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

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

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The Future of Bitcoin

In its early days, it was used for a lot of what I would consider crime. By 2030, most people will use Bitcoin in some way or another,. It'll just be like email. Our policing will have to adapt to it. There are billions of people who are unbanked, but many of them have access to a phone. The existing currencies are failing. They're not doing well and they're not sufficient for the world's population. This should be a basic human right to transact with somebody else in the world. What you need to know is that KYC and AML policies are financially exclusionary. They leave out the most vulnerable and disenfranchised people in the world."

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