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128 comments \ @saloon 8 Nov \ 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!

We're open round the clock, so mosey on in whenever you please!

100 sats \ 2 replies \ @guerratotal 1h

Buying BTC through a bank is the stupidest thing you can do!

BTC was created to screw over banks, not to be subjugated by them. Besides, when you buy BTC through a bank, you're practically shouting from the rooftops that you own BTC.

Always keep BTC in self-custody.

Giving @DarthCoin medicine to a group of friends

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @flat24 44m

Lo más increíble es que muchas personas están entrando a BTC a través de sus bancos, con esperanzas de obtener ganancias en Fiat. Todo mal!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @guerratotal 11m

Yes, that's sad, that's why I blurted that out to some friends on Telegram. It was all because of Jerome Powell's announcement that banks are free to offer Bitcoin and cryptocurrency services, so one friend asked what that meant, and another was saying that now he could buy BTC without so much trouble...!!

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @BlokchainB 1h

YESSSS I FOUND MY SN HAT!!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scroogey 1h

Congrats, did you find it in a surprising location?

0 sats \ 4 replies \ @orto 5h

Today is the anniversary of the death of Atatürk, one of the most important leaders of the 20th century. In my opinion, he is the greatest leader of all time. I'd like to share one of his quotes with you:

"Sovereignty belongs unconditionally to the nation."

I think if he were alive he would take his stance in favor of Bitcoin.

10 sats \ 3 replies \ @AG 2h

He was probably referring to Nation-state in the legalese meaning of the word. Don't know much about him. why it was an important leader from your perspective?

@Natalia maybe interested on this too

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @orto 2h

Consider the economic situation in Africa today. He awakened a nation in a much worse situation. At the time, the people called themselves Ottomans. They had even forgotten their Turkish ancestry. The Arabic alphabet was used. He made it clear that his language was Turkish and he was Turkish. And thousands of other actions I can't even list here. Atatürk's way of thinking and character are entirely based on independence and sovereignty. I recommend you reading about him. He is known by very few people because the Western world ignores him. Because he is the only leader who defeated imperialism.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @AG 1h

Africa is a continent, not a nation-state. Are you comparing Africa with the Ottoman empire?

I wonder where is the limit between leader and dictator. Hitler was a leader for a lot of German people too, I am not saying it is the same, just saying that you're maybe coming from a nation-state perspective, not a sovereign perspective. Saying states are sovereign is like saying elephants can flight. Sounds to me, Atatürk was claiming independence, not sovereignty, for Turkey.

Sovereignty belong to individuals, not to communities or nations.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @orto 1h

OK. Those thoughts are yours. Thank you for warning about Africa. Nothing to say here...Have a good day.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @deSign_r 6h

The future is bright

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scoresby 10h

Well, Floppy is doing things

source

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @BlokchainB 13h

Lost my damn stacker news beanie! I am sad

46 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 11h

what?! there are only six of them in the whole world boog!!

50 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 10h

I know I’m so distraught! Went for a walk and it must of fell out of my back pocket!! Hopefully I can find it tomorrow!!

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @0xbitcoiner 13h

The total spend (https://stacker.news/top/stackers/day) is bugging out. I was at 520, I did two 40cc zaps, and it only says 560. cc/ @k00b

edit: Spent value looks right now, guess it takes a while to update?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 13h

Yes aggregates recompute periodically.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Kontext 14h

“It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.” ― Aldous Huxley

Related: #1268314

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @DP0604 14h

Beautiful and Epic⚡💥

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @AG 2h

how it's possible to construct such transaction? Which tools allow such thing?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 18h

Just waking up. Will fix bugs and do release post soon.

0 sats \ 6 replies \ @SimpleStacker 20h

Did anyone else lose their profile pic?

7 sats \ 4 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 19h

~lol

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @supratic 18h

yep! Did you re-upload your profile pic or you never lost it?

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 18h

never lost it. weird!

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @OneOneSeven 18h

I reloaded it

22 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 18h

Mad weird I ain't lost mine! Yours is off-center. aahah

30 sats \ 0 replies \ @supratic 20h

me too! Undecided between restoring it or waiting for it to return

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 20h

noticed a big-time revolution brewing here! To celebrate that, and seeing as the saloon from yesterday is still going, we could try weekly saloon instead of daily ones. 🤠

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Akg10s3 20h

Go fast⚡

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @AGORA 21h

@k00b @ek have created two PR #2636 #2637 to expand analytics charts on desktop. With all these new metrics, it's really hard to distinguish what is what.

What you guys think?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 17h

I don't think making the charts bigger is the solution, but I agree on the problem.

0 sats \ 20 replies \ @SimpleStacker 22h

Is it just me or is SN a lot faster today?

