I dont know. Id like to think authenticity would matter a lot more in that kind of world.
I cherish peoples aliases. If I ever meet you in IRL inshaAllah I'd just call you 'Rush' even if you told me your real name
"In the once-upon-a-time days of the First Age of Magic, the prudent sorcerer regarded his own true name as his most valued possession but also the greatest threat to his continued good health, for—the stories go—once an enemy, even a weak unskilled enemy, learned the sorcerer’s true name, then routine and widely known spells could destroy or enslave even the most powerful. As times passed, and we graduated to the Age of Reason and thence to the first and second industrial revolutions, such notions were discredited. Now it seems that the Wheel has turned full circle (even if there never really was a First Age) and we are back to worrying about true names again"
This is actually quite mindblowing the more I think about it... Fiat has debased and distorted the development of cyberspace
When I file I end up owing a lot, even with claiming all my kids as dependents
Also good to know, I thought that meant the same thing
It used to require a lot of attention but in the last year it's been running smooth. Running umbrel on raspberry pi currently.
I like Phoenix, Zeus, alby for lightning if you don't have a node. Let's you open up channels and add liquidity when needed.
US Muslims should be in full support of the tax revolt.
Much of it goes to paying interest on the national debt anyway.
Do what your heart desires! (It's desiring you to stay up on Graphene all night)
Thanks for sharing this. Looks promising!
Right now I'm running it on a raspberry pi but I really want to move it on to better hardware. It freezes randomly a lot and completely chokes if I run anything else besides bitcoin. The umbrel OS itself is nice
Incredible stats. I highly recommend running a lightning node. It's easier than ever to set up on umbrel or start9. You can even zap folks from your node too!
It takes a few tries and some tinkering at first... Just don't lose sats in the process!
We evolved from worms and shi
They added pixel 10 already?? Man I should have went for that one instead of the 9a. Oh well, the 9a is still really good.
Really good! Still getting used to it but my biggest regret is not doing this sooner. Still exploring apps that I should be using. But for right now, my graphene phone is mainly for Bitcoin and nostr, but I plan to use it for other things.
I also should have gone with the pixel pro since I prefer bigger screens.
This is why I think it's good to have two phones for now. I haven't installed anything Google on my Graphene phone
Exactly! It's nothing insightful or intellectually stimulating. I actually really hate geopolitics in general. I prefer looking at economics/finance/money
It's time to make the digital hijra to Graphene
InshaAllah we're planning it for the weekend of April 17th-19th. Most likely having the main event for saturday the 18th. It'll be in Dallas TX. We have the GEM center reserved for those 3 days. I can put you in for a talk or a workshop or both, whichever you prefer. I already have nostr:nprofile1qqs0xv59y9lfw6keetc9gez94kqs0kuc7evk0nwwdn8ytesd5q8wx2sprfmhxue69uhkumm0wfhx7er99ehx7um5wgcjucm0d5hszxmhwden5te0w35x2en0wfjhxapwdehhxarjxyhxxmmd9uq3camnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwdehhxarjv9exzcnfvyhxxmmd9umvswpy down for a talk and workshop on nostr, but we can definitely have more. It would be amazing to have you here!
For the month? That's barely anything...
Because bitcoiners are being gay and are not stacking sats hard enough
Bismillah 
Dave Chappelle is correct in pointing out that influencers are a negative because they're "internet people", Charlie Kirk included (sorry if this pisses you off, but influencers have no souls)
It almost seems like Chappelle would be the perfect candidate to onboard to Nostr, but I think he's just anti internet in general. But he may be swayed to make an anon nostr account. Would be an interesting conversation to have with him.
https://video.nostr.build/05dfddd1d95750dd21d8db536de7ee4736a4ec7abfa20ebbb6c92f98ba89b0a3.mp4
But seriously what the heck is happening with the UAE recently?? It's like they recently cut their propaganda funding or they're using some shit tier promotional/marketing agency. I don't remember it being this egregious, or maybe I'm just now noticing. It's comical how bad it is.
