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Alex Gladstein: How Poor Countries Prop Up Rich Countries

Coin Stories with Natalie Brunell

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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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