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Alex Gladstein: "Debt Colonialism, The Petrodollar, and Bitcoin"

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

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How to Justify the Large Energy Use of Mining for Bitcoin

I think that the most important thing is to acknowledge that Bitcoin is valuable to a lot of disenfranchised people around the world. So once we established that, and I know that people will be skeptical about that, but you just got to go talk to people in Lagos. People should go out and do their homework on this,. But if your work is successful, you hope that tens of millions turns into hundreds of millions or billions. It's going to end up becoming like a lifeline for many, many people.

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