Avatar
Daniel Batten 2mo ago šŸ’¬ 9

Just gave a 35-min online talk + Q&A to 115 financial regulators from countries including US, UK, Australia, Egypt, Brazil, Indonesia, Ukraine, Nigeria, Uganda (over 20 nations in total) about Bitcoin

In the audience was the director of the central bank of paraguay, deputy director of the central bank of pakistan. director of the Securities and Exchange Commission (CVM) for Brazil, deputy director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore and many divisional heads.

A big focus for the talk was how Bitcoin is financial inclusion technology for the world's 1.4Billion unbanked, and how it is financial freedom technology for human rights activists around the world. Strongly featured the work of Alex Gladstein and HRF, the work of Bitcoin mining companies who are helping bring people out of energy poverty, while stabilizing the grid and improving energy security and affordability, and the work of the Digital Assets Research Institute who've quantified how Bitcoin has been used as re-locatable re-settlement money for 329,000 refugees.

Most had not seen any of the data I'd shared, and were eager to see the real world data that backed up these stories - which thanks to the people and entities mentioned above, we have a lot of.

Probably nothing.

Reply to this note

Please Login to reply.

Discussion

Avatar
Rowan 2mo ago

Wonderful work sir

Avatar
Daniel Batten 2mo ago

Thanks. TBH, a lot of my work is making sure the wonderful work of others (ie: nostr:nprofile1qythwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnxd46zuamf0ghxy6t6qy28wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytn00p68ytnyv4mqqgzccaq65ccv9k3454480sws2wqepz73q5z0m5kckslhyhh6d533jc25xncl gets heard by people who don't normally hear it, in a way that they can hear it.

Avatar
Jake Woodhouse 2mo ago

Itā€™s my sincere hope that there are some gatekeepers in modern government that Bitcoiners find, orange pill, and convert to Bitcoin Maxis

So much of what many of them set out to do in public service is actually achieved by Bitcoin, and fixing the money

Yet seemingly none of them have connected the dots

I know so called ā€œimpact investorsā€ that populate their portfolios with Government bonds, or centrally planned miss-allocated World Bank Amazon rainforest bonds

For all of these people, simply asking ā€œwhat is moneyā€ is the key

Plus, as you shared Daniel, people rocking up from the real world and showing how digital sound money is implemented, effective, and scalable globally

What a great start to the day

Well done!

Avatar
GJM 2mo ago

Wow! What an audience and what a message!šŸ˜Ž

08
Diamondhands 2mo ago

Thanks for your outstanding contribution to education and adoption šŸ™.

Would it be possible for you to share in a new post the data / reference material you use to make it easier for us to send to others? (and yes itā€™s a little bit because Iā€™m too lazy to find and compile myself šŸ˜).

Thanks again.

Avatar
Daniel Batten 2mo ago

Good idea. Iā€™m out of office atm. Ping me at the end of next week if I still havenā€™t posted anything.

63
nobody 2mo ago

Hard to believe that there are people in government that want financial freedom for people.

34
S Stackmore 2mo ago

Cool thing is even if they might not want these tools for their people, or might object to their opponent's use of them, deep down everyone knows someday they might be on the outside and a target for the tools of repression should their opponents get in.