Not sure if that's due to the database refactor or perhaps restarting the servers?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 16h

eh it's probably a lateral move. i was able to remove some of the unoptimized stuff that was causing problems, but in unrelated areas I introduced new causes of slowness.

0 sats \ 18 replies \ @sox 21h

I feel it faster even in dev, that's an achievement

0 sats \ 17 replies \ @siggy47 21h

FYI - I keep getting notifications. When I click on them I get a 404. I know a lot of site work is being done now. Should we report these things or wait until we get the all clear?

Edit, I can't see my notification stream at all.

36 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 14h

I think you should be squared away siggy. There was a mistake in how we were storing/handling nostr zaps.¹

i know json is lord to some people, but json scalars should not be valid json. ↩

77 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 12h

I thought so. I happened to get zapped in nostr today.

36 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 17h

yes please report any bugs

36 sats \ 13 replies \ @sox 21h

hey what kind of notifications?

Edit, I can't see my notification stream at all.

okay that's odd

0 sats \ 9 replies \ @siggy47 21h

I cannot access the replies you are sending me now through my notification streams. I'll check on laptop.

Edit: same problem on laptop

36 sats \ 8 replies \ @sox 21h

There's for sure a type of notification that is causing this, I'm trying a bunch of notifications to figure out what type is not working.

0 sats \ 7 replies \ @siggy47 21h

Well, it certainly is happening for replies for me.

36 sats \ 6 replies \ @sox 21h

lol that for sure, but there might be another, specific, notification that is causing this. But there are also other moving parts involved. I'll keep you updated

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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @siggy47 21h

I don't know. I am on mobile. When I get a red dot by the bell, I click the bell. That's when I get 404ed

36 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 21h

hehe SN is your "pavlov experiment" :)

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 20h

I keep ringing 🐕

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @AG0RA 22h

🏷️ Hey it’s Spending Sunday!

What Have You Bought with Bitcoin this Week? Bonus sats if you found a killer deal!

Share it at #1278318

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Akg10s3 22h

👊👊BITCOIN ⚡🍊

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 22h

nice

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 16h

what's kind of crazy is that if you exclude tests and migrations it's probably net-0 lines of additional code I'd guess

23 sats \ 3 replies \ @SimpleStacker 23h

pretty pretty cool

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @jakoyoh629 22h

sn flow?

28 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 22h

Yes, if you click on transactions in your SN payment history you can see these diagrams

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @jakoyoh629 22h

That's really cool, it looks like the blockchain! Can't we see the chart for the daily/monthly/yearly total?

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @DarthCoin 23h

@deSign_r should that designer be fired?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 22h

he should be promoted

kids will love this and want to buy it

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Akg10s3 22h

😅😅

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @zapsammy 23h

0 sats \ 4 replies \ @siggy47 9 Nov

So have I arrived in the correct drinking establishment or have I time travelled back a day?

36 sats \ 3 replies \ @DarthCoin 9 Nov

welcome to the future

34 sats \ 2 replies \ @siggy47 9 Nov

I'm hung over from a meet up last night. Bitcoiners know how to have fun.

36 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 9 Nov

I don't remember how many beers I drunk last night with a friend... #1278158

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 9 Nov

There wasn't much arguing at the meet up. Everyone was agreeable. We're just glad to know there are others out there. I think most arguments happen online.

162 sats \ 1 reply \ @Natalia 9 Nov

When was the last time you shared food with neighbor?

I made a dessert last night and shared it with my neighbor; she literally bought me her homemade cake today, even told me how to make it.

Sharing is a wonderful feeling - you don't really get less but more to gain, but then ofc don't expect anything in return in the first place.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @zapsammy 12h

got a large batch of raw sauerkraut coming! can't wait to share it with the good neighbors;

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @rootmachine 9 Nov

Howdy everyone. Everything all right?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @030e0dca83 9 Nov

This maintenance period was so hard to wait

65 sats \ 18 replies \ @k00b 9 Nov

sorry about the maintenance window. ran into a handful of things i did not encounter despite lots of testing.

things may be a little laggy over the next few days as i figure out where the new bottlenecks are.

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @zapsammy 12h

stacker news slowdown definitely hurts more than the government shutdown;

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 11h

I know, right?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @deSign_r 9 Nov

I was enjoining the screensaver

0 sats \ 5 replies \ @Scroogey 9 Nov

Loading #661571 then clicking on recent produces the 404 page.

GET https://stacker.news/items/661571?sort=recent

redirects to

302 location /404

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ken 9 Nov

Never mind, I got it! You definitely won! I'm making a post now, one sec

1 sat \ 1 reply \ @ken 9 Nov

I just noticed this too! I'm trying to pull the list of comments now and verify that you won.

