I'm John Carvalho, CEO at Synonym, where we created Bitkit, a self-custodial Lightning and on-chain wallet.
Bitkit allows you to hold your keys for Bitcoin and a LDK-powered Lightning node in the app. This is supported by our Blocktank LSP server, providing connectivity to the wider Lightning Network.
Bitkit contains an open widget system, with more cool widgets on the way. It also supports a contact list and pay-to-contact features.
We recently formally launched into app stores after being in a beta for a while. We've got a lot planned for the next year and we're excited to grow our userbase and collect any feedback!
I'll answer questions for 1-2 hours, starting at 3PM EST // 7 PM UTC.
Ask me about:
- Bitkit features, plans
- Building self-custodial wallets, apps
- Building with the Lightning Network
- payment protocols
- UX/UI, design, branding
what does it mean??
intro to sql class in the business school at UT Austin 🫡
my mom taught me html as a kid, and i picked up CSS at a job in college
“none of those are programming languages”: yeah i got made fun of endlessly by “real” programmers in college a lot
No need for them to develop a tool right now. This works: https://vpn.sovereign.engineering/
It's the parents duty to teach their children, not to give them over to the government for daycare... I mean 'Education'.
When will be Tropic Square security element chip in trezors?
Will you add option to change between wabisabi coordinators in coinjoin?
Thanks!
What % of podcasts on Fountain are Bitcoin related vs not Bitcoin related?
Morning folks! Final reminder, there's been a lot of discussion over at the book club and there's so much room for anyone to poke and prod and give their perspectives on some giant topics.
I got a little carried away, maybe, with the prompts, and kept adding them till late in the evening, so if you checked in early, there's more to sink your teeth into. But this part of the book was really eye-opening, so I regret nothing. If you want to have hot takes to deploy this Thanksgiving, part 3 is where it's at for sure.
Thanks to everyone who took part, and to the zappers, who have been generous again!
I don't think I can do justice a full explanation here, but I'll give it a try.
The history of the dollar leads me to believe the main purpose of the CIA is to maintain dollar dominance around the world. Everything they have their fingers on leads to some kind of change in how finance is done after one of their color revolutions. If the dollar is to remain dominant beyond this final and vertical phase of debt growth, it eventually needs to be rebased and to do so without doing something as silly as reverse splits which would lead to certain demise it rather needs to be pegged to something that cannot be manipulated such as a commodity yet is abundant enough that everyone can own some of it.
The 'old money' behind the banks is only interested in maintaining world control. If you control the money, you control the politicians, regulations, business, and the media. It was in the US's best interest for a time to allow this to continue on, but there have been revolutionaries in high places who tried to disconnect us from these monied interests.
As you know, President Jackson was successful for a time at resisting the succubi, Lincoln tried financial independence with his greenbacks, but then Grant hamfistedly lost grasp of the reins with his war-debt payoff gold-market collusion fiasco. This lead to the great bimetallism debate (The Wizard of Oz) where the US tried to play both sides of the gold/silver fence. On one hand we were swimming in wealth from the gold rush, and on the other hand our gold-centrality exposed us to world-market manipulation by the ancient European gold baron families.
After decades of the US back under control of European gold markets, though prospering under a regime of peace and freedom, this hard-money system prevented the socialists in government from exploiting the tax chattel to fund an overseas meat grinder in the name of their honor. Thus the creation of the federal reserve, the income tax (16th amendment), and the restructuring of the states into subject provinces by removing representation in congress from the respective legislatures (17th amendment).
This new centrally controlled system worked so swimmingly it allowed congress to spend the wealth out from under each and every individual (effectively subverting the 13th amendment) for the benefit of their cronies with supposed "social programs" and "defense spending" out of which we have the birth of the military industrial complex (eternal war) and federal nanny state (18th amendment).
Somewhat by accident, during our continued overseas virtue-signaling, we found ourselves in possession of the world's biggest boom stick. As it would be some time before our competitors/allies would figure out how to make their own big boom sticks, and us coming out of this war with mostly unblemished infrastructure (other than a few mountains of dead fathers), we had a unique opportunity to force the world at-large to transact under our system of Washington issued fiat. Thus was born the petro-dollar. Out of the bowels of Naval Intelligence a new agency was created to maintain this overseas banking dominance, the CIA.
