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Nov 21, 2024 | 
journalofdemocracy.org | Felix Maradiaga |Alex Gladstein
Bitcoin is an indispensable tool for political dissidents in the most repressive environments, argue Alex Gladstein and Félix Maradiaga in two recent Journal of Democracy online exclusives. When dictators weaponize the financial system and obstruct all avenues of dissent, this open-source, decentralized, censorship-resistant digital currency helps activists keep their operations running.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
journalofdemocracy.org | Felix Maradiaga |Alex Gladstein |Kai Thaler |Eric S. Mosinger
Economic freedom is one of a tyrant’s first targets. My family and I have experienced this firsthand. But new tools like Bitcoin offer a lifeline for activists fighting repressive states. By Félix MaradiagaNovember 2024Leer en español aquí. For tyrants, private property is one of the first barriers to be leveled in pursuit of despotic power.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
journalofdemocracy.org | Felix Maradiaga |Alex Gladstein |Kai Thaler |Eric S. Mosinger
Coartar la libertad económica es uno de los primeros objetivos de un tirano. Mi familia y yo hemos experimentado esto de primera mano. Sin embargo, nuevas herramientas como Bitcoin ofrecen una esperanza a los activistas que luchan contra los estados represivos. Por Félix MaradiagaNoviembre 2024Read in English here. Para los tiranos, la propiedad privada es una de las primeras barreras que deben eliminar en su búsqueda de poder despótico.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
reason.com | Alex Gladstein
Social Media What if there was a social media platform owned not by Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, or the Chinese Communist Party, but by everybody and nobody all at once?
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
reason.com | Alex Gladstein
Internet Twitter's founder says Nostr is “100 percent what we wanted”—an open, ownerless network. | Virtually everyone agrees that social media is broken.
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May 6, 2024 | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Alex Gladstein
CRYPTO AND RIGHTS OP-ED France still uses monetary colonialism to exploit 15 African nations. Could Bitcoin be a way out? In the fall of 1993, Fodé Diop’s family was saving up for his future. A brilliant 18-year-old living in Senegal, Fodé had a bright path in front of him as a basketball player and an engineer. His father, a school teacher, had helped him find inspiration in computers and in connecting with the world around him.
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May 3, 2024 | 
ivoox.com | Alex Gladstein
"we're an unruly people. We're supposed to be unruly and free and dirty and unwashed and crass. That is the American ethic and ethos. Live free, baby, or die."
To celebrate episode #69 of THE Bitcoin Podcast, today's episode features not one but TWO guests: Preston Pysh and American Hodl. These are two of my favorite people I've met through Bitcoin, and both have been on this show before. So I figured what better way to celebrate episode #69 than with a double whammy. You're going to love this one...
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Apr 28, 2024 | 
ivoox.com | Alex Gladstein
"The isolated interference brought about a condition which, from the point of view of the government, is even more undesirable than the previous state of affairs which the government wanted to alter. And as the government goes farther and farther, it will finally arrive at a point where all prices, all wage rates, all interest rates, in short, everything in the whole economic system, is determined by the government.
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Apr 27, 2024 | 
ivoox.com | Alex Gladstein
"If you are running a human-rights group and your bank account hasn’t yet been frozen, flagged, or compromised, it likely will sooner rather than later." -- Alex GladsteinOn this BONUS episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast, Walker reads How to Dictator-Proof Your Money, by Alex Gladstein, CSO at the Human Rights Foundation.
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
journalofdemocracy.org | Alex Gladstein |Garry Kasparov |Charles Davidson |Ben Judah
Cash is king, even if you are an activist leading a democratic movement against some of the world’s worst dictators. That’s why Bitcoin has quickly become the currency of choice for dissidents working everywhere. By Alex GladsteinApril 2024Human-rights activists around the world have a new tool: unstoppable electronic cash.
