Governments are increasingly recognizing that financial control is invisible control.
Nick Anthony
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Research Fellow at the Cato Institute's Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives and Fellow at the Human Rights Foundation. Covering CBDCs, financial privacy, and cryptocurrency. Opinions are my own.
Authoritarians are using CBDCs—programmable money that can be turned off in an instant. They are amassing vast networks of surveillance. And they are investing more money in control than ever.
A powerful warning at the @HRF Oslo Freedom Forum


A crucial reminder at the @HRF Oslo Freedom Forum.
You can’t just dismantle dictatorships. You have to replace them.


“I used my platform to call out the criminal government,” says Steven Kefas at the @HRF Oslo Freedom Forum.


The @HRF Oslo Freedom Forum opens with a million dollar speaker.
A million dollars because that’s the bounty the government put on her. But in reality, her impact is priceless.


I have to admit. I really didn’t expect the support I’ve gotten for my testimony against the Bank Secrecy Act.
Y’all really know how to make an old man shaking his fist at the clouds feel special.
CBDC sales pitch of the century coming from the Central Bank of Ireland. /s
File under "reinventing the wheel." 

FinCEN is busy telling banks how to comply with the law while it is actively breaking the law. https://www.cato.org/blog/reporting-fincens-suspicious-activity-2026-edition