Muslim Bitcoiner

Everyone looking at the wrong chart. Bitcoin has actually been going up. View Article →

So apparently we can give zakat money to politicians now... “...the members of this committee believe that giving one’s zakat for influencing political causes is warranted, with the following conditions...” I can't believe I'm reading this. This is awful.

Fiqh Council of North America

Giving Zakat for Political Campaigns - Fiqh Council of North America

Question: Given the reality of what is happening in Gaza, and that one of the most effective ways to help prevent genocide is by supporting politic...

Amazing that we can get over 1400 sats for a single riba cuckbuck. Incredible opportunity. Alhamdulilah.

Stacking sats, paying zakat, self custody, spending btc wherever it's accepted. View quoted note →

"now is the time to start building! These pedophiles have been exposed!!" -builds a fiat banking app 😐

It's funny seeing normies recycle the same stupid FUD from a decade ago (which has already been addressed and debunked thousands of times), sprinkle in some Epstein stuff, and think they finally have the perfect counter to Bitcoin, all to make themselves feel better about not buying bitcoin when it was $10 or whatever. Itsallsotiresome.jpg

@₿en Wehrman Thoughtful post and highlights things we should be discussing. Let me push back a little. So I think the frustration comes from treating Nostr as if it’s supposed to behave like a better TikTok or a less evil X. But that is not the case. Nostr doesn’t exist to absorb mass outrage cycles every time legacy social media (LSM) humiliates itself, and it certainly isn’t designed to sustain the attention seeking economy that influencers depend on to survive. The people who thrive on LSM are optimized for constant algorithmic validation and a steady drip of dopamine for themselves and their followers. But Nostr offers none of that on purpose. There’s no opaque feed or audience to game, no centralized amplification, etc. Expecting large influencers to migrate en masse is like expecting casino owners to promote sobriety! And I'm sure you already know that the hype around the latest censorship panic will burn out like it always does, and I think it's because the underlying incentive structure never changes. Nostr don't need to play that game! So I believe that’s why user growth here is necessarily slower. It's more selective and it will be more painful. Nostr needs people who are explicitly not "influencers", people that are ready to trade that reach for agency. Marketing (in the traditional sense) won’t fix this because the bottleneck is disposition. We don’t “acquire” users who don’t want to be unhooked from the slop machine. We wait for the small minority who already feel the problem deeply enough to accept the costs of sovereignty. Now that doesn’t mean building tools is pointless or that education doesn’t matter (you've done very well on the education front!), but I do firmly believe that the success metric is wrong. Nostr is not a mass market product competing for attention. Think of it as THE exit ramp. And exit ramps are mostly quiet and ugly, and mostly ignored until someone is genuinely ready to leave. View quoted note →

The Indonesians will save us View quoted note →

"In this frame, the Epstein emails effectively never happened. That verdict will harden in retrospect. Within a year, the media circus will have migrated to the next manufactured catastrophe, the previous one quietly discarded, its moral charge neutralized. The system will continue its recursive self-reorganization under the Cybernetic Hypothesis, optimizing control and feedback while awaiting the arrival of the Machine God." View quoted note →

He's everywhere....