It's Meme Monday!
Best meme gets 10k sats.
The sats will be given to the stacker with the best meme as voted by the "top" filter on this thread at 9am CT tomorrow.
https://m.stacker.news/43602
Good Luck!
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It's Meme Monday!
Best meme gets 10k sats.
The sats will be given to the stacker with the best meme as voted by the "top" filter on this thread at 9am CT tomorrow.
https://m.stacker.news/43602
Good Luck!
No we sure don’t but the pod is growing year over year at this point. I imagine it will be very “successful” in its third year, usually when podcasts “break out.”
We use transistor to track accurate metric podcasting data, (anchor and spotify inflate numbers about 1000%) and so we average between 150-200 downloads every episode. With our YouTube views we have about 250-300 views/downloads every episode last year around this time we were at about 65 views/downloads total.
I actually would love to support fountain with sats in some capacity in the future. Right now we really just do it for the Stackers and SN community, both myself and keyan have day jobs so this is more a labor of love. We also think it’s very important to see what people voting with their sats think is the most important bitcoin news of the week.
Lack of high availability makes it difficult to run either of the major distributions like a real enterprise system, with zero downtime. I suspect even the largest nodes on the network today are not much more sophisticated than what’s available out of the box with LND.
Improvements to LND on the db side have reduced downtime required between restarts (by enabling online compaction), and also setting up the architecture for multiple nodes to share a backend data store. Leader election can provide a primitive form of HA (failover but not load balancing). An external project, LNmux by Bottlepay, will allow load balancing HTLCs through multiple public gateways, which is the holy grail for enterprise LND.
For someone with some LN experience, who wants to learn more the above, I recommend setting up a regtest environment using containers or VMs, and configuring the following:
If you can confidently configure all of that, you should have the basics to work on any major node on the network. Some will be drastically different in implementation but the concepts should be the same.
HTLC load balancing is still experimental as far as I know, but if you have some development experience you can add lnmux to your lab and experiment with it today.
An alternative node distribution that was created with more of an enterprise architecture from the start is ACINQ’s Eclair. They probably the single largest node on the network, however I have not seen Eclair elsewhere in the wild, which is why I recommend starting with LND then branching out when the fundamental concepts are well understood.
For something easy to digest and get you motivated to build an enterprise grade LN node, here’s a video from base58, Enterprise Lightning Engineering at CashApp w/Ryam Loomba:
https://youtu.be/kbhL5RqL8Aw
It’s also important to keep in mind that building and operating enterprise grade infrastructure is completely orthogonal to managing liquidity. Doing both of these well is likely to require at least two talented full-time individuals (more likely a team for each).
Im going to push back here. What if Twitter is looking for a revenue source to power their servers and pay their programmers to keep the application running?
Are we not supposed to pay for software that we use and find viable?
As someone who works in FOSS and understands first hand how hard it is to monetize something people think should be free should have more consideration about the choices Twitter is making to charge its users for access to his (Musk’s) application.
I think this post falls into the China fallacy that WeChat controls every aspect of life of the common person in China. Most of China is still not developed. Sure those living in cities and connected to the web are forced to deal with WeChat
But how is it different than USA? Citizens are forced to get a bank account and establish a credit history to buy a home. We have credit bureaus that surveil every time you miss a payment and adds to their database and you have no way of stopping them.
I recognize the goal here but people really need to get out of this free for me mentality and be willing to pay for the services you receive.
Me too, I think it's a case of people not understanding everything has a cost. If it's free you're either taking the time and labour of someone else, or you're skimming small amounts from everyone to cover the cost, and feeling like stealing in negligible amounts is a human right.
I've lived without 24 hour electricty, with water rationing, my family have had their homes taken from the government, so I know rights mean nothing. It's really just an idea people hold who are afraid to give up modern comforts.
Once you learn to live without these things and see you're not made of glass and won't shatter because you can't access this or that, then you realise holding onto those dreams cost society more than it provides
They just paid a 900k sats fee.
So what's the problem here?
Bitcoin blocks space is a market place.
Yes, I don't like useless crap on the blockchain, but is still a fee market. They paid the fee? Fine, let them see if they can sustain this expensive crap...
Soon will be just a fade joke, like it was for many years,
Posting pictures on the blockchain is not from now, is even from 2015...
@petertodd also explain it very clearly here
https://twitter.com/peterktodd/status/1619692068519149568
The truth is that some people won't touch it until it has the government's blessing. By the government adopting it more people will adopt it. This is a net good for Bitcoin and society in the long run.
Bitcoin is for everyone, including your enemies, like governments and central banks.
Bitcoin is savings technology.
You spend ONLY on things you REALLY need.
You always make sure you earn more than you spend.
In time, your sats could buy more stuff, because is scarce and more people will want it.
