I still think people tend to repeat after influencers in the space, as in every space…
I also wonder why so many bitcoiners, especially in the EU, don’t want to defend their right politically…
#bitcoin is a response for irrational and abusive political solutions, created by people for people against such abuses. But as everything in that world its protocol needs to be updated by people. It means that we should keep regulatory environment for developers, investors and users at least in the key biggest jurisdictions like US and EU as safe.
Make it comfortable to live in, defend your home, your love.
For me “never spend bitcoin” sounds like never use bitcoin. It is absurd to hear it from developers and those who love #bitcoin.
I can understand when you say about big volume trading/speculation, but day to day - if we want to have ecosystem we need to spend and buy with use of bitcoin.
Our example will teach effectively others how to do it. So more people understand the concept, power and help to make faster adoption.
Where Im wrong?
#askNostr
I spend bitcoin and buy bitcoin, for me it is a key human rights instrument. I don’t agree with such narratives. If you don’t spend, you don’t promote adoption. More people spend and buy bitcoin faster adoption is happening.
As bitcoin human right activists we defend our freedom tech & p2p tools in the EU. We described in detail the consequences: https://en.odfoundation.eu/a/726702,impact-of-the-eu-and-fatf-regulatory-frameworks-on-non-custodial-crypto-assets-wallets/
But it is impossible to get substantial results without mobilization of the eu bitcoiners as community and get things done: we need to bring more expertise, resources for advocacy, be vocal about social use cases in front of regulators and dedicate time for that. Nothing will be granted without effort.
That is sad reality and consequences of no even small attempt to support defending bitcoin privacy tools and transactions in the EU.
US bitcoiners defend themselves but the European bitcoiners said they “don’t care” and “bitcoin doesn’t need defense”.
EU IMPOSING RULES TO PROHIBIT FOREIGN INVESTMENTS UNDER SECURITY MEASURES
Things worse then I though: if any EU member states finds that your planned foreign #investment project is likely to have a negative effect on #security or public order, it will either have to authorise the project subject to mitigating measures, or prohibit it...
More #compliance, less funding for new technologies is coming...
Today the European Parliament's International #Trade Committee adopted revised rules for screening foreign investments in the #EU.
Under the new rules, more sectors, such as media services, critical raw materials and transport infrastructure, will be subject to mandatory screening by Member States, in order to identify and address foreign investment-related security or public order risks. The procedures applicable to national screening mechanisms will also be harmonised and the Commission will have the power to intervene on its own initiative or where there are disagreements between Member States about potential security or public order risks emanating from a specific foreign investment.
#overregulation
Yes, basic I think I know. Im more curious about video, voice content creation. What is the best client for this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Czkv54pQfTI
There are many on YouTube.
New features depend on which client implementation is used.
Thank you! I will have a look!
Yes, Im on Primal. I mean more about support to understand new features. We are onboarding new users—activists from our network, but hard to so when I can’t find tutorials by myself 🤓🙈☺️
#asknostr seems doesn’t work.
Are there any videos how to use #Nostr and its new features ?
#asknostr how to get to the human rights feed of #nostr? 😅
how it works?
We are doing advocacy work on that issue both in the EU and US. I will inform about it later. But we need to have financial support for legal costs, advocacy work in the US and Belgium. It is extremely expensive…
Like where? I published it on #nostr and hope it cannot be deleted here.
Thank you 🧡 help me with reposting, so we inform more people about that.
Watch How Dictators Spy Using Cybersecurity Laws Within the EU and U.S.
A chilling thread on how easily dictatorial countries can request and potentially gain access to private #EU and U.S. data of individuals and entities on fabricated charges. In my case, this time, thanks to the defense of the #Belgian judicial system, it failed 🧵
In 2022, Kazakhstani secret service operatives came up with a crafty plan: they filed a 'cyberbullying' criminal complaint as "parents of their minor children" in #Belgium to create for the second time a legal backdoor to access my and Open Dialogue Foundation's private #financial, #travel and #communications data stored not only in the EU but also in the United States and worldwide.
A Belgian judge refused to comply, but we still don't know if #Kazakhstan got that data directly from the United States or potentially other countries. Their target? To force ODF and me to delete video evidence from social media about mass #torture and political #killings in Kazakhstan, where survivors of torture have given names and testified against their crimes.
The Belgian judge saw through the charade, dismissing the case and noting it appeared designed "to use Belgian justice to collect the maximum amount of personal and private data on #Kozlovska for purposes other than simply revealing the truth."
My case has already made headlines because of the abuse of AML/CFT laws and weaponization of my banking data during 2018-2023 by at least three authoritarian regimes. At that time these abuses led to the effective financial exclusion of myself and ODF from the traditional Belgian financial system.
We survived and held accountable perpetrators thanks to #Bitcoin.
This time the defense worked with court intervention, but secret agents are abusing appeal process as a classic #SLAPP case to exhaust me and ODF financially and compromise physical security in the EU and US.
This isn't an isolated incident. It's a playbook: authoritarian regimes exploiting Western legal protections like AML/CFT & cybersecurity laws to spy on, intimidate, and silence critics or uncomfortable business competitors abroad.
We live in a reality where the majority of countries are non-democratic, and in the last 10 years have abused the Western system of inter-state cooperation, including #INTERPOL, extraditions, AML/CFT laws and now cybersecurity cooperation for espionage, political assassination and stealing businesses.
Consider this: what happens to the countless lesser-known cases that face the same tactics WITHOUT public attention? They are exposed without public and, in practice, legal protections that could safeguard them, because in the case of cybersecurity or ML/TF offenses, such requests are automatically enforced on the basis of trust/preventive measures.
It is high time to review these rules and protect EU and US citizens, residents, and entities from such abuses.
#TransnationalRepression #DigitalRights #Cybersecurity #HumanRights
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Amazing panel! Thank you for speaking in defence of privacy payment instruments 🧡
More debunking practices coming to tech companies…
I don't know if you have seen... next Tuesday discussion in the EU:
„EU protection against risks from foreign investments. A proposal to boost EU screening system of foreign direct investments (FDIs) to identify and mitigate potential risks to EU security is up for a vote by the International Trade Committee. Issues potentially of relevance include access to sensitive information, the supply of critical materials, and control over crucial technologies such as AI, navigation technologies, connectivity, energy and biotechnologies. In 2024, non-EU investors owned over 35% of EU assets.”
Im afraid, it means more debanking just because you have investments from the U.S. in your company/ charity while in the EU almost nobody simply invest in the innovations... or protection of privacy…
You tried here: donate@bps.odfoundation.eu? What message it shows you?
Our social media, emails and website were under attack of millions of bots recently (since the beginning of March), we almost lost all archive, and were working on restoring it… so there was a problem with our BTCPay Server… I have no idea what could have happened with my #nostr account and #zapps. I didn’t change anything.
Very strange, let what could be a problem? It used to work. How to check it?