Zap to Zero Day 11
Do you sometimes wake up and think: "I really want to drink some Coca-Cola."? That's how sugar addiction must feel like.
(up to 1k sats to the person who can explain who or what Swim is or means in this context.)
Satistics
| Date | Spent | Stacked (Rewards) | Posts | Comments | Rewarded |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-28 | 13k | 8808 (n/a) | 2 | 35 | n/a |
| 2023-12-29 | 16.1k | 15.6k (5222) | 3 | 52 | ⚡ |
| 2023-12-30 | 10.8k | 9752 (7026) | 1 | 41 | ✍️ |
| 2023-12-31 | 20.5k | 17.9k (4379) | 5 | 61 | ⚡ |
| 2024-01-01 | 12.5k | 10.7k (7684) | 3 | 47 | ✍️ |
| 2024-01-02 | 16k | 19.5k (9353) | 6 | 36 | ✍️ |
| 2024-01-03 | 15.9k | 15.6k (6729) | 2 | 46 | ⚡ |
| 2024-01-04 | 11.4k | 11.4k ( | 3 | 38 | ✍️ |
| 2024-01-05 | 11.3k | 11.4k ( | 1 | 41 | ? |
| 2024-01-06 | 6691 | 6282 ( | 0 | 38 | ✍️ |
| 2024-01-07 | 8053 | 8503 ( | 3 | 20 | ✍️ |
| 2024-01-08 | TBD | TBD (1219) | TBD | TBD | ⚡ |
@Undisciplined raised a good question yesterday:
This series could serve as something like a how-to for new stackers. It's really shows what using the site well looks like.Btw, why did your zapping surge so dramatically for a few days and then drop back down?
I only can speculate like when bitcoin spot ETFs will be approved:
Good question! Was asking myself the same. But I think it's related to low rewards the previous day and thus not having so much to spend the following day. I also wasn't as active the past days so also didn't got zapped so much during the day.
However, I also mentioned that I am confused about my rewards:
But I just noticed that I might have made an error in my chart. I am still getting confused if I am counting the rewards towards the day on which I received the notification or for which day I earned them.But in the table, I am counting the rewards towards the day on which I received the notification. But the chart doesn't reflect that. It's low on days on which I spent a lot of sats and high when I didn't spend so many sats for some reason, lol
So I double-checked my table and noticed that there is an indeed error: from Day 8 to Day 9, I somehow have forgotten the rewards from 2023-01-05. And Day 10 was then the "double day" since I switched to writing the post early in the morning of the next day. Classic off-by-one error:
I fixed that now. Don't ask me how long this took, lol.
Updated chart:
@elvismercury also had multiple good questions yesterday:
Here's a double-meta question for you to entertain at your leisure:What have you learned from doing a number of these deep and excellent posts; and what SN tools would help you do them better? How could those tools help the larger SN ecosystem?I guess that was three questions, sorry.It strikes me that this is a really nice dogfooding example of using SN in a way that it's not totally friendly toward, but that is incredibly high value and interesting. I'm curious how this has stirred up your mind.
These questions were so good that I couldn't reply so far. He deserves a better answer than a low-effort reply written in a few minutes since I went to a birthday party in the afternoon yesterday. However, I will simply reply here now:
1. What have you learned from doing a number of these deep and excellent posts?
I learned that I still like writing very much. I also learned that I also want to kick myself in the balls (like @siggy47 for writing "Satasho Nakamoto" yesterday [0]) for not starting this earlier. I already knew for so long that I like writing very much since I even wrote a lot while I was still in school. I still remember how a teacher in elementary school told me that this story about a fox is very good and it's way longer than they expected us to write [1].
I also learned that it's important (as I also kind of knew already) to just get started. You can improve later. This thing here started as a "game" and now it's helping me to get up early in the morning to not lose my streak. I can be a very competitive person, especially with myself. If I have well-defined goals that aren't too far-fetched, I can basically get myself to do anything (as probably everyone if they are being honest with themselves). My biggest problem is just to stay consistent since at some point, I kind of forget how much this consistency improved my life so far. Then I fall back to old bad habits and find out how bad it was, lol.
So I would say, "knowing something" versus "actually doing it" is still a big difference. It's like reading a ton about exercising but do you actually know how exercising feels if you've never done it? I would also say that I am pretty well aware of what my problems are and what I have to do about them. But as a famous ASMRtist once said during this ramble:
I think almost everybody is tired, aren't they? Are you tired? I am tired.I don't know, maybe that's like the life secret: get enough sleep, drink water.And I don't know why we don't do these things, that's the big mystery to me.
And I also learned that I still struggle with taking compliments like "deep and excellent posts" seriously. I think I have so big trust issues that I actually like it more when people are mean to me. That's when I feel like they are being honest for once, lol [2].
She also said a lot of other inspiring stuff in there. I hope this quote inspired you to watch the full video even if you don't get ASMR.
