I find it funny that the core devs are using Google, and knots devs are using Discord. Poetic, and it really encapsulates the state of Bitcoin development right now. View quoted note →

The logical endpoint of Islamic banking/finance

FOSS or nothing #staySAIF

Parts for Seedsigner are probably about to be sold out soon. Grab them while you can. Oh and buy some dice.

I'm so proud of my son. He's been playing around with Scratch and getting familiar with how to program a game. And he's been learning from YouTube tutorials, especially from this channel here: He's basically been able to recreate Geometry Dash in Scratch from following the tutorial, and it looks really good! He loves to show me what he's making in Scratch. I'm even more impressed that he's able to sit down for 2 hours at a time and just focus on building his game, and he's only 8 years old! He has this incredible ability to get in the zone and just flow. Very impressive for his age. Need to cultivate his drive and push him to continue this. It's just so amazing to watch, and I am so grateful to be his father. Alhamdulilah.

Just noticed that the Bitcoin Majlis relay has 50 articles posted so far! Let's keep writing and let's keep growing!

Another great read "The appropriate measure of commitment is therefore not whether someone would die for Bitcoin. A dramatic sacrifice may take a moment. Building a school takes years. Operating an honest business takes decades. Raising competent children takes a generation. Preserving an institution without capturing it for private benefit may require a lifetime. The more serious commitment is the willingness to live under discipline. It appears in those who save patiently, tell the truth when deception is profitable, care for others during hardship and build institutions they may never personally control." View article →

What I find most illuminating about the anti-BIP110 campaign isn't really any of the technical arguments (although those are important), but the overall social strategy. There was a real coalition of privacy advocates (like Samourai and Wasabi developers agreeing on something!) and certain independent developers and long-time critics of Bitcoin Knots who opposed BIP110, yet they were largely overshadowed while the campaign instead wrapped itself around Saylor, Andy, Coinbase, and other institutions in the "Bitcoin Security Consortium." From a consensus building perspective, that seems like a missed opportunity or an odd own goal. I mean if I were trying to build opposition, I'd have elevated the privacy and decentralization voices, not the institutions that many Bitcoiners are already largely skeptical of. The technical debate is one thing, ok, but at the social layer the anti-BIP110 side seemed to misunderstand how Bitcoiners actually form consensus, like they are socially retarded.

May Allah destroy every single one of these companies

Can't stand folks on here saying nostr is dead and complaining it hasn't reached mass adoption or whatever. It's like watching someone complain in 1973 that ARPANET hasn't replaced the television. Not only are your expectations far removed from reality, you still don't even know what function nostr is actually trying to serve because you still haven't done the work in trying to grok what the Nostr protocol even is. Take time to reflect and study first. Maybe start asking yourself why you are even here in the first place.

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Bruh Yaqeen institute got their own closed source app now. Need to call them out. They should open source it. We will force them to start the Digital Hijrah

Nostr is the bronze age collapse

We'll actually be talking about this on day 2 of the @Muslim Bitcoin Summit in London inshaAllah Get your ticket if you want be part of the conversation on the future of network states. mslmbtcsummit.com View quoted note →

I have a jellyfin server set up on my umbrel. I'm wondering if I should torrent media from my umbrel directly or torrent from my laptop and just ftp the media over to the umbrel. Is torrenting even a good idea on the same server that's running my bitcoin + lightning node? Not sure the best way to go about this. Obviously the bitcoin stuff and media would be on separate drives. #asknostr

So René Guénon is worth reading because he explains, indirectly of course, why Bitcoin and Nostr only make full sense inside a larger revolt against modernity. The "reign of quantity" is a world where whatever cannot be measured, priced, optimized, converted into data is treated as unreal, and fiat money and algorithmic social media are basically perfect expressions of that worldview. Indeed, Bitcoin restores limits to money, while Nostr removes some of the centralized choke points over digital communication and identity/memory. But neither automatically restores actual tradition, and anyone treating protocols as a complete worldview has simply built another modern idol. But, what we need to do, I think, is attempt to extend Guénon into the realm of "digital power," (need a better phrase here) as surveillance platforms, AI, Riba powered finance, behavioral algorithms, etc., now shape what people see and desire. The way I see it, the real task is to place Bitcoin and Nostr beneath an Islamic telos, using them to support some sort of inner reform, independent sovereign communities, and resilient institutions capable of resisting both riba and digital capture. InshaAllah, together they can help create space for a more vicegerent and spiritually serious Muslim life. View quoted note →

Really disappointed seeing so many LSM bitcoiners celebrate this. They literally trust one shitcoiner faggot to dictate their feeds and timelines and don't see anything wrong with it. I mean how could you verify the change was even made? And even if you could verify it, you don't get to participate in the change or "upgrade." You're just forced to go along with whatever he says. Alhamdulilah for nostr!

Sorry guys, it's an insanely busy week for me, so won't be able to post or respond much. InshaAllah I'll get to posting more next week. I have so much I want to say!

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