Mbitcoiner
Muslim Bitcoiner

We just put together an agenda for the 2nd annual Muslim Bitcoin Summit!
We've got a pretty packed lineup with a range of important topics that Muslims interested in Bitcoin and Nostr will genuinely benefit from.
Check it out here:
https://mslmbtcsummit.com
Be sure to reserve your tickets soon. Spots are filling up quickly!
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2026-03-23 16:13:43 UTC

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Welcome!

2026-03-15 13:51:42 UTC

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Yes this! @npub122e…s45w you should come to the Muslim Bitcoin Summit next month ( https://mslmbtcsummit.com/) and promote your app! We'd love to have you

2026-03-12 07:00:22 UTC

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Agreed. Seems like two things need to happen simultaneously. One, new users need to be incentivized to gravitate toward thier cliques (this will require some effort from new user, client can't do this completely). 2, the big cliques need to be broken into sub cliques maybe? But we need to clearly conceptualize what we mean by clique and how that concretely translates into a Nostr thing

2026-03-11 14:00:24 UTC

And just received my Hodl butter from @npub1uzt…qtrh!
It's actually really good, and the kids love it!
Bitcoin is money
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2026-03-11 13:55:05 UTC

This is actually good news for Nostr
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2026-03-09 06:34:02 UTC

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Damn! Had no idea

2026-03-08 07:48:04 UTC

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This is so badly needed man. Glad you're working on it. Looking forward to this

2026-02-26 15:20:07 UTC

Wow. They really do ship your ghee with a copy of the cypherpunk manifesto 😂
#nevent1q…vyc2
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2026-02-16 20:45:18 UTC

Back in 2022, sheikh Jamaal al-Din Zarabozo wrote a paper analyzing the permissibility of Bitcoin/crypto
It’s a seminal work, but there’s one section that felt weirdly underdeveloped. I was honestly shocked when I first read it. He wrote:
"9.0.5 When One Believes that Current Monies are Ribawi (Interest-
Based), Evil, and Corrupt:
A Muslim could actually believe that Bitcoin/Cryptocurrency is more “halaal” than the current fiat money system. The individual may wish to have nothing to do with the current ribawi (interest-based system) and sees cryptocurrency as a halal alternative. One should recall that Bitcoin was actually developed in response to the financial crisis of 2007, when it became clear that many financial institutions were essentially corrupt and could not be trusted. In this case, the purchase of cryptocurrencies should be permissible."
In other words, he explicitly validates the view that today’s fiat system is ribawi and morally corrupt, and that a Muslim may use Bitcoin as a halal alternative to opt out of that system.
My argument takes the logic to its conclusion. If fiat is truly ribawi and Bitcoin is a viable exit, then this shifts from “permissible” to “obligatory” (wajib) under the duty to avoid riba as much as one is able.
Exploring that shift is the central theme of my book.
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2026-02-12 15:50:54 UTC

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I will say that the event is listed on a few Muslim event websites that are local to the Dallas area. I can't remember the websites but some brothers in the Majlis have been working behind the scenes to promote it alhamdulilah. Should be a big turn out inshaAllah!

2026-02-02 18:12:51 UTC

@npub1qqv…cn3w
Thoughtful post and highlights things we should be discussing. Let me push back a little.
So I think the frustration comes from treating Nostr as if it’s supposed to behave like a better TikTok or a less evil X. But that is not the case.
Nostr doesn’t exist to absorb mass outrage cycles every time legacy social media (LSM) humiliates itself, and it certainly isn’t designed to sustain the attention seeking economy that influencers depend on to survive. The people who thrive on LSM are optimized for constant algorithmic validation and a steady drip of dopamine for themselves and their followers. But Nostr offers none of that on purpose. There’s no opaque feed or audience to game, no centralized amplification, etc. Expecting large influencers to migrate en masse is like expecting casino owners to promote sobriety!
And I'm sure you already know that the hype around the latest censorship panic will burn out like it always does, and I think it's because the underlying incentive structure never changes. Nostr don't need to play that game!
So I believe that’s why user growth here is necessarily slower. It's more selective and it will be more painful. Nostr needs people who are explicitly not "influencers", people that are ready to trade that reach for agency. Marketing (in the traditional sense) won’t fix this because the bottleneck is disposition. We don’t “acquire” users who don’t want to be unhooked from the slop machine. We wait for the small minority who already feel the problem deeply enough to accept the costs of sovereignty. Now that doesn’t mean building tools is pointless or that education doesn’t matter (you've done very well on the education front!), but I do firmly believe that the success metric is wrong.
Nostr is not a mass market product competing for attention. Think of it as THE exit ramp. And exit ramps are mostly quiet and ugly, and mostly ignored until someone is genuinely ready to leave.
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2026-01-31 20:00:20 UTC

