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Digital Sovereignty Architect. Editor DigitalHijrah.com. Background in Computer Science, > 28 years in enterprise IT. Science fiction/fantasy, art & design, history and economics. Co-Founder Blockchainology. Author BITCOIN IS HALAL 👉 AshikUsmanBooks.com. Building All-in-One Identity/Payments/Savings Wallet: Ijmawallet.com. For book translations, ✉️ bitcoinishalal@proton.me. PGP Fingerprint EF16 F877 B3B0 1101 295D 66EA 5836 DA5B 9509 788D Public Key: https://www.blockchainology.co.uk/pgp.asc
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amisatoshi 6 days ago
#Ad | We’re proud to announce that Blockchainology is now an affiliate partner of Frostsnap. Frostsnap makes multisig self-custody simple. Your keys are spread across several devices, so you have no single point of failure. It’s one of the best tools we’ve seen for real Bitcoin sovereignty. 🔑 Use code BLOCKCHAINOLOGY for 10% off the listed price of eligible Frostsnap products. We receive a small commission on purchases made through this code. frostsnap.com image
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amisatoshi 1 week ago
🧊 Icebox v0.3.0 is out: an open-source desktop wallet for Frostsnap devices (Windows, macOS, Linux) New: • Restore one device at a time: save the restore after the first device and add the others later, at other places. Geographic separation stays intact. • Full user guide with screenshots • Linux USB fix plus an in-app one-line fix; smoother macOS first launch Also in Icebox: threshold wallets, on-device address checks, signing one device at a time, restore from the official app, backup checks, BTCPay Server export, demo mode (no hardware needed). MIT licensed. No npm, no third-party JavaScript, no open ports. ⚠️ Early and unaudited, and not made by Frostsnap. Start on Signet. Download: Guide: Changelog: #bitcoin #frostsnap #selfcustody #opensource
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amisatoshi 1 week ago
Introducing Icebox 🧊 — an open-source desktop wallet for Frostsnap devices (Windows, macOS, Linux). Frostsnap splits your Bitcoin key across several devices with FROST. Icebox is an independent coordinator built on the official Frostsnap Rust crates, so your keys never touch the computer. ✅ Available now (v0.2.0 pre-release) • Threshold wallets (e.g. 2-of-3), backed up on each device's screen • Test your backup on the device • Receive with on-device address checks; send, signing one device at a time • Restore wallets made in the official app • Demo mode, no hardware needed • Address list with "used" marks, descriptor QR, BTCPay Server export 🔜 Coming Watch-only wallets · webcam QR scanning · coin control and BIP-329 labels · CSV export (GBP/USD/EUR) · zakat helper · inheritance kit · RBF/CPFP · Tor · PSBT MIT licensed. No npm packages, no third-party JavaScript, no open ports. ⚠️ Early and unaudited, and not made by Frostsnap. Start on Signet. #bitcoin #frostsnap #selfcustody #opensource
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amisatoshi 1 week ago
All our videos from Muslim Bitcoin Summit in London are now available on the Bitcoin Majlis YouTube channel. Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaYwlHDGyJEI image
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amisatoshi 1 week ago
Bitcoin Whitepaper Day marks 18 years since Satoshi Nakamoto published a nine-page proposal for peer-to-peer electronic cash. More than a technical innovation, Bitcoin introduced a monetary system based on transparency, scarcity, and verification over trust. For many, including those seeking alternatives to debt-based finance and riba, it remains a compelling vision of sound digital money. image
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amisatoshi 2 weeks ago
Closing Q&A from the Muslim Bitcoin Summit in London, with Simon Dixon, Mu'aawiyah Tucker, Subhan Tariq Esq., Abdullah ibn Oda (Muslim Bitcoiner) & Michael Howe ( The Bitcoin Guide). What's next for Palestine? Can Wall Street capture Bitcoin? How do you pay zakat in it? Where do you even start? Simon explains what actually keeps Bitcoin decentralised, who owns it, who mines it, who writes the code and who runs the nodes, and why, despite the pressure from Wall Street, he still trusts it. Shaykh Mu'aawiyah reminds us that Bitcoin is ultimately the people who use it, and that as Muslims we answer for our effort, not the outcome. The panel gets practical on starting small, moving to self-custody and paying zakat in Bitcoin, then turns to how a country like Syria can