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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scoresby 5h \ on: Stacker Saloon
I spent more time on this than I should have.
There are more people publishing books than ever before. Most of them are pretty awful. But some aren't. Trick is finding the ones that aren't.
If some no name author offered a 10k sat bounty to read their freshly published novel would it get many readers?
Sometimes a kind of glory lights up the mind of a man. It happens to nearly everyone. You can feel it growing or preparing like a fuse burning toward dynamite. It is a feeling in the stomach, a delight of nerves, of the forearms. The skin tastes the air, and every deepdrawn breath is sweet. Its beginning has the pleasure of a great stretching yawn; it flashes in the brain and the whole world glows outside your eyes. A man may have lived all of his life in the gray, and the land and tress of him dark and somber. The events, even the important ones, may have trooped by faceless and pale. And then--the glory--so that a cricket song sweetens his ears, the smell of the earth rises chanting to his nose, and sweetens his ears, the smell of the earth rises chanting to his nose, and dappling light under a tree blesses his eyes. Then a man pours outward, a torrent of him, and yet he is not diminished. And I guess a man's importance in the world can be measured by the quality and number of his glories. It is a lonely thing but it relates us to the world. It is the mother of all creativeness, and it sets each man separate from all other men.
Keep 'em coming. There's hardly a sentence in that book that isn't beautiful.
21 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby OP 21 Apr \ parent \ on: Bitcoin has no leaders. Soft forks do. bitcoin
In the case of something like OP_VAULT, where the use case is primarily aimed at making cold storage safer, it would be pretty difficult to attract users to do it on liquid or some side chain, since the point of cold storage is to rely on the maximum security of the btc chain.
Maybe we will see the ordinal and other protocols do what you are talking about, but they are a little bit affinity scams and if they move off bitcoin they lose a big part of their value prop.
0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby OP 21 Apr \ parent \ on: Bitcoin has no leaders. Soft forks do. bitcoin
Pretty sure bcash was a hard fork.
Do you think status quo bitcoin has more support than it did before taproot?
It seems likely to me that one of the covenant soft forks will become part of what we call bitcoin now. Who knows on what timeline.
What will you do if that happens?
10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scoresby OP 21 Apr \ parent \ on: Bitcoin has no leaders. Soft forks do. bitcoin
I think it was probably prompted by this tweet from David Bailey.
Get all the degens to run a UASF for CTV and it’s done. Really that simple.Degens in the driver seat lol
I'm mostly interested in thinking about how bitcoin changes and what happens during that process.
I thought Francis made a good point about how forks work.
A majority of what is the question.
Is it node runners (a majority of computers running specific software)?
Is it btc holders (a majority of the value)?
Is it developers (a majority of contributors to the code)?
Is it people willing to accept the bitcoin (a majority of merchants, economic participants)?
I don't think your post will be downzapped.
It's interesting watching SN figure out how to use sats as a tool for moderation
If sats total was the only ranking mechanism, we might expect events Luke Fun Fact Friday to end up with people creating alt accounts and zapping their own entry up 9999 sats.
Clearly SN can't use sats total alone to determine ranking of a post.
So they add some weighting factor (trust) to the mix.
There is trust based on your interactions with other stackers and then there is a different trust based on the whole website (global trust).
Previously, I had thought that tapping on the
top
tab showed you the rankings with global trust, but @ek's comment here, makes me think that is not the case.Watched the halving on mempool.space with the kids. Never had them so interested. They were actually super excited about how high fees got after the halving. Little future miners...
21 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby OP 19 Apr \ parent \ on: [REVIEW] Software by Rudy Rucker BooksAndArticles
I may have been excessively harsh. He has a pretty cool concept at the heart of it and it is a quick read.
In the novel No Country for Old Men Ed Tom says "awhile back in San Antonio they shot and killed a federal judge."
This is a reference to the 1979 killing of Judge Wood who was shot by contract killer Charles Harrelson, the father of Woody Harrelson who plays Carson Wells in the film version of No Country.
The role of money on SN is incredibly fascinating. Are people trying to make money here? Is money a spam prevention tool? Is it a way to do content moderation?
I see money as a way to clarify incentives on SN.
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paying to post means you having an incentive to put some thought into your post.
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paying to upvote (zaps) means you can incentivize the kind of content you enjoy on SN.
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SN rewards (paid out to zappers of good content) creates an incentive for users to act as moderators.
It's a very valuable observation that money on SN is a tool. But I think that the headline "it's like hacker news but we pay you" should not be disregarded.
SN originally caught my attention because who doesn't like the idea of earning a few sats for posting online.
But it is true that earning sats isn't going to keep people here and posting killer content. Hence, events and things.
I'm personally curious to see more bounties on SN. The bounty feature is pretty awesome and bounties always seem to get a lot of interaction.
One of the reasons I think you should at least be able to see how many stackers downzapped you.
I don't think it's a problem yet, but as the site grows, there will need to be some way to guarantee that a post is getting outlawed because of broad community dislike and not just one very highly trusted stacker downzapping you mightily.
At the moment, I think the only way you discover that you are being downzapped at all is if your post suddenly gets outlawed.