2. What SN tools would help you do them better?
I guess I evaded that question with my previous answer by providing all kind of answers that all actually have nothing to do with writing this stuff on SN, lol
But what I can say is that switching between "write" and "preview" can be annoying. I use it to check markdown formatting and if I uploaded the correct images. Especially scrolling all the way up to click the button and then scrolling all the way down (and clicking on "view more") can be exhausting. I think I basically learned how to rely on my markdown formatting reading skills like Cypher reads the Matrix.
Being able to search for something on SN using inline text commands (like on Github) or a keyboard shortcut would also be very nice. But for this to be useful, we have to improve our search itself first, for example with this.
I can also think of more formatting options like collapsible sections (for spoilers or just long sections) or image positioning to be useful.
3. How could those tools help the larger SN ecosystem?
I think with more writing features, we could attract more long-content creators. More people using SN as their blog, more people writing SN exclusives etc.
I also think that stackers like original content with a lot of PoW in it the most which is basically what long-content creators produce.
There might be more to it but that's all I came up with so far.
Recent Superzaps
I am no longer needlessly limiting myself to stuff from yesterday. I can use this series to just promote any content I like - no matter if old or new. So with "recent" I indeed don't mean that the content was created recently. I mean that my (super)zaps were done recently.
1. Bitcoin Stack Exchange: Should we more proactively act against bad questions?
@Murch posted this link to the question in the title on the Bitcoin (Meta) StackExchange. @Murch is a prolific contributor there and I am glad that he linked this question on SN since it was an interesting read.
In essence, the inquirer mentioned that they are concerned that valuable information might be harder to find for a visitor if there are too many poor questions and answers and that this might create a negative feedback loop:
I'm concerned valuable information is harder to find for a visitor and good contributions are not put forward as much as they would deserve compared to the rest of the content. I think this may create a negative feedback loop: if what's put forward to new visitors is lower quality content, they are less inclined to start contributing good questions and answers. The same goes for keeping active contributors interested. To be honest, the state of the landing page is sometimes quite depressing.
@Murch had some good answers to that which I am not going to mention here since this post isn't meant to replace reading the posts that I link to, lol.
2. Bitcoin Learning Resources
@siggy47, the founder of ~bitcoin_beginners, was inspired by @davidw's incredible Privacy Directory (why no link though?) to have no mercy with freebies and lead them further down the bitcoin rabbit hole. Kicking and screaming will probably only make it worse.
There were some books in there that I didn't know about yet so I might have to reconsider that I am no longer a bitcoin beginner. Would make sense since I was a freebie not long ago, too.
3. Should "stackers" be capitalized?"
@elvismercury asked a question to share his pain with us. He can never decide if he should use "Stackers" or "stackers".
I have to admit that I never asked myself this question until this post was created:
I never thought about this. I just used "stackers" like "people" or "users" so always lowercase.But now I do. Thanks.you are now breathing manually
4. What's the most extreme thing you've done outdoors, or tried to?
@Fabs asked us a simple question but the answers indeed did blow my mind in several kind of ways.
For example, @Turnspit_Dog shared with us here (without doxxing themselves) that he teaches rich people how to live like poor people and makes them pay for it:
Without doxxing myself, I've demonstrated all my skills for a worldwide TV audience numerous times.I've taught and consulted on various preparedness and survival topics for most of my life. I've even lived off the grid in a few disaster events for weeks on end.I jokingly tell all my friends that I teach rich people how to live like poor people, and they pay me for it.
@Fabs wanted to know more and kept asking questions which @Turnspit_Dog more or less willingly answered, much to my amusement and piquing my interest.
Challenge of the Day
Drink enough water. Get enough sleep. Don't consume too much sugar - whatever that means for you.
Song of the Day
You left the topic, you wish that I quit Deep down you know that you'll never be me You're wasting your time, you're wasting your energy You say I'm everything you despise, everything you don't like Open my eyes to see yours fixated on mine
On October 15, 2021, the band announced a change in name to Rain City and secured an agreement with the independent record label Thriller Records. This transition culminated in the formal adoption of the name Rain City Drive. In 2022, Rain City Drive and the reformed Slaves, featuring Jonny Craig, emerged as distinct entities.
As a stacker once put it nicely:
What a terrible name LMAO I can see why they changed it ahahahah
The temporary end. See you on the front page!
[0] Okay, it wasn't yesterday but it was too funny to not include it here. Well done @siggy47! You made multiple days of mine.
[1] If anyone knows, it was a story about the "Findefuchs". We should write a (short) sequel. Guess I already liked foxes when I was in elementary school.
[2] I know that's not a good thing and I should work on that but as I mentioned, I know this and I (think I) know how to work on that and I already worked on it since it has already gotten a lot better. I just still get this feeling sometimes. So much, that I often forget to say "Thank you @elvismercury, I appreciate your feedback, taking the time to write it and especially your questions since you motivated me to look up this old but gold ASMR ramble! I might even write a post once about all the good stuff she said in there."