Long form writing, especially long form fiction, has aspirations to be relevant for a much longer time span than a post or comment.

One aspect of the v4v model on SN that doesnt work with such aspirations is that value and attention mostly goes to "fresh" content.

The long form fiction I've seen on here gets a bump of zaps in the first 12 hours, and then the zaps quickly fall off. Also, there is a bias in v4v toward new content. Very few readers seem willing to zap old fiction.

I'm not clear if this is true for readers as well (do you get 99% of your readers the first day as well?). Even though there are aggregation newsletters for ~BooksAndArticles, it seems difficult to garner attention after you publish. I suspect that this is particularly true on SN, but it applies to v4v in general.

100 is good.

Merry Christmas! 2025 is the year to try something you're pretty sure you'll fail at. Here's hoping you surprise yourself.

This one of my favorite pieces of internet writing. True mastery of the form. Perfection.

This is cool. Looking forward to trying something mentaiko soon!

Can you expand on that?

Why?

I agree with you, but the clunkiness of eight decimal places and other such numeric ugliness that the current 1 btc definition causes is real. Carvalho is pointing out the source of real confusion, especially among no coiners and newbies.

I can see the headline now: "Bitcoin now worth less than a penny!"

The popular understanding of Bitcoin is that 1 btc is worth a lot. @BitcoinErrorLog's proposal throws that away and has to fight the mental image pretty much everyone who's ever heard of bitcoin has. Seems like it would just lead to confusion, like a bad rebrand.

It makes a lot of sense, but I still like sats.

Scott Aaronson seems to be a reliable voice on this topic. His take is on his blog

I'm going to try that. Do post more recipes.

What do you use the saline for?

If there was a way for the zaps on a post to go to the SN community as a whole, wouldn't that solve the problem you are describing?

Obviously, this is what SN rewards are. Perhaps the Sybil fee is too low (maybe it should be 50% rather than 30%), but the point is that people who try to inflate their standing by sock-puppet zapping end up paying the SN community for the space they take up.

In your example of a 10k sat post from 2-3 users versus a 1k sat post from 20 users, the 10k sat post paid 3k to SN. Sure, it's not a huge sum, but it adds up. If they are only zapping themselves, they are gonna spend a lot doing it.

If you think rewards are broken, that's one thing. But if you want to turn content moderation into only upvotes, let's all just go to reddit and post lightning addresses in our bios for when people want to zap us.

I much prefer that money plays a role in content moderation rather than faceless god-mode moderators.

Ah, I see the meaning behind your emojis now.

Yes. The beauty of the internet.

I think Darth was riffing on Jihan Wu's infamous tweet:

I won't make any call on what you posted. The sats tell the truth. It looks like your post got 241 sats. Is 241 sats shit?

For me, I care about how many sats I garner. Also the discussion is good. If there are people who say things I don't want to engage with, I just don't engage.

I enjoy SN because the moderation is achieved via a market with sats. It is far and away better than any other moderation mechanism.

I probably could have been more exhaustive (just the first page of google results)

I gotta say, I probably wouldn't be here without the sats.