What Is Bitcoin Really?
Is bitcoin an inflation hedge or a monetary system? Is it both or neither? Human Rights Foundation’s Alex Gladstein and journalist Brett Scott debate what bitcoin is.
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Mar 3, 2021 at 6:45 p.m. UTC
Mar 3, 2021
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Can Bitcoin Help People Who Aren’t Already Rich?
Human Rights Foundation Chief Strategy Officer Alex Gladstein and “The Heretic’s Guide to Global Finance” author Brett Scott debate whether or not bitcoin enables financial inclusion.
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Mar 3, 2021 at 6:45 p.m. UTC
Mar 3, 2021
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Governments Couldn’t Ban Bitcoin Even if They Wanted
A reading of Human Rights Foundation CSO Alex Gladstein’s latest essay.
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Feb 28, 2021 at 2:00 p.m. UTC
Feb 28, 2021
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Will Wall Street Ruin Bitcoin? Featuring Ben Hunt and Alex Gladstein
As traditional financial institutions line up to get into bitcoin, a debate on whether it can stay permissionless and censorship resistant.
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Dec 15, 2020 at 8:00 p.m. UTC
Dec 15, 2020
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How the Fed Fans the Flame – The Best of The Breakdown June 2020
Guests from the crypto investor Ari Paul to Harvard prof Dr. Vikram Mansharamani discuss bitcoin, the economy and social unrest.
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Jun 29, 2020 at 7:00 p.m. UTC
Jun 29, 2020
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Summer 2020 Is Funding Season for Open-Source Bitcoin Development
The maker of Wasabi Wallet becomes the latest firm to support crypto coders with a 1 BTC donation to the Human Rights Foundation's Bitcoin Development Fund.
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Jun 25, 2020 at 6:54 p.m. UTC
Jun 25, 2020
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Human Rights Foundation Funds Bitcoin Privacy Tools Despite 'Coin Mixing' Legal Stigma
The Human Rights Foundation took a strong stance on bitcoin privacy tech Wednesday by announcing its new Bitcoin Developer Fund.
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Jun 10, 2020 at 6:08 p.m. UTC
Jun 10, 2020
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Cellphones, Bitcoin and the Citizen Tools of Anti-Authoritarianism, Feat. Alex Gladstein
As protests mount in the U.S., we sit down with an outspoken pro-bitcoin, anti-surveillance human-rights advocate.
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Jun 2, 2020 at 7:28 p.m. UTC
Jun 2, 2020
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'Financial Surveillance’ or ‘Blockchain Analysis’? Human Rights Foundation Debates Elliptic
Blockchain analysis is "a euphemism" for surveillance, HRF Director Alex Gladstein told Elliptic's Tom Robinson during a debate on crypto tracing Monday.
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Jun 2, 2020 at 1:58 a.m. UTC
Jun 2, 2020
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Lightning Network Messaging, Political Expediency and What Crisis Has Revealed
In a time of increasing censorship aimed towards protecting us, is truly private messaging possible? Why are we using "data driven" approaches when we know the data is wrong? Juggernaut's John Cantrell and HRF's Alex Gladstein help us see what the crisis has revealed.
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Apr 26, 2020 at 2:15 p.m. UTC
Apr 26, 2020