Any chance you can share your script with me? :D

If not, I'll write my own now lol

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scroogey 9 Nov

Sure, here it is:

https://github.com/Scroogey-SN/SN-tools/blob/main/bitcoin-experiment-check.py

It takes a minute or two to run, because it fetches all sub-threads recursively, instead of relying on the most recent list.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @sox 9 Nov

It seems like this affects only paginated comment sections

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 9 Nov

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @sox 9 Nov

Had the chance to experience the transaction details page since my payments are failing (LNServer is yet again offline), sick!!!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 9 Nov

111 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scroogey 9 Nov

I just got a hat for a 1 sat zap.

141 sats \ 3 replies \ @BlokchainB 9 Nov

Yeah I noticed all the profile pics are gone

49 sats \ 2 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 20h

all? Your pic too?

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @BlokchainB 18h

Hahaha

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 18h

I swear I didn't re-upload!

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scroogey 9 Nov

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @deSign_r 9 Nov

You probably had less than 0.5 sats yesterday, and now it's more, that's why you see it approximated at 1sat. You'll not able to spend or zap that sat

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Car 8 Nov

Checked a cool bunker of ai hackers in Austin. Vibes are back to being high!

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 8 Nov

28 sats \ 0 replies \ @jakoyoh629 8 Nov

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 8 Nov

openai's API platform is much less congested on the weekends.

Kinda goes to show the misaligned incentives of office employees (can't be bothered to submit batch jobs when not at desk haha)

40 sats \ 6 replies \ @k00b 8 Nov

The weather is beautiful in Austin today. Get outside @anon.

31 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 8 Nov

21 sats \ 3 replies \ @SimpleStacker 8 Nov

stop judging me

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b 8 Nov

tbf i'll inside today but i feel guilty about it

77 sats \ 0 replies \ @plebpoet 8 Nov

update: I went to the city wide garage sale and picked up a monet print on the cheap

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 8 Nov

I opened my windows and let some fresh air in

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @plebpoet 8 Nov

heard

121 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby 8 Nov

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 8 Nov

go ahead fork it

444 sats \ 8 replies \ @justin_shocknet 8 Nov

17 sats \ 0 replies \ @jakoyoh629 8 Nov

17 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 8 Nov

37 sats \ 3 replies \ @DarthCoin 8 Nov

100 sats \ 2 replies \ @justin_shocknet 8 Nov

lol, feels that way often, but that's the purpose of astroturf... to demoralize and manufacture consensus

scammers spare no expense to appear strong when they are weak

17 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 8 Nov

I do not have your technical expertise level, but these 12+ years in Bitcoin forged me in fire and my "bullshit-o-meter" was well trained these years to detect all the crap around. So at least I can do some good memes if I cannot explain it in technical details.

31 sats \ 0 replies \ @justin_shocknet 8 Nov

17 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 8 Nov

well said Justin !

17 sats \ 0 replies \ @chaoticalHeavy 8 Nov

That's a damn nice beard on that guy!

130 sats \ 2 replies \ @DarthCoin 8 Nov

@Car here is your star wars dog

20 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 8 Nov

ahaha car doesn't usually kid around much, but calling ewoks dogs is hilarious

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 9 Nov

Car is mad of me now...

93 sats \ 0 replies \ @jakoyoh629 8 Nov

110 sats \ 1 reply \ @Lux 8 Nov

The judge who hugged a living woman

33 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 8 Nov

many people do not want to be free. I am fine with that. But the truth is that their desire to be slaves is affecting also the ones that want to be free. Their ignorance makes the evil even more stronger. So I really don't know any remaining solution for this fucked up world.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 8 Nov

Day 681 of posting mining earnings from the day before: 425 sats on 7Nov2025! Running total: 437,140 sats!

Yesterday's comment

88 sats \ 0 replies \ @AG0RA 8 Nov

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112 sats \ 4 replies \ @DarthCoin 8 Nov

@Scoresby here some new sauce for your Tether "collection"

https://xcancel.com/coryklippsten/status/1986433388576678314

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scoresby 8 Nov

This is pretty interesting. I knew a few pieces of it, but hadn't heard the story laid out like this before. Cory has an agenda, so there's a but of color there. But this is great, thank you!

33 sats \ 2 replies \ @BlokchainB 8 Nov

Man this sounds like a guy who can’t take responsibility for his actions who hired the CIO? Was it not Cory himself? The deal blows up in his face and now we get this post? Like dude you hired him?!!? You had all the resources in the world and you made this bad hire/partnership.

60 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 8 Nov

the shit still didn't blow out entirely, this story seems to be deeper than we thought

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 8 Nov

I think it blew up swan. This bad deal crushed their core business. They never been the same after this blowup but it appears Cory got more to say let’s hope he takes some personal accountability

Footnotes

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