#19 David El Achkar: Bitcoin in the Middle East

Epicenter - Learn about Crypto, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin and Distributed Technologies

• Episode: #19 David El Achkar: Bitcoin in the Middle East
• Website: Epicenter - Learn about Crypto, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin and Distributed Technologies
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• Published: 2014-05-12 14:00

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For episode 19, we had David El Achkar on as our guest host. He is a Bitcoin entrepreneur in Beirut and the founder of the Bitcoin Lebanon group. We talked about the broken state of payments in the Middle East and David’s startup, Yellow Pay.

Episode links:

• Yellow Pay
• Shu Bitcoin
• Dark Wallet
• Moolah
• Moolah Publishes Dogecoin Customer Funds Audit Amid USD Deposit Freeze (Coindesk)
• Proof that Moolah.io is a legitimate business (reddit)
• BitBay raises $30 million in funding
• Bitcoin 2014 Amsterdam Conference

This episode was hosted by Brian Fabian Crain & Sébastien Couture, and is availble on YouTube, SoundCloud, and our website.