No Limit Texas Holdem(NLH)! I have been a serious learning player for 14 years. I had played with family and friends a couple times by the time I was living next to a card room and then started playing a lot. Quickly I realized two things: this is a game of skill, and I was a losing player. At year one I found and hired my first coach and I still to this day pay for coaching and mentorship just less frequently. During the next year I had paid for over 50 1-hour coaching sessions and was able to produce a 600 hour sample (for all of 2012) beating the game for $9 an hour.

Fast forward to today and poker is a major dictator for my future plans. In some ways it's liberating, in others it's a bit shackling. I can not would not consider moving somewhere without access to good poker games. I have been dependent on poker income for the last 10 years. NLH is such a beautiful, infinitely complex game and I am so excited as its popularity grows worldwide thanks to social media.

Playing poker for-profit and bitcoin mix so so so well together. I was so excited to learn that I could actually bank myself once I got a better understanding of what bitcoin was capable of. I'm sure you can imagine why. Like bitcoin and the banking systems, poker and banks do not mix well. Bitcoin provides some actual financial security to the struggling poker-pro where it wasn't available before. With the two combined, I get an immense sense of self-empowerment.

I don't think the problems that are solved are nearly as trivial as you make them seem. Bot farms on twitter? Can't afford to do that here. Shitty no-context posts designed to farm likes? That won't earn you sats here and thus is less incentivized. People will send a couple sats around to silly wise cracks, sure, but if you hang around long enough, you'll quickly notice the trend that real value only gets sent to real valuable posts. Check all the top stackers here. . .they are on the top for a reason.

Awesome trip report! Could you expand at all on this part?

"The sats go directly into the nodes and wallets of the merchants, which InBitcoin helps set up. That's partly a legal requirement, and by request."

it is a legal requirement for merchants to have their own node infrastructure. That's super cool !

Yes a heart or a thumb. A simple value-less like that you see on every other social media platform. CC's obviously give you a bit more since you can use them to pay for posts of comments here but beyond that I can't do anything with them? If that's true then they'll be accumulated here on SN until the end of time.

I'm wondering if it would be legally ok for you guys to sell us SN merch, maybe even only digital, for CC's?

I guess I have one more question. I couldn't get the answer from the FAQ. What is the difference between a CC and a heart or a thumb? They can't me moved or used from SN right?

in my first post #1011444 I stacked a few thousand sats and the majority of them went right to my wallet, indicating (to me) they came from mainly stackers with send wallets set up, however when you peak around there really aren't many guns next to peoples names.

It's a nice cautionary sticker but I do hope it doesn't get used and abused like other sticker's we've seen in the past to disguise an unhealthy product as a healthy one. "SUGAR FREE!" "GMO FREE!" "FAT FREE!" I do agree with you here #1011848 it is nice that we can simply get a quick awareness though.

@ek This is soooo cool it's just wild to see sats coming into and out of my own wallet. thanks a bunch. One more question. I'm zapping people 21 sats currently and I am being deducted 31 but getting a "fee reimbursement" of 10 back to the wallet right away. So the amount of sats being deducted is correct however I don't really understand what's going on under the hood here.

I think i'm all set now thanks a lot @ek

What is the difference between a CC and a heart or a thumb?

I've tried to zap you twice now but it gives the sats to your post then they quickly go away. I must be doing something wrong.

@ek ok i've done it! Thank you. I'm still a bit confused with the cowboy credits. Can I choose which to zap you with? CC or sats?

Thank you!

Sweet thanks I will work on this later today. I will wait to zap you so I can hopefully send you some sats instead of cowboy credits. Are the cowboy credits we get and send stuck on SN forever? we can't withdraw them or pay LN invoices with them?

Hey stackers, new here.

I'm trying to set up my send wallet. In the wallet section it is saving my Blink API, and it also is giving me the green send arrow in the blink box, but I don't have my gun indicating something is wrong. I do show this error in the logs:

POST https://api.blink.sv/graphql: 401

Hey stackers, new here.

I have my horse, which is awesome. I have a blink wallet attached to send, which is indicated by the green arrow in the wallet section and the saved API, however I don't have my gun. Is there something I'm doing wrong?