This is a thread for random discussions that gets posted everyday at 5am central.
Tell us what you're doing today, ask questions, or vent about your life. Whatever you want, let it rip!
0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nkmg1c_ventures 26 Apr 2023
Thinking about how to use Bitcoin to help homeless people / at-risk people and existing payment rails, how they make it hard. You basically need someone willing to hold cash and bitcoin or something
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121 sats \ 7 replies \ @gnilma 26 Apr 2023
Wrote and posted my first post on SN last night before going to bed; thinking I would get some response, feedback, and/or discussion. Woke up just now to see the post sank to the depths of SN without anyone touching it. I guess I really suck at writing... but will still try again nonetheless. Have a nice day everyone!
Keep working and keep it real.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Atreus 26 Apr 2023
That's happened to everyone. Then one of these days you'll write some impromptu post you don't even think about and they'll rain 50,000 sats on your head like it's nothing
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10 sats \ 3 replies \ @ek 26 Apr 2023
I think it also depends on the time you are posting. It was at 7AM UTC.
Maybe a lot of people are still sleeping at this time.
I am not sure though. I wanted to do some data science regarding this but haven't yet.
I can also imagine that a lot of people here are already pretty convinced that PoW is better than PoS so they might not click on a post like this.
However, don't be intimidated! Don't hesitate to click at people's profiles and see what they are posting. You will be surprised how many "famous" people here post stuff which have no comments or sats because not everything they post gets attention. There are just occasional "bangers". Just look at https://stacker.news/DarthCoin/posts. Not everything he posts is "good" but he definitely posts good stuff.
@DarthCoin, sorry to pick you as an example haha
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3 sats \ 2 replies \ @gnilma 26 Apr 2023
Wondering what time zone the majority of SN users are located? My assumption is that everyone is spread all over the globe.
Yes, people here are probably not interested in the PoW vs PoS debate anymore and that the topic had been exhausted. Will explore some other topics in the future.
Thank you for your advice.
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 26 Apr 2023
Our analytics are open: https://plausible.io/stacker.news/countries
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @CheezeGrater 27 Apr 2023
It would be cool to see the relationship between sats stacked and time posted across the site.
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13 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 26 Apr 2023
Definitely keep at it. It can take some time to figure out what people actually want to read. What most of us want here is to learn something we don't know.
In general, comments are more likely to be seen and appreciated than posts if only because the OP is notified.
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13 sats \ 0 replies \ @gnilma 26 Apr 2023
I do comment on other posts, but at the same time also want to write some original posts to share some of my thoughts on topics I’m interested. Thank you for your comment.
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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @RealCoachAndy 26 Apr 2023
Hey hey hey gang, happy hump day for everyone, what a week, so many ups and downs but we are still here, just wanted to drop a quick hello and wish you a phenomenal day and lots of success in everything you do!!! Be well and stay frosty guys!!
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36 sats \ 0 replies \ @Trey 26 Apr 2023
Looking at chat patterns and wondering what the price of BTC would have actually been if only they were no Alt coins...🤔
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86 sats \ 0 replies \ @kenn_b 26 Apr 2023
Just sent 100 sats to my kids for helping grandma all day in the garden.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @l0k18 26 Apr 2023
Currently chasing a concurrency bug in the message dispatcher (split/join/confirm) that is the transport Indra nodes relay user's onions through. Probably another test to write and some more pesky bug to chase and it's time to start working on socks5 and TUN proxying and building out the LND/BTCD control and payment API access.
Yes, not long after that payment stuff is working and we have nice virtual networks of docker instances we can start to test over the internet, the precursor to the first private alpha testnet.
Most programmers are not familiar with the joys of CSP concurrent programming, the many little rules about channels and buffers and listeners must start before senders start blathering, and the necessary locking of resources that would get muntered by concurrent read/write accesses.
I'm sure that for the time being this skill is not at great risk of being devalued by AI thankfully :) This is exactly the kind of case that gives you 7 fingered busty anime barque pinup ladies.
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74 sats \ 0 replies \ @orthwyrm 26 Apr 2023
Day 11 of snailposting everyday 'til BTC hits $100k.
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76 sats \ 0 replies \ @nullama 26 Apr 2023
A cheese toastie is such a wonderful thing
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