This was a great video. I like this new format, as it allows you to make you case better than before where it was just in tweets and maybe articles. Now we get to hear your own voice explaining it. Great stuff.

Any chance of getting lntxbot on Nostr?

Interesting…

I’ll have to look into that later on in life. I’m just trying to get my head around nodeJS and typescript for now lol 😂. Give me time

@lnbits levelling up big time!!

Well don’t @arcbtc and team. Done extremely well. I was waiting for this for a long time now!! Looking forward to making my own extension.

https://youtu.be/98VYC99s770

Is rust difficult? Anything like PHP or JS?

Thanks for the heads up!!

https://twitter.com/c_hashreview/status/1626929122210459648?s=46&t=y5AWKPVNGzxUnAANDrnS_w

We are so early!!! £5 of BTC will be more than 98% of people will ever own

What makes an LNURL NIP-57 compliant?

Bitcoin adoption is still very early, and there will be an inflection point…

https://twitter.com/c_hashreview/status/1626891887419195392?s=46&t=6G7iQq75ndBscxQ8KL1qKA

Welcome to the future?

Where were you this years “Satoshi’s Round Table”? Would of been great to have had you there

This is an important resource for anyone interested in developing something on ₿itcoin

https://learn.saylor.org/course/CS120

And in combination it could become so much more than the sum of the individual parts.

Seems like the GitHub link is broken

This is a great read and puts into perspective a lot of the ₿itcoin debates of the past. Why small block sizes was so important and even why some want smaller block sizes!!

As for Nostr, then it’s not clear to me why it wouldn’t end up like SMTP besides the main difference being that relays don’t relay notes to other relays (unless they do and I’m unaware of it). This will be interesting to see how it can develop. Definitely with ₿itcoin there are ways to prevent spam that wasn’t available to SMTP, so hopefully we can win there.

I do think that ₿itcoin and Nostr is a killer combination

I think a ‘12 word seed phrase’ would be a good improvement to Nostr to make it easier to record and restore the accounts, it would allow for multiple accounts and could even simply use your ₿itcoin wallet seed phrase to generate accounts.

For those who want to know more about Nostr and running their own relays

https://thebitcoinmanual.com/articles/run-private-nostr-relay/

I understand your perspective and the challenge you have in understanding how Islamic law works. I have a degree in it, so I know how deep it can go. It’s not just a list of “Do’s & Dont’s”, in includes many ‘constitutional principles and maxims’ that facilitate changing circumstances and times.

But your idea of needing to change the religion or even the text only makes sense if you believe that it was fundamentally ‘man made’ and therefore limited in scope and range. But if you believe it came from the creator of the heavens and earth, and He told you this was for the foreseeable future, then that means it will always be applicable. And changing that would corrupt what is essentially “perfect”.

It matters because changes to the text ultimately lead to changes in the message. If you open up the option of allowing changes, then you render the original message NULL and VOID. Not to mention unknowable.

If I can prove to you that the Quraan we have today is 100% provable to be the same as revealed 1444 years ago, what does that mean to you? Has it changed anything for you? Well it should. So let’s take that journey.

Ok, so first, the religious basis. Allaah said Himself in the Quraan that He has given us this ‘Reminder’ & that He will preserve it. So that’s a promise from the start. But in practice, what actually happened? Well, here’s the case for its preservation.

Let me try to explain in a way a Bitcoiner can relate to. One of the reasons why it’s so difficult to destroy the ₿itcoin network is bcoz it’s distributed. Even if nuclear war breaks out in the world & 90% of all computers are all wiped out, it’s still highly likely the #BTC  will survive.

Copies of the blockchain is scattered throughout the world in such a way they we can know 100% it has been preserved. They are all the same, byte for byte. By design.

So when it comes to the Quraan, we have a similar situation. Not exactly the same but similar. Let me demonstrate

Let me first explain how the Quraan and blockchain is different.

