Alex Gladstein
@gladstein.bsky.social
Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation
Author: Check Your Financial Privilege and Hidden Repression
Author: Check Your Financial Privilege and Hidden Repression
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Today, governments can see who buys what, who pays whom, and who donates to which cause. But they cannot easily trace or confiscate Bitcoin. The digital currency offers a lifeline to democratic movements operating in the most repressive places.
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...
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October 14, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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👻BOO!👻
We're almost half-way through the month, and you still haven't read our new issue? That's SCARY! 🎃🍂 Read it FREE while you still can (through October 30!)
muse.jhu.edu/issue/5...
We're almost half-way through the month, and you still haven't read our new issue? That's SCARY! 🎃🍂 Read it FREE while you still can (through October 30!)
muse.jhu.edu/issue/5...
October 13, 2025 at 3:05 PM
👻BOO!👻
We're almost half-way through the month, and you still haven't read our new issue? That's SCARY! 🎃🍂 Read it FREE while you still can (through October 30!)
muse.jhu.edu/issue/5...
We're almost half-way through the month, and you still haven't read our new issue? That's SCARY! 🎃🍂 Read it FREE while you still can (through October 30!)
muse.jhu.edu/issue/5...
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Spot Gold hits record high at $4,125.30.
October 14, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Spot Gold hits record high at $4,125.30.
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Researchers pointed a satellite dish at the sky for 3 years and monitored what unencrypted data it picked up. The results were shocking: They obtained thousands of T-Mobile users' phone calls and texts, military and law enforcement secrets, much more: www.wired.com/story/satell... 🧵👇
Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data
With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...
www.wired.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Researchers pointed a satellite dish at the sky for 3 years and monitored what unencrypted data it picked up. The results were shocking: They obtained thousands of T-Mobile users' phone calls and texts, military and law enforcement secrets, much more: www.wired.com/story/satell... 🧵👇
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Thrilled that Alaa will be free. Heartbroken at the costs paid by his family and everyone that loves him: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah to be freed from prison
Reports say writer, who has served six years for liking a Facebook post, has also been given a presidential pardon
www.theguardian.com
September 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Thrilled that Alaa will be free. Heartbroken at the costs paid by his family and everyone that loves him: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
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Bitcoin often makes headlines when its price in $$$ rises.
But the real power of Bitcoin lies in its use-case as freedom money.
When your friends ask you “Why Bitcoin?” show them this:
Cc @hrf.org @gladstein.bsky.social
www.forbes.com/sites/digita...
But the real power of Bitcoin lies in its use-case as freedom money.
When your friends ask you “Why Bitcoin?” show them this:
Cc @hrf.org @gladstein.bsky.social
www.forbes.com/sites/digita...
Empowering Human Rights Through Bitcoin And Open Source Software
The partnership between HRF and bitcoin nonprofits focused on FOSS showcases the transformative power of financial technology in advancing human rights causes.
www.forbes.com
July 14, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Bitcoin often makes headlines when its price in $$$ rises.
But the real power of Bitcoin lies in its use-case as freedom money.
When your friends ask you “Why Bitcoin?” show them this:
Cc @hrf.org @gladstein.bsky.social
www.forbes.com/sites/digita...
But the real power of Bitcoin lies in its use-case as freedom money.
When your friends ask you “Why Bitcoin?” show them this:
Cc @hrf.org @gladstein.bsky.social
www.forbes.com/sites/digita...
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Border patrol walking McArthur park here in LA
July 7, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Border patrol walking McArthur park here in LA
Bitcoin is freedom money
Crypto is not
Any questions?
Crypto is not
Any questions?
June 27, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Bitcoin is freedom money
Crypto is not
Any questions?
Crypto is not
Any questions?
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⚠ Update: Live metrics show the internet blackout in the central and southern #Gaza has now passed 56 hours; the disruption continues to severely limit visibility into events on the ground 📉
June 19, 2025 at 8:24 PM
⚠ Update: Live metrics show the internet blackout in the central and southern #Gaza has now passed 56 hours; the disruption continues to severely limit visibility into events on the ground 📉
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I'm looking forward to talking about innovative ways funders can fund frontline organisations working in repressive environments at #oslofreedomforum @osloff.bsky.social today with @gladstein.bsky.social @hrf.org
May 26, 2025 at 9:06 AM
I'm looking forward to talking about innovative ways funders can fund frontline organisations working in repressive environments at #oslofreedomforum @osloff.bsky.social today with @gladstein.bsky.social @hrf.org
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BREAKING: The United Kingdom has overtaken China as second-largest foreign holder of US Treasury Securities
May 16, 2025 at 8:37 PM
BREAKING: The United Kingdom has overtaken China as second-largest foreign holder of US Treasury Securities
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BREAKING:
For the first time in its history, Moodys has downgraded the credit rating of the United States from AAA to AA1.
For the first time in its history, Moodys has downgraded the credit rating of the United States from AAA to AA1.
May 16, 2025 at 9:02 PM
BREAKING:
For the first time in its history, Moodys has downgraded the credit rating of the United States from AAA to AA1.
For the first time in its history, Moodys has downgraded the credit rating of the United States from AAA to AA1.