😂 So apparently Epstein and his friends were getting scammed by Craig Wright
Not only that, but Epstein also wanted to start his own shariah compliant shitcoin to scam Muslims
Safe to assume that current halal shitcoin projects were most likely funded by Epstein network
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2026-01-21 01:21:58 UTC

"Your weak structures are stuck in meatspace while cyber has already gone and liquidated your assets leaving you stuck trying to vibe out an meme-gasm with a tool you don't own and somehow thinking that isn't cuckery.
"We need our own platform."
"We need a compliant muslim crypto with halal yield."
"We need to build according to our values."
YOU'VE LOST THE PLOT.
Stop complaining about the coal mines when you are still in them."
#naddr1qq…8qr4

2026-01-21 00:04:09 UTC

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2026-01-18 01:00:30 UTC

"The invitation stands before each reader: not to await some revolutionary moment that will never arrive, but to begin creating spaces of freedom wherever opportunity allows. A garage where neighbors fix cars without ASE certification requirements. A kitchen where grandmothers teach cooking without health department interference. A workshop where electronics get repaired despite manufacturers' legal threats. A garden where food grows without agricultural department permission. Each tiny zone of autonomy teaches lessons, builds networks, and demonstrates possibilities that inspire others to claim their own freedoms."
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2026-01-18 00:42:21 UTC

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I like this design approach a lot. Makes sense intuitively and it gives the user some direct control over types of notifications.
I could see following a specific hashtag be a priority 1 for me if I was super interested in that specific topic.

2026-01-14 15:01:40 UTC

Sounds like a sovereign individual framework to kickstart network state formation 👇
"The Two Realms framework exploits this caution. Rather than confronting the state or waiting for territorial escape, strong individuals build a second realm that operates alongside the first. The first realm consists of public spaces, state-controlled infrastructure, the official economy with its banking system and tax apparatus, the courts and police and prisons. The second realm consists of private spaces, encrypted communications, alternative monetary systems, and physical locations where those who claim self-sovereignty can meet, trade, and collaborate outside the state's direct oversight."
#naddr1qq…0z5k

2026-01-14 05:52:49 UTC

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Us normies are just now starting to notice. But it's been especially bad lately. My engagement on that app has tanked massively recently.

2026-01-14 04:01:56 UTC

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My kids love this show. Alhamdulilah

2026-01-14 04:00:38 UTC

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Ameen! Thank you for sharing and thank you for the kind words and support

2026-01-12 17:02:55 UTC

Started watching Orb. Really great anime so far. I'm definitely hooked.
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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.

2025-12-29 22:05:34 UTC

All I see is Riba Money
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2025-12-24 17:53:03 UTC

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I like this framing too! The tribe building aspect shouldn't be a "segregation" exactly, but just something to build around. But yeah, the individual aspect will matter too obviously, but my point is that I don't think the paradigm of individuals amassing followers to achieve influencer status is going to work well on nostr. I might be off in my assessment, but I think people are naturally going to gravitate toward "tribe building" which will make it easier for people to produce and consume content with each other rather than just having an influencer produce content for the maaaes.

2025-12-24 08:15:28 UTC

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Reddit is an interesting case, as it started out as an engine to build communities, but it ended up turning to shit. I think there's lots of aspects of both reddit and discord that should be applied to nostr, obviously without all the surveillance and homosexuality

2025-12-23 16:31:32 UTC

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Wow you really did it!

2025-12-22 15:17:43 UTC

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No I don't think so. He's said before that the "internet is not a real place" or something like that. He really really hates having any kind of presence online.
This conversation would have to happen with one of his close friends or something

2025-12-18 03:38:16 UTC

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Interesting. I know nothing of metaphysics...