rebuild without surrendering its sovereignty to creditors. The Q&A covers: • What's next for Palestine, and why a sovereign wealth fund matters • Can Bitcoin be captured? Owners, miners, developers and nodes • Bitcoin is its people, and outcomes are with Allah • Getting started: small steps, self-custody and the Lightning Network • Paying zakat in Bitcoin, and how zakat naturally caps extreme wealth • Rebuilding Syria without giving up financial sovereignty • How finance and Bitcoin led two speakers to Islam Watch the full Q&A: youtu.be/e8n5T3h0VqQ Make sure you like and subscribe to the Bitcoin Majlis YouTube as we will be posting regular content, learning & resources! Full MBS26London playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaYwlHDGyJEI&si=24WTARcb7_h0n9A3 #MBS26London #Bitcoin #EscapeRiba image
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amisatoshi 2 weeks ago
Learn by doing. Start your Digital Hijrah journey now. 🚀 Four free, gamified simulators that teach you the tools for taking back control of your money, your devices and your voice online. Complete missions, earn XP and practise everything safely before trying it for real. 🟠 Bitcoin: set up a wallet, back up your seed, send and receive sats, beat the scammers, and see why riba-free money matters. 🐧 Linux: make a live USB, try Linux Mint, dual boot with Windows, and swap Big Tech apps for free ones. 🟣 Nostr: create your keys, post, zap, run your own relay, and own your identity online. 📱 GrapheneOS: install it on a virtual Pixel, lock it down, and set up profiles and permissions that protect you. ✅ Works on phone or laptop ✅ No sign-up, no tracking ✅ For everyone, young and old Learn it, then teach your family and friends. 🤝 #DigitalHijrah #Bitcoin #Linux #Nostr #GrapheneOS #Privacy #SelfCustody image
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amisatoshi 2 weeks ago
"You don't only pay tax when you cash your Bitcoin back into the bank." That's one of the biggest misconceptions this panel clears up, as Shukry Haleemdeen, a chartered management accountant and crypto tax specialist, walks through what UK Bitcoin holders actually need to know. UK Focus — Tax & Regulatory Landscape, Strategies in Savings, Donations & Charity Organisations Hosted by Hasnain Dhalla, with Shukry Haleemdeen, founder of My Crypto Tax, who has worked in crypto tax since 2014. Shukry explains how your tax depends on what you do with your Bitcoin, from capital gains for most holders to income tax for mining and staking and corporation tax for companies, and which moves count as a taxable event. He covers what HMRC can already see, including the new Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework, and the rule changes he expects in 2027. The panel then turns to the community: how businesses can accept Bitcoin, and why mosques and charities, which don't pay capital gains tax, have a real opportunity to accept Bitcoin donations, including zakat, as long as they take security and record-keeping seriously. Watch the full session: Subscribe, like and share on YouTube, we're uploading a new session every day! Full MBS26London playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaYwlHDGyJEI&si=24WTARcb7_h0n9A3 #MBS26London #Bitcoin #Tax #EscapeRiba image
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amisatoshi 2 weeks ago
Latest updates to the Sats Simulator Bitcoin learning game: Some minor bugs have been fixed and features have been added in Sats Simulator. The shared improvements have been been added to all four simulators. Sats Simulator fixes: 1. “Watch it” link: it now opens the mempool. The swipe-to-dismiss on toasts was swallowing clicks on links inside them. 2. “What do I do next?”: every mission step now has a short hint saying where and how to do it. - “Go” (shown as “Continue” once a mission is started) takes you to the screen for your next step, and opens the right tab. - A slim bar at the top of that screen shows the mission, the step and the hint, with a “Take me there” button when you’re elsewhere and an × to hide it. - For Fees and the mempool, it now opens the phone wallet and says to send with the Slow fee. 3. Flip coins to make a seed: - “Use my words” now stays visible after the seed is finished, so you don’t need Start over. - New Heads (1) and Tails (0) buttons let people enter real coin flips. A note says to only do this for a real seed on an offline device. 