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Alex Gladstein Talks Privacy with the Lightning Network - LNJ030

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This is the 30th episode of the Lightning Junkies podcast. In this episode we have Alex Gladstein! Alex has a background as a human rights activist. He is currently working as the Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation. Alex is a proponent of using the lightning network as a layer to maintain financial privacy.

We talk about:

  • Alex’s background
  • Use Case of Bitcoin
    • Anonymously donating to activists
    • Lightning as a Solution to Scaling
      • Keeps transactions off-chain
      • Bitcoin + Human rights
        • Privacy
        • Using BTC can protect the privacy of donor to a human rights foundation
        • Bitcoin’s dark beginnings
        • Lightning’s use case in gaming
          • Microtransactions with almost instant settlement
          • Across any platform
          • Doubts of Lightning
            • Scaling
            • Higher on-chain fees could mean higher Lightning fees
            • Covid’s Effect on Privacy
              • When Covid-19 started taking over, totalitarian governments used it as an excuse to up their game.
              • Apple and Google are releasing apps to track people in a way that previously would have been unthinkable.

                • Alex’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/gladstein

                Human Rights Foundation Twitter: https://twitter.com/HRF

                Oslo Freedom Forum Twitter: https://twitter.com/OsloFF

                Human Rights Foundation Website: https://hrf.org/

                Oslo Freedom Forum Website: https://hrf.org/events/oslo-freedom-forum/watch/

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