Key ideas from Alex Gladstein

• Only about 1 billion people live in countries with property rights, free speech and open capital markets - the other 7 billion face broken money systems daily
• Check Your Financial Privilege documents how Bitcoin adoption surges in collapsing economies like Venezuela, Lebanon, and Nigeria where currencies lost 75% value in three years
• Stablecoins enhance dollar hegemony by making their issuers among the largest buyers of U.S. debt globally, ranking #2 after JP Morgan and China
• Hidden Repression reveals how IMF and World Bank evolved from post-WWII reconstruction tools into debt colonialism mechanisms draining trillions from poor countries
• Cuban peso devalued from 24 per dollar to over 400 since 2020, while Bitcoin rose from $5,000 to $120,000 - demonstrating Bitcoin's life-saving potential
• E-cash technology enables fully private, instant, offline Bitcoin payments that work without internet connectivity through mints backed by Bitcoin reserves
• Capital has drained from poor countries to the golden billion since 1982, now totaling several trillion dollars annually despite narratives about foreign aid