Since the CIA was created, every president who attempted to muddle with our system of fiat was either from the CIA, threatened by the CIA, politically destroyed by the CIA, or assassinated by the CIA. And with good reason, its from their good work that we are able to delude ourselves that the world is a safe place and when there's a potential pandemic we panic off to a department store and squirrel away heaps of toilet paper knowing nothing about how to survive outside the grid.
So to put it all together; If the purpose of the CIA is to maintain stability of the dollar, regardless of the irresponsibility and theft of congress and the president, they also knew full well for decades that the dollar would not survive as a world currency unless hyperinflation were to somehow be avoided. Thus our friend "Central/Moto" "Intelligence/Satoshi" "Agency/Naka" himself came to the rescue to introduce a new grass-roots system of value, seemingly designed with the aid of a time machine. Such a digital scarcity system could not take hold without it being grass-roots, and thus the obscurity of his anonymous identity and now disappearance.
What does this mean to us maxis? In my opinion, none of it matters. Bitcoin rests on the laurels of its merits alone and whether its yet another fiduciary manipulation documented only in a super-secret SCIF matters nothing at all. It is still the only truly scarce asset in the knowable universe, next to energy and space itself if at all.
Salt 🧂
People mistake salt as some sort of toxin for the body. When really if you’re active, you need to seriously work on replenishing salt in your body.
What if, instead of having a cool down period, a users posting cost increase or decrease by certain x% amount which is determined by the success of the previous post?
The more successful the previous post, the less your next post cost. I think this would deter users from posting random stuff and it would encourage them to make sure what they post are valuable to the community.
You can have a scale: horrible (between 0-100 sats), good (101-500 sats), excellent (501 upwards). Depending on where the previous post ranks by the time a user post something new, the post fees will get a % increase or decrease according to that rank.
stacker booze - like stacker brews, but with whiskey
stacker ooze - our vd clinic
stacker coups - our militant branch to overthrow the fed
stacker ruse - craig wright's scam site where he constantly claims to @k00b (even though it is provably false) and demands a backdoor into our wallets
Thanks for everything you do, and taking time for an AMA!
I am curious as to your general day-to-day as a CLN engineer... what are some of the biggest differences working in this space as compared to any of your previous work? How did you get started in this role/space?
Dancing alone until something catches on
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I think businesses should try stuff like this. That's really the only way to know if it works. One issue with being the first in an industry to try something like this is that you might get a bad response and not be able to shake it off. The average Joe has been conditioned to think that this type of thing is "price gouging". Even smart people don't get how supply, demand, and prices help equalize a market. Every time there is a natural disaster and plywood prices go sky high you hear the same price gouging / price cap discussion. Same goes for gasoline. Its all so tiresome.
God damnit I need to start posting my own content to SN 😂
OBW
Well, its still kinda working
the same way you stopped engaging and contributing to LN? lol
/s
Very nice. Checking it out now.
https://imgprxy.stacker.news/VACNb-K018PsP_Ng1aVctm7kvuiANuZovy0ad3Y5_Mo/rs:fit:600:500:0/g:no/aHR0cHM6Ly9pLnBvc3RpbWcuY2MvOGtCUkN0dnYvYmV0dGVyLWJlbGlldmUtaXQtcm9iZXJ0by5qcGc
Sincerely... I really hope that paypal did such stupid thing
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demo video of jade QR code and seed QR https://twitter.com/Blockstream/status/1591831525418573824?s=20&t=GJ5_HQ5m7KXQOElIyJ6Xug
Love that they accept npubs for launch plans.
Yet another use case for nostr
It's funny. @elvismercury and I had a disagreement about which of these books is best as a first bitcoin read. Here, since you already read Bitcoin Standard once, I think it's safe to say Broken Money is the choice for you. It is a fantastic book. You will gain a strong understanding of money, which I think is critical to understanding bitcoin. Lyn is a great writer. Everything is explained clearly and thoroughly. Beware! It is a big book, and I know what a detail oriented reader you are. We may not hear from you for a while. Still, any time you invest in this book is well worth it. Enjoy.
