This week we chat to Bam Alasi, a Syrian Bitcoiner and our favourite Lightning and Systems Engineer about the increasingly political debate in the bitcoin community about a recent change the maintainers of the bitcoin code (Bitcoin Core) made to address the issue of spam.
About Bam
Systems Engineer Basem Alasi (Bam), founder of Bitcoin 21 Arabic media & educational platform Bitcoin21.io and founder and designer of the newly released open-source Bitcoin-Lightning app: Cypher Box, a non custodial progressive wallet Cypher Box
📺 Watch the full conversation here:
Cypher Box Substack:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/basem-alasi/
YT: https://YouTube.com/@Cypher_Box
X: https://x.com/Bamskki
Nostr: bamskki@nostrplebs.com
Follow Bam’s Substack here:
Support Cypher Box
You can show your support and read more Cypher Box updates, new releases, and milestones posted on their Geyser Fund https://geyser.fund/project/cypherbox
Bitcoin Lightning Community on Telegram
Bam also likes to create open grassroots online communities on Telegram. He co-formed Barqnet, an Arabic-speaking Bitcoin-Lightning community T.me/@Barqnet
Syrian Economics Research (Think Tank)
Bam previously created a Syrian Economics Research think tank called the SFER on Telegram T.me/SFER (English speakers are welcome to these communitees!)
The SCFR came up with a Bitcoin policy proposal that went viral on crypto media space and many famous Arabic and international news outlets picked it and reported on it like Al Arabiya and Sky News.
Learn more about the think tank HERE
