Lyudmyla Kozlovska

🚨 €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!

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!

Beautiful sky lights in #Brussels 🧡

We can’t rely on a thought that debanking abuses are obvious. They are not. This was the exactly a problem, when we as Open Dialogue Foundation on behalf of BTC Coalition promoted amendments to #AML regulation in the #EU and revisions of #FATF travel rule recommendations in the #US. Our amendments were rejected during trilog process simply because no voices from the business industry, including #bitcoin were with us. https://en.odfoundation.eu/a/725781,building-true-change-btc-coalition-submission-on-the-eu-proposal-for-a-regulation-on-the-prevention-of-money-laundering-or-terrorist-financing/ We need to join voices victims of the weaponized banking data transnationally and debanking victims from businesses representatives to eliminate such abuses ! This is one of the reasons why we want to establish FreedoTech Embassy to eliminate such practices and protect developers, end-users and investors of freedomtech! Let’s do it together! 🧡

I survived and Im fighting against debanking as a weapon against critical voices used in western countries. My family, my Open Dialogue Foundation and business company experienced and are overcoming the fact that our financial data was weaponized to destroy reputation, our families, businesses, to isolate us as critics. Same happened with many still silent tech and #bitcoin businesses in the western world to destroy their competitive proposals. Im grateful that @pmarca nostr:npub1nwhdqvfh6g2t86pnqkdf86m3ea89c6ejyhlhe5g9wk2lvpsgss6qed409r nostr:npub1dc2nfat0e85n0crzxlyt5j6kv272e38p5086h8qkmzfep0kylj3s92u5hg @davidmarcus @joerogan are voicing these tremendous abuses. Being critical, competitive and effective against governments abusing power should never be claimed as “high risk”. Abuse of power through AML/CFT laws without any remedy and accountability should be classified as high risk and top priority to fight against it. Let’s join efforts to eliminate these repressive practices! https://nostrcheck.me/media/8f6568deec0120acb2a4d1e4e311c881d306c396a9288b0a07f564d20f186268/46454f773a2ff748815212640b7e84b9d713300007d4dd07eb89fcf997cfc50b.mp4

WHY WE NEED FREEDOMTECH EMBASSY IN BRUSSELS NOW With many voices at nostr:npub1rwh33t5x8n7czknhts5fg0v0fml8mkl7neaarksumkkf8d679qrqcz7avv in #Amsterdam expressing very correct assessments of the discriminatory policy approach in the #EU against Bitcoin and now following the proposed by the European Central Bank analysts, I want to recall two important aspects: 🔴 First, well known: the #ECB states explicitly by saying their main goal is to “disincentivise investment in Bitcoin mining”. ECB frame it as "a climate risk priced into crypto-assets", in fact attacking PoW and Bitcoin mining. https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/financial-stability-publications/macroprudential-bulletin/html/ecb.mpbu202207_3~d9614ea8e6.en.html 🔴Now for the lesser known, but most important to assess the risks of their latest so-called analyses - the EU's drafting of a regulation to expand the European Central Bank's supervisory powers over crypto-assets, which potentially gives the ECB endless power to attack #Bitcoin and implement its discriminatory regulatory proposals. This information was re-confirmed in August 2024 by the European Parliament's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON). https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2024/755728/IPOL_STU(2024)755728_EN.pdf 🟡 From the ECON’s study we know that: 🔻 Since 2022, key topics discussed by the ECB with policymakers are (1) the ECB's banking supervision programme on the importance of the role of banks in the transition to a digitalised and carbon-neutral economy; (2) response for the emerging risks from the crypto sector and non-financial banking institutions; (3) the energy crisis; 🔻 ECB is increasingly consulted on future regulatory priorities, and on its stance regarding new legislation that is being negotiated with the Commission and the Council; 🔻 ECB response focusses on banks’ ESG risks which it considers a threat for banks and financial stability overall, therefore having made it a supervisory priority; 🔻 ECB mentions that it assesses, jointly with European Banking Authority (EBA), whether ESG risks should be reflected in regulatory capital requirements. And these attacks continue and in parallel echo in developing Bitcoin mining ban in Norway, Iceland, discriminative taxation in Italy and Netherlands, classification self-hosted wallets p2p transactions as high risk transactions in the AML Regulation and by the biggest political groups in German Bundestag, development AML Authority supervision with particular focus on crowdfunding companies and crypto-asset service providers (CASPs), implementation of MiCA regulation by Denmark with attempt to classify mob apps like self-hosted wallets as “interface providers”, discussion of the categorisation of lighting as a “money transmitter”... 🟢What we can do together: 🔻Join Open Dialogue Foundation to establish a #FreedomTech embassy in Brussels. Let's bring together expertise and resources to develop a safe regulatory environment in the European Single Market for Bitcoin miners, investors, developers and end-users. 🔻Let’s systematically protect our FreedomTech and educate policymakers, media, academia. Let’s say loudly about wrong approach of ECB on Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining specifically. The U.S. bitcoiners have made Bitcoin protection a reality and continue to do so. 💪🧡 We should and can do it in the EU as well. https://nostrcheck.me/media/8f6568deec0120acb2a4d1e4e311c881d306c396a9288b0a07f564d20f186268/8ba3b3673ae046cb8e49996aa925bb38effa88a89bd0f6261aefddd9fd6ab174.mp4

