Among the signatories of the letter to the U.S. Congress are Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez and Mexican Senator Indira Kempis.
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- 21 spokespersons sent pro-cryptocurrency letter to the U.S. Congress
- The card defines a Bitcoin the biggest and most popular cryptocurrency in the world. It is a decentralized digital currency that enables users to make trustless peer-to-peer transactions. as an example of “financial freedom
- Leopoldo López and Indira Kempis are among the signatories.
En medio de la crisis del mercado de las criptomonedas, las medidas tomadas en algunos países y bills looming in the United States a diverse group that includes advocates, political leaders, officials and representatives of the international crypto community sentuna carta al Congreso de Estados Unidos para defender las criptomonedas y elogiar su papel en la sociedad actual.
The letter is addressed to members of the Senate, the House of Representatives, the Senate Agriculture Committee, the Senate Banking Committee, the Finance Committee and the Financial Services Committee. It is signed by 21 representatives of institutions or individuals from countries as diverse as Norway, Russia, Mexico, Venezuela, Cuba, the United States, Togo, Zimbabwe, Afghanistan, Ukraine, among others. In addition, the institutions that some represent are related to crypto, but others to feminist, human rights and anti-corruption movements.
Lo interesante es que uno de los firmantes es uno de los principales líderes opositores venezolanos, Leopoldo López, exiliado en España, y que no había manifestado su interés por las cripto. Además está la senadora mexicana Indira Kempis, quien ha abogado porque Bitcoin sea moneda de curso legal en México. Por Cuba están José Nieves y Ricardo Herrera. Estos serían los cuatro firmantes latinoamericanos.
What the letter says
We share some excerpts from the letter, which begins as follows:
“Somos 21 defensores de los derechos humanos de 20 países de todo el mundo que nos hemos dedicado a la lucha por la libertad y la democracia. En esta lucha, nos hemos basado en Bitcoin y los instrumentos en dólares conocidos como monedas estables, al igual que decenas de millones de personas que viven bajo regímenes autoritarios o economías inestables.
Bitcoin provides financial inclusion and empowerment because it’s open and permissionless often used to describe blockchains, a system is said to be permissionless when there is no entity that can regulate who can use it and how it can be used. . Anyone on earth can use it. Bitcoin and stable currencies offer unprecedented access to the global economy for people in countries like Nigeria, Turkey or Argentina, where local currencies are collapsing, breaking in the world of cryptocurrencies, breaking the forward compatibility of cryptoassets is seen in hard forks of a cryptocurrency. down or cut off from the outside world.
We write to urge an empathetic and open-minded approach to the monetary tools that play an increasingly important role in the lives of people facing political repression and economic hardship. We are not industry funders or professional lobbyists, but humanitarian and democratic advocates who have used Bitcoin to help people at risk when other options have failed.”
A letter against
It alludes to a card prior sent to Congress last week by an anti-crypto group:
“Recently received a different letter from a group of critics who claim that cryptocurrency cryptocurrencies are digital currencies that use cryptographic technologies to secure their operation. is “unproven” and is a solution “in search of problems.” Our problems are real and the proof is in our stories and work.
We can personally attest, as can the accompanying reports from the world’s major media outlets, that when currency currency is a medium of exchange that defines value. catastrophes struck Cuba, Afghanistan and Venezuela, Bitcoin gave refuge to our compatriots. When civil liberties were suppressed in Nigeria, Belarus and Hong Kong, Bitcoin helped keep the fight against authoritarianism afloat. After Russia invaded Ukraine, these technologies (which critics say are “not purpose-built”) played a role in sustaining democratic resistance, especially in the early days when legacy financial systems failed.”
Authors from first world countries
They emphatically expressed that the letter against Bitcoin was signed by representatives of first world countries with stable economies and political situations, but does not reflect the majority of countries:
”A diferencia de la mayoría de los ciudadanos del planeta, casi todos los autores de la carta anticriptomonedas provienen de países con monedas estables, libertad de expresión y fuertes derechos de propiedad. Lo más probable es que los usuarios de dólares y euros no hayan experimentado una devaluación extrema de la moneda o el frío control de la dictadura. Para la mayoría en Occidente, los horrores del colonialismo monetario, la política financiera misógina, las cuentas bancarias congeladas, las compañías de remesas explotadoras y la incapacidad de conectarse con la economía global pueden ser ideas lejanas. Para la mayoría de nosotros y nuestras comunidades, y para la mayoría de las personas en todo el mundo, son realidades diarias. Si hubiera “soluciones mucho mejores ya en uso” para superar estos desafíos, lo sabríamos”.
Bitcoin empodera
The advocacy group Bitcoin he goes on to say in the letter:
“We do not claim that Bitcoin and stable coins solve all problems, or that they are completely positive or risk-free. But in contrast to the claims made by the authors of the anti-crypto letter, ample evidence suggests that Bitcoin has empowered and will continue to empower Americans and citizens of the world for the next decade, and that, together with stable currencies, this open and decentralized decentralization refers to the property of a system in which nodes or actors work in concert in a distributed fashion to achieve a common goal. monetary network a network refers to all nodes in the operation of a blockchain at any given moment in time. will help challenge tyranny and strengthen democratic movements abroad.
La mayoría de nosotros soñamos con que nuestros conciudadanos puedan tener acceso a los sistemas del dólar o del euro. Pero ellos no. Puede que Bitcoin no sea nuestro plan A, pero en medio de las fallas de los sistemas financieros heredados, es un plan B valioso como puente hacia la economía global y como contraparte del modelo de vigilancia y control del Partido Comunista Chino. Afirmar que el valor práctico y el potencial futuro de las criptomonedas “no existe” niega la experiencia vivida por millones de personas como nosotros y nuestros colegas que han dependido de Bitcoin y las monedas estables en tiempos de crisis y autocracia”.
Call for more research
The signatories, finally, ask congressmen to investigate before making decisions:
“Recomendamos enfáticamente que los comités abordados en este documento investiguen y exploren el valor global de estas tecnologías, sus beneficios empíricamente probados para millones de personas y su potencial. Sin duda, la industria de las criptomonedas está plagada de estafas, pero la solución no es combinar instrumentos fintech realmente útiles con esquemas criptográficos dañinos. En cambio, es para enseñar a las personas cómo notar la diferencia. Es muy fácil distinguir Bitcoin y las monedas estables más grandes, que constituyen la gran mayoría del volumen diario de criptomonedas y la capitalización total del mercado global, como tecnologías valiosas que tienen un impacto en todo el mundo. Esperamos que usted y sus colegas no elaboren o implementen políticas que perjudiquen nuestra capacidad de utilizar estas nuevas tecnologías en nuestro trabajo humanitario y de derechos humanos.
Just as some of us have acted to defend the open web in the past, today we defend an open monetary system. Until now, many of us have been forced to hold broken currencies as our rulers prevented us from accessing dollars. We have paid the price of exorbitant international money transfers. We have seen how our dictatorial leaders from Beijing to Moscow tried to ban Bitcoin. We hope you choose a different political path, one that allows us to save, connect and gain freedom. “.
Sources: Letter in favor of Bitcoin , Bitcoin contra card , archivo
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