“For Tibetans, simply using a cellphone has become dangerous, and everyday activities like posting a humorous video or contacting loved ones abroad can bring arrest, detention, and torture,” said ⁦Maya Wang 王松蓮⁩, associate China director ⁦Human Rights Watch⁩. hrw.org/news/2025/04/1…

Meanwhile in China, quiet capital controls to maintain impression all is well: Beijing imposes restrictions on daily net equity sales by hedge funds and large retail investors. RTRS

This Thursday: Human Rights Foundation (HRF) x PubKey #FreedomTech Series #Bitcoin as a Tool to Fight Financial Repression in Autocracies 🔥✊🧡 Exiled Nicaraguan journalist and human rights defender Berta Valle joins Arsh Molu for a fireside chat about how freedom technologies are empowering people

President Donald Trump and El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, made it clear in a joint meeting that the Maryland man who was wrongly deported won't be returned to the US cnn.it/42Bkwwj

I met Uyghur activist Rushan Abbas at Oslo Freedom Forum (OFF) last year. Humbled by her story — and her deep understanding of how dictators use financial repression — I wanted to help share it. READ: How China Uses Financial Repression to Erase the Uyghur People. hrf.org/latest/how-chi…

NEW TUTORIAL: Why You Need Sparrow Wallet 🐦 for #Bitcoin NOW This covers everything from beginner to advanced! Dive in, start your learning journey, and return to this video each time you want to level up! RT and help spread the knowledge! youtu.be/yJpvfRl03Tw?si…

Palestinian activists from Beit Lahia in northern Gaza have launched a grassroots movement to reignite anti-Hamas protests across the Strip. The logo of the movement features powerful words: "We want to live" and "Out, Out"—echoing the chants heard in recent protests across

"Activists love bitcoin" "Money is the foundation of our struggle for freedom" "We use bitcoin to counter the system that has kept us in bondage" 🔥 profile of Human Rights Foundation (HRF)'s panel at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)'s Bitcoin Expo

Full article "In authoritarian countries, Bitcoin is freedom" berkeleybeacon.com/in-authoritari…

Beautiful new print edition of Bitcoin Magazine Amazing to see a bitaxe on the cover and super grateful to have one of my essays included 🙏 It’s packed with great stuff Grab a copy if you can!

Thrilled to share the speakers for our "Freedom Tech" track taking place on May 28 at Oslo Freedom Forum (OFF) We'll be focusing on how dictators are using technology to repress and censor and surveil... and how citizens are resisting and liberating each other with open-source tech ranging from

Bitcoin could easily add tens of millions of additional occasional on-chain users in its current technological state, especially with so many great private/fast/cheap “spending wallet” options coming online Attracting users is the great “scaling” challenge

Pretty crazy. Happened to my dad!

Two charts that explain a lot...

Impressed by the quality and quality of ideas on how to defuse the quantum threat to Bitcoin, even if the threat is distant Certainly an area where having hundreds of the world’s top developers helps!

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Banana Republic 🍌

Crypto scams will continue, even at the nation-state level Bitcoin education remains critical!

Incredible!

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