Ep. 272 - Bitcoin Matters for Your Freedom and Future w/ Alex Gladstein Human Rights Foundation
CRYPTO 101
Bryce Paul & Brendan Viehman
4.3 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2019
⏱️ 51 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, Crypt Nation? This is Pizza Mind here with Bryce Paul. And today our very special guest is Alex Gladstein, the chief strategy officer of the Human Rights Foundation. |
| 0:21.6 | This is not your typical crypto broadcast where we bring in a founder or CEO to talk about |
| 0:27.6 | what kind of emerging tech they're building. |
| 0:30.6 | Rather, this is someone who's actually using the tech and applying it to make the world a better place. |
| 0:36.6 | We ran into him at the Bitcoin is a meetup in Los Angeles and his speech was really, really |
| 0:43.3 | moving. |
| 0:44.3 | So I had to have him on the show. |
| 0:46.3 | Alex, thank you so much for taking your time and welcome to Crypto 101. |
| 0:50.3 | Thanks so much for having me on. |
| 0:51.3 | Excited to be here, guys. |
| 0:53.3 | Awesome. Tell us a little bit, what is the |
| 0:55.1 | Human Rights Foundation and what is your role there? Sure. Well, the Human Rights Foundation is a |
| 0:59.9 | nonprofit charity organization based in New York with a mission of helping promote civil liberties |
| 1:06.7 | and personal freedoms for people who live under dictatorships and authoritarian regimes around the |
| 1:12.7 | world. So basically, an organization committed to promoting freedom and liberty and justice |
| 1:18.2 | under very repressive governments. And that's actually quite a large mission, unfortunately, |
| 1:23.5 | because today about four billion people, billion with the B, live under some sort |
| 1:30.1 | of authoritarian regime. |
| 1:31.3 | And we can make jokes about how repressive, you know, the United States and Europe are. |
| 1:38.4 | And when we study Bitcoin, we learn more about financial privacy, and there's a lot of |
| 1:42.5 | things that scare us there. |
| 1:44.0 | But we're actually talking about actual dictatorships here. |
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