Thanks. There is a Bitcoin press wave going on now. Been having TV crews
here all week at the squat. It's important to show good things coming
out of squats to the world.

It's a victory. I'm at the end of the hacker spectrum. Even in hacker
circles I'm an extremist. They've put me right in the centre of mainstream.

When things like this happen, you know our culture has made it.


http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidestory/2013/04/20134572639241668.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/22/silk-road-online-drug-marketplace

http://news.sky.com/story/1071652/cyber-currency-surge-amid-eurozone-crisis

Lots more print stuff and more coming too.

On 04/04/13 19:56, Jaromil wrote:
>
> Dear comrades, Salam aleikum.
>
> I'm writing you from a balcony above the noisy streets of Cairo a few
> hundred meters away from the square where 5 years ago, on the 6 of
> april, the so called Arab Spring started boiling what would become the
> revolution that took over the regime of Mubarak in Egypt.
>
> Today I've entered my room in a demure and rather anonymous building
> downtown to switch on the TV on Al-Jazeera international right on time
> to see, to my surprise, Amir showing off his brand new furry mohawk in
> an episode dedicated to Bitcoin. Wonderful! it just felt like in a
> movie, close to surrealism, to be listening to it right from here, at
> the heart of the Egyptian revolutionary movement.
>
> What a hit! to see my bro' carrying his passionate message with such
> impetus and so well, on such an important worldwide channel. Clearly he
> is not mistaken when he states that we are facing a global movement of
> change, riding its wave.
>
> Just two days ago I was presenting Bitcoin to an interested but still
> small audience here in Cairo, among them some hackers and students and
> random Google fans, who are starting to understand what's next. Its all
> happening so fast now, tight in the days in which Wikileaks is releasing
> the files on the offshore sociopathic finance oligarcs, right in the
> days preparing the 5 years anniversary of the revolution that shook
> north Africa, a culture so far from ours, yet so close in idealism I
> belive.
>
> So this is a heads up from Cairo and an idealist call: lets think about
> using the wealth we are rising with Bitcoin not just to grow it in our
> pockets, but to help and support the revolutionary movement of the Arab
> Spring. I'll be meeting people around here in the next days and
> conspiring about visions and possibilities. If you like, since my funds
> are rather limited, please contact me privately if you are intentioned
> to donate some Bitcoins to the cause, since I'd like to share some to
> the good people here, see if we can organize some international meeting
> soon and what not.
>
> Moreover, it will be my pleasure to soon share with you an academic
> article that I've recently written also as part of my Ph.D. thesis,
> about the social and political background of Bitcoin, its history and
> its possible future. Let's keep in touch, so far so close, for our
> planetary coevolution.
>
> ciao
>


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