Full interview about dispelling lies against #bitcoin and #PoW with Daniel #Batten and nostr:npub1r8l06leee9kjlam0slmky7h8j9zme9ca32erypgqtyu6t2gnhshs3jx5dk you can find here:

https://youtu.be/L4ZN6yPeaRM?si=P3bOzoGQ-qyZiCdG

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

or

📍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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Thank you for your solidarity 🍀🫶

Thank you for your support and solidarity. 🍀🫶

Im from Ukraine, but I was a subject of the coordinated attacks of three authoritarian regimes since 2018 due to my human rights work.

You can learn here more:

https://fountain.fm/episode/tUGxt0fyLcQaJMPPFsy0

Actually, it was lifted with getting in force the judgment of the Voivodeship Administrative Court in Warsaw.

So Im not any more classified as a threat to national security in #Poland. But I also wasn’t living there for obvious reasons of political persecution from the side of Law and Justice party. Thus the new authorities should find an answer how to give me back my permanent residency with this legal limbo. 😅

https://en.odfoundation.eu/a/724944,unprecedented-court-order-to-remove-lyudmyla-kozlovskas-polish-entry-ban/

Wow, where is such beauty?

Thank you too 🍀

Im here way more often then at other social media since I need to keep up to date my knowledge about #bitcoin 😅 and there is the best place for it ☺️

Everyone is worthy. Never humiliate yourself. Im happy to stay in touch here 🍀

Thank you for your solidarity 🍀☺️🫶

Too many actors are pushing for regulation and this process is at the very developing stage.

And it has happened because at the stage of discussion there were no voices of those who defended #bitcoin.

What I try to do to build solidarity circle of bitcoiners and activists to educate legislators and regulators in democracies to slow or minimize draconian regulation approach.

Most of legislators were not aware that the laws they adopted made banking/financial data absolutely exposed to the abuses of dictatorships. And it is not something theoretical: I and many activists, our families paid a huge price for that mistake.

And I ask one simple question to them: give me just one instrument which will replace p2p bitcoin transactions and mixers as a privacy measure to defend my and other activists rights to fundraise and support/transfer money in a safe way for politically repressed people in dictatorships.

So what I hear in response? Regulators and legislators don’t have answers even to protect right now the traditional financial institutions. So this discussion is very effective.

I understand your point and actually share it absolutely. But I guess you would agree that we still at the early stages of real development of functionality of #bitcoin.

So what I do with my advocacy: I allow and protect end-users (activists) to be able use bitcoin right now as the only payment instrument we have, at the same time to preserve the safe environment for the technology to develop.

But the goal is to have bitcoin based financial instruments which censor resistant. To reach this point of adoption we need still more years. But for many those who are financially excluded in authoritarian states it is a matter of life and death right now.

So I do all possible to have them access/ use of bitcoin right now and be supported by democratic governments due to political repression in their countries right now.

Thank you. We need your solidarity and support 🍀

I will be kidnapped or arrested as other my colleagues in Emirates within hours. It all depends on what passport you hold and who is protecting you. Emirates also censoring message apps but in the EU you can use them freely so far.

Thank you for your solidarity 🍀 are you coming to Madeira or BTC Prague conferences? Im happy to meet in person!

So where is a safe place to live according to your opinion?

Thank you for solidarity 🍀⚡️

Thank you for solidarity 🍀

I don’t know why such problem appears from time to time.

I have lighting address at BTCPay Server donate@bps.odfoundation.eu

Maybe try here?