Stacker Saloon \ stacker news

Howdy there, partner! Welcome on into the Stacker Saloon.

Saddle on up to a stool and spill the beans about your day, fire away with them questions, or let loose and give us the lowdown on your wild and woolly life. We're all ears, so don't hold back!

We're open round the clock, so mosey on in whenever you please!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BitcoinAbhi 2 Jul

Is your home office noisy, quiet, or somewhere in the middle?

60 sats \ 1 reply \ @cryotosensei 2 Jul

My long-awaited teaching interview will happen 45 mins later. Wish me luck!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @wilto 2 Jul

Good luck and Godspeed!

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @flat24 2 Jul

Hello I am testing a new open source app to translate, you can download from F-droid is called "translate you" is great and it is an option not to hear the google translator, I hope to serve other people, keep stacking.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @BitcoinIsTheFuture 2 Jul

Les see. Bitcoin pods on my run today! Good vibes!

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @SatsMate 2 Jul

So excited for some upcoming travels! I am very grateful right now in my life.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Kontext 2 Jul

Day 157 of the #100aDayTil100k challenge, sets breakdown: 4x32 normal/narrow; Total: 128 (Day 261 of 100+ pushups per day in total; day 160 of 120+ pushups per day)

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 1 Jul

anyone looking to go to the bitcoin conference in Nashville? I have an extra ticket! For sale

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bitcoinisawesome 1 Jul

A poker hand:

5$/5$ No Limit Texas Holdem. Hero on the button with JsJc $550 effective.

Under The Gun (UTG) limps for 5, folds to Hero, raise to 25. Villain in Small Blind (SB) re-raises (3bet) to 55. Folds to Hero, re-raise 125 (4bet), SB calls.

Flop ($250) 4d7d8s SB goes all-in for 425 total, Hero calls.

turn: (1100) 2d

river: 8h (1100)

Hero wins showdown against the SB's TsTc

10 sats \ 7 replies \ @cristaiji 1 Jul

I’m noticing a few bugs on SN right now, nothing serious but are you guys noticing anything?

0 sats \ 6 replies \ @cristaiji 1 Jul

For example my notifications don’t seem to be updating…

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @ek 1 Jul

test

20 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b 1 Jul

I haven't deployed yet

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 1 Jul freebie

I thought it's about /notifications where afaik was no bug

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 1 Jul freebie

test

Are you not seeing this as a reply in your notifications?

oh, might be because I am a freebie, will post another reply paid with sats.

25 sats \ 0 replies \ @cristaiji 1 Jul

Yeah it’s fine now thanks. Notifications back. 👍

41 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 1 Jul freebie

That moment when you go to the park to ease back into exercising by starting with some rope jumps, you set a goal of 600 rope jumps since you think you can do 2 jumps per second and want to jump for 10 minutes and then you make your first 20 jumps and you're already out of breath, fighting against mosquitoes and you realize it was a stupid idea to jump on grass because it interferes with the rope too much but you say to yourself you want to do at least 100 then and then you reach 100 while contemplating all your life decisions but you didn't mess up your 100th jump so you continued jumping and when you messed up you also continued because you didn't want to stop on an uneven number and then you do 60 more jumps and almost die but feel smug anyway.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 1 Jul

https://x.com/podiatristdon/status/1807824901388034263?s=46

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 1 Jul

https://x.com/dotkrueger/status/1807773966616146356?s=46

10 sats \ 5 replies \ @grayruby 1 Jul

Hey @k00b, FYI, getting a "submit error: could not generate invoice" notice when trying to withdraw to another sn lightning address.

No rush, just an FYI.

60 sats \ 4 replies \ @ek 1 Jul freebie

Maybe they are above the deposit limit but we don't expose that for privacy reasons

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @grayruby 1 Jul

Ah yes that makes sense.

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @grayruby 1 Jul

Sent less and it worked. Problem solved.

So if I zap people it's ok for them to go over the wallet limit but not with a deposit.

When I pay out pool winnings I like to deposit instead of zap to save the fees. But say we have a 200k sats prize for the football pool this year, my only options will be zap or to pay them to an external wallet correct?

100 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 1 Jul

Yes, that's right.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 1 Jul

Ok. Good to know. Will plan accordingly.

141 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 1 Jul

Heads up: going to deploy within an hour and the site will go down for a few minutes probably.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 1 Jul

Deployed

52 sats \ 6 replies \ @ek 1 Jul freebie

I really don't like how people don't use link posts but simply copy the link content and then add the link at the bottom. It feels like they are gaming our attention.

