Before any real Bitcoin circular economy can exist, you need a community capable of holding a meaningful share of its wealth in bitcoin. That should be the foundation. If people can’t sit tight through volatility and uncertainty, there’s nothing to circulate in the first place. Storing value demands far more patience and discipline than spending it, and I'd say that that cultural shift has to come before everything else.

X just keeps getting worse and worse. Barely any way to reach your audience. It's getting harder and harder to build a community there. Legacy social media is dying as it just keeps getting overrun by Indian bot farms. Being on Nostr just makes sense. The engagements here are a lot more meaningful, and people pay me sats for my posts.

4.12.3. "Is the Cypherpunks agenda _too extreme_?" - Bear in mind that most of the "Cypherpunks agenda," to the extent we can identify it, is likely to provoke ordinary citizens into _outrage_. Talk of anonymous mail, digital money, money laundering, information markets, data havens, undermining authority, transnationalism, and all the rest (insert your favorite idea) is not exactly mainstream. 4.12.4. "Crypto Anarchy sounds too wild for me." - I accept that many people will find the implications of crypto anarchy (which follows in turn from the existence of strong cryptography, via the Crypto Anarchy Principle) to be more than they can accept. - This is OK (not that you need my OK!). The house of Cypherpunks has many rooms. View quoted note →

Genuinely worth a listen. This might be the single best podcast episode for explaining Bitcoin to normie Muslims who are stuck inside traditional finance frameworks. He breaks down a lot of the core ideas from @Saifedean Ammous's Bitcoin Standard in a way they can actually digest. He’s basically the Muslim Michael Saylor! (minus the riba vibes, obviously, I just mean the orange pilling energy)

SAIF LOVES US AND WE LOVE SAIF View quoted note →

DON'T DO IT DON'T DO IT DON'T DO IT

SAIF is the only thing that is able to fuse both cypherpunk sovereignty and hyperstitional cybernetics into a single Islamic civilizational engine by giving both a shared metaphysics + moral telos, and a coherent mission for building actual power in digital frontier View quoted note →

Nostr is just the continuation of the cypherpunk mailing list View quoted note →

2.5.7. "I'm a newcomer to this stuff...how should I get started?" - Start by reading some of the material cited. Don't worry too much about understanding it all. - Follow the list. - Find an area that interests you and concentrate on that.

Getting quite a number of DMs asking me what this SAIF stuff is about. I might have to write something. In the meantime, read the essays. It's all laid out here:

SAIF - Information

Society for an Alternative Islamic Futurology - Information

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The way to avoid sounding like AI isn't so much to "dumb" down your writing but to write in such a way that AI can not exactly replicate. Not saying that I've been able to do this, I'm just saying. But you must find your voice. I also like it when I read something and it's not exactly grammatically correct. View quoted note →

IT'S HERE ENJOY(CAT) View quoted note →

"Dar al-Islam / Dar al-Harb" becomes an increasingly useless dichotomy in the age of hypermodernity when we all already live in the cloud of Dar al-GAMAM (Google, Amazon, Meta, Apple, Microsoft) View quoted note →

There is no future without periphery. The periphery is where the future exists Nostr is a big part of that periphery, thus it is the future

This right here is how the Muslim must think about freedom and sovereignty View quoted note →