BTC071: How Fiat Blinds Bitcoin's Importance w/ Alex Gladstein (Bitcoin Podcast)
The Investor's Podcast (We Study Billionaires) - The Investor’s Podcast Network
Stig Brodersen
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🗓️ 30 March 2022
⏱️ 87 minutes
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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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