First: @nic__carter on why Bitcoin is the world's only depoliticized monetary system
2/ Afghan entrepreneur and humanitarian @RoyaMahboob on how the legacy financial system is misogynist and how Bitcoin helps gives financial rights to women:
3/ Russian democracy advocate and @navalny campaign manager @leonidvolkov on how Bitcoin helps support human rights activism against Putin:
4/ Togolese democracy advocate @Farida_N on why the struggle for human rights needs to include financial rights:
5/ Belarusian human rights advocate and @bysolfund organizer Jaroslav Likhachevskiy on how Bitcoin helped support Belarus's democracy movement:
6/ Senegalese cypherpunk and developer @diopfode on why the future of finance in Africa will be based on Bitcoin:
7/ Lightning engineer at @Blockstream and @base58btc educator @niftynei on the difference between permissioned and permissionless financial systems and how Bitcoin differs from Central Bank Digital Currencies:
8/ Macroeconomic analyst and investor @LynAldenContact on why Proof-of-Work is Bitcoin's key innovation and can't be replaced by Proof-of-Stake:
9/ @Core_Scientific founder @DarinFeinstein on how Bitcoin can provide private property rights to people around the world in a way nothing else can match:
10/ @Strike founder and CEO @jackmallers on why a censorship-resistant financial settlement layer could change the world:
11/ Privacy advocate @J9Roem on why a money for the world must pass the censorship test:
12/ @Okcoin CEO Hong Fang (@hfangca) on how Bitcoin differs from the legacy financial system:
13/ RHR and Citadel host and privacy advocate @ODELL on how cash is a human rights tool worth protecting in the digital world:
14/ @MuunWallet founder Dario Sneidermanis (@esneider) on why citizens of countries like Argentina understand the importance of monetary self-custody:
15/ Financial freedom advocate and @btrustteam board member @obi on how the Nigerian Naira has been devalued over time and how a digital alternative is necessary:
16/ Venezuelan entrepreneur Mauricio di Bartolomeo (@cryptonomista) on what happens when money collapses in your country, and why people turn to tools like Bitcoin to escape:
17/ Nigerian investor, developer, and @btrustteam board member Abubakar Nur Khalil (@ihate1999) on why the future of finance will be Bitcoinized, not dollarized:
18/ @Lightning Labs CEO and co-founder @starkness on how Bitcoin could not only give people access to a new monetary system but also provide access to the US dollar:
19/ Author and investor @JeffBooth on why the current fiat monetary system is unsustainable:
20/ Bitcoin author, developer, and educator @jimmysong on how oppression is deeply ingrained into our current financial system:
21/ Monetary base analyst Matthew Mežinskis (@crypto_voices) on the evolution of Central Bank Digital Currencies:
22/ Philosopher and environmentalist Troy Cross (@thetrocro) on why the dream of creating money outside the realm of the state is worth pursuing:
24/ Tether and @bitfinex CTO @paoloardoino on why, as long as we're in a fiat standard, everyone should have access to the dollar:
25/ Finally -- and importantly -- @_elfaro_ investigative journalist @raudaz_ on how Bukele is seizing arbitrary power in El Salvador as he imposes Bitcoin on the population, and why financial freedom isn't good enough if you don't have political freedom:
So in this case the Scottish government paid for (donated) the microhydro setup that converted this river into electricity for this village and the surrounding area. But they don’t pay for OpEx. A local conservationist in charge of a nearby national park created a power company…
Called MEGA that serves the community. MEGA subsidizes the cost of power for the nearby villagers. Off grid power can be extremely expensive. Imagine sometimes the cost could be 90 cents per kWh when we might pay 10-12 in advanced economies. Even Grid power Africa can be ~20
We begin in Bondo, a small town in Malawi, a country where only 11% of the population has access to electricity
The nation suffers 6-8 hours of blackouts a day, but the power in Bondo is consistent because of Bitcoin mining
The town got its first electricity in 2016, and now is expanding its grid, thanks to Bitcoin, which is buying 100% of the electricity that the micro-hydro stations cannot sell, and giving precious capital to the power company so it can expand operations
On Nov 14 @HRF will launch its CBDC Tracker program at the National Press Club in Washington, DC
The Tracker will go online for the first time, providing the public with a resource to examine the progress and risks of CBDC implementation worldwide 🧵
Like paper dollars or euros, CBDCs are liabilities of central banks
Unlike paper dollars or euros, CBDCs do not offer the privacy protections, neutrality, or finality of cash
Virtually all money today is already digital, but it is typically issued and controlled by private banks and fintech companies, even in dictatorships like China
When consumers use a credit card, spending is at the discretion of the corporation that issued the card
Grant #1: $100,000 to Calvin Kim (@kcalvinalvinn) for his work on Utreexo, a Bitcoin scaling solution for faster verification and synchronization of Bitcoin full nodes
HRF’s funding allows Kim to prepare Utreexo for a main net launch 🚀