2025-12-11 08:05:20 UTC

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95% or so of people are like this, yeah. We just need the other 5% for now

2025-12-05 16:40:06 UTC

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4LgwrvQ46AY
Another really great episode! This time with Harris Irfan. Amazing to see Iqbal Nasim do a whole series about Bitcoin from the Muslim perspective. He's already done three episodes that have all been enlightening. Brother is speedrunning the orange pill.
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2025-12-05 15:33:50 UTC

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Would love to read it! DM me

2025-12-02 16:30:47 UTC

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Everyone in SAIF is a Chinese gril

2025-12-02 05:44:35 UTC

This is really what all criticisms of Bitcoin ultimately come down to:
"I don’t like that you possess something no one else can seize, freeze, dilute, censor, or gatekeep. I don’t like that you can opt out of the system without asking permission. I, or someone I trust, must have the final say over how you use your property." #naddr1qq…k9rw

2025-11-29 05:28:26 UTC

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Honestly, my main complaint is that he wasn't toxic enough, but that's exactly why his podcast is so good for normies!
Also, I didn't like that he mentioned "blockchain technology" but it's fine. He is clearly maximalist.

2025-11-29 00:18:17 UTC

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr4eobR22Ro
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 @npub1gdu…6nak'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)

2025-11-28 23:19:19 UTC

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Any of these books are really good. They're all pretty dense reads:
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2025-11-24 16:35:23 UTC

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I need to go back and finish Elden Ring. Got way too difficult

2025-11-24 05:27:36 UTC

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Let me know when you get a lightning node set up. I'll open up a channel with you

2025-11-22 07:19:22 UTC

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That's really what we need, an active Muslim FOSS scene. We need that embedded in the culture of online Muslims.

2025-11-21 15:23:10 UTC

Bitcoin crashed to 82k. Pack it up boys. Was a good run. Time to go back to saving in Riba money I guess.

2025-11-09 00:23:33 UTC

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See if you can post now

2025-11-08 06:18:26 UTC

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Yeah, the material wealth aspect is a big part of it I'm sure. And I think just on first glance, it just seems like socialism is more fair therefore it's more Islamic. And it's so much easier to blame "capitalism" than taking time to understand the malincentives caused by usurious fiat money.

2025-11-07 22:54:06 UTC

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We're all shias now deal with it

2025-11-07 03:27:21 UTC

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Yeah.... It's pretty obvious by now where the influence is coming from

2025-11-06 20:52:24 UTC

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What's funny is that Joe Bradford is a trained scholar in Islamic finance! Like he knows all of this stuff! And that makes it all the more infuriating. I've already explained it to him so many times, I've just given up on him. All of this is part of the reason why I'm on Nostr now

2025-11-06 20:41:53 UTC

First thing I see when I get on X
Getting really sick of legacy social media in general. Every npc is like this.
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2025-10-22 14:02:47 UTC

Nostr is going to make all of this obsolete, inshaAllah.
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2025-10-19 23:24:20 UTC

"No more heroes Muslim Bitcoiner, your time has come"
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2025-10-17 06:26:42 UTC

Jummah Mubarak 🕌
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2025-10-14 05:06:14 UTC

Insane to think that this post was made on reddit on r/Islam 11 years ago:
"if our goal is just to avoid all the usury associated with fiat money when it is created, there might be a solution. I have recently been looking into bitcoin - a global digital decentralized p2p currency... it does have the advantage of not being associated with usury/riba when bitcoins are created. Bitcoin is a currency that is not based on riba like fiat currencies."
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2025-10-08 15:41:44 UTC

Gotta say, it's pretty surreal seeing anti-Riba Money in the wild like this. Alhamdulilah.
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2025-10-07 21:13:12 UTC

The current national debt is at $37,863,241,283,552.57
I'm thinking we reach 40 trillion by end of year 😈
Bookmark this

2025-10-01 21:18:09 UTC

With all of the censorship that's happening on TikTok recently, it might be a good time to recruit some more content creators to Nostr. Apparently they even censor people for posting the juicebox emoji now. It's gotten bad.

