Yes, they downrank content until cum_zap_weight - cum_downzap_weight is sufficiently negative.

Yep, if the goal is to outlaw, downzappers need to zap more than 1 sat.

They matter at 1 sat, but only for informing the trust graph.

Bitcoin is still in its infancy, you are early, and bitcoin is plenty risky still. Don't get distracted by other things if you can help it.

If you get distracted anyway, remember this reply in four years. It might save you from getting distracted again.

Still on that refactor drip. Most of what's left are automatic retries of failed payments, overhauls of rewards/analytics/satistics to use the new schema, and migrating all the old data.

That's so cool!

I was just telling folks in the Lab about your poland adventures. You made it sound hopeless

Good point!

Dang, should've been in ~Cartalk. It needs some love.

Downzaps go 70/30 to territory revenue/rewards.

There's no incentive to downzap currently, so I don't think it's likely to be pathological. We have plans to incentivize them which might require a rethink.

Because boost is unilateral, it does not affect outlaw status. We want stackers to be able to control ads.

11 stackers collectively spent 30,866 sats downzapping this which made it cross the outlaw threshold. No secret platform control made this outlawed.

For those of us in wild west mode, as I am, it's still the top boost.

These buzzword guys are the worst. They catfish all kinds of people. They are so good at it though that I wish they could discover the thrill of suffering through honesty.

We need some kind of matchmaking service for these Steve Jobs types to meet their Wozniak.

Note noted.

Fixed. It's still the top boost in Wild West Mode but that's as intended.

I remember thinking about outlaws as I made the top boost mvp. I prefer demand response I guess.

I don't believe in Karma. But I do believe in fuck around and find out. And that being a bad person is its own kind of hell.

The number of zappers is only part of it.

It's sum(zapper_trust*log10(zap_amount)) and sybils will have zapper_trust equal to zero.

you've still got it

Fixing/replacing the physical (atoms) is harder than the digital (bits), but it's possible. The dream is something like HAM radio level autonomy/sovereignty, but most of our high bandwidth wireless tech that operates over long distances requires line of sight.

So if physical wires/optics are the problem, we'll need to incentivize high density citizen run wireless mesh, or have a tech breakthrough that makes things like roll-your-own cell towers affordable to you and me.