Happy holidays stackers :)
Pretty straightforward here. Let's share all the lessons from life we picked up this year. The easy, the hard, the expected and the unexpected!
A few of mine:
- Create global friendships. Create more reasons to expand your horizons.
- Linear inputs yield exponential outputs.
- Expanding your surface area for luck is a skill that you can sharpen.
- Just because you can't reach someone doesn't mean you can't help them.
- Cherish your health. It's far too easy to take for granted.
- Entertain ideas, not egos.
And always have a plan for surprise car trouble...ugh.
What about you?
I have the same thought on this. That's why I started an app few weeks ago https://github.com/zerologin/zerologin-mobile
It's not finished yet, but it works. It's a react native app (it needs a readme, definitely)
More info in this presentation https://makers.bolt.fun/story/tournament-project-zerologin-the-mobile-app-buildinpublic--126
🎉
100%. It's just that bitcoiners generally thump their chests about their intellectual honesty, and then devolve into kindergartners when thoughtcrime strikes a dischordant note against the symphony playing inside their echo chambers.
So I expect better from them, as a group, and hold them to a higher standard that is often sorely disappointed.
I shouldn't talk in generalities this way, I know. It's a sore spot.
Being online 24/7, having balanced channels, etc makes you a good operator.
But I think a great one constantly figures out where liquidity in the network is missing, how flows change over time and can quickly adapt to that. Pretty much "frontrunning" the routing competition and achieving capital efficiency.
This is why it's important to carefully vet what products/services/wallets you use in this space.
I could try to start a witch hunt for the hacker but I dont think it's the right approach.
I'm the one who let down my users, the hack was my fault, the attacker was just exploiting my mistake, so I take full responsibility.
The really disgusting thing about the regional bank crisis is that the media always portray it as a consolidation process. But it is nothing more than an asset transfer to the big fed banks.
I really want to visit. It looks beautiful. More practically, people in the Northeast US usually flick to Florida or the Carolinas. Not even close to as cool as Madeira.
Nothing to worry about here, Darth is just asking for a friend.
I am sure he doesn't have a planet destroying space station with a laser available.
I am not in Austin but for 300,000 Sats I might need to hop on my horse ride into town.
sounds like I might need to open a channel to the SN node. hang tight..
Well, what could be done, is as a local community organizer (and I'm of the belief that your orange pilling efforts are best spent in grassroots community organizing) you could create a wallet which calculates the tax burdens, has an API to an exchange so that all accounting could be done internally, has an option to send some Bitcoin (which may seem like an optional increased fee) which puts some extra sats on top of the purchase into another wallet hidden behind settings which can be used to pay for accounting services at the end of the year, which would then be refunded to the user what was not used to pay for those services automatically probably on the 15th of April.
When you're doing community organizing, you see the people you're orange pilling much much more often than a 5 minute speech you'd normally get to orange pill randoms. As such, you can warn people about shitcoin scams, create customized wallet solutions and all kinds of stuff your community might need.
To read more about community organizing, you should read the Bitcoin Beach whitepaper: https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/5f46d2bb7cca38461c7b8e13/62e049dd5f62fb5c824f1e34_bitcoinbeach.pdf
This ties into one of the territory features I still pine for, more for principled reasons than a personal need for it: allowing people to become a "member" of the territory by ante-ing up. This would serve two purposes.
First: revenue generation, as per the Substack example. If someone wanted to do a paid newsletter or something, now they could; or even the paid / public combo that a lot of writers use, where some stuff is exclusive to members. Since SN already has a really nice commenting / threading system, it makes that member connection thing viable.
Second: adding real anti-douchebag defense. If you're a giant asshole, posting garbage, insulting and threatening users, etc., there is currently limited way to dissuade that, and there's no way to dissuade it that has teeth. If you had to ante up, and then acted like a dick enough times, I could sweep your ante, and you can't talk until you ante up again, at which point I could sweep it again. It's a nuclear option, and some territories won't want to require it, but the only way SN will not have to confront this issue is if it doesn't scale enough for the issue to materialize. Which would probably be bad for its future prospects.
Some vocal critics of "censorship" hate this idea, of course, and that's reasonable. It all comes down to your working model -- to me, territories really ought to be territories, and they can be run by a tyrant, a visionary leader, or whatever -- exerting that control is what you get for your 100k sats / month. SN should be able to accommodate different visions, and users should be free to choose which of these visions they want to be a part of.
That kind of went afield from our original discussion, sorry :/
Gradually then Suddenly is one way a to look at it... and a lot of people think it's going to be similar to Weimar. Interest rates and the monetary supply won't just go in the same direction until it's unsustainable... They'll go up and down and up and down until we crash and burn. Each time we print money, we'll over correct with higher interest rates, then we'll over correct with more money printing, then even higher interest rates, then even more printing... At first it'll be boiling the frog, then it'll be an exponential nightmare. At least, that's one theory. Definitely seems like we're in the frog boiling stage rn.
Gentle heat with a butane table-top burner (common in Asia) is all you need. There are emissions, so keep the oven fan on or use outside.
We use the donabe for Japanese hot pot (nabe). It's basically thin sliced meat individually cooked in a communal table stock (shabu shabu) with fish stock (dashi) and vegetables resulting in a very delicious stock that folks transfer to their own little bowls while eating.
The leftover stock can be used to cook Japanese rice. Great tool to have to ensure nothing ever goes to waste.
Happy Sunday everyone. I came here first before annoying everyone with a beta post for what could be a minor thing. I tried to transfer some sats this morning out of my ln wallet. It's been pending for an hour and a half. Usually my transactions succeed or fail right away. Has anyone had this issue?
I would echo that. Ultimately most people should just take a few trips on scouting missions to see if it ‘feels right’ first. But options should be sought beforehand, not when you’re in a panic or rush.
You will also need to collect a bunch of paperwork and get things apostilled and boring jazz. Those documents can expire in 6 months, so you should probably only go ahead with that if you’re convinced it’s time and a place you know.
I skipped that step for the simple fact that I did a bunch more PoW than the average stacker. Sometimes you just know.