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Check Your Financial Privilege

By: Alex Gladstein
Narrated by: Guy Swann
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Alex Gladstein has a lot to say about Bitcoin, human rights, financial privilege, and personal freedom. In Check Your Financial Privilege, he says it, starting with the fact that anyone born into a reserve currency like the euro, yen, or pound has financial privilege over the 89 percent of the world population born into weaker systems.

In Nigeria, human rights activists depend on Bitcoin for donations after crackdowns by authoritarian regimes. In Cuba, after a dual-currency system devalued the peso, those who saved in Bitcoin managed to stay afloat. In El Salvador, where remittance fees and exchange rates can eat away a simple money transfer to family members in need, Bitcoin offers hope with lower fees and faster transactions (and now it's legal tender).

As CSO of the Human Rights Foundation, Gladstein is uniquely positioned to detail the rise of Bitcoin from cypherpunk dream to the real-life Bitcoin stories happening to real people across the globe. For people around the world, outside of Wall Street, Bitcoin offers a means of freedom from inflation, political strife, and an outdated monetary system. For these people, the majority of the world’s population, it might even save their lives.

©2022 Alex Gladstein (P)2022 Alex Gladstein Economic History Economics Politics & Government Freedom Human Rights Cryptocurrency
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This draws from many historical examples of money, geopolitics, war, and national economies from across the globe from hundreds of years ago right up to the modern day. An array of powerful common and novel uses of bitcoin are covered, highlighting the greater support, protection, and opportunity that bitcoin offers people in comparison to any other currency. Definitely worth a read, and definitely worth looking further into the topics covered.

Many powerful examples build an exceptional understanding

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