A Human Rights Activist Explains Why Bitcoin Is So Important to His Work
Odd Lots
Bloomberg
4.5 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2019
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
When people think about Bitcoin, they often think about neo-goldbugs who hate inflation and the Federal Reserve. But beyond the financial case for it, there's a moral, human rights case as well. On this week's podcast, we talk with Alex Gladstein, the Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation. He explains why he sees Bitcoin as an essential tool in his fight for human rights all around the world.
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| 0:45.0 | I'm Tracy Allaway. |
| 0:49.0 | Tracy, I don't want you to take this the wrong way. Tracy, I don't want you to take this the wrong way but |
| 0:58.0 | No I know but I kind of feel like of the two of us |
| 1:04.8 | You kind of are a little have try to think how to phrase this in a polite way, you have like a little bit more like, |
| 1:06.7 | no, no, it's not that bad, |
| 1:08.0 | but you have like a little bit more like sort of a crankish |
| 1:11.8 | conspiracy theory-minded sympathy. |
| 1:15.0 | A little bit. |
| 1:17.0 | No, no. |
| 1:18.0 | A little bit. |
| 1:19.0 | Don't you think? |
| 1:20.0 | No, the problem is I'm surrounded by conspiracy theorists and I like to be fully informed, so I listen to what they have to say. That's it. I'm a depository for conspiracy theory. But like you kind of like aren't to gold and silver and you kind of hate the fed a little bit and you kind of believe that there's bubbles everywhere. Just a little bit. I'm not saying like full on, but you're like sort of like, |
| 1:45.8 | you're like kind of curious, like you're open to it, right? |
| 1:49.8 | This is like scandalously libelous. I don't like gold or silver. I keep getting given it for my |
| 1:57.2 | birthday and I end up with it. I think the Fed's done a reasonably good job, |
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