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Check Your Financial Privilege

Alex Gladstein has a lot to say about Bitcoin, human rights, financial privilege, and personal freedom. In Check Your Financial Privilege, he says it, starting with the fact that anyone born into a reserve currency like the euro, yen, or pound has financial privilege over the 89% of the world population born into weaker systems. In Nigeria,…

Hidden Repression: How the IMF and World Bank Sell Exploitation as Development

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 goods…

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 go…

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…

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 of…

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

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