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Digital Sovereignty Architect. www.digitalhijrah.com. Background in Computer Science, > 27 years in enterprise IT. Science fiction/fantasy, art & design, history and economics. Co-Founder @Blockchainology. Author BITCOIN IS HALAL 👉 www.ashikusmanbooks.com. New All-in-One Identity/Payments/Savings Wallet project: www.ijmawallet.com. For book translations, ✉️ bitcoinishalal@proton.me. PGP Fingerprint EF16 F877 B3B0 1101 295D 66EA 5836 DA5B 9509 788D Public Key: https://www.blockchainology.co.uk/pgp.asc
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amisatoshi 3 weeks ago
Coming soon to digitalhijrah.com 👇 Tutorial 4: GrapheneOS — Sovereign Android A free downloadable PDF walking through the complete installation on Google Pixel — using the web installer, no command line required. Your phone knows more about you than anyone. This is how you take it back. Reply with your Pixel model if you're planning to make the switch — curious how many in this community are already on GrapheneOS 👇 #GrapheneOS #Android #Privacy #DigitalHijrah #DigitalSovereignty image
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amisatoshi 3 weeks ago
Coming soon to digitalhijrah.com 👇 Tutorial 3: Getting Started with Nostr A free downloadable PDF for anyone who's been meaning to make the move but hasn't yet. Covers key pairs, client setup (NoorNote & YakiHonne), relay connections including Bitcoin Majlis, private messaging, and sending your first Zap. If you found Nostr confusing at first — this is what you wish you'd had. Share it forward when it drops. 🤲 #Nostr #DigitalHijrah #Bitcoin #Zaps image
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amisatoshi 3 weeks ago
Coming soon to digitalhijrah.com 👇 Tutorial 3: Getting Started with Nostr A free step-by-step guide — from zero to zapping in one afternoon. ✓ Generate & secure your keys ✓ NoorNote & YakiHonne setup ✓ Connect to relays ✓ Send your first Zap ⚡ Share with someone still stuck on X. #Nostr #DigitalHijrah
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amisatoshi 3 weeks ago
Digital Hijrah — A Practical Guide to Digital Sovereignty 🌐 www.digitalhijrah.com A new kind of migration is happening — not across borders, but away from systems that watch, profile, and control. Digital Hijrah is a clear path toward autonomy, resilience, and ethical technology. Take back control of your digital life: - Own your money with decentralised, censorship‑resistant tools - Control your identity without corporate gatekeepers - Protect your communication from surveillance - Build tech stacks independent of Big Tech - Defend your mind and data from algorithmic manipulation - Live virtuously online with faith‑aligned digital habits The framework is simple: Six Pillars supported by Three Levels of Transformation — Aware → Sovereign → Citadel. Practical, actionable, and ready to apply today. Digital Hijrah isn’t theory. It’s a real migration toward privacy, dignity, and autonomy in a rapidly shifting digital world. #digitalhijrah image
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amisatoshi 3 weeks ago
Coming soon to digitalhijrah.com 👇 Tutorial 2: Bitcoin Self-Custody — Your Keys, Your Coins A free downloadable PDF covering everything from setting up your first non-custodial Lightning wallet to choosing a hardware device and verifying software signatures. Because the most important step most people skip isn't buying Bitcoin. It's actually holding it. #Bitcoin #SelfCustody #Lightning #DigitalHijrah
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amisatoshi 3 weeks ago
📢 6 DAYS TO GO before we march! On Saturday May 16th we need everyone who can make it to be in London. We will march to commemorate the Nakba – the catastrophe inflicted on the Palestinian people since the foundation of Israel in 1948. For 78 years, Palestinians have been subjected to a racist system of oppression including ethnic cleansing, settler-colonialism, apartheid and genocide.  We march to reaffirm our commitment to the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, including the refugees’ right to return home. We march to demand an end to Britain’s complicity in Israel’s crimes. We march against the far right in Britain who glorify Israel’s racism and brutality. Our unity and solidarity is stronger than their hatred and division. Stand with the Palestinian people whose demand for justice is as important now as ever before. image
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amisatoshi 3 weeks ago
Coming soon to digitalhijrah.com 👇 Tutorial 1: Getting Started with Linux A free downloadable PDF guide — concise, practical, no fluff — for anyone ready to make the switch from Windows or macOS. Covers everything from choosing your first distro to a fully encrypted running system. No prior experience assumed. #Linux #DigitalHijrah #DigitalSovereignty #Privacy