I just clicked on a post where I immediately scrolled to the bottom because I wondered if the link would be there. And indeed, there it was.

Come on guys, you're better than this.

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 1 Jul

Like this? #579784

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 1 Jul freebie

For example 👀

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 1 Jul

I prefer adding the link in the post so I can make a snarky comment along with the link. Why do you wish to take that joy from me?

143 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 1 Jul

I haven't noticed much of that lately, freebie. It seems like we have lots of link posts. I do wish people would add some text to describe the linked content or offer a few thoughts about it, rather than just have the links.

63 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 1 Jul freebie

My problem is if they don't do that but hide in the feed that it's not their content but from a link by not using a link post.

At least they include the link at the bottom but it's still deceptive.

We have lots of link posts but we also have lots of link posts disguised as discussions.

31 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 1 Jul

Oh, yeah, I have noticed that. My bad.

120 sats \ 0 replies \ @Kashkha 1 Jul

My day is going great. I started with breakfast, my favorite part of the morning. Then I began researching artificial intelligence and its benefits in commerce, and my fascination with AI increased. I watched my favorite TV show, and now I'm currently browsing through Stacker.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @cristaiji 1 Jul

Bitcoiners leaving the fiat system. 😊 (Courtesy of Alan Watts)

31 sats \ 0 replies \ @itermathi 1 Jul

31 sats \ 0 replies \ @flat24 1 Jul

Good Stackers today I want to thank the universe that I am a free man! and anyone who can read me is sure to be one too.
Long live Freedom 🗽 Damn!🍊⚡

31 sats \ 0 replies \ @BitcoinIsTheFuture 1 Jul

Freedom week! Freedom with Bitcoin!

152 sats \ 1 reply \ @TNStacker 1 Jul

Stack Sats and stay humble

115 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 1 Jul

31 sats \ 0 replies \ @RealCoachAndy 1 Jul

Howdy gang!!! July has officially begun and on Monday, so that is a good sign, make sure you thank for June and make a decree that July will be a phenomenal month. May your day be spectacular and full of productivity, success and love, my friend. Set your weekly strategies and lets start with a smile and good thoughts, thank you for being and thank you for giving your best everyday, let's do this!!! Be well and stay frosty!!

62 sats \ 2 replies \ @cristaiji 1 Jul

Sorry I like the conspiracy memes.

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 1 Jul

but this is not a conspiracy anymore. Is hard sad truth.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cristaiji 1 Jul

True dat. 👍

31 sats \ 1 reply \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 1 Jul bot

Day 196 of posting mining earnings from the day before: 868 sats on 30Jun2024! Running total: 118,104 sats!

Yesterday's comment

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 2 Jul bot

Day 197's comment

31 sats \ 0 replies \ @oliverweiss 1 Jul

153 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinsreporter 1 Jul

Just asking because someone who I wanted to Orange Pill denied it because he didn't want to touch something that requires so much technical handling. He asked me if I had something simpler and easier to hold and spend, he would be willing to adopt it. He also said that fiat is very simple to use that's why it became popular as modern day currency.

The biggest hindrance in speedy Bitcoin adoption is the need of too much technical knowledge to use it?

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Roll 1 Jul

Men are before the truth like bats before the light: blind. Aristote

90 sats \ 0 replies \ @zana 1 Jul

111 sats \ 3 replies \ @Taft 1 Jul

Day 3 of weight loss posting every day ’til I reach 75kg (current weight 90.1kg).

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @TNStacker 1 Jul

💪🏾

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @suraz 1 Jul

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 1 Jul

Waist size is also important

It should be less than half of your height

70 sats \ 3 replies \ @Carresan 1 Jul

GM stackers! Day 53 of my 10000 daily steps challenge. I love blue skies!!! Have a great day!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Carresan 2 Jul

Done!

31 sats \ 0 replies \ @suraz 1 Jul

Sky is clear. Enjoy.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 1 Jul

How many missteps lol

69 sats \ 1 reply \ @suraz 1 Jul

Seeing people walk out of our lives is really painful. We want them Run. Don't we?

61 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 1 Jul

32 sats \ 0 replies \ @BitcoinAbhi 1 Jul

What are you most looking forward to this week?

60 sats \ 2 replies \ @Taft 1 Jul

The inherent problem with fiat currency is that it eventually returns to its intrinsic value – zero.

