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Developing Tools for Freedom Fighters

Talkat Bitcoin Amsterdam 2025 · 2025-11-13..11-14· [bitcoin, privacy-and-compliance]
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Privacy tools face legal pressure in Europe while activists need them to survive: the Wasabi company halts operations but an individual Wasabi coinjoin coordinator at coinjoin.nl continues running CoinJoin, Vexl ships a peer-to-peer no-KYC web-of-trust app for local trades, and Bitcoin Design focuses on usable UX for nontechnical freedom fighters. Regulators push chat control, digital IDs and FATF-style rules that would centralize behavioral data; concrete actions urged are to run nodes, host privacy services, and build local web-of-trust trading rails.

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  1. 0:00Privacy Is a Lifeline for Freedom Fighters
  2. 0:55Bitcoin Design, Wasabi, Voxcel
  3. 3:12Privacy Criminalized Even in the West
  4. 4:05Wasabi Wallet: Company Stopped, Individuals Continue
  5. 6:40Activists Under Surveillance
  6. 9:20Vexl: P2P Trading via Web of Trust
  7. 12:30Bitcoin Design: UX for Non-Tech Freedom Fighters
  8. 15:40Regulation Attack on Privacy Tools
  9. 18:50Call to Action: Become Privacy Ambassadors
  10. 21:10Run Nodes, Build Tools, Fight Back
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