Sidekik: A Blockchain Backed App that Intends To End Police Brutality
The Sidekik app, which is accepting bitcoin in its crowdfunding campaign, is intended to bring real-time accountability to law enforcement by streaming video and audio of encounters with police to Maidsafe. The goal is to protect the integrity of evidence. The app, which began its second stage of crowdfunding March 9, will do far more than just video and....
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As End SARS protests against police brutality surge through Nigeria, the Feminist Coalistion has turned to bitcoin as a financial lifeline.
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Aarika Rhodes, U.S. Congressional Candidate for the 32nd District of California, has set a shock wave across the U.S., she runs on a pro-Bitcoin and pro-Universal Basic Income (UBI) platform. She believes in Medicare for All, helping the unhoused, ending police brutality, and making the U.S. a fairer home for its citizens. Aarika has been […]
A Nigerian protest group called Feminist Coalition is asking well-wishers to make donations via bitcoin after authorities reportedly blocked the organization’s bank account. Feminist Coalition is one of the many groups spearheading protests against alleged police brutality by a Nigerian police unit, the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). Before the blockade of the bank account, Feminist Coalition says it had used donations raised through the account to fund 90 protests across the country. By closing the bank account, authorities are attempting to suffocate a movement whose success....