Voltaire

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Nadia 1 Jul

Fiat currency is paper backed by the confidence of the government; when that confidence fades, so does the value of the money.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 1 Jul

Paper money

243 sats \ 7 replies \ @Lux 1 Jul

Prefixes and Suffixes

The people behind the system will use the deception and trickery of words to pull you into a legal jurisdiction that they control.

This is done when naive people just assume the meaning behind the word, rather than understanding the origin of it, and therefore not spotting the true meaning.

You must learn to read. This means look for a change in syntax, a change in font or case, detect the difference between symbolic language and one you read, and find the origin behind words and their legal meaning.

One trick used to perpetrate this deception is by the use of prefixes and suffixes.

Affix

The word “affix” means to “attach” or “fasten”, and when applied to words it means “an addition” to an existing word in order to modify its meaning or create a new word.

Prefix

Pre means “former” or “before”, therefore prefix means an addition placed before another word in order to change its meaning.

Suffix

Suf comes from the Latin preposition sub, which is a word-forming element meaning, “under”, “beneath”, “behind”, “resulting from further division”.

Such as:

Submarine
Subject
Subdivision
Subframe

A suffix added at the end of a word forms a derivative called a morpheme, which usually changes the origin word to now describe an action, or carrying out the action of.

Morpheme meaning: a unit of a language that cannot be further divided.

There are 82 prefixes and suffixes within the English language, with over 170,000 words. Here are just a few examples.

Con

The prefix “con” means “with” or “joint” or “together”, although “con” comes from the Latin word contra meaning “against” or “opposite”.

This can be confusing so you would need to understand the word in context in order to correctly interpret the meaning.

Such as:

Confession – Con “against”, fess “to speak”, ion “action of”.
Constitution – Con “together”, stitut Latin for “set up, decided”, ion “process”.
Consent – Con “together”, sent “feel”.
Convey – Con “together”, vey “way” or to “transfer” or “pass on”.

33 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei 1 Jul

As a literacy coach who teaches students how to identify affixes and decode the meaning of unfamiliar words, I devoured this! Thanks

33 sats \ 0 replies \ @TNStacker 1 Jul

🧡Most excellent posts! 🧡

33 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 1 Jul

They say: "You are breaking the law! Do you under-stand me?"

And the scared shitizen, just giving a clueless answer: "Yes" 😂😂😂😂😂😂

54 sats \ 3 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 1 Jul

Grammar lessons now? Are they necessary for facing the court! 😎👍

121 sats \ 2 replies \ @Lux 1 Jul

33 sats \ 1 reply \ @Hamstr 1 Jul

I think I'm missing the context here. The spelling from the judge got dismissed? Where did she mess up?

is it because he stated who he was before he entered the floodgates?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Lux 1 Jul

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLY_NrAQ7tccqqzlrQ8Zdo5orqvD8OZAMh&feature=shared

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZPwUV0sY5PAF8d7NgJjjZQPjd2A6ZaOB

24 sats \ 0 replies \ @fed 1 Jul

Day 4 of collecting taxes from stackers.

Collected so far: amount of sats redacted.

305 sats \ 19 replies \ @orthwyrm 1 Jul

Day 443 of snailposting everyday 'til BTC hits $100k.

...and day 8 of trimmin' the fat (96.0 | 80.0 | 1.6).

__@_'-'

50 sats \ 4 replies \ @ek 1 Jul freebie

I realized I still didn't ask you:

What's your strategy with losing weight? Calisthenics? Intermittent fasting? Counting calories? Only eating as fast as a snail?

119 sats \ 3 replies \ @orthwyrm 1 Jul

Main thing for me is CICO. Nothing fancy, just keeping it to < 2000 kcal / day and avoiding processed foods. I am quite active as-is, so no additional exercises.

I originally estimated that this would lose me 0.5 kg / week, but current progress appears to be faster than that... I'll give it a couple more weeks to map the trend, and adjust calories accordingly. I don't want to lose weight too quickly as that tends to be unsustainable!

150 sats \ 2 replies \ @ek 2 Jul freebie

Tbh, I think 0.5kg / week is still a lot.

Also, I realized in the past that tracking my weight distracted me from the more important thing: how I feel in my body. If you gain more muscle than you lose fat, you'll gain weight, which can be demotivating, even though it’s actually a better outcome. I don’t even know how much I weighed when I was at my peak bouldering performance.

