"How much resistance can node operators exercise at the policy layer without attempting to force a consensus change?" This right here is what monetary maximalist bitcoiners need to explore and focus on going forward. View quoted note →

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

Nostr brothers be building View quoted note →

Ultimately, I find this recent fatwa to be irrelevant for what @BitcoinMajlis is trying to do. I do not even think it deserves a serious response. If the mufti had declared Bitcoin halal, what exactly would that have changed? At best, it would have given the Muslim biomass religious permission to trade it and leverage it degenately, and launch another thousand useless tokens, and rebuild Islamic riba on crypto rails. The Islamic finance crowd would not suddenly become principled Bitcoiners in a Digital Hijrah sense. They would copy Michael Seller’s treasury strategy, do it badly, somehow turn it into a fucking sukuk, and rehypothecate everything. But hey! It's all shariah compliant! This is why I have little interest in campaigning for a halal fatwa on Bitcoin. It's also quite curious that the people most desperate for scholarly approval are not looking for monetary truth. They are looking for legitimacy for their shitcoinery. If these scholarly opinions still carried the authority people pretend they do, the real conversation would begin with fiat money itself, with its institutionalized riba + debasement. But anyway, there are better uses of our time than begging states and scholars to understand what is already happening without them. They do not need to endorse us. They need to stay out of the way. We do not need them for Bitcoin to succeed, but it will become increasingly obvious that they will need the Muslims who are now building on it and actually using it as anti-Riba money.

The Debate Industrial Complex and the Wrestling Match For God

By Delman Rasheed

Great essay that's very relevant to Nostr. This is all downstream from letting (zionist) big tech set the conditions of the algorithm built to extract attention + monetize outrage + turn communities into audiences ready to consume slop. This is not so much a content problem as it is an infrastructural problem. We need to start migrating toward spaces where Muslims can actually build durable online communities, control their own networks, own their identities, run their own relays, support each other directly, and have conversations that are not subservient to the algorithm.

Brother @alp stands on business

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Chapter 3 of an exploration of the K-Wave. On parasitized fans, sacred spaces, living currency and psychotechnologies Read here:

SAIF - K‑Waves and K‑Tactics — Phase 1: The Fan Economy

Society for an Alternative Islamic Futurology - K‑Waves and K‑Tactics — Phase 1: The Fan Economy

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Almost every time an influencer laments the death of culture, they're participating in its destruction. As a social type, the modern influencer is largely incapable of genuinely engaging with or producing culture as living tradition, only of packaging it into monetized content. View quoted note →

Nostr is a farmers market in cyberspace View quoted note →

So many possibilities! We could really start to build a distributed network of sovereign interconnected nodes in cyberspace, an Islamicate digital "waqf" that becomes infrastructure + civilizational substrate for a true Muslim revival beyond states and other legacy institutions View quoted note →

@ابو مريم a series of essays to come that might interest you. "Why I’m Not Hallaqian: A Critique of The Impossible State"

An Excerpt from a Lecture; 'Why I’m Not Hallaqian'

Between critique and construction in Hallaq’s theory of the modern state

It's been clear to me for a while now that nostr is more than just an alternative to social media, it's so much more than that, but I would not go as far as to say that nostr is "a new internet". It's clearly not that. Need a good catchy narrative that lands somewhere in the middle.

NOOOOOOOOOOO WHAT ARE YOU DOING YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE MAKING THAT TOMATO PASTE NOT BUILDING TIES WITH THE JEWS

Digital Hijrah — A Practical Guide to Digital Sovereignty

A follow pack for pro BIP-110 bitcoiners on Nostr. Let me know if you want to be added. View article →

Wow. This movie looks like it'll be good.

Jummah mubarak Alhamdulilah. Just gave a khutba at my local masjid. Gave everyone a piece of my mind about the community infighting currently happening. Felt good to get up there and rant.