Hello and welcome to The Intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

The value of Bitcoin has been rallying again this month, but as ever, it remains volatile.

The cryptocurrency just turned 10 years old, but it's still a long way from upending the financial system.

One problem is that Bitcoin simply wasn't designed as a way to make lots of money.

And this week, the human family tree got a little bigger.

Human evolution is bursting with new finds, as techniques change and remains are discovered far from Africa.

But all this information makes the human story murkier, not clearer.

First up, though. In Sudan yesterday, the defense minister took to state television to inform citizens of some changes.

After almost 30 years of brutal rule, the President Omar al-Bashir was deposed and imprisoned

by his own generals.

The defense minister said a transitional military council would take his place for now.

The coup came after months of demonstrations against the government.

Just Get Out became a unifying slogan for protesters, which included many women, with much to be resentful about.

Underemployment for youth, there is hyperinflation.

On top of that, there was just a very fast deteriorating economic crisis,

but the grievances have been accumulating for many years with a very repressive corrupt regime.

Nahid Tobia is a doctor and civil society activist who's been participating in the demonstrations.

We have over 130 universities in Sudan, so it's bringing out hundreds and thousands of people who have no future.

Yet they have internet, they have mobile phones, and they want freedom, they want better living, they want democracy.

I think that was the fuel of the revolution to start with, and that's what maintained it for four months.

As word of Mr. Bashir's arrest spread through the capital Khartoum, the crowds were jubilant.

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