"We had built and assembled a decentralised team. No head office. No single point of coordination. Work moved to whoever was best placed to do it..."

Absolutely incredible what we managed to pull off on such a shoestring budget, with people scattered across the world, most of whom had never even met in person, somehow coordinating and bringing it all together.

Allahu Akbar!
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Wife just uploaded 4th chapter of her manga:

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FINALLY. Downloading now

Jummah mubarak!

My reflections on the recent London Muslim Bitcoin Summit. What are we actually building? And where do we go from here?
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Sounds corny I know, but, especially recently, I've been a lot more afraid of success than failure.

"What aIl bodies without organs have in common is intensity. Intensities can only form a continuum, unlike extensities, which can only form discrete points. If one's ontology begins with discrete objects, then one is very likely to end up with a discontinuous ontology and privilege stasis over change. If, on the other hand, one begins with intensities, the ontology flattens, becomes continuous. Here the new is possible. Here creation is possible. Here becoming is not subordinated to being."

Many will criticize HSBC as a failed attempt at IF. Few will criticize IF industry itself. Barely anyone will question the abstract machine of fiat money that organizes these institutions/capital that continually reproduces the very relations IF supposedly exists to escape

Man. What a summit! It was crazy seeing Simon in person. What a presentation he did!

Also got to meet Harris Irfan in person finally! And I also go to meet Tarek El-Diwany in person, even though I only got to talk to him for like 3 minutes. It was funny, when I was talking to to him, I thanked him for writing his book, and I looked at him and said, you know Tarek, look around you, your book helped spark the Muslim bitcoin summit! You helped start this! He was quite surprised by that. Of course, I gave him a copy of my book.

@teepolitics and @Safdar Alam both did really well. I like that they both brought a more level headed approach to looking at Bitcoin, especially in relation to sovereignty and nation states.

It's always so overwhelming seeing all of the energy with these summits, especially this one. The folks that attended were so eager to talk to us and learn more. There were even non Muslims that were there that really enjoyed it and loved the energy.

The workshops were great too. Only @MuaawiyahTucker could make elliptical curve mathematics sound interesting. I'm surprised he was able to keep the audience so engaged!

I also go to show off @alp 's noornote app. So many folks in the audience were really impressed by the app, and liked his approach of building outside of the architecture of LSM. Folks were also fascinated by how I can just request features on an app by publicly talking to the developer, and zapping them for their work. They could tell that something was there, a feedback loop that we need to be tapping into more.

I was also pleasantly surprised by how many in the audience were already running Graphene OS. Running nostr just made sense to them.

Anyway. I'm tired now. Need sleep. I'll have more thoughts to share InshaAllah.