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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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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
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Two links from 2013 examining funding links of the @HRF 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.
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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.
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Bitcoin is code. The people who maintain and add features to the code can be interfered with. Users always have a choice not to run newer implementations of the code but that also requires users understanding Bitcoin well. Understanding has decreased since the last big challenge to the code base in 2017 with the introduction, by evangelistic 'orange pilling' of many shallow, influencer led Bitcoiners. The struggle to keep Bitcoin 'true' is an ongoing one, and also the layers built on top of it. I see @gladstein and the @HRF as highly suspect players in the world of Bitcoin developer funding.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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. image