HelenOlsenI22

gaming

Just a fun little experiment dressed as a game. I’m mostly just curious how this will go. Maybe this will be boring but that’s exactly what I want to find out!

Rules are simple: be the last comment within 24 hours and you win 5k sats + any zaps on this post!

Last Comment Wins

conspiracy

What if we make together the best collective Christmas greeting card? You write your wishes for 2024 in comments I gift you 1k sats with ZAP.
![IMG_20231224_160325.png](https://m.stacker.news/9336)
I topped up 100k sats so I'm ready to make at least 100 wishes come true (one per stacker).

Let's make Christmas dreams come true

bitcoin


![](https://m.stacker.news/58468)


### News Of The Week 

Welcome to the Books And Articles newsletter.  Thanks for all of the quality posts.
  
Another good week for the territory. @SimpleStacker gave us the top post, with his expert review of an academic economics paper on bitcoin. I hope this is the first of many. @carlosfandango and @jbschirtzinger gave us particularly good book reviews, @cryotosensei brought back The Shakespeare Book Club, and @02879c7d869 gave us a new short story.
Enjoy!

As always, please reply with suggestions and opinions on how to make this territory better.   

Logo design by @plebpoet
Link to last week’s newsletter: 
https://stacker.news/items/720434/r/siggy47


### Top Five Posts Of The Week 

Here are this week’s top posts:

- [Bitcoin Pricing, Adoption, and Usage: Theory and Evidence | Article Review](https://stacker.news/items/727081/r/siggy47)  by @SimpleStacker

- [Book Review | Black Coffee Blues by Henry Rollins](https://stacker.news/items/722727/r/siggy47) by @carlosfandango

- [Book Review: Q By Luther Blisset](https://stacker.news/items/728848/r/siggy47) by @jbschirtzinger

- [check your financial privilege](https://stacker.news/items/729608/r/siggy47) by @stack_harder

- [Kurt Vonnegut's Lost Board Game](https://stacker.news/items/724771/r/siggy47) by @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears

### Siggy’s Suggestions

- [@realBitcoinDog Bitcoin Story - No, social media had nothing to do with it xD](https://stacker.news/items/722720/r/siggy47) by @realBitcoinDog

Here is another great Bitcoin Journey story, given to us by @realBitcoinDog. In an ordinary week this post would have easily made the Top Five, and there would be no reason for me to highlight it. I can see it received a good deal of engagement already, but if you haven’t red it yet you should.
 

- [The poet and the reader || short story](https://stacker.news/items/723702/r/siggy47) by @02879c7d869
Don’t ask me how this short story flew under the radar. It’s probably because the stacker is new, and the nym is tough to pronounce. The real @nym, however, recognized the quality. Give it a read. It is now permanently included in the index.   


### Writing Contests

- [Writing Contest #1](https://stacker.news/items/412579)

- [Writing Contest #2](https://stacker.news/items/429644)


### Stackers’ Blogs

- [Fighting The Daily Grind](https://stacker.news/items/413483) by @cryotosensei

- [Personal Blog, Got My First Job](https://stacker.news/items/426378) by @CyberCrypto



### My Bitcoin Journey

Inspired by Writing Contest #1, this is where stacker’s bitcoin origin stories will be posted for easy reference.

- [Grayruby’s Bitcoin story](https://stacker.news/items/417967) by @grayruby

- [I Put ¼ Of A Bitcoin In A Landfill](https://stacker.news/items/428900) by @brandonsbytes

- [From Selling Newspapers To Finding Bitcoin](https://stacker.news/items/510278/r/siggy47)  by @Coinsreporter

- [My bitcoin journey](https://stacker.news/items/559500/r/siggy47) by @Carreson

- ["Who are you?" — How do I want to answer?](https://stacker.news/items/674910/r/siggy47) by @IamSINGLE

- ["My journey with Bitcoin: the experience of an ordinary Cuban"](https://stacker.news/items/676287/r/siggy47) by @BTCLNAT

- [@realBitcoinDog Bitcoin Story - No, social media had nothing to do with it xD](https://stacker.news/items/722720/r/siggy47) by @realBitcoinDog




### Book Clubs

- [Stoic Book Club:Meditations](https://stacker.news/items/423469) by @Se7enZ


### Books

- [The Universal Good Deal](https://stacker.news/items/409637)  by @cleophas

- [Who Brought The Steak Tartare?, Chapter 1](https://stacker.news/items/410853) by @cleophas

- [The Final Product](https://stacker.news/items/512884/r/siggy47) by @cleophas

- [The Penal Preserve, Chapter 1](https://stacker.news/items/599283/r/siggy47) by @cleophas

- [Happy The Hippo](https://stacker.news/items/401625), an absolutely wonderful children’s book written by @cryotosensei for his son.

