Oslo Freedom Forum

At the recently concluded Oslo Freedom Forum @OsloFF , Farida Nabourema @Farida_N gave an inspiring speech on her journey as a Togolese activist.

Agora launched at Oslo Freedom Forum. Bitcoin fundraising for human rights defenders. No gatekeepers. No middlemen. Just people helping people. #SendFreedom

During the Freedom Tech track at the 2026 Oslo Freedom Forum, Reyna Chicas, Bitcoin training coordinator at My First Bitcoin, explains why reaching people who have never heard of Bitcoin requires starting from scratch — with the history of money, how fiat works, and what inflation means — because th

For the first time in 18 years, Mohammad Al Abdallah returned to Syria and embraced his father outside the walls of Sednaya prison. At the Oslo Freedom Forum, he reflected on life under the Assad regime and its collapse, the generations shaped by imprisonment and exile, and the long road toward jus

During the Freedom Tech track at the 2026 Oslo Freedom Forum, Femi Longe, global freedom tech lead at HRF, honors the life and legacy of Hadiya Masieh, a dear friend of HRF and a passionate advocate for financial freedom. Through her work with the Groundswell Project, Hadiya supported women recoveri

At the 2026 Oslo Freedom Forum’s Freedom Tech track, Anaïse Kanimba, founder and director of the Africa Bitcoin Institute, warns that stablecoins are becoming a major obstacle to Bitcoin adoption in Africa. Many builders present them as an easy fix for inflation, payments, and dollar access, but she

🇳🇴 I was invited to speak at the Oslo Freedom Forum (@OsloFF) about the Orbán regime and what these past sixteen years were like for a journalist—especially the staggeringly turbulent election campaign. I sat down with outstanding colleagues from Georgia, Iran, and Ukraine to discuss our work insi

The 2026 Oslo Freedom Forum has come to a close, but the impact of our gathering continues to resonate.

One more Oslo Freedom Forum, a lot more lessons learned I'm not sure there is any greater inspiration for building freedom tech than spending most of a week hearing the stories of those actually fighting for freedom every day in their countries. The rare chance to talk to real people, about real n

During the Freedom Tech track at the 2026 Oslo Freedom Forum, @skot9000, a freedom tech engineer and contributor to the Bitaxe project, argues that the future of Bitcoin mining will look nothing like today. The current model, dominated by closed-source and proprietary machines built for on-grid indu