🙈😍🥰 I love the proof of work standard in every aspect of my life. Advocacy is my passion and my heart. Not everyone needs to love advocacy like I do—and bitcoiners by definition often don’t. But we desperately need more passionate advocates for privacy these days, both in policy and journalism, to educate as many people as possible.

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Thank you for your continuous support of our privacy advocacy efforts 🧡

Hard to disagree with this. Exactly why we need to protect privacy in Western countries. So far only the US donors and companies investing their time and resources in that fight consistently and jointly. We need more voices and supporters in the European community.

We don’t know about that. Too abstract definitions in the laws allow to be selective in the interpretation. Maybe same as there but lawyers asked everyone to be silent. My lawyers have also advised silence in the past, but I’ve had to explain repeatedly that silence only invites further abuse of power.

Seems like homemade? 😍 I was enjoying today with homemade #babaghanoush paired with lemon-steamed kale, fresh parsley, and bright grapefruit 😜☺️

Anyone else noticing prosecutors going after investors who fund/invest in #privacy payment tools? This isn’t hypothetical anymore - it’s actually happening. Worth keeping an eye on.

Digital Rights Under Siege: Join BTCHEL Talks! Join me to discuss why #Bitcoin P2P privacy payment tools, privacy of communication, and travel data protection matter more than ever at BTCHEL conference in #Helsinki (August 14-16)! Bring anyone who's tired of feeling like their every move is being tracked and wants to do something about it! Do it before it is too late - we're living through an unprecedented assault on digital privacy: 1. The EU's Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA) is advancing a "zero tolerance for anonymity in crypto" policy, while... 2. Denmark's EU Presidency is fast-tracking #ChatControl regulation for adoption on October 14, 2025. This isn't just regulatory overreach—it's the architecture of mass surveillance disguised as child protection and combating financial crimes/terrorism. The consequences are already visible and show how financial surveillance creates real physical and national security dangers: - kidnapping incidents in #France targeting crypto-assets holders, - weaponisation of AML/CFT and cybersecurity laws for transnational financial repression in the #EU by authoritarian regimes and their proxies. When your payment history, communication patterns, and travel data are exposed, you become a target. For those who don't know - proposed ChatControl means: - Automatic scanning of ALL private messages, emails, and chats - Mandatory age verification ending anonymous communication - Cloud storage monitoring, including your private photos - App store censorship and digital exclusion of minors Join me at BTCHEL (August 14-16) to examine new evidence of how Russia's allies are weaponizing cybersecurity and #AML regulations against the EU, #US, and #Western democratic institutions. In a world where digital and physical converge, privacy of payments, communication, and travel isn't just convenience—it's survival. It protects your life, property, and cultural identity from those who would exploit your data. See you! 🧡

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Why cigar? Lets do something more healthy! Take care!

How did we survive and continue holding rights violators accountable? #Bitcoin peer-to-peer payments and encrypted communications became our lifeline. We've learned firsthand that compromising privacy doesn't just threaten operations—it costs lives.

MY MESSAGE TO THE U.S. CONGRESS: Transnational Financial Repression Costs Lives—Here's the Evidence Last month I testified before the US Congress about something that sounds like a conspiracy theory but isn't: authoritarian regimes are weaponizing American and European banks, travel and communication information to silence their critics. Do you know this is happening? Here's how it works: Dictatorships and their proxies are systematically abusing Financial Action Task Force (#FATF) anti-money laundering, cybersecurity systems that Western democracies created for security cooperation. They turn our own tools against us. The scariest part? It's completely legal. I, my Open Dialogue Foundation team, and our families lived this nightmare. Despite winning in court repeatedly and proving all accusations false, we still lost our bank accounts, crypto accounts, crowdfunding platforms. Our crime? Documenting human rights violations and sanctions evasion. But it didn't stop there. A Belgian judge revealed that dozens of Kazakh security officers filed subpoenas seeking the maximum amount of private data on Lyudmyla Kozlovska—including her banking, travel, and communication records. Why? To isolate and destroy us our capacity to live, work and defend human rights. We fought back; most activists can’t or don't know how. When authoritarian regimes and their proxies can manipulate American and European financial, travel, and communication systems to silence dissent, they're attacking the foundation of Westen values and democracy itself. How did we survive and continue holding rights violators accountable? #Bitcoin peer-to-peer payments and encrypted communications became our lifeline. We've learned firsthand that compromising privacy doesn't just threaten operations—it costs lives. Here's the complete testimonial with policy recommendations: https://humanrightscommission.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/humanrightscommission.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/posted-fin_tlhrc_lyudmyla_kozlovska_written_testimony_open_dialogue_foundation.pdf Video from 30:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHbztGzjiU8&t=1814s

🙏 thank you. We need more support to spread awareness about this problem. Not many people have ideas that their travel, communication data are the same exposed as financial data.

