EP58: Crypto Revolution and Human Rights in a Pandemic (w/ Tanja Porčnik and Christe Harkin)

-We examine proposals to boycott the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing due to the Chinese Communist Party’s abuses against the Uyghurs and the Chinese Firewall goes up around the new social app Clubhouse.

-Tanja Porčnik discusses human rights in a pandemic, what the role of government should be, and how we can keep our elected leaders accountable.

Tanja Porčnik (@TanjaPorcnik) is the co-founder and president of the Visio Institute, a think tank in Slovenia.

-Christie Harkin breaks down the latest news in cryptocurrency purchasing by companies, the fundamentals of Bitcoin, use cases, and how digital currencies are providing competition to fiat money.

Christie Harkin (@cryptowords) is the Managing Editor of Technology at CoinDesk.

https://www.christieharkin.com/

http://coindesk.com