Another really great episode! This time with Harris Irfan. Amazing to see Iqbal Nasim do a whole series about Bitcoin from the Muslim perspective. He's already done three episodes that have all been enlightening. Brother is speedrunning the orange pill.
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A large share of Bitcoinβs practical infrastructure, especially in payments and user experience, is already being built by African developers, and it will continue to emerge from their work.
Both East and West are needed for Bitcoin to win.
I'll officially announce this in a few days inshaAllah, but I'll announce it here first since you nostr folks are special to me.
The ebook copy of Anti-Riba Money is now freely available!
You can download the pdf off of the Bitcoin Majlis website here:
"I should credit you for doing us all a very important service by raising this issue. Nothing could have lit a bigger fire under those of us strongly believe in a citizens' right to use cryptography than your proposals to ban or regulate it. There are many of us out here who share this belief *and* have the technical skills to turn it into practice. And I promise you that we will fight for this belief to the bitter end, if necessary." [Phil Karn, 1993-03-23]
The phenomenon of devs (not just in Bitcoin) being so economically illiterate, like at a comically infantile level, needs to be studied.
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