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Brother, from Auckland, New Zealand, Mashallah Tawarakullah. I'm very happy we have viewers all the way from what you call New Zealand down down under

I don't know because down under Australia and you're even down or downer than Australia. So you are Mashallah

Yani, what do you call them? Kiwis right? That's what you call you guys kiwis Mashallah

This is not an insla brothers and sisters the people in New Zealand. They called themselves kiwis. They they like this term

So I have never been by the way hinting to win kwink maybe one day insha'Allah

So brother Tawarak from Auckland, New Zealand. He emails and he asks that

Recently a fatwa has been given by a national council of Eurema in a particular Muslim land

There's no need to mention the land over here saying that Bitcoin is Haram and

He has heard me state in the past that Bitcoin is halal so in light of this new fatwa

He is asking can I comment on it and what are my thoughts about this?

And

so

To respond to this question briefly without trying to rehash an entire lecture I gave about

Bitcoin in the past that

Realize that

This is the fatwa that has just been released by a particular Muslim country

To be honest, I read it. There's nothing new in it per se

The same arguments are hashed and rehashed about Bitcoin and about cryptocurrencies overall for the last six seven years

And respected Eurema and respected councils has spoken about this and there are

predominantly two main camps the first of them which is this country and other

Grand you know great scholars I should say they say that it is completely impermissible

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