Alex Gladstein: Bitcoin as a Force for Change – Untold Stories of Human Rights and Energy Innovation
In this episode with Alex Gladstein of the Human Rights Foundation, we discuss:
Untold human rights stories around the world
Why NOT mining Bitcoin is a waste of energy
Will the election impact Bitcoin adoption?
Are we in price discovery and a new Bitcoin bull market?
Bitcoin as a tool of hope
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Bio: Alex Gladstein is Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation, and has served as VP of Strategy for the Oslo Freedom Forum since its inception in 2009. Alex has connected hundreds of dissidents and civil society groups with business leaders, technologists, journalists, philanthropists, policymakers, and artists to promote free and open societies. He has participated in Singularity University events around the world, serving as faculty and lecturing on bitcoin and the future of money. Alex is the author of "Hidden Repression: How the IMF and World Bank Sell Exploitation as Development" and “Check Your Financial Privilege: Inside the Global Bitcoin Revolution,” available at https://alexgladstein.com/home/books/
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🗒️ IN THIS EPISODE:
00:00 What happened at the Global Bitcoin Summit?
5:00 Bitdeer Technologies Group
5:56 Bitcoin in areas of conflict
8:55 Bitcoin's credibility
12:08 Presidential election
16:43 Bitcoin mining and energy use
18:01 Casa, Speed Wallet
18:55 Coinkite, The Bitcoin Way
19:40 Bitcoin's energy use
26:02 Bullish on Bitcoin
30:09 What's happening in West Papua?
34:32 Hope for the future
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