Lack of governments brings failed states. Try to travel to countries without governments or dictatorships. Apply to their citizenship and “check” what privileges you would have then.
If we don’t use our resources and rights in democracies, no one will ever care about our needs and lives.
But if we join efforts and formulate clear demands, use institutions, public opinion- we can and practice show - will build the rules comfortable for our lives.
Democracies give these privileges, authoritarian regimes kill if you just propose or criticize them. So my proposal is not allow bad actors abuse mechanisms of democracies. Don’t allow abuse and take off our privileges. No one will give power. We have to be systematic in our fight for financial freedom and human rights.
Have a look at #Guatemala: https://pace.coe.int/en/files/33143/html 
I understand your position. I come from 15 years of human rights practice, so I don't like to use comparisons with the worst countries, but still, what country did you grow up in? Were you persecuted, tortured for expressing criticism of the authorities?
Democracies no matter how weak they are now, still give you privileges to criticize and enjoy freedom, or elect other government representatives, be elected to replace those whom you don’t like.
Of course it is responsibility and just few people ready to go through this pass. But still you have these privileges, even if you don’t use them.
While in authoritarian countries people literally dying to get this right for their families and their future. It is a massive of the perspective and privilege you enjoy.
Enough to speak with financially excluded, oppressed people, you will see that they need #bitcoin, but have difficulty how to get it. They overcame enough pain and are looking for solutions.
In authoritarian states as #Kazakhstan or #Nigeria activists can’t use exchanges-excluded by regimes; but they also have difficulty to use p2p transactions - regimes prosecute those who help to transact in that way (cash to bitcoin).
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Interesting.
My observations, that at least in democracies one of the reasons is that the smartest are not ready to go to politics/live a life exposed to public criticism. From other side, not much people involved to change this practice of adopting dump regulations by those who in fact funded by them.
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☺️ I don’t follow fashion trends. 🤷♀️
These words came to me with experience both happiness being loved and my achievements, and for sure - suffering from losses. I don’t want you to agree or disagree, but just share my experience 🌸
Emotions help us to understand us better and test our limits. That differs us from becoming machines, ignorant. It doesn’t mean we should go fully emotional.
But in principle emotions are a huge human resource to move forward, to overcome and believe, build things seem to be impossible for others.
Im sure. We don’t speak up enough about financial freedom. Regimes know how to use it against us.
My 39.
Enjoying the moments of my life:
❤️🔥 A moment of weakness: the hardest memories in my 15 years of human rights work are the meetings of families with released political prisoners.
I thought that after having had over 100 such meetings, I could be less emotional.
I can't. An image from my childhood of first losing hope from the lawlessness of the regime towards my family, and then the endless joy of being able to hug my brother, who was released after being kidnapped from the hospital, comes back to me every time.
But every time you feel a wave of joy at the happiness in the eyes of family members in hugs with their loved ones, your pain disappear. You witness the steely hurt in the eyes, the facial expressions from reliving the nightmares of the political prisoners who were released. You see the love that sustained them and helped them through this journey. That moments move you forward and stimulate your work when others disbelieve that it’s possible. Everything is possible.
🧡A moment of strength: I remember vividly the losses, the experienced ups full of love and the painful downs on the way to 39 years. Our love, our feelings and beliefs are getting stronger when we experienced ups and downs, when we fight for our beloved.
I remember the realisation of the moment, how life can be cut short in a matter of days. Everyone you love and everything you love can be shattered. What remains is the memory and the belief that you can overcome, you will love again. You used to say it to other politically repressed who had such experience, and than that moment came to you… you have to listen no matter how hard it was to say.
⚡️Importance of learning: You learn fast how important it is to live in the moment and how important it is to be able to first defeat your own consciousness and the minds of those around you, then the winning in the physical world is a matter of technique. Then comes the moment of power, not only yours but those who are with you in this struggle.
6 years later with this approach you can not only stop but defeat two of the three authoritarian regimes using the whole machinery of power against you and your family, your organisation.
🫶 How to fight back: Yep, it's possible. I have been able to walk this path because of my experience in defending the politically persecuted, friends, my brother who know how to share not only moments of joy but also how to hold a strike. Being all financially isolated, we were able to resist and defeat the attacks of the three regimes thanks to #bitcoin.
#SatoshiNakomoto is unlikely to read this post, but that doesn't mean I want to give him a huge thank you. For being able to stand up, to save the lives of those for whom human rights are not just a set of derring-do phrases and "fresh regret".
How do you feel at 39? Or how do you think you will feel at 39? 
You are absolutely right: if we don’t stop criminalization of #bitcoin #freedomtech in the legislative and judicial approaches of democracies, everyone - developers, bitcoin miners, end-users, investors can be targeted/prosecuted.
The good news, that comparing to the authoritarian regimes in democracies we still have strong instruments how to defend our rights and freedom tools as bitcoin/privacy instruments.
We need to educate legislators and judges on the concrete examples, for instance:
1) how bitcoin privacy tools helps to protect human rights to financially excluded people in the authoritarian states, which are majority in the world.
2) remind that compromising privacy instruments at the time when AI is used by the dictatorships it is a risk for democratic institutions to be manipulated/destroyed.
We did the same in #Guatemala, defending SimpleProof developer Rafael Cordon, whose bitcoin solution helped to protect elections results against AI fraud.
Corrupt regime persecuted Rafael, but we organized campaign to support him, and just one example, that his case was supported by many of deputies. At the end joint pressure help to defend Rafael. So all possible, but we should educate and build our coalition, orange-pill deputies and judges, not just complain.