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Samourai Letter #1: Notes From The Inside

Syndicated from The Rage: "Turning yourself in to be incarcerated tugs against every fundamentally primal instinct we have as human beings," writes...

Sobering read. Keonne met some Muslim brothers on his first night of being locked up. May Allah guide him and free him.

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.

X is trying hard to be like nostr 😂

The algorithmic feeds on legacy social media (LSM) are going to continue to deteriorate over time, basically turning into reddit front page slop. Being on LSM is proving to be such a waste of time man. You literally have to post like a slop influencer just for the elon algorithm to grant you the privilege of having any engagement. It sucks. View quoted note →

And inshaAllah we're definitely planning on having more stuff related to nostr. If we can get 200-300 people for this summit, that's a huge opportunity to nostr pill Muslims View quoted note →

Lots of exciting developments happening! View quoted note →

BIG NEWS We're excited to announce the Second Annual Muslim Bitcoin Summit, taking place April 17–19 in Dallas, Texas. Last year showed there’s a real hunger in our community for serious, grounded conversations about Bitcoin from a Muslim perspective. This year we’re taking it further. The summit will bring together Muslims from around the world who are thinking deeply about Bitcoin, sound money, and what financial sovereignty actually looks like in practice. Expect thoughtful talks, open discussion, and practical workshops focused on custody, sovereignty, and privacy. Early bird registration is now open at mslmbtcsummit.com If last year was any indication, spots won’t last long. Looking forward to seeing you there!

Gotta order some View quoted note →

PayPal is teaming up with Microsoft to launch their copilot checkout Normies are so cooked 😂

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That's the vision that needs to be communicated more to Nostr devs, users, and outsiders. Think of Nostr as more than just an alternative social media. It is the permissionless substrate for cyber cult formation, from which sovereign local governance and censorship-resistant economic structures will emerge. View quoted note →

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 →

Potential learning opportunity for nostr devs and users to see how this plays out. My gut feeling is that rumble creators don't care about getting paid in Bitcoin and will want to be paid in permissioned stablecoins, if there's any appetite for that at all. So this wallet will hardly get used since rumble is modeling itself on the same monetization logic as legacy social media. View quoted note →

Nightmare blunt rotation

The shitcoiner must cling to this belief for he cannot face the reality that Bitcoin via Lightning already makes his token irrelevant Letting go would force him to sit with the psychological weight of being wrong

"Cybertechnics will invite us to think deeper as 21st Century Muslims about the relationship between the State and the Believer. Hence the Cyber Muslim has to adopt planetery thinking, finding solutions to shared global challenges. For the message of Islam was not sent to one people but to all of mankind." 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

I love taking the kids out to go hiking in the forest Side note, the camera quality on the pixel9a is not bad!

I remember this sheikh saying at one point that Bitcoin is considered haram because it had no intrinsic value and it is too volatile. Funny how all of that doesn't matter since he's been censored from the fiat system. Funny how that rigid approach to Fiqh doesn't matter when reality hits. Anyway, welcome to the club.

"We are not seeing the end of history, but the end of the "Global Village." The world is being partitioned into high-walled gardens. Whether it is the U.S. in Venezuela, Russia in the Donbas, Middle East's straits, or China in the South China Sea, the message is the same: the era of universal rules is over, and the era of the Regional Pole has begun." View article →

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