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#231 – Alex Gladstein: Bitcoin, Authoritarianism, and Human Rights
Lex Fridman Podcast
Bitcoin Proof of Work Is the Fundamental Idea
I like that there's a place that you can rely on that's very difficult to mess with. But it's not though. Every other blockchain is easy to mess with, outside of maybe Ethereum. For me it's all about freedom versus dictatorship. I may sound brutal but I'm coming at it from a political science perspective. If you're wrong about Bitcoin, what would that look like? What kind of thing that in 10, 20 years you're not wrong? Right. It doesn't pan out.
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