In this panel, recorded at the Oslo Freedom Forum 2019, I moderated what an attendee described as a “lively” discussion on the relationship between finances and freedom with Bitcoin author and educator Jimmy Song; Alena Vranova, Head of Strategy at Casa; and Coin Center founder Jerry Brito. We talked about what it’s like to live under a regime where people don’t have a lot of financial freedom, how the move to a cashless society is leading to a surveillance state, and how we’re seeing the emergence of a corporate surveillance state. We talked about how cryptocurrency could bring us more financial freedom, how crypto is/should be regulated, privacy coins and the imminent Financial Action Task Forces rules that require crypto exchanges and other services send each other information on customers for each transaction. Plus, we discuss bad state actors using crypto.
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Episode links:
Oslo Freedom Forum: https://oslofreedomforum.com
Human Rights Foundation: https://hrf.org
Jimmy Song: https://twitter.com/jimmysong
Alena Vranova: https://twitter.com/AlenaSatoshi
Jerry Brito: https://twitter.com/jerrybrito
Programming Blockchain: https://programmingblockchain.com
Casa: https://keys.casa
Coin Center: https://coincenter.org
Jerry’s case for electronic cash: https://coincenter.org/entry/the-case-for-electronic-cash
