Really shows why we need nostr, and especially why we need nostr to stay as neutral as possible View quoted note →

Nostr devs are built different 😂 View quoted note →

My body is ready SAIF 23/11 View quoted note →

Alhamdulilah. The presentation went well. Had a lot of people come up to me and ask questions. And some of the questions were pretty good, but a lot of it was the usual "how do I buy the bitcoin???" I also gave away a bunch of copies of my book. And every single person I talked to asked for my LinkedIn 😂 "nah I'm not on linkedin but here's my npub" View quoted note →

"Jack Mallers you are in bed with mafia players. Charlie Kirk tried to exit the mafia. You can't exit the mafia once you're in bed with the mafia."

I don’t get how so many Bitcoin developers, people who have been here for years and are objectively brilliant, still can’t grasp this one obvious reality that’s been smacking them in the face the whole time. Bitcoin culture will always drift toward purity tests and so-called "narrow mindedness". Some might see this as a bug imported from fiat but it’s literally how the thing protects itself. If you want relevance in this space, you stick to the core principles (fixed supply, small blockspace, cypherpunk ethos, whatever) because the moment you wander off, everyone stops taking you seriously. You are already participating in purity tests whether you think you’re “above” them or not! And I get it. You want to seem open, inclusive, intellectually flexible, whatever makes your normie tech friends think you’re not part of some terrifyingly closed-minded cult. Heaven forbid anyone accuse you of conviction! But know this, every single time you drift from Bitcoin’s ideological spine, you will lose. You can react emotionally to this, but it’s literally what has happened, repeatedly and brutally. Look at the blocksize war. Look at every attempt to smuggle in shitcoin-adjacent “innovation.” It fails because Bitcoin only survives by being toxically hostile to garbage ideas. If you want to be part of Bitcoin’s future, you’re going to have to embrace the cult. Fucking deal with it.

Jummah Mubarak y'all

Omar Suleiman and Yasir Qadhi are starting to notice how legacy social media works against them. We could see another wave of Muslim Nostr-pilling soon inshaAllah

One of the main reasons that some nobody like me ended up having to write a book like this is that scholars that analyze bitcoin do it from a hyper fixation on Fiqh that ends up not being very useful or practical. Like scholarly analysis will immediately narrow itself to legal classification about whether it’s ‘mal’ or ‘thaman’ or whatever instead of asking what kind of moral order it enables, or the possibility that it could resist institutional riba and state control, or how it could empower the individual Muslim. This is the tragedy of "Fiqh Maximalism" as it applies to Bitcoin. And in that vacuum, ordinary Muslims (like you and me!) who actually live under the tyranny of fiat have to step up and articulate the vision the scholars were supposed to. View quoted note →