AT98 - Bam Alasi, Knots vs Core

About this episode

The episode features an interview with Bam Alasi discussing the political debates within the Bitcoin community regarding recent changes in Bitcoin 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_Box X: https://x.com/Bamskki Nostr : bamskki@nostrplebs.com Follow 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…

People in this episode

Host: Access Tribe Bitcoin

Guest: Bam Alasi

Topics covered

• Bitcoin
• Lightning Network
• political debate
• open-source software
• community building

Keywords

• Bitcoin
• Lightning Network
• Bam Alasi
• Bitcoin Core
• Cypher Box
• SFER
• community

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Bitcoin 21, Cypher Box, Bitcoin Core, SFER

Places: Syria

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