Bookmarking this for when I install @GrapheneOS soon nostr:naddr1qqgrswpkv43nwvfcvsunqerrvvek2q3qklkk3vrzme455yh9rl2jshq7rc8dpegj3ndf82c3ks2sk40dxt7qxpqqqp65w90gm57
Interesting, and predictable, to see governments everywhere sprinting toward mandatory ID checks for age verification just for people to do anything online
We're watching the internet get fenced in platform by platform. I suspect this crackdown will end up accelerating Nostr adoption inshaAllah.
Get ready for the next wave!
Allah karim
They should just call it a euro stablecoin and they'd get a lot less opposition. Amateurs. nostr:note1pq0qzsv4mc482l4yg5qrfftkrqe4wtrf96vpmlsdw0dsuu5u55psyayha6
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I'll officially announce this in a few days inshaAllah, but I'll announce it here first since you nostr folks are special to me.
The ebook copy of Anti-Riba Money is now freely available!
You can download the pdf off of the Bitcoin Majlis website here:
https://bitcoinmajlis.org/anti-riba-money/
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts and any feedback you have!
Enjoy
The phenomenon of devs (not just in Bitcoin) being so economically illiterate, like at a comically infantile level, needs to be studied.
They work with logic all the time, but it's like their brain suddenly short circuits when it's applied to human action. Very strange. nostr:note1v3xtja37mepeasf0a2077dwk63qes9yuuun4yl0cermd7xw6cltqm0kfux
One of us One of us!
"Though I believe that the essence of Muslims all around the world is that rebellious nature against norms once you see truth."
Our job when orange pilling is to take that instinct, that old Bedouin refusal to bow to anything but God, and wake it back up. The trick is getting people to see that the same nomadic spirit that crossed deserts now has to migrate into cyberspace, which comes with its own harsh terrain and logic. nostr:note17x304d2jmx8eqnsed2jx43ykqamam6zm9vktzd8hzqyk3mgx7pas55aalw
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." nostr:naddr1qqgrqdfsv93xvvnrv93rjcfhvyexyq3quzfp6cgwue2njm86cmyeq7m26y0n58w72acq98sjsnnv4c87002sxpqqqp65wxtk9rw
Straight to jail
InshaAllah. I think this will inevitably happen as more and more folks join.
It's important to understand that what Austrian Economists call the “interest rate” isn’t necessarily a moral defense of riba but a reflection of time preference, or the natural ratio between present and future goods.
The same principle still operates in a riba-free order where real profit-sharing, savings, production decisions have to align with how people value time. The "interest rate" would basically be a "profit rate". The natural rate of return on capital would still exist.
So even without interest-bearing loans, it still stands that when you distort those natural intertemporal signals through credit expansion or fiat manipulation, you invariably get the same illusion of prosperity followed by collapse, only this time it's stamped with the "halal" label.
Pizza hut really is gross anyway. Cardboard with melted plastic on top.
?cid=4ea4f8d50xil7z3219rz6w23k0nz267fnvbwy2cryu1qm4ww&ep=v1_gifs_search&rid=giphy.gif&ct=gthey're basically the same person
Hans Hermann Hoppe. A giant in the Austrian School.
Saifedean references him a lot.
I gotta step up. Gotta get number 1 nostr:note1w0psql5jwq9n80zp5me8dmlq0gn3a34g8jj80mfqqfquqzsws60sy0l7mv
"Our plans are measured in centuries"
low time preference that we all need to aspire to!
💯 We're just in it to please Allah (swt) first and foremost. All the motivation I need.
The technocapital aspect is definitely missing from Hoppe's thesis for sure
I have a page set up for Anti-Riba Money on the Bitcoin Majlis website. Check it out:
Teaching your kids about the creature from Jekyll Island!
I'm active but I'm never present. At least that's what my wife tells me
I'd say that academic papers are fine to write with something like google docs. It just really really sucks if you're writing a book.
Oh and he instantly blocked me. What a cuck