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Alex Gladstein has a lot to say about Bitcoin, human rights, financial privilege, and personal freedom. In Check Your Financial Privilege, he says it, starting with the fact that anyone born into a reserve currency like the euro, yen, or pound has financial privilege over the 89% of the world population born into weaker systems.

In Nigeria, human rights activists depend on Bitcoin for donations after crackdowns by authoritarian regimes. In Cuba, after a dual-currency system devalued the peso, those who saved in Bitcoin managed to stay afloat. In El Salvador, where remittance fees and exchange rates can eat away a simple money transfer to family members in need, Bitcoin offers hope with lower fees and faster transactions (and now it's legal tender).

As CSO of the Human Rights Foundation, Gladstein is uniquely positioned to detail the rise of Bitcoin from cypherpunk dream to the real-life Bitcoin stories happening to real people across the globe. For people around the world, outside of Wall Street, Bitcoin offers a means of freedom from inflation, political strife, and an outdated monetary system. For these people, the majority of the world’s population, it might even save their lives.

Proceeds from the sale of this book support the Human Rights Foundation.

"In Zimbabwe our biggest note became an astonishing but useless one hundred trillion dollar note. We lost everything because a brutal and corrupt government took it all. Alex Gladstein reveals what Bitcoin can and is doing for people who are at the mercy of political looting gangs in designer suits backed by the military. He shows how Bitcoin is a genuine chance at freedom for billions of people trapped in financial oppression."—
--Evan Mawarire, Zimbabwean Pastor and Pro-Democracy Advocate

“Alex has done a fantastic job reporting on the use of Bitcoin by people throughout the developing world as a tool against both authoritarianism and high inflation. This aspect of Bitcoin remains poorly understood in general, which is what makes his detailed work on the topic so useful.”
--Lyn Alden, Founder, Lyn Alden Investment Strategy

“’Cash Rules Everything Around Me.’ This incredible Wu-Tang hook references everything Alex explores in these chapters on the control exerted by governments and corporations through monetary policy, and how the Bitcoin protocol will help free us all.
--Jack Dorsey, Co-founder and former CEO, Twitter; Founder and CEO, Block, Inc.

“Alex is one of the few experts who truly understands what Bitcoin can mean for the billions living under dictatorship -- but also, how the current system creates & sustains inequality, authoritarianism, and imperialism. This collection of essays is a must-read for those invested in anti-authoritarian, progressive, and democratic causes."
--Iyad el-Baghdadi, Arab Spring activist and President, Kawaakibi Foundation

"This book is the first of its kind thanks to a holistic approach, guiding the reader through multiple layers of finance, economics, politics, and history in a beautiful way with clarity and fluidity. Gladstein shows how this novel money is defying traditional wealth-building methods by working with humanity rather than against it."
--Farida Nabourema, Togolese writer, human rights defender, and Pan-Africanist

Proceeds from the sale of this book support the Human Rights Foundation.

Alex Gladstein is a regular contributor to Bitcoin Magazine. Read more of his insights and analysis at www.bitcoinmagazine.com.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09V2NM9VJ
Publisher ‏ : ‎ BTC Media LLC (March 9, 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 271 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8985728927
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.68 x 9 inches

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Steve Sanders

A Wakeup Call Regarding Wealth in the Western World

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 11, 2023

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Alex Gladstein speaks with the authority of experience. His entire career has been devoted to advancing the cause of human rights, especially for oppressed peoples living under autocratic, despotic regimes. Impoverished and with little hope, our brothers & sisters in the global south are desperate for a financial lifeline. Gladstein shows us the way, but explains that we've been blind to the freedom that "magic internet money" offers because we in the West don't NEED it. Bitcoin is, for us, a curiosity. Something speculative that folks gamble with. We cannot see the freedom it brings to the oppressed because, mostly, we're already living in freedom.

Thank you Mr. Gladstein for waking us up from our slumber! Thank you explaining that Bitcoin is Magic Internet FREEDOM Money!

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Niklas

Extremely good

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 16, 2023

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The book really good! It shows our financial privileges over not so privileged societies

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Hank

The importance of Bitcoin for people in the developing world and living under authoritarian regimes

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 9, 2022

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Alex Gladstein has written an exceptional book that provides a brief history of the origins of the Petrodollar system and Bitcoin, then proceeds to illustrate the humanitarian, economic and freedom benefits that Bitcoin has brought to many people. Most people in developed nations have financial privilege that may blind them to the clear empowerment that Bitcoin is already bringing to millions who live in more repressive countries. Through a number of powerful real human stories, the author helps the reader see what Bitcoin can and is doing to help people in places like Senegal, Palestine, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Afghanistan and elsewhere, then concludes with a cogent case for why Bitcoin is likely to become the world's next reserve currency. I am giving copies of this important book to friends and family and recommend it highly.

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Rob

Great book but the pages are literally falling out

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 22, 2022

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This is a really good book. It’s something that you could give to anyone who views Bitcoin as being some sort of evil. The only problem is the cheapness of the quality of the physical product. Pages literally fall out as you turn them.

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Tony Rousmaniere, PsyD

Great book about a subject most Westerners are not aware of

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 8, 2022

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This is an excellent book! Many people in America and Western Europe are unaware of how much financial privilege they have, and thus don't understand the importance of Bitcoin for helping financially marginalized and oppressed communities around the world. Gladstein uses both history and interviews with people from across the globe to explore this topic. If anyone tells you that "Bitcoin is useless", it says more about their privilege than anything else.

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Fred W.

Excellent explanations of the financial systems of the world

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 9, 2022

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This book answered a lot of questions I didn't know I had. For example, why governments buy US treasuries, ( it's not be because they like America,) and the real costs citizens pay for these financial manipulations. I now have a better understanding of why Bitcoin makes sense and does need a place in the worlds finances, particularly by those who find their savings devalued overnight, by inept governance.

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Jakob Lundsgaard Lange

Fantastic book about why btc is good

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 7, 2022

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Best book I’ve read about bitcoin, every chapter is truly mindblowing!

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J. T. Austen

Great stories from all over the world of financial hardship saved by Bitcoin

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Mário Amândio

We all dreaming for a better world

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 7, 2022

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Really recommended for those who dream about building a better future.

Thadius B

The Absolute Best Book on How Bitcoin Helps 90% of the Worlds Under-Priviliged.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on May 1, 2022

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We all know Bitcoin can help humanity. But this book takes you on the ground to places like Central Afrika, Palestine, Cuba, Afghanistan, Central America to really show the reader how Bitcoin helps the extremely under-privileged.

This book helps guide the reader down the insanely deep Rabbit-Hole that is Bitcoin.

This book really shows why Bitcoin is such a BIG idea. So far, the best book I have read about Bitcoin. I ate it. Read it in two days. Its too hard to put down. This book will make you double, triple, and quadruple your faith in an alternative monetary network.

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Radoslav K.

An eye opener

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on May 24, 2022

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An eye opener for smug Western critics of bitcoin. The book definitely refutes the claim that bitcoin has no use case by showing how it helps millions of people in poor countries crippled by their corrupt governments, foreign powers or sanctions.

Some economic theories in the book seem a little convoluted or contradictory, but the author usually shows multiple points of view a let the reader make up their mind.

Dale Bewan

Changes the narrative

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on April 9, 2022

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This book is critical for helping to understand the "why" of Bitcoin. Far beyond simply a speculative trading asset to help "tech bros get rich", Bitcoin is effecting real change for real people all around the globe.
If you don't get it, you yourself likely need to Check Your Financial Privilege, pick up a copy of this book and learn.

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Reviewed in Italy 🇮🇹 on March 23, 2022

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