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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 Cryptocurrency

In 2010, no activists used any sort of really personal encryption on their phones outside of Western experts. Fast forward 10 years, everybody uses signal. I think that's going to be the case from like, let's say 2018 to 2028. Every activist is going to use Bitcoin, whether they like it or not. It's kind of like, it's not a philosophical thing. Like do I care about the political beliefs of the people who created email? No, I'm using it because it's obviously better than sending something in the mail."

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