I have moved into a new position within my company and I am appalled at the mediocrity of other departments. I helped build this company from the ground up and we have seemingly lowered the bar in terms of performance. Hugely disappointing but confident things can be fixed.
As a hypothetical situation, imagine a BTC block was filled up completely only with transactions to open or close lightning channels with the ideal minimum amount of inputs and outputs.
How many transactions could we fit and what other variables would it depend on?
(I'm guessing that if it was only purely opening txs it would be less vbytes than the closing one's?)
Instead of adding support for altcoins they should spend some effort into advertising Bitcoin, and onboarding people who do not have a bitcoin wallet yet. Thats how you expand imo.
Adding altcoin support is not really gaining you new users, since altcoiners probably hold BTC anyway or could easily swap to it to use your service if they wanted to use it. I dont know if that makes sense. Supporting multiple blockchains will not grow your business getting people outside of crypto set up with a Bitcoin wallet will.
American celebrity is just the worst no morals, no ethics as long as you get your money it’s all good.
I came to this realization when Lebron James was doing Sprite commercials knowing damn well he nor his family drink that toxic waste on the daily.
Kids see this world class athlete chugging sprite selling the vibe with a side of diabetes! It’s a joke. But hey Lebron gets his Coca Cola gets theirs and public gets a health crisis that bankrupts the government treating chronic but preventable diseases.
It feels like the SN algorithm is ranking posts more effectively these days.
The good posts are sticking around for a bit longer, and the extra time on the board seems to be creating room for better discussion.
One other benefit is that I no longer have to think about what time of day I make a SN post, the good content will generally find its way to the top of the page.
I have a newsletter, currently writing 1 article/week. This particular week...I don't know what to offer/talk about bitcoin and I don't want to write just meaningless BS...if someone has some advice or topic, I'll be right here.
As for me, I began because at those days, I didn't want to repeat 4 times the same thing: what's bitcoin, where to buy, blablabla...so, magical solution: write. At first, I made a blog but with the pandemic, decided to start making more opinion and experience based and a newsletter seemed logic to me. Best choice ever.
My newsletter is La Hora Cripto, where I talk several issues about bitcoin and other topics related. My newsletter is spanish-text, hit the subscribe button.
Is it possible that the trust algo will end up having too much of a feedback loop?
Example:
Days 1-2:
Those who upvoted stories that became top ranking see their trust level increased.
Day 3:
Those who earned higher trust upvote new posts from day 3, but not all of these trusted users vote on the same posts. And thus because the trust rank for those users was high (from properly predicting the top posts days 1 and 2), the posts they upvoted on day 3 don't rank because for any specific day 3 post there's not enough upvotes from "trusted users" to overtake the posts that ranked at the top days 1 and 2.
In other words, trust earned today is a double edged sword tomorrow, unless everyone trusted upvotes the same way tomorrow. And tomorrow's posts can never outrank today's posts as a result. If it weren't for decay, today's top ranking posts would stay there forever, regardless of voting on later posts.
My suspicion on this is because posts from a while back (e.g., 48 hours) are returning to the front page. If they dropped off the front page because of decay, I would assume they wouldn't return if there was new content getting upvotes. (and, it being Wednesday, there's no shortage of content and users / upvotes).
I'm not seeing what you're implying with trust. Top ranking stories aren't what determine trust - they only determine rewards. Unless I misunderstand what you mean.
Highly upvoted posts are in fact stickier than something new that has a handful of upvotes. This was a recent ranking change because new, low quality stories, as determined by upvotes, were pushing out stuff that was older (but still recent) and high quality as determined by upvotes.
Prior: upvotes/time^1.3 where upvotes are weighted by trust
Present: upvotes^1.2/time^1.3 where upvotes are weighted by trust
1.2 might be too large, or 1.3 too small.
It sounds like you like more turnover of stories and less discussion?
That'd be interesting, but I'm not sure it's much better, because you definitely don't want a notification every minute. You'd still probably want only a daily report on how much you earned ... in which case there's really not much point to complicating things by sending them to you every minute.
upvotes/time^1.3where upvotes are weighted by trustupvotes^1.2/time^1.3where upvotes are weighted by trust