BREAKDOWN: Alex Gladstein on Why Human Rights Activists Don’t Care About the Price of Bitcoin
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🗓️ 28 June 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
A discussion with the chief strategy officer of the Human Rights Foundation.
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NLW is joined today by Alex Gladstein, chief strategy officer of the Human Rights Foundation. They discuss the Oslo Freedom Forum, the human rights use case for Bitcoin and what Alex is excited about heading into the bear market.
Find out guest on Twitter: @gladstein
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| 0:00.0 | Morally speaking, doesn't it make sense that everybody should have access to the best fiat if we're |
| 0:04.0 | going to be in the fiat standard? Like, why should you have to use some crappy fiat that your government |
| 0:08.2 | produces that goes to zero and that is extremely hard to use abroad? Tether, USDC, they make this |
| 0:13.8 | possible. Like, there are people in Lebanon who are taking cash that they've earned in their |
| 0:17.5 | collapsing currency and they go to a broker, and they give the cash to the broker, |
| 0:21.2 | and they receive tether on their phone, |
| 0:22.7 | and they have U.S. dollars. |
| 0:24.0 | There's no other way for them to get U.S. dollars. |
| 0:26.0 | Same thing in Iran, Venezuela, Turkey, Argentina. |
| 0:28.7 | Like, this is a global, global phenomenon. |
| 0:31.9 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:36.1 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts |
| 0:40.1 | remaking our world. The breakdown is sponsored by nexo.io, near NFTX, and produced and distributed by |
| 0:47.1 | CoinDesk. What's going on, guys? It is Tuesday, June 28th, and today I am thrilled to be joined once again |
| 0:55.8 | by Alex Gladstein. Before we dive into this conversation, one quick housekeeping note. |
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