Transcript: https://share.descript.com/view/e053a440-1697-44fa-87ea-bcad854723c2

This is the 30th episode of the Lightning Junkies podcast. In this episode we have Alex Gladstein! Alex has a background as a human rights activist. He is currently working as the Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation. Alex is a proponent of using the lightning network as a layer to maintain financial privacy.

We talk about:

• Alex’s background
  
• Use Case of Bitcoin
  
  • Anonymously donating to activists
    
• Lightning as a Solution to Scaling
  
  • Keeps transactions off-chain
    
• Bitcoin + Human rights
  
  • Privacy
    
  • Using BTC can protect the privacy of donor to a human rights foundation
    
• Bitcoin’s dark beginnings
  
• Lightning’s use case in gaming
  
  • Microtransactions with almost instant settlement
    
  • Across any platform
    
• Doubts of Lightning
  
  • Scaling
    
  • Higher on-chain fees could mean higher Lightning fees
    
• Covid’s Effect on Privacy
  
  • When Covid-19 started taking over, totalitarian governments used it as an excuse to up their game.
    
  • Apple and Google are releasing apps to track people in a way that previously would have been unthinkable.
    

Alex’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/gladstein

Human Rights Foundation Twitter: https://twitter.com/HRF

Oslo Freedom Forum Twitter: https://twitter.com/OsloFF

Human Rights Foundation Website: https://hrf.org/

Oslo Freedom Forum Website: https://hrf.org/events/oslo-freedom-forum/watch/

Support here:lightningjunkies.net/support

Follow the Lightning Junkies blog: https://lightningjunkies.net

Follow Lightning Junkies on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LNJunkies

Follow Chaz on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thechaz

Follow Lightning Cat: https://twitter.com/LNJcat