Bitcoin is an extremely simple thesis
If you think governments will stop debasing and debanking: number go down
If you think they won’t stop debasing and debanking: number go up
Now what’s more likely?
If you think governments will stop debasing and debanking: number go down
If you think they won’t stop debasing and debanking: number go up
Now what’s more likely?
May 4, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Bitcoin is an extremely simple thesis
If you think governments will stop debasing and debanking: number go down
If you think they won’t stop debasing and debanking: number go up
Now what’s more likely?
If you think governments will stop debasing and debanking: number go down
If you think they won’t stop debasing and debanking: number go up
Now what’s more likely?
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Reposted by Alex Gladstein
Government debt getting murdered. UK 30-year yields at highest level since 1998
April 9, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Government debt getting murdered. UK 30-year yields at highest level since 1998
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Now that we have passed midnight, President Trump’s tariffs, the highest since 1909, are now in full effect.
April 9, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Now that we have passed midnight, President Trump’s tariffs, the highest since 1909, are now in full effect.
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60 Minutes could find no criminal records for 75% of the Venezuelans the U.S. sent to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4clubLP
Trump administration deports gay makeup artist to prison in El Salvador
A gay man with no known criminal record sought asylum in the U.S. He's since become one of 238 Venezuelan migrants deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration.
cbsn.ws
April 7, 2025 at 12:34 AM
60 Minutes could find no criminal records for 75% of the Venezuelans the U.S. sent to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4clubLP
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NYU canceled a planned speech by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she planned to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and cuts to US AID.
This is what actual campus censorship looks like.
This is what actual campus censorship looks like.
‘Climate of fear’: Montreal doctor says NYU cancelled her presentation
A Montreal doctor says her presentation at NYU was abruptly cancelled and believes the university did so out of fear of being pressured by the Donald Trump administration.
www.ctvnews.ca
March 30, 2025 at 5:07 PM
NYU canceled a planned speech by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she planned to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and cuts to US AID.
This is what actual campus censorship looks like.
This is what actual campus censorship looks like.
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Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
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UW just released this video with me about the philosophy of bitcoin.
“Bitcoin is there for anyone who feels like at some point they might need resistance money… If you think some day you may end up on the margins, you should know how to acquire and use bitcoin.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBum...
“Bitcoin is there for anyone who feels like at some point they might need resistance money… If you think some day you may end up on the margins, you should know how to acquire and use bitcoin.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBum...
March 21, 2025 at 10:35 PM
UW just released this video with me about the philosophy of bitcoin.
“Bitcoin is there for anyone who feels like at some point they might need resistance money… If you think some day you may end up on the margins, you should know how to acquire and use bitcoin.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBum...
“Bitcoin is there for anyone who feels like at some point they might need resistance money… If you think some day you may end up on the margins, you should know how to acquire and use bitcoin.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBum...
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One of Bitcoin’s greatest assets is a fifteen-year-long stockpile of wild and empirically falsified predictions from deranged critics.
What they don’t understand (clearly they haven’t seen my office door) is that critical pressure makes bitcoin stronger.
What they don’t understand (clearly they haven’t seen my office door) is that critical pressure makes bitcoin stronger.
February 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
One of Bitcoin’s greatest assets is a fifteen-year-long stockpile of wild and empirically falsified predictions from deranged critics.
What they don’t understand (clearly they haven’t seen my office door) is that critical pressure makes bitcoin stronger.
What they don’t understand (clearly they haven’t seen my office door) is that critical pressure makes bitcoin stronger.
To the frustration of the great majority of Bluesky users, this Bitcoin thing refuses to go away
Maybe it’s time to slow down and take a look at what is happening around the world carefully instead of dismissing it 😉
Maybe it’s time to slow down and take a look at what is happening around the world carefully instead of dismissing it 😉
January 29, 2025 at 5:06 PM
To the frustration of the great majority of Bluesky users, this Bitcoin thing refuses to go away
Maybe it’s time to slow down and take a look at what is happening around the world carefully instead of dismissing it 😉
Maybe it’s time to slow down and take a look at what is happening around the world carefully instead of dismissing it 😉
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I don't want my appliances to be connected to the internet. I don't want them to have blinky lights or touch screen controls or be accessible by phone. All I want is for them to do the one thing they are supposed to do, and to beep less.
Hear that, manufacturers? Less beeping.
Hear that, manufacturers? Less beeping.
January 27, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I don't want my appliances to be connected to the internet. I don't want them to have blinky lights or touch screen controls or be accessible by phone. All I want is for them to do the one thing they are supposed to do, and to beep less.
Hear that, manufacturers? Less beeping.
Hear that, manufacturers? Less beeping.
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Scoop: People involved in WH discussions about TikTok say Oracle and Microsoft having talks about taking control of TikTok’s global operation, with ByteDance retaining minority stake www.npr.org/2025/01/25/g...
EXCLUSIVE: White House in talks to have Oracle and U.S. investors take over TikTok
The aim is to place oversight control in the hands of American software company Oracle and other investors. Under federal law, TikTok must split apart from China, or face a nationwide ban.
www.npr.org
January 25, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Scoop: People involved in WH discussions about TikTok say Oracle and Microsoft having talks about taking control of TikTok’s global operation, with ByteDance retaining minority stake www.npr.org/2025/01/25/g...