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What is the overall business model for the app? How big is the team working on Zeus?

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  • Territory Analytics: I want to know more about what happens in any given territory with charts and data. Visitors, posts, comments, zaps, and a lot of other data all visualized in a nice clean chart. Something like "Top territories by post but all of the data in a chart instead of just the home feed filters: https://stacker.news/top/territories/forever
  • Boost Analytics: Impressions, click throughs, etc. How much value is someone actually getting when they boost if they don't get analytics.
  • Territory "Pay To Comment" fee minimum should be set by territory founder. I think 1 sat is too low.
  • Paywall Each Username: As a territory founder, I want to be able to paywall specific users instead of outlawing them. I want to paywall them out of my territory so they can always post but they have to pay more than others so I can benefit from being attacked by their spam or low-quality posts.

    For example: If Alice acts well but Bob is a spammer, I want to be able to keep Alice post fee as the default but increase Bob's pay to post fee to deter his spammy posts. If he continues to spam, I keep raising fees until it's too expensive for him to post and now I was paid to defend my territory.
  • Make it easy to cross post both manually as well as seamless.
  • Sub-Territories: Sub-territories are going to be much more important as soon as we can cross post. When I share a bitcoin movie, I want to be able to share it in ~bitcoin and ~movies and pay both posting fees.
  • Pay to post fee set manually in each sub-territory.
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Strategy is overrated. Have fun.

https://m.stacker.news/19321

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I don't have a "favorite" one. I use almost all.
Why?

Choosing the right BTC/LN wallet

We've seen many users that are stuck with using one or max two wallet apps and also choosing them because X and Y "recommend" them and NOT for the specific situation of use and features they provide.

This is a wrong approach.

Choose your wallets based on your own usage and situation you encounter using your BTC.
Some aspects to be taken in consideration:

  • There's no such thing as "best wallet" for everything. Remove this bias from your mind. Choose with your own knowledge, not because x and y told you so.
  • I would not "recommend" any wallet app in particular, but those that are open source and have a good reputation/history and respect the golden rule of Bitcoin: not your keys, not your bitcoins.
  • Stay away from "multicrapto" wallet apps. Are a fucking trap and usually are not open source! Bitcoin Only! You have been warned!
  • Use not just 1 or 2, but 3 or 5-6, each one will have its own moment to be used and take advantage of their best features for the case you need.
  • Learn more about each wallet app, to know them better and know in which case you could use the one that have the most appropriate features.

Here I wrote many guides about BTC-LN wallets:

Learn how to use the method of "3 levels stash", as I describe it in this guide
Think like a bank, not just be a bank...
A. HODL = your "central bank" with most of your stash, your reserve bank, barely moving it, onchain
B. CACHE = your "commercial bank" with medium size amounts, for redistributing to HODL and SPEND, onchain and LN, nodes channels etc
C. SPEND = your spending pockets, with small amounts, enough to cover your regular spending, LN, with funding source from your "CACHE bank".

  • Don't be too obsessed with "self custody only". If is non-KYC it could have advantages in some cases. Not all custodial is bad. Be obsessed with "self-custody-only" for your HODL wallets not the spending wallets.
  • This is where many users make the mistake and do the opposite. You can easily have your own wallets on your own node, as a "funding source" for all these custodial wallets. Move small amounts (enough to cover your spending habits) to them and use them. If are non-KYC, you have almost nothing to worry about "privacy", sometimes is even better not to reveal your own private node when you receive, not talking also about spending from these wallets as a good front wall.
  • Each wallet app have its own technology implemented: some use directly nodes, some use electrum server, some will use neutrino, some use Tor, some use LND others Immortan or CLN, or both. Don't make the mistake of putting them all in the same situation/use case. Each implementation have its own advantages and disadvantages, depending on which situation you are.
  • We are still early into Bitcoin and LN development. So first, test, learn the functionalities of each app you use and if you can, help the developer(s) of the app to improve it, give them the right feedback, don't complain. They don't know all situations or devices you are using, so give them as much information you can and explain ALL steps you did if you have an issue. Try to collaborate and help to make it better.

