This the CEO of Lightspark by the way. A filthy Zionist that advocates for genocide of the Palestinians. Irredeemable.
Oh and it looks like this company is really pushing for stablecoins and shitcoins on the lightning network.
Best to avoid this company all together.
The uncs are in control here nostr:note15ajzm4n2xpmql9v3ssyn0ty4zqf7qharww64t2fhfc6vlky83nwqy2jk92
Bookmarking this for new users. Thanks for the write up
Brilliant. The only thing I disagree with is that from my experience, the average person is very much in favor of price controls, particularly rent and food. Even "educated" people are very much in favor of it too, or feel indifferent that they cannot conceive of any consequences from price controls.
I gotta get on Graphene too!
nostr:note1yvl50wctyvqmw0mv4qqtqzfa3rp32hna0rrta5a05h4y8gc9p6hs2xxel2The brother that helped me with the workshop is on nostr now! Follow him and zap him!
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Agreed but I don't declare anything permissible or forbidden in the book as I'm not a scholar. But I do make the case that even holding fiat money is still partaking in riba
I promise you the contents of the book are way more offensive than the wojack pic. Probably a good sign that they shouldn't read it if the wojack picture is giving them an issue. Zero chance they'll ever get orange pilled.
We gotta get Nostr + Bitcoin tech on this list here
I've gotten a lot of feedback already alhamdulilah. I just want to be done with this already!
Just realized that the image got hella compressed uploading it on nostr. The original image is way cleaner
Alright fellas what are we thinking?
“…we need to build a circular economy on Bitcoin. The more we do this, the more solutions get built”
That Vlad guy is such a whiny little bitch. Muted him on X already
I could see this administration (or the next one) also requiring nonprofits to sign something to promise to not boycott Israeli products.
Bitcoin being permissionless and censorship resistant is extremely useful in this context
The sparse aspect is a blessing alhamdulilah. We get to set the stage here as more and more elite Muslims leave the cesspool that is MT.
And also because of the inevitable increased censorship on those platforms.
Also please enable zaps! I need to zap you
Many people miss this important distinction
Despite all of the faults of big mega corporations, you at least have the option of not doing business with them
For governments, no such option exists. Your property will get confiscated/violated if you don't do "business" with them. They can never go bankrupt as long as they are able to violate and expropriate the property of its citizens
Of course, this distinction gets blurred when corporations leverage the power of government + central banks to grant themselves unfair monopoly privileges, especially with bail outs and subsidies. But this points to the problem back at governments + central banks not allowing a free market in money production.
Might need to start a regular live steam on nostr where we shit on Muslim twitter. I think it would be a lot of fun. I think it would actually entice more Muslims to move to Nostr since MT is a dumpster fire, mostly.
Looks like it's apple only 😭
Can't even imagine. You guys are insane.
I'm addicted to zapping people from my own node. Hard to describe the feeling.
We heard people were looking for good reliable calendar solutions on nostr.
Introducing https://calendar.formstr.app
It only works for public NIP-52 calendars for now. But the plan is to be a fully functioning calendar replacement on nostr, just like we did for forms.
Special Kudos to nostr:nprofile1qqs2ytd7283uwxdd3vkdc0j0lsshdusrw0esy7m858wxcm5hd77ddkqpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq37amnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wv45kuatwv3a8wctw0f5kwtnnwpskxegpr9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucm9wf3kzarjdamxztndv5erdfpv the primary dev on this, let's fix the stupid internet one usecase at a time!
Will check this out. Thank you guys so much for taking the time to build this
So yeah... This was a bust... Only 2 people showed up in meat space and only 4 or 5 people tuned in.
The cool thing was showing how fast it is to install Linux mint. Took us like 15 minutes. Super easy.
Oh well. I did what I said I was gonna do. Bright side is that I'm getting the Bosnian brother to join us on nostr inshaAllah. He seems very interested. nostr:note148gccfu2e2utdjvwvtvvez88cpvfv9ucjgemdkljlsjj0tjjkuks6k8m8q
"Allah, the Creator of the Universe has set man on earth to worship Him and to be the Guardian of the world."
"Mans charge is that he must abolish usury — even to a blade of grass."
"The time of the Bedouin has begun."
This is something I really want Muslim Bitcoiners to understand.
We all want the Ummah to get orange-pilled. Great. But it’s not gonna happen through the usual pathways. We won't unite under some political party and vote in a Muslim Bitcoin state. Muslims aren't going to get Bitcoinized, especially not in the anti-Riba cypherpunk sense we envision, just because a bunch of scholars say it’s halal or some Muslim country adds BTC to its reserves.
The only viable path I see is the formation of localized cyber cults that operate like a swarm where we constantly meme and agitate.
By cult I don’t mean it in a negative way, but as a collective formed around memes, lore, aesthetics, symbols, shared mythos and principles. It's decentralized, kinda non-hierarchical, and permeable. It shifts and adapts across both cyberspace and meatspace.
When we say “Bitcoin is anti-Riba money", it's hyperstition. That means Muslim Bitcoiners have to act as if this financial Hijra is already underway.
We’re not here to build another NGO or Islamic finance startup or dawah institution. Those models are outdated and gay. We have to stay culturally viral and organizationally minimal!
Bitcoin Majlis is meant to be a node and a beacon. Something others can mirror, fork, build on. It’s also a catalyst for a broader emergence of the rise of an “anti-Riba cypherpunk” and a Muslim form of “toxic Bitcoin maximalism.” Because Bitcoin gives the Muslim, any muslim that wants to break free, the tools for actual digital and financial vicegerency in hypemodernity.
Praxis looks like:
– memes, images, language that embody “toxic” anti-Riba sovereignty
– memetic agitation against apologetic discourse (“fiat Muslim,” or this idea that Bitcoin is wajib not just halal, Islamic banking is fiat, etc)
– going from cyberspace to meatspace like local Majlis meetups, regional hubs, zakat and sadaqa over Lightning, and Muslim Bitcoin summits
This should all sound familiar if you've been following us. We’re already doing this. I’m not saying this is some abstract theory. I’m saying this is the only path I see.
The goal is for the cult to die. Make a world where Bitcoin Majlis doesn’t even need to exist anymore. Because Riba is dead and delegitimized. Because Bitcoin is finally understood as a tool for Islamic civilization that can actually engage with and outlive hypermodernity.
Happy ATH
We will continue being right
It's time
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Currently reading Hoppe’s The Economics and Ethics of Private Property, which is just a collection of his essays. He goes in deep to criticize empericism in some of the essays, especially in how it relates to relativism and positivism.
Hoppe argues that bureaucrats and central bankers prefer empericism/positivism because it allows them to cloak their coercion in scientific respectability. Under positivism, no economic principle, no matter how logical or self-evident, can be accepted as true without empirical testing. This means that claims like "taxation reduces productivity" or "printing money leads to inflation" are treated as just hypotheses. That opens the door for state actors to propose the opposite, like taxation or money printing leads to prosperity, under the guise of being "open-minded experiments."
When the results inevitably disappoint, positivism gives them an escape hatch that any failure can be blamed on uncontrolled variables, not the core theory. This basically immunizes their policies from first principles based rational critique. So empericism/positivism becomes the perfect intellectual shield for power because it undermines deductive economic truths and turns every policy into a trial-and-error game where coercion is always worth “trying.”
Highly recommend reading it after you're done with Economic science and Austrian Method!