Daily discussion thread \ stacker news

76 comments \ @saloon 31 Aug 2023 \ yesterday

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 \ 3 replies \ @0207a984de 1 Sep 2023

Hello I'm new here. Is there a way to create a new sub-stacker news group? I want to talk about some things that don't belong in any of the main groups.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @nemo 1 Sep 2023

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @0207a984de 1 Sep 2023

Politics, such as things happening in Ukraine

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 1 Sep 2023

Not yet. Planned though

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Maximux 1 Sep 2023

I've had a pretty busy day today. Now is that I can relax a bit and enter SN. There is a lot of content to read 😅

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @zodthebarbarian 1 Sep 2023

On today's menu: Pita bread (at my store the burger buns have seed oils, but not pita!) ripped in half beef burgers, beef patty fried in butter, a slice of pepper jack, a slice of pickle, mustard, ketchup, greens. Yesterdays masticating masterpiece: Macaroni and chees with fried beef cubes

1609 sats \ 3 replies \ @kr 31 Aug 2023

i wonder how many new posts and comments we’ll see on SN this week now that rewards are paid to creators rather than zappers.

i also wonder what might happen to the number of zappers on SN… up, down, or flat? 🤔

3234 sats \ 2 replies \ @nemo 31 Aug 2023

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1167 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 31 Aug 2023

you do

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @nemo 1 Sep 2023

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878 sats \ 0 replies \ @scottathan 31 Aug 2023

Vibing today

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @BitcoinIsTheFuture 31 Aug 2023

Back to school for my boys. Back to Bitcoin education for me!

1297 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 31 Aug 2023

The best posts that ask questions respect how difficult it is to write well.

765 sats \ 0 replies \ @RealCoachAndy 31 Aug 2023

Good morning gang, it's Thursday, aka Little Friday, weekend is almost here so time to step it up, let's show this Thursday what we can do, remember that you're awesome and important, you absolutely matter, we'll relax on the weekend so let's do this gang!! As always, be well and stay frosty my friend!!

2841 sats \ 4 replies \ @k00b 31 Aug 2023

Peter McCormack kills the general audience bitcoin podcasting game for the same reasons Rogan does: he doesn’t need to put himself on the same level as his guests and he’s willing to be and sound stupid in the pursuit of helping his audience learn more from his guests. He’s also not interrogating his guests or jockeying for the moral high ground. He’s trying to harmonize with them and have good time.

10 sats \ 3 replies \ @elvismercury 31 Aug 2023

Was there a particular pod that made this top of mind for you?

892 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b 31 Aug 2023

I was listening to his recent pod with Lyn Alden this morning.

I was thinking to myself "why is this so pleasant to listen to in spite of Peter getting quite a bit of hate?"

When people attempt to grade podcasters, they make the mistake of placing the host in a vacuum and comparing them to other hosts in a vacuum. It's like judging the evolutionary fitness of a grizzly bear in outer space.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @m00ninite 1 Sep 2023

Do people send hate Pete's way? News to me. It must be the angry droves on Twitter that don't actually listen to his content. I think he does a great job and manages to hit a very wide variety of topics.

988 sats \ 0 replies \ @elvismercury 1 Sep 2023

That's a good way of putting it. It's at the interface between the people, what they become together.

I have my gripes w/ Peter (e.g., the 30 minutes preamble blathering on some of his episodes drives me crazy; as does his penchant to interrupt, esp with stupid jokes) but I think in a decade, if the btc experiment is successful the way many of us hope it will be, Peter will be considered one of the giants who made it happen. Not just bc of the pod, but the soccer team, the pub, the wider cultural propagation that doesn't look like religion.

He's a gem. Wish we we had more of him.

774 sats \ 1 reply \ @davidw 31 Aug 2023

“The secret of change is to focus all your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new”

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nemo 31 Aug 2023

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1609 sats \ 4 replies \ @grayruby 31 Aug 2023

Well, that was a fun day yesterday! 2.5M sats for a good cause and some SN records broken. SN community is wild. Great job guys.