I lmao when I can visually see your reply before it is in existence
https://imgb.ifunny.co/images/32b5ec11aed39bbfa67025ac2e2225a5d9fd53e3d222527b4f1ab0bcf4e5ff52_1.jpg
I had an answer like this in mind, but not as elegant as the way you've put it. I had imagined it as a basketball metaphor:
Think of btc as a team in the NBA at the beginning of the season. The best thing that could happen is if the team faced enough adversity that they were forced to suffer, to scramble, to fight with each other and figure out who to be, but not so much adversity that they were torn apart by it and fell into learned helplessness.
Over the course of the season they slowly improved, with many ups and downs, but got on a run before the playoffs -- they started really putting it together. In the playoffs, every series was close, but high variance -- they won big and they lost big. They faced elimination. They had to manage euphoria. They made adjustments. Round 1 demanded a somewhat different approach than round 2. Different heroes emerged each series. The players grew and evolved and adapted.
They win the title in the end, exhausted but jubilant.
I feel you 😔
It's really hard to accept that most of our family and friends are part of the masses, easily controlled and just trying to live a life free of conflicts.
It's also difficult to realize that they might be putting our life in danger one day, even worse becoming our enemies.
To quote Albert Jay Nock:
https://mises.org/library/isaiahs-job
I have personally decided, for my own safety and wellbeing, to keep my interactions with them cordial but limited.
It might seem heartless, but we need to fully focus on the remnants.
🤝
There is no bad that doesn’t come for the good
this is amazing and something I was imagining would be cool to build.
You went and did it.
LL just shit their pants because this is basically a better and end-to-end open-source and decentralized Loop!
Indranet has been very busy this last few days after some new ideas relating to circuit distance from clients, and substantial progress towards implementation of the p2p system and and containerised deployments.
The protocol development passed a milestone today for its first time importing code from the lnd repository, as the payment-to-session process is now starting to take shape, as the basics of relaying session purchases is now clear. We will be using Atomic Multi-path Payments with sender side initiation for payment streaming to pay for relaying messages.
I feel a little bad for taking sats out of my SN wallet for Mullvad, but paying for VPN with lightning from SN just feels appropriate!
I got an email from Strike about their new subreddit r/strikebtc....
https://m.stacker.news/13650
Sent an email back about SN, hopefully they see the error in their ways and join us on the frontier
Truth is stranger than fiction
Bear market is brutal hah
Given how critical I am of the American education system, people are often surprised to learn that I think teachers need to be paid more.
"Why would you pay them more when they're doing such a bad job?"
To which I reply, "You get what you pay for."
This mindset is so important, and sometimes worth brute-forcing into your mind.
The conversations are easy and natural when I already believe I'm talking to someone I can learn from, and it's someone I find interesting.
When those 2 things aren't the case is when it gets tricky. But that's where the reps are.
I think if Nostr solves some need for SN, then it makes sense to integrate, but integrating just for the sake of integrating (bringing another dependency) is bad idea in my opinion.
So far I think the main problem nostr solves is censorship resistance for broadcasting (ie twitter), because the relays are simple and users own their ids (much better than mastodon). So that's something SN could get from nostr, although I think it will bring many interesting challenges.
A lot of different things. Spent a lot of time reading and listening to both eth and bitcoin content. Trace Mayer and his network effects made sense, the Bitcoin Standard and seeing all the Bitcoin only services/content/hardware. Also broken promises of Eth and understanding the immaculate conception of Bitcoin.
There are many layers to this, but as I see it: The people who are the exact opposite of the toxic maxis, are the people with the voice in mainstream society and media. Therefore, they are the ones who have the most influence over the general opinion in society, and over the laws. Them getting orange-pilled is the best chance for hyperbitcoinization. If they instead fight bitcoin too much, making it illegal in most of the world, most people won't use it, and its value will fall drastically. It will of course still work, but maybe at 5% of current value, and no part can accept it legally, stifling adoption. Add to that the military power of this majority, that could threaten the other nations to quit bitcoining and to pass bans there too.
I believe we're in a hurry if we want the "bright orange future", and we don't only need to advocate bitcoin to everyone in general, but to the ones that the toxic maxis hate in particular. That is not done by harsh retorts, blocking and bragging that Bitcoin is invincible (while advocating staying humble). Sure the network is close to invincible, but the value and usefulness of it is definitely not.
