SabrinaWoodwardTU5

lightning

On a long run this morning, i listened to the audio version of this [mini-documentary](https://www.corbettreport.com/blackrock/) covering the genesis, and subsequent meteoric rise of Blackrock.

There were some tidbits that surprised me in the doc, especially as it relates to the firm's involvement in the creation of the global CMO market -- one of the OG shitcoins.

James is one of my favorite independent researchers & journalists, the man's work is almost entirely supported by 1st or 2nd source references, and he also produces transcripts with images + links.

I feel like this is a great resource to share with your normie friends who might have been hearing more about Blackrock lately, but are unsure of what it is that they do.

Have You Ever Wondered How BlackRock Rose To Power? 🧐

bitcoin

Meme Monday - Best Bitcoin Meme Gets 25,000 Sats

EllenCopeland5EA

https://imgprxy.stacker.news/n3RVMrXuBvHK4UJogD8AxLVTw_gE6WG7phJKeR1BJIQ/rs:fit:600:500:0/g:no/aHR0cHM6Ly9pLmliYi5jby9nWkxwVHoxLzIwMjMwODI3LTE1MDYzMi5qcGc

What are your thoughts on Bitcoin losing the Darknet

ChristyMoody307

privacy

[WIP] BIP300 (Drivechains) consensus-level logic by luke-jr

GlendaRivers97C

1. [The Zen of Stacking Sats On Stacker News](https://stacker.news/items/184545) - by @siggy47
2. [The Art of Using Stacker News](https://stacker.news/items/252695) - by @Natalia
3. [The Story of SN](https://stacker.news/story) and [FAQ page](https://stacker.news/faq) - are right on the bottom of SN page.

If people, after reading these articles, still don't get what is SN and how to use it, then they don't deserve to be on SN.

Cannabis

We raised 1.25m. 🥳

[Max Webster](https://twitter.com/MaxAWebster) at [Hivemind](https://hivemind.vc/) led with Ross Stevens (the [NYDIG](https://nydig.com/) one), [Raymond Tonsing](https://twitter.com/tonsing) of [Caffeinated Capital](https://caffeinatedcapital.com/), [Mishti Sharma](https://twitter.com/m1shti) with Caffeinated's Collective Fund, and [Steve Lee](https://twitter.com/moneyball) filling up the rest.

Valuation was 25m post-money (which I like to reveal because I'm usually curious when other companies announce their raises).

Here's the pitch deck I used (huge assist from @kr on this): https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ONoS1VLKRYiG14ODx3tIboH9JdndxL2fQwlACWdULok/edit?usp=sharing

In total, this brings total raising to 1.55m and I've sold 10% of SN to people I really like.

Hey so SN raised a seed round

bitcoin_beginners

I've noticed that certain behaviors -- participating on SN being a prime example -- fractures my mind.  That phrasing is dramatic, I realize, but I think it's accurate.  Something about posting, commenting, constantly checking back, having a tab open and waiting for the little red rectangle to appear -

This is 'bad' from an obvious perspective, in that it takes a bunch of time.  It's bad from a less obvious but still well-understood perspective of preventing deep engagement with other things that I am meant to be doing.  The programmers among you will recognize the high price you pay when your focus is kept from coelescing, because somebody dumps a bunch of meetings on your calendar, or because you keep getting interrupted.  A thirty second interruption costs vastly more than thirty seconds.

I think there's an even subtler and more far-ranging issue, which is the mental mode that a person comes to occupy in an environment like this.  In the same way you can get in the flow of deep concentration, and your mental rhythms accord with that, you can get into a 'rhythm' of having no rhythm, of jumping from one thing to the next.  The interruption of rhythm is itself a rhythm.  We often think of this as the _lack_ of something, but really, it's the _presence_ of something we don't have a good name for: the habits and rituals of fragmentation.

This _switch mode_ ruins my productivity as it is traditionally assessed, but that's an old story and not interesting.  A newer and more interesting story is that this way of Being is a new thing in the world, at least when inhabited this frequently, at this scale.  And as such it poses new challenges [1] and, though I suppose I'm not used to considering it this way, new opportunities.

I'm curious how this idea lands for anyone else.  Or if it doesn't.

[1] an interesting exploration of a related idea is:

Bak-Coleman, J. B., Alfano, M., Barfuss, W., Bergstrom, C. T., Centeno, M. A., Couzin, I. D., Donges, J. F., Galesic, M., Gersick, A. S., Jacquet, J., Kao, A. B., Moran, R. E., Romanczuk, P., Rubenstein, D. I., Tombak, K. J., Van Bavel, J. J., & Weber, E. U. (2021). Stewardship of global collective behavior. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(27), e2025764118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2025764118

The habits and rituals of fragmentation

oracle

 You And Your Small Community Are The Only People Left On Earth

KiaraFigueroa7WV

peach also does peer to peer-trade in bitcoin only

Photography

How US banking system pushes people into debt

AliciaCervantes9NR

ChatBTC

KellyYangW7P

Update from David Bailey:

![](https://nostr.build/i/931a242f17b8462ce81a31540d356688c62f91ff822c33d68fff75bb4b3e80a8.jpg)

Howdy, stackers!

Next Monday (at 11am ET) we're hosting our second public call + roundtable to discuss all the latest developments and plans for Stacker News.

Just like [last time](https://stacker.news/items/285081), there will be a live (and recorded) Vida call with @k00b, @ekzyis, and @kr to cover 4 high-level topics:

- What was shipped in Q4 2023
- What was adoption like in Q4 2023
- What is planned for Q1 2024
- How stackers can help out

This is just a save-the-date reminder, we'll share more details and a call link in this territory next Monday morning.

PS. If there are things you'd specifically like to hear discussed next week, feel free to drop your ideas below!