In this episode, Dave talks with Alex Gladstein about the recent news that China and President Xi Jinping, have publicly expressed admiration for blockchain technology. This news spiked the Bitcoin price at the beginning of November, but Gladstein is weary for what China's public praise could mean for cryptocurrency in general. Gladstein recognizes that blockchain technology by itself is really just a mechanism for control and surveillance of financial data. He believes from a human rights perspective that the real value of the blockchain comes from decentralization, which is essential to Democracy. He states that Bitcoin is the greatest example of a decentralized blockchain and that in the wrong hands, this technology would be used as a tool for tyranny instead of freedom.‚ Resources:In China, It's Blockchain and Tyranny vs Bitcoin and FreedomFrom Pigs to Party Fealty, China Harnesses the Blockchain's Power Twitter: Dave Hollerith (@DsHollers) Alex Gladstein (@gladstein) Sponsors:Celsius Network - Enter "BITCOINMAG" to get $10 off any deposit over $200EtoroHaven - Get $5 in Bitcoin, Litecoin or Zcash DISCLAIMER: The following content is for informational purposes only. You should not construe any such information or other material as legal, tax, investment, financial, or other advice. Nothing contained in this presentation constitutes a solicitation, recommendation, endorsement, or offer by BTC Media, The Let's Talk Bitcoin Network, or any third party service provider to buy or sell any securities or other financial instruments. RAW Unedited Transcript Hey, before we get going, I want to give a quick shout out to our sponsor etoro. Let's talk about trading. Maybe your mo is just stacking sets once a week or you're one of those cowboy all coin traders, you go deep into technical analysis. I don't know, maybe you're just a muggle, and you're trying to get into this whole cyber cash thing. Maybe you actually do want to put some skin in the game, but you have no idea where to begin. Now, there's one trading app for all of that etoro. It's a trading platform and mobile app that lets you buy and sell cryptocurrency, and it's also the number one social trading platform in the world. listeners. You might even be asking what the hell is a social trading platform? Well, on etoro you can trade cryptocurrencies, yes, but you can also follow the trading strategies of friends, mentors, rivals, in the rest of a worldwide community of over 11 million traders. That's right. You can actually copy the tradingstrategies of other people to learn faster. And if you want to try etoro before you start trading, they offer $100,000 virtual trading feature. This means it's not real money, you don't lose or make anything from the earnings. But it is an excellent way to test your strategies and see how they do against the market. Then there's also copy trading, which I kind of hit on earlier. Copy trading is a feature that literally lets you mirror the actions of top traders on the platform. This way you can learn about due diligence and all the other technical things it might take months to pick up on your own just by copying the behavior of the top traders on the platform. So head over to etoro calm and get started in your real or imaginary portfolio today. etoro Smart crypto trading made easy. Hello, and welcome back to the show ever stalwart ever skeptical. I'm Dave Hollerith back again todig a little bit further and try and come up with answers in this weird experiment we call Bitcoin. Today I want to look at the intersection between cryptocurrency and human rights. I've got an interview with Alice clouds team Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation and the world renown Oslo Freedom Forum. Last week, Alex read an op ed about China's recently publicized love for blockchain technology. It created like a huge price spike for Bitcoin. But Alex has a much more profound and kind of scary interpretation about what this news could actua