AnnouncementsAnnouncements

Welcome to this week’s newsletter. Thanks to everyone for the quality content that was posted. As I mentioned last week, I have discontinued the “Top 5 Posts Of The Week” awards for the time being.

In its place, we are conducting a new contest created and jointly sponsored by @Fabs. Here are the details.

Probably the biggest news of the week, in my opinion, was @DarthCoin choosing to post his article in our territory:

• Explain Lightning Network in a simple analogy

I hope it is the first of many. This was the top post of the week by zaprank. In the pinned Learning Resources Page I included a link to @DarthCoin’s guides. Personally I find these guides a continuing valuable resource, particularly for the non technical stackers like me. I have read a few of these guides more than once over the past few years, since I tend to forget some of the points that are covered. I am going to post a link here each week so that new stackers can discover them.

Caution: He is a good teacher, but he is an ornery old S.O.B.Caution: He is a good teacher, but he is an ornery old S.O.B.

As I mentioned last week, I am starting to include some links from the Bitcoin Learning Resources page in this newsletter. I am going to begin with just a few:

Learning ResourcesLearning Resources

DarthCoin’s GuidesDarthCoin’s Guides

DarthCoin is a somewhat controversial figure with a manner that may take some getting used to, but I think his guides are excellent as step by step instruction. The sentence structure might be unconventional, and he may express some strong opinions, but you will learn what he has set out to teach you. Here is a link to DarthCoin’s Substack Page, where you can find all of DarthCoin’s guides: https://darthcoin.substack.com/

Radentor’s GuidesRadentor’s Guides

https://stacker.news/Radentor/posts

Radentor posts some of the most comprehensive information a beginner could want. Here is a link to his posts. I expect more from him soon!

Top Posts Of All TimeTop Posts Of All Time

Here you will find a few of the top posts that have been posted to this territory. I am not going to adhere to a rigid zaprank system, since my purpose is to highlight content that has educational value. I will use an informal combination of zaprank and my own evaluation. For instance, some posts, though of high quality, are solely about Stacker News, and might have more appropriately originated as a meta post.

• Explain Lightning Network in a simple analogy by @DarthCoin
• Bitcoin Mining Industry Introduction by @catoshi
• How do you guys use bitcoin to pay for day to day things? by @mateusdeap
• UTXO consolidation - What's you best option(s)? by @BitcoinIsTheFuture
• I want to run my first node but am overwhelmed by the choices by @boisechampion
• The bitcoin beginner’s guide to Public Key Encryption by @frostdragon