Blog Post Nov 21, 2024 HRF’s Weekly Financial Freedom Report #50 This week, we celebrate a special milestone: the 50th edition of our newsletter and the 1-year anniversary of the Financial Freedom Report.
Press Release Jun 5, 2024 HRF Bitcoin Development Fund Grants One Billion Satoshis to 13 Projects Worldwide The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) is pleased to announce 1 billion satoshis of gifts from its Bitcoin Development Fund.
Publication Apr 26, 2024 How to Dictator-Proof Your Money Human-rights activists around the world have a new tool: unstoppable electronic cash.
Announcement Mar 28, 2024 HRF Launches Webinar to Help Nonprofits Integrate Bitcoin The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) is delighted to announce a free quarterly webinar to teach nonprofits, particularly human rights organizations, how to integrate Bitcoin into their work to challenge state censorship and confiscation.
Publication Mar 17, 2024 Empowering Human Rights Through Bitcoin And Open Source Software To many, bitcoin is simply a deflationary store of value, an investment, or a “digital gold.”
Publication Jan 24, 2024 STRANDED: HOW BITCOIN IS SAVING WASTED ENERGY AND EXPANDING FINANCIAL FREEDOM IN AFRICA Hundreds of millions of Africans face two problems holding them back from progress: 600 million lack electricity, while virtually all 1.4 billion people on the continent lack high-quality currency.
Publication Jun 7, 2022 Human rights advocates tell Congress bitcoin is essential in countries with ‘collapsing’ currencies A week after prominent technologists publicly slammed crypto for being too risky and unproven in a letter to Congress, human rights advocates from around the world have sent a rebuttal to U.S. lawmakers defending digital assets for the access they provide to people in countries where “local currencies are collapsing, broken, or cut off from the outside world.”
Publication Feb 25, 2022 Ukraine’s Defense—and Hacktivists—Have Raised Over $4M in Cryptocurrency Cryptocurrency may never have fulfilled its promise as the quotidian currency for buying a cup of coffee.
Publication Feb 21, 2021 Can Governments Stop Bitcoin? The reality is Bitcoin is a political project that threatens to fundamentally disrupt the Davos-led economic system, with everyone from Janet Yellen to Christine Lagarde expressing fear about its rise and demanding it be regulated.
Publication Feb 5, 2021 Bitcoin Is Protecting Human Rights Around the World Bitcoin has won over some of America’s best-known billionaires, and institutions worldwide are treating it as a serious financial asset. But bitcoin’s rising price is only one part of the story.
Publication May 23, 2019 Bitcoin could change the game for foreign aid Today’s humanitarian aid model is fundamentally broken. Whether you’re a foundation making a donation to a nonprofit abroad, a government distributing aid to another government, or an individual sending emergency funds to family members across borders, your money only gets to where it needs to go after passing through intermediaries.
Publication Nov 28, 2018 Why Bitcoin Matters for Freedom In the border city of Cúcuta, Venezuelan refugees stream into Colombia, searching for food to feed their families. Years of high inflation, projected to top 1 million percent, has turned bolivares into scrap paper.
