Alex Gladstein: How Poor Countries Prop Up Rich Countries (and how Bitcoin fixes this)

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This week's guest:
Alex Gladstein is Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation, and has served as VP of Strategy for the Oslo Freedom Forum since its inception in 2009. Alex has connected hundreds of dissidents and civil society groups with business leaders, technologists, journalists, philanthropists, policymakers, and artists to promote free and open societies. He has participated in Singularity University events around the world, serving as faculty and lecturing on bitcoin and the future of money. Alex is the author of, “Check Your Financial Privilege: Inside the Global Bitcoin Revolution,” available at https://CYFP.org

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0:00 Intro, Swan Bitcoin promo
1:39 Recently traveled to Ghana and India
3:32 Bitcoin adoption in Africa
20:14 iTrustCapital, Bitcoin 2023 promos
22:29 Why is BTC adopting in Africa faster?
24:30 Colonialism, payment structures
29:06 Draining resources from poor countries to rich
39:06 "The World Bank and IMF prefer dictators."
43:50 Fold app, CrowdHealth promos
45:41 US can print money to buy what we want, debt crisis
50:30 Is the harm from the system intentional?
54:56 Why are people still coming to America?
59:00 India, crypto tokens vs. Bitcoin
1:02:25 New book, "Hidden Repression"

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