This was of course all a set up to make you defeat your own bet 😂

It's hard for me personally to see SN as a side-hustle, so I have to rely on your feedback, as a professional author. This is valuable.

You're most likely the #1 ranked recipient of my CCs (while I'm unlikely to be your #1 zapper.) I kind of feel like this actually matters; I'm treating this like a customer satisfaction study. Not the ones for form tho. The ones where we improve based on the feedback and actually come out more excellent.

The way I see it, we need to drive more traffic to original content on SN. Let me draw things on my magnetic travel whiteboard sheets today and try some things... I'm feeling inspired and I have a day off coding today.

I think that it's OK to share your personal experiences even if there are others that are ahead of your curve.

I've seen a lot of empathy here which is often hard to find on the platforms of the past. If I could wish for a second thing after quality content to be retained forever on SN, it would definitely be empathy.

I get your point in linked post about demand - I think. Do I get it right that you're saying that my demand for the harder money is making me spend the weaker money first, because from my perspective I have less desire to hold on to the latter?

Ultimately that means that the bad money "driving out" the good money is only valid until it goes to 0?

Gresham's Law! CCs are the weaker money, which makes sense because sats are the hardest money (though not in my cashu wallet; there it's still weak)

On-chain sats > LN sats > cashu sats > CCs

I spend them in reverse order. The thing I'm doing tho - and I'm willing to change this if someone can truly make the case and convince me that it's no bueno - is converting left to right to ultimately spend the weakest form. (I sometimes skip cashu and buy CCs from LN straight.)

The good news is I don't have a technical constraint forcing me to do this anymore: After @ek triggered me yesterday, it turned out that something got fixed on the cashu side and nwc now works. Yay for the cycle of progress. It's now a matter of choice.

That new thing being SN? Because of quality content. Full stop. It's literally the single reason why I'm here and what drove me here prior to even creating an account. You yourself are a producer/curator of great content; I assume you get joy out of doing that. Am I wrong in that?

If zaps are the more compelling reason to join, then quality is likely to decline overall, because the driving force will become the gainz rather than producing and consuming quality content.

After I disconnected my now-working NWC connection with Cashu, but before i reupped my CCs, I got an invoice. Invoices are the best. It just gets annoying.

NWC is "trusted" for cashu; I didn't get a notification to approve the send. That's a worse trust model than apple pay 😕

Cool! Consider the reason for me getting to this void but not the argument

I'm sure there are net earners with the 50k being donated to rewards every day, AMA OPs or extremely high quality posters. But to be honest, I've never seen SN as a post-to-earn platform, but more of a pay-to-<post/upvote> thing.

The occasional LLM generated post/comment aside, the space is extremely clean here. That's awesome. Worth many sats and so is the content.

I'm probably a boomer.

My logs from ~4wks ago are no longer retrievable so I'm paraphrasing the error message from memory:

Invalid NWC connection

I just retried on your comment and if this went as supposed, you just received 212 sats? No longer getting the error message.

(no worries I'll make up for it in cheap honest CCs)

My thoughts exactly.

Great! That means we don't even need to be creative to teach bears a lesson 😂

Comments count against items, right?

Coding and code review, while my whole GPU is being abused by a chinese-made open-source AI to build me agents. I've tricked an AI into building me a working agent framework that can at my whims self-improve into further agents. It actually wasn't hard and I was pleasantly surprised.

I really dislike AI for coding. But... I've decided that if I'm gonna keep working in FOSS (for zilch), I need to have agents making me money. That way I can deal with the important freebie work that needs actual consciousness and experience, while the agents deal with the stupid things like working on brainfarts with a 1-in-1000 hit chance.

The only downside is that I need to stay close to a power outlet now. Gone are the days of coding a whole 2 days on battery.

You could be right. There may at some point be a need (think quantum vulnerability) to stop relaying secp256k1 based txs. But that would be relay policy, not block consensus.

Agreed. The original 1933 law has been enhanced and amended a few times but this is something congress could work on?

Too bad I'm such a bad politician. There's so much work to be done!

Nit: That would be a true protocol failure.

Until now, despite Mr. Hearn's objections/outrage a decade or so ago, the protocol remains forward compatible. This is a great feature that is massively underrated in both the complexity it brings to development and the coin recoverability it provides: I can still send you a classic p2pk transaction if that's all you're able to receive, and you in turn can still spend these coins.

Every contract I've ever closed with any branch of the US govt has been Buy America based. That's partially why these procurements are so costly. (This is the real reason why Boeing sells the USAF $20k soap dispensers, because the custom made-in-USA molds alone cost $200k a pop)

I've always thought that this was a defendable position for the USG: spend the public's money to the public's benefit, create jobs.

None of this prevents one from innovating tho. Remember how one cannot reuse rockets? But once you can, you suddenly find yourself decades ahead of your frenemies as a space power. Is it being used? Not that I know of, but I'm sure Elon would be game.

This is why I think that visionaries are needed more than used car salesmen, especially in politics. The art of not giving 2 fucks about "the deal".

I agree with everything you say but what do you mean with "fix the incentives"? Subsidize/penalize?