Check Your Financial Privilege

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Alex Gladstein</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> has a lot to say about Bitcoin human rights financial privilege and personal freedom. In </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Check Your Financial Privilege</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> 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.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>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).</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>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people around the world outside of Wall Street Bitcoin offers a means of freedom from inflation political strife and an outdated monetary system.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.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Proceeds from the sale of this book support the Human Rights Foundation.</em></p><p></p>