- [The Rogue Scholar](https://stacker.news/items/481687) by @jbschirtzinger

- [Submersible](https://stacker.news/items/446662) by @johnbnevin

- [And Then She Disappears - Block 1](https://stacker.news/items/680735/r/siggy47) by @ginkgo

### Book Reviews

- [The Mandibles by Lionel Shirver](https://stacker.news/items/719755/r/siggy47) by @21futures

- [Book Review | Catcher in the Rye - Better the second go around as an adult](https://stacker.news/items/709553/r/siggy47) by @realBitcoinDog

- [Book Review | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly](https://stacker.news/items/706975/r/siggy47) by @carlosfandango

- [Book Review | Black Coffee Blues by Henry Rollins](https://stacker.news/items/722727/r/siggy47) by @carlosfandango

- [The Underground Man by Dostoevsky](https://stacker.news/items/707544/r/siggy47) by @Nadia

- [Emil Cioran: 'The Fall into Time ("Sturz in die Zeit" in German)](https://stacker.news/items/694642/r/siggy47) by @TomK

- [Book Review: The Book of Elsewhere, by China Mieville and Keanu Reeves](https://stacker.news/items/697427/r/siggy47) by @jurraca

- [A Journey Through Emiko Jean's The Return of Ellie Black](https://stacker.news/items/691236) by @Melisa

- [what i read, and wrapping up in july:](https://stacker.news/items/630204/r/siggy47) by @speakingyourtruth

- [Book Review: Nothing Like The Movies by Lynn Painter](https://stacker.news/items/670569/r/siggy47) by @speakingyourtruth

- [The Mandibles: A Review](https://stacker.news/items/668210/r/siggy47) by @jimmysong

- [Self-Reliance by Emerson](https://stacker.news/items/669132/r/siggy47) by @ek


- [Book - The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage (1998)](https://stacker.news/items/673776/r/siggy47) by @Signal312

- [Review: The Righteous Mind](https://stacker.news/items/665765/r/siggy47) by @Undisciplined

- [Book Review: Sliced Americana](https://stacker.news/items/663627/r/siggy47) by @jbschirtzinger

- [Saboteurs: How Secret, Deep State Occultists Are Manipulating American Society](https://stacker.news/items/675002/r/siggy47) by @jbschirtzinger

- [The New Manners and Customs of Bible Times](https://stacker.news/items/691719) by @jbschirtzinger

- [Book Review: Q By Luther Blisset](https://stacker.news/items/728848/r/siggy47) by @jbschirtzinger

- [Book Review | “The Happiness Project” and “Happier at Home”](https://stacker.news/items/718985/r/siggy47) by @cryotosensei

- [Book Review | “The Self-Motivated Kid”](https://stacker.news/items/705694/r/siggy47) by @cryotosensei

- [Book Review | “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”](https://stacker.news/items/704856/r/siggy47) by @cryotosensei

- [Book Review | “101 ways to bring out the best in your children & yourself”](https://stacker.news/items/667453/r/siggy47) by @cryotosensei

- [Book Review | “Diary of a Wimpy Kid”](https://stacker.news/items/668335/r/siggy47) by @cryotosensei

- [Book Review | “The Art of Possibility”](https://stacker.news/items/682002/r/siggy47) by @cryotosensei

- [Book Review | “The Daily Dad” by Ryan Holiday](https://stacker.news/items/684138/r/siggy47) by @cryotosensei

- [Book Review | “The Art of Possibility”](https://stacker.news/items/682002) by @cryotosensei

- [Book Review | “The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork”](https://stacker.news/items/687944) by @cryotosensei

- [Book Review | “Wonder Doodles”](https://stacker.news/items/685335) by @cryotosensei

- [Book Review | “Sompo Guide Tokyo”](https://stacker.news/items/702025/r/siggy47) by @cryotosensei

- [Book Review | “Peak”](https://stacker.news/items/698568/r/siggy47) by @cryotosensei

- [Book Reviews Directory #2](https://stacker.news/items/665395/r/siggy47)

- [Book Reviews Directory 11/23-3/24](https://stacker.news/items/489224)


### Bitcoin Academic Articles 

- [Bitcoin Pricing, Adoption, and Usage: Theory and Evidence | Article Review](https://stacker.news/items/727081/r/siggy47) by @SimpleStacker


### Movie & Television Reviews

- [Sound of Freedom | Movie Review](https://stacker.news/items/710780/r/siggy47) by @SimpleStacker

