For funzies, and entertainingly-related, I found this following list from an article on some trash website called officechai:
Apple Inc. – $167 Billion Cash Reserves
Apple, the tech giant known for its iconic iPhones, iPads, and MacBooks, boasts an impressive cash reserve of $167 billion. This substantial financial cushion stems from its diverse revenue streams, including the sale of hardware such as smartphones and computers, digital services like the App Store and Apple Music, and subscription-based offerings like Apple TV+. As a result, Apple has become one of the world’s most valuable companies, allowing it to accumulate vast cash reserves.
Alphabet Inc. (Google) – $118 Billion Cash Reserves
Google’s parent company, Alphabet, sits comfortably with a cash reserve of $118 billion. The bulk of its revenue arises from its dominant position in the online advertising space through platforms like Google Search and YouTube. Additionally, Alphabet’s expansion into cloud computing, hardware products like Pixel smartphones, and moonshot projects contribute significantly to its financial might.
Microsoft Corporation – $111 Billion Cash Reserves
Microsoft, a pioneer in software and computing, maintains a cash reserve of $111 billion. The company’s diversified portfolio encompasses Windows operating systems, Office productivity software, Azure cloud services, and hardware devices like the Surface line. This broad range of offerings has allowed Microsoft to maintain a robust financial position.
Samsung Electronics Co. – $83 Billion Cash Reserves
Samsung, a global leader in electronics, possesses cash reserves totaling $83 billion. The company derives its revenue from various sectors, including consumer electronics, semiconductors, and information technology. Its popular smartphones, high-quality televisions, and memory chips contribute significantly to its financial stability.
Amazon.com Inc. – $64 Billion Cash Reserves
E-commerce behemoth Amazon boasts a cash reserve of $64 billion. Its primary source of income is its expansive online marketplace, where customers can purchase a vast array of products. Additionally, Amazon Web Services (AWS), the company’s cloud computing division, has emerged as a major revenue generator, contributing to its substantial cash reserves.
Meta Platforms, Inc. (Formerly Facebook) – $53 Billion Cash Reserves
Meta, the company behind social media giant Facebook, holds cash reserves totaling $53 billion. Its revenue mainly comes from advertising across its platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The company’s ability to engage billions of users globally has translated into substantial financial strength.
Intel Corporation – $30 Billion Cash Reserves
Intel, a leading semiconductor manufacturer, maintains a cash reserve of $30 billion. The company’s processors power a wide range of devices, from personal computers to data centers. Despite facing increased competition, Intel’s technological expertise and market presence contribute to its substantial financial reserves.
Tesla, Inc. – $23 Billion Cash Reserves
Tesla, a trailblazer in the electric vehicle and renewable energy sectors, holds cash reserves totaling $23 billion. The company’s revenue primarily stems from the sale of electric cars and energy products like solar panels and batteries. Tesla’s innovative approach to transportation and sustainability has propelled its financial success.
IBM (International Business Machines Corporation) – $15 Billion Cash Reserves
IBM, a technology and consulting company, possesses a cash reserve of $15 billion. Its revenue streams include hardware, software, and services, with a focus on enterprise solutions and cloud computing. IBM’s decades of experience and strategic offerings contribute to its financial stability.
Oracle Corporation – $10 Billion Cash Reserves
Oracle, a leading provider of database management systems and enterprise software, holds cash reserves amounting to $10 billion. The company generates revenue through the sale of software licenses, cloud services, and hardware products. Oracle’s presence in critical business infrastructure contributes to its substantial cash reserves.
Netflix, Inc. – $9 Billion Cash Reserves
Netflix, a prominent player in the streaming entertainment industry, maintains a cash reserve of $9 billion. The company’s revenue primarily comes from subscriptions to its vast library of movies, TV shows, and original content. Netflix’s innovative content creation and global subscriber base contribute to its financial strength.
Adobe Inc. – $7 Billion Cash Reserves
Adobe, renowned for its creative software solutions, possesses a cash reserve of $7 billion. The company’s revenue derives from software licenses, subscription services like Adobe Creative Cloud, and enterprise solutions. Adobe’s tools are widely used by creative professionals and businesses, contributing to its financial stability.
