<p>This week we chat to <a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/bamskki">Bam Alasi</a>, 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.</p><p><strong>About Bam</strong></p><p>Systems Engineer <a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/bamskki">Basem Alasi (Bam)</a>, founder of Bitcoin 21 Arabic media & educational platform <a target="_blank" href="http://bitcoin21.io/">Bitcoin21.io</a> and founder and designer of the newly released open-source Bitcoin-Lightning app: Cypher Box, a non custodial progressive wallet <a target="_blank" href="https://cypherbox.io/"><strong>Cypher Box</strong></a></p><p><strong>📺 Watch the full conversation here:</strong></p><p><strong>Cypher Box Substack:</strong></p><p><strong>LinkedIn</strong>: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/basem-alasi/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/basem-alasi/</a><strong>YT:</strong> <a target="_blank" href="https://youtube.com/@Cypher_Box">https://YouTube.com/@Cypher_Box</a><strong>X:</strong> <a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/Bamskki">https://x.com/Bamskki</a><strong>Nostr</strong>: <a target="_blank" href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a><strong>Follow Bam’s Substack here: </strong><a target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/profile/114534132-cypher-box">Cypher Box</a> </p><p><strong>Support Cypher Box</strong></p><p>You can show your support and read more Cypher Box updates, new releases, and milestones posted on their <strong>Geyser Fund </strong><a target="_blank" href="https://geyser.fund/project/cypherbox"><strong>https://geyser.fund/project/cypherbox</strong></a></p><p><strong>Bitcoin Lightning Community on Telegram</strong></p><p>Bam also likes to create open grassroots online communities on Telegram. He co-formed Barqnet, an Arabic-speaking Bitcoin-Lightning community <a target="_blank" href="http://t.me/@Barqnet">T.me/@Barqnet</a></p><p><strong>Syrian Economics Research (Think Tank)</strong></p><p>Bam previously created a Syrian Economics Research think tank called the SFER on Telegram <a target="_blank" href="http://t.me/SFER">T.me/SFER</a> (English speakers are welcome to these communitees!)</p><p>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.</p><p><strong>Learn more about the think tank </strong><a target="_blank" href="https://www.intellinews.com/syrian-think-tank-plans-new-crypto-backed-pound-359786/?source=middle-east-today"><strong>HERE</strong></a></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://www.accesstribe.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2">www.accesstribe.com/subscribe</a>
