It is amazing how #bitcoin community supports each other in the most challenging times 🧡

Yes, not much encouraging… that is why Im trying to wake up and organize bitcoiners in defense of privacy of communication and payment instruments, bitcoin mining in the EU. We might be to late to act if nothing changes and everyone believes that for some reason bitcoin must prevail, while under attack will be people who develop, investing, mining or using #bitcoin.

Bitcoin is a human right, community which develops, investing, maintaining system and use it/helps to scale. You need conditions for that, they are present in democracies and then can be spread as a tool to resist dictatorships.

Perfect. Got it! 🧡

No, PM doesn’t work properly, no notification… im sorry, just opened and replied

Very grateful for the open dialogue about the financial repression, weaponization of AML/CFT laws by dictators at the Czech Parliament with Mr Martin Exner, vice-chairman of the Security Committee and EU Affairs Committee.

As rightly noticed Mr Martin Exner, we live at the edge and the most intense times: if we don’t defend our freedoms, history will repeat empowering dictators in the very heart of the Europe. We need to have new tools to address such attacks on democracies, including energy security.

Our role was to share with Czech Parliament why and how the new technologies play important role in defense of human rights, elections , stabilization of the #grid, reducing pollution and building new energy infrastructure thanks to #freedomtech #bitcoin.

So instead of the EU Commission approach to limit innovation in the #EU, we call to learn more, support its developers, miners and end-users.

@boomer_btc @Gabridome @EliNagarBrr @janbraiins @KristianCsep @BraiinsMining @BTCPrague thank you for supporting us 🧡

Thank you! We are in touch already! 🧡

I understand your point, but at the end of the day in democracy you can become yourself responsible and hold political office, be elected. Have you tried this?

You need to vote for those who support freedom tech and privacy. Otherwise you would not be able to build or developers can be criminalized.

You can and develop when you have at least neural conditions for your activities, access to the education, equipment and investment.

Sure, the only thing we need to stop ban of bitcoin mining in the coming weeks, before it is adopted it Norway.

Are you Norwegian?

. nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m : We all benefit from open source development projects, but we see very little payback from companies to open source developers.

This is wrong.

#nostr #oslo #protectFreedomTech #bitcoin

I dont like this statement to be honest, it makes you easier to put your responsibility to make an effort and defend bitcoin on so-called stupidity of others.

We have in democracies instruments to defend our rights and #freedomtech, so we should exercise it.

If you don’t use it, you lose it.

I would not hurry with such judgment about Norway, but instead propose to do an effort just like #US #bitcoin community to defend your rights and develop your position/policy approach. It works pretty well in the US, why in the #EU bitcoiners don’t even try to work on that?

Actually I didn’t know that it is possible to do a thread. 🧵 i don’t see that option in Damus. How to do it?

4/4 What can be done and what we want to organize/need your support for:

1. Urgently gathering/collecting in the written submission to the government and parliament testimonials of Bitcoin miners in #Norway to confront public opinion and change narratives attacking #Bitcoin  mining working both locally and nationally.

2. Brining testimonials, conduct in person and public meetings about best practices of Bitcoin mining advising Norway government and inform society how they can benefit from it.

3/4 Most MPs support this position and refuse to meet to discuss the issue, not only because of the misunderstanding of Bitcoin, but also because of the lack of public data, submitted to the parliament and government on why #Bitcoin  mining is beneficial to #Norway.

We base our conclusion following Open Dialogue Foundation BTC Coalition advocacy efforts since April 2024 to educate major members of political parties across the political spectrum in Norway and contacts with local jornalists.

2/4 Why Norwegian policymakers want to ban #Bitcoin  mining:

- they “don’t want cryptocurrency [Bitcoin] mining companies” since they look at them as „actors who are looking to "shop" for cheap electricity in Norway“ and “(...) businesses seeking to exploit Norway for cheap energy extraction”.

- since they don't see positive uses cases of Bitcoin mining and Bitcoin in general, the want to ban it. Norwegian policymakers want to keep only data centers “to secure storage of images and communication”, or „which are important to society, and the society-serving computer industry is important to Norway“.

https://www.vg.no/nyheter/i/9zgyxq/regjeringen-slaar-ned-mot-krypto-datasenter-uoensket-i-norge

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bitcoin-miners-face-pressure-norway-071921322.html?guccounter=1

We Have to Defend Bitcoin Mining in Norway. Here is why:

1/4 In April 2024, the Norwegian government introduced a legislation to regulate data centers in a way that effectively bans #Bitcoin  mining in the country.

This is setting a huge precedent. So far, all attempts to ban bitcoin mining have been referred to the practices of authoritarian/dictatorial countries such as #China. But in the case of #Norway, this country is considered one were bitcoiners teach human rights defenders about freedom technology routinely.

A country known for defending human rights, the Nobel Peace Prize, will be also known to be against Bitcoin mining, which affects not only miners, but all users, developers and investors.

Thanks, but I would not lobby for all crypto, just for #bitcoin and stablecoins, which we use for human rights work.

Thanks. Relay.tools does connect 🙈😔 what would you advise to do?