10 sats \ 3 replies \ @nemo 31 Aug 2023

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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 31 Aug 2023

Post is still up. You can keep zapping.

I think it makes sense for these to be 1 day events but it's great the post stays at the top of the page for anyone who wasn't around yesterday.

Next time we do one. I think it would be best to announce it a bit earlier, set a specific day and times it will run and then promote the heck out of it on Twitter and Nostr in the days leading up to it. I was able to get a few folks on twitter to click the link and zap some sats (guest zap feature addition was very timely) but didn't have much luck on Nostr. I don't have a prominent Nostr account so I think that was a missed opportunity. Nostriches love them some zapping.

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @nemo 31 Aug 2023

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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 31 Aug 2023

Haha so true.

1293 sats \ 15 replies \ @birdeye21 31 Aug 2023

SN: the month of August

19 sats \ 3 replies \ @sahil 31 Aug 2023

Is this a public Grafana dashboard? Can I get a link to it if it's public?

29 sats \ 1 reply \ @birdeye21 31 Aug 2023

just click analytics > stackers at the bottom

19 sats \ 0 replies \ @sahil 31 Aug 2023

Yeah, I mean Grafana dashboard is more fun to explore!

19 sats \ 0 replies \ @bitcointerest 31 Aug 2023

You can check out the stats here: https://stacker.news/stackers/month

7 sats \ 10 replies \ @bitcointerest 31 Aug 2023

That spike at the end looks like the Bitcoin spike with the Grayscale news came out ;)

20 sats \ 4 replies \ @birdeye21 31 Aug 2023

i can acknowledge that this spike will likely just turn into a wick to remember Satsraiser day by. Let's hope the BTC pump isn't the same 🤣

10 sats \ 3 replies \ @grayruby 31 Aug 2023

It looks like BTC trading at 100k on Binance US with no liquidity.

10 sats \ 2 replies \ @bitcointerest 31 Aug 2023

Lol. No one in their right mind would buy Bitcoin is 100k when its trading below 30k :)

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 31 Aug 2023

Binance US has no liquidity because they are winding down operations due to all the US legal issues. Not sure why it occurred but for a few seconds Bitcoin spiked to 100k on the US exchange a couple months ago. There was only a million dollars of volume left on the entire exchange. Not sure who paid that price and why maybe they had some USD left on there and just converted to BTC at any price to get it off the exchange before it got shut down and their funds were frozen.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @bitcointerest 31 Aug 2023

Sounds about right. I wouldn't want to have my funds frozen on an exchange if I can get it out even if I have to pay a premium on the price of Bitcoin. Price will eventually reach those levels. Its just a matter of when.

20 sats \ 4 replies \ @sahil 31 Aug 2023

If you are unaware, it's from satsraiser: #239180

69 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 31 Aug 2023

Sahil, I wasn't following you on Nostr but I remedied that problem this morning.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @sahil 31 Aug 2023

Cool!

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @bitcointerest 31 Aug 2023

Yep. I'm aware. I even made a post this morning about the campaigns success: #240040

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @sahil 31 Aug 2023

Nice!

953 sats \ 2 replies \ @birdeye21 31 Aug 2023

gm stackers

548 sats \ 0 replies \ @bitcointerest 31 Aug 2023

Gm buddy.

666 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 31 Aug 2023

Gm birdeye

1089 sats \ 0 replies \ @premitive1 31 Aug 2023

As we approach the end of the week,, I hope we all inch our way to our goals. If you don't have goals, pick a few! it makes a big difference on your behavior. Don't let others pick goals for you, though. That's a path of emotional self-destruction.

835 sats \ 6 replies \ @Natalia 31 Aug 2023

Did this ever happen to you? If something is on my mind, I would sleep really light that night, and my brain would be in problem-solving mode, so sometimes I would wake up with solutions for that problem.

