12 sats \ 5 replies \ @premitive1 10 Sep 2022 \ on: The truth about Bitcoin and its energy usage bitcoin
Mitch, did you write this? Did you write this for SN?
I find myself excited to see this kind of content, and also somewhat overwhelmed by its length. (not to call it long, just long for a "discussion" type post on this website.
I did write it myself in another language for my personal blog but today translated it in English for stacker news with the help of google translate. I haven't put it anywhere else in English. :)
It is indeed long for a discussion but I wanted my first content here to be valuable and something that I feel somewhat proud of. Maybe SN was not the best medium for it, dunno.
Original article in Bulgarian - https://outsidia.com/bitcoin-energy/
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I would not say this is the wrong place. I wanted to comment how I felt, but I didn't want to draw conclusions from it.
I believe stacker news could encourage and even fund original/independent journalism, but I don't think the current format encourages that
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I would prefer to see this posted on a website somewhere and a link to it from SN, I am not sure why.
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Reasons that occur to me (which are strictly SN’s fault and we should fix because I want long form content here):
- If you want to get to the comments it’s a lot to scroll through (particularly on mobile)
- perhaps we should display the first 500 words, then ‘read more …’
- We don’t format long form content super well
- we should probably introduce a an “article” post type that has larger text
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An "article" post type with a "read more" toggle sounds pretty good.
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