Bota Jardemalie is a bitcoin advocate, lawyer & human rights defender from Kazakhstan, political refugee in Belgium. She has defended activists and torture victims and worked on issues related to Interpol reform, personal sanctions, and the misuse of mutual legal cooperation. Bota has been advocating regulators to address transnational repression, financial exclusion and the abuse of anti-money laundering (AML) and countering the financing of terrorism (CFT) laws. She defends privacy instruments and Bitcoin.