2025-10-01 15:52:28 UTC

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It really depends on how you want to approach this. I'm actually not anon as I've had my face on photos and videos I've posted with @npub1f7n…m25c but there's absolutely no requirement to reveal your identity. We respect people's privacy here

2025-09-28 18:35:10 UTC

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So when someone asks how we prove God through logic, I usually start with what philosophers call “contingency.” Everything we see around us, ourselves, trees, planets, etc., exists but could also not exist. That means it doesn’t contain within itself the reason for its existence. If everything depended on something else, we’d get an infinite regress with no starting point. But logic tells us there must be a necessary being that exists by itself that is uncaused and independent. That’s what we mean when we say “God.”
As for injustice, I would think it depends on perspective. Human beings live short lives with limited knowledge, but we assume we can judge cosmic fairness. Much injustice stems from human choice, greed, oppression, selfishness, etc. If God were to remove every evil action, He would also be removing our free will essentially, which would make us robots rather than moral beings. So injustice tests us like, are we gonna fight it, endure it with patience? Will we fall into it? Without that hardship, stuff like justice, mercy, courage, etc. would be meaningless. Belief in a just God means trusting that this life is not the whole thing. Ultimate justice belongs to the next life where every single wrong will be addressed and dealt with.

2025-09-12 18:59:10 UTC

You know what to do. Zap him! #note1axf…vljv

2025-09-09 15:18:36 UTC

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Cybercult meet up in meatspace

2025-09-02 14:43:53 UTC

More and more Muslims are making the Digital Hijra to Linux and using open source software!
The movement to boycott windows and big tech is hopefully starting to catch on!
You can sign up for the webinar here:
bio.lubabacademy.com/ethicaltech
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2025-08-31 16:29:13 UTC

Interesting reading list posted by Abu Z as suggestions instead of reading Edward Said
I haven't read Said or any of these but the titles seemed interesting enough for me to include in my reading list in the future:
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2025-08-31 04:37:32 UTC

New guy's here. Zap em! #note1n32…r4jl

2025-08-21 15:21:11 UTC

Six reasons why you should run your own Bitcoin Node:
https://armantheparman.com/6reasonsnode/

2025-08-19 16:53:37 UTC

@npub1zed…d6e3 and the Beef Initiative are worth following!
I consider Texas Slim's essay "The Harvest of Deception" to be the ultimate manifesto on understanding the problems of the seed oil based industrial food complex and how they're poisoning our food. You must understand how this deception works and what we can do to fight back:
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https://beefinitiative.com/pages/the-harvest-of-deception #note1s9w…ymcl

2025-08-16 20:26:08 UTC

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Woh! Asalamu alaikum! Welcome my brother!! I thought you were already muslim. This is such great news!

2025-08-15 16:47:55 UTC

An excerpt from "The Epidemic of Islamic Consumerism" on social media
"Nothing exemplifies the consumerist nature of social media than concepts like ‘content’ and ‘content creators’. What is ‘content’? It’s literally filler for people to consume with their minds. Anything that will translate into the intermediary currencies of likes, follows and shares that the content creator can exchange into dollars.
Consumerism in social media as a whole – irrespective of the Muslim context – is a problem in itself. Data has become a commodity, to the point that we see the advent of the ‘influencer’ and ‘junk content’ – i.e. the production & consumption of data for its mere entry into our brains irrespective of its purpose, utility and benefit. It’s the pizza, burgers and chips of internet content. Fun once in a while, but if you consume them too often they’ll cause your insides to rot.
Islamic ‘content’ online is not too dissimilar. Muslim social media is filled with ‘content creators’. Even young men engaged in da’wah online have unashamedly labeled themselves as content creators on occasion."
Full essay:
https://theusuli.com/2025/08/15/the-epidemic-of-islamic-consumerism/

2025-08-14 03:19:41 UTC

The "Hijra", as some put it 😉 #note1p59…adv9

2025-08-12 21:59:53 UTC

Man. This makes me want to start my podcast up again. I had a lot of fun doing that. #note14am…pujj

2025-08-05 03:09:46 UTC

Alright fellas what are we thinking?
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2025-08-03 05:23:59 UTC

I'm addicted to zapping people from my own node. Hard to describe the feeling.

2025-07-28 04:57:21 UTC

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2025-07-25 16:05:49 UTC

Alhamdulilah i think I'm staring to see the finish line with the book! Just making edits to the final draft now. I can probably push this out in two weeks or so inshaAllah. Just waiting on the book cover and forward. But this is the table of contents that I have. Insane that this is coming out to more than 340 pages! Although half the book is just block quotes from other books:
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2025-07-08 16:09:14 UTC

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I didn't consider that aspect of nostr where you can't delete posts! I guess I just meant using AI to craft long and organized posts when saying it in a shorter and more natural way would have sufficed, and it would have reached more people.

