The @HRF just announced 10 new grants from its AI for Individual Rights Fund, and some of these projects are exactly what the intersection of Bitcoin, AI, and freedom tech should look like. The Ark: An AI assistant in East Africa where users pay per query with bitcoin over Lightning. No credit cards, no Western bank accounts, no subscriptions. Just sats for service. Freedom Skills: A repository of pre-written code that teaches AI agents to use Bitcoin for uncensorable payments and Nostr for censorship-resistant communication. Giving dissidents agents that can transact and coordinate without centralized services. Open Anonymity Project: A VPN for AI inference. Users can query ChatGPT or Claude anonymously so authoritarian regimes can't compel providers to hand over their data. 0xSero: Compressing state-of-the-art LLMs to run locally on laptops and phones. Private, offline AI for people living under surveillance states. Maple AI: End-to-end encrypted AI assistant. No data stored, no data exposed. The Human Rights Foundation is supporting AI for sovereignty instead of surveillance. See the full list here: hrf.org/latest/hrfs-ai-fund-…

🚨@HRF’s Bitcoin Development Fund is pleased to announce grants of 1.5 billion satoshis in support of 26 projects worldwide These initiatives support #Bitcoin development, education, privacy, self-custody & freedom tech to advance civil liberties & challenge authoritarianism xitter.cf/femilonge/status/20393…