Welcome to the what bit coin did podcast.

Hi there, how are you all?

Are you all having a great week?

I'm definitely having an interesting week.

Welcome to the what Bitcoin did podcast,

where you get here from the best mines in Bitcoin and crypto.

I'm your host Peter McCormack, and today I have a really important interview

with Alex Gurdstein, chief strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation.

But first, I do have a message from my show sponsors.

And please, don't just skip these ads.

The advertisers pay for me to keep doing this.

So if you like the show, you can support it by listening to the ads and maybe even checking out what these people do.

So first up, let's talk about BlockFi.

Regular listeners will know about them, as they have been a long-term sponsor of the podcast,

and they had a huge announcement this week. They announced that they

have raised an additional four million dollars in funding which will be used to

expand the team and launch exciting new products including a crypto savings

account where users can earn interest which is pretty cool and they will also have

crypto backed credit cards their primary business the one that I've been talking about on the

podcast is their crypto backed loans but not everyone needs a loan right now

yet they're doing such interesting things I think they're worth a follow I think it's

worth signing up to their newsletter and keeping an eye on all the new and

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