{"id":169,"date":"2015-07-12T14:19:06","date_gmt":"2015-07-12T14:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/?p=169"},"modified":"2015-07-12T22:28:48","modified_gmt":"2015-07-12T22:28:48","slug":"episode-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/episode-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode #8: Bitcoin For The Bottom Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/3665806\/height\/50\/width\/640\/theme\/standard\/direction\/no\/autoplay\/no\/autonext\/no\/thumbnail\/no\/preload\/no\/no_addthis\/no\/\" width=\"640\" height=\"50\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"one-half column\">Episode 8<\/div><div class=\"one-half column last\">July 13, 2015 \u2014 51 mins<\/div><div class=\"clear\"><\/div> <strong>Guests:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/artist\/fereshteh-forough\/\" target=\"_blank\">Feresteh Forough<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan is a traditional country with an old history.\u00a0There are still people who are against educating women and who threaten girls but compared to years ago, there is a considerable growth of women\u2019s participation in many aspects like in education, politics, economy, health, arts, etc. Enter:\u00a0Fereshteh Forough, currently working as the Central and South Asia Liaison for Citadel of New York, is\u00a0spreading the message of peace by connecting women in Afghanistan to technology and the rest of the World. She\u00a0educates and empowers women in Afghanistan with technology by teaching them how to code and once they have the skills sets they need to succeed, she help them find employment as programmers. We talk about how bitcoin has helped shape this revolution and we invite her on the show to talk to us first-hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guests:\u00a0Feresteh Forough Afghanistan is a traditional country with an old history.\u00a0There are still people who are against educating women and who threaten girls but compared to years ago, there is a considerable growth of women\u2019s participation in many aspects like in education, politics, economy, health, arts, etc. Enter:\u00a0Fereshteh Forough, currently working as the Central and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","unlock_protocol_post_locks":"","publish_to_discourse":"","publish_post_category":"","wpdc_auto_publish_overridden":"","wpdc_topic_tags":"","wpdc_pin_topic":"","wpdc_pin_until":"","discourse_post_id":"","discourse_permalink":"","wpdc_publishing_response":"","wpdc_publishing_error":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}