You are absolutely right: if we don’t stop criminalization of #bitcoin #freedomtech in the legislative and judicial approaches of democracies, everyone - developers, bitcoin miners, end-users, investors can be targeted/prosecuted.

The good news, that comparing to the authoritarian regimes in democracies we still have strong instruments how to defend our rights and freedom tools as bitcoin/privacy instruments. 

We need to educate legislators and judges on the concrete examples, for instance: 

1) how bitcoin privacy tools helps to protect human rights to financially excluded people in the authoritarian states, which are majority in the world. 

2) remind that compromising privacy instruments at the time when AI is used by the dictatorships it is a risk for democratic institutions to be manipulated/destroyed. 

We did the same in #Guatemala, defending SimpleProof developer Rafael Cordon, whose bitcoin solution helped to protect elections results against AI fraud. 
Corrupt regime persecuted Rafael, but we organized campaign to support him, and just one example, that his case was supported by many of deputies. At the end joint pressure help to defend Rafael. So all possible, but we should educate and build our coalition, orange-pill deputies and judges, not just complain. 

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