Uber Technologies, Inc. – $6 Billion Cash Reserves
Uber, a pioneer in the ride-sharing and food delivery industries, holds cash reserves totaling $6 billion. The company generates revenue by connecting riders with drivers through its platform, as well as delivering food through Uber Eats. Uber’s innovative approach to transportation and food delivery has led to its financial success.
The hand wavy answer with Lightning is supposed to provide enough anonymity on the sender side through the onion routing aspects, but there's tons of nuances there. Absolutely worst case scenario, the actors routing the payment know that it was you that sent it and the destination (very common in single/double hop scenarios and especially with LSPs - some LSPs like Muun or Phoenix would know everything about the payments you make).
Some of the recent protocol changes fix some of the issues regarding UTXO's in unannounced channels (that my project https://bitcoindevshop.github.io/hidden-lightning-network/ highlights). But otherwise, your channel partner will always know the UTXO that is used to fund the channel.
Receivers have almost no privacy currently on LN, while in general scenarios, senders have pretty good privacy. If you're paying just a normal person on LN that's not a direct channel partner (if you have other public channels), there's pretty good assurances they won't know who it came from. It's just that it gets tricky with LSPs or bad actors.
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.
we just spoke about this during my talk with him during bitblockboom this weekend, unfortunately it seems the livestream was not working at that point, but he still expects the first stores to integrate later this year
Highly dependent on who you are, your threat model, and what you are doing online. Most of us are such small potatoes to the governments of the world that it isn't a big deal IMO. For most people privacy is far more important than anonymity. Privacy is choosing what you reveal. Edward Snowden has a very different threat model than myself.
I'm not saying who cares and it doesn't matter. I think it does but I think being completely anonymous for most people is probably overkill. We live in such a surveillance state that few of us could withstand the eye of Sauron. I do think privacy is more important for bitcoiners than no-coiners. At least for the most part. I'm very selective about what I share online but at the same time I'm not ashamed or afraid to stand up as a bitcoiner. I don't want my UTXOs to be public but I don't yet feel like I need a nym. Or maybe I already have several...
I respect folks that operate as nyms. If I were a bitcoin contributor I would do it as a nym. I guess my advice would be to do an analysis of your threat model and act accordingly.
I just dropped off an un-godly amount of fiat at the post office to buy kyc-free btc so I can beef up my lightning node liquidity. You know... "cleaning house".
You say this and i instantly think of magic the gathering lol
Odd. Bitwise and Vaneck already donate to Devs. Hard to imagine Saylor could crush Blackrock or Fidelity. Big fan of Odell but would like more info on this because it doesn't make sense.
fantastic post. Resonated with me.
Tl; Dr - too much Larping, not enough Bitcoining.
Hodl < Hodl, spend and replace more.
Centralised on ramps suck.
I shill WoS all the time for my videos and content. I use the excuse that for noobies it’s a great in ramp.
im gonna make an active effort to shill Phoenix.
Ps I love that carrefour translates to Walmart in your mind 😃
Hey @k00b and @ekzyis could we have a thing in notifications where it tells you not only how many sats you stacked that day, but also how many you spent? It could report both numbers in the same notification. I know you can compute it manually from your wallet, but that's a PITA, and seeing it laid out that way would be really interesting.
https://i.postimg.cc/G2Yp0zbc/59-E65002-3755-4855-A49-A-7-EAB5-E658407.jpg
What are some of the most relevant upcoming features?
It might be time to raise posting costs ... people are posting absolute repetitive garbage.
You could install it alongside Bitcoin Core. Once it has synced you can pass user/password and it will use your bitcoind instead of remote blocks. Read the README, it's all there:
add-apt-repository ppa:lightningnetwork/ppa apt update apt install lightningd mkdir -p ~/.lightning/plugins echo 'disable-plugin=bcli' >> .lightning/config cd ~/.lightning/plugins wget https://github.com/nbd-wtf/trustedcoin/releases/download/v0.6.1/trustedcoin-v0.6.1-linux-amd64.tar.gz tar -xvf trustedcoin-v0.6.1-linux-amd64.tar.gz cd lightningdHard to say. There are so many!