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amisatoshi 3 weeks ago
The concept of Hijrah - migration away from what harms toward what is better - is not merely historical. We live in a digital environment where: → Our savings are eroded by inflation engineered by central banks → Our private conversations are surveilled and sold → The tools we use daily — Google, WhatsApp, Microsoft — have documented contracts with military and intelligence services → Our attention is the product being traded For Muslim communities, this isn't just a privacy concern. It's an ethical one. An Islamic one. Digital Hijrah (digitalhijrah.com) is a free, practical guide to migrating away from these systems - using Bitcoin, open source software, and decentralised alternatives that serve people rather than exploit them. It covers everything from replacing WhatsApp with Signal (Level 1, anyone can do it this weekend) to running your own Bitcoin node and self-hosting your data (Level 3, for the dedicated). Built by the community. For the community. No ads, no paywall, no tracking. If this resonates, share it with someone who needs it. #DigitalHijrah #Bitcoin #Privacy #DigitalSovereignty image
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amisatoshi 3 weeks ago
There's a sovereignty practice that almost nobody talks about, but that every serious Bitcoin user should do: verifying software signatures before running them. When you download Bitcoin Core, Sparrow Wallet, ColdCard firmware, or GrapheneOS — how do you know the file wasn't tampered with between the developer's computer and yours? GPG signature verification. It takes 2 minutes and it's the difference between running legitimate software and running malware that drains your wallet. Digital Hijrah's Encryption & Keys tab walks through: 🔑 GnuPG setup on Windows (Gpg4win), macOS (GPG Suite) and Linux (built-in) 🔑 Thunderbird with built-in OpenPGP for encrypted email 🔑 Hardware security keys — Nitrokey (fully open source, German) and YubiKey 🔑 VeraCrypt and LUKS for full disk encryption 🔑 Cryptomator for encrypting files on any cloud storage 🔑 Key servers and Web Key Directory (WKD) for public key sharing 🔑 The full verification workflow with code examples This is the tab most people ignore. It's probably the most important one. digitalhijrah.com — free, no account, no tracking. #GPG #Encryption #Bitcoin #Cybersecurity #DigitalSovereignty #OpenSource #DigitalHijrah image
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amisatoshi 3 weeks ago
One of the most common objections to Bitcoin: "but I can't spend it anywhere." That's no longer true — and Digital Hijrah maps out exactly how. The Money tab includes a full section on spending and accepting Bitcoin in the real world: SPEND WITHOUT MERCHANTS NEEDING TO ACCEPT BTC: → Bitrefill — buy gift cards for 8,000+ products, across 3500+ brands in 186 countries with Lightning. Instant delivery. . → Cryptorefills — European alternative, 150+ countries, thousands of brands → Coincards — top-ups and gift cards, no KYC required FIND MERCHANTS: → BTCMap.org — community-maintained open source map of Bitcoin-accepting businesses worldwide. OpenStreetMap-based, no tracking. ACCEPT BITCOIN (for businesses, charities, masjids): → Phoenix/ZEUS wallet as a simple POS terminal → BTCPay Server — self-hosted, zero fees, full merchant checkout The tools exist. The circular economy just needs participants. digitalhijrah.com — free guide, no sign-up. #Bitcoin #Lightning #CircularEconomy #DigitalSovereignty #DigitalHijrah image
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amisatoshi 3 weeks ago
‼️All to London‼️ #Nakba78 March for Palestine and against the far right 🗓️ Saturday 16 May ⏰ Noon 📍 Exhibition Road, London, SW7 2DB image
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amisatoshi 3 weeks ago
One thing we built into Digital Hijrah from the start: it meets you where you are. The guide covers 11 technology areas, but you don't have to tackle all of them at once. We use a 3-tier sovereignty framework: 👁 AWARE (Level 1) — Better choices that don't require technical knowledge. Signal instead of WhatsApp. ProtonMail instead of Gmail. Brave instead of Chrome. Anyone can do this in a weekend. ⚡ SOVEREIGN (Level 2) — Self-hosted services, Bitcoin self-custody, GrapheneOS, Linux. Taking back control of your infrastructure. 🛡 CITADEL (Level 3) — Running your own node, self-hosted relays, hardware signing devices, FROST multisig. Full sovereignty for the dedicated. Each of the 177 (and counting) tools in the guide is tagged by level. Filter to your comfort zone and work outward from there. The 9-step Getting Started path walks you through it chronologically — from your first week to month 6 and beyond. digitalhijrah.com — free, no account required. #Bitcoin #Privacy #OpenSource #DigitalSovereignty #Linux #GrapheneOS #DigitalHijrah image