4. “Your coins” step completes as soon as you open the tab (bug): opening the tab no longer completes the step. The step is now “Combine small coins when fees are low” and completes when you actually combine. - If you have fewer than two coins, a “Receive three small tips” button gives you some to combine. 5. Combining coins says “when fees are low”, but they aren’t: there’s a new Quiet period button (on the coins card, in the mempool and in facilitator settings). Miners clear the backlog and fees stay at 1–2 sat/vB for a few blocks, so a cheap combine confirms in the next block. When fees are busy, the coins card says so and points to it. 6. Hardware wallet device scrolls out of view (layout): the device stays pinned on screen while you scroll Sats Desktop on laptop and desktop screens. On phones it stays stacked above as before. 7. Multisig spend summary only shows the start and end of the address: the spend shows the full address in the message and in the payment, in 4-character chunks, with a reminder to check every chunk on each device. 8. Running out of Lightning sats (feature): you can now add sats to your side of an open channel without closing it (a “splice-in”). - From the phone wallet: +25,000, +50,000 or +100,000 in the Lightning section. - From the hardware wallet: a new card 5 in Sats Desktop, signed on the device. - The sats join your side after one confirmation, and the “Not enough outbound liquidity” message now has a “Top up my channel” button. image
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amisatoshi 2 weeks ago
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amisatoshi 3 weeks ago
34 years ago today, 21 October 1992, Commodore launched the Amiga 1200. 32-bit 68EC020, AGA graphics, 2 MB RAM, £399. I remember selling my Amiga 500, and then somehow miraculously convincing my older brother (must've caught him on a good day) to give me the extra cash to upgrade to the new A1200. It was the golden age of home computing! image
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amisatoshi 3 weeks ago
How we hosted the Muslim Bitcoin Summit in London for under £15k. The unofficial playbook: how we ran MBS26 London for under £15k. We ran a two-day international conference in London on a budget most organisers would laugh at. Four months, ten volunteers, no organisation behind us, and not a penny of corporate sponsorship. Here's exactly how we did it. #Bitcoin #Islam #AntiRiba #Community #EscapeRiba #MBS26London image
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amisatoshi 1 month ago
Been building something this week ❄️ Icebox: an open-source desktop wallet for @Frostsnap devices, built on their own open-source Rust crates. Your devices create the keys together, nothing is fetched from a server, and every payment is approved on the device screens. Windows + Linux. Testing on signet now 👇 Thank you @Adam Mashrique for your help with pointing me to the Frostsnap repo.
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amisatoshi 1 month ago
Alhamdulillah 🟧 #MBS26London is done. Two days in London, people who flew in from all over the world, and a room full of scholars, builders and plebs with one aim: escape the ribawi fiat system and build the alternative. Entirely community-funded. Non-profit. Built by the community, for the community. Thank you and jazakumAllahu khayran to every speaker, sponsor, volunteer and attendee 🤍 The current system cannot be saved. It can be succeeded. #Bitcoin #EscapeRiba #DigitalHijrah image
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amisatoshi 1 month ago
We're live. The Muslim Bitcoin Summit is underway in London. The room is going to be full of people asking the question that brought us all here: what would it take to live, save and give without riba? Highlights, clips and key takeaways to follow. Sunday's Digital Hijrah workshops continue tomorrow: mslmbtcsummit.com #MBS26London #Bitcoin #EscapeRiba
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amisatoshi 1 month ago
2 DAYS TO GO! 📍 London, Saturday 10 October 🎟 mslmbtcsummit.com #MBS26London #Bitcoin #AntiRibaMoney
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amisatoshi 1 month ago
Simon Dixon @Simon Dixon will speak at the Muslim Bitcoin Summit @Muslim Bitcoin Summit with Keynote 2: "How Bitcoin Combats the Military, Financial and Technical Industrial Complex." Our money, savings and data flow into systems many of us would never knowingly support. This session looks at how that happens, and how opting out with Bitcoin changes the incentives. Three days to go. 📍 London, Saturday 10 October 🎟 mslmbtcsummit.com #MBS26London #Bitcoin #AntiRibaMoney image
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