I'm staring to test more and more the app that our team is building and so far the experience has been amazing, I just used it yesterday to gift $10 each to my cousin and her husband who haven't really been exposed much to Bitcoin.
The first I asked was what action do they think they would like to experience in order for them to help them start getting an understanding of Bitcoin, they first wne with that they wanted it "save it" but then quickly changed their mind and asked how they could "spend it" so I onboarded them with the exprience of me sending them $10 via the app https://lgt.st then they claimed their sats and I onboarded them by downloading Wallet of Satoshi, withdrawing their sats and then setting up an account with https://paywithmoon.com so they could load up a virtual visa card with $10 and add it to their Apple Pay. Now they can go get a coffee or something with the sats that I sent them ✌🏼 Perfect way for them to make the connection that I just sent them $10 that never went through a bank or any entity and they immediatly received their funds and were able to turn that into a visa card they can go spend at a physical location.
Now my task as well with our team we have to translate this whole onboarding experience into a self-onboarding guide within the app.
http://wespoke.co/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/IMG_A5D1242A7031-1_iphone13ministarlight_portrait.png
Another thing I'm super excited about is that we're starting to creat a Scoreboard for the app to see other user's Orange Pilling orange 🍊💊 activity! I think this could spark a lot of interest with Bitcoiners, the cool thing about it is that since you can set an expiration date to the gift/tip if the user does not claim and withdraw their funds it's not a succesful conversion. Only if the user claims their funds and downloads a LN wallet on their own that would be considered a successful conversion.
You can check out the scoreboard here https://lgt.st/scoreboard
http://wespoke.co/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/IMG_7A3F96E9A9B8-1_iphone13ministarlight_portrait.png
Drinking a beer at Pub Key. It's Happy Hour in my world.
Thanks for the honest feedback @ribbit! I agree with you. Loyalty rewards and such are very gimmicky. I've always felt that way as well. The truth is, it still works though, which is hard to wrap my mind around at times.
Through diving into the loyalty and rewards space, I've learned a lot more about why it works and it all just boils down to psychology and giving the customer another touch point to keep the brand top of mind.
In any case, it helps businesses retain customers and is a driving force in their sales in some way, shape or form.
It does hit different when it's Bitcoin rewards, though.
The cool thing about what you're saying is that most Bitcoiners already have Bitcoin and earning another 1% or whatever here or there really isn't that appealing if they have to through extra steps. People still do it, though.
But for the everyday consumer, the NPC, the no-coiners, the pre-coiners - they earn those points like they're going out of style and don't really think twice about the fact that they're basically shitcoins.
So if we can more people earning Bitcoin instead, almost passively and seamlessly, I think people will have a far greater chance of looking into bitcoin and effectively being invested in its success without having to lift a finger. We shall see!
Right now we do have some metrics. On average, ~30% of people who received an email to claim rewards (often times completely unaware they were getting them post-purchase) actually do 'claim' them. From there, ~40% of people withdraw them to a lightning wallet. Of note, the majority of people earning these rewards are NOT bitcoiners. They're just buying everyday products from businesses who aren't exactly 'bitcoin' businesses, and getting some sats in return.
thanks again for the feedback and we'll certainly keep this in mind :)
Howdy!
Ignore the price. Stack sats and push ups today. Price discovery will come in due time.
41 days of 100 push ups a day until $100k down. Undetermined to go.
37 days of 100 squats a day until $100k down. Undetermined to go.
a loppcycle?
https://imgprxy.stacker.news/0UxxXL-jQRh8gdjZNO1nO_kguQntnx-y11TzA7MHalo/rs:fit:600:500:0/g:no/aHR0cHM6Ly9pLmltZ3VyLmNvbS96SjYwM2p0LmpwZw
And that's why I always said: just use Bitcoin, nothing else. Get the fuck out from fiat world and let them became obsolete.
Create those bitcoin circular economies around you, with small merchants.
Earn in bitcoin, spend in bitcoin, save in bitcoin. Is so fucking simple.
https://i.postimg.cc/zX2ZDQD1/vader-sovereign-adoption.jpg
https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/how-bitcoin-will-save-the-world
People who own private airplanes are perfectly allowed to let their friends travel on them without kyc
Someone should use that fact to start a no kyc airline
No one solved my Easter egg hunt but @0xbitcoiner gave it a good try.
