On friday, the Central Bank of Nigeria released a circular reversing its bitcoin ban 🔥 Given the scant information available online on the circular and questions I've been getting from folks, I decided to distill the 11-page document into a piece, which I've just published. The piece walks through the details of the CBN's circular, important changes, and its effects going into 2024. Hopefully this provides more clarity on this important development. https://www.forbes.com/sites/abubakarnurkhalil/2023/12/24/nigerian-central-bank-issues-circular-reversing-2021-bitcoin-ban/?sh=69910ce57350

In the end, Bitcoin mining will thrive where its value proposition is understood and appreciated the most.

In my latest piece for Forbes, I cover the growing Bitcoin mining space in Africa 🌍 Specifically, how Africans are turning to Bitcoin mining as a viable way to bring cheap and reliable electricity to the more than 500 million people across the continent currently lacking it. I hope this provides some insight for those interested in the Bitcoin mining space in Africa. https://www.forbes.com/sites/abubakarnurkhalil/2023/05/24/africans-are-pioneering-the-bright-yet-complicated-green-future-of-bitcoin-mining/?sh=292a125354ac

In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort is the one thing you cannot get by looking for it. If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth—only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with and, in the end, despair. — C. S. Lewis

In my first piece for Forbes as a contributor, I decided to explore the Naira crisis and its relationship to Bitcoin adoption in 🇳🇬 I hope this helps shed light on the nuances missing in the naira crisis conversation that needed to be addressed, especially the fungibility ‘trilema’. The situation is yet another factor contributing to more Nigerians moving to Bitcoin. https://www.forbes.com/sites/abubakarnurkhalil/2023/03/01/the-naira-crisis-is-fuelling-bitcoin-adoption-in-nigeria

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