From World Coin Index:
An Indonesian-based startup known as Blossom Finance has launched a report authored by the firm’s internal advisor on Sharia laws which concludes that the virtual currency Bitcoin (BTC) is compliant with Islamic law. The declaration by the Islamic scholar could make the cryptocurrency more attractive to Muslim investors as they has previously been no clarity on whether digital coins qualify as money as. Currently Muslims are more than a fifth of the global population.
Since Bitcoin came into being there has been debate among Islamic scholars over whether trading in the digital currency constituted a form of usury since it was highly volatile and thus offered opportunities of making huge gains as well as large losses. Under Islamic Canonical Law, usury or lending of money at high-interest rates is prohibited.
There exists confusion among Muslims over whether Bitcoin is haram (non-compliant with Islamic laws) or halal (compliant with Islamic laws). Partly this is because the answer is open to interpretation since bitcoin serves not just as a currency but also a payment and a transaction network. Per Martin bitcoin meets the definition of Islamic money since it acts as a store of value, unit of account and a medium of exchange. It also qualifies as customary money since it has gained wide acceptance in society.
The report further argues that the rulings that have been issued by Islamic scholars and which say that the virtual currency is not Sharia-compliant due to the wild volatility it is associated with as well as the fact that it is popular with illegal activities are not legitimate reasons....MORE
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the Ummah is going ahead with the gold dinar plan we first noted back in 2007, at
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