Cashew CDK Adds FFI Bindings for Mobile Interoperability

They call it “financial inclusion,” but it’s anything but. Whether's it's Vietnam’s mass bank-account purge, India’s new censorship engine, or Lagarde's demands to "accelerate" control before democracy gets in her way, governments are racing to move the world into a monetary dystopia. I break down the latest Financial Freedom Report and explain why this rising wave of surveillance could be the very thing that pushes millions toward Bitcoin.

Check out the original article Financial Freedom Report #91 by HRF (Link: https://hrf.org/latest/financial-freedom-report-91/)

References from the episode

• Paul Stanaland - Why South Asia’s Regimes Keep Falling (Link: https://tinyurl.com/hznk6uza)
• Breeze SDK (Link: https://breez.technology/sdk/)
• Alby Lightning Wallet (Link: https://getalby.com/alby-go)
• Spark (Link: https://www.spark.money/)
• Cashu e-cash developer resources (CDK) (Link: https://github.com/cashubtc/cdk)
• Bitcoin Source podcast with Abu Bakr Nair Khalil (Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8O98rqKX6Y)
• PearDrive Core (Link: https://github.com/peardrive/PearDriveCore)
• PearDrive CLI (Link: https://github.com/peardrive/PearDriveCLI)

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