1/ In authoritarian regimes, financial systems have become instruments of control. Bank accounts are frozen. Donations blocked. Surveillance is constant.

2/ In the latest issue of the @JoDemocracy, HRF’s chief strategy officer, Alex @gladstein, explores how Bitcoin is becoming a lifeline for dissidents, journalists, and human rights defenders from Nigeria to Cuba to Russia.

3/ Read “Why Bitcoin is Freedom Money,” which explores a financial tool that resists censorship and protects the right to fund freedom.