MariaOwens0ZN

mostly_harmless

Meetup report & help make it stick

DominiqueReeseV3T

Disclaimer: I haven't read this yet.

I often wondered how you calculated the payment for PRs. I didn't care enough to ask (obviously), but I did wonder. I guess here's my answer!

bitcoin

zap-tunnel: A tool for non-custodial Lightning Addresses

BiancaHigginsSFC

Welp, just got laid off. Guess I'll be stacking a ton more sats than fiat. Sadly, only the latter pays the mortgage.

BooksAndArticles

Hey bitcoiners, this is my first Bitcoin ⚡ enabled project, so I would love some feedback from the community: 

The site is www.QuestionsForGood.com

And the concept is simple: You post a question directed to a specific person, pledge some sats to your favorite charity and if that person answers, those sats are release to the charity. Other people can boost questions by adding additional pledges to it. All via LN ⚡


Would love comments around:

1) Does it make sense?

2) Do you see any super relevant bugs?

3) Is the UI/UX clear?

PS: I have never written a single line of code (this was made with nocode tools), so please have mercy on me if you find it buggy. It is definitely still in Beta. 



Created this LN enabled website, feedback will be appreciated 

econ

NoGood book update – Week 01 – Humble beginnings

StevenRivasHG4

There are few videos and books about this topic.

The best book in my opinion is
![BitcoinMoney](https://i.postimg.cc/W4GM13Xh/Screen-Shot-2023-05-28-at-1-16-28-pm.png)

A good way to introduce BTC for them is to give some SATS as a Birthday / Christmas present. And they will be asking more about it in not time...

And, if they want to spend some sats, they will need to learn how to use it.




[Balaji](https://balajis.com/) is famous for lots of things.  One that's less well-known, but imo one of his most visionary takes, is the idea of [the network state](https://thenetworkstate.com/) which lays out a description of how the state may evolve -- or is evolving, right now.  This has been discussed a few times on SN, [here](https://stacker.news/items/311560) is one of the more recent times.  To me, this is the natural successor to the [Sovereign Individual](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sovereign_Individual) for the modern age.

Balaji had a tweet the other day about how [the internet is the next America](https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1774529076742754328) that I thought was interesting.  He talks about how the colonists thought about themselves as English for a long time, but then eventually "migrated out" of England, mentally.  They stopped thinking of themselves as English when the foundation of their lives shifted to America.  Now, according to Balaji, the foundation of people's lives is the internet, and he's riffing on what that implies.

--

I've been noodling on a similar idea for a while.  Specifically, imagining all the networks I'm part of simultaneously.  Inhabiting so many identities at once strikes me as a particular modern experience.  This is relevant to SN, too -- I've once again crept up to spending a pretty egregious amount of time here, talking to people, digging into ideas, arguing.  It's mostly extremely affirming.  I feel, in many cases, that these are _real_ relationships; more real, in some ways, than those with people I'm close to geographically.

People talk about how the internet destroys distance.  That's not really right, but it does introduce a new distance metric, or actually, it introduces multiple of them that simultaneously structure our lives.

--

Anyway, I'm trying to figure out how far this can really go.  

It's so easy to talk about online life as a pathology.  I've [done it myself](https://stacker.news/items/469984) recently.  You can get apocalyptic about it.  But I wonder: what does online life look like, in its best realization?  Do you, dear reader, think you're anywhere close to that?  I'm certainly not.  I don't even try that hard -- I mostly get worse and worse until I go off the rails and my job suffers and my meatspace life suffers, and then I get ascetic and disappear for a while -- binge and purge, basically.

And then I do it all again, my own personal halving cycle.  What a stupid way to live.

--

The other relevant piece is what this means for btc.  Balaji has some interesting stuff to say about the role cryptocurrency plays in the network state, which I won't pick up for now.  Most of you will hate it, I expect, although I don't, because I think the default discussion is quite unsophisticated about money's role in social coordination, and how it operates on many levels simultaneously, as discussed above.  Money has always been how a group organizes itself; and there are more overlapping groups now than ever.  Thinking that money is nothing more than Metcalfe's law misses the point.

You don't have to agree, though.  We can let the data tell the story.  The truth will come out.

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But that aside, btc is its best self when operating entirely online.  It's [grounded](https://stacker.news/items/335178) in physical reality through mining, but other than that it's a construct of total abstraction, and every time we sully it by bringing it to earth we suffer for it -- KYC, government interference, privacy loss, all of it.  The thought of the net being its own place, not just as a metaphor, but as an actual locus for the lion's share of human interaction, makes you wonder how btc projects into that reality.  Digital money that instantiates scarcity, serving to intermediate transactions for abstract non-rivalrous goods.

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I increasingly think this is the way btc finds escape velocity.  It's a pain in the ass to sell coffee for btc, especially if the state doesn't want you to, because ultimately that coffee grounds out in the physical world: you need to buy beans, electricity, you need to pay your rent.  Each link in that supply chain is an attack surface.

But software, or membership, or attendance, or music, or art, or other aspects of digital culture, or other stuff with no or minimal marginal cost -- abstract money can chase abstract goods, and nobody can stop it.  And given the increasing importance of abstract goods in the concrete economy, this seems very interesting.  This seems like the road that will get us there.  