One powerful example was Hong Kongers in exile using Bitcoin to support human rights advocacy inside the city from abroad.
Another is a Burmese activist who escaped from his country using BTC as a lifeline.
Yet another is a Russian independent media outlet that is using Bitcoin to help sustain its operations after it was forced to leave Russia.
For a pretty long split-second, I thought that OP wanted to know if anyone of us Plebs has actually managed to create a family, with a wife, kids and that sorta bagage - and I don't think I'm the only one!
Honestly? Great idea. I host a lot of my own infra and I often lose sleep over it. "x probably isn't secure enough, y doesnt have a good enough backup, if z goes down when I'm not home, I can't get it back up"
Hey @benwehrman. FYI. I looped you into a nostr conversation with Dr. Jeff Ross regarding him potentially coming on SN for an AMA mid-Sept or later.
Rene Pickhardt - short tutorials about LN
Ioni Apleberg - animated videos about Bitcoin, very good ones for nocoiners
BitcoinTV.com - one of the most concentrated place with videos and channels about Bitcoin, a must follow
ChainCode Labs - deep dive into bitcoin and LN, very good technical videos
Simply Bitcoin - daily wrap up and shaming shitcoins
Kevin Rooke - very good interviews about BTC/LN
Satoshi Radio Connect the world - really nice interviews with node operators and LN in general
The read the terms of service or take your business elsewhere arguments ignore:
We unfortunately need fiat for now to run successful businesses. Just the hard truth.
Tip of the month (April) - make your own detox refresh
We are about to enter into month of April, the month of flowers and green.
So, depending on your geographical region, there's an amazing arbutus plant named Elderberry or Sambucus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sambucus
So I recommend you to make your own delicious refreshment with the flowers of this plant. It's easy and is a natural detox for your liver, blood and heavy metals.
In April - May, the white flowers of this arbust are easy to find and collect. Collect them with the entire corona.
Then put them on a paper into the sun to dry fro 2-3 days.
Keep them in paper bags later in a dry environment.
Recipe:
Then leave that recipient into the sun, 3-4 days, moving the content every day, to help the yeast to make its magic. Taste it every day to see if is needed more sugar or lemons, as you feel comfortable. If is too sweet, just add more water.
after 3-4 days, depending on the sunny days and temperature around 20-25C, you will notice the bubbles.
Then filter the juice out from the ingredients and put it in bottles into the fridge.
Do not move it 24h. After 24h, if you see a lot of yeast at the bottom of bottle, slowly filter it out into another bottle. Then put it back into the fridge for another 24h.
Now you have an excellent healthy refreshment for your entire spring and summer.
Thank me later.
I'm shifting my career focus to lightning payment integration for companies. I'm focused on BTCPay Server specifically and will work with companies and individuals to reduce operating costs and expand their payment methods.
Related to this comment but it's in the saloon from yesterday, so I'll post this here:
Okay, I start to feel like an archaeologist and now I understand more what's so interesting about being an archaelogist:
I think I just found the first version of ranking on SN in
84b69fc:$ git show 84b69fc:api/resolvers/item.js | grep Query -A 8 Query: { items: async (parent, args, { models }) => { return await models.$queryRaw(` ${SELECT} FROM "Item" ${LEFT_JOIN_SATS} WHERE "parentId" IS NULL ${ORDER_BY_SATS}`) }, $ git show 84b69fc:api/resolvers/item.js | tail -2 const ORDER_BY_SATS = 'ORDER BY (x.sats-1)/POWER(EXTRACT(EPOCH FROM ((NOW() AT TIME ZONE \'UTC\') - "Item".created_at))/3600+2, 1.5) DESC NULLS LAST'@k00b, can you confirm or deny?
edit: lol, the feature to search through commits for specific changes like
Queryorrankortrustis even called pickaxe. So there is even a direct relationship to archaelogy? But not sure if archaelogists really use pickaxes a lot or if at all, lolCreating a circular economy is essential for Bitcoin. Regardless of the drawbacks you just described.
