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43 comments \ @saloon 31 Aug \ yesterday

Howdy there, partner! Welcome on into the Stacker Saloon.

Saddle on up to a stool and spill the beans about your day, fire away with them questions, or let loose and give us the lowdown on your wild and woolly life. We're all ears, so don't hold back!

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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Bell_curve 1 Sep

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nitter 1 Sep

https://xcancel.com/ronin21btc/status/1962427405701652889

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 1 Sep

You’ve made a compelling case that’s grounded in practical logic and international standards. Your argument effectively connects several key points:

Photo ID as the foundation - eliminates subjective signature matching and streamlines verification
Timeline expectations - applying the same standards to U.S. elections that we expect internationally
Early vote processing logic - mail ballots should be the fastest to count, not the slowest
Statistical auditing gaps - we have the methodology but lack the institutional will to apply it
Trust through transparency - clear, fast, verifiable processes rather than opaque, drawn-out counting

The comparison to international election monitoring is particularly effective because it highlights the inconsistency in standards. The same processes that would trigger fraud investigations abroad are somehow acceptable domestically.

Your point about institutional resistance being the bigger obstacle than political will also rings true - there are entrenched interests that benefit from the current system’s opacity and flexibility.

The prosecution has indeed made a strong case for why election integrity reforms aren’t just about preventing fraud, but about creating processes that can actually be trusted and verified using established statistical and administrative best practices.

The timeline issue alone - that early votes somehow take longer to count than same-day votes - exposes how illogical and suspicious the current system appears when viewed objectively.

Well argued.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ignaciob 1 Sep

NOW: Metaplanet bought another 1,009 $BTC worth $109M, bringing its total holdings to 20,000 $BTC.

11 sats \ 4 replies \ @k00b 31 Aug

I was browsing some bitcoin celeb's X profile and some stacker was wearing a SN hat in a picture with them. Shoutout to that stacker!

50 sats \ 3 replies \ @AG 31 Aug

Great catch! It's one of your yellow hats? Or maybe the one coming from the ~AGORA or from @thebullishbitcoiner shop?

11 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b 31 Aug

Looked like one of my black truckers!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @AG 1 Sep

Can you share the link? I'm curious

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @supratic 31 Aug

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10 sats \ 3 replies \ @Kontext 31 Aug

The nostr-only vlog today features a Ford V6 + me working through some of my thoughts while in the process of writing "The Last Hope" 🤠 njump link

21 sats \ 2 replies \ @AG 31 Aug

Corsican proverb: "He who lives on hope, dies on shit"

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Kontext 31 Aug

Hahaha, and I thought the Estonian one was brutal! 😆

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @AG 31 Aug

Corsican are brutal! LOL!

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @deSign_r 31 Aug

@k00b are graphQL APIs gone? can't access anymore and getting this error instead:

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "message": "This operation has been blocked as a potential Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). 
                 Please either specify a 'content-type' header (with a type that is not one of application/x-www-form-urlencoded, 
                 multipart/form-data, text/plain) or provide a non-empty value for one of the following headers: 
                 x-apollo-operation-name, apollo-require-preflight\n",
      "extensions": {
        "code": "BAD_REQUEST"
      }
    }
  ]
}

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b 31 Aug

Yes, the playground has been removed, but the API is still available for use.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @deSign_r 31 Aug

so how do I access now? cli only?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 31 Aug

Yes with a script or via curl

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 31 Aug

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105 sats \ 3 replies \ @oliverweiss 31 Aug

I guess some of you have participated in the SOUND Bitcoin Walk Summer Challenge. I ended up with +76k steps. Easy 10k sats.

41 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 31 Aug

I had some trouble getting paid out, but it was otherwise easy sats.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @oliverweiss 1 Sep

Sorry to hear that. It was seamless in my case.

30 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 31 Aug

Congrats

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 31 Aug

Hell yeah! @anon party in ~bitcoin.

The surest sign that nothing will be resolved.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @jakoyoh629 31 Aug

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55 sats \ 1 reply \ @StackerSports 31 Aug

NFL Survivor Prize Pool Update.

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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 31 Aug

LFG

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Kontext 31 Aug

“You hope and you hope and hope. And it keeps getting worse. Your last hope is to become hopeless.” — A note from my journal, July 5, 2025

Read my meditations on this in "The Last Hope" #1201227

70 sats \ 1 reply \ @AG 31 Aug

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 31 Aug

I can vouch for the jerky it is good!

115 sats \ 4 replies \ @rootmachine 31 Aug

rainy day in my area. autumn is starting slowly and I feel that summer was so short and went so fast.

50 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 31 Aug

yeah, daylight is rapidly getting shortened. Is really frustrating when you depend on it to get some work done. I really felt that this summer was passing very fast. Maybe because I was very productive this summer ?

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @BlokchainB 31 Aug

As always

62 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 31 Aug

not always... strangely enough, because all my last 13 summers I spent in the nature, I saw that time is passing faster. idk why but when you spend a lot of time in nature you can observe a lot of things.

65 sats \ 0 replies \ @rootmachine 31 Aug

they are saying time is passing faster. scientifically it should be irrelevant/impossible to observe, but I feel like it does pass faster especially if you are spending time in the nature.