Blockchain: Each block is ‘solidified’ with a nonce, that verifies that it’s valid & it is proof that the work was done to mine that block. There is no ‘nonce’ of the Quraan.

Blockchain: You could have countless different chains for btc & they would all be mathematically valid as all you need is data & the Nonce. But we only accept and build on top of the ‘longest chain’. That obviously doesn’t exist with the Quraan.

I’m just making it clear how they are different so it’s not misunderstood that somehow ‘Quraan and blockchain are the same’. That’s not my point. But what I am saying is that ‘distribution’ is a powerful mechanism for ‘preservation’

But the ‘preservation’ part of the history is the important part.

Muhammad, unlike Jesus, was a prophet & messenger for 23 years. And during that time the people he was sent to (including himself) were mostly illiterate, as most people were in the past. Reading was a privilege.

So as the Quraan was ‘revealed’ in stages over that period of time it was memorised by Muhammad & his followers. Again, unlike Jesus who was a single individual, Muhammad was a leader of a nation. So 1000’s memorised it word for word

This is the ‘distribution’ part. The entire area of what is now Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, UAE, Oman and Yemen came under Islamic rule within his 23 year mission, and 1000’s of people memorised the entire book from cover to cover and 1000’s more memorised smaller parts. And that was just the beginning.

His main 4 followers who lead the Muslim nation to expand the Islamic boarders all the way further from Egypt to India & China, reaching as far north as Iraq and Syria happened in the next 30-40 years. That’s a total of 63+ years where Islam spread an area larger than Europe.

During that time, schools were set up across that land mass from those original 1000’s of people who memorised it to teach 1000’s more. This is how we have preserved the Quraan.

One of the main motivators to memorise the Quraan is bcoz we pray 5 times a day, reciting it in every prayer from memory

Islam today spread as wide as from Indonesia (the country that has the most Muslims in it of any Muslim nation) to morocco, from Russia (that has more Muslims that the GCC countries combined) to Somalia and Nigeria. In all of that, we still memorise the whole book cover to cover

And since 1444years ago until today, across that massive land mass, you don’t find any difference between any copy of the Quraan in even a single letter. So from an information distribution perspective through time & space, it’s actually impossible by normal means for them all to have agreed upon a lie or mistake.

But it doesn’t even stop there. At this point it’s pretty confirmed, but there is another final piece to the puzzle. We have something called “isnad” which is called “chain of narrators”. And this is where the similarities to ₿itcoin comes again.

If a person memorises the whole Quraan, they could take it to the next level & read the entire Quraan from start to finish to his teacher. His teacher will listen to it entirely & if it is exactly as he heard it from his teacher he will give him ‘the chain’.

This ‘chain’ is exactly like the blockchain in that it is a list of teachers who did exactly the same thing all the way up to the prophet Muhammad. And there are millions of these chains scattered across the world as people themselves scattered and moved to different lands.

We know exactly who every single person is in that change. Their names, their fathers names, their grandfathers names, where they were born and died, all the way up to the top, to the source. A continuous chain of people who memorised the Quraan & verified it with their teachers

And if you were to gather all these chains from across the world & compare them, you will see it spread out like the roots of a tree, some of them coming together and so on.

So when you put all of the above together, it becomes practically impossible to claim it was not preserved

1) No two copies that are different

2) So many people who memorised it at every level that it’s impossible to have agreed upon a lie

3) We know exactly who each memorise was, so nothing is anonymous like the Bible

4) Historical manuscripts all confirm the above.

5) Every Muslim on planet Earth, from the moment they can start to recognise letters start memorising the Quraan, some complete it and some memorise some, but you now have today more than 1 billion humans who actively memorise and read the Quraan at least 5 times a day.

Sorry, this turned out to be a bit longer than a few note, but I think one can agree, that if all what I’ve said above is true (you can easily verify that) then it is indeed preserved. Just remember, what is Quraan is ONLY what has reached the above criteria.