210 sats \ 4 replies \ @k00b 28 Jul 2022 \ on: Introducing the Mash Boost Button bitcoin
I really dislike the word boost.
Bitcoiners: Hey so you can send Bitcoin to people using this thing call boost.
Real f'ing people: What's Bitcoin?
Bitcoiners: Read The Bitcoin Standard
Bitcoiners: Anyway, like I was saying you can send Bitcoin to people doing this thing called boosting.
Real f'ing people: What's boosting? Like stealing? Like making a car go faster with nitrous? Like allowing a child to sit higher in a chair?
Bitcoiners: Listen to Adam Curry's podcasts.
Real f'ing people: Ohhhhh, so it's tipping.
Just call it tipping or paying. We aren't important and we don't get to make up language.
Personally, I LOVE the word "boost".
Language is perpetually mutable, and its words are EXACTLY whatever humans want them to be.
"Boost", IMO, gets straight to the essence of a singular, finite, beaming of value ⚡️ -- regardless of whether or not there was an additional upfront cost (as I feel like "tip" implies).
(Also, @k00b, I'd like to think I'm both a real f'ing person and a Bitcoiner... but perhaps I'm part of the simulation 🤷♂️😛)
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Thanks for the feedback! Absorbing your thoughts.
J
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Perhaps an inappropriate place to take this stand. Sorry!
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Perfect place for the feedback, taking a stand and sharing opinions. Helps get the thinking going, and thoughts from more folks seeing what you are saying. The good, the bad, the ugly, and the who knows what!
Might agree, might not, might be a stand I go around or acquiesce to – tbd, but it helps. If any of this offended/bothered in the slightest... we'd be DOA.
THANK YOU both of ya.
Back to "boosts" vs. "tips". Sorting language like this I think can be rather tricky to get right... and likely multiple paths forward with different outcomes. So many cultures, and different interpretations. And doing new things or takes on old approaches (or tweaks but in new venues/interfaces...). Lots of variables here!
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