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Check your Financial Priviledge
While those comfortable in the dollar bubble deride Bitcoin, the stories of three emerging market users demonstrate why it is so important.
Bitcoin Is Protecting Human Rights Around the World
“It’s an escape hatch from tyranny,” writes the Human Rights Foundation’s Alex Gladstein. “It’s nothing less than freedom money.”
The Hidden Costs of the Petrodollar
The world’s reserve currency relies on oil, dictators, inequality and the military-industrial complex. But a Bitcoin standard could change this.
Bitcoin is a Trojan Horse for Freedom
While bitcoin is powerful Number Go Up technology that appeals to self interest, it’s also creating fortresses against authority in cyberspace
What is Bitcoin, Really?
Is bitcoin an inflation hedge or a monetary system? Is it both or neither? Human Rights Foundation’s Alex Gladstein and journalist Brett Scott debate what bitcoin is.
Can Governments Stop Bitcoin?
Since its creation more than 12 years ago, Bitcoin is undefeated. Its price has leaped from $5 to $50 to $500 to $5,000 to now past $50,000. The number of global users has eclipsed 100 million. The system’s network security, number of developers, and new applications are at all-time highs. Dozens of companies including Tesla and Square have started toContinue reading “Can Governments Stop Bitcoin?”
In the Fight Against Extremism, Don’t Demonize Surveillance-Busting Tools like Signal and Bitcoin
Secure messaging app Signal is one of the top downloads on Apple Store and Google Play platforms in several countries.
COVID-19 and the Normalization of Mass Surveillance
In the past few months, governments ranging from Australia to the United Kingdom and corporations as influential as Google and Apple have pushed the idea that cellphone tracking can be used to effectively fight COVID-19. There was even an essay here at Quillette, arguing that a mandatory phone tracking app would save lives while also saving jobs as aContinue reading “COVID-19 and the Normalization of Mass Surveillance”
Dictatorships Are Making the Coronavirus Outbreak Worse
China, Iran, North Korea, and other authoritarian regimes have concealed information and exacerbated the spread of the disease.
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