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The IMF and World Bank were created to help countries survive financial crises and to help them develop into prosperous economic actors. But their 75-year track record shows the opposite: their loans and structural adjustment policies have plunged poor countries into impossibly large debt traps and forced the Third World to focus on producing goods for consumption in the West, instead of growing consumption and industry at home.

Du hast wahrscheinlich schon in den Nachrichten von Bitcoin gehört oder mitbekommen, wie deine Freunde oder Kollegen darüber sprechen. Warum ändert sich der Preis ständig? Ist Bitcoin eine gute Investition? Wie kann Bitcoin überhaupt einen Wert haben? Warum reden die Leute ständig darüber, als würde es die Welt verändern? "Das kleine Bitcoin-Buch" schildert, was am heutigen Geld falsch ist und warum Bitcoin erfunden wurde, um eine Alternative zum aktuellen System zu bieten.

The Little Bitcoin Book tells the story of what’s wrong with money today, and why Bitcoin was invented to provide an alternative to the current system. It describes in simple terms what Bitcoin is, how it works, why it’s valuable, and how it affects individual freedom and opportunities of people everywhere - from Nigeria to the Philippines, to Venezuela to the United States.

Alex Gladstein has a lot to say about Bitcoin, human rights, financial privilege, and personal freedom. In Check Your Financial Privilege, he says it, starting with the fact that anyone born into a reserve currency like the euro, yen, or pound has financial privilege over the 89 percent of the world population born into weaker systems. As CSO of the Human Rights Foundation, Gladstein is uniquely positioned to detail the rise of Bitcoin from cypherpunk dream to the real-life Bitcoin stories happening to real people across the globe.