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amisatoshi 3 weeks ago
When we built Digital Hijrah, we knew we had to address something most tech guides ignore: the ethical dimension of who owns the tools we use. Our 8th rating criterion is BDS Clean — does the company behind this tool have documented ties to Israeli military or intelligence infrastructure? Some findings that surprised us: ❌ Google — Project Nimbus: $1.2bn AWS + Google Cloud contract with Israeli Ministry of Defense ❌ Microsoft — Azure contract with Israeli MOD, used in active military operations ❌ WhatsApp — owned by Meta, whose infrastructure underpins Israeli surveillance systems ❌ ExpressVPN — acquired by Kape Technologies, founded by ex-Unit 8200 intelligence officers ❌ Discord — Spark Capital investors have significant Israeli tech portfolio ✅ Signal, ProtonMail, Bitwarden, Nextcloud, Mullvad — all clean This isn't about politics. It's about knowing what you're paying for with your data, your attention and your money. digitalhijrah.com — see the full ratings. #BDS #DigitalSovereignty #EthicalTech #Privacy #DigitalHijrah image
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amisatoshi 3 weeks ago
I'm proud to announce the launch of digitalhijrah.com — a free, open resource for anyone serious about reclaiming their digital life. Digital Hijrah is a practical sovereignty guide covering 11 areas of technology: money, communication, identity, devices, AI, cloud storage, networking, encryption and more. Every tool is rated across 8 criteria — including whether the company behind it has ties to Israeli military contracts (BDS framework). We don't shy away from the hard questions. It's built on Bitcoin values: open source, no ads, no paywalls, no tracking. If you're tired of Big Tech owning your data, your money and your attention — this is your roadmap out. #Bitcoin #Privacy #OpenSource #BDS #DigitalHijrah image
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amisatoshi 3 weeks ago
We just launched digitalhijrah.com A free, practical guide to digital sovereignty — for Muslims and anyone who values privacy, freedom and ethical tech. BDS-aware. Bitcoin-native. Community-built. No ads. No tracking. No compromise. digitalhijrah.com image
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amisatoshi 0 months ago
Digital Hijrah — A Practical Guide to Digital Sovereignty A new kind of migration is underway. Not across borders, but away from systems that track, monetise, and control us. Digital Hijrah is a deliberate journey toward sovereignty, resilience, and ethical technology, echoing the classical spirit of migrating toward better circumstances. At its core, Digital Hijrah empowers you to: - Own your money through decentralised, censorship‑resistant tools. - Control your identity with self‑sovereign credentials instead of corporate logins. - Secure your communication against surveillance and data extraction. - Build autonomous technology stacks that don’t rely on Big Tech. - Protect your mind and data in an age of algorithmic manipulation. - Live virtuously online, aligning digital life with faith, ethics, and human dignity. This site distils the complex world of digital sovereignty into a clear, structured framework — the Six Pillars supported by the Three Levels of Transformation (Aware → Sovereign → Citadel). Each step is practical, actionable, and grounded in real tools you can adopt today. Digital Hijrah is not theory. It’s a migration you can begin right now — one that strengthens your family, protects your privacy, and restores your autonomy in a rapidly shifting digital landscape.
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amisatoshi 1 month ago
Digital Hijrah: A Framework for Digital Sovereignty Digital Hijrah is a framework for purposeful migration away from surveillance capitalism — reclaiming your money through Bitcoin, your identity through Nostr, your communications through encryption, your infrastructure through open-source self-hosting, your intelligence through local AI, and your conscience through BDS alignment. image
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amisatoshi 1 month ago
Salmān al-Fārisī He left Persia. Crossed deserts, mountains, oceans. Was enslaved. Found the Prophet ﷺ in the last place he looked. 🌍 "Salmān is from us — the People of the House." Read his story → www.ashikusmanbooks.com/young-companions #Salman #SeekingTruth #YoungSahabah image
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amisatoshi 1 month ago
Essential reading for those seeking justice and an understanding of how genocide in Palestine has been made possible. There must be accountability for the perpetrators of these atrocities and the media that whitewashed their crimes. There must be justice for Palestinians. Published by Penguin Random House. Available wherever books are sold September 8, 2026. Preorder: image