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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @Kontext 12h \ on: Stacker Saloon
A 2.5 hour podcast on the Science & Health Benefits of Belief in God & Religion wasn't on my bingo card for 2025, but I love to see it 🙏❤️
Full episode:
42 sats \ 0 replies \ @Kontext 13h \ parent \ on: (mostly) Daily Accountability Thread HealthAndFitness
Google AI Overview:
Hanging (or "dead hanging") provides multiple physical benefits, including improved grip strength, spinal decompression, better posture, increased shoulder mobility and stability, core strength, and a full-body stretch for the back, shoulders, and lats. It's a simple way to strengthen the upper body, reduce pain, and improve overall body function and flexibility.
Some great tips in this video:
Did a max set of pushups (61) in the morning, walked maybe around 2 hours in total, had one meal (and some more or less healthy snacks after that), did a max hang (2 min 17 sec; going to a local hanging competition on Saturday), then a short yoga session with 4x33 sets of pushups in between. Very minimal screen time during the day, but spent most of the night behind the computer, my sleep schedule is quite bad. Sleeping thing aside, can be quite satisfied. Should do more yoga/stretching probably though. Also hoping the weather gets warmer again so could get more sun and be barefoot outside... but not expecting much. The Estonian climate is terrible. Definitely missing Australia in that sense...
"Graffiti writer never dreamed of being famous
The goal was that they never knew the face, not being nameless
Aiming for a target, if I didn't hit it, shameless
In the rain, I never read the rules to what the game is"
Wrote this in another thread a week ago (#1088119), but still working on all those things!
WHAT'S NEXT:
- Contacting companies to get a wider selection of discount codes live on Satoshee
- Adding additional products & designs to Kontext Store of Value
- Making a proper introduction to KSoV
- Offering KSoV resale possibilities to other Bitcoin book and/or merch stores
- Figuring out bulk pricing for the above; whether I should also add an affiliate program
- Figuring out more ways to promote the book (#1074789)
- Fixing the referral links issue with Satoshee
- Cleaning my room
- Hopefully, also more new writing, and perhaps music, making again đź¤
One thing to add is I intend to participate in a local hanging competition this weekend! Did a test hang today and got about 2 min 17 seconds, which is not too shabby I think.
We all fuck up an one point or another, what determines whether we wither or thrive is whether we are willing to learn from the fuckups. Looks like you are! Respect.
Sometimes, life's most precious lessons are very expensive...
I lost most of my stack in the beginning of 2022 as I thought 100k was inevitable in 2021... I had been borrowing fiat against my BTC (and even some shitcoins at the time), thinking I could live off the appreciation of my coins. Losing it made me realize that I actually have to provide value to the world in order to thrive, which led me to have a more serious go at a music career (which didn't work out), pick up yoga and try to become a yoga teacher (which didn't work out/I got disillusioned with), start writing (has worked out to some extent but not as a profession), and start a Bitcoin-based business (hasn't taken off the ground properly yet, but hasn't exactly failed either).
So yeah, what I'm trying to say is... stay humble, stay curious, and keep building đź’Ş
That's very cool & well done on building your own site! Thanks for sharing! I can't sample your products myself unfortunately (at least for now) as I'm in Europe, but I have your website on a list actually... in case you wanted it to be featured on mine :) I'll DM you on nostr in a bit with some details!
The referrals worked at some point when the original site (satosh.ee) was a WIP... can't tell you the exact time when I tested the system, but based on my notes it seems initial tests were done already back in October 2023. But by the time I launched it, more than a year later in November 2024, the links weren't working properly and I haven't gotten them to work since.
Yeah it does make some sense given that they are an exchange and not just selling some other product or service for Bitcoin.
Should have included that in the original post :) Our usage patterns are certainly quite different then. Personally, I don't have disposable income to put into cold storage BTC at the moment. So whenever I buy (usually on Kraken), I buy to more or less immediately pay for things, so I withdraw from the exchange straight to my LN wallet. Which is kind of why I made the stretch that:
only 5% of their customers ever tried Lightning [...] that seems to indicate that only 5% see Bitcoin as a medium of exchange.