2025-07-08 03:31:25 UTC

I understand using AI is tempting and easy, but often times you can reach more people by just talking normally and not making everything so structured and organized like you're trying to impress someone on LinkedIn. Thoughts on paper just sound better and more natural when they're not so neatly organized.

2025-07-02 16:12:31 UTC

We finally uploaded the talk by Simon Dixon
This was my favorite from the Muslim Bitcoin Summit. Simon explains how the global fiat monetary system funds what he calls a “proof of weapons” network: a cycle of military expansion, global surveillance, and centralized control maintained through debt and inflation.
Watch it here:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FLsNyK7eQ00

2025-06-18 17:10:15 UTC

You will connect to NoorNode #naddr1qq…4het

2025-04-29 16:31:33 UTC

The infiltration of Keynesianism into Islamic Economics has done profound damage.
It has replaced a tradition of sound reasoning based on human action and divine law, with a shallow and collectivist faith in state intervention and fiat illusions.
Unless this intellectual capture is confronted and overturned, Islamic Economics will remain trapped in the worst of both worlds of offering neither genuine adherence to Islamic principles nor any real economic prosperity.

2025-04-19 19:48:34 UTC

Yesterday at my local masjid, a brother gave a great khutba about the incident that happened at Microsoft HQ with the Muslim woman quitting her job over the company's involvement in the support of the Israeli war machine.
I came up to the brother afterwards and asked him about getting off of windows and using linux instead, and why can't we all do our part and boycott Microsoft and all of these other tech corporations. He admitted that he hasn't thought about it, but he suggested that I do a workshop for him and other brothers to use Linux.
So I guess I'm being drafted to set up this workshop. I think I'll use this opportunity to get some brothers to think and adopt a cypherpunk approach to not just their OS but software in general. Might call it "making digital hijra".
I'm trying to make a draft now. I'll try to get brothers to think more about prioritizing FOSS over using Microsoft, Google, Apple, etc. And I think I'll do a quick demonstration of installing Linux on an old laptop, just to show how easy the process is. And I'll also briefly go over FOSS alternatives to commonly used apps. Might even show how to run a VPN.
Does anyone have any other ideas for how I can go about this workshop?

2025-02-12 15:34:05 UTC

If the shaytan can spend hundreds of years methodically institutionalizing usury and weaving Riba in every part of the monetary system,
Then you can spend a few hours learning how to escape it through Bitcoin and reclaim your financial sovereignty.
Allah has honored you with the role of vicegerent. Start acting like it!

2025-01-22 18:55:58 UTC

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Stop suggesting such good ideas and tempting me!

2025-01-16 17:56:30 UTC

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I've had these same thoughts for a while. I don't know what the end result would be, or even, should be. But I do want Muslims to start their own bitcoin Majlis in their localities. I feel like this is the first step for figuring out what the heck to do for the long term. Get a local community going that shares values and visions, get them to let go of their fiat holdings, get to stubbornly stack bitcoin, get a local bitcoin economy going.

2025-01-12 06:12:21 UTC

MashaAllah. Perhaps I'm sounding too hopeful here, but it really feels like there's a genuine Nostr hijra happening and I am here for it.
We have this great opportunity to build a Muslim Nostr (MN), but hopefully with less coal and more signal this time.
Like we could actually discuss ideas and produce valuable content here without takfiring each other! #note1dz2…le62

2025-01-11 21:17:03 UTC

Alhamdulilah my 5 and 7 year olds love this new children's book recently produced by Muin Saiyed (@npub1agg…gwxy). I highly recommend it. Nice poems with amazing visuals MashaAllah
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2025-01-11 17:48:08 UTC

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I still can't zap you

2025-01-10 03:53:32 UTC

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We also gotta show them how to set up to receive sats. I can't zap any of them!

2025-01-06 17:24:09 UTC

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Oh Muslim Anon, have you started the Muslim Bitcoiner reading list?
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2025-01-06 04:35:29 UTC

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To clarify, we are not opposed to the idea of using gold as a form of currency, and it is evident that we do not regard gold as a "shitcoin."
Our aim is to highlight that the pursuit of a gold standard has already been attempted by organized groups of politically connected Muslims.
We believe it is time for Muslims to embrace an optimistic outlook and explore innovative solutions that operate entirely outside the Riba-based fiat system. We need to be courageous but also pragmatic.
While it is natural to feel discomfort and uncertainty when venturing into new territory, we must remember that as an ummah, we have the potential to break free from the constraints of Riba that hold us back and strive for a brighter future, inshaAllah.
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2025-01-05 20:13:13 UTC

