Most people are skeptical of it due to its intangibility and don’t know much about it. Some highly religious people look to scholarly opinions but many people just approach it pragmatically or skeptically.

But I do think the work that Saifedean and others are doing to bring more awareness to bitcoin being halal money is valuable work to be doing.

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Thanks, it will be fascinating to see how this unfolds. I just remembered a talk referring to "pointy Proof-of-Work" in Cairo, suggesting that Egypt already has an intuitive understanding of Bitcoin's relevance

https://youtu.be/rsLrJp6cLf4?t=472