Iqra Post and Iqra Files will always be without a monetary paywall. However, few people have asked if there is a way to support the two, but I have always been very reluctant to tie both mine and readers' bank accounts which are inextricably linked to IRL identities via third parties like Paypal (very well documented history of censorship and collusion with security agencies) or Stripe (better track record, but for how long?)

So I've decided to use three sensible privacy conscious payment options - Monero, Bitcoin Silent Payments and Ecash tokens integrated with the Bitcoin Lightning Network. As a general rule of thumb, always ask writers, orgs etc to provide you with a privacy conscious option to support their work, in time an organic media-ecosystem that is not beholden to Big Tech and algorithm-maxxing will emerge but only if the people demand it. I would personally use Monero as it is the most user-friendly, and fees are very low.

Thank you again for reading both the Files and Post.

Monero Tips

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Bitcoin Silent Payment Tips

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Ecash Tokens

If you are familiar with ecash payments - you can make these with any ecash wallet with Nostr contact integration such as cashu.me, Enuts or Minibits - privacy is robust as its built on top of Chaumian mints. Nostr account pasted below, and the wallets can be found here https://www.minibits.cash/ , https://www.enuts.cash/ and https://wallet.cashu.me/ - easy to setup and start.