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I am not a scholar! I'm not even technically a student!
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2024-10-13 16:30:19 UTC

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We've been conducting the interviews over the weekend and MashaAllah, so far we've had many great choices to pick from, and they're from all over the world too. From US, UK, UAE, Malaysia, and Pakistan so far.
This Bitcoin Majlis network is gonna get global really quickly inshaAllah
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2024-09-27 02:31:02 UTC

Here is a list of 5 essential books that have helped shape my views on politics, governance, history, economics, modernism, and conceptualizing the nation state more generally. Add these to your reading list 👇
1. Seeing Like a State by James C Scott
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Talks about authoritarian "high modernism" where large scale solutions that get implemented from a top-down approach without taking into account local knowledge and expertise. The state's desire for "legibility" results in failure.
2. The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg
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Argues that the transition from the industrial to the information age will undermine the power of nation states and empower individuals through digital technologies and decentralized governance.
3. Democracy: The God That Failed by Hans-Hermann Hoppe
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Democracy leads to high time preference, increased state power, and economic inefficiency. Contrasts it with monarchy, which is more stable and less exploitative. Advocates for natural order based on private property rights
4. The Impossible State by Wael Hallaq
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The modern nation state is fundamentally incompatible with shariah because the state's structures, sovereignty, legal systems are rooted in modernity. Trying to integrate Sharia within the framework of the state distort its principles.
5. Super Imperialism by Michael Hudson
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The U.S. uses its control over the global financial system through the dollar to extract economic tribute. This "Super Imperialism" allows the U.S. to finance its deficits and military spending at the expense of foreign economies.

2024-09-15 22:22:28 UTC

I wrote an essay for this issue of Qawwam Magazine talking about some societal consequences of Riba money, namely its effect on soil and agriculture, food quality, family, charity, and war.
Check it out here on page 80:
qawwam.online/issue-6/

2024-09-12 19:34:05 UTC

Alhamdulilah, we just launched our first grant program at Bitcoin Majlis! If you're a Muslim student or young scholar studying Islam we encourage you to apply. No prior knowledge of Bitcoin is needed.
Please share it with your local Muslim communities and networks
See full announcement here: https://bitcoinmajlis.org/bitcoin-educational-grant-for-muslims/

2024-09-08 19:16:56 UTC

InshaAllah we have something cooking up with Bitcoin Majlis that we'll announce in the next day or two. So exciting!

2024-09-03 17:01:53 UTC

I genuinely don't understand the thought process behind holding any altcoin.
Sure, some altcoins have specific use cases to supposedly optimize their "medium of exchange" function on the base layer, like smart contracts, privacy, faster payments, yield, etc. But when you claim to use these altcoins for those purposes, you've already inadvertently made the case why you shouldn't hold on to these coins for any duration longer than needed to complete a transaction or benefit from some heavily marketed utility.
If desired, the most logical move is to quickly use the altcoin for its "utility", then convert the altcoin back to Bitcoin.
But you see the problem? There is no incentive to actually hold on to the altcoin. If there's no rational reason to hold to the altcoin, it will underperform compared to Bitcoin. It will lose the fight for liquidity. An altcoin "money" cannot develop without people holding it.
I don't see the economic, or more importantly, the philosophical, justification for holding on to any altcoin for any significant amount of time, or how it could even compete as an actual money.
They simply go to zero against Bitcoin.

2024-09-03 17:01:41 UTC

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It worked! Now start shit posting and earn those zaps!