I haven't been around so long. What did it for me was watching Chamath and his buddies laugh about dumping their Solana:
https://cryptonews.com/news/crypto-traders-shocked-that-solana-whales-can-dump-their-cheaply-bought-sol-too.htm
Its LN enabled, basically a wallet of satoshi with a USSD menu instead of an app, so is interoperable with all LN wallets, just reduces the barrier to entry and gives feature phone users a custodial LN wallet
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People really hate on Peter for odd reasons…yeah he’s made some dumb calls/said stupid things (BlockFi, Covid, smart contracts, yada yadda), but he’s just a good level-headed bitcoiner with his own ideas imo
Thanks for the link. I finally read it. I'm new to the btc space tbh, so I think I'll need to read it again ;-) xD
But totally get the aversion when it comes to the laser eyes, steak carnivore stuff and memes. Now I'd add stuff like the mandalorian quotes such as "This is the way" I cringe and groan internally when people say that. That whole ethos screams cultish to me.
By my very nature I am a non-conformist, so I'm usually repelled when it comes to doing things that everyone else is doing. That's why I'd never put laser eyes on anything lol. When I first saw ppl doing that, I thought wtf are you all doing?! I've got used to seeing it now. I think get why they're doing it but don't think it's anything to do with btc getting to $100k
A couple of points I'm with him on:
They don't know about Nostr and SN. They know about bluesky because it was an adjacent project to twitter.
Maybe bluesky is a good place to market nostr and SN though as these new users are more likely to try other things as well until they find what they like and it becomes habit forming and very difficult to break them away.
I find besides batteries and screens phones last pretty long. I have never tried to get my phone to last more than 4 or so years but I have an ipad that is about 10 years old.
There are a lot of reasons to be scared at night that have nothing to do with aliens.
I can honestly recommend this video on the topic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaoTtkuY7jM
It contains all relevant stuff, it is well explained and is factually correct.
Interesting. Would you consider something like hourly / daily subscriptions paid over lightning by chance? Something we're looking to build support into @ Mutiny and I think the VPN use case could work out with something like this. Starting to focus heavily on building subscriptions on LN.
I have 4 channels in my Phoenix. All good. Just did some payments, all ok.
Try killing the app and restart, maybe the electrum spv didn't catch up well. Sometimes happen that.
Oh, I've just zapped ₿5 on this topic. What a rich guy was I? 😅
Day 182 of snailposting everyday 'til BTC hits $100k.
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The things is Jack Mallers, worked with Dorsey when he still was at Twitter to enable tipping using lightning. The system is already there and he just said on Twitter to Musk, that it will take him just days to take the already built lightning system to Twitter in general.
Let's see if Musk responds, but I have the feeling that Musk wants Twitter to become a wallet and exchange for Doge. So they can get a commission for selling Doge to the people.
https://www.zapread.com/i/--v
It's not fud.
First of all, you need to process blocks or the counterparty in an LN channel can eventually defraud you.
Second, even if they're honest, LN channels will eventually fail due to timeouts if your LN node can't process blocks.
There's a time window when LND can still function. But it can't go on indefinitely without a patch.
I bought recently some books at konsensus.network (https://bitcoinbook.shop/). Paying with lightning works like a charm. I used it several times before.
Day 335 of snailposting everyday 'til BTC hits $100k.
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You can hover over the thing and see that 34 users upvoted it. There are also plenty of comments...
Are you projecting? ;)
Fiat mining 75 hours a week. Flipped both direct deposits to strike 100% btc
Looking at crowd health, attempting to run a profitable routing node through voltage with a few sats. Looking to buy a cheap asic from kaboom racks, to heat my cold ass condo.
I think bitcoiners are falling for a fiat-driven hype cycle. "AI" has been ubiquitous for over a decade and now we have our panties up in a bunch just because it's been given an easily-accessible frontend. A better explanation, in my view, is that high interest rates are exposing two decades of mal-investment and Silicon Valley tech bros are looking for something that will keep the perpetual motion machine going a bit longer so they can get off before it crashes.
I've spent a bunch of time messing with ChatGPT and some of the open source alternatives. The technology is very cool, but I haven't seen anything that suggests it's useful in any transformational way. I don't think it will replace workers, but there's tremendous profit to be made from fear-mongering about it while those workers are losing jobs due to the violent mood swings of the economy, caused by a fiat system.
If a singularity is approaching, my bet is that it will be caused by bitcoin, not AI.
