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The neat thing about bitcoin is that you can still use it when they make it illegal. That's literally the whole point.

Yes and no. I don’t and partly can’t operate in a grey zone for security reasons as human rights defender.

My security is provided by the EU state, which at least defends me from the physical/political attacks of dictators or their proxies.

We also need scalability of the use of bitcoin - access in the apple or google stores on mobile phones of activists in the authoritarian states.

We need our donors - ordinary private people not to be afraid to associate with us because of the use of “dangerous for environment technology” as it says in the mainstream narrative now or even worse- after labeling that way after the adoption of the regulation in favor for the proposal of the European Central Bank.

The same unfortunately with EU policymakers: we need their support to defend political prisoners in the authoritarian countries - we don’t have other mechanisms. So we have to win/change their minds.

The good news - we can do it and we did it in the past many times. We just need to have support from bitcoin miners.

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( -_-) 1y ago

The EU is not going to support a technology that defunds it. Bitcoin is an existential threat to institutions like the EU that are funded by a money printer. It doesn't matter what we say, at the end of the day that logic is inescapable, and they know it.

Lyudmyla Kozlovska 1y ago

Let’s don’t live in our perceptions but meet reality: I was asked dozens of times just to show what is #bitcoin and “to show bitcoin”. They also shocked learning how easy banking data of the EU/US citizens can be weaponized just by the simple request from the dictator. So we need to educate them and show alternative.

Activists succeed to defend encryption and defending it with every attack. The same we should do with #bitcoin.

There are bad actors and good actors as everywhere. You can’t convince bad actors but you can and should use your right, your privilege to execute what you want from the elected by you legislators and appointed on your taxes regulators - you are citizen most probably of the democratic country, no?