🚨 YOUR VOICE NEEDED: CONGRESS SEEKS TESTIMONIES The US Congress is investigating how authoritarian regimes weaponize financial regulations against American donors supporting democracy. WE NEED YOUR INPUT. 📢 WHY YOUR TESTIMONY MATTERS Chairman #McGovern asked me directly: "Your testimony calls for the Treasury Department to issue a financial crimes enforcement network advisory highlighting foreign governments' misuse of anti-money laundering/anti-terrorism financing tools to target U.S. entities and residents in transnational repression. Has the Treasury Department made any steps in this regard? If not, what do you think is a productive pressure point?" This question shows Congress recognizes that the case of American philanthropist Barlyk #Mendygaziyev demonstrates a terrifying trend: 🔻His brother Bekizhan imprisoned in #Kazakhstan as RETALIATION for Barlyk's pro-democracy advocacy 🔻US banks terminated their financial services based on Kazakhstan's false claims and accusations 🔻Kazakhstan exploited AML/CFT laws to silence American donors 🎯 THE BIGGER PICTURE When authoritarian regimes can: 🔻Turn US financial institutions against democracy donors 🔻Weaponize "anti-extremism", AML, cybersecurity laws and international cooperation mechanisms against civil society and donors transnationally and domestically 🔻Take family members hostage to silence advocacy Every donor, activist, and NGO becomes vulnerable transnationally 💪 WHY DEFENDING DONORS IS CRITICAL 🔻Democracy movements NEED financial support 🔻Majority of the prodemocracy donors are U.S. philanthropists. They are at risk of being criminalized for supporting human rights if no remedies established 🔻Kazakhstan's playbook is being copied by other autocrats 🔻US financial system is being turned against democracy itself 📝 WHAT CONGRESS NEEDS FROM YOU Submit testimonies/recommendations on: 🔻How financial debanking affects pro-democracy work in your country 🔻Your experiences with weaponized AML compliance 🔻Policy recommendations to protect legitimate donors 🔻Cases of authoritarian abuse of US financial systems or U.S. financial intelligence (I will explain more in the next post) 🔗 WE HELP YOU TO SUBMIT Information to the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission: 🔻Send your story to me 🔻Reference: [mention your country] Transnational Financial Repression 🔻Deadline: end of July 2025 When autocrats can silence American donors, democracy loses its lifeline. Your voice can help Congress close these dangerous loopholes. #DefendDonors #TransnationalRepression #TransnationalFinancialRepression #Congress #Democracy #HumanRights #Philanthropy #CivilSociety #TomLantos #USCongress #AML #CFT

US CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS ON TRANSNATIONAL FINANCIAL REPRESSION On June 24, 2025, the US House of Representatives held hearings on transnational repression. I had the honor of presenting to the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission one of the most sophisticated methods of persecution—the abuse by undemocratic regimes of financial and cybersecurity regulations, as well as mutual legal assistance agreements, targeting not only government critics but also #American philanthropists, non-governmental organizations, and investors. My testimony and recommendations addressed two key aspects: (1) explaining how transnational financial repression is carried out and its impact on the United States, and (2) how these mechanisms are used to obstruct financial support for pro-democratic movements and humanitarian activities. Regimes, particularly #Kazakhstan and #Russia, along with their proxies such as Kyrgyzstan's #Bakai Bank, have learned to exploit trust-based mechanisms of international cooperation. This enables dictators to arbitrarily freeze or confiscate assets in the #UnitedStates, deny Americans access to financial services, misuse financial intelligence and personal data, and spread targeted disinformation to undermine organizations' economic reputations and circumvent international sanctions. By abusing these international agreements, dictators and their proxies can also initiate Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPP suits), depleting their critics residing in Western countries both legally and financially. One example is the case of American investor and philanthropist Barlyk Mendygaziyev, his family members, and political hostage Bekizhan Mendygaziyev. I will share more details in the next post.