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

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Bitcoin

Bitcoin, for the most part, requires access to the internet. I think some very small percentage of people have used, have owned Bitcoin. The other use case is an unstoppable payments network. This is very important for people who live behind, for example, sanctions. We have Cuba, Iran, Palestine, or three good examples where people inside all three of those countries now are using Bitcoin to do commerce...

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