Actually, we hope for changes at the end of December following the last election results.
I do believe that I would be not only allowed to comeback to #Poland, but hold accountable all those who used entirely state machinery against my family, me and my organization/volunteers/donors and supporters.
But once again: I would not be able to survive and continue my human rights work without #bitcoin. This technology not only saved me, but helped me to save many lives both in #Ukraine 🇺🇦 and in authoritarian states as #Kazakhstan, #Uzbekistan. That is why I initiated together with other activists BTC coalition to educate regulators and legislators in the OSCE region (57 countries, including North America, Europe and Asia) about the role of bitcoin for human rights and humanitarian aid. We are able to run this campaign thanks to generous support of nostr:npub1kp7jzme0qs3wcqjjmkq6v5fm359sclhc22glhadgtmerlr0h37nsn8487l nostr:npub1hyqrsvl6hle8r5rc9cpshesm0mpcee75tgde4p5lhke5h83dyqqqdwk7cp nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m and Ukrainian Blockchain Association:
https://en.odfoundation.eu/a/723762,btc-coalition-summary-of-works-2022-2023/
(3) As was planed by the EU Commission in 2022, the same approach has also been taken by certain political groups in the European Parliament, and by the EP’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) in its May 2023 study “Remaining regulatory challenges in digital finance and crypto-assets after MiCA” :
“While some crypto models waste energy and are inherently exclusive in nature, others are highly energy efficient and inclusive in that customers with low degrees of financial and technical literacy may participate. For instance, developers claim that the Ethereum Merge, a major software upgrade to the Ethereum blockchain in September 2022, reduced the Ethereum blockchain’s energy usage by 99.95 per cent. At the same time, another upgrade dubbed “the Surge” will reduce costs and enhance speed and system stability. While these upgrades clearly show the potential of technological innovation, the absence of similar upgrades to the Bitcoin blockchain are deeply regrettable.”
As an example have a look at the page 70, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2023/740083/IPOL_STU(2023)740083_EN.pdf
By now the ban of PoW has been pushed in the European Parliament but those, who share the perspective that “the old Bitcoin blockchain” “consumes too much energy”, and is “idiosyncratic to crypto and now dated,” as it was presented in the study requested by the ECON.
(4) Finally, have a look at the second consultation paper of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) entitled “Technical Standards specifying certain requirements of MiCA” published in October 2023, page 87:
🔸what to do: as a first step we need to gather as much as possible testimonials from miners, tech developers, bitcoiners who use #PoW to address this statements before 14th December 2023.
We are collecting such information and working on a joint submission as human rights defenders, who use bitcoin for humanitarian aid and a tool to resist repression + #bitcoin miners, to show positive use cases of PoW both for environment and energy security.
Daniel Batten also helped us to raise awareness:
https://x.com/dsbatten/status/1731802327961784356?s=46&t=BI7Ti43CKXzsDImkdEweqQ 
(2) and now look how this EU Action Plan is implemented and preparing the legal justification for a statements, such as:
🔸„States shall implement targeted and proportionate measures to lower, and must be ready to stop, the electricity consumption of crypto-asset miners, in line with the proposed Council Regulation on an emergency intervention to address high energy prices.”
and
🔸„The EC wants to “collaborate internationally with different standardization bodies to develop the energy-efficiency label.”
To make it happen, the European Commission proposed 800 k euros for three announced tender in Sept 2023 to develop „a methodology and sustainability standards to calculate and mitigate the environmental impact of crypto-assets and their consensus mechanisms”:
https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:577973-2023:TEXT:EN:HTML
The scope of the tender describes :
“there is evidence that crypto-assets can cause significant harm on the climate and environment and generate negative economic and social externalities, depending on the consensus mechanism used to validate transaction” and shows that the EU asserts that Bitcoin mining “could undermine EU's efforts to achieve its climate and sustainability goals, in line with the Paris Agreement.”
