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ouuuww, so fucked. Anecdotally, we who hang out here do feel the quiet... though perhaps not today, which seemed to me a very busy day (#944137, #943891).
It's the same old few dozen voices: SN ain't going nowhere!
Yes, we're talking about these Predyx bets:
I'm tracking them about twice a month (e.g., #930665, #914289, and the most awesome one: #900000)

Another middle-of-the-month, another bad read. It's all just going in one direction.
We are not posting enough; we aren't zapping enough; there aren't enough interactions... the bet money is MIIIINE!
Daily rate for April so far is 916 items a day, and to hit the 1.4m target we need about 1,550 a day. Prev observations have been in the 1300s, then 1200s... then 1100. My mid-March observation (#914289) had a rolling two-week rate of 952... but we've now hit an EVEN lower number.
In the last 46 days we've done 965 a day; 1,073 a day for the year as a whole. We're 28.8% through the year, but less than 20% toward the target.
What's worse is that these regular misses accumulate. For the remaining 260 days of the year, SN literally gotta do about double the current rate (1,752 a day). Man, it takes some cojones thinking the masses will be piling in like that... That seems, um, impossible.
I saw there was some activity in the 1.4m bet after I had posted my last thing… including what looks like @ek piling in on the Yes side; thank you, sir, for your sats donation to our party! I was gonna taper off the buying of this No contract (counterparty risk; rug risk)... but then I saw that @Undisciplined MYSTERIOUSLY owns more No shares than me (at a lower entry price??). I guess I gotta keep piling on...@mega_dreamer be happy
Anyway, til NEXT TIME, Stackers!
Comments count against items, right?
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100 sats \ 5 replies \ @k00b 16 Apr
Yep. Both posts and comments are items.
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Great! That means we don't even need to be creative to teach bears a lesson 😂
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107 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b 16 Apr
That's right. Shitposting can win this thing lol.
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My thoughts exactly.
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you can... and it would royally suck.
What we'd call unsportsmanlike behavior.
(I am looking forward to seeing you schmucks sitting around and posting literally hundreds of thousands of comments, haha, just to screw me out of cheap, honest sats)
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(no worries I'll make up for it in cheap honest CCs)
Clearly you don't understand logistic growth. SN will meet and exceed this challenge.
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clearly.
I fail at math anyway. Happy I can do these simple divisions above!
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I'm happy I got those no shares so cheap.
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Should we drizzle more liquidity into this market? Currently it only has 4k sats as liquidity. Increasing liquidity will allow bettors to bet big without moving the odds much.
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mayhaps. I mean, I will acquire some more No contracts regularly :)
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Ok great, I will start drizzling liquidity to it. The reason, Prediction Markets drizzle liq is because of market manipulations as opposed to suddenly adding large liquidity.
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(1,752 a day)....... That seems, um, impossible.
Still attainable. 'Impossible' is a bit too much to say.
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It's more than I have ever seen on SN. You think that sort of posting/commenting/new blood is coming?
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I'm fortunate to have seen it. But it seems it was long ago.
You think that sort of posting/commenting/new blood is coming?
Yes. You'll see the graphs for items going up from this month onwards.
On a side note: do you wanna win there or you are concerned about SN posting health?
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Yahz yahz yahz. Darth doing Darthy things
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I 🧡 Darth.
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look man, I respect your work, I admire when people build something with code. But when that something is not moral or is not on the right direction for a better world, then slowly became evil or worthless.
I suggest to redirect your skills into another direction, more useful and moral. I understand that there's a demand for these kind of things, but is a demand from RETARDED people. Playing with people's retardness makes you evil. Also all that data they input it can be used by other evil people, that will literally use it to move the market and other things into that direction indicated in people's gambling. So in the end those that are "making bets" are just used by the master of puppets as testing rats. Not talking that you are literally taking their money (sats) and push them onto the edge of slavery.
Bets, gambling is part of the 7 sins...
Why don't you create other type of tools, more appropriate for a Bitcoin adoption? For example helping more merchants to USE bitcoin. Create more bridges between customers (users) and merchants. Make bitcoin to circulate in the right direction, not only to gamble with.
Gambling means somebody will lose and somebody will win. It doesn't create any value. (Free) Trades means both parts wins and create flow, value.
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I RETARDED. ME LIKEY RETARDED SHIT
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