One month ago, Harshvardhan (“Hash”), an alumni of the MIT Bitcoin Club and an organizer for the MIT Freedom Tech Expo, told me in an interview about how a friend of his who is a social worker in Nepa...

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<p>One month ago, Harshvardhan (“Hash”), an alumni of the MIT Bitcoin Club and an organizer for the MIT Freedom Tech Expo, told me in an interview about how a friend of his who is a social worker in Nepal and who was on the ground during the recent protests in the country <em>doesn’t</em> like Bitcoin.</p>
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<p>“There’s a lot of people with left-leaning ideology who still think bitcoin is a capitalistic tool, and they’re not very comfortable with it yet,” explained Hash.</p>
<p>I’ve been thinking a lot about this point he made since we spoke.</p>
<p>As someone who was formerly more politically Liberal, I still have a lot of friends and acquaintances who seemingly shudder at the mere thought of my writing about Bitcoin for a living. I get the feeling that they think I’ve become some right-wing fanatic who only cares about money.</p>
<p>I can see why they might think that (despite it not being true). In the U.S., Bitcoin has very much become synonymous with the Trump administration and most of what the average person sees about it in the mainstream media is reporting on its price going up or down.</p>
<p>Put another way, if you’re not intentionally searching for stories about how Bitcoin facilitates financial inclusion, the freedom to transact, and protection from inflation/currency debasement, then you aren’t likely to find them, which means that the average person hardly — if ever — gets exposure to the human rights side of the Bitcoin story.</p>
<p>And so if you’re looking for some examples or thoughts to share with friends of yours who may be on the political left and don’t like Bitcoin as a result, I’ve included a few below:</p>
<h2>Financial Inclusion</h2>
<p>One of the most powerful stories of Bitcoin enabling financial inclusion is the story playing out in the informal settlement (i.e., slum) of Kenya’s Kibera right now.</p>
<p>Kibera is the largest informal settlement in Africa, and thanks to the hands-on work that Afribit Kibera is doing to educate members of the Kibera community about how to use Bitcoin, more and more of Kenya’s poorest and most financially vulnerable have been brought into the digital economy and are saving for the first time in their lives.</p>
<p>The story of the work Afribit Kibera is doing was highlighted in a recent segment by the BBC:</p>
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<p>One of the points not mentioned in this segment, though, is that many of the residents of Kibera are refugees from other African nations and are currently ineligible for a national ID.</p>
<p>Without a national ID, these residents cannot use M-Pesa, a digital payments system that’s ubiquitous in Kenya.</p>
<p>However, with a Bitcoin Lightning wallet and Tando, a homegrown Kenyan app that enables payment in bitcoin and settlement in Kenyan shillings, these members of the community can take part in the digital economy, as neither require Know Your Customer (KYC) checks. (Yes, I know, some custodial Lightning wallets require varying degrees of KYC, but noncustodial Lightning wallets don’t.)</p>
<h2>Freedom to Transact</h2>
<p>Most of us in the West take for granted our freedom to transact over digital payment rails like PayPal, CashApp, or Revolut, which means we haven’t had much reason to think about how devastating it would be if our accounts via those services, or our bank accounts, were frozen or shut down.</p>
<p>However, activists and dissidents around the world, especially those living under authoritarian regimes, see their accounts closed often when they speak out against the powers that be. Debanking people or organizations that challenge the power of authoritarian rulers has become one of the first moves in the dictator’s playbook.</p>
<p>One of the most flagrant cases of this is when the Putin regime shut down the bank accounts of opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation.</p>
<p>With that said, we also saw a wave of debanking in the United States under the Biden administration. During Operation Choke Point 2.0, the Biden administration debanked a number of Bitcoin and crypto companies, seemingly for no reason other than that they were politically out of favor.</p>
<p>This proves that, while the banking system and fintech companies are technically still private institutions, it only takes a certain amount of pressure from the powers that be — even democratically-elected officials — to stop people and companies from being able to transact.</p>
<p>In her book <em>Broken Money</em>, Lyn Alden highlights the importance of bitcoin as it pertains to this issue.</p>
<p>She states that “self-custodial financial services force governments to actually charge people with a crime before they can use pressure to freeze their accounts.”</p>
<p>Alden added that Bitcoin is bigger than political ideology in this regard.</p>
<p>“[Bitcoin] is not a ‘right or left’ issue, because one merely needs to imagine their least-favorite politician winning the next election, or two or three elections from now,” she wrote.</p>
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<em>Lyn Alden’s </em>Broken Money<em>: A very important read no matter which side of the political divide you’re on.</em>
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<h2>Freedom from Inflation</h2>
<p>Many who are unfamiliar with Bitcoin, don’t understand the significance of its capped supply (There will only ever be 21 million bitcoin).</p>
<p>A perfectly finite supply of money contrasts starkly with fiat currencies, which have no supply cap. Fiat currencies can be printed to no end, which devalues the time and labor of the users of these currencies.</p>
<p>Those of us living in the United States have felt the pain of this currency debasement, as inflation levels have been notably high here. However, it’s important to note that the U.S. dollar is essentially the prettiest pig in the pen when it comes to fiat currencies.</p>
<p>Most other currencies are being debased at a more alarming rate, with the most severe instances of this being what has happened in countries such as Venezuela, Lebanon, Argentina, and Turkey.</p>
<p>This is why when Sabina Waithira, one of the co-founders of the aforementioned Tando, teaches university students in Kenya about bitcoin, she highlights that it offers freedom from inflation. </p>
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<p>Last week at the University of Nairobi, Chiromo campus, we spoke with computer science students about how Bitcoin offers true freedom. Freedom from inflation, freedom form high fees, and an open financial system for all. At Tando, we’ve made it possible to hold that freedom in… pic.twitter.com/B09YpK1GWT</p>
— Tando (@tando_me) April 21, 2025</blockquote>
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<p>This sort of freedom is particularly important in a country with a currency that has been inflating at levels as high as 14% annually since the mid-2000s.</p>
<h2>Bitcoin Is Politically Neutral</h2>
<p>Since Bitcoin is an open protocol and isn’t governed by one person or institution, it isn’t inherently political.</p>
<p>Sure, the Trump administration has taken a pro-Bitcoin stance, which may be offputting to those on the political left, but that doesn’t mean Bitcoin doesn’t facilitate notions like financial inclusion, an issue that Liberal politicians tend to support.</p>
<p>So, if your politics are more aligned with Liberal ideology, be sure to check out the work of The Progressive Bitcoiner nonprofit as well as Jason Maier’s <em>A Progressive’s Case for Bitcoin</em>.</p>
<p>And if you find yourself politically homeless but still a proponent for human rights as they’re enabled by Bitcoin, be sure to learn more about what the Human Rights Foundation is doing via its Financial Freedom division and subscribe to its Financial Freedom newsletter.</p>
<p>Bitcoin is a tool for all human beings — those across the spectrum of the political right and left — and it’s high time that this message becomes more widespread.</p>
<p>This post Bitcoin Transcends the Left-Right Political Divide — It’s a Tool for Human Rights first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Frank Corva.</p>

