EP50 - Alex Gladstein Explains Why Bitcoin Matters for Freedom

Alex Gladstein shares the inspiration for his recent book, “Check Your Financial Privilege”, and he explains why Bitcoin matters for freedom. ABOUT ALEX GLADSTEIN: Alex Gladstein is the Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation. Alex’s writings on human rights and technology have appeared in The New York Times, BBC, CNN, NPR, TIME, The Washington Post, WIRED, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, and more. He has spoken at universities from MIT to Stanford, and he has briefed The European Parliament and the US State Department, and serves as faculty at Singularity University and is an advisor to Blockchain Capital, a leading venture firm in the fintech industry., WHERE TO FIND ALEX GLADSTEIN: → Twitter:   / gladstein   → Alex's Book: http://www.CYFP.org → https://hrf.org/ WITHUM SMITH+BROWN SPONSORSHIP: → http://www.withum.com/crypto SHOW NOTES: 00:00:00 – Intro 00:02:37 – Withum Sponsor 00:03:25 – Early years 00:12:11 – Bitcoin Donations for Activists 00:16:46 – 'Check Your Privilege' Book Origin 00:23:24 – How Bitcoin is a Trojan Horse 00:28:39 – Russia Accepting Bitcoin 00:37:33 – Petrodollar 00:43:24 – Bitcoin as The Worlds Reserve Currency 00:45:45 – The End of Super Imperialism 00:47:58 – About CBDC 00:57:38 – Financial Repression WHERE TO FIND JAY GOULD: → Twitter:   / jaygould   → Newsletter: http://letter.jaygould.com → YouTube:    / jaygouldshow   WHERE TO FIND THE JAY GOULD SHOW: → iTunes: https://apple.co/2XDtFqp → Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3ksPgL2 → YouTube: https://bit.ly/2ZkCWV9 → BuzzSpout: https://bit.ly/3nUnqJV