In today's This Day on SN post, a post from @nout from 2021 was featured. It talked about https://lightningbutton.com/
I had never heard of this project, so I clicked the link and then proceeded to click the CLICK ME button. I was redirected to a scammy "earn crypto" site. Then I discovered the click me redirect button could be purchased for sats and all it cost to displace the scammy site was 7910 sats, so I reclaimed the lightning button from the jaws of scam crypto and redirected it to Stacker News, where it belongs.
I don't know if anyone outside of the stackers will ever find the lightning button again but if they do they will find us. Thanks for everything you do to make stacker news a great community @k00b, @ek, contributors and all stackers.
Seems like a nice scaling solution that provides different custody methods/tradeoffs while improving lightning ux. Eric Yates was on tftc recently, he was talking how he see's the lightning/fedi/cashu space playing out, i'd definitely recommend the listen.
sorry to say
PopOS 22.04, Firefox 122.01
Qe4 checkmate
Depends on which exchange. Exchanges with order books like coinbase, kraken, etc just get their bitcoin from customers, people buying and selling fill out the order book. Exchanges like River, Swan, Strike, etc are brokerages and get their bitcoin from market makers and other services. Lots of these services just have accounts on the other exchanges and buy at whichever has the best price.
Mind blowing that other huge corporations are just sitting by and allowing MicroStrategy to do this. I think the only reason this hasn't generated such a buzz is because MicroStrategy isn't a household name.
If Google, Microsoft, or Amazon were doing this, you can be sure others would soon be following close behind.
Great question! Here are a few things that have helped me gain new perspective over the years:
This is an excellent reminder to once again question my own experience/information inputs - thanks!
We waded through the crisis narrative swamp during the blocksize war. We were warned that bitcoin would die and be replaced by something else because it couldn't scale and needed to do so immediately, apparently the world at large needed it immediately, some imbeciles even suggesting by 2018 it might be too late. The same bullshit is repeating itself with the faux security budget saviors trying to run their fork, inscription, and side-chain into the womb of a 15-year-old protocol. We need to fix the security budget immediately! No, you need to see a psychiatrist, and work on your self-control. Bitcoin's hashpower won't death spiral, security won't be deprecated allowing for 51% reorg fantasies, leaving a void to be filled by something else. There's a subtext to everything the big-blockers and chain-gang say if you listen and don't just hear:
Bitcoin is on a long, difficult, and organic road from store of value, to transactional currency, to unit of account. The steps can't simply be leapfrogged, or sped up, like "crypto" would have you believe. There are many reasons for that outside the protocol which is a subject beyond the scope of this reply, but drivechain is ancient. It seemed relevant back in 2014 before the regulatory environment arrived, before "crypto" arrived, before Taproot arrived, before the immense innovation on the LN arrived. Drivechain frankly looks quite myopic and silly in retrospect. We don't need a 2050 fee environment in 2023 to satisfy your Lambitions.
New Bsats app released blocked by apple... so sad..
They want the app to:
let's see how to work around those..
I remember your first announcement, was kind of shy announcement to invite people to try this crazy thing...
I said, what the heck is this, but hey is using sats! I cannot ignore this shit.
Then I saw you put a lot of work on it.
I even had a talk with fiatjaf about it and he laugh about telling me: "oh yeah you are interesting in that thing SN, not sure if he gonna make it" (or something like that, you know how is fiatjaf...denying everything)
I don't reply to every comment on my posts but I zap them all (even if it is just 10 sats) and reply to most of them. Unless they are clearly a bot or excessively stupid.
Getting a Cowboy hat is easy, maintaining it is the problem
Jesus, what a massive douchebag. Even if you do sometimes sneak a good point into your endless vitriolic, hateful, egomaniacal rants, nobody wants to hear it, because you are such a massive fucking asshole. I have you muted, and it makes the stacker news experience 100 times better, but I saw this post while logged out, and I just wanted to stop in and say please fuck all the way off. The Bitcoin community is worse off for having you.
I cannot give you the best answer for all those questions because I do not have the right information data. I think only SN founders and admins can give you the best answer to this post.
