LNJ030 - Alex Gladstein Talks Privacy with the Lightning Network - a podcast by Chaz

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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/

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