The Human Rights Foundation just published “Bitcoin for Nonprofits: A Guide To Help Your Movement Achieve Financial Freedom.”

This is a practical guide for civil society organizations to accept and manage Bitcoin donations. It covers key tools, privacy best practices, real-world case studies from activists already using it, and common misconceptions.

If you work with or support nonprofits, please help share this guide. The more organizations that can receive sats, the harder they will be for dictators to shut down.

Read or download the PDF: https://hrf.org/latest/bitcoin-for-nonprofits-a-guide-to-help-your-movement-achieve-financial-freedom/

Good morning, friends!

Financial Freedom Report #121 is here!

In El Salvador, officials froze the assets of two members of El Faro, one of the country’s leading independent media organizations, a textbook case of financial repression to silence independent journalism.

In freedom tech news, we cover the launch of Maple AI's new private Personal Intelligence Platform that expands Maple from a private AI chatbot into a suite of encrypted AI tools.

We include an interview with Afghan activist and tech entrepreneur Roya Mahboob, who explains why Bitcoin is perceived radically differently in places like Kabul or Tehran than it is in New York or London.

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Good evening, friends!

Financial Freedom Report #119 is now published.

In Kenya, several Binance users are reporting account freezes at the request of law enforcement.

In freedom tech news, we highlight a new Mini App inside the Fedi ecash app that connects to India's widely used UPI payment network and enables private, Bitcoin-based payments for everyday purchases.

We end with an episode of the new renaissance capital podcast, featuring Ideas Beyond Borders founder Faisal Saeed Al Mutar, who discusses the conflict in Iran and how Bitcoin is being adopted across the Middle East.

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Good morning, friends!

Financial Freedom Report #118 went out this morning and lays bare Uganda's attempt to pass a Foreign Agents law that would severly curb not only international funding for civil society, but even target everyday citizens conducting remittances.

For freedom tech, we share details on the upcoming Hack for Freedom taking place at Bitcoin Park in Nashville, Tn. — pairing activist captains with developers to tackle real world problems.

We end with the latest in the HRF x PubKey Freedom Tech Series where HRF's Alex Li joins Calle in New York to discuss his creation of freedom tech like Bitchat, Cashu, and Clawi.

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Good morning, Nostr!

This week’s Financial Freedom Report #115 examines how India’s central bank is negotiating to expand its digital rupee CBDC for cross-border institutional and retail transactions.

In freedom tech news, early Bitcoin developer Martti Malmi released Nostr VPN, a tool that allows users to manage their own private networks without centralized accounts, centralized servers, or reliance on any single company.

We include a recent discussion at PubKey in Washington, DC, where human rights advocates Leopoldo López, Berta Valle, and Anaïse Kanimba discuss opposing authoritarian regimes and the role of freedom tech in supporting their efforts.

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Good afternoon, friends!

This month's AI for Individual Rights newsletter #8 is out.

We cover a new report revealing how eleven African countries have collectively spent over $2 billion on Chinese-built “smart city” AI-powered surveillance systems.

Meanwhile, NVIDIA has committed $26 billion to building open AI models and partnered with Mistral AI to co-develop them. Open models can be accessed privately, bringing powerful capabilities to human rights defenders operating under surveillance.

We close with some reflections from HRF’s Alex Gladstein on OpenClaw, an open-source AI assistant. He argued that it represents a Satoshi Nakamoto-like turning point: the moment individuals gained the ability to control their own intelligence.


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Good morning, friends!

This week's Financial Freedom Report #113 examines Venezuela's first official inflation reading in more than a year, after the regime halted public reporting and restricted independent estimates.

On the #Bitcoin side, we cover the Blockstream Jade's Lightning Network integration.

Finally, we include an interview with Fedi CEO, Obi Nwosu, who makes clear the importance of financial privacy in the work of dissidents and civil society.

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Good morning, friends!

Financial Freedom Report #112 has just been released.

We begin this week’s edition in Cuba, where personal stories reveal the human toll of currency collapse under the communist regime.

We also bring word from Iran, where millions remain cut off from the outside world as the clerical regime enforces sweeping internet blackouts amid unrest and continued air strikes.

In #Bitcoin news, Bitwise made a $233,000 donation to support open-source Bitcoin development, fulfilling a pledge to allocate 10% of annual profits from its Bitcoin ETF.

We end with a Bitcoin Policy Institute report examining the monetary preferences of advanced AI models.

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Good morning, Nostr!

This week's Financial Freedom Report is now out and covers a nationwide social media ban in Gabon as well as post-hyperinflation tax hikes in Lebanon.

In Freedom Tech, P2P exchange Mostro added a built-in Lightning wallet, and Bitchat shared plans to introduce device-to-device installs, eliminating the need for an internet connection to download the app.

We include an article in which the global humanitarian organization Save the Children shares the inspiration and rationale behind its newly launched #Bitcoin Fund.

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Good afternoon, friends!

This month’s AI for Individual Rights Newsletter #7 is out.

We cover Russia’s push into AI-enhanced internet filtering, Chinese AI models parroting CCP propaganda, and an AI-powered hacking campaign targeting Iranians who documented the regime’s killing of protesters.

On the tools side, we explore how the explosion of AI agents like OpenClaw and developments in new agentic models are refining workflows and accelerating software development.

We also feature the latest episode of Preston Pysh’s Infinite Tech podcast where HRF’s Alex Gladstein and Justin Moon discuss how open-source AI tools like OpenClaw advance individual freedom.

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Good afternoon, readers!

Financial Freedom Report #109 was just published.

It features pressing developments, including India advancing a CBDC pilot to distribute food rations. This comes in addition to coverage on Hong Kong sentencing media tycoon Jimmy Lai to 20 years in prison, and a crackdown on informal currency exchange activity by the military junta in Burma.

In #Bitcoin news, we cover the addition of Silent Payment support, a bitcoin privacy upgrade, in Sparrow and Nunchuck wallet.

We include an interview with Iranian Bitcoin educator, Ziya Sadr, who shares his experience during Iran’s 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom movement and the broader impact of currency collapse and state financial repression.

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Good morning, friends!

This week’s Financial Freedom Report #107 is out.

We cover record bank branch closures in Russia, rising cash surveillance in Thailand, and Malawi’s renwed push toward a CBDC.

On the #Bitcoin side: a new Bitcoin Core maintainer has been named, BitZed is connecting bitcoin to mobile money in Zambia, and we highlight upcoming Cashu improvements.

We also include an essay by economist Tyler Cowen on why a country’s currency can be one of the clearest signals of its political and economic health.

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