Tomorrow the Bitcoin whitepaper turns 18.
For a lot of Iranians, Bitcoin still arrives through Telegram groups, usually next to a get-rich pitch or an exchange ad. The original nine pages are the last thing anyone reads.
Living in El Salvador as an Iranian, I see the gap from both sides. Here people at least argue about Bitcoin in public. Back home most beginners meet it through scam channels, behind filtering, on slow connections.
This week in our Farsi channel we shared Satoshi's original announcement email and a story about the 2016 Bitfinex hack, where every customer took a 36% haircut overnight. Custody and verification keep coming up as the two things people need first.
Question for Nostr: has anyone run a whitepaper reading circle, or made a plain-language annotated version, that actually worked for complete beginners? Would a line-by-line Farsi walkthrough help more than another summary? Ideas welcome; I'll credit the best ones and turn them into Farsi lessons.
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