Quite a good video considering it came from someone who isn’t Muslim

⚡🇮🇷 Cost of the Iran war is now 900 million dollars a day. In other speak, the US spent its entire yearly budget for public education last week.

A great take on what’s happening.

Brief biography of Peter Todd.

Went on Twitter today and it’s crazy the amount of unnecessary hate directed towards UAE and sometimes absolute joy over it being bombed. From Muslims by the way…crazy how that makes sense to anyone not overcome with jealousy and/hatred. Imagine celebrating a Muslim country being bombed…for whatever the reason.

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!

Saving Satoshi

Saving Satoshi

Explore the mysteries of Satoshi and learn about bitcoin along the way.

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