BREAKDOWN: Cellphones, Bitcoin and the Citizen Tools of Anti-Authoritarianism, Feat. Alex Gladstein
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
A conversation with the outspoken pro-bitcoin, anti-surveillance human rights advocate and global power expert.
This episode is sponsored by Bitstamp and Ciphertrace.
Alex Gladstein is the chief strategy officer of the Human Rights Foundation. He is a powerful voice for the role of bitcoin in combating authoritarianism around the globe.
In today's episode, he and NLW discuss:
- What the protests tell us about the state of democracy in the U.S.
- The potential impact of protests and COVID-19 on surveillance norms
- The potential for a "biological Patriot Act"
- The implications of China's push to absorb Hong Kong
- The relevance or irrelevance of China's digital currency
- The role of bitcoin in promoting freedom
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| 1:12.2 | And now, here's your host, NLW. |
| 1:17.7 | Welcome back to The Breakdown. |
| 1:19.6 | It is Tuesday, June 2nd. |
| 1:21.0 | And today, my guest is Alex Gladstein. |
| 1:24.9 | Alex is the chief strategy officer of the Human Rights Foundation, which is a |
| 1:29.4 | nonprofit dedicated to building or enabling or encouraging more free, open, and flourishing |
| 1:35.8 | societies and combating authoritarianism around the world. Alex's perspective and experience is |
| 1:42.7 | obviously hugely contextual today in a world where we're |
| 1:46.9 | dealing at home in the U.S. with these protests and trying to piece out what a successful |
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