Update October 2018: We're launching Rain.bh

It took 5 years from my original post to finally get something off the ground, during the past 2 years we've made Rain happen by partnering with the central bank of Bahrain.

Full details from our announcement on our blog: Welcome to Rain

Read more about Rain in the news:

Forbes ME
Yahoo Finance
MenaBytes
ArabianBusiness
Zawya

Original Post:

Hi all, I'm looking for people that will help me establish a Bitcoin education and exchange system for the Arab world.
I feel as if we are responsible for establishing a working system. I have a Saudi Arabian passport, but I grew up in the U.S.

We have to deal with three broad issues:

1- Education
2- Safe Mode of Entry (Bitcoin Exchange)
3- Legality and Legitimacy

Working together, we can educate the Arab world about Bitcoin and other crypto-currencies technology and uses (1) Then provide a way for Arab/GCC/Middle Eastern countries to participate in the bitcoin economy (2), and we must do it through legal means so we don't create a negative image that will harm it's early adoption.

For education, I am looking for a collective group of people that can collaborate with me. For example, we can start with the video introducing Bitcoin that is used for weusecoins.org or bitcoin.org
(or a newer version) translated into Arabic. Then creating an Arabic FAQs, and see where we go from here...

For the exchange, we can begin with local exchanges and person-to-person transfers, but we must provide an alternative mode of entry into the Bitcoin ecosystem through an exchange, I am personally working on an exchange for Saudi Arabia, but I realized others were doing the same in Egypt, Kuwait, and the UAE. I propose a collective work for one large exchange to serve the GCC countries and perhaps another for North African countries, but that will depend on the legal limits of each country and the licensing involved with each. It will also involve a team of highly technical people, ~~fortunatly for us there's an open-source bitcoin exchange platform in development we can use~~ (Edit: Buttercoin was purchased and rebranded Sad

), but the fate of adoption will be in our hands, we must make sure it is secure and easy to use, something that is proving to be already difficult for most people in the US (seeing how non-technical newbies are reacting to it). I don't want an armature job, or scammers, to ruin the reputation of bitcoin.

This will be no easy task, but we must take action because where there is money, there are scams, and people might use Bitcon's philosophy and technology to scam people in our Arab countries, and when they do, the reputation will be harmed along the way and our Arab world will lag behind if there is ever a global world adoption.

السلام عليكم
العنوان والنقاش هو عن تعليم ونشر فكرة العملة الالكترونية بتكوين فالدول العربية بالتعاون مع ناس فاهمين الفكرة بعميق زييي
أنا واحد مولود فالسعودية بس عايش في أمريكا، إذا إنت ما تقرا إنجليزي رد علي بالعربي وإن شاء الله أقدر اشرحلك

Thanks,
- AMOAI