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Chief Strategy Officer: @HRF + @OsloFF / Author: CYFP.org / Nostr: npub1trr5r2nrpsk6xkjk5a7p6pfcryyt6yzsflwjmz6r7uj7lfkjxxtq78hdpu

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Alex Gladstein 🌋 ⚡
@gladstein
Jul 22
Would you fight today’s computerized dictators with typewriters? Today’s activists shouldn’t let dictators dominate AI either My new Journal of Democracy essay on how open-source personal AI agents are revolutionary tools for human rights defenders 💪
How AI Agents Are Empowering Human-Rights Defenders | Journal of Democracy
From journalofdemocracy.org
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Alex Gladstein 🌋 ⚡
@gladstein
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New essay in @WSJ today Bitcoin is freedom money ✌️ partners.wsj.com/the-nakamoto-p…
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Alex Gladstein 🌋 ⚡
@gladstein
Sep 3
There is no circumstance where a CBDC will offer full privacy Not even in liberal democracies where the people in theory control the government And under authoritarian regimes, where most people on earth live, forget about it
Neeraj K. Agrawal
@NeerajKA
Sep 3
The ECB says the Digital Euro will have "the maximum level of privacy that current technology can offer.” @LazPieper took a look at how its proposed online/offline privacy system works. What he found is is a bit lacking. p2p.coincenter.org/p/were-not-so-…
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Alex Gladstein 🌋 ⚡
@gladstein
Sep 3
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Berrrnado
@bernard_parah
Sep 3
I’ve got a ton of excess solar at home, so I started mining bitcoin with bitaxes(some lottery, some pooled), I’m now assembling solar powered bitcoin miners(4.8Th BM1370) Waiting for my 3D printer to arrive so I can have my boxes designed end to end. Fun actually, fun fun.
Alex Gladstein 🌋 ⚡
@gladstein
Sep 3
Shades of summer 1971 when the British asked to swap $3 billion of their dollar assets into gold Nixon Shock, closing of the gold window, global rug pull, and Fiat Age followed shortly thereafter…
Financial Times
@FT
Sep 2
The transfer follows calls from European politicians and lobbyists to repatriate gold reserves from the US, warning that an unreliable American government may otherwise seize them amid growing transatlantic tensions. ft.trib.al/N1KVOcn
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