"By 2025, the cybereconomy will have many millions of participants... No cybertaxes and no cybergovernment. The cybereconomy... could well be the greatest economic phenomenon of the next thirty years." - James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg (1997) image View quoted note β†’
Ok now Elon is just straight up copying nostr View quoted note β†’
Amazing how fast the NWC ecosystem is growing. Nostr + Bitcoin has great potential for cultivation of a Muslim cyber culture actually rooted in sovereignty. We just need to start using and building on these tools to usher in a new islamicate mythos, one that we actually own. View quoted note β†’
Much of it is either exaggerated or just plain wrong (like the SAIF corner), but Muslim LSM is cooked. It's just a sea of noise and slop and attention seeking ragebait with the most brain dead takes imaginable. We will all be at the forefront of changing this, inshaAllah. image
"Your weak structures are stuck in meatspace while cyber has already gone and liquidated your assets leaving you stuck trying to vibe out an meme-gasm with a tool you don't own and somehow thinking that isn't cuckery. "We need our own platform." "We need a compliant muslim crypto with halal yield." "We need to build according to our values." YOU'VE LOST THE PLOT. Stop complaining about the coal mines when you are still in them." View Article β†’
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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.