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

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

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Bitcoin: A Decentralized Money System for the World

Bitcoin is the only digital currency that's not virtual, meaning it has a tie to the real world. The most important property of Bitcoin is that if there's 21 million of them, no one will be able to print more. "I think this offers a compelling different model where the reserve, the base money that we use could actually be tied to real world resources," he says.

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