Once you know better the app, help other new users to use it. Devs usually are busy with coding and they get bored with people complaining all the time about same things (mostly because users do not read manuals, FAQs, do not investigate more how to use the app). Bother the dev only when is a real issue or bug, that the community couldn't help you too much or many other users encounter the same situation with no exit.

In conclusion... you the new Bitcoin user, are just like this baby, trying to climb the ladder of all apps. You must pass through all, test them all, know them better and stick with those that fit better YOUR use case.
https://i.postimg.cc/mkmGw7BJ/wallet-stairs.jpg

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Maybe in tech. Try to run a low skill labour driven business for 15 years. If your default isn't expect bare minimum and hope to be pleasantly surprised you will be on the fast track to an early grave.

We can get into a debate about nature v.s nurture, educational opportunities, systemic poverty and all the other factors that may contribute but the chasm between the highly educated/highly productive and the barely employable has never been greater. For me, the overarching theme is decision making. People who end up successful tend to make good decisions or at least learn from the bad ones they make, while people who struggle all their lives tend to do the same dumb shit over and over in all facets of their life (work, home, health wise, financially).

I can't tell you how many times I hired people for jobs and they just never showed up or showed up for a couple days and never returned, without even the courtesy of a phone call. I can't tell you how many times I woke up to a phone call at 2 or 3am in the morning and had to rush somewhere because someone didn't show up, or did show up did half of what they were supposed to do or screwed something up I had to fix.

Not trying to drag down your optimistic outlook. Just sharing my experience.

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Driving everywhere.

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Day 202 of snailposting everyday 'til BTC hits $100k.

...and 2 push-up(s).

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Hello, I've been using Zeus for quite a while and I'm actually quite at peace. What bothers me the most about the app is the small display for the sats. Can't you enlarge it, like with the Zap wallet? There would be enough space.

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For sure, points many have made already, and a few that people need to consider before getting into Liquid.

But to that, I often ask what is the solution for the average poor right now? Not saying it is better or worse, but we have to admit that none of the current solutions are great, it either custodial LN, an exchange account, or Liquid until you're rich enough or big enough to make sense to go on-chain

I don't consider liquid even a custody tool, more a consolidation layer, a temporary storage option

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It's a very interesting topic.
In my opinion, there are two path to follow.

  1. If you want to secure your btc for you.
  2. If you want to secure the access of your btc for the ones that you love.

I think you can't follow the two paths at the same time.

PATH 1, your prioritie is to secure you access whilst you are a live. No trusting any one else.

PATH 2, the priority is to create a system where your love ones could access YOUR funds during your live and after. This means that you have to TRUST them.

Using a time lock sounds good but you will be not able to access your funds until that time... So, if you need some sats before, you won't be able to get them.

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If we want Bitcoin to succeed, we need to be nice and patient with newcomers, not toxic and arrogant.

There is always a way to express the same maximalist views in a polite way.

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Yes it should. There is an issue with email login on iOS but otherwise it should work.

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In all probability yours is the right explanation. However it also occurs to me that I wonder if the competition against BTC ETFs is putting pressure on the GLD issuers to play less rehypothecation games. I notice that both Silver and Gold has been on a tear since Jan.

Perhaps they realize that GLD needs to compete.

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What do you think about Stacker News? :)

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Under the pretext of financial stability, outlaw/hinder taking out dollar loans to buy Bitcoin and using Bitcoin as collateral for dollar loans.

Pressure the Fed to specifically mention the elevated price of Bitcoin as a reason why interest rates cannot be cut.

Nil capital gains taxes for Bitcoin held
for less than six months with a caveat that if Bitcoin is repurchased within a year this exemption does not apply.

The more I think about this, the more it seems that a government clampdown will fail!

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