What I can give you is MHO about how I see SN until now (being one of its first users).
https://i.postimg.cc/T3VB2f54/first-faucet.png
People were receiving a lot of sats for almost doing nothing. But that was a method to bring new users easily. In those early days, was needed more testing and people using it, in order to understand it.
SN is doing something the same, but in small quantities.
As I always said, be wise with zapping. Not everything on SN merit a zap, especially a large amount of sats.
Upvotes on SN are the same as on reddit, one user = one vote. But SN is adding something new, the incentive of amount of sats, not just the vote.
The amount of sats is ONLY the zapper appreciation to the OP, for its effort. But that is not affecting the "ranking" of that post. Is more like a V4V reward.
In all this MSM experiment I zapped more than usual. Why? Because I wanted to see how the algo is working or not. But usually I am very careful with how much and to who am I zapping.
I am opening a direct channel to stacker news to see if this will mitigate. I'm seeing "no route" errors in alby:
2024-11-18T14:18:04-07:00 {"app_id":4,"bolt11":"lnbc10n1pnnhtctpp5frtldan6apvdn6ywu2y7nps2lqsn6rfuef785tqs563hn7s0uycqdpg2d8r5gr6v9czqvfqwdshgueqw3hjqgehxuenzdf3cqzzsxqzjcsp5wyalknd26nchkdq0ksl0em56uk5hhw6t0nle34t0nmdpxjrp4j2s9qxpqysgqqf8jlugmgkumygw4vu30xmanglxzxawtyzfs7w60muppu7ewaxt9lpvxz4h6cg7esly4u38rajtlls4nns46gxe73eq40ftvntfwl8sqw4mdnw","level":"info","msg":"Sending payment","request_event_id":1822,"time":"2024-11-18T21:18:04Z"} 2024-11-18T14:18:04-07:00 {"level":"info","msg":"Received payment failed notification","payment":{"payment_hash":"48d7f6f67ae858d9e88ee289e9860af8213d0d3cca7c7a2c10a6a379fa0fe130","value":1,"creation_date":1731964684,"payment_preimage":"0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000","value_sat":1,"value_msat":1000,"payment_request":"lnbc10n1pnnhtctpp5frtldan6apvdn6ywu2y7nps2lqsn6rfuef785tqs563hn7s0uycqdpg2d8r5gr6v9czqvfqwdshgueqw3hjqgehxuenzdf3cqzzsxqzjcsp5wyalknd26nchkdq0ksl0em56uk5hhw6t0nle34t0nmdpxjrp4j2s9qxpqysgqqf8jlugmgkumygw4vu30xmanglxzxawtyzfs7w60muppu7ewaxt9lpvxz4h6cg7esly4u38rajtlls4nns46gxe73eq40ftvntfwl8sqw4mdnw","status":3,"creation_time_ns":1731964684062362536,"payment_index":37355,"failure_reason":2},"time":"2024-11-18T21:18:04Z"} 2024-11-18T14:18:04-07:00 {"level":"info","msg":"Marked transaction as failed","payment_hash":"48d7f6f67ae858d9e88ee289e9860af8213d0d3cca7c7a2c10a6a379fa0fe130","time":"2024-11-18T21:18:04Z"} 2024-11-18T14:18:04-07:00 {"bolt11":"lnbc10n1pnnhtctpp5frtldan6apvdn6ywu2y7nps2lqsn6rfuef785tqs563hn7s0uycqdpg2d8r5gr6v9czqvfqwdshgueqw3hjqgehxuenzdf3cqzzsxqzjcsp5wyalknd26nchkdq0ksl0em56uk5hhw6t0nle34t0nmdpxjrp4j2s9qxpqysgqqf8jlugmgkumygw4vu30xmanglxzxawtyzfs7w60muppu7ewaxt9lpvxz4h6cg7esly4u38rajtlls4nns46gxe73eq40ftvntfwl8sqw4mdnw","error":"no_route","level":"error","msg":"Failed to send payment","time":"2024-11-18T21:18:04Z"}But those seem to be limited to the 1 sat HTLCs right now.
I think it takes time for everyone to learn this lesson. I was only zapping 10 sats when I started. Now I zap comments 20-50 and posts minimum 100.
Thanks KR!
We notice that projects that do well are those that engage constantly with their communities, have awesome rewards and that make bitcoiners feel part of the community!
