Welcome back to the Breakdown's Free Ideas Festival, a 4th of July exploration of ideas with the potential to shape the future of the economy.

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The Breakdown is produced and distributed by CoinDesk.

And now here's your host, NLW. Welcome back to the breakdown. It is Sunday,

July 5th, and this is Longreed Sunday. I thought it was only fitting that our selection this week

be in line with the July 4th Independence Day Free Ideas Festival theme that we've been exploring all week.

And so I had to turn to Alex Gladstein's seminal essay from time in late 2018,

Why Bitcoin Matters for Freedom.

Alex Gladstein, as you know, is the chief strategy officer at the Human Rights Foundation and is one of the most thoughtful voices connecting Bitcoin with a larger global world.

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