{"id":82154,"date":"2018-08-28T09:02:23","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T16:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/how-cryptocurrencies-can-influence-the-future-of-freedom"},"modified":"2018-08-28T09:02:23","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T16:02:23","slug":"how-cryptocurrencies-can-influence-the-future-of-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/how-cryptocurrencies-can-influence-the-future-of-freedom","title":{"rendered":"How Cryptocurrencies Can Influence the Future of Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-cryptocurrencies-can-influence-the-future-of-freedom.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the first time that humans have ever had the ability to send money around the world globally without anyone being able to stop it,\u201d he said. \u201cYou can argue that it\u2019s the first time in our history that we have real censorship resistance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gladstein feels we\u2019re at a crossroads as a society\u2014we\u2019ll either go down a centralized path where our interactions are surveilled and censored, or we\u2019ll go down a decentralized one that preserves our essential freedoms and rights.<\/p>\n<p>Technology\u2019s role is somewhat paradoxical in this crossroads; some forms can serve as a tool of control for governments or companies, while other forms put more power in the hands of citizens.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2018\/08\/27\/why-cryptocurrencies-are-crucial-to-the-future-of-freedom\/\">https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2018\/08\/27\/why-cryptocurrencies-a...f-freedom\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the first time that humans have ever had the ability to send money around the world globally without anyone being able to stop it,\u201d he said. \u201cYou can argue that it\u2019s the first time in our history that we have real censorship resistance.\u201d Gladstein feels we\u2019re at a crossroads as a society\u2014we\u2019ll either go [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1761,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryptocurrencies","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}