Alex Gladstein

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Chief Strategy Officer: @HRF + @OsloFF. Faculty: @SingularityU. Friend of democracy, civil liberties, Bitcoin. Foe of tyranny and the surveillance state.

By now, you've probably heard the environmentalist knock on bitcoin, including apocalyptic claims that it will use up all of the world's energy and will single-handedly increase global temperatures until the planet is uninhabitable. ------------------ Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.yo
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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?
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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 popula
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The world’s reserve currency relies on oil, dictators, inequality and the military-industrial complex. But a Bitcoin standard could change this.
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A developer and an entrepreneur hope to bring community-based custody for Bitcoin to billions of people around the world through Fedimints.
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#bitcoin #btc #crypto #cryptocurrency #billgates #warrenbuffet #charliemunger #ethiopia #sudan #nigeria #africa (From Youtube)
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SHOW NOTES: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/the-economics-of-war In this interview, I talk to Alex Gladstein, Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation. We discuss how the fiat monetary system has broken democratic peace theory, why MMT enables forever wars, how Bitcoin could red
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While those comfortable in the dollar bubble deride Bitcoin, the stories of three emerging market users demonstrate why it is so important.
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Through increasingly unscrupulous monetary policy, U.S. government officials mask the costs of war from the American public. Bitcoin could fix this.
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The Little Bitcoin Book tells the story of what’s wrong with money today, and why Bitcoin was invented to provide an alternative to the current system. It describes in simple terms what Bitcoin is, how it works, why it’s valuable, and how it affects individual freedom and opportunities of people eve
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Alex Gladstein of HRF rejoins me on the show to chat about: - Attending Africa Bitcoin Conference - How the World Bank and IMF keep poorer countries in a debt trap - The ‘strings’ attached to debt - Odious debt - Cash crops - How does this resolve? - Will Bitcoin help fix this? Links: - Twi
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1/ My essay "Structural Adjustment: How the IMF and World Bank Repress Poor Countries and Funnel Their Resources to Rich Ones" is now live

The Bank and Fund claim to help poor countries develop and rescue them from crises

But what if that's not true?

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