(3) As was planed by the EU Commission in 2022, the same approach has also been taken by certain political groups in the European Parliament, and by the EP’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) in its May 2023 study “Remaining regulatory challenges in digital finance and crypto-assets after MiCA” :
“While some crypto models waste energy and are inherently exclusive in nature, others are highly energy efficient and inclusive in that customers with low degrees of financial and technical literacy may participate. For instance, developers claim that the Ethereum Merge, a major software upgrade to the Ethereum blockchain in September 2022, reduced the Ethereum blockchain’s energy usage by 99.95 per cent. At the same time, another upgrade dubbed “the Surge” will reduce costs and enhance speed and system stability. While these upgrades clearly show the potential of technological innovation, the absence of similar upgrades to the Bitcoin blockchain are deeply regrettable.”
As an example have a look at the page 70, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2023/740083/IPOL_STU(2023)740083_EN.pdf
By now the ban of PoW has been pushed in the European Parliament but those, who share the perspective that “the old Bitcoin blockchain” “consumes too much energy”, and is “idiosyncratic to crypto and now dated,” as it was presented in the study requested by the ECON.
Sure. Thank you for your request.
(1) Pay attention to the Digitalising the energy system - EU action plan, page 16, which was published back in October 2022.
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A52022DC0552 
(2) and now look how this EU Action Plan is implemented and preparing the legal justification for a statements, such as:
🔸„States shall implement targeted and proportionate measures to lower, and must be ready to stop, the electricity consumption of crypto-asset miners, in line with the proposed Council Regulation on an emergency intervention to address high energy prices.”
and
🔸„The EC wants to “collaborate internationally with different standardization bodies to develop the energy-efficiency label.”
To make it happen, the European Commission proposed 800 k euros for three announced tender in Sept 2023 to develop „a methodology and sustainability standards to calculate and mitigate the environmental impact of crypto-assets and their consensus mechanisms”:
https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:577973-2023:TEXT:EN:HTML
The scope of the tender describes :
“there is evidence that crypto-assets can cause significant harm on the climate and environment and generate negative economic and social externalities, depending on the consensus mechanism used to validate transaction” and shows that the EU asserts that Bitcoin mining “could undermine EU's efforts to achieve its climate and sustainability goals, in line with the Paris Agreement.”
Sure. Thank you for your request.
(1) Pay attention to the Digitalising the energy system - EU action plan, page 16, which was published back in October 2022.
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A52022DC0552
I agree and share your pain. 🙏
I lost my father after 6 months of faulty cancer treatment. He could have lived longer with us, but the corrupt medical system allowed access to treatment to a young guy who didn't understand the power of a single dose of radiation therapy... so he multiplied and smiled, pressed the button and smiled...
My father was drying up and dying every day… and we seemed to be dying with him…
I couldn't find and make accountable this guy, only learnt that he was the son of a high-ranking official... this was one of the factors why I became a human rights defender. But it never stops hurting …
There is nothing more devastating than losing loved ones.
🙏 thank you nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m for sharing and allowing us to be with you in this difficult moment to honor Dewey’s love, impact and your life together.
My sincere condolences.
Thank you nostr:npub1hghnjjpnvkz8t6gkszuf37d7puwc2qtxc65rnklqsngzv6kkug9qhhfyz2 for helping us to raise awareness about the ongoing attacks against #bitcoin in the EU:
🔸New attacks on PoW as a “Energy-Wasting Mechanism”, "energy security threat" or “Environmentally Harmful”;
🔸Labeling as „threat to financial integrity” the use of self-hosted wallets/p2p transactions and over-regulating crowdfunding activities. nostr:note1r8dsk7rm38dzthj3mh6j3ssqhs6lywd8px8j5m7z25klgzar3qnqz7e55h
I don't know what exactly was the main ground in that specific case, but there is a new attack from FATF (especially on crowdfunding process via self-hosted wallets/ p2p transactions, encrypted messengers):
https://www.fatf-gafi.org/en/publications/Methodsandtrends/crowdfunding-for-terrorism-financing.html (page 30)
and one more in the EU on self-hosted wallets as post-MiCA legislative process from the side of European Securities and Market Authority :
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2023/740083/IPOL_STU(2023)740083_EN.pdf
(page 86)
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