Genuinely worth a listen. This might be the single best podcast episode for explaining Bitcoin to normie Muslims who are stuck inside traditional finance frameworks. He breaks down a lot of the core ideas from @Saifedean Ammous's Bitcoin Standard in a way they can actually digest. He’s basically the Muslim Michael Saylor! (minus the riba vibes, obviously, I just mean the orange pilling energy)

SAIF LOVES US AND WE LOVE SAIF View quoted note →

DON'T DO IT DON'T DO IT DON'T DO IT

SAIF is the only thing that is able to fuse both cypherpunk sovereignty and hyperstitional cybernetics into a single Islamic civilizational engine by giving both a shared metaphysics + moral telos, and a coherent mission for building actual power in digital frontier View quoted note →

Nostr is just the continuation of the cypherpunk mailing list View quoted note →

4.4. "Welcome to Cypherpunks" 4.4.1. This is the message each new subscriber to the Cypherpunks lists gets, by Eric Hughes:

2.5.7. "I'm a newcomer to this stuff...how should I get started?" - Start by reading some of the material cited. Don't worry too much about understanding it all. - Follow the list. - Find an area that interests you and concentrate on that.

The hardest part about orange pilling Muslims is explaining the individual sovereignty aspect. We seem to be very uncomfortable with taking responsibility for ourselves. That seems to be one of the core issues of our ummah that Bitcoin will help address inshaAllah. View Article →