If you can accurately predict top posts, then this will boost you up the leader board. I wrote some thoughts on it: https://stacker.news/items/473181/r/Undisciplined.

I also wrote my thoughts about why it's better in the long-run to not behave this way: https://stacker.news/items/523858/r/Undisciplined.

Edit: actually this post is the one about why stackers shouldn't game the rewards system https://stacker.news/items/546904/r/Undisciplined.

I'm closer to you than I am to the isolationist rhetoric of many bitcoiners.

However, I have a few caveats and addendums:

• "Hoarding" does enhance purchasing power for everyone else, so it does make the world a better place.
• Saving now (while it's easy) for anticipated expenses is prudent.
• Financially secure people make for a more stable society.

I do like the perspective, though. A better money will mean more exchange and more preserved value. Both of those things will mean it's easier to acquire what we need in the future than it is in the present.

For one, all it takes is a node operator's channel partners to report balance and then in effect, their balances are out there in the open too.

For two, it's quite obvious a large payment flowing through the network. If there's just a few nodes in a route where the data is not being publicized, there's still enough assumptions about the route that could take place. Plenty of academic research into correlating payments across the network.

It eventually gets into the aspect of anonymity sets and length of hops, which is getting worse and worse as the network becomes bigger (there's papers on that too). In the end, chain analytics and triple letter agencies sees who is paying who. What Amboss is doing right now is how we get to that point.

Illustrating a principle with a concrete act, e.g., if you want to see more posts that surface old content and add value to it, provide commentary that synthesizes things, etc., then you should create those things yourself and model it for others.