“If we stick with the financial system as it is, it leads inexorably towards total control of your life…the state having total control over what people spend, how they can spend it, how much they can spend, and what you can buy.”
— Alex GladsteinAlex Gladstein is the Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation and Natalie Smolenski founded and leads the Texas Bitcoin Foundation. In this interview, they discuss how Bitcoin is a cheat code for human rights, privacy, sovereignty and the reciprocal loss of trust.- - - - This episode’s sponsors:
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Bitcoin & Human Rights with Alex Gladstein & Natalie Smolenski

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“To believe that Bitcoin will stop changing I think is a fallacy, and it means that Bitcoin will die, because…Bitcoin is software and software never stops to evolve.”
— CalleJack Mallers is the Founder & CEO of Strike, American HODL is a Bitcoin Educator, Alex Thorn is the Head of Firmwide Research at Galaxy and Calle is a Bitcoin developer working on Cashu. In this interview, we discuss why no one understands Bitcoin, ETFs & centralisation threats and the importance of funding development.- - - - This episode’s sponsors:
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Nobody Understands Bitcoin with Jack Mallers, American HODL, Alex Thorn & Calle

“We have a horrifying shortage of demand for energy, not a shortage of supply whatsoever; we need to have more productive uses for those electrons in a flexible way so that all those revenues can flow back and continue to be reinvested in the broader economy or in the electric system itself.”
— Harry SudockHarry Sudock is the Chief Strategy Officer at Griid, Will Roberts is the Co-CEO at IREN, Erik Hersman is the CEO of Gridless, Thomas Pacchia is a Board Member of Stronghold, & Dennis Porter is the CEO of Satoshi Action Fund. In this interview, they discuss bitcoin mining sustainability, accessing stranded energy and the halving.- - - - This episode’s sponsors:
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Bitcoin Mining: A Paradigm Shift in Energy with Harry Sudock, Will Roberts, Erik Hersman, Thomas Pacchia, & Dennis Porter

“These are not two hardened criminals who have been just plotting in secret to launder billions of dollars; these are people who’ve built a powerful privacy tool that never took custody, that fit every regulation and legal framework that we had, and now are facing 25 years of jail time and a life that’s ruined because of drastic and tyrannical overreach by the government.”
— Seth for PrivacySeth for Privacy is a privacy advocate and Head of Strategy and Marketing at Foundation and Bitcoin Q+A is a Bitcoin educator and Head of Customer Experience at Foundation. In this interview, we discuss the recent indictment against the founders of Samourai Wallet.- - - - This episode’s sponsors:
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First They Came for Samourai with Seth for Privacy & Bitcoin Q+A

“When people try to bring their own views to Bitcoin and say that Bitcoin is an expression of those views, I would just say Bitcoin is an expression of lots of different views, and there’s no one thing that Bitcoin is.”
— Bradley RettlerAndrew Bailey, Bradley Rettler and Craig Warmke are all professors of Philosophy, Allen Farrington is an investor and author of Bitcoin is Venice. In this interview, they discuss Bitcoin in academia, the Resistance Money thesis and the philosophy of money and Bitcoin.- - - - This episode’s sponsors:
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Bitcoin is Resistance Money with Andrew Bailey, Bradley Rettler, Craig Warmke, & Allen Farrington

“It’s not a one decade adoption story, it’s a multi-decade, massive trend change in how money works.”
— Lyn AldenLyn Alden is a macroeconomist, Natalie Brunell is the host of the Coin Stories Podcast, Alex Thorn is the Head of Firmwide Research at Galaxy, Thomas Pacchia is co-owner of Pubkey, and Christopher Gordon from Bridge2Bitcoin. In this interview, they discuss how Bitcoin wins, and the CheatCode for business.- - - - This episode’s sponsors:
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Bitcoin & Human Rights with Alex Gladstein & Natalie Smolenski

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