Check Your Financial Privilege

Check Your Financial Privilege relocates the Bitcoin debate from Western portfolios to the 90% of humanity born into weak currencies, capital controls, or financial surveillance. Gladstein — chief strategy officer at the Human Rights Foundation — reports from Nigeria, Sudan, Cuba, Palestine, El Salvador and beyond, profiling activists and ordinary savers for whom Bitcoin is not speculation but exit.

The title’s argument: dismissing Bitcoin because your money works is a privilege speaking. The chapters are adapted essays, so the book is episodic rather than systematic — but the reporting is firsthand and the stakes are concrete: remittances that arrive, savings that survive, donations that can’t be frozen.

It suits skeptics whose objections assume Zurich rather than Lagos, and bitcoiners who want the human-rights case made with evidence. It pairs directly with our adoption index and inflation data — the same story, told in numbers.