On the other side, fiat is spending / debt technology.
You are pushed to be forever in debt, so you cannot save anything.
Fiat is forever debt, forever consuming for things you don't really need.
https://i.postimg.cc/7LF0qWzw/magic-internet-money.jpg
STOP thinking of your "wealth" in fiat terms. This is the biggest barrier that many noobs still do not want to understand.
Don't try to fit Bitcoin in existing system.
Adapt to how Bitcoin works, you are the one that must change, not Bitcoin.
If you are not capable to do this change, you will simply die in misery, like many shitcoiners full of fiat mindset.
You are missing a key aspect in this.
You start from the misinterpretation that in order to have full custody, you must run a public node.
That's mislead many new bitcoiners into the space.
As I explained in this guide about private nodes:
https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/private-lightning-nodes
You can run perfectly full nodes without public routing, if you just want to use LN in a private mode.
Public routing is NOT for each of the plebs that just want to pay his beer over LN with his own node!
Public routing nodes are more for large liquidity providers LSP that will help (a lot) the small other private nodes. If you have balls and large capitals, ok go ahead, but do not start your LN node with public channels of 100k sats. You are doing more harm than good to the entire network!
Read more here:
Do not complicate your life when could be easy.
you know how telecom companies have no trouble justifying committing capital to building cable networks between extremely busy hubs because there's lots of users (and they can get lots of monthly subscriptions per cable laid)? it's harder to get them to lay miles of cable out to everyone's house in the boonies etc though because the cost to lay the cable will never be repaid by the customer that it serves
the analogous thing in lightning is capital, which is to say who's putting what bitcoin in what channels. if you're a smart capital allocator, you'll only want to commit your funds to channels where it'll get used -- this is because you have real network costs like onchain fees etc that need to be covered (in theory) by the routing fees that you're able to earn from that capital.
who's going to want to put lots of bitcoin into small channels with every end user, who maybe receives a $100 payment every week or two? the onchain costs are high for the amount of turnover that capital gets
I wrote a post to the mailing list about this sometime last year; the general gist of it is that the mempool makes plenty of sense when every other node on the network is participating in looking for the next block (aka mining). in that case, sending every transaction to every node on the network makes a lot of sense
most block construction is fairly centralized now to a handful of mining pools, yet we're still wasting a bunch of bandwidth btw bitcoin nodes ... rather uselessly imo.
Obviously you're referring to me, but I'm most certainly not going anywhere and have contributed quite a lot to discussion already here. I use Lightning, login with Lightning, and appreciate the open and honest discussion that exists here.
You trying to turn it into another echo chamber will only be harmful. If users are willing to use Lightning and pay sats to use stacker.news I don't see the harm in discussions that aren't Bitcoin-only.
The Monero discussions specifically have been mostly critical of Monero and have had great back and forth where each "side" learns from the other -- there are not many places like that, and I love that stacker.news is like that. People are critical, nuanced, and open to engaging discussions.
Let's keep that going.
your wishes have been granted 🪄
Howdy!
Live look at @k00b today!
https://m.stacker.news/10838
Yes, is true. I experience it myself years ago, when I was younger and gamer too.
Playing a lot of WoW for few years.
It creates addiction and suffering.
That's why my eyes now are weak and can't concentrate too much in front of a screen.
So 10 years ago I decided to move out from a big city to a more rural place, where I can go out in nature more often. SMART DECISION! I regret I didn't do it earlier.
And now I move even further! I am building my own homesteading place deep into the mountains, far from "civilization" and digital temptations.
When I work on my citadel I feel that I am getting healed and younger (I am 50+ yrs old).
Digital infestation is a real disease of 21th century.
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Congratulations to
@ElDude who was the first to mention Diablo
@satoshi_lords who was the first to mention World of Warcraft
@nullcount who was the first to mention Overwatch
@CheezeGrater who was the first to mention Starcraft 2
@And1 who was the first to mention Hearthstone
@v1ntage who was the first to mention Overwatch 2, which has yet to be released but isnt a disqualifier
@BlockchainB who was the first to mention Starcraft-- Brood War, which is an expansion but isnt a disqualifier
@givemesats who was the first to mention Diablo Immortal
@brilliancebtc who was the first to mention The Death and Return of Superman
@falsefaucet Starcraft
@bobby Warcraft 1
@Cornleone Heroes of the Storm
@Jem The Lost vikings 2
@Asara Blackthorne
Since there was only 14 qualifying answers, the winnings for each person has increased to (20*200)/14 = ~286
The winnings have been distributed via me upvoting sats. Thanks for playing and have a nice day :)
Thanks to your eloquence on this, I borrowed your sentiment and filtered it into a poem
https://x.com/stacker_news/status/1843296060451791275