X articles still feel very cringe to me, but at least they're getting there. Too much distraction, still, and got this feel of lowly, low-quality. At least the Nostr writing applications (Habla, Highlighter etc) look good. Twitter doesn't.
Here's our bro Shinobi out hurling shit at retards... what else is new.
Zapping your retarded thoughts about some subject you don't know the first thing about half way across the world. Posting cat pictures for hundreds of millions of people to reflexively fawn over because of deep-seated instincts millions of years old.
Explaining how YOU, the random person who works part-time at Jiffy Lube living with his sister and brother-in-law, YOU ALONE have unlocked the secrets of the universe. You have discovered the deep dark conspiracies the government is hiding behind the ice wall of Antarctica!
Obvious it's all just satire on the BIP-110/cleaning up the chain/rugging-the-spammers stuff, because as the author explains, the internet was made for one, military-communication-thing, and became something very very different:
The "internet" (ARPANET) was designed by DARPA to be a resource-sharing system for major universities that housed the few powerful computers researchers could use at the time. The idea was to greatly expand access to researchers geographically distant from the universities.
All routers on the open internet should refuse to forward any HTTP packets. HTTP serves no purpose other than gumming up the pipes and taking away from the internet's original purpose of being a military communications system and system for sharing academic research between universities.
There is no universe where "spam", which is supported by short-lived pump and dump cycles through 100% of the history of this space, is "outbidding monetary use of Bitcoin for blockspace." That is delusional.
"Bitcoin will always first and foremost be used as money, as a thing of value that can be stored and transferred.""Bitcoin will always first and foremost be used as money, as a thing of value that can be stored and transferred."
Technology isn't good or bad, it just is. Technology is not controllable, it is a force of nature. People don't just direct technology, it also turns around and directs us. It's a dynamic feedback loop.
Everyone will use it, for all sorts of different ends. And you can't stop that. Bitcoin is here, and I personally think beyond the point of no return. You can't control it. You can build on it, you can maybe improve it marginally if you truly convince everyone using it something is an improvement, you can use it.
Versions of that final set of points are annoying, not that they're exactly wrong.
Countering a "We should change this aspect" argument with a "This is just how it works" point, is a non sequitur.
don't you think there's a simple, connecting fix there? (which is sort of what the spam convo has been about)
"we should change this" is immaterial if "this is how it works" includes you cannot change this unless you're also breaking how it works
That second part is the only relevant part
https://twiiit.com/brian_trollz/status/2023852343759077413
OP- @denlillaapan
Why don't you support the use of BTC / LN here on Stacker news?
Content consumers who are providing the lifeblood of SNs by attaching LN wallets and thus inputting sats into the SNs economy can see you do not show any attached LN wallets and thus may be quite understandably very hesitant to zap any of your content.
What is Stacker News?
It is a social media platform intentionally created to enable a P2P V4V BTC denominated community.
Originally Stacker News (SN) custodyed sats on behalf of participants but the threat of government regulatory prosecution on the pretext of money transmitter forced a move away from the custody of sats by the platform to the platform enabling participants to send sats via their wallets.
To achieve this participants need to attach wallets to both send and receive sats.
Where participants do not or cannot attach LN wallets transactions will often default to Cowboy Credits.
This change was a compromise forced by the threat of government prosecution.
The difficulty of attaching both sending and receiving wallets is moderate- it takes some effort and newbie or non tech people may struggle with it, but most competent Bitcoiners can succeed in attaching wallets and thus enabling sats denominated P2P transactions.
But a number of Stackers have chosen not to attach wallets- in particular sending wallets which enable you to send sats into the SN community.
Very few have attached just a sending wallet- many have attach just a receiving wallet.
Those who only attach a receiving wallet can receive sats from others but cannot send sats into the community. They may feel that as content providers they have no need or obligation to send sats into and within the SN community. I disagree.
Where these receive but not send (horse but no gun) Stackers proclaim to be Bitcoiners but refuse to enable a sending wallet they are demonstrably hypocrits. They claim they want to build and grow the BTC LN MoE network but they cannot be bothered contributing toward that growth by attaching a sending wallet and demonstrating they are not just talking, but are also walking and supporting a sats denominated platform.
If we do not use the LN wherever and whenever we can it will not grow and develop.
Some claim it is too hard to attach wallets- its too hard on their self custody nodes or wallets- this just highlights how much work the LN still needs before it is capable of anything approaching 100% reliable MoE capability.
But the best way to grow and strengthen the LN is it use it – despite its remaining flaws and glitches.
When wallets are supported by people using them they receives transaction fees and can develop liquidity and systems further.
When LN wallets are not used the LN decays- it does not have the usage and fees income to grow.
So when self proclaimed advocates for BTC and LN refuse to attach wallets (especially sending wallets) I see hypocrit.
I will continue to see hypocrit until and unless someone can explain why I should not.
Calling me a Nazi, trolling and making fun of me crudely seeking to avoid the issues I raise will not stop me from asking why are you claiming to be a Bitcoiner but refusing to attach wallets and use the LN here where we can help it grow.
Now some are deliberately concealing their wallet status, as if this is about a right to privacy.
Concealing your wallet status means nobody else can verify whether or not you are serious about using BTC LN, or whether you are just an all talk no walk hypocrit.
Do not trust- verify.
What about this fundamental principle do they not understand?
And then they talk about 'content' being more important than whether or not you have attached wallets - in this context the intentional lack of attached wallets undermines your credibility as your actions do not match your words.
Your submitted content may be great, but you as someone claiming to be a serious Bitcoiner are undermining your credibility and the credibility of your content by being a hypocrit.
Your content, is tainted by your verifiable hypocrisy.
SNs needs both good content providers and those who pay for that content if it is succeed.
I am more in the latter group than the former but both are required overall or the model does not work.
So as a net contributor of sats and thus a net consumer of content I object where content providers refuse to engage in the P2P V4V ethos by refusing to attach both sending and receiving wallets and I will both withhold my contribution of sats and sometimes downvote in response.
V4V needs to work reciprocally or it will not work at all.
The content providers need net sats contributors/content consumers who send sats into the platform, or the entire platform fails.
https://m.stacker.news/130808