The final day of 2024 was Wednesday and socially-minded Bitcoin supporters from Kenya, Canada, Russia and other countries gathered to discuss the future of Bitcoin. Oslo Freedom Forum As part of the Financial Freedom Track, participants will share their thoughts on the potential for Bitcoin to be an important tool in the lives of those who most need it.
Alex Gladstein is Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation (HRF)He began the discussion by explaining why Bitcoins are essential for human rights. He read from Lyn Aden’s “The Human Rights of Bitcoin” two relevant passages. Broken Money: Why Our Financial System Is Failing Us And How We Can Make It Better Invite the author of the article, a renowned macroeconomic analyst.
Alden began with a short overview of financial history, before explaining that Bitcoin provides anyone around the globe access to an open and free financial system. She noted that Bitcoin has now been around for 15 years and it is more mature and easy to use.
Hadiya MasiehThe founder of the Groundswell ProjectThen, she took to the podium to give her speech entitled “How Bitcoin Can Fund Counter-Terrorism.” She explained how she teaches Somali women the use of bitcoin for fundraising for political campaigns by female political candidates.
Noble Nyangoma……………? Bitcoin Innovation HubShe spoke shortly after Masieh and discussed the work that she does in Uganda with refugees, some of whom have not become Ugandan citizens yet, so they cannot open a bank account in Uganda. She said that Bitcoins are essential to refugees.
“With Bitcoin, no one is going to ask you ‘Where is your national ID?'” said Nyangoma.
The most inspiring talks were delivered by Farida NabouremaA Togolese activist, Executive Director of The African Bitcoin Conference. She described a horrifying experience when she was in Ghana for an urgent surgery and nearly didn’t get it, because she did not have the money to pay in Ghanaian currency.
Although she had enough money in her own currency to pay for the treatment, the hospital would not accept the payment. She was trying to make the point that Africa was divided economically by its many currencies, which are not inter-changeable.
She explained that Bitcoin fixes this, as it helps create a world — especially in Africa — in which the situation she experienced in that Ghanaian hospital could have been avoided.
Ben Perrin (better known as Ben Perrin) will be speaking before the lunch hour. BTC SessionsAlex Li from the HRF announced the winners. 10 winners of of it Bitcoin Development fund grants For software developers that create tools for the Lightning Network to enhance privacy, to build decentralized communications or to provide technology tools to Human Rights Defenders.
The afternoon is a good time to go out. Sparrow Wallet Developer Craig Raw outlined a few practical ways for users to utilize Bitcoin in a more private manner. Lorraine Marcel is the founder of Bitcoin DADAThe founder of a Bitcoin-based virtual education platform for African women and a community, shared how Bitcoin has catalyzed significant changes among her students.
“Before Bitcoin I could not really see a true way of getting financial freedom or independence for me or my sisters back at home,” Marcel made this statement during her speech. The organization is also using bitcoin to raise funds to support an initiative providing feminine hygiene and educational materials for female students at Kibera – one of Africa’s biggest urban slums.
Calle was created by an anonymous developer of software. Cashu protocol, an ecash protocol that offers more transactional privacy with BitcoinThe video provides an overview of the ecash system and its privacy features.
By the end of the session in the afternoon, Christian KerolesInterviewed by : Director of Financial Freedom HRF Luthando NdabambiLeader of Community at Bitcoin EkasiA circular Bitcoin economy is located in the township of South Africa. Ndamambi explained to Keroles how, before Bitcoin, many people in his township had no savings, so they didn’t think about the future.
“I tell people in my township, ‘When you think about Bitcoin, think about saving for your kids,'” said Ndabambi.
Peter McCormack was the host of The What Bitcoin Meant Mike Brock, Head of TBD Anna Chekhovich at Block, Alexey Navalny CFO Anti-Corruption Foundation HRF’s Non-Profit Bitcoin Adoption Lead. The three talked about how Bitcoin could help preserve democracy, as well as its impact on the crackdown on privacy-focused Bitcoin wallets in the US.
“For us to receive donations, we [have to] provide our donors with high-level security tools for payments,” Explain Chekhovich
“If there is a tiny chance that your personal data is going to be leaked to the government and they will put you [in] jail, of course you will not make a donation. That is why privacy tools are crucial, and at the Anti-Corruption Foundation, we are very concerned about that. We try to do everything we can in order to provide safety to our donors,” She added.
“If we are deprived of these privacy tools we will not be able to accept bitcoin donations, because we cannot put our donors at such a huge risk.”
Dulce Villerreal is the CEO and founder Dulce Librería de Satoshi Library of Satoshi (Library of Satoshi), which provides Bitcoin education materials, classes, and financial support to Bitcoin developer students. She expressed her concern that over 50 million Latin American people are living under dictatures and dictatorships. central bank digital currencies (CBDCThis will further empower autocratic rulers on the continent.
In order to achieve this, she is on a global mission to help train and educate people to develop Bitcoin.
“Our mission is to make Bitcoin technical training accessible in your own language,” Villarreal, said “At Librería de Satoshi, our goal is to foster the next generation of Bitcoin contributors, entrepreneurs, educators.”
Jack Mallers – founder and CEO, of StrikeMatt Odell, the managing partner at Ten31 The co-founders of OpenSats. Both discussed the value of Bitcoin companies that are profitable contributing to open-source software developers. Strike, for example, announced that it was donating $100,000. OpenCash AssociationCalle founded a non profit that helps such developers.
“Through my work with HRF and coming here, there is a duty that I have to make sure Bitcoin is successful, although not maybe in my shareholders’ [or] in my corporation’s immediate interest,” Why Mallers? “That’s part of the game theory that makes the whole project work. And so no matter your role, we’re all on the same team. If Bitcoin is better, we’re all better off for it.”
Ending a conference with strong words that were echoed by so many people who went above and beyond in order to make sure that Bitcoin has made us all better.
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Source: bitcoinmagazine.com
