005 - Alex Gladstein - Bitcoin and Human Rights

<p>Alex Gladstein is the Chief Strategy Officer of Human Rights Foundation (#HRF) who believes #Bitcoin "will tear authoritarian countries apart." We speak to him about the intersection of Bitcoin and geopolitics, Human Rights, and what this means for dissidents around the world. </p> <div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"> <div dir="auto">Listen to Gladstein's interview with #Twitter and Square CEO, Jack #Dorsey, about Bitcoin adoption, and a particularly interesting interruption by far-right activist, Laura Loomer, who demands to know how Dorsey can endorse an anti-censorship currency like Bitcoin while taking the throne as "King of Censorship" at Twitter. <a href= "https://hrf.org/alex-gladstein-interviews-square-and-twitter-ceo-jack-dorsey"> https://hrf.org/alex-gladstein-interviews-square-and-twitter-ceo-jack-dorsey</a></div> <div dir="auto"> </div> </div> <div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"> <div dir="auto"><a class= "oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl q66pz984 gpro0wi8 b1v8xokw" tabindex="0" role="link" href= "https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/gladstein?__eep__=6&__cft__[0]=AZVgNYu9mnzoNY2L4pdnkOGxZUej4xqYGEHeV1sS3lFFXzUwlcKEjErIWB3sdepSetlroN5BFh9dfu9PS3PnwNIY7r17--pf5qcDW_jbJhfCSYKFX3TocQvCNphhpEvAPCIvBR88o5zyVrpIIkeNwrqb7yKiE7FjZMuUwkR5L-36FA&__tn__=*NK-R"> #Gladstein</a> makes an interesting case for Bitcoin. In his latest article he writes: "Money and currency are buried beneath the surface in the global human rights movement. They hardly ever come up at human rights conferences, and are rarely discussed among activists. But ask a democracy advocate from an authoritarian regime about money, and they will tell amazing and tragic stories. Demonetization in Eritrea and North Korea, hyperinflation in Zimbabwe and Venezuela, state surveillance in China and Hong Kong, frozen payments in Bel