Publication Jun 4, 2026 How Freedom Tech Is Pushing Back Against Digital Authoritarianism Around the world, governments and corporations are expanding tools of digital control, from facial recognition and biometric surveillance to mandatory digital IDs and debanking.
Publication May 19, 2026 Bitcoin Becomes Lifeline for Activists as HRF Unveils ‘Bitcoin for Nonprofits’ Guide The Human Rights Foundation’s Freedom Tech program released a new playbook for movements that are learning to rely on Bitcoin when hostile governments weaponize banks and payment networks against them.
Video Jan 6, 2026 Bitcoin Protects Human Rights Bitcoin is freedom technology. Alex Gladstein joins the podcast to discuss how the developing world is using the currency of the network to escape the currency of the state.
Publication Oct 28, 2025 Bitcoin Is Freedom Money—Just Ask Nobel Peace Prize Winner When Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, the global media rightly celebrated her courage in confronting dictatorship.
Video Oct 27, 2025 Bitcoin and the End of Financial Repression Alex Gladstein is the Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation and author of Check Your Financial Privilege and Hidden Repression.
Publication Oct 1, 2025 Bitcoin is Freedom Money Authoritarian governments worldwide are increasingly using financial repression to disable their challengers.
Publication Dec 12, 2024 The U.S. Can Support Democracy and Human Rights Through Bitcoin Bitcoin has emerged as a transformative tool in the fight for human rights, financial inclusion, and democracy.
Publication Apr 26, 2024 How to Dictator-Proof Your Money Human-rights activists around the world have a new tool: unstoppable electronic cash.