BTC071: How Fiat Blinds Bitcoin's Importance w/ Alex Gladstein (Bitcoin Podcast)

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Stig Brodersen

Education, Investing, Business

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🗓️ 30 March 2022

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN:

12:30 - Recently the Senate is directing the State Department to investigate the economic impact Bitcoin is having on El Salvador - what is going on here?
34:09 - What interview was the most memorable for Alex's new book?
35:10 - Alex's thoughts on how financial privilege blinds people to Bitcoin's true impact.
50:04 - Alex's comments on the cypherpunk movement and why it was so important to Bitcoin's foundation.
01:02:00 - Bitcoin's privacy problem.
01:11:40 - Why are so many people with power in the world reverting to tactics of control?

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Alex Gladstein's new book: Check Your Financial Privilege.
Alex's Twitter.
Allen Farrington and Sacha Meyer's new book: Bitcoin is Venice.
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Transcript

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0:00.0	You're listening to TIP.
0:30.0	You're listening to Bitcoin Fundamentals by the Investors podcast network.
0:54.0	Now for your host Preston Pish.
1:06.0	Hey everyone, so like I said in the introduction, I'm here with Alex Gladstein.
1:10.0	Alex, welcome back to the show.
1:12.0	It's great to see you again. We haven't chatted for a while and excited to get into this today.
1:16.0	Yeah, pleasure to come on, talk about the book and current events and all the crazy things that have happened
1:22.0	in the last 10 months or so since the last time I was on.
1:26.0	So you're writing this book and you're locking it down with your publisher.
1:30.0	How much has played out, I'm just curious, how much has played out since locking down your book in world events?
1:38.0	I mean, from week to week, we pretty much have like a decades worth of things that are happening.
1:42.0	So when did you submit to your publisher and when did they take everything to print and like that timeline process?
1:50.0	Yes, so we began the editing process in mid-A October and we locked texts in January, like kind of very end of January.
2:00.0	And in the past six, seven weeks, we've seen two things happen in the world that are kind of progressions from the themes I was riffing on in the book.
2:10.0	The first one, of course, relates to the fact that many of the chapters in my book relate to people who use Bitcoin as almost like a human rights tool where their bank accounts are frozen or their activities have been restricted because of who they are.
2:26.0	Whether that be their beliefs, their ethnicity, their religion, whatever.
2:30.0	I tried to really globetrot and go to different parts of the world, whether it be Latin America or Africa or the Middle East to Asia to do that.
2:38.0	And what was most astonishing to me first was the Canadian government's reaction to the trucker convoys fundraising.
2:45.0	And that whole episode, that was unbelievable.
2:49.0	It was an unbelievable episode and it continues to play out, but it very much is a growth from some of the things I was observing in the book around, for example, anti-police protests in Nigeria.
3:01.0	And the Nigerian feminists getting kicked off their fintech apps and having to use BTC pay server instead.
3:09.0	That happened in the fall of 2020 and that totally starts to foreshadow what happens in Canada.
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