Anita Posch is definitely at the top with over 250 individual contributors, but Bitcoin Racing also did incredibly well by allowing the community to add stickers to the Bitcoin Racing Cars!
Importantly, the surprise factor is key: what new, crazy and interesting ideas do you want to see happen in the world?
It was an excellent presentation! I love the way that @k00b thinks about Stacker News reaching net energy and becoming alive. This is one of the best models for what a startup (or any entity/life form) is actually trying to achieve.
And thank you for the kind words. I too think that Keyan is one of our era's great builders - not only in Bitcoin, but on all of the web. I'm always honored and excited to be part of the Stacker News journey.
Hey Alex! Thanks for sharing my guide for Russian people when it was needed! We made it with Tony, as you said in the post!
https://twitter.com/gladstein/status/1500341296950509569?s=21&t=ZRPle-mmqtAOO1eefcpLig
I think the majority of stackers are here for the community, the sats are just part of how we talk to each other.
It's like a we are all buskers on a giant subway platform. We are on our way somewhere, but many stop for a second and to a play a song or listen to something new.
Not only is it ok, it's a moral imperative.
Would be nice to start opening it up to extra-Bitcoin topics to attract a larger and wider user base.
As a start, how about...
I know there will be pushback from the maximalists, but I see no reason why Stacker News needs to be focused solely on Bitcoin topics.
Let me know if I'm wrong. 👷
If word gets out that companies building on lightning are raising millions of dollars then it could really spread like wildfire as it could attract more devs
It will be a big work for me this coming weekend. Laundry and house cleaning, groceries, ironing etc. Household chores majority. I need to catch up after my son got out of the hospital this morning. Thanks he is doing well again. After I took care of him thoroughly now it is the house turn.
Looks like they need to move to a new custodian again.
Fidelity and Blackrock licking their chops.
Sigh.
Check out Seedsigner ( https://github.com/SeedSigner ). I use it and ColdCard for multi vendor multi sig setup.
It could be done. I'm not sure of the merits. I would guess that it could create confusion based on what seeds are currently used for.
In terms of addresses, I look at about 5 characters after the bc1, the last few, and identify patterns in between. Due to checksums, and the massive amount of randomness of an address, it's unlikely to find 3 or more matching segments in two different addresses you encounter.
Hey CJ. Thanks for doing this.
Most people probably want to talk to you about Bitcoin but I have a baseball question for you. What are your thoughts on how analytics has taken over the game? Were you very analytics driven or more old school when you played?
Are you considering any device that would integrate Trezor and Bitcoin/LN node? What's your approach to LN, any special plans?
https://m.stacker.news/65715
solidjs, great choice!
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My wife is a pretty active researcher when we need to buy appliances and other expensive household goods, so I don't pay a ton of attention to what we end up getting.
The one major miss was our coffee maker: it's an OXO, but I'm not sure what model. It clogs and overflows just often enough to be really annoying, but not often enough to buy a new one.
At some point I developed a heuristic of buying the median priced option whenever I have little specific knowledge about a product class (which is most of the time). My rationale is that the cheapest option is probably garbage that only sells because of it's price and the most expensive option probably has a bunch of qualities that I neither need nor care about.
Classic coal! I'm german and my father came from Thuringia where the ''Bratwurst'' is something like a religion. I even have one of those BBQs here in Spain: https://www.thueros.de/
Pure tradition
In the U.S., happy Independence Day.
It makes me wonder, "What's the thing that Bitcoin needs to be break away from, to be independent from?"
I want SN to stick around, so by association, I want this change.
https://m.stacker.news/24480
Well, for starters, I tend to reply to really dumb posts
Day 172 of snailposting everyday 'til BTC hits $100k.
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I use nostr regularly but it wasn't until I discovered SN that I saw the real engagement we get here.
Unfortunately with nostr unless your name is jack, will, gigi, odell, walker or derek Unfortunately your note is largely ignored 🙁
It's funny because when I was on nostr, I used to see SN links saying meme Monday 25k sats but you've got to post the meme on SN, I was like nah probably a scam 🤦
Only recently I've linked nostr to getalby and can zap to note without leaving the app
I've said this before but the SN model is excellent 👌 I know it's not pure lightning but it works brilliantly imo
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