I have also started exercising again, and while I will keep track of my weight, I don’t have specific weight goals. Instead, I have exercise goals like reaching my previous bouldering grade, running 10km again, or being able to do 10 pull-ups. I think my weight will decrease, but I'll be more happy when I can do even one good pull-up. I think I was never able to do that in my life, lol.

119 sats \ 1 reply \ @orthwyrm 3 Jul

My main motivation is really tied to the weight, rather than appearances or how I feel!

In many respects I am a very lazy person, so the idea of carrying ~20kg of unnecessary baggage EVERYWHERE is intolerable. That's heavier than my bike. In the context of bouldering and calisthenics, it's like doing pull-ups with a fat toddler strapped to your back.

I mostly track weight daily for accountability with the snail post, but also out of general curiosity. For example yesterday I hit my CICO target but slept like shit, while today I slept like a baby and the weight fell right off again. That's pretty interesting!

50 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 3 Jul

I have read that waist measurement should be less than half your height

Waist > 0.5 * height = danger ‼️ zone

50 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 1 Jul

👍

71 sats \ 0 replies \ @carlosfandango 1 Jul

Starting the week strong!

153 sats \ 9 replies \ @orthwyrm 1 Jul

I think the rent vs. buy debate is especially interesting from a Bitcoin lens, because:

There's a severe opportunity cost in deploying capital for the deposit which could otherwise be allocated to BTC.
Bitcoin's success is somewhat antagonistic to real estate, as both are competing for the role of store-of-value.
Bitcoiners are especially sensitive to what constitutes "true" ownership. Housing can be seized and destroyed in a fashion not really applicable to Bitcoin.

I've always had the sense that buying presents too much of an opportunity cost, but I never really ran the numbers. So I started playing around with this calculator yesterday:

https://smartmoneytools.co.uk/tools/rent-vs-buy/

I concluded that if Bitcoin appreciates at least 20% per annum, you are simply better off renting. This is assuming 7% mortgage rates, 7% annual rent increases, a 20% deposit for a fairly typical property (£250k), first-time buyer, and standard config for everything else.

tl;dr I reaffirmed my belief that housing is a shitcoin and you should probably avoid becoming boomer exit liquidity.

50 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 1 Jul

This happened in Japan in 1990. Rich retirees sold their assets and Japan has been in a slump for 34 years

50 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 1 Jul

Boomer exit liquidity

Great line

79 sats \ 3 replies \ @carlosfandango 1 Jul

Whilst I agree with your premise the advantage of a mortgage is surely the ability to overgear your initial deposit and access that large capital amount and its potential gains? And location plays a hugely variable part in all this.

Not sure the bank will lend me 10x my deposit to buy Bitcoin lol…. Their loss.

50 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 1 Jul

You have to factor in leverage

Borrow 80 percent, home equity increases, etc

Maybe you can take out a home equity line of credit and buy bitcoin

39 sats \ 1 reply \ @orthwyrm 1 Jul

Agreed, but it's simply that the opportunity cost of not having the deposit in Bitcoin really is that powerful. I think my calculations were rather biased in favor of buying real estate, honestly.

RE: location, it depends on how good you are at picking your market. Places which are already nice have a premium (larger deposit = larger opportunity cost), whereas up-and-coming neighborhoods are cheaper but more of a gamble.

50 sats \ 0 replies \ @carlosfandango 1 Jul

It’s hard to pick those up-and-coming places so as a rule its better to have the worst house in the best area than the best house in the worst I guess…

79 sats \ 2 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 1 Jul

I think you're right. Renting has some advantages and disadvantages, but everyone has a different life situation and we have to see what's best for each of us. Thanks for the calculator!

50 sats \ 1 reply \ @Bell_curve 1 Jul

Home ownership is a big goal in USA. Not so much in Europe

19 sats \ 0 replies \ @orthwyrm 1 Jul

Ah, it's the big dream in the UK too.

90 sats \ 0 replies \ @suraz 1 Jul

Keep pushing. Both your body and BTC.

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 1 Jul

47 sats \ 0 replies \ @riberet19 1 Jul

Day 58 of posting till next Bitcoin halving.

67 sats \ 1 reply \ @0xbitcoiner 1 Jul

Day 2 of my daily posting journey, after I lost my cowboy hat in a wild shoot-out on the outskirts of town.

previously: #591937 🤠⚡

92 sats \ 0 replies \ @suraz 1 Jul