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Allahcoin – Peer-to-peer Islamic currency

by xelfer on 12/4/13, 3:43 AM with 4 comments

• by obeid on 12/4/13, 5:01 AM

  "10% of the gain will be donated to the muslim brotherhood foundation."

  Am I they only one alarmed by this?

• by Wingman4l7 on 12/4/13, 3:53 AM

  Reminds me of hawala, an interesting money transfer system that doesn't actually involve the movement of money, based on the honor system and with roots in Islamic law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawala

• by Mizza on 12/4/13, 5:15 AM

  No code, no downloads.

  Nothing to see here, just silly bandwagonning.