Bitcoin for Fairness with Anita Posch - WBD545
The Peter McCormack Show
Peter McCormack
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2022
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Anita Posch is a fellow Bitcoin podcaster, author, advocate, and educator. In this interview, we discuss her mission to educate Bitcoin educators in emerging countries, the challenges Africans face using Bitcoin, and the numerous innovative Bitcoin initiatives happening in Africa.
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Bitcoin has a tremendous capacity to help people, particularly those living in emerging economies, but a lot of people associate it directly with scams. A large part of this is due to misreporting within mainstream media. Traditional media outlets have incredible reach but seem to lack the care required to provide authoritative balance.
Last Saturday, The Times printed an article with the headline "How the Bitcoin boom led to 'a giant fleecing of ordinary people'". The article focused on the numerous events in crypto over the past few months that have wiped out retail investors. But, at no point in the article is there any attempt to differentiate Bitcoin from the crypto market.
The Bitcoin community is therefore lucky to have fearless advocates like Anita Posch, pushing back against the mainstream FUD to educate people on the ground level. This is hard, lonely, but vital work, to provide access to uncensorable money to those who need it the most. It is this type of work that has made the growth and adoption of Bitcoin, despite all the obstacles, a silent revolution.
Anita has focused a lot of attention on Africa. She has visited and helped people throughout the continent. Against a backdrop of countries suffering from crippling inflation, corruption and strict currency controls, there are numerous innovative initiatives empowering ordinary people through Bitcoin. These are inspirational stories of normal people doing extraordinary things.
But Anita is one person. She is therefore focused on maximising her impact by educating the educators. To this end, Anita has set up a non-profit initiative, Bitcoin for Fairness. Please give generously. That way you can help Bitcoin's silent revolution to continue.
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| 0:00.0 | In Zimbabwe, for instance, with that high inflation, if you tell them you can't inflate that money, |
| 0:06.0 | you can't make more out of this Bitcoin, you can't censor it, your government can't take it away from you. |
| 0:12.0 | Everybody in this understands immediately. |
| 0:15.0 | Hello there, how are you all? |
| 0:17.0 | Welcome to the What Bitcoin did Top Pass, which is brought to you by Gemini. |
| 0:20.0 | The only place I am using for buying Bitcoin. |
| 0:23.4 | I'm your host Peter McCormack, and today I've got my good friend Annese Kosh back on the show. |
| 0:28.1 | Now I've known Anita for quite some time now, and the work she has been doing for |
| 0:31.4 | Bitcoin is incredible. |
| 0:33.0 | She's been traveling over to Africa and helping spread Bitcoin education and awareness |
| 0:38.0 | and do you know what? She deserves a lot of recognition for this work. |
| 0:40.0 | So while we were in Bedford, I asked the need to come on over and come on the show and run through |
| 0:45.4 | everything she's been doing for the last few months and give us some insight into how |
| 0:49.2 | Bitcoin is being used in Africa. Now, most of work it requires a cost. It's quite expensive |
| 0:54.7 | to get out to Africa and do this. I've made a donation towards it. We're going to |
| 0:58.3 | include the links of that in the show notes. Hopefully some of you out there will be |
| 1:01.8 | able to send her some sats as well. |
| 1:03.7 | If you've got any questions about this show or anything else then feel free to reach out to me. |
| 1:07.7 | My email address is hello at what Bitcoin did. |
| 1:10.3 | com. |
| 1:11.1 | Hello. So we've got a great addition since we last spoke. Well we've never got to do this in person. |
| 1:20.2 | No, never. Which is a point of sadness for me, but a point of happiness today because you know how much I love you, you're one of my favorite people in the whole world. And since we've gone on the road, we've given young Danny over there a microphone. |
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