It’s a shame that when Muslims first encounter Bitcoin, the only instinct is to rush toward a halal-haram verdict so it can be traded back into fiat. What should be an encounter with a radically different monetary paradigm is reduced to jurisprudential box checking and the endless search for a β€˜permissible’ token to speculate on. It's like the conversation can only collapse into degenerate trading and compliance theater, like the highest ambition our tradition can muster is finding the cleanest way to participate in the same broken Riba infested system. What should be a conversation about digital+financial sovereignty, resistance to institutional riba, lowering communal time preference, and reconstructing a viable moral economy through sound money never happens. The project of cultivating an alternative monetary consciousness and laying the ethical foundations for new forms of economic and civilizational coordination in cyber is simply abandoned.
son was playing Planet Crafter and asked me "hey dad what does biomass mean?" "Have a seat my son, we have a lot to discuss"
#StaySAIF View quoted note β†’
"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." View Article β†’
Understand that influencers on legacy social media are structurally incapable of thinking outside their slop based monetization loop. Their incentives have atrophied their imagination and their will. They neither value nor can meaningfully comprehend personal sovereignty. Even the loudly anti-Zionist ones. They would rather plead for engagement scraps from technocratic gatekeepers than reclaim an inch of personal agency. Trying to onboard these people to Nostr is pure wasted effort. They are the absolute worst candidates for nostr pilling. image
Signal. Will be listening in. View quoted note β†’
Wait you're telling me that... We can buy... GROCERIES WITH BITCOIN?????? Finally, we have an answer to normies that are all like "OK I get that Riba money is haram but I can't buy my groceries with Bitcoin" View quoted note β†’
"Capitalism was meant to be about shared risk and shared reward. Too often, it’s become about leverage, paper promises, and deferring consequences. This is why sound money matters." You've gotta read Bitcoin is Venice! It's good and it will blow your mind I promise. Basically explores your statement above.