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I'm starting to think that orange pilling big name Muslims and institutions is probably not the way forward.
I used to always get excited at the opportunity to orange pill a sheikh or community leader, but after many attempts at this, it doesn't seem to go anywhere. Like, they appear to "get" the general idea of what we're trying to say about Bitcoin, but it doesn't interest them enough to take any action, or even read a single book or listen to a podcast about it. I'm always left disheartened, like I've just wasted my time.
And I've noticed that a lot of other Muslim Bitcoiners still haven't arrived at this realization, and they keep trying to have audiences with these big name Muslims, and it becomes increasingly hard for me to get excited about these opportunities anymore.
I'd much rather build a network of "no name" Muslim Bitcoiners here on Nostr, as a base to work from. The interactions I have here are a lot more meaningful, and way more fun, than trying to do a 5 minute sales pitch to Sami Hamdi or Yasir Qadhi.
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Get them on nostr first.
Nostr definitely helps people see the value of Bitcoin.
Whenever I see Christians or Muslims on tiktok, I mention that control over/lack of algorithms makes nostr the perfect social media for devout people.
No Haram content being pushed on you.
No advertisements for gambling or whatever.
Use that angle to promote nostr, then when they get here, if they use yakihonne or primal they don't even need to know anything about Bitcoin, they can just start participating in v4v and learn the rest later.
This is what I love about Nostr in terms of orange pilling. People make an account, see that it's much better experience than legacy social media, censorship resistant, etc, and oh here's a bitcoin wallet you can literally send less than a penny worth of money to anyone in the world without our banks needing to talk to each other. Very easy to have that "aha" moment.
Didn't our Prophet kinda do it like this? Yeah, he preached to the leader of the tribes and the king of the nations.
But, he never forgets and even prioritises the communities and the ordinary people to teach about Islam
I think that is the better approach
Just my 2 sats
Yeah, that's the approach I want. Like it doesn't have to be the ordinary person, but people that seem ordinary but have extraordinary potential to have passion to be uncompromising and ready to get stuff done. Hard to find people like this, but they are out there. The kind of Muslims that are crazy to go all in on Bitcoin and shitpost on Nostr
Ordinary (but with extraordinary drives) people have fewer things to lose, and usually, those who are at the bottom of the pyramid of life see the injustice happening all around us.
When the masses move, the above have to notice and move too. :3
The circular economy from us "no-namers" is more important. The influencer stuff just has a crypto feel to it so unless they have committed to a bitcoin standard it just comes off as a get-rich-quick sceme.
