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What Is Bitcoin Really?
What Is Bitcoin Really?
Is bitcoin an inflation hedge or a monetary system? Is it both or neither? Human Rights Foundation’s Alex Gladstein and journalist Brett Scott debate what bitcoin is.
What Is Bitcoin Really?

Can Bitcoin Help People Who Aren’t Already Rich?
Can Bitcoin Help People Who Aren’t Already Rich?
Human Rights Foundation Chief Strategy Officer Alex Gladstein and “The Heretic’s Guide to Global Finance” author Brett Scott debate whether or not bitcoin enables financial in...
Can Bitcoin Help People Who Aren’t Already Rich?

Breakdown 2.28.21 - can governments stop bitcoin
Governments Couldn’t Ban Bitcoin Even if They Wanted
A reading of Human Rights Foundation CSO Alex Gladstein’s latest essay.
Breakdown 2.28.21 - can governments stop bitcoin

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Will Wall Street Ruin Bitcoin? Featuring Ben Hunt and Alex Gladstein
As traditional financial institutions line up to get into bitcoin, a debate on whether it can stay permissionless and censorship resistant.
Breakdown 12.15 - Ben Hunt Alex Gladstein Wall Street Bitcoin

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Summer 2020 Is Funding Season for Open-Source Bitcoin Development
The maker of Wasabi Wallet becomes the latest firm to support crypto coders with a 1 BTC donation to the Human Rights Foundation's Bitcoin Development Fund.
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Alex Gladstein of the Human Rights Foundation speaks at Consensus 2019.
Human Rights Foundation Funds Bitcoin Privacy Tools Despite 'Coin Mixing' Legal Stigma
The Human Rights Foundation took a strong stance on bitcoin privacy tech Wednesday by announcing its new Bitcoin Developer Fund.
Alex Gladstein of the Human Rights Foundation speaks at Consensus 2019.

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Cellphones, Bitcoin and the Citizen Tools of Anti-Authoritarianism, Feat. Alex Gladstein
As protests mount in the U.S., we sit down with an outspoken pro-bitcoin, anti-surveillance human-rights advocate.
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'Financial Surveillance’ or ‘Blockchain Analysis’? Human Rights Foundation Debates Elliptic
Blockchain analysis is "a euphemism" for surveillance, HRF Director Alex Gladstein told Elliptic's Tom Robinson during a debate on crypto tracing Monday.
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Lightning Network Messaging, Political Expediency and What Crisis Has Revealed
In a time of increasing censorship aimed towards protecting us, is truly private messaging possible? Why are we using "data driven" approaches when we know the data is wrong?...
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