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Alex Gladstein

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Check Your Financial Privilege

Stranded: How Bitcoin is Saving Wasted Energy and Expanding Financial Freedom in Africa

By Alex Gladstein
The IMF and World Bank funnel fiat currency meant for poor countries aid and development to creditor nations like the U.S., EU and Japan. Top photo
Culture

Structural Adjustment: How The IMF And World Bank Repress Poor Countries And Funnel Their Resources To Rich Ones

By Alex Gladstein
Opinion
A developer and an entrepreneur hope to bring community-based custody for Bitcoin to billions of people around the world through Fedimints. Top photo.
Culture

Can Fedimints Help Bitcoin Scale To The World?

By Alex Gladstein
Feature
Ukraine and Russia are in an invasion and war and Bitcoin is their only humanitarian hope top photo.
Culture

Currency Of Last Resort

By Alex Gladstein
Feature
In the foreword to “Bitcoin Is Venice,” human rights advocate Alex Gladstein explains that Bitcoin is the foundation of a brighter future.
Culture

Bitcoin Is Venice: What If You Knew The Renaissance Was Coming?

By Alex Gladstein
Feature
Through increasingly unscrupulous monetary policy, U.S. government officials mask the costs of war from the American public. Bitcoin could fix this. Credit card top photo.
Culture

The Invisible Cost Of War In The Age Of Quantitative Easing

By Alex Gladstein
Feature
How the U.S. succeeded in turning the dream of monetary imperialism into our current inequitable reality, and how Bitcoin offers a new standard.
Culture

The End Of Super Imperialism

By Alex Gladstein
How Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin project married the concepts of digital cash and digital gold and how pioneering cryptographer Adam Back continues the work of making it a better tool for freedom top photo.
Culture

The Quest For Digital Cash

By Alex Gladstein
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Culture

The Village And The Strongman: The Unlikely Story Of Bitcoin And El Salvador

By Alex Gladstein
A pioneering female CEO has been promoting Bitcoin in Afghanistan since 2013 and sees it needed in her home country now more than ever top photo.
Culture

Finding Financial Freedom In Afghanistan

By Alex Gladstein
As political demonstrations show the world that Cubans are tired of dictatorship, Bitcoin is providing an option to peacefully protest and opt out of a broken system top photo.
Culture

Inside Cuba’s Bitcoin Revolution

By Alex Gladstein
Bitcoin gives Palestinians a powerful avenue for peaceful protest, and the opportunity to find sovereignty among oppressive economic policies top photo.
Culture

Can Bitcoin Be Palestine’s Currency Of Freedom?

By Alex Gladstein
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Culture

Bitcoin And The American Idea

By Alex Gladstein
France still uses monetary colonialism to exploit 15 African nations. Could Bitcoin be a way out? top photo
Culture

Fighting Monetary Colonialism With Open-Source Code

By Alex Gladstein
Square and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey discussed the global adoption of Bitcoin at length with Human Rights Foundation’s Alex Gladstein.
Culture

Bitcoin is The Only Way Out: The Jack Dorsey Interview

By Alex Gladstein
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Culture

The Humanitarian And Environmental Case For Bitcoin

By Alex Gladstein
While those comfortable in the dollar bubble deride Bitcoin, the stories of three emerging market users demonstrate why it is so important top photo.
Culture

Check Your Financial Privilege

By Alex Gladstein
The world’s reserve currency relies on oil, dictators, inequality and the military-industrial complex. But a Bitcoin standard could change this.
Culture

Uncovering The Hidden Costs Of The Petrodollar

By Alex Gladstein
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Culture

Bitcoin Is A Trojan Horse For Freedom

By Alex Gladstein
Op Ed: In China, It’s Blockchain and Tyranny vs Bitcoin and Freedom
Culture

Op Ed: In China, It’s Blockchain and Tyranny vs Bitcoin and Freedom

By Alex Gladstein
Protest in the Surveillance Age
Culture

Op Ed: As Cash Fades, Will Bitcoin Keep Protest Alive in the Surveillance Age?

By Alex Gladstein