2024-09-01 05:36:36 UTC

If you're Muslim and into Bitcoin and are looking to continue down the Islamic version of the Bitcoin rabbit hole, I highly recommend reading these 7 books.
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1. Heaven's Bankers: Inside the Hidden World of Islamic Finance by Harris Irfan
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This books goes over some of the challenges that Islamic finance institutions go through to comply with shariah, and the author gives examples from his personal experience. One of my favorite books!
2. The Problem with Interest by Tarek El Diwany
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This one goes over the effects of having an interest based monetary system on society. It also has a nice summary of the history of how we transitioned from a gold based money to fiat money. Also talks about Islamic economics.
3. Banking: the root cause of the injustices of our time by Abdassamad Clarke and others
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This book is really about usury, and it highlights its destructive aspects. The chapter on the history of usury legalization is fascinating, and there's a great chapter about its environmental impacts.
4. Early Islam and the Birth of Capitalism by Benedikt Koehler
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The author makes the case for free market capitalism having its roots in early Islam in Arabia, and how that model of capitalism was adopted in Europe.
5. Islam and Economics: a primer on Markets, Morality, and Justice by Ali Salman
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Great summary of core concepts of Islamic economics. Subjects include private property, wealth creation, price fixing, trade, market regulations, money and banking, Riba, and zakat.
6. The Impossible State: Islam, Politics, and Modernity's Moral Predicament by Wael Hallaq
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Hallaq criticizes the institution of the modern nation state, and he argues that the nation state suffers from legal, political, and moral issues that make it incompatible with Islam.
7. Return of the Caliphate by Shaykh Abdalqadir As-Sufi
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This book makes the case that the fall and decline of the Ottoman Empire was due to funding through usurious debt and the adoption of fiat paper money and secular governance.

2024-08-28 17:39:21 UTC

Waking up a 2AM to do a podcast was not the smartest decision.
But it was fun though. Just not smart.
Today's gonna be a long day 😭

2024-08-23 22:47:37 UTC

Notice that blockchain, smart contracts, NFTs, web3, staking, tokenization, halal yield, Islamic FinTech, sukuks, halal mortgages do not solve the Riba problem. These may have their niche applications and use cases, but they do not address the underlying problem.
The 300 trillion dollar Riba problem occurs at the monetary layer. It's a problem concerning global economic consensus. This is layers below payment rails, financial infrastructures, banking infrastructures, even below the global political consensus layers.
To even begin to address this problem, we need a new monetary base layer that's open, neutral, digital, completely permissionless, actually decentralized, and credibly scarce.
We need a base layer that's anti-Riba that Muslims can plug into.

2024-07-22 00:20:11 UTC

The following is a response to a short video on Twitter where a brother talks about the problems with Islamic Banking:
I think the problem with Islamic Banking is spot on, and analogy of the casino is great. Indeed, Muslims need to find an alternative system, but the two solutions offered don't really solve the Riba problem.
1. Islamic FinTech does not solve this, because it's still using money that's completely entrenched in Riba. Even the money itself can only be created through issuing Riba based loans. Getting a new Islamic FinTech platform cannot solve a monetary problem.
2. Crypto (altcoins) does not solve this, as all it does is recreate the Riba problem. They're all centralized and non-neutral, and they create the incentive to change the monetary protocol to benefit the founders and insiders. No altcoin is secure enough and liquid enough to build a global monetary system. Crypto suffers from the same economic, technical, and ethical problems that fiat has, especially the cryptos that are not proof-of-work.
The two actual solutions to the Riba problem are gold and Bitcoin, which falls outside of crypto.
Bringing back the gold standard has been tried many times by Muslims, see Gold Dinar movement and also Gaddafi, among other attempts. They all failed.
Bitcoin is the only viable solution to the Riba problem as it's actually neutral, permissionless, extremely secure, credibly scarce with an unchanging monetary policy, and based on proof-of-work. Bitcoin is the anti-Riba monetary protocol that has a great chance of replacing the global fiat monetary system and solving the Riba problem.

2024-04-20 23:10:32 UTC

Well, this is where the Bitcoin rabbit hole is taking me. So be it. https://image.nostr.build/d88f5174cf4c2f1597a793cda3ccfa01467f7ad9f46e5c1f4f31c4eb73939801.jpg

2024-03-24 15:33:27 UTC

There's a lot more we could be doing to try and get the ummah to understand the importance of Bitcoin and anti-Riba money, without the harmful baggage of "crypto" and "blockchain" weighing down the message:
1. We should try to talk about it within our local communities, even offering to do seminars or presentations at our local Masjids.
2. We need more online content and resources. I mean more memes, essays, videos, podcasts, tiktoks, etc.
3. We need a type of gathering or conference, in person or online, where Muslim Bitcoiners can meet and coordinate and discuss these ideas, again without the baggage of "blockchain"
4. We need more outreach outside of Twitter where we can talk about the idea of Bitcoin and sound money and the Riba aspect of fiat money with Islamic scholars. We need an avenue to communicate with Muslim governments.
If any Muslim Bitcoiners are reading this, we at Bitcoin Majlis will help support you if you want to pursue any of these avenues