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- Steven Rose
- Eric Sirion
- Alex Lewin
- Pieter Wuille
- nothingmuch
I think people do appreciate it when it's obvious that someone spent some time and thinking on their post or comment. They don't always land (I spent a week writing a post about Frankenstein and bitcoin and that sure was a dud).
my advice would be to find a niche that interests you and then be consistent. Post about it on some regular schedule. Do some research on it, try to post something about your niche that maybe isn't easy to find or isn't obvious. if it's something you are super interested in, eventually others might catch your enthusiasm.
It sounds like you are more left leaning. I'd be very curious to read quality posts about immigration topics or about climate change. Those are under-covered here and although there are many people who might react somewhat harshly, there are also a number who would appreciate thoughtful posts on those topics. I'm sure there are others.
This is Steve Barbour's point, I think. I wish he would get more airtime. Someone should convince him to do an AMA here...
right now, I would say a downzap demonstrates more signal than a zap. Since SN is a pseudonymous site, it's hard to know if anyone is self zapping (collecting 70% of the value of their zap). In order to get the benefit of a 100 sat zap, a self-zapper only has to spend 30 sats (and take the trouble of setting up an alt account).
However, a 100 sat downzap costs 100 sats because the downzapper cannot recoup sats by self downzapping. So that's why I'd say downzapping is a stronger signal than zapping.
Boosting is a self-zap where we can see that the self-zapper didn't receive any portion[1] of the sats back. In order to get the benefit of a 100 sat boost, they actually have to spend 100 sats.
A boost may be a sign of self-importance or ego, but it may also be a way of saying "I think this post is so worth your time that I'm willing to spend to get you to see it." A downzap may be a sign of spite or malice or it may be a selfless act of community policing, like picking up litter so other people don't have to see it.
Rewards make this messy because if some of the boost goes to rewards that the boost-payer receives, they do receive back some of the sats. But it's not as sure a thing, I don't think. ↩
I have seen a lot of videos. I'm just kinda at the point where videos don't count for very much when it comes to evaluating truth. I think it wouldn't be hard for someone to make a very small protest seem like something nationwide as far as what shows up online (or the opposite, really).
I appreciated reading the conversation between you and @dathon_ohm
Probably the best discussion of BIP 110 I've read so far from both sides.
You both did a nice job explaining your approaches to BIP-110. I learned a lot from reading it (and clearly need to learn more).
At the moment, SN seems to be more active during US daytime hours, so a post in the morning hours of the EU tends to drop down the home page by the time SN hits its most active.
But this also means that EU morning hours have less competition for real estate.
(assuming I described how it works accurately) seems like it could lead to a way to deal with evergreen content, too. There might be a risk that the hot feed becomes less lively.
Currently, there is no trust. So, when you view the home page, you see all posts (minus any things you have muted) ranked by sats (which become half as "valuable" every 4 hours).
When you click in to a territory, you see all posts in that territory sorted by sats with the same time decay.
I've seen ecolab products in hospitals and doctors' offices, I believe. But your write-up doesn't make me think it's worth it.
This is a pretty cool story! Reminds me to cultivate more Bitcoin friends and acquaintances if for no other reason than that they may want to buy sats when I need to sell them. (but as you make clear there are so many other reasons!) Also yet another reason meetups are fire!
Thanks for taking the time to share the story.
you can run a node without any bitcoin at all.
a node is just a program you run on a computer that tries to download and verify all the blocks in the chain with the most proof of work. once the program has verified all the past blocks, it listens for new blocks with valid proof of work that add to that chain.
While it's waiting for a new block, the program also listens for (and can relay to other nodes) unconfirmed transactions. The place it saves these on your computer is called your "mempool."
That's pretty much all a node does, be it Core, Knots, or libbitcoin.
A wallet keeps track of the coins that are controlled by your keys. Wallets need to talk to a node to know which blocks have transactions that are relevant to your keys. If you aren't running a node, your wallet software has to ask someone else's node -- and this means it tells them which coins you are interested in (by which they can infer that they are your coins).
- verify the coins you receive and make sure they are real coins following the rules of Bitcoin as you understand them.
- broadcast your transactions to the p2p network so they will be seen by lots of miners.
As far as devices, I'm a fan of an old laptop or computer with whatever node software you like. Core or Knots or Umbrella or Start9 -- I believe all have their software available for free.
Sounds like a great meetup!