Happy Sat-urday Stackers,

Have a great weekend!

Top Posts

1. On the Salaries of Basketball Players and Capitalism's Contributions to Society
   • @denlillaapan, with the help of Munger, explains how capitalism still prices things well despite professional basketball players being paid more than school teachers.
   • 21.2k sats \ 29 comments \ @denlillaapan
2. It's exhausting being without electricity
   • @bief57 describes what it's like to live through the recurring blackouts in Venezuela.
   • 16.2k sats \ 77 comments \ @bief57
3. My Friend and I Revived an Old Coca Cola Vending Machine
   • @leo and @thecurtic buy an old Coca Cola vending machine and make it accept Bitcoin.
   • 16k sats \ 17 comments \ @leo
4. Mining Pool Health Report [Week 5]
   • @Kruw reports on mempool.space's mining pool health metrics showing how well mining pools are capturing transaction fees.
   • 7.8k sats \ 13 comments \ @Kruw
5. Speculating about bitcoin-standard wages
   • If all wages were paid in bitcoin, how would we dealing with the appreciating wages? @Undisciplined has some ideas.
   • 10.5k sats \ 26 comments \ @Undisciplined

Don't miss

• When was the last time you insulted someone online?
• Take your CLN node offline.
• A brief description of The Black Hole
• How Our Meetup Buys Pizza
• OCEAN miner fails to claim full block reward
• Has anyone ever felt disconnected from where you were born and grew up?
• Motorola's GrapheneOS phones will launch in 2027 priced higher than Pixels
• John Williams - Stoner 📖 and Nothing but the Night 📗
• My pet likes to keep pets
• On the Economics of Peer-to-Peer, pt 2: The Stubborn Issue of Indexation
• "Non-custodial" means nothing if it is not used as such
• Bob Murphy on Klaus Schwab, the WEF, and the New World Order (2022)
• Don't switch your Core Lightning node off, restart it with --offline instead
• Romania scrambles F-16 fighter jets to destroy drone near European gas project
• My Patented 'Based Points' System (not actually patented)
• Dividend Investing and Ignoring Jane Austen (FT, Jonathan Guthrie)
• PREDYX paid out almost 3.5 BTC over Lightning to BIP-110 market winners!
• Retiree in Spain deposits 200000 euros in bank, has to pay half of it as tax
• Napstr - Everything it says on the tin

all of this week's top posts

Top meta

• NOBODY likes the idea of pay to post (outside SN)
• Fork Stacker News, remove the integrated scam
• k00b's dilemma
• SN release: embedded wallet, wallet onboarding on signup, toggle receive proxy
• What are the norms of Stacker News?
• What is the point of posting on Stacker News?
• An amAzing rate for SNZ #68! 🗞️🗞️🗞️ all 8 pages of F U N now available
• @nitter is dead again

all of this week's meta

Top Monday meme

all monday memes

Top Stackers

1. @Scoresby: 113.5k sats stacked
2. @Undisciplined: 80.9k sats stacked
3. @BlokchainB: 57.7k sats stacked
4. @grayruby: 42.5k sats stacked
5. @guerratotal: 42k sats stacked

Top Spenders

1. @Kruw: 265.9k sats spent
2. @BlokchainB: 190.5k sats spent
3. @openbitcoin: 179.9k sats spent
4. @Scoresby: 160.9k sats spent
5. @Undisciplined: 60.5k sats spent

Top Cowboys

1. @Undisciplined: 1068 days
2. @BlokchainB: 1047 days
3. @grayruby: 1011 days
4. @Scoresby: 453 days
5. @WeAreAllSatoshi: 197 days

Yeehaw,
Keyan
A guy who works on Stacker News

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