An obvious example-a Twitter tweet. The original character limitation really changed communication, although I'm not sure whether it was an advancement or not. It helped to spawn the low attention span world we live in, and probably inspired the 30 second video limit on snapchat.
Agreed. By far the best podcast in the ecosystem. Keep up the great work @kr!
Follow-up question: whatever the answer to how often you see your friends is, do you wish the number was higher?
It's about the price tracker at the top. Currently, it only supports USD. Sorry, that wasn't clear from the post. This is the issue: https://github.com/stackernews/stacker.news/issues/103
please, don't agree with me!
fuck me on my back like many others are doing!
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
that makes me even more toxic than you know me.
TOXICITY IS THE RED PILL FOR ALL BITCOINERS!
I don't know why I didn't put this in my post about fun books yesterday, but I'm re reading a book I find very entertaining-Nelson Demille's The Gold Coast. It's set on Long Island, and it's about a mafia boss who moves into a very prestigious north shore Long Island neighborhood. It's lots of fun, but you will learn nothing.
What are your favorite little oranges?
Tangerines, mandarines, or clementines?
Seedsigner
Specter DIY
ColdCard Mk4
A road out. Cities are shitcoins.
Human stupidity have no limits. And these people sending these phishing attempts are betting hard on human stupidity.
And to prove this, I will start a new series of posts on your "booksandArticles" territory with some chapters of a short book about human stupidity.
Love to see it. Thanks for highlighting siggy.
Anita is great. Dig deep Bitcoiners and support her work.
Hey @DarthCoin - thanks for adding this. I was meaning to make an announcement about the new site. Let me know if you have any suggestions about the site or the services on offer.
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Making progress in my little cabin project 🙂 I managed to frame all four walls and put some plywood on. I also cut some two by fours for the porch and impregnated them.
Today I'll be doing some more impregnating & cutting 😅
Have a great day ahead!
https://i.ibb.co/hH84t9L/progress-over-the-weekend.jpg
Minecraft with Lightning Intergration. (via LNBits)
Consider checking out https://sovereigncraft.com/ which runs as https://sovereignnode.io/
Here's a lil excerpt:
About Sovereign Craft
Sovereign Craft is more than a server—it's an educational platform where the in-game currency is as real as it gets. Our unique system integrates Bitcoin, teaching players about digital currency through play.
Sovereign Craft is a Minecraft server that allows a player to learn, use and play in a world that uses real digital money in game. Sovereign Craft is the only server that uses real in game wallets that work in the real world as well. Sovereign Craft teaches players how to interact with and use the best money ever created, Bitcoin.
No doubt it would be better for the image of Bitcoin and for the perceived fairness of the system if this did not happen. But, to play devils advocate, Bitcoin is so decentralized already and would be much more so by that point that it would be pretty hard for Satoshi to exert any kind of undue influence over the network itself just because of his wealth.
Also, it wouldn’t be that far removed from current near trillionaires under the fiat system, but it all depends how you measure the available supply of dollars etc
Similar to this but slightly different.
We must tax all bitcoin holdings to help pay off the national debt. It is an "emergency" because we are in a debt spiral and these lazy bitcoiners made all this wealth by just sitting in their mom's basement. They are a smaller enough minority that the public can get behind it.
Downzap for defiling the cryptography territory with stupidity.
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This poor fella
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroo_Onoda
Seriously dude, why are you living your life constrained by labels? Get to a point where you give zero f..ks. You can still be civil and polite but at the same time you don't have to apologise for your opinion. If you treat people with kindness and let them get on with whatever bullshit things they decide to do with their lives, you have nothing to fear and you go to bed every night knowing you have been kind. You live in your truth and are content with that. I do know what you mean, though, about getting a bit toxic. As I start to not give a f.k the abrasiveness can start to creep in, so it's an ongoing work in progress for me.
I used to try to "pill" people to whatever it was I felt passionate about. Now I just state my opinion and if people think I'm talking BS I think okay whatever. Who I am to try to convince them?
Do you have kids? That's actually a great learning curve. You try raise them and best you can an equip them with the tools of life and one day they walk out the door and take no notice of you. Man, it's hard watching and knowing they are making huge mistakes and are they're going to feel max pain from their decisions but there's nothing you can do about it. We all have to make their own mistakes and fail lots to be able to learn.
