Why Open Systems Matter for Human Freedom
Excerpt I first traveled to Zimbabwe because I wanted to understand something that many Bitcoiners talked about but few had actually witnessed firsthand: what monetary failure does to real people. Over the past years, Zimbabwe has taught me far more than I expected – not only about inflation and currency collapse, but about power, human agency, and the fragile relationship between money and freedom. In this talk at bitcoin++ Vienna, I connect my experiences in Zimbabwe with a broader question: What happens when the systems that govern money, communication, and information become closed, opaq
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