Sambuddha Mitra Mustafi is a journalist and filmmaker, currently writing a book on Bitcoin's political theory, titled The Consensus of Civilizations. Earlier he was South Asia Producer with the BBC, where he extensively covered the Afghanistan war and other important stories in the region. He has written for the BBC, The New York Times, Columbia Journalism Review, Caravan magazine, The Hindu Business Line, and The Economic Times. Sambuddha did his MA in Politics from Columbia University’s Journalism School in New York, where he was a Fulbright scholar.

During this conversation, we discussed, 

- Sambuddha’s Professional background

- His work in Afghanistan

- How he was introduced to Bitcoin

- The importance of a deflationary system

- Local Bitcoin community

- Bitcoin4India and his recent presentation at IIT Goa

- The Islamic case for Bitcoin

- His upcoming book, “Consensus of Civilisations”

- India’s checkmate move to trump the number 1 and 2 nation states

Books Mentioned:

The Price of Tomorrow - Jeff Booth https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/50157837-the-price-of-tomorrow

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You can find Sambuddha on 

Twitter: @bitofbuddha

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