Bitcoin & Human Rights
summary
Human Rights Foundation describes concrete programs: the Bitcoin Development Fund disburses about $3.7M to 120 open source projects in 3.5 years (20% in Africa, ~$700k), runs a 10‑bounty program offering 2 BTC each (20 BTC total), and issues grants and workshops while running a Lightning faucet at getbitcoin.org. Research claims 62% of governments (119 of 193) engage with CBDCs now, including 16 fully deployed and 39 pilots, framing CBDCs as a near‑term civil liberties threat.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:44Human Rights Foundation mission
- 1:47Financial repression challenges
- 2:53Bitcoin for activists in 2013
- 3:34Bitcoin Development Fund
- 4:17Noster challenges bounty
- 5:00CBDC threats
- 6:49Bitcoin for nonprofits
- 7:31Freedom Forum activist stories
- 8:38Fiat person game
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