Bitcoin cultist. Co-founder of Bitcoin Majlis. Author of Anti-riba Money. Austrian Economics. Supported BIP-110. #staySAIF.
A reflection on the Muslim Bitcoin Summit in London, the peculiar energy around it, and the questions we're confronting as we experiment with new forms of sovereignty, Digital Hijrah, and building beyond the institutions of the fiat world.
“The Muslim Technologist” correctly asks what Muslims should build, but Digital Hijrah begins with the more uncomfortable question of what we first need to leave behind.
If Bitcoin gives Muslims an exit from riba money, what might we build around that exit? This essay makes the case for the Muslim Bitcoin Summit as a gathering around a different kind of Muslim praxis, one capable of recursively building sovereignty and asabiyyah.
My reflections on the Muslim Bitcoin Summit as more than a conference, framing it as a sign that a serious Muslim cypherpunk culture is beginning to form through brotherhood, sovereign infrastructure, Nostr, self-custody, and a shared desire to build outside the fiat order.
A brief manifesto on why Muslims should stop treating digital life as neutral, reject captive and extractive platforms, and begin rebuilding their technological, social, and monetary lives on sovereign foundations in service of Allah.
A reflection on how I accidentally inherited my father’s way of gathering the Ummah and ended up recreating his living room Majlis in cyberspace through Bitcoin Majlis.
Most Muslims struggle with Bitcoin not because of its technical or financial features, but because it demands a form of individual sovereignty that modern Muslim institutions and cultural norms are neither equipped for nor willing to embrace.
Ibn Khaldun’s idea of 'asabiyyah may find new form today in the digital bonds we build through Bitcoin and Nostr
My reading list of 15 books about Islam, Economics, Civilization, History, and Modernity
