The age of Digital Assets and Digital Intelligence needs a bill of digital rights. My policy prescriptions for prosperity from a fireside chat with @BitcoinConner at @BitcoinPolicy’s Freedom Tech DC summit.

BREAKING: 🇷🇺 Russia’s own version of the Crypto Clarity Act, “Digital Currencies and Digital Rights,” will take effect today. 1. Retail investors can buy up to ₽300,000 ($3,700) of crypto per year through each intermediary after passing a test. 2. Bitcoin, Ethereum and USDT are the only cryptocurrencies retail investors can buy. Qualified investors face no cap. 3. Crypto exchanges must register with the Bank of Russia. 4. Companies can use crypto for cross-border payments without limits. 5. P2P remains legal but will face tighter controls, with stronger AML checks and increased bank monitoring of crypto transactions.

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On Tuesday, I joined @BitcoinConner for a fireside chat at @bitcoinpolicy’s Freedom Tech DC summit to share my policy prescriptions for prosperity in the age of Digital Assets and Digital Intelligence. Individuals and companies need a bill of digital rights, not a bill of restrictions. I believe regulators are better positioned than Congress to advance those rights. 02:24 - Digital assets taxonomy and the path from $3T to $100T 03:03 - Digital tokens, capital formation, and 10 million new companies 05:46 - Digital currency rights: stablecoins, yield, and competition 08:07 - Bitcoin as Digital Capital: bank custody, credit, and fair rules 11:25 - $1.6T of unbanked Bitcoin capital and why bank adoption matters 12:59 - Tokenized securities, self-custody, and competitive credit 15:59 - Clarity as a bill of restrictions vs. a bill of rights 18:43 - The next 24 months: CFTC, SEC, Treasury, and White House leadership 27:14 - AI agents, 24/7 markets, and 20th-century financial rails 32:03 - Why AI agents need pure digital money and digital assets

France had an anti-piracy system called HADOPI to stop people from illegally downloading movies and music, but on April 30, 2026, France’s highest court ruled that the main part of this system is illegal. It broke European rules on privacy and human rights. The system sent warnings to internet users suspected of sharing files, and the court said it did not protect people’s private information well enough. The new agency, called Arcom, can still block big pirate websites, but the warnings and fines for ordinary people are mostly finished. This is a big win for groups that defend digital rights after 17 years of work.

Ep. 270: The fight for privacy and free speech in the surveillance age The early internet opened unprecedented avenues for speech, creativity, and connection without traditional gatekeepers. But it also raised civil liberties questions: Do our offline freedoms exist online? And if so, how far do they extend? Today, those questions are more urgent than ever. Advances in AI have given governments powerful new tools to track, monitor, and analyze our behavior, raising fundamental concerns about the future of free expression in the digital age. Today, @TheFIREorg's @NicoPerrino is joined by Cindy Cohn, the executive director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. She has spent thirty years as a civil liberties attorney specializing in digital rights, which she documents in her newly published memoir Privacy’s Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 05:17 Why write this book now? 09:11 Does privacy make free speech possible? 14:52 Code as speech: Bernstein v. United States 33:34 The Patriot Act and government spying 51:09 National security letters and Section 702 57:57 Who is Tony Coppolino? 01:06:06 Why EFF left X 01:11:05 What’s next for Cindy 01:13:56 Outro