AT98 - Bam Alasi, Knots vs Core

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_BoxX: https://x.com/BamskkiNostr: bamskki@nostrplebs.comFollow Bam’s Substack here: Cypher Box

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!)