week's Financial Freedom Report #71 is now live on nostr and features the following in global news:

-Georgia | Bans Foreign Donations for Nonprofits and NGOs

-Venezuela | Opposition Mobilizes Against Maduro’s Financial Repression

-India | UPI Outage Disrupts Payments Nationwide

In #Bitcoin and Freedom Tech News:

-Flash | Introduces Flash Lightning Addresses, New UI, and Encrypted Messaging

-DahLIAS | New Protocol to Lower the Cost of Private Bitcoin Transactions

-Bitcoin Core | Version 29.0 Now Available for Node Runners

Plus, we feature the latest edition of the HRF x Pubkey Freedom Tech Series, in which Nicaraguan human rights defender Berta Valle joins HRF’s Arsh Molu to explore how authoritarian regimes weaponize financial systems to silence dissent and isolate opposition voices and how tools like Bitcoin can offer a way out.

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