This is a thread for random discussions that gets posted everyday at 5am central.
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Why does Satoshi Nakamoto remain anonymous? Does it have anything to do with privacy and security concerns? What would have happened to him/her/them if their identity was publicly known?
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At the very least their life is less complicated being unknown. How would they benefit from being known?
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I think their life would be at risk, if they were known.
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What's with the literal nazis in the US these days?
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When people get upset they do weird things
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I have a feature request @k00b Would it be possible to have a progress bar type feature to achieve the 100 sats per day for the cowboy hat? For example, if you hover over the hat, a progress bar appear that shows how many sats you zapped out of 100 for the day.
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That would make it less fun in my view.
It's supposed to be an "easter egg", and in theory it should reward people that zap/tip, but not being a thing in itself.
If it's an "achievement" then it's more of the same crap that every other website is doing
Maybe even better would be to add a random number so that you never know when you're getting the hat.
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I just view my wallet history, filter on spent only, and add it up for the day if I’m concerned I’m close
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You can also view your last 24 hours of spending in /top/stackers/day?by=spent ... but you have to find yourself.
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How about we let them lose the hat only when their phone is in a rushing wind.πŸ˜†
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Cool enhancement but cowboy hat rules are more fun if they are learned.
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Counter argument: this feature only triggers once a user discovers their cowboy hat?
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Hmm yeah maybe after they’ve held it for a week
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Yes. I just think this feature would make it easier for existing cowboys to keep their hats.
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resisting the urge to shitpost
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460 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 3 Sep 2023
the dark side tempts us all
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The cost to post should be increased significantly.
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100 sats to post for a 1 day experiment
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the posts get increasingly expensive to post throughout the day I think? (I think this would be better served as a weekly timer)
first post 1 sat, second post 100 sat, third post 1000 sat or something like this? Similar to how replies get increasingly expensive in a thread.
Maybe one day the cost of a post here might work similarly to how space on the blockchain works... more demand for the limited daily space available, the more prohibitive the cost becomes.
I guess I'm thinking of the bitcoin fee market + difficulty adjustment style system determining the costs of making a post. This way I can't just have alt account obfuscating the increasing cost to post as all users would be paying the same adjusted fee to post.
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I like your mind. Using scarcity to raise value.
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Maybe one day the cost of a post here might work similarly to how space on the blockchain works... more demand for the limited daily space available, the more prohibitive the cost becomes.
That's a really neat variation on fee escalation. Every ten minutes it drops globally.
Another variation is the fee dropping only when something high quality is posted.
I think we're still missing high quality stories pretty regularly but once we aren't this kind of thing becomes worthwhile.
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Yeah I was thinking like determining a target amount of posts, and having the fees adjust to hit the target. Gonna use some simple numbers for sake of ease.
Imagine 100 posts under 'bitcoin' sub being the goal per day. Base fee to post today is 100sat but we get 250 posts instead (no post limit per day). The adjustment basically being base fee x (actual posts/desired posts). 100sat x 2.5 = 250sat to post.
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I think @skreep_ understands how it works and is suggesting this should be a global escalation (not an account one).
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Happy Sunday funday everyone!!! Hope the weekend is treating you good and that you are recharging energy for the week, for me, it will be a busy Sunday but once I'm done drinking my hot cup of java it's go time, may your day be blessed with love and purpose. Have a phenomenal day everyone!! Remember that you are incredible and you absolutely matter, be well and stay frosty my good friend!
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Bitcoin Brunch #119 today! (or 118? i forgot)
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I'm a decoupler myself, so it's not about NGU for me, it's about number go away
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Taking my boys swimming in the lake. Hot in the Midwest. Happy Labor Day weekend everyone!
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One of the biggest things I miss about living in the Midwest was swimming in the lakes. Lake Michigan on a summer day was a blast, way better than going to an actual ocean imo.
Enjoy the day!
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Yup we are off to Lake Michigan! Where are you now?
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Moved down to Virginia, where I'm from. I was up in Michigan for school (go blue) and stayed briefly for work, but I ended up missing home too much lol
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Cool we are in Wisco
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That sounds like fun. Spending my day inside. It's super cold today.
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Got ya. Enjoy the day!
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Happy Sunday, testing photo posting πŸ‘€
Have you ever tried painting in water? It is called Ebru. This is one of the ancient arts I am learning, and the beauty of this art is all you need is focus and patience.
Side note: I'd teach my future kid ( if I would have ) to spend time with this rather than with phones.
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but isn't it a bit blurry when you click it? πŸ‘€
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It is. We need to up the quality on our image proxy.
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Day 141 of snailposting everyday 'til BTC hits $100k. __@_'-'
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go snails!
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πŸ‘
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⚑️🐌⚑️
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Welcome!
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I was on a plane.
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This snail gets the cheapest flights so it can stack more sats before we hit $100k.
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It's always darkest before the snail
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Sounds like __@_'-' should be a character in a Marvel comic. Lol.
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I know I must employ stealthy means to reciprocate to avoid escalation of grossly inappropriate zappage.
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2824 sats \ 3 replies \ @nemo 3 Sep 2023
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I will. You'll never see it coming
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Keeping my longest cowboy streak going until __@_'-' reaches its destination: 15
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584 sats \ 1 reply \ @nemo 3 Sep 2023
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Maybe __@_'-' should be a few more minutes late Lol.
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1127 sats \ 7 replies \ @nemo 3 Sep 2023
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Reading daily conversations taught me that part of the POW is actually consistently showing up haha 🐌
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It's still very early. Lets give the snail a few more minutes. After that we'll fill out a missing __@_'-' report.
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maybe it needs a ping: @orthwyrm, report for duty!
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We got 2 snail posters iirc
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Sounds like you had an epic weekend.
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That's good news. Just take it easy for today.
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