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#231 – Alex Gladstein: Bitcoin, Authoritarianism, and Human Rights

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The Power of Permissionless Money in the Third World

Roya Mapoub is an Afghan technology CEO. She started paying her employees in Bitcoin because they were not allowed to open bank accounts. "I think for weirdos like me especially because I was a very nontraditional path that I think it would be very empowering," she says.

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