+1 - This would be a great documentary! And especially effective from a historical perspective (hopefully) looking back in a decade or two. I really enjoyed this animated short film as well: https://twitter.com/gladstein/status/1512493813218123786

Decentralized inheritance is a big problem to tackle. Keep exploring this!

As for the stabilized Bitcoin: I think it's 50-50 that the bounty gets claimed by the end of the year.

The trend everywhere is towards mobile connectivity. In countries like Sudan, only 20% of the country has mobile internet access. That will shift to 70%+ by the end of the decade. This will have a massive impact as hundreds of millions come online.

Bitcoin will play a big role in this. It will give anyone with mobile internet the power to be their own bank. The question is what does that look like? Will they simply use Binance? Or will they use Bitcoin in a self-custodial way?

Favorite BTC book = Bitcoin is Venice

Favorite non-BTC book = The Looming Tower

Most helpful book = The Mandibles was quite clarifying, even though it is fiction

Advice = Keep pressing on, even if things seem tough :)

Thank you!

Bitcoin is likely playing a nascent role in cross-border payments between South Korea, China, and NK, but it's too early too tell

Could be amazing. I think Bitcoin could be a boostrap for helping these kind of energy-harvesting technologies.

I think Bitcoin's privacy is improving. For power users, they can achieve "pretty good privacy" today. But it's far from adequate and is probably all things considered one of its weakest points today.

The main problem is that most Bitcoin users engage with fully KYC'd financial services like exchanges. So even if they do self-custody, their activity is known. Lightning withdrawals and deposits from exchanges is a nice step forward. But while sending privacy in LN is strong, receiving privacy is still not great. So if you withdraw from let's say Kraken they know things about your Lightning activity and ID. Blinded paths, which should be activated in the coming year, will help address this vulnerability.

I'd recommend that Bitcoiners everywhere learn about CoinJoins as well as Lightning but mostly that they learn how to use Bitcoin without KYC. The best way to preserve your privacy is not to link your real-world ID to any Bitcoin in the first place.

Thanks!

Bitcoin was on the radar for us and for me for a long time. Julian Assange spoke at our Oslo Freedom Forum event in 2010 and a few months later, Satoshi made their fateful last public post. In 2011 we saw Wikileaks start to use Bitcoin to fundraise. In 2013 we helped Ukrainian democracy advocates use Bitcoin as they began to build the Maidan square movement. In 2014 we started accepting Bitcoin donations. In 2016, we became convinced of the connection and in 2017 held our first workshop about bitcoin and human rights at the Oslo Freedom Forum. I'd say it was more of a slow realization than a eureka moment.

I don't have enough time to do all the things I want to do.

Which is a great problem to have!

Don't know if Alex will answer this question, but, as someone who leans pretty left (voted for Bernie in the last presidential primary) on social issues, I'll chime in.

There are some properties of bitcoin (i.e., immutable, censorship resistant, permissionless) that when discussed in certain contexts (i.e., downtrodden fleeing from authoritarian regimes, as was true for some computer savvy women from Afghanistan) will definitely appeal to some left wingers. I've discussed in some public forums (like ResetEra - a gaming forum that's quite hostile to bitcoin/cryptocurrencies) how payment systems like Venmo have blocked donations to Palestinian non-profits, and how bitcoin not only gets around politically biased platforms, but makes them obsolete. Bitcoin is politically neutral money.

The real elephant in the room, and it's the attacks that left wingers are most susceptible to, are anything having to do with the carbon emissions/energy consumption. Prominent bitcoiners need to get out of the bitcoin podcasting bubble and start addressing/debating these issues on CNBC, Bloomberg, Fox Business, VICE Motherboard, and political shows/platforms like Jacobin, The Realignment (w/Saagar Enjeti and Marshall Kosloff), Breaking Points, Secular Talk, Left Reckoning, The Humanist Report. It can't only be Pompliano, Saylor, and Mallers. Maybe someday (hopefully soon), Mr. Gladstein can do a one-on-one with Bill Maher. Lol. Independent reports on mining farm energy usage need to be published. Reports from The Bitcoin Mining Council, Galaxy Digital, or any industry participants are not going to sway many minds, I don't think. These reports or surveys should maybe only be done if other similar industries (traditional banking, gold mining, etc) will open themselves to similar scrutiny.

I wouldn't change Bitcoin.

If I could snap my fingers and change something, I'd help another billion people understand Bitcoin for what it is. The rest would fall into place after that :)

Hard to say. There are so many!

One powerful example was Hong Kongers in exile using Bitcoin to support human rights advocacy inside the city from abroad.

Another is a Burmese activist who escaped from his country using BTC as a lifeline.

Yet another is a Russian independent media outlet that is using Bitcoin to help sustain its operations after it was forced to leave Russia.

Thank you!