@k00b @ek I was trying to make a post with too many characters? Whats the limit? I transcribed my 15min podcast about Stacker News 😅

[15:51]: It's So Early!

I'm your host, Will Schoellkopf, also known by my name, @realBitcoinDog. I've written The Bitcoin Dog, following descent to the Bitcoin C++ source code, and I'm author of the novel Bitcoin Girl Saved the World. Welcome to my podcast, It's So Early. I'm excited to talk to all of my followers today. In particular, I want to discuss my latest obsession,

Wow, have I just been hooked ever since I found this website and seeing fellow stackers, @grayruby and @Undisciplined, start their own podcast, the ~Stacker_Sports Podcast, which I highly recommend. It inspired me to get back in the saddle as a cowboy and record my own episode. Keeping it brief, I'm on my commute right now to the Bitcoin Peer-to-Peer Festival in Santa Monica and thought, why not? Time to share my thoughts with you all. Thank you for your support. The reason I'm so hooked on Stacker News is definitely the

for @k00b, for @ek. That's really what's so magical about Bitcoin is we're able to see everything completely under the hood. There's nothing hidden. Whether or not you can understand is different from what you're capable of understanding. The code is right there. Everything is right there. The discussion boards, the original email lists, the white paper, anything that you would want to know to understand how Bitcoin works is all there and all transparent. How mining works, the block templates made, the history of every transaction. I think it's so important that in Bitcoin, we can audit where every single Satoshi has come from all the way to the Genesis block. You can't say the same of other cryptocurrencies. You certainly can't say the same about fiat currencies. That's what really gives Bitcoin value is people's ability to don't trust, verify. In social media, that's so important. A lot of criticism of Facebook or Twitter or Reddit is that they're a closed source, proprietary source. Companies, a lot of elements of their algorithms are hidden. Kudos to X for offering a following view instead of a for you view so that you really do only see posts of people you follow. Even then, there's a lot of influence because how you know what accounts to follow in the first place, they have a lot of influence in that. Stacker News, we're really fortunate. It's an incredible thing for @k00b to just have all that code available in GitHub. Like @k00b said to me a couple days ago in my post, I'm brand new to Stacker News and I'm here to break it. Real Bitcoin dog tips and tricks. For all the promise of Stacker News being free open source software, he has never promised that it's decentralized.