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Bitcoin Transcends the Left-Right Political Divide — It’s a Tool for Human Rights

一个月前，麻省理工学院比特币俱乐部的校友、麻省理工学院自由科技博览会的组织者 Harshvardhan（“Hash”）在一次采访中告诉我，他的一位在尼泊尔担任社会工作者的朋友……

<div><div><p/><p>一个月前，麻省理工学院比特币俱乐部的校友、麻省理工学院自由科技博览会的组织者 Harshvardhan（“Hash”）在一次采访中告诉我，他的一位朋友<em>不</em>喜欢比特币。这位朋友是尼泊尔的一名社会工作者，最近在尼泊尔发生了抗议活动。</p><adv/><adv/><div><div><div><iframe/></div></div></div><p>哈希解释道：“许多具有左翼思想的人仍然认为比特币是一种资本主义工具，他们对此还不是很满意。”</p><p>自从我们交谈以来，我一直在思考他提出的这一点。</p><p>作为一个曾经在政治上更倾向于自由主义的人，我仍然有很多朋友和熟人，一想到我靠写比特币文章谋生，就感到不寒而栗。我感觉他们觉得我变成了一个只关心金钱的右翼狂热分子。</p><p>我理解他们为什么会这么想（尽管事实并非如此）。在美国，比特币几乎成了特朗普政府的代名词，普通民众在主流媒体上看到的关于比特币的报道大多是其价格的涨跌。</p><p>换句话说，如果你不刻意寻找有关比特币如何促进金融包容性、交易自由以及如何防止通货膨胀/货币贬值的故事，那么你就不可能找到它们，这意味着普通人几乎（如果有的话）不会接触到比特币故事的人权方面。</p><p>因此，如果您正在寻找一些例子或想法与可能属于政治左派并因此不喜欢比特币的朋友分享，我在下面列出了一些：</p><h2>金融包容性</h2><p>比特币实现金融包容性的最有力的故事之一就是目前在肯尼亚基贝拉非正规住区（即贫民窟）上演的故事。</p><p>基贝拉是非洲最大的非正式定居点，由于 Afribit Kibera 为教育基贝拉社区成员如何使用比特币所做的实际工作，越来越多肯尼亚最贫困和最经济脆弱的人们已经融入数字经济，并且有生以来第一次开始储蓄。</p><p>英国广播公司 (BBC) 最近在一期节目中重点介绍了 Afribit Kibera 所开展的工作：</p><div><div><div><iframe/></div></div></div><p>然而，本部分没有提到的一点是，基贝拉的许多居民都是来自其他非洲国家的难民，目前没有资格获得国民身份证。</p><p>由于没有国民身份证，这些居民无法使用肯尼亚普遍使用的数字支付系统 M-Pesa。</p><p>然而，有了比特币闪电钱包和 Tando（一款支持比特币支付和肯尼亚先令结算的肯尼亚本土应用），这些社区成员就可以参与数字经济，因为两者都不需要“了解你的客户”（KYC）审核。（是的，我知道，一些托管式闪电钱包需要不同程度的 KYC，但非托管式闪电钱包不需要。）</p><h2>交易自由</h2><p>我们西方大多数人认为通过 PayPal、CashApp 或 Revolut 等数字支付渠道进行交易的自由是理所当然的，这意味着我们没有太多理由去考虑如果我们通过这些服务开设的账户或我们的银行账户被冻结或关闭，将会带来多么严重的破坏。</p><p>然而，世界各地的活动人士和异见人士，尤其是那些生活在独裁政权下的人士，在公开反对当权者时，他们的账户常常被关闭。切断那些挑战独裁统治者权力的个人或组织的银行账户，已经成为独裁者手中的首要手段之一。</p><p>其中最令人发指的案例之一是普京政权关闭了反对派领导人阿列克谢·纳瓦尔尼的反腐败基金会的银行账户。