Lyudmyla Kozlovska: Financial Surveillance & Censorship, Bitcoin For Human Rights, Defending Proof of Work Against Ban

Feb 28, 2024

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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