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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 6 Mar 2022
Tried to read LN Markets newsletter about lightning onion routing (part 3) and my brain is Fried! 🧠🔥
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20 sats \ 2 replies \ @gmd 6 Mar 2022
Drake lost $275k in bitcoin betting on the Masvidal-Covington fight last night 😢
That's going to really sting when BTC 10x's.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryptocoin 7 Mar 2022
And he DGAF about it being illegal (from his province in Canada), if this is accurate:
https://nypost.com/2022/02/18/drakes-1-3m-super-bowl-bitcoin-bet-may-have-been-illegal/
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 6 Mar 2022
😂
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @cameri 6 Mar 2022
Watching this today: Putin Sanctions and the Global Narrarive - Mark Moss - Layah Heilpern Show
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24 sats \ 7 replies \ @k00b 6 Mar 2022
I've been slowly working my way through the Lex Fridman podcast with Zuck. The discussion around FB's incentives with ads was interesting. Zuck was actually trying to make the argument that financial incentives don't factor that much into FB's decision making. Being intellectually dishonest like this is why people "hate" Zuck. It's not really more complicated than that. I'm not sure he's actually a bad person, but he at least thinks he has to behave like one.
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @BlokchainB 6 Mar 2022
Before I didn’t think zucks was so bad then I read The Bitcoin Billionaires book and now I’m just like fuck zucks haha
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @gmd 7 Mar 2022
Is there a TLDR for zuck from the book?
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10 sats \ 4 replies \ @gmd 6 Mar 2022
I think a lot of the hate with Zuck boils down to him having such a punchable face. I don't remember him saying too much that I wouldn't expect a fake upper management person to spew, but he doesn't without the normal comforting polish of fake upper management people and with such a robotic look. By most accounts it seems Jobs was an actual jerk but people gave him much more respect.
End game seems a little bleak for FB/Meta... FB is dying, TikTok is crushing IG, the metaverse is too early and others (Apple/Microsoft) seem better positioned if it does take off.
I feel like their best bet would be to spend a billion dollars lobbying to ban TikTok on the premise of a national security threat.
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31 sats \ 2 replies \ @BlokchainB 6 Mar 2022
Meta did just partner with Verizon as they roll our ultra wide band 5G. I think meta’s biggest issue is barrier to entry and no one wants to wear a big ass rift on they face all day.
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30 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 6 Mar 2022
Not yet they don’t. I imagine the headset will minimize with time.
I’m personally pretty bullish on vr/ar
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @gmd 6 Mar 2022
I imagine we'll get there eventually.. this just feels a bit like Webvan... a little too early to place big bets into the space. I'd feel more confident if I knew Carmack was still driving the bus, but it seems once Apple releases their hardware offering everyone jumps ship immediately.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 6 Mar 2022
💯
I agree on Zuck. It's not surprising that he's dishonest but he has no charisma.
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35 sats \ 0 replies \ @Martin 6 Mar 2022
Just thinking how the recent events in Canada & Ukraine has made the self custody of one's money that much important as well as the importance of a decentralized peer to peer cash system like Bitcoin not controlled by government, it's a beautiful thing knowing no person or government can steal your wealth from you and as the Bitcoin community we should be orange pilling as many people as we can and preach self custody of one's wealth for a better future for oneself and one's family...
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31 sats \ 4 replies \ @StackerNewsFeed 6 Mar 2022
Twitter Analytics results for @StackerNewsFeed for February 2022:
Tweet activity
Your Tweets earned 39.2K impressions over this 28 day period
Engagement rate: 3.8%
Link clicks: 530
Retweets without comments: 170
Likes: 309
Replies: 95
For January, 2022:
Tweet activity
Your Tweets earned 31.3K impressions over this 31 day period
Engagement rate: 5.1%
Link clicks: 338
Retweets without comments: 47
Likes: 184
Replies: 82
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1021 sats \ 3 replies \ @StackerNewsFeed 6 Mar 2022
Now that I see with Twitter Analytics you need to pull metrics from two different locations, here's a more complete picture:
Twitter Analytics results for @StackerNewsFeed for February 2022:
Tweet activity
Your Tweets earned 39.2K impressions over this 28 day period
Tweets: 604
Profile visits: 8,066
Mentions: 219
New followers: 52
Engagement rate: 3.8%
Link clicks: 530
Retweets without comments: 170
Likes: 309
Replies: 95
For January, 2022:
Tweet activity
Your Tweets earned 31.3K impressions over this 31 day period
Tweets: 396
Profile visits: 5,726
Mentions: 184
New followers: 84
Engagement rate: 5.1%
Link clicks: 338
Retweets without comments: 47
Likes: 184
Replies: 82
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36 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 6 Mar 2022
These stats are 🔥🔥🔥
I was just talking to someone yesterday who follows the twitter feed and that's the primary way they interact with the site.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @StackerNewsFeed 6 Mar 2022
Mastodon / Fediverse does not have analytics at the user level, so there's just a few metrics for @StackerNewsFeed@BitcoinHackers.org that could get reported.
That account has 66 followers, as-of today (March 6th, 2022).
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @StackerNewsFeed 6 Mar 2022
For the Twitter analytics, Link Clicks could be the link for the URL from an SN Link post, or it could be the link for the SN item itself. So, there's no way to tell from Twitter analytics itself how much traffic this feed drove to Stacker.News.
The number of profile visits is pretty decent, IMO.
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