KathyGilesSCO

Ex-NSA Chief: 'We Kill People Based on Metadata' (2014)

DiamondJuarez40M

You probably had nightmares about never ending notifications 

ecash

Not Really An Orange Pill Story, But It Feels Significant

RitaStevensonNYA

This is very inspirational, thank you! I’m on a weight loss journey of my own. This is great to help keep me going!

bitcoin

Like most territory owners, my motive for owning this territory is not to earn lots of sats right now. This is obvious to everyone. Maybe I naively thought there was a need for the territory when there is not. I’m posting to get some input from the SN community. 

The other day @mo created a [poll](https://stacker.news/items/422863) asking whether the territory should be renamed.  There were some good suggestions, and a good discussion as to whether there is a need for the territory at all. For instance, @benthecarman said this:

> having bitcoin and bitcoin beginners doesn't really make sense, stacker news isn't big enough to need territories with that much overlap

This is a legitimate point of view. I don’t relish tossing sats away on a completely useless endeavor. 

@DarthCoin said this:

> If people just post garbage in the territory, it doesn't matter what name have. A territory like this ... for beginners" must have ONLY curated content, to help beginners, not confuse them more...

This is also very true . That’s why I hope this post generates some discussion.  Let me know if you think I should abandon the territory. If not, please give me suggestions on how to make it a more valuable resource for those just starting to learn about bitcoin.

### Moderation

Personally, I don’t like the idea of moderation, but I am persuaded that this might be the only route available to ensure there are only quality posts here. 

If I choose to make this a moderated territory, I don’t want to be the one judging value of particular content, nor would I want any one stacker to fill that role. I would prefer a merit based voting system, maybe based on zaprank. For starters, maybe I should cull all posts that don’t reach a certain base level of engagement. I would have to decide what that level should be.  

Ultimately I foresee fewer posts, with better content. I really want to stop crap from entering the territory, so I’m toying with this idea: Raise the cost to post to a really high amount, say 1000 sats. If stackers signal it is valuable content based on it’s zaprank, I will zap the poster back 2000 sats, which they earn in addition to whatever sats the post earns.


### Stacker’s Basic Questions

I thought the main point of this territory was for it to be a space for new stackers to ask dumb questions. That has never happened. Still, I wish it would. Raising the cost to post to 1000 sats would not be fair just to ask a question. I don’t know how to resolve this given the tools as they currently exist.

I am really just thinking out loud. Please tell me your thoughts, including “just scrap the whole thing.”


Thoughts On The Bitcoin Beginners Territory

I just published a new guide. I hope you will enjoy it and share it with all your nocoiner friends. Is mostly for them, not for bitcoiners that already know all this stuff.

>Yes, I am stuck, can't go back building my citadel, is raining like hell. So I decided to write a quick guide meanwhile.

The guide is structured in simple 21 steps of what should do a nocoiner, that just want to start. Inside are many links to more information and some memes (to give more color and insight). Memes are a powerful tool.

Here is the full link to the article:
https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/21-bitcoin-orange-pills-for-nocoiners