Bitcoin Lightning

80% of inter African financial payments are processed by an American or European company. "That's just like, you know, colonialism basically," he says. Bitcoin allows us to connect street rates instead of going through the official rate. It really allows us to cut out a lot of rent seeking and corruption"

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Alex Gladstein is Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation, and has served as VP of Strategy for the Oslo Freedom Forum since its inception in 2009. Alex has connected hundreds of dissidents and civil society groups with business leaders, technologists, journalists, philanthropists, policymakers, and artists to promote free and open societies. He has participated in Singularity University events around the world, serving as faculty and lecturing on bitcoin and the future of money. Alex is the author of, "Check Your Financial Privilege: Inside the Global Bitcoin Revolution," available at https://CYFP.org

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- Check Your Financial Privilege https://CYFP.org

-Oslo Freedom Forum https://oslofreedomforum.com/

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