Episode Details

In this episode of the Coin Stories podcast with human rights defender Lyudmyla Kozlovska, powered by Bitdeer Technologies Group (NASDAQ: BTDR), we discuss:

• Financial surveillance and censorship
• Bitcoin for human rights
• How easy it is to find yourself excluded from financial system
• Weaponization of banking data
• Preventing a Bitcoin mining ban in Europe
• Reforming the banking system to prevent human rights abuse

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Bio: The Open Dialogue Foundation (ODF) was established on Lyudmyla's initiative and she has served as its President since June 2010. A human rights defender from Ukraine campaigning for smart sanctions against Russia and its allies and advocating regulators to support civil society using crypto-assets to address financial exclusion, political oppression and the delivery of humanitarian aid. Lyudmyla initiated the reform of INTERPOL to fight its misuse as a tool of political prosecution worldwide. Recently, she has been leading the campaign to prevent the abuse of anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) laws by malign state actors.

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References:

• https://en.odfoundation.eu
• https://twitter.com/LyudaKozlovska
• https://en.odfoundation.eu/a/724918,submission-to-fincen-us-digital-asset-aml-act/
• https://geyser.fund/project/defendpow

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Coin Stories is powered by Bitdeer Technologies Group (NASDAQ: BTDR), a publicly-traded leader in Bitcoin mining that stands alone as the only vertically-integrated, technology-focused Bitcoin mining company. Learn more at www.bitdeer.com.

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