And just received my Hodl butter from @Oshi (推し)! It's actually really good, and the kids love it! Bitcoin is money View quoted note →

It's long but I promise you it's worth reading. Check it out: View quoted note →

Great episode! I like how the conversation naturally went from talking about educating kids about bitcoin to building digital ID. Also I greatly appreciate the ad for Orphans of Uganda!

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Riba Resistance • 7. Teaching Our Kids About Bitcoin (with Ashik Usman) • Listen on Fountain

This guest interview episode features Ashik Usman, the author of Bitcoin is Halal, a groundbreaking children’s book that bridges Islamic ethi...

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Looks like my local masjid is fasting starting on Thursday. So much fighting in the local group chat over moon sightings

So many bitcoiners and shitcoiners debate about Bitcoin's viability as a medium of exchange, and Africans be out here just using it as everyday payment like it's nothing 😂 Always so inspiring to see. View quoted note →

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Amazing that we can get over 1400 sats for a single riba cuckbuck. Incredible opportunity. Alhamdulilah.

"now is the time to start building! These pedophiles have been exposed!!" -builds a fiat banking app 😐

Another day, another headline of Muslims getting debanked

What's the best general introduction to Nostr? Preferably a blog post with links that help the user download a client and make an account and wallet. I got lots of people on legacy social media asking...

son was playing Planet Crafter and asked me "hey dad what does biomass mean?" "Have a seat my son, we have a lot to discuss"

Understand that influencers on legacy social media are structurally incapable of thinking outside their slop based monetization loop. Their incentives have atrophied their imagination and their will. They neither value nor can meaningfully comprehend personal sovereignty. Even the loudly anti-Zionist ones. They would rather plead for engagement scraps from technocratic gatekeepers than reclaim an inch of personal agency. Trying to onboard these people to Nostr is pure wasted effort. They are the absolute worst candidates for nostr pilling.

Started watching Orb. Really great anime so far. I'm definitely hooked. Synopsis: Orb: On the Movements of the Earth is a historical drama anime about a secret society in 15th-century Europe fighting to prove the heliocentric theory (that the Earth revolves around the Sun) against the powerful, oppressive Church that enforces the geocentric view, exploring themes of scientific discovery, faith, power, and the human pursuit of truth through a multi-generational saga of scholars risking their lives for forbidden knowledge.

Great post. The thoughts seem to be in a good direction. "I can’t look at someone straight in the eyes and tell them that Primal is the next TikTok or Youtube Killer etc." Exactly. A Nostr app is a fundamentally different thing compared to TikTok or youtube or Twitter. Can't market it the same way and we should embrace that fact. We should not seek to emulate their hyper attention grabbing incentives and structure because it will end horribly. Need to think in terms of programming different incentives and priming new users for new outlook. Push them into the direction where they don't want to be a normie anymore. Help them feel good about owning their shit in cyber. View article →

Many people still think the future is something you build by launching a shiny new app/platform/interface and convincing enough people to move in, but I think that instinct misses the real problem. If the underlying rails are owned, if they are permissioned, or if they are legible to the same institutions that hollowed out the last internet, then all you’ve done is recreate the old world with better aesthetics and a more self-flattering story. Culture and myth are important, sure, but those alone cannot not save you. If the underlying infrastructure can be shut off, throttled, monetized, or “moderated” out of existence, then whatever you’re building is temporary and permissioned, no matter how compelling it feels in the moment. What actually lasts are movements that understand the necessity of long term memory, economic/social coordination, and exit. Memory can not be outsourced to hostile archivists who will sanitize it later (Wikipedia). Coordination can not depend on platforms that survive by diluting signal (which were distorted to begin with) into slop. And exit can't be a promise deferred to “phase two” in the convoluted roadmap. It has to be native. This is why serious movements always look selective from the outside. Not because they idolize exclusivity, but because coherence requires friction (toxicity). Of course, open doors at the initial stages with no standards end up recreating the same slop timelines. But a shared mission, rigid where it matters and flexible where it doesn’t, is the main outlook that keeps a group from collapsing into endless internal argument or external capture. That’s why the real work ends up being much more concrete than people expect. It's hard work and it's mostly boring. It looks like taking custody of your money so it can’t be debased, frozen, or moralfagged away, and coordinating with others on protocols that don’t require approval or some kind of brand alignment. It looks like building public spaces that anyone can read but only those willing to actually put skin in the game can meaningfully participate in. Money that settles without intermediaries, and communication that persists without an algorithm deciding who is visible, should be the bare minimum. Identity should be expressed through the hard work of figuring out how to use keys and building local reputation rather than outsourcing operations to zionist owned platforms and obsessing over stupid follower counts. This is less about launching something “new” and more about choosing to build long-term on different rails entirely, then slowly watching a culture spontaneously form around the people willing to live with the discipline those rails demand. TL;DR: stack sats and shit post on Nostr more

This is an interesting feature that I think nostr apps should incorporate. I view nostr as a tribe building engine. In legacy social media, users are algorithmically inventivized to follow and prop up influencers, and everyone is in a rage baiting rat race to get more engagement for potential revenue from social media overlords like Elon. The result is slop, predictably. I think things are arranged differently here on nostr where people naturally gravitate toward a group of like minded people. I mean this happens on legacy SM, but the algorithm isn't geared toward that type of community building. I have a feeling that "influencers" don't really thrive here, and we should be building around that and cultivating an toxic environment that rejects legacy influencer behavior. Growth on nostr should be about which tribes you're affiliated with, and your reputation with them, rather than how many mindless followers you've got. View quoted note →

But seriously what the heck is happening with the UAE recently?? It's like they recently cut their propaganda funding or they're using some shit tier promotional/marketing agency. I don't remember it being this egregious, or maybe I'm just now noticing. It's comical how bad it is.

Interesting, and predictable, to see governments everywhere sprinting toward mandatory ID checks for age verification just for people to do anything online We're watching the internet get fenced in platform by platform. I suspect this crackdown will end up accelerating Nostr adoption inshaAllah. Get ready for the next wave!

Allah karim

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