The SameSite column is empty on all cookies, so from what I understand: Blank SameSite = defaults to SameSite=Lax
I recently launched another website and installed the Referral Codes plugin again to test the behavior. The same issue persists. Initially I was certain that the issue was related to the LongWatchStudio plugins themselves, so I was in a lengthy correspondence with them, they claimed they weren't able to reproduce the issue on their end. I am thinking of emailing them again due to the fact that the same problem is present on a new site, but nevertheless, the fact that another plugin behaved the same way (at least on the older site, haven't tested on the new one yet), seems to indicate that it's not just a plugin issue.
The way the referral codes work does not seem to be dependent on whether the cookies are present from the get-go or not. I tested this yesterday:
On the new site, the plugin's cookie lwsadmsession... was present on the first visit, however the referral logic didn't trigger until the 2nd visit.
On the older site, the cookie wasn't present on the first visit, referral logic acted the same (only triggered on the 2nd visit)
Web developers / Wordpress experts / Code wizards!
I need help with the following issue: WooCommerce referral links only trigger on 2nd visit, details #1195603
25k sats + lifetime Gold membership on SATOSH.EE and my eternal gratitude to whoever helps me solve the problem.
“What we now call education is not education at all. Your teachers prepare you to pass examinations, but they do not talk to you about living, which is most important; because very few know how to live. Most of us merely survive, we somehow drag along, and therefore life becomes a dreadful thing. Really to live requires a great deal of love, a great feeling for silence, a great simplicity with an abundance of experience; it requires a mind that is capable of thinking very clearly, that is not bound by prejudice or superstition, by hope or fear. All this is life, and if you are not being educated to live, then education has no meaning. You may learn to be very tidy, have good manners, and you may pass all your examinations; but, to give primary importance to these superficial things when the whole structure of society is crumbling, is like cleaning and polishing your fingernails while the house is burning down. You see, nobody talks to you about all this, nobody goes into it with you. As you spend day after day studying certain subjects - mathematics, history, geography - so also you should spend a great deal of time talking about these deeper matters, because this makes for richness of life.”
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Related to Relai sunsetting LN (#1194772), questions to all of you who accept BTC for goods and services, especially if you offer both BTC and fiat payments:
- What % of your customers pay in Bitcoin?
- Out of those who pay in Bitcoin, what % pays via LN?
- Have you had many technical issues with LN?
Quoting from what I replied to @k00b:
Yeah it does make some sense given that they are an exchange and not just selling some other product or service for Bitcoin. [...] I'm making a bit of a stretch here, but to me, that seems to indicate that only 5% see Bitcoin as a medium of exchange.
Bitcoin as a medium of exchange is imperativeIt's a nice to have, not an imperative, this drama is old hat.
Quoting from my original post:
If you see Bitcoin as Gold 2.0, this is fine. If you see Bitcoin as the separation of Money and State, it's not.
I don't think Bitcoin can truly win if it can't be used for everyday payments, or more importantly, if it can't be used to circumvent the legacy financial system. In that case, it will remain a part of the permissioned system, not become the foundation for a new, permissionless one.
Again, if you think a store of value is all that Bitcoin is and could be, this is not a problem. Personally, I think it can be much more than that.
90 sats \ 1 reply \ @Kontext OP 27 Aug \ parent \ on: Relai sunsets Lightning Network integration bitcoin
I think it's far superior as a MoE: low fees, cut out the card processors & banks, no chargeback risk, have immediate self-custody of funds. In addition, I don't have to worry about FX rates or exchange fees when I go from country A (where I pay in Bitcoin) to country B (where I pay in Bitcoin) or even simply use online services of a company in another jurisdiction.
But yeah, you're right, necessity is the driver of any new technology. And for the end user, the fees, the chargeback risks, the custody issue... these are either obfuscated or just too trivial to care about.
Relai sunsets Lightning Network integration: #1194772
100 sats \ 4 replies \ @Kontext OP 26 Aug \ parent \ on: Relai sunsets Lightning Network integration bitcoin
Yeah it does make some sense given that they are an exchange and not just selling some other product or service for Bitcoin.
But what I find kind of worrying, and why I brought up the whole medium of exchange issue, is the fact that (according to Relai), only 5% of their customers ever tried Lightning. I'm making a bit of a stretch here, but to me, that seems to indicate that only 5% see Bitcoin as a medium of exchange. Of course, this is tied to the fact that not many businesses accept BTC for payments, but nevertheless... this sounds quite bleak.