“Bitcoin Is The Revolution”

Alex Gladstein of the Human Rights Foundation says Bitcoin is the one true tool to fight censorship and oppression by the governemnt:

‘Bitcoin Is the Revolution’: An Interview With Alex Gladstein

Alex Gladstein is Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation, Vice President of Strategy for the Oslo Freedom Forum, and the preeminent advocate for Bitcoin as a tool for human rights activists around the world to fight back against censorship and government oppression. We talked via phone just before he was appearing at a semi-exclusive Cafe Bitcoin Clubhouse with Lightning Network Founder Elizabeth Stark and uber-podcaster Peter McCormack about bringing Bitcoin to billions of people worldwide (that is, not just the billionaires).

Gladstein, who began at HRF in 2007, has described Bitcoin as an “escape hatch from tyranny” and a “Trojan Horse for freedom.” In a recent contribution to Bitcoin Magazine, “Check Your Financial Privilege,” he lambasted the arrogance of wealthy Bitcoin critics who live in liberal democracies and take the stability of reserve currency status for granted.

He introduces readers to a Nigerian entrepreneur, a Sudanese doctor and an Ethiopian businessman, whose stories illuminate the revolutionary impact that a permissionless, borderless, non-discriminatory monetary system could have on the billions who cannot open a savings account, send money abroad or receive payment over the internet.

Full article here: https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-is-the-revolution-alex-gladstein

 

Master Asked on June 24, 2021 in Bitcoin.
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