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The conflation of Bitcoin with human rights is stupid.
Bitcoin is a technology. It doesn't care what 'rights' it is granted or not. The whole point of Bitcoin is that it routes around censorship.
p.s. it should always be noted when
@gladstein starts spouting talk about human rights that he is highly selective in whose rights he wants to promote, and that these suspiciously co-align with ppl agitating for régime change in governments not controlled by the North Atlantic oligarchies
You should watch the talk
What do you have to say about Peter Thiel's foundational role in the
@npub17xvf...c9as ? That's something I'd be interested in listening to.
Not sharing means cheaper sats for longer 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
He used to support a lot of free speech causes like the Committee to Protect Journalists and HRF
Then he changed his mind. Not sure what else to say
Hmm 🤔 doesn’t load for me
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pure signal. just watched this one with wife and family
I - and many others - sent bitcoin to the Canadian truckers when their bank accounts were frozen. When fiat dollar crowd funding was shut off by authoritarians, bitcoin prevailed.
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Good for you but what is your point ? Bitcoin worked as designed, as uncensorable money. This is regardless of whether the truckers rights were being respected or not. Bitcoin doesn't know and doesn't care.
Great speech! So true! Bitcoin has so many uses, helping humans is #1
Amazing speech 👏
Next stage, Davos 😄
gladstein
My BPI keynote
"Bitcoin is the Most Important Human Rights Technology of the 21st Century"
Delivered in the heart of DC
Please share with normies who don't think Bitcoin has a use case. We have A LOT of work to do, most people think this way
But we WILL win in the end
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It is but we failed to protect users from government seeing their transactions
Thanks Alex! This is an awesome speech and it’s so much easier to share it’s with people. Not everyone is ready or willing to read your books, which I frequently recommend. Freedom Go Up!
Heard this a few times now over the years. I want to know more. Do you have any links?
Two links from 2013 examining funding links of the
@npub17xvf...c9as and the associated OFF :
https://truthout.org/articles/using-human-rights-for-right-wing-politics/
> The story of the Oslo Freedom Forum is also a story of US right-wing sponsorship, lack of transparency and “heroes of human rights” involved in supporting serious human rights violations.
The truthout article references this earlier 2013 piece by Max Blumenthal :
https://electronicintifada.net/content/oslo-freedom-forum-founders-ties-islamophobes-who-inspired-mass-killer-anders-breivik/12451
As for amount of funding provided by Thiel, a BuzzFeed article states it as at least $900,000 to the HRF, but it is BuzzFeed so not sure about the accuracy. Thiel is also acknowledged on the OFF website as a founding funder (separate to his funding of the HRF) and organiser of the initial conference.
BuzzFeed News
Oslo Freedom Forum Founder Says Thiel "Has Every Right" To Fund Media Lawsuits
The foundation that puts on the annual gathering of dissidents and journalists has received at least $900,000 in funding from the tech billionaire.
Not enough scrutiny of the HRF/OFf, its backers and its funding sources has been done since those early 2013 articles I linked above.
The Blumenthal piece puts Thiel's finding of the
@npub17xvf...c9as at $535,000 so you may prefer to use that figure over the higher BuzzFeed figure
Alex
@gladstein promotes Bitcoin. If what you're saying:
"Bitcoin is a technology. It doesn't care what 'rights' it is granted or not. The whole point of Bitcoin is that it routes around censorship."
is true, then your whole comment is a contradiction in itself, since Bitcoin cannot be hijacked for any specific purpose. Not even by the HRF. Freedom and Self-Sovereignty only.
The largest gift we received from Peter in a calendar year was $100k. He has not given in more than 12 years. Our annual budget today is north of $20M. This is completely silly
Terrific talk
@gladstein. It is amazing to see the moving trend in the shift of power that is happening around the world. Let's build 🌐. #bitcoin #nostr #saludprotocol.
Good talk, makes the case well.
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Awesome work
Where can I find the full transparent records of all monies received by the
@npub17xvf...c9as and the OFF for each financial year dating back to their foundation ?
So I can verify your assertion
reminder to highlight and keep front of mind the humanitarian side of bitcoin.
https://primal.net/e/
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View quoted note →here is the great keynote by
@gladstein mentioned a few days ago
View quoted note →Don’t trust, verify. We are a 501c3 so we are mandated to provide this kind of info in our published 990s
@gladstein is this video available on other platforms online? I tried to save it to my internal storage, but it didn't work. I need to share this with the normies in my life
As they say - bitcoin is for your enemies. The point is fiat is very difficult to use for human rights in authoritarian regimes, bitcoin prevails.
Therefore it is much better in many instances for good
On X, and soon, YouTube
Wikileaks freeze, Operation ChokePoint 1 and 2, Canadian truckers donations freezes, banking "compliance", anyone?
I appreciate the possible reasons for the diplomatic framing but we are not children so should acknowledge the abuses of monetary controls and surveillance even in "privileged" countries.
Obama's "Swiss Bank account in your pocket" comments also come to mind.
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Thanks Jeff. Enjoyed this.
You’re welcome Paula. Send me a private message on WhatsApp at +1 (856) 265‑9067 👈 chat
this is such a daffy duck comment lol 😆 *I’m rich! I’m rich! I’m a happy miser!*
I haven’t seen it but I hear it perfectly 😂
Honestly, I’m just jaded after proselytizing for 10 years and getting laughed at in the face and by rooms full of people over and over and over. Mocked constantly. Seeing peoples faces change to disgust and dismissal when I tell them about it. Convincing no one, even family and close friends. Giving Bitcoin to people and they immediately sell it. I have little sympathy for not paying attention and none for willful ignorance. I’ll be a happy miser and they can enjoy the freedom and their 100 sats.
what? How have you not seen it but hear it perfectly? 🤔a clip?
I don’t get why it sounds like so many people would respond so negatively. When I heard it described as something that can replace banks and a type of code that solves the digital money problem (like not being copied and pasted, a unique record), I felt very enthusiastic about it. Just felt that I couldn’t invest cuz I had no experience with that type of thing and also had *several* student loans.
I hear Daffy Duck saying he’s a rich miser :)
About negative reactions, you’re right! I was so excited and happy. The more educated of my friends all told me the banks would shut it down, government would shut it down, we have to have deflation, the fed needs to debase to lubricate the economy.
Brain rot everywhere. It goes deep. It’s in everyone about something. Bitcoin is the absolute best because you don’t have to win an argument, you just sell more cuck bucks and stack more sats.
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I’m still travelling today - but quite interested. Will definitely follow up 😀 thanks for reaching out
Ok, the video IS loading for me now. Stable connection and an app update *may* have had something to do with it.
On with the video. 😀 Yay. 🎉