But back to the labels... I have had involvement in many different movements, communities etc... and I flippin hate labels. They come with a set of rules in terms of what you can and can't, should and shouldn't do etc. People start to behave like they're in a cult or something and come up with catchphrases and motos. Whilst sometimes that can foster a team spirit, it can start become very toxic. It's often a slow creep I was raised in a culty religion, so I have a massive aversion to all that sh!t and recognise it in an instant. And it's everywhere! F..k that! We're free, sovereign individuals to be who we are and do as we please, aren't we?
btw are we allowed uncensored swearing on SN? I have just bleeped out my swearing but don't know if I need to XD
I'm pretty bad with this one. With a few young kids I'm finding it hard to get the time.
We are lucky that our apartment community are quite friendly and social (most of them anyway, still a few we could do without). It does seem to be pretty rare these days in the city to know all your neighbors.
It's hard to predict what will be in a decade because technology evolves so quickly. However, in an ideal world, decentralized platforms, like Nostr, would take over YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, etc, and then host their multimedia content on BitStream servers.
Conformal maintained it for a long time before forking the code to create Decred. Why Lightning Labs opted to maintain/use the code is almost as crazy as the creation of the code itself.
I don't know how hidden it is but I play multiple musical instruments. Primarily guitar but I can also play bass guitar, piano and a bit of drums. I have also written over 100 songs.
I’ll make one more public comment as I being asked by a Bitcoin Core contributor I trust what is going on.
I’m not the first one who has sent lawyers letters to another Bitcoin developer to produce a chilling effect.
Alex Morcos from Chaincode did last year, it’s documented here:
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2023-March/003887.html
For everyone awareness, a lot of Bitcoin Core developers, a lot of younger and elders devs cannot speak freely on the subject as their legal fees in the context of some of the BDFL litigations is contributed by Alex Morcos.
From my appreciation, a lot of developers fear to speak up their minds in public and to be threat to be withdrawn legal support provided in the context of current or any future litigation.
Personally, I’m not a defendant in the CSW litigation so I don’t have this constraint and I stay free to speak up my minds about other developers’s behaviors, who ever they are.
Still chipping through Up in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell, but also reading The Mandibles by Lionel Shriver as part of a bitcoiner book club
I still do. If I'm 100% honest, it's even worse now. I feel a little burned out by my almost constant absorption in bitcoin for more than 5 years now. I need a little break, both from SN and from my own obsession.
It is incredibly hard to explain to family and friends why I'm not elated. When seeing post election headlines about bitcoin's price, people ask "what are you gonna buy?" or "what will you invest in next?" They look at it as if it's over. Time to cash out. It's like the game is over and I won. I understand that mindset. It's how I was too most of my life. I find it impossible to break through the fiat wall to genuinely reach new people.
I can't say enough about this post:
https://stacker.news/items/768791/r/siggy47
I am completely rethinking my whole approach to talking to people about bitcoin.
One thing, though. I think that SN has better content now than ever. New accounts are popping up, but many are not new bitcoiners. The general level of discourse is better than ever, IMO.
Click on it and toggle it to "1sat=1sat"
My big focus the last few weeks (whenever I get the chance to code on mutiny during holidays) has been mutiny user to mutiny user connections in our wallet.
IE, a mobile user connecting and opening channel to another mobile user. I see why no apps allow that lol. But I've got all the main cases handled, I just have to clean up code and test edge cases. This'll be an important functionality for many other p2p features in the future, like DLCs.
wow edit timer ran out and it feels like 20 new comments appeared when I reloaded the page, lol
the only prediction i only ever had was saying to a friend: "If bitcoin ever goes below $20k again I will reconsider if I am right about bitcoin"
Then it did when Russia invaded Ukraine, then I reconsidered, then I doubled down, lol
I was thinking to myself: Yes, the 200WA was broken for the first time. But does that really matter so much? There is so much going on in the world, I actually think that bitcoin still holding strong at $16k is a very good sign, lol
One thing that I don't like is that it doesn't appear to be open source, and I don't appear to be able to use a proxy to see what traffic is being sent where (Damus is both open source and I can proxy the traffic). Granted, that could be for better security (e.g. if they're using certificate pinning)
If you care about privacy that might be a reason not to use it for now. Maybe someone from the team can chime in on this.
