Good luck
If it doesn't work that's also good for bitcoin
Daniel #Batten in the podcast with nostr:npub1r8l06leee9kjlam0slmky7h8j9zme9ca32erypgqtyu6t2gnhshs3jx5dk explains why he supported Open Dialogue Foundation campaign to educate #EU regulators about environmental/energy impact of #PoW & participated in the submission to #ESMA in defence of #bitcoin / #PoW:
1. We have only one year to change false narrative about PoW before the draft of the EU regulation will be prepared by the European Commision and prevent #bitcoin to be labeled as "environmentally harmful" or “threat to energy security/waste of energy”;
2. The false narrative against PoW provokes a cascading effect. This could cause:
📍to stop #ESG funds investing into bitcoin. This is not speculation: in #France ESG funds barred from fossil fuel investments after the government ruling in 2023:
https://www.ft.com/content/4ff287f9-9239-4f38-a12e-3abff50477ca
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📍introduce a "quasi-ban" like in #Kazakhstan or #China, giving "negative points" to tax bitcoin more heavily than others or made it impossible to operate mining due to the uncertainty of regulatory requirements.
This policy in 2022 triggered the hashrate to crash from 13 % to around 1 % in less than a year. https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/01/06/kazakhstans-hashrate-drops-as-internet-blackout-persists-amid-nationwide-protests/
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Discussion
What to do when the internet is out?
Actually, it was one of the most dramatic and darkest day in the history of #Kazakhstan: the regime not only killed bitcoin mining but gave the order to shoot peaceful protesters without warning. Over 10 000 peaceful protesters in more than 80 cities were arbitrarily arrested. We identified over 200 people were shot, including 5 y.o. children…
Together with our network of 10 k human rights volunteers we were documenting mass shootings and torture after president Tokayev employed Russian troops in Kazakhstan.
Some of our activists were arrested because of weaponization of banking data: regime precisely knew who was getting our support or donated us to in support of victims of political repression.
It takes 3-5 min for Kazakhstani special services to block your bank accounts if you fundraising or donating to opposition or human rights defenders to support victims of oppression.
We asked #FATF and U.S. State Departament, European Commission and legislators if they are aware about the scale of repression and financial exclusion as a consequence of abuse AML/CFT laws? No one actually was aware about it.
So we testified that those activists who used #bitcoin p2p transactions are safe till now. But this is a reason why Kazakhstan at the front to fight against p2p transactions right now. And this is a reason why we don’t want to allow democracies to label bitcoin with illicit activities in the regulations.
When regime kills freedoms, it means they kill real people. https://video.nostr.build/a03d320f7b84fa9db1e67438bc0c3814b3a0ed5503a89ca3402a918a17f0b993.mp4
Didn't know all that, thank you nostr:npub13ajk3hhvqys2ev4y68jwxywgs8fsdsuk4y5gkzs874jdyrccvf5qak2yd9
I understand, blocked internet means blocked information also. That is why we need to have independent internet too. 🫂
Quick reading about the '22 protests now 👀:
At around 7pm, the military opened fire.
"It sounded as if they were firing into the air but people behind us were dropping dead. Not those in the front row - they were not hit. So probably there were snipers who shot under the noise of gunfire,"
They shot to the peaceful people, not to the air… unfortunately.
https://en.odfoundation.eu/a/293144,the-aftermath-of-the-bloody-january-crackdown-on-prodemocratic-protests-in-kazakhstan/ https://video.nostr.build/f96f8bb9113f2fa1cbaac6bcbe152acedd1dca506ea3cc5cac041f184a5cc2a2.mp4