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. nostr:npub1dnzzyhmewrzkh862z7z2shwmhh5htx0rvkagepj2fkgst9ptwg3qj4x52h is right, challenges for #freedomtech #bitcoin are high as never before. While enjoying freedom tools people tend to forget about the need to fight for and defend them, its developers. Let’s defend our Proof-of- Work and privacy, so we don’t need to live in the world of mass surveillance and Proof-of-Mistake nostr:note1dq73n554lt36qsyzzxn8s28f9t8sasvhqcy8ky0t8rkjpeyh4eys9uccrz

Together with Dorien Rookmaker, nostr:npub1s6z7hmmx2vud66f3utxd70qem8cwtggx0jgc7gh8pqwz2k8cltuqrdwk4c and nostr:npub1hrnt73hppyc5v9h7ynnv0cn90yd97t6we9dw32s46ug845jsm33sktjsct we will discuss tomorrow at nostr:npub1rwh33t5x8n7czknhts5fg0v0fml8mkl7neaarksumkkf8d679qrqcz7avv in #Amsterdam: How to Guard Privacy Tools & Developers. Come at 11 am on Stage : Bull Arena Case of arbitrary de-riskig @BitsagaBe is one of the clear examples why #AML Regulation has discriminatory approach to tech developers. It destroys EU’s #competitiveness , which EU Commission and ECB are promoting right now. We need urgently address this problem. The best place to have a debate with all parties involved/affected in the Europarlament.

If you are in #Antwerp today, let’s meet up! Amazing atmosphere at the Future of #Bitcoin 2024 🧡

NO PRIVACY, NO FREEDOM ✊ Join our discussion to support privacy and #Bitcoin in #Amsterdam! Who is coming there? Let’s meet 🧡

Hi #nostr, I have #question: #Telegram for a long time was the only place to keep human rights and opposition archives for #Kazakhstani and other Central Asia countries. Following #Durov’s arrest and cooperation with authorities, few days ago all opposition channels were deleted without clear reasons and right for appeal. We are thinking about how to move this archive to #nostr: video, photos and documents (doc/pdf) files. What is the best way to do it? Also we happy to work with you guys to translate interface of #Damus or other relays into #Russian, #Kazakh, #Kyrgyz languages. Grateful for your reports and advices 🧡

HUNGARY PROPOSED MESSENGER PROVIDERS FOR TIGHT SURVEILLANCE Following the pressure of privacy & human rights activists the Hungarian Presidency claimed to do "a compromise". In practice the upcoming #ChatControl regulation will require from messenger providers "to do their utmost to contribute to the development of reliable and accurate technologies to detect new CSAM and grooming." It means more tight surveillance, including indiscriminate mass monitoring of private communications and the end of secure end-to-end encryption. https://emanuelkarlsten.se/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/240829-CRPII-4-september-st12319.en24.pdf In response to this proposal, over 245 scientists from 31 countries evaluated #ChatControl draft as ‘ineffective, false positives, defeats end-to-end encryption, disproportionate, violates right to privacy, new vulnerabilities’. https://homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~preneel/Open_letter_CSAR_aug24_still_unacceptable.pdf 1️⃣ What you can do now: 🔻Call your goverment and deputies to reject alltogether Chat Control. Find contacts here: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/who-is-who/organization/-/organization/COREPER/ 🔻Support politicians like @echo_pbreyer who promote privacy! 🔻Explain why it won’t help in bringing security for our society. Opposite, such approach would put the future of our freedoms is just one step closer to be compromised and abused by dictators. 🔻Address your government before the next meeting on 2nd Oct.: 🔴SUPPORT Chat Control: Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden 🟢AGAINST Chat Control: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Luxembourg, Poland, Slovenia 🟡 UNDECIDED (we need to activate them the most!): Italy, Netherlands, Portugal 🎙Respost and call you friends to join the campaign today: If no privacy of communication, no protection for children, anyone in the EU and beyond! 2️⃣Rember and explain: 🔻No algorithm can reliably make a legal assessment. According to Meta, which is the source of the vast majority of reports, they currently only look for known CSAM in EU communications, and yet at least 50% NCMEC of reports made to German law enforcement agencies are not criminally relevant, according to the federal crime agency (BKA). 🔻EU Commissioner #Johansson admitted in late 2023 that 75% of NCMEC reports are not of a quality that the police can work with. 3️⃣ Dictators love Western spy technology: the example of the Intellexa spy company proved: dictators all over the world love Western spy technology for transnational repression of opponents and destruction of the Western world, your and your family freedoms. Urge your government to stop this! https://www.woz.ch/2439/predator-files/die-schweiz-als-drehscheibe/!NN0B9QYP1H7V