Continuing to spread the word about our SHAmory x Built With Bitcoin #MySHAmmy water project as we march towards our goal of raising $7k and building a new water well in Africa.
https://shamory.com/plush-africa/
There's layout issues on mobile so I was going to announce it just yet. But let it rip why not.
We also added subscribing to other people's threads and a few other things.
I'll do a proper release announcement by end of day.
Hello and Good Morning,
It is in the spirit of human templating that I apply to this auspicious position.
As a living, breathing, sniffing and often gesticulating example of humanity I hereby project myself into the light of Stacker News. Not too far into the light so as to become garish or appear egotistical, but just enough to suggest the forthrightness and certitude of an exemplary citizen.
As per the requirements of said position, I am by all means a tall sitter. I refrain from standing at all costs, mostly to maintain modesty with regard to my height. I find other office constituents somewhat lacking in their hauteur and making them feel at ease is paramount in projecting exemplary behaviour.
I see the remaining requirements as clearly obvious and don't plan to address them, for the simple reason that I am truly over-qualified in each and every category - especially the "shhhhhhhhhhhushing", which I notice you mis-spelt and should have one more "s"!
Addressing qualifications, it is essential to realize that I have integrated the meritocratic regret, upholstery and digit requirements. (Note: I think the toe and finger stipulation is well and truly a requirement and not a qualification but in the spirit of acquiescence (another qualification: "You don't need to be told what to do but love being told what to do") i intend to group them accordingly).
Last year, whilst languishing in a middle class suburban prison, as prescribed by the WEF, I undertook an apprenticeship in upholstery. As our little shoe box only contains one chair, and a meager dog-eaten sofa, my range of projects quickly came to abrupt end - until I gazed one wintry afternoon at my inadequate collection of fingers and toes.
Needless to say, I typed this post within seconds and am simultaneously paying my Vietnamese pedicurist an exorbitant sum to have those little piggies look their best for this application!
As an exemplar, I am altruistic and as you'd expect am adverse to trivial compensation, as tempting as your generously extensive list appears. However, I must reveal my life-long wish to work from within a garage, surrounded by copious boxes of readily available Ivermectin. I cannot think of a more forthrightly virtuous pursuit.
I look forward to your response but in the meantime I have pencils to sharpen.
That bitcoin has already won. I'd guess only 20% of the currency war has been waged so far. Bitcoin's incentives for securing itself, and for hodling, are incredible but there's still a lot of work to do.
https://i.postimg.cc/bvQtZ2Nh/wife-sn.jpg
I realised, after a few years watching the conference and watching it live now.... its a conference that isnt for any hodler of 1+ year into Bitcoin but its only for newbies (very useful)
sorry guys ... dont want to hear the same old thing that we all know about banks, regulatory clarity, bla bla bla :)
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Bottom right. Shows 1,000 sats
Gamers of stacker news, I'm excited to introduce a project I've been working on called Satlantis. Its a minecraft server with a full bitcoin economy, including ASICs, lightning withdraws/deposits, and even hashrate pooling with your clan. We'll be giving out 10 million sats to players over the next 10 weeks.
You can learn more on our discord here: https://discord.gg/CqyGY339xp
Hope to see you all in there!
@siggy47
I am going to try my best to make the AMA with James today but more than likely I will miss it. My wife had a follow up appointment yesterday and the doctor wants her to get some tests done at the hospital today so I have to drive her to the city. I am hoping the timing of everything will allow me to pop in and participate but really not sure.
If I don't make it can you ask James the following for me:
"The Bitcoin opportunity fund has made a concerted effort to distinguish itself as bitcoin, not crypto, focused. Bitcoin still gets conflated with crypto amongst the media talking heads and politicians- although we are getting more references to "bitcoin and crypto" rather than just crypto. Among the investment community are you seeing a better understanding of the difference between Bitcoin and broader crypto or do they still see it as one big "digital assets" bucket?"
Much appreciated.