Opinion
Embedding human rights into crypto systems is a necessity. Self-custody, privacy-by-default, and censorship-resistant personhood must be core design principles for any technology. The future of digital freedom depends on it.
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Freedom News
Freedom is an ability to act without constraint. Financial and political freedom are some of the most important values of the modern world and are crucial to the development of societies. Government structure is limiting for people, sometimes for all the right reasons and sometimes without any logic — due to too much bureaucracy and backwardness of the system. Some people see Bitcoin as a foundation for future financial freedom. Blockchain’s uncensored and immutable structure can bring economic freedom with Bitcoin. “Bitcoin is freedom” is a topic on the Bitcointalk Forum that has promoted new cryptocurrency as a method of freeing people from central banks’ oppression. However, governmental technological resources are growing and can currently implement cryptocurrency and digital money into the existing monetary structure. With increasing capitalization of crypto, it’s only a matter of time before governments will try to get crypto under their control.
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Vitalik Buterin’s presentation at the EthCC event comes amid an inflection point for the crypto industry as it attempts to reconcile growth and the Cypherpunk ethos.
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From Ross Ulbricht's first significant public appearance to Strategy’s Michael Saylor addressing the crowd, the focus of the Bitcoin conference was often on individual liberty.
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DeepSeek’s latest AI model flags Xinjiang camps as human rights violations but censors direct criticism of China, raising concerns over contradictions and increased censorship.
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Durov did not name the EU country that asked him to censor "conservative voices" on the platform but hinted at it with a baguette emoji.
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Freedom cities, in theory, could help the crypto sector “to discover where it can go in terms of innovation and new applications.”
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Telegram founder Pavel Durov is known for his focus on free speech and privacy-focused technology.
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An AI engineer at xAI resigned after refusing to delete an X post ranking AI models, including the forthcoming Grok 3, sparking a free speech debate.
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Dr. Petty told Cointelegraph that blockchain technology is already eating away at small parts of incumbent governance structures.
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In Part 2 of The Agenda’s one-year later episode, CryptoHarlem, OriginTrail and The Blockchain Socialist share their thoughts and plans for 2025.
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The author and Bitcoin advocate's panel was sobering, harkening back to the Bitcoin community's, anti-establishment ethos.
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Regulators in the Bahamas are sick of their citizens' reluctance to adopt a CBDC, so they're forcing commercial banks to get on board.
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Everything from radar arrays to acoustic networks that triangulate active shooters can be decentralized and community-owned.
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A Bitcoiner has helped Julian Assange return home debt-free after 14 years of fighting against U.S. extradition.
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Attendees of the 2024 Oslo Freedom Forum were united in addressing the threat that central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) pose to freedom around the globe.
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