Out today: Why Bitcoin is Freedom Money
Journal of Democracy
Volume 36, Number 4, October 2025
Johns Hopkins University Press
Ideal to share with normies, academics, journalists, and intellectuals of all stripes
Packed with undeniable facts and stories about Bitcoin's rise as a human rights tool, all in a very credible package
Very glad to include a section on "Why Bitcoin, not Crypto or Blockchain"
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/970346
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Maybe a new reading!!
NOT IF I READ IT FIRST!!!!
#bitcoining is the way to survive the #systemfailures of fiat
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Great paper Alex
Smart Summary from hark.now
*WHY BITCOIN IS FREEDOM MONEY Alex Gladstein*
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/970346/pdf
The combined weight of national policies and corporate decisions often freezes out millions. Citizens in countries like Iran, for instance, are denied easy payment networks and global goods—privileges enjoyed in Western democracies. This financial repression, often overlooked, is profoundly impactful, for while not everyone is a journalist, everyone uses money. Only about 13 percent of the world enjoys both liberal democracy and a reserve currency; the other 87 percent contend with authoritarian regimes or collapsing fiat.
This reality forces democracy activists to Bitcoin. Russian advocate Ruslan Shaveddinov of Team Navalny learned firsthand when Revolut, his "favorite bank," yielded to Putin’s government and blocked his accounts, proving bank accounts are political tools. For activists within dictatorships, traditional financial rails are often inaccessible; a foreign grant to a Turkish democracy organization, for example, is almost certainly monitored or seized.
The U.S. dollar often fails human-rights advocates. Roya Mahboob, an Afghan humanitarian, faced a system where mobile money, PayPal, and Venmo were unavailable, and cash was seized from women. She turned to Bitcoin, enabling her employees to earn and save; one later used her Bitcoin to fund a new life in Germany. Mahboob now funds underground education in Afghanistan with Bitcoin, a task technologically impossible via the dollar banking system. Similarly, in Togo, Farida Nabourema, a debanked activist, uses Bitcoin to circumvent the Gnassingbé dictatorship's control, facilitating fundraising and educating her compatriots for monetary freedom and democracy.
The stark reality in places like Cuba, where hyperinflation decimates wages and state control impedes financial flow, highlights the urgent need for freedom money. This need is exacerbated by Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), a civil-liberties nightmare. Authoritarian regimes experiment with programmed money; Thailand’s prototype, for instance, restricts spending to specific vendors and sets fund expiration dates. Bitcoin exists to circumnavigate such pervasive financial surveillance.
Crucially, Bitcoin must be distinguished from the broader ‘crypto’ landscape, which is largely a giant scam. Most of the twenty-thousand-plus ‘cryptocurrencies,’ excluding Bitcoin and stablecoins, are tokens designed solely to enrich creators at public expense, often crashing after insider sales. These get-rich-quick schemes, like FartCoin or DogeCoin, hold no relevance for human-rights activism. Bitcoin, conversely, offers true decentralization, censorship-resistance, and digital scarcity—a robust defense against state theft.
Dictators, the true criminals, fear Bitcoin. It returns money to the people, ensuring free speech, property rights, and open capital markets—the antithesis of their survival. While major criminal enterprises use traditional banks, Bitcoin grants asymmetric power to individuals. Activists globally leverage it to move value beyond government oversight, using apps like Tando in Nairobi, where merchants receive fiat currency seamlessly. This capability, alongside other open-source tools, empowers activists to organize and transact without reliance on centralized, data-exposing entities, making them more effective.
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Nice 👍🏽
today it is.
in the future self-custody btc will only be able to do p2p payments.
because the criminal central bank clan will mark it, they already have the technology for it, even if you mix it, and make it impossible to change it or do anything else with it. it is transparent and therefore not fungible.
monero is freedom money. anonymous and fungible.
Thank you 🙏🏿 very much
Why Bitcoin is Freedom Money?
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There is no freedom without privacy.
Monero fixes that.
There you go. I like the idea of saving in Bitcoin and spending Monero.
It may seem like a toy or gadget to some but to others it has the potential to be a great equalizer.
An infinitely translatable value system independent of language? Yes please.
Buen artículo sobre como la represión también es financiera: vigilan pagos, bloquean cuentas e inflan la moneda. Cantidad de trucos para tener al población sometida
Great work!!!!
The real question is why he still ignores Monero!
interesting. i will take a look. FREE-EDOM MONEY. As in Edomites—>Esau. Seems consistent with what I’ve been thinking about btc.
You are missing out on actual freedom if you push Bitcoin (a Wallstreet KYC IOU asset) to Normie's instead of digital cash Monero, that cypherpunks envisioned.
NGU in a golden cage is not freedom.
