Alex Gladstein is the chief strategy officer at the Human Rights Foundation and author of Check Your Financial Privilege (BTC Media). He has also served as vice president of strategy for the Oslo Freedom Forum since its inception in 2009. In his work, Alex has connected hundreds of dissidents and civil society groups with business leaders, technologists, journalists, philanthropists, policymakers, and artists to promote free and open societies. Alex's writing and views on human rights and technology have appeared in media outlets across the world, including The Atlantic, the BBC, CNN, The Guardian, The New York Times, NPR, Time, Wired, and The Wall Street Journal. He has spoken at universities ranging from MIT to Stanford, has briefed the European Parliament and the U.S. State Department, and serves as faculty at Singularity University and as an advisor to Blockchain Capital, a leading venture firm in the fintech industry. He frequently speaks and writes about why bitcoin matters for freedom, and he co-authored The Little Bitcoin Book in 2019.
Is Nostr an Antidote to Social Media Censorship?
What if there was a social media platform owned not by Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, or the Chinese Communist Party, but by everybody and nobody all at once?
