You hear a lot about value for value (aka v4v) in this space. I think it's something that makes sense in theory, but often doesn't click until it happens to you.
Seeing the rewards system go through various experiments has gotten me thinking about my niche in this community. I don't really post a lot of new content - mostly comments on other's posts, chiming in to discussions, etc.
But where I've really found a home is by contributing to SN itself via FOSS work. I feel this is my best way to add value to the ecosystem, at least for the time being. It's extremely satisfying to see folks use the changes that I make as part of SN, alongside the changes of the other engineers. The sats that come in from that work is icing on the cake. I feel this is a tremendous example of v4v.
So anyway, thank you for being here. Thank you for reading this brain dump. And thank you for encouraging others to provide value!
SN is a "Value for Value" site. No one is going to "send you some sats".
But if you hang around and make interesting post and worthwhile comments that lead to better discussion, people will "zap" those post and comments with sats then you can then withdraw.
Still less than one payment per second.
We still have work to do.
Yes...the person behind is like "the business card of the idea".
In Hungarian language it exist a proverb, which say "don't listen to what he says, but who says it".
I think your quote is the "business synonyme" of this proverb
Dear my lady luck,
What haven't we listened to?
Sincerely,
k00b
Now I'm a fake news disseminator. We all have our roles.
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Thanks for the welcome! Still excited to become an official part of this. Let's see how long this stays the case haha
Btw, I also run t.me/stackernewsrss so if anyone wants a (now official) RSS feed on TG, join that channel!
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I don’t know whether to applaud or to gag. Maybe both!
Not sure if I would be using too much SN.
Lately the amount of shitcoining / shitposting on SN is increasing at levels that makes me not anymore interested to visit SN and posting more stuff.
Slowly the alternative to reddit, cleaner and more interesting, became a new old reddit full of useless "news" and ramblings around shitcoins.
I notice that also bitcoin / lightning devs start avoiding to come back here, exactly because of that. Shame, I thought SN will be a nice platform for Bitcoin/LN discussions, but seems to became a "milking cow" of sats by people that don't have any intention to bring some good content.
The few users here that post good content, I feel them tired too.
I don't know how SN could get out from this chicken and egg game. I think will be better to give less incentives for all and don't make SN as another "passive earning" tool. People must work hard to earn real sats.
Maybe a separation of "boosts" from tips, will help. Tipping sats must be something that the reader really appreciate and want to show that appreciation. Boosts must be only when the reader want that post to be more visible and more discussed. Right now not all SN users know that.
And btw... I do not want to "paywall" my guides. Bitcoin information and guides must be free forever. If the reader really want to send some sats as appreciation for the help I provided, is their own choice, I do not force anybody to pay for my guides.
This is probably important, and its clearly adjacent to btc stuff, but the exact relationship is not obvious to me. Thoughts?
A zap button on our profile solves that.
Very, very rarely. Never for a dumb post. I save it for the assholes who beg for it.
A really good pub, that serves proper real ale (lager is also allowed) and has great food, large servings. A roaring fire for winter and nice beer garden for the summer.
I'll let you all sort out the rest of the city, I'll be alright here. You can come and join me when you're done.
I get the best results when I don’t lecture the kids and just approach it like you’re shooting the breeze with an old friend. Especially if the kids are young enough that they’re still putting their coins and dollar bills into a piggy bank.
Some angles that have worked for me, in terms of making them curious and starting to ask questions.
“man I wish I had all those paper dollar bills lying around in my piggy bank, then I could go and sell them for some bitcoin” — makes them wonder: “wait, what do you mean ‘sell’ my dollars, I thought spending ‘money’ means you’re ‘buying’ something or ‘being sold to’ …?” Also “what’s bitcoin and why do you want it so bad…?”
“it’s weird how that penny right there is made out of a metal that’s actually worth 2 or 3 pennies. Can you believe we’re not allowed to melt it down??? And if you get caught the government makes you give them 10,000 of those paper dollars...!!” — “wait that doesn’t make any sense, and what’s ‘the government’ …??”
It’s actually pretty fun the more I think about it. Great thread @monotone , thank you for posting
This was my first time using it, I directed the hash to solo.ckpool. I figured a couple of dollars for 3 hours of 200TH solo mining was fine. Interesting service. They offered a free trial in the past, throwing hash rate at Braiins pool but it wasn't an option when I looked this time.
first dude @kr made a good point with streaming etc none of those words were common words yes boost could be a good word for micro payments def sounds cooler haha
Thanks for the tag-in, @k00b.
First, a story about me:
When I was in the middle of my PhD I was miserable. I had all these reasons why I was miserable, which were real reasons. And I thought about quitting many times.
But then I thought: the reasons I am miserable are things about me, not about the PhD stuff that sucks right now. So I can quit, and then these PhD things will stop sucking, but something else will start sucking, because that is the nature of complex systems (more on that another time; or see the book club!) but mostly it's the nature of me.
I have issues {x, y, z} and they manifest in {a, b, c}. Quitting the PhD would have been a short-term fix that solved nothing at all. Then {x, y, z} would simply have manifested in {p, q, r}. {x, y, z} is what needs to be dealt with.
Second, I saw this talk by Graham Weaver recently that made a bunch of deep points.
The one that really stuck for me was: you're going to suffer anyway, so if you suffer strategically, you can wind up doing great things. This was quite the suckerpunch, if you view it as the amount of felt suffering coming your way is constant.
I don't want to bear the cost of suffering in a stupid way and get no real upside.
Third, SN is a delicate ecosystem right now. Putting something true and earnest into it is like casting out seeds. So many things will sprout from them! Lurkers you never hear from will be subtly influenced. People who think: oh, this isn't a place for me will read your words and will adjust their beliefs a little bit. This is very real. It might be the realest thing in the world, but it's invisible, so it's easy to lose heart.
Don't lose heart.
sick! thanks for open sourcing this.
The barista put enough expresso shots in my ice coffee that I'm effectively lobotomized.
That’s a great question that should be asked and discussed more! Personally I believe that Shamir backup has qualities that are quite useful for inheritance planning. I have actually written an article on how to approach inheritance with Shamir backups: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/protecting-bitcoin-shamir-backup. I think the crucial thing is to have some sort of “treasure map” that will become accessible to the family in the case something happens to you. Such treasure map would explain the nature of the inheritance and the location of the Shamir shares (not necessarily precise addresses to prevent theft if an “evil maid” discovers it). The precise inheritance plan is an individual thing, but I think there are some basic recommendations everyone should follow, as I describe in the linked article.
As for Trezor’s plans around this topic: we’d like to inform our users more about the use cases for Shamir backups such as this one.
people zap like maniacs!
Plenty more engagement and comments than writing/posting literally anywhere else (regular writing outlets, Twitter, Nostr etc)