Happy New Year nostr:npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe 🧡🎄
Happy New Year #bitcoin #freedomtech developers! 🧡🎄
all the best for you and your beloved!
Bitcoin is on a way to become mainstream. Soon after mothers would advise to run after the guys like you.
Wise daughters prefer to make their choices, not mothers. But it is possible to find the one you need out of several bln people living on the earth. Just do your best trying 😜
😂😂😂 best Christmas joke.
Don’t worry, it is problem of every passionate subject, which is always making things difficult.
But when you find the one and she will not escape - you understand that those previous attempts just saved your time for the best choice. 🎄
😂 seems like that. But a lot of politicians moved there from X. So Im struggling to find the way make this platform useful for the cause…
Discovering blue sky to educate regulators there about abuse of AML/CFT laws.
It is such a pain to post there something.
Why? Why it doesn’t allow me to post 😣😱☺️
🚨 €1M Retaliation for Exposing Russia Sanctions Evasion
#Kyrgyz #Bakai bank filed a SLAPP lawsuit against Open Dialogue Foundation in #Belgium, demanding removal of our two reports & €1M damages - a common intimidation tactic used in Kyrgyzstan to silence critics.
🔴 Key facts on Bakai bank #SLAPP case against ODF in Belgium:
• Bank waited 18 months to file
• No evidence of actual damage provided
• €1M claims typical in Kyrgyz censorship cases
• To date, a lot of information can be found with offers of intermediaries to open accounts in Bakai bank to bypass sanctions
• ODF's reports remain public, addressing sanctions circumvention
While ODF advocates for financial inclusion and privacy, we have revealed in 8 reports how authoritarian regimes abuse AML/CFT laws to:
- violate financial & human rights domestically,
- conduct transnational repression in Western countries and
- evade sanctions.
🔎The bigger picture:
While Russia claims to use #Bitcoin for foreign trade, our investigation shows preference for less traceable traditional banking systems in Central Asia.
🔴 Why? Russia's action, not declarations, should be followed:
• Bitcoin = permanent public record
• Regional banks of Central Asia = established infrastructure + opacity of completely unaccountable rulers
• Traditional banking of third countries enables sanctions evasion more effectively
🔴 The real problem:
Current #AML regime relies on 'trust' with authoritarian and dictatorial states. This enables:
• Sanctions circumvention through banks controlled by them and their allies
• Abuse of Western legal systems to silence critics
🔴 AML/CFT laws impact on legitimate actors:
• Excessive compliance costs for Western businesses
• Financial barriers for NGOs & humanitarian aid
• Continued global financial exclusion and repressions
🔴 Bakai's bank SLAPP case against ODF in Belgium proves:
Banks will go transnational to silence those exposing sanction evasion schemes. Time to reform the AML/CFT system that enables both censorship and sanctions circumvention.
🟢 Help us to stop such abuses and get funding for legal defence against SLAPP of Bakai Bank, support ODF's human rights work!
Marry Christmas! 🎄
I prefer to speak on facts, not on wishes.
PoW case: It was the same situation with AML regulation this year during trilog process. But that time we didn’t get any support during our campaign.
The rest is known. You can check how our over 20 pro-privacy and financial freedom amendments were over-voted:
We proved it on the blocking ChatControl regulation - if you unite resources, knowledge and public awareness - you can block such malicious laws. But it has to be systemic work.
Really cool to see the zaps that came into my nostr:npub1getal6ykt05fsz5nqu4uld09nfj3y3qxmv8crys4aeut53unfvlqr80nfm hub on nostr:npub126ntw5mnermmj0znhjhgdk8lh2af72sm8qfzq48umdlnhaj9kuns3le9ll from the live show streamed on nostr:npub1eaz6dwsnvwkha5sn5puwwyxjgy26uusundrm684lg3vw4ma5c2jsqarcgz. The future is now!
Wow. How to use it? How to do such streams?
From what I see nobody fears, it is ignorance and disbelief in their ability to change things, rather.
In the US situation is contrary: bitcoiners are fighting/defending their rights and privacy has become more at the mainstream discussion now.
Because nobody almost addressed them and nobody wants to vote/support publicly politicians who are pro-privacy.
We have to do privacy and FreedomTech as mainstream.
EU & FATF 2025: Your Bitcoin Wallet's New Rules?
What is the best Christmas gift from human rights, privacy and Bitcoin advocates?
Open Dialogue Foundation provides you with a comprehensive respond on what you should know while using #Bitcoin p2p wallet, privacy payments tools & open-source technologies like the #LightningNetwork, #Fedimint, and e-cash in the European Union.
Huge kudos for nostr:npub1trkudtnp7jg3tmy4sz8mepmgs5wdxk9x2esgts25mgkyecrse7js6ptss5 and nostr:npub15ka0zlfeys4vphnl6dk4x63e7sra0mp3wmrp4ml7q993z8km0n6spjxua8 for gathering all of this information in the report “Impact of the EU and FATF Regulatory Frameworks on Non-Custodial Crypto-Assets Wallets”. https://en.odfoundation.eu/a/726702,impact-of-the-eu-and-fatf-regulatory-frameworks-on-non-custodial-crypto-assets-wallets/
Save, share with your friends, especially new users of Bitcoin privacy tools.
Merry Christmas!
I would add third: I, my Open Dialogue Foundation were financially excluded/debanked following our humanitarian aid for Ukraine since Russian full invasion. It was our the last bank account in #Belgium… But we not only survived, we delivered humanitarian aid for Ukraine for more than 9 mln euros with speed of #bitcoin. Does he care? I don’t think so. Easy to box and label someone. Right?
Beautiful sky lights in #Brussels 🧡 
It is fine. I don’t care what flag you have until you violate someone’s rights. I don’t need your evaluation of my preferences neither.