The Agenda podcast chats with DarkFi to explore how Rojava is experimenting with cryptocurrency and why encryption and anonymous spaces are critical for building self-autonomy.
This North Syrian School Is a Baby Step Toward a Blockchain Society
Students in Rojava, a semi-autonomous enclave of Syria, are making up for years of lost education by studying computer code and blockchain technology.
Murder, Censorship and Syria: Crypto and the Future of Uprisings
One technologist’s imprisonment and execution in Syria exemplifies the parallel use of technology for both liberation and repression – and why bitcoin and other censorship resistant tech is needed in such areas. Meet Bassel Khartabil.
The Trolls Accused Me of ‘Crypto-Colonialism’ in Syria – I’m Listening
Cryptocurrency isn’t colonialism in Syria – it’s a step in ensuring the technological autonomy of the region.
Sand, Death and Cryptocurrency: Life in a Decentralized Syria
I’m writing from the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria. Known to sympathizers simply as Rojava – meaning West – the predominantly Kurdish region revolted against the Syrian regime in 2012 and achieved its de-facto autonomy as a result. Since then, it has pioneered a new political model named democratic confederalism, which due to its stateless, […]
A War-Torn Country in Syria Will Use Crypto to Power an Anarchist State
A region in Northern Syria named Rojava is looking to implement cryptocurrency to overcome economic sanctions.