Ray Youssef joins the Freedom Footprint Show to talk about how he's fighting financial apartheid with CivKit and more:

🔹The impact Africa and the Global South can have on #Bitcoin
🔹Creating CivKit and building companies/business on a bitcoin standard
🔹Financial Apartheid and bitcoin adoption
🔹The importance of reputation in the peer-to-peer environment

Connect with Ray on X: https://twitter.com/raycivkit
Check out the CivKit project: https://civkit.github.io/

Chapters:

00:00 Introducing Ray Youssef
03:45 The Global South
12:14 How Bitcoin Helps the Global South
18:33 Phone-Based Payments
20:17 CivKit
28:11 Bitcoin Adoption
30:23 Financial Apartheid
37:35 Building Marketplaces with CivKit
45:24 More on CivKit and its Goals
50:52 Hawala and CivKit
54:50 CivKit and the Future
58:04 Making the World a Better Place

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