The IMF and World Bank were created to help countries survive financial crises and to help them develop into prosperous economic actors. But their 75-year track record shows the opposite: their loans and structural adjustment policies have plunged poor countries into impossibly large debt traps and forced the Third World to focus on producing goodsContinue reading “Hidden Repression: How the IMF and World Bank Sell Exploitation as Development”
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Currency Of Last Resort
Amid the tragedy of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Bitcoin acts as a humanitarian lifeline. “Do you hear that?” Gleb Naumenko stopped talking and allowed me to hear the air raid sirens going off behind him in the Ukrainian night, deep in the west of the country, near the border with Romania. “I’m supposed to goContinue reading “Currency Of Last Resort”
Can Fedimints Help Bitcoin Scale To The World?
A developer and an entrepreneur hope to bring community-based custody for Bitcoin to billions of people around the world through Fedimints. Thirty three years ago, the computer scientist David Chaum launched e-cash, a new way for people to spend digital dollars without revealing their personal information…
Structural Adjustment: How The IMF And World Bank Repress Poor Countries And Funnel Their Resources To Rich Ones
The IMF and World Bank do not seek to fix poverty, but only to enrich creditor nations. Could Bitcoin create a better global economic system for the developing world?
Bitcoin: A Strategic tool for civil resistance
In this interview, Alex Gladstein joins Fadi El Salameen, Roya Al Mahboob, Meron Estefanos, and Leopoldo Lopez to discuss the importance of bitcoin as a tool to resist tyranny. Bitcoin has revolutionized the way people use, access and save money. Bitcoin’s ability to help freedom fighters resist authoritarian regimes and organize change is one ofContinue reading “Bitcoin: A Strategic tool for civil resistance”
Bitcoin is Freedom with Alex Gladstein, Yan Pritzker, Craig Warmke and Joe Hall
Hosted by Joe Hall, Alex Gladstein delves into the relationship between bitcoin and freedom with Yan Pritzker from Swan and Craig Warmke from the Bitcoin Policy Institute. From the Hard Money Stage at the Pacific Bitcoin Conference. Taken on November 10, 2022.
Bitcoin is Freedom – Bitcoin 2022 Conference
In this interview, Alex Gladstein is joined by Yeonmi Park, Farida Nabourema, and Fadi Elsalameen to discuss the importance of Bitcoin as a tool for the cause of freedom and human rights.
Alex Gladstein: How Bitcoin Protects Human Rights
In this episode, Alex Gladstein, Fadi Elsalameen, Roya Mahboob, and Meron Estefanos talk about the effects of monetary inflation and how Bitcoin protects human rights.
The Struggle for Freedom w/ Leopoldo Lopez, Alex Gladstein
Alex Gladstein masterfully interviews Leopoldo Lopez a candidate for President of Venezuela who was jailed for years in for posing a threat to the current dictator regime that has destroyed the country’s economics and local people’s lives through money printing and how Bitcoin can save Venezuelan’s lives at Bitcoin Amsterdam
Who is Alex Gladstein? Get to Know Bitcoin’s Biggest Voices Promoting BTC as a Tool for Human Rights
Alex was interviewed by Natalie Brunell. In this interview, Alex discusses the importance of Bitcoin as a tool for the cause of human rights. September 3, 2021
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