"We're all Lebanese. Most just don't know it yet."
This is how Jan 3 founder Samson Mow responded to a tweet thread on the economic situation in Lebanon from Sooly Kobayashi — a consultant, entrepreneur and investor in the Bitcoin space.
What Mow was insinuating was that the fiat system is going to catch up with all of us eventually — that we'll all see our lives financially upended, just as the Lebanese currently are, because of excess money printing and poor fiscal policy.
Luckily for Lebanon, they have citizens like Sooly who are investing in the Bitcoin ecosystem so to make it more accessible to the Lebanese and to many in the Global South who will benefit from access to it.
In our interview, we discuss the macroeconomic situation in Lebanon, what Bitcoin adoption there looks like and why Bitcoin is Sooly's ikigai.
Enjoy!
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X (Twitter): @Sooly_Kobayashi
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sooly/
Check out Sooly's Linktree page: https://linktr.ee/Sooly
Timestamps:
0:00 Cold open
0:46 Intromusic
1:01 Introduction
2:50 What’s happening in Lebanon?
12:41 Is there Bitcoin adoption in Lebanon?
19:34 Challenges for the Lebanese
24:50 Why Bitcoin adopting will be difficult in Lebanon
27:33 We’re All Lebanese
31:31 Investing in Bitcoin companies that solve problems in the Global South
38:37 The Spot Bitcoin ETFs
45:42 Bitcoin as ikigai
51:03 Outro / Where to find Sooly
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