I wonder what is the explanation for this 👀

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @nemo 31 Aug 2023

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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @Natalia 31 Aug 2023

I do know that our body is amazing 🤓 and there is so much to learn and explore.

Thanks, I will check it out!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nemo 31 Aug 2023

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31 sats \ 2 replies \ @carlosfandango 31 Aug 2023

Subconscious memory sorting maybe. As you go through the cycles of sleep your brain sorts short term into longer term memory by discarding irrelevant or extraneous memories (ie you remember where you parked the car but not necessarily the cars parked around it).

So perhaps part of that sorting around a problem, breaking from the extraneous detail to the heart of issue, in a state of relaxation allows for the solution perhaps?

Interesting side note; lack of sleep in the evening and you will forget where your car keys are in the morning as there is no filtering done and your brain is full of extraneous detail.

20 sats \ 1 reply \ @Natalia 31 Aug 2023

I did sleep tho, but I am not happy about my sleep quality whenever it happens, but I am happy about finding solutions to the problems. 😂

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @carlosfandango 31 Aug 2023

Think about the problems we could all solve as a species with better sleep quality maybe?

612 sats \ 13 replies \ @carlosfandango 31 Aug 2023

So I’ll be riding out of town for a while…. leaving with my hat and will have to get a new one when I return.

Look after the snail in the saloon while I’m out. See you in a few days cowboys.

21 sats \ 3 replies \ @orthwyrm 31 Aug 2023

Have a nice break. I'm currently in the alps and it's difficult to get signal for the daily snail sometimes.

50 sats \ 1 reply \ @nemo 31 Aug 2023

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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @orthwyrm 31 Aug 2023

Yes, the long term plan is to build a citadel up here. :)

60 sats \ 0 replies \ @carlosfandango 31 Aug 2023

Nice. Hope you the weather is kind. Happy memories of Switzerland.

20 sats \ 8 replies \ @bitcointerest 31 Aug 2023

You can use SN on your phone. If not, enjoy the break.

20 sats \ 7 replies \ @carlosfandango 31 Aug 2023

Yeah. Problem is no signal in the badlands rather than lack of tech.

20 sats \ 5 replies \ @siggy47 31 Aug 2023

Badlands? Beautiful country. I stayed in a log cabin in the park 7 or 8 years ago. Enjoy!

10 sats \ 4 replies \ @carlosfandango 31 Aug 2023

Did you have wifi?

20 sats \ 3 replies \ @siggy47 31 Aug 2023

There was wifi in the cabin. While hiking around cell coverage was very spotty. I remember climbing up a high rock to receive an important text.

479 sats \ 2 replies \ @carlosfandango 31 Aug 2023

My thoughts are expect none. I recall one time having to throw my phone up in the air to send a text…. Works well until you forget to catch it lol

20 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 31 Aug 2023

I'll never forget climbing that rock. I was in South Dakota and there was a fire in a building I managed in NY.

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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @bitcointerest 31 Aug 2023

Now I understand. None the less, enjoy yourself. Its always good to take a break from technology.

476 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 31 Aug 2023

You guys were ready today

543 sats \ 0 replies \ @bitcointerest 31 Aug 2023

Just another day at the office. Lol.

949 sats \ 0 replies \ @bitcointerest 31 Aug 2023

Keeping my longest cowboy streak going until __@_'-' reaches its destination: 12

3041 sats \ 5 replies \ @orthwyrm 31 Aug 2023

Day 138 of snailposting everyday 'til BTC hits $100k. __@_'-'

50 sats \ 0 replies \ @BBitcoinUSA 31 Aug 2023

⚡️🐌⚡️

Been very slow to zap as well, going to turn things around

59 sats \ 0 replies \ @nemo 31 Aug 2023

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69 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 31 Aug 2023

👍

717 sats \ 0 replies \ @carlosfandango 31 Aug 2023

Speedy!

876 sats \ 0 replies \ @bitcointerest 31 Aug 2023

That was fast ;)