TheFreeQuaker on Nostr: A Nicaraguan dissident reveals how dictators weaponize financial systems to crush ...

A Nicaraguan dissident reveals how dictators weaponize financial systems to crush dissent—and how tools like Bitcoin offer hope.

"Some of us targeted by authoritarians and committed to transparency and accountability have turned to Bitcoin not to get rich or to push an anarchist love of currency free from state control. Instead, we are simply looking for an answer to the systematic exclusion that we face in repressive states."
~ Félix Maradiaga

https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclusive/how-dictators-use-financial-repression-against-their-opponents/