How is fiat central banking incentivizing war-making? And how could a Bitcoin standard deter conflicts? Find out in our latest interview with Alex Gladstein! gladstein
Alex Gladstein, the CSO at the Human Rights Foundation, says that if Bitcoin was adopted as a global reserve currency, nation-states would be less incentivized to start wars.
According to Gladstein, the U.S. was able to sustain its"forever wars" in Iraq and Afghanistan mainly by borrowing capital. That was possible largely because of the Federal Reserve's monetary policy, which has been keeping interest rates relatively low through quantitative easing. "We literally print money, we sell bonds to the open market for a promise to pay in the future and we use the income from the bond sales to pay for these wars.", explained Gladstein in a latest interview with Cointelegraph.
Unlike fiat currency, Bitcoin's total supply is immutable. That means that if nations adopted it as their main reserve, interest rates on borrowed capital would be much higher. That, according to Gladstein, would make unpopular wars harder to sustain for governments.According to Gladstein, the Russia-Ukrainian conflict culd trigger the decline of the U.S. dollar as the dominant reserve currency.
“It is forcing a rethink there where governments are like"well, maybe I don't want all my eggs in one basket. Maybe I don't want the U.S. government to be able to freeze all my stuff.”, said Gladstein.
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