This is the real circular economy.  Or the spherical economy, rather; the hyper-spherical economy.

That's my suspicion, anyway.

The network state and the hyper-spherical economy

https://imgprxy.stacker.news/6QKGaPynb0kZRtzLBWou-HY53YsQlFWfQ8-s6IlcpSk/rs:fit:600:500:0/g:no/aHR0cHM6Ly9leHRlcm5hbC1jb250ZW50LmR1Y2tkdWNrZ28uY29tL2l1Lz91PWh0dHBzJTNBJTJGJTJGdHNlMi5tbS5iaW5nLm5ldCUyRnRoJTNGaWQlM0RPSVAuYWlJamxVTW83eHVoOXhGU3kxRVk4Z0FBQUElMjZwaWQlM0RBcGkmZj0xJmlwdD1kMjk1Y2M5NmI4ZTE3NzIyNWEzZWY4NTVhOWU2ZmExNDg0NDY1OGVmMjkxMDQ3YzkzZTVjNTgyNTQ2Yzc4MjI3Jmlwbz1pbWFnZXM

# How to post like Albert Einstein on SN

Let's get this straight, I _seriously_ doubt you'll be awarded a Nobel Prize through reading this - but looking at how Einstein worked _could_ help us improve our posts on SN and our work...

Well, sadly, I've gotta admit it, Albert didn't invent Bitcoin - so he missed out on one there (unless, unbeknownst to us, Hal cloned him from his missing brain).

But, what we _do_ know - he was one hell of a thinker - he published (or co-published) an incredible [272 articles](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scientific_publications_by_Albert_Einstein) - covering a wide subject matter. Plus many of them were so 'out there' that if you tried to understand them they might make your seedplate curl.

So, how _did_ Einstein manage to develop so many theories and maintain such a staggering output?

https://imgprxy.stacker.news/HUGuwHp35-qGv6v9tPEJ7JknoGtPpqtYxvpR1hRpzWs/rs:fit:600:500:0/g:no/aHR0cHM6Ly9leHRlcm5hbC1jb250ZW50LmR1Y2tkdWNrZ28uY29tL2l1Lz91PWh0dHBzJTNBJTJGJTJGdHNlMS5tbS5iaW5nLm5ldCUyRnRoJTNGaWQlM0RPSVAuM3NuUE9iVGRZUlFtNDhZSVZwWHhUQUhhRmolMjZwaWQlM0RBcGkmZj0xJmlwdD04MDczNWZlM2M3MmJkMGY1MTk4NTg4MzUxMTdkMTA2YmVlYTMxNzdiMDI1NmUxY2ZkOWU5NTNkNDI3MDAyMDlhJmlwbz1pbWFnZXM

Well, he seems to have done what many other great thinkers have done (and many Bitcoiners) he lengthened his time preferences, took it easy on himself and relaxed.

Instead of working on Problem A until he was pulling his hair out, and shouting at the cat, he tried something different - he moved onto an unrelated problem Problem B. If he found that the workings surrounding Problem B became too much - he went back to Problem A again or started to look at a new problem. He'd usually come back to them and crack the problem in the end.

https://imgprxy.stacker.news/WkzqiXfw7oS6JZqhGe6UOCJBSTYBH3RyrosNODnUqIg/rs:fit:600:500:0/g:no/aHR0cHM6Ly9leHRlcm5hbC1jb250ZW50LmR1Y2tkdWNrZ28uY29tL2l1Lz91PWh0dHBzJTNBJTJGJTJGdHNlMi5tbS5iaW5nLm5ldCUyRnRoJTNGaWQlM0RPSVAuR1IwV0tqeTl6Y3lzdnFzX2VvUUtVd0hhSGElMjZwaWQlM0RBcGkmZj0xJmlwdD1iNTlkMDk2ZTk4Mjg1MzU3MjFkYTMwNGM0OWQzZmRmNDFmMmM3MjIzZTMwYjM1NWM5M2ZiMjdlZmJkYjZlYjZiJmlwbz1pbWFnZXM

This way our Albert always maintained a fresh mind, got lots of prizes and _probably_ never shouted at his cat (unless it pissed on his seedphrase).

BTW Replace _Problem A_ with New Post A and _Problem A_ with New Post A and pretty soon you'll posting like Einstein, or our siggy47 - maybe the next best thing 😁.

To learn more, read this Ted talk transcript here:

https://www.ted.com/talks/tim_harford_a_powerful_way_to_unleash_your_natural_creativity/transcript

...or view Tim's Ted talk!


Post like Albert Einstein on SN

So on Twitter, a common growth hack for gaining recognition and followers it to post periodically about getting shadow banned, then complain about the platform. I have seen multiple accounts go through the roof in following and engagement as a result of such practices. 

These individuals did not even login to sketchy websites and give them permission to access their twitter accounts in order to take screenshots of their supposed shadow banning, suggesting they may not have been shadow banned in the first place. 

I do not have reason to believe that @k00b has shadow banned me, but I figured I would try this growth hack out on this website to see if I can milk you all for engagement. There is a risk of being discovered by @Car and @k00b though and actually getting shadow banned. 

The benefits appear to outweigh the risks. 