If anyone has any issues with their gums, be it irritation, bleeding, or even infection (which is almost always the real cause of gum bleeding) then something I testify to work wonders is: 1) Salt 🧂 (I have always used pink Himalayan salt) 2) coconut oil Steps, mix some salt into the melted coconut oil. It won’t dissolve so don’t wait around hoping it will. Then apply it on the gums, preferably in between. Use those teeth floss things to get it into the teeth between the gums. After a few days you’ll notice some benefits, but a week would be enough for bleeding to even stop entirely. No need for chemical mouthwash or abrasive harmful solutions. Just those two ingredients.

Ok, so debrief. It’s been a while Joined the chaincode lab’s BOSS Challenge, and they had a two part project. First is to make a wallet that can get the balance of a taproot extended private key, and part 2 is to choose a UTXO, send some money to a taproot multisig and then spend that multisig. So completed part 1 in Python, and then wanted to push myself, so re-did that exercise using the Python code as a template to do it entirely in c++. Then did part 2 in Python. I didn’t have time to do it in c++, and unfortunately completed it last night, which was a week late 😢. But got it done nonetheless. So what I’ve learnt? • How to derive addresses, public and private keys from an extended private key. • Dug deep into the OOP of Python 🐍 • Learnt how to transfer my knowledge of Python code to c++ code. • How to compile code in c++ while integrating libraries. • How to make my own library in both c++ and Python. • How to construct taproot txs, bot the key path spends and script part spends. • Finally how to write out all the necessary code and maths to do all of it manually. So didn’t use any external libraries, except to hash, as I couldn’t be bothered to code that from scratch. But I do all the elliptic curve arithmetic as well as schnors algorithm for making signatures and verifying them. Alhamdulillah, the journey continues. I’m one step closer to transferring that knowledge about making a wallet to a production product. There is still a lot I have to learn that’s for sure. But getting there. Good to combine the technical knowledge with the Sharee’ah knowledge.

Allaah refers specifically to birds having their own language…something that was known for a while from the Islamic text. Yet another example of the Quraan accurately describing reality. A fascinating video also. ‫وَوَرِثَ سُلَیۡمَـٰنُ دَاوُۥدَۖ وَقَالَ یَـٰۤأَیُّهَا ٱلنَّاسُ عُلِّمۡنَا مَنطِقَ ٱلطَّیۡرِ وَأُوتِینَا مِن كُلِّ شَیۡءٍۖ إِنَّ هَـٰذَا لَهُوَ ٱلۡفَضۡلُ ٱلۡمُبِینُ﴿ ١٦ ﴾‬ And Solomon inherited David. He said, O people, we have been taught the language of birds, and we have been given from all things. Indeed, this is evident bounty. An-Naml, Ayah 16

Muslims think very deeply about Bitcoin, will the price go up, will we be in a bull 🐂 market or bear 🐻? Will Michael Saylor buy more or dump his bags? But what we should be thinking about is, have we paid zakat on it? When do we pay zakat on it? How can we give it in Bitcoin?

Every so often, when I receive money in fiat, I have this mini-dialogue in my head… “Should I smash buy bitcoin? Or wait until it goes down lower and I get a better price?” And like clockwork, I have to remind myself “I’m not here to ‘make more fiat! I’m here to escape Ribaa and to be self sovereign with my wealth, so when I’m asked on the day of judgement ‘how did you struggle for your deen in this world?’ I can say ‘I avoided Ribaa fiat even everyone around me told me it’s not worth it!!’” Guys, it’s 100% worth it.

Self sovereign much?!

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Whoever boycotts coffee from Starbucks yet does not boycott fiat is lying to themselves … just saying

I just finished chapter 10 in @savingsatoshi!

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Done, alhamdulillaah. This was a challenging experience, and worth every step of the way. Loved the story, the tasks, the challenge. It’s worth it if you know python or javascript. I have to say, however, that the cohorts I did this year with @bitshala_org @CodeOrangeDevs and reading @jimmysong Programming Bitcoin, along with doing all the exercises and tasks in the above went a long way to completing this. It would have taken me easily more than double the time without that year long intro, maybe triple. So if you know nothing about the inner workings of Bitcoin, never engaged with a node via rpc calls, or have no idea what an OP_CODE is, then maybe read up on those things first. Besides this...This is a GREAT way to get into Bitcoin development. It will (or should) expand your mind in what you can do with Bitcoin, and the possibilities with this decentralised censorship resistant Halal money for everyone. And if you want to start this journey, check out above mentioned cohort with Bitshala, CodeOrange or Jimmy’s book. Bitcoin development is part knowledge about coding languages, and part Bitcoin procedures and protocols. How to communicate with the network

I just finished chapter 8 in @savingsatoshi! Code your way through the mysteries of bitcoin at

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This one was a real challenge...Got there in the end

Glad to be a part of this discussion One of the best panel of Bitcoin MENA conference this year 😘

Great interview with Bruce and Saif (Corrected link)

Tbh, for me, whoever didn’t know the US before now, must be totally blind…not slight against the brother, but I was never under any delusion about the US (or the UK) even before I became Muslim.

If anyone wants to join the ‘Learning Bitcoin from command line” cohort. I’m taking part as a TA so all are welcome

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Ppl often ask me about the nisaab (& therefore the zakaat) on Bitcoin. The easiest way to see the nisaab is to go to trading view and type the following: XAUUSD*2.733/BTCUSD You can copy/paste that if you want, & it will show you how much coin you need to be above the nisaab. Once you have that value, count 355 days from that point, & if you have stayed above the daily value you see on the side, then you pay zakaat. Not on ramadhaan, but 355 days from the moment you were above that line (assuming you have no other money). Then just pay 2.5% from that.

What this story & similar stories like it fail to capture are the other factors outside of this oversimplified scenario. It DIDN’T talk about how those men earned their money…What fraction of their wealth their payment was, etc. and I don’t even agree with taxes… https://xcancel.com/alanjlsmith/status/1994379528320192580 The rich guy paid £50, but if it was 0.001% of his net worth, while the 5th guy paid 30% of his net worth, the story is now VERY different. If the 1st-5th guy struggles to pay their bills, while the 10th guy has multiple houses & a private jet, these are VERY different ppl. So from a Muslim perspective, what would be a righteous move is if the 10th guy would just say ‘hey guys, this is on me’ and guy 1-9 would say ‘Maa Shaa Allah!!’ And make duaa for him. Everyone winning. This is how it works with us. And the joke is, this is what you see. Just google search the many MANY videos of Muslims in say Saudi Arabia fighting to pay the bill. That’s ’Karan’, and this civilisation. “Whoever protects his own self from the selfishness of his own soul will be from the successful ones.”

Just updated my LinkedIn profile with what I’ve done this year so far. Alhamdulillah, let’s hope I can do good for the world, especially in bringing Muslims to the Bitcoin anti-Ribaa revolution.

I’m actually in a bit of shock tbh at how quickly the west were able to turn Muslim attention away from Gaza, Israel and the west’s manifest support for the genocide towards Muslim leadership as if what the UK and US did and continue to do never happened. Are Muslim diaspora that sheepish and hyper-emotional that they can’t see the obvious “Bait and switch” going on?

Don’t you just hate it when you have those bad dreams that was just a dream, but you wake up with the mood as if the dream was real? Then you can’t shake that feeling and upset 😢.

So I guess there was no “Uptober” then lol 😂