</p><p>话虽如此，我们也看到了拜登政府执政期间美国掀起了一波“去银行化”浪潮。在“扼杀点行动2.0”期间，拜登政府关闭了多家比特币和加密货币公司的银行账户，似乎除了政治上不受青睐之外没有任何理由。</p><p>这证明，虽然银行系统和金融科技公司在技术上仍然是私人机构，但只要当权者（甚至是民选官员）施加一定压力，就能阻止个人和公司进行交易。</p><p>在她的书<em>《破碎的金钱</em>》中，Lyn Alden 强调了比特币在这个问题上的重要性。</p><p>她表示，“自我托管金融服务迫使政府在施加压力冻结人们的账户之前，必须真正指控他们犯罪。”</p><p>奥尔登补充说，在这方面，比特币比政治意识形态更重要。</p><p>她写道：“（比特币）不是一个‘左右’问题，因为人们只需要想象他们最不喜欢的政治家赢得下次选举，或者从现在起的两三次选举。” </p><div><img src="https://cnews24.ru/uploads/d5b/d5b465f2db46e19e52fb3164b8fd3efedd192dfe.jpg"/><div><em>林恩·奥尔登 (Lyn Alden) 的</em>《破碎的金钱<em>》：无论你站在政治立场的哪一边，这都是一本非常重要的读物。</em></div></div><h2>摆脱通货膨胀</h2><p>许多不熟悉比特币的人不了解其供应上限的意义（比特币的数量永远只有 2100 万）。</p><p>货币供应量完全有限，这与没有供应上限的法定货币形成了鲜明对比。法定货币可以无限印制，这会导致其使用者的时间和劳动价值贬值。</p><p>我们这些生活在美国的人都感受到了货币贬值的痛苦，因为这里的通货膨胀率一直很高。然而，值得注意的是，在法定货币中，美元本质上是猪圈里最漂亮的猪。</p><p>大多数其他货币正在以更惊人的速度贬值，其中最严重的例子是委内瑞拉、黎巴嫩、阿根廷和土耳其等国家。</p><p>这就是为什么当上述 Tando 联合创始人之一 Sabina Waithira 向肯尼亚大学生讲授比特币时，她强调比特币可以免于通货膨胀。</p><div><div><blockquote><p>上周，在内罗毕大学奇罗莫校区，我们与计算机科学专业的学生探讨了比特币如何带来真正的自由。它能免于通货膨胀，免于高额手续费，并为所有人提供一个开放的金融体系。在Tando，我们让这种自由成为可能……pic.twitter.com/B09YpK1GWT</p> — Tando (@tando_me) 2025 年 4 月 21 日</blockquote></div></div><p>对于一个货币自 2000 年代中期以来年通货膨胀率高达 14% 的国家来说，这种自由尤为重要。</p><h2>比特币在政治上是中立的</h2><p>由于比特币是一种开放协议，不受个人或机构的管理，因此它本质上不具有政治性。</p><p>当然，特朗普政府采取了支持比特币的立场，这可能会让左翼政治人士感到不快，但这并不意味着比特币不会促进金融包容性等概念，而自由派政客倾向于支持这一问题。</p><p>因此，如果您的政治观点更符合自由主义意识形态，请务必查看非营利组织“进步比特币者”的作品以及 Jason Maier 的<em>《进步比特币案例》</em> 。</p><p>如果您发现自己在政治上无家可归，但仍然是比特币所赋予的人权的支持者，请务必通过其金融自由部门了解人权基金会正在做的事情，并订阅其金融自由通讯。</p><p>比特币是全人类的工具——无论政治立场是左派还是右派——现在是时候让这一信息得到更广泛的传播了。</p><p>这篇文章《比特币超越左右政治分歧——它是人权的工具》首次出现在《比特币杂志》上，作者是弗兰克·科瓦 (Frank Corva)。</p></div></div>

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