Muslim societies have been in intellectual decline since the Abbasids decided that the state should employ official faqihs. The massive investments of the Abbasids in science and culture marked the beginning of the centralization of Islamic thought and, consequently, its intellectual atrophy. Fiqh did not experience its golden age during the Abbasid period. Nothing has changed since then—only increasing state control over Islamic thought. Bitcoin presents an opportunity for Muslim thinkers to build wealth independent of funding from taghuti states. I envision a future resembling the earlier generations of faqihs and ʿalims, who were mostly independent merchants and businessmen.