Your financial transactions say a lot about where you’ve been, what you were doing, and what you intended to do — making them a perfect way to surveil you. And cutting off access to your money is one of the best ways to prevent you from doing your work or conducting your life.
These are some of the reasons that Alex Gladstein, chief strategy officer of the Human Rights Foundation and a lecturer at Singularity University, got interested in the use of Bitcoin to help in the fight for human rights.