- [Movie Review | “How to make millions before Grandma dies”](https://stacker.news/items/683086/r/siggy47) by @cryotosensei

- [Movie Review | “Culinary Class Wars”](https://stacker.news/items/694123/r/siggy47) by @cryotosensei

- [Movie Review | “Culinary Class Wars”](https://stacker.news/items/694123/r/siggy47) by @cryotosensei

- [El Encargado | Argentinian TV series | very good comedy](https://stacker.news/items/689468/r/siggy47) by @DarthCoin

- [The IT crowd | hillarious super funny comedy TV series](https://stacker.news/items/694922/r/siggy47) by @DarthCoin

- [Two TV series about the "Schrodinger's cat" theory](https://stacker.news/items/701874/r/siggy47) by @DarthCoin

- [From | Que sera, sera... | new season 3 TV series](https://stacker.news/items/696122/r/siggy47) by @DarthCoin





### Essays

- [Nihilism Wants Empire:Camus On Nietzsche](https://stacker.news/items/406816) by @jurraca

- [Cory Doctorow: Writing in the Age of Distraction](https://stacker.news/items/503830) by @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears

### Poetry

- [Poetry:unresolved between a thai lad and I](https://stacker.news/items/411278) by @cryotosensei

- [plebpoet’s original poem + discussion](https://stacker.news/items/414472) by @plebpoet

- [a new kind of poem (that you can see 👀 and hear 🦻)](https://stacker.news/items/676672/r/siggy47) by @plebpoet

- [I am not man enough](https://stacker.news/items/571876/r/siggy47) by @Nuttall

- [If A Day Comes...](https://stacker.news/items/493818) by @Tef

- [Let's pretend we loved each other](https://stacker.news/items/666008/r/siggy47) by @Nadia

- [That's MINE! Poetry.](https://stacker.news/items/661773/r/siggy47) by @Malach17

- [Silly rhymes written by a guy (maybe) fallen in love](https://stacker.news/items/666985/r/siggy47) by @0268a5c238



### Short Stories

- [The poet and the reader || short story](https://stacker.news/items/723702/r/siggy47) by @02879c7d869

- ['little fictions' presents: Cowboys Don't Belong](https://stacker.news/items/713535/r/siggy47) by @plebpoet

- [Short Story: “Quarter” by Eduardo Prospero](https://stacker.news/items/713942/r/siggy47) by @eduardopro

- [Neo’s Adventure In The Digital Realm: Discovering The Treasure Of Bitcoin](https://stacker.news/items/467448) by @VEINTIUNO


### Comics

- [Apriori Flower 01:16 - Are We Better? - Dhamma Comic](https://stacker.news/items/571900/r/siggy47) by @Nuttall






Books And Articles Newsletter, Issue 37

LN bug?? CLN invoices without final-cltv-delta set failing

SylviaKaiser6RB

Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) Phishing

BenjaminAtkinsMJO

1. It either contacts the gateway directly with the locked ecash or goes through the federation to contact the gateway, I forget. 
2. Anyone can be one
3. Fixed
4. No. It's even fine for the invoice to be split across multiple gateways in an mpp payment. 

Charlie Munger passes away at 99 - Berkshire Hathaway Inc. News Release

SamanthaHamptonJDY

Working on the Spark Wallet app (sparkwallet.io) ⚡️

Spark Wallet is the Bitcoin and Lightning app that lets you spend your Bitcoin. 

We made Bitcoin so simple even your grandma can use it!

Compatible with  and Google Wallet

Should we organize a member drive?

JeanStokesHML

Day 425 of snailposting everyday 'til BTC hits $100k.

__@_'-'

Sunday Survey: What's your cold-storage setup?

A friend drove me to lunch yesterday. He was listening to CNBC on his satellite radio. I heard a segment called Mid Day Report, or something like that. The program discussed "hot stocks." They talked about "crypto" briefly. There were two traders interviewed, both of whom said they planned to buy bitcoin. 

They both prefaced their comments by saying stuff like:

"I don't believe in it long term."
"It has no business use."
"Fifteen years and it's gotten nowhere."
"I'm just buying until the etf's are approved. The true believers are going crazy."
"It's just a momentum play."
"It's just a supply and demand play."

There's an old saying on Wall Street. "Buy the rumor, sell the news." I feel like many bitcoiners see these lurking etfs as the Holy Grail. Don't be caught off guard by crazy price swings. It's my opinion that we still have a long road ahead of us, and that adoption from the ground up is a hell of a lot more important than a bunch of rent seeking finance guys creating NGU fervor.