Hmm it's not the same. The scrolling part and an adaptive algorithm are key.

It should look almost exactly like TikTok. Just with different incentives and content sources.

I don't know. It probably depends a lot on what is the hard for for. But bad in the short term for sure.

I was trying puzzle number 68 before it got solved. With https://github.com/brichard19/BitCrack

But it makes no economic sense. I did the numbers for a RTX 3090 and the expected return was about 1/100 of the prize. So even if a pool could exist, it was not efficient.

And a pool can't exist, because anyone in the pool that finds the key could just claim the prize for themselves (unlike in mining).

The closest thing to a pool is https://btcpuzzle.info/ where explored areas are marked as “key not here”.

For remote workers, Bitcoins opens the possibility of getting paid in “off the books” digital cash. Which changes things a bit. Opening the opportunity for looking for worse paid but tax free jobs.

Yes. That was puzzle 68 or 69. But until those, no puzzle was solved for two years. And it's amazing, because the puzzle number is the number of bits of the private key, and a 71 bit private key with 6 BTC has not been cracked yet.

12 word mnemonic is 128 bits key, and complexity doubles with each bit.

Probably yes. Most likely the cost of “stealing” those coins will be close to their value though. As it currently happens with: https://privatekeyfinder.io/bitcoin-puzzle/

I see. But the cool thing about Bitcoin for this use case is that it's the online equivalent of cash.

What would be great to find is the “online drug dealer” that has some income in online cash (Bitcoin) and is willing to externalize some services.

That's why I think Bitcoin and “off the books” employment (from unregistered entities) are tightly connected in this case.

It hurt's to pay 0.1% + 0.5% in fee to Boltz when swapping “large” amounts though. Much cheaper with JoinMarket.

https://lnproxy.org/ and BOLT12 are your friends.

BTW the relaying nodes don't know the receiving node.

Fair point. Already on it.

For that I'd rather just get fiat and exchange it into Bitcoin in a P2P no KYC way.

What I'm looking for is to not being a slave.

How did it go?

It was enough having ONE DarthCoin...

I guess you magically changed from NPC to full sovereign overnight. Or was there a period where you explored and learned from others? Where you looked for opportunities to improve and become more sovereign?

I see... Maybe this is an important line of work for hyperbitcoinization. There should be a better way to have shared ownership over a company. And your personal assets should be out of the map to begin with, probably even your real name to protect them.

Still, I think there are too few yet. There are more people looking for a Bitcoin job for half of their current salary than Bitcoin job vacancies.

This is interesting in itself and I wonder how do we break the loop.

IDK looks just easier to not register as a company. I can't even imagine how a tax inspection looks like for such a complex platform (LN routing fees, rewards pool, zaps, territories, ...). So I'm probably missing something. Is it just to have a way to justify your personal income to the IRS?

I wonder why did you go the “legal” way to begin with. Wouldn't it be a lot cooler if you didn't? And you wouldn't have a lot of headaches, at least the bureaucracy related ones.

Yes that's great. It's one step closer.

Sure, that's exactly what I'm looking for. But what you say makes no sense.

Those companies need to find their customers somewhere and have presence on the internet. But looks like they are too few and not large enough.

For example there's Bisq offering full time jobs. That's ideal.

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I was talking about text in posts/comments, not reactions.

For reactions I also prefer the current mechanism. For that, there's the possibility of zaps with reactions as in nostr, but I'm not arguing for it at the moment.

You think so? It has never been more clear than now that there's no second best.