I’ve noticed a recent surge in Lightning payments on Wallet of Satoshi, but it doesn’t seem to be caused by jumps in Nostr activity or THNDR Games activity (both were partly responsible for the early 2023 increase in WoS payments).
Anyone have a good theory as to where the extra payments are coming from/going to?
Roundtable feature enhancements thread. Going to write things as they come to me.
There's a concept in economics called "lexicographic preferences". It's basically when someone has such a strong preference for something that they won't make any tradeoffs regarding that thing: i.e. they'll take whatever amount of that thing they can and then move on to their less preferred goods.
My sense is that many women have a lexicographic preference for pro-abortion policies and they'll vote for the pro-abortion option, regardless of what else it's bundled with.
I don't know how the left achieved this trick, but it's a very strong political force. Where I think they may have screwed up this election is allowing abortion protections onto state ballots. That allowed women to separate their abortion preference from Kamala. They could secure the abortion policy they wanted, without having to opt into all the other bad economic and social policies that normally come with it.
Also, there is a slight overlap in the buttons on mobile:
https://i.postimg.cc/CxLqcSrC/Screenshot-20221210-160414-com-android-chrome.jpg
What happened to the daily? Only 25 comments in 30 minutes? lol
Now we just have to convert @janetyellen
This:
https://stacker.news/items/261714/r/oraltosun
You raise all good points, starting with the fact that it should have been an opt in, although it wouldn't have been a real choice if rewards only went to participants. Short of that, there could have been some heads up about this plan. I already bored everyone with my feelings when this thing was announced, but now the peer pressure to sacrifice your privacy is difficult to take.
Vitalik is a pure genius and the success of Ethereum is of historical proportion.
Not sure he was at the origin of the "BTC Maxis" wording, maybe so, but that's surely not what defines the guy. He also explained many times from the start that Ethereum and Bitcoin were not competitors. The people who grasped the "Maxis" flag are the one constantly opposing ETH to BTC, insulting all other projects, and damaging the Bitcoin image on a daily basis in the process.
It also helps to know that Vitalik was the first editor in chief and co-founder of Bitcoin Magazine 10 years ago, meaning the guy made more to get people aware of Bitcoin in the early days than most people here.
You could drive a truck through the excluded middle of those choices.
I'm as big of an advocate for voting with your feet as anyone, but there are so many other differences between the US and El Salvador. Within the US there are big differences in how states protect Bitcoin, so there may be good options that aren't as personally disruptive.
Why isn't staying and not complying one of the options? People are illegally using Bitcoin all over the world. Americans can follow their lead, if it comes to that.
Absolutely!
Once I've got it running a seed and build a mock layer for the LN payments the testing on the protocol can start. In parallel I will need to build the deployment for the LN node and the API bindings it requires.
Yeh... it is exciting, and daunting... I've been dreaming of building this thing for ten years, it was only as I went bitcoin maxi and fell in the LN pool that I saw a way to do it, and as if by design, the person who would get me the bootstrapping funds to build the PoC appeared right as I was running out of other options after being epically burned working as a shitcoin dev.
I think bip42 fixed a bug and satoshi did mean to have a fixed 21 million coin suppli
Oh, one other thing I've noticed, that's taken like 6 months of pretty heavy activity to detect:
Zapping and zapping-back in conversation has definitely affected how I feel about relationships on the site. This is notable because in many cases it's roughly neutral -- neither I, nor my conversation partners, have made any money, or at least, the imbalance is probably tiny after all these months. But the feeling that is established is incredibly meaningful. In some cases, it's changed from a modest hostility on my part, to a substantial feeling of goodwill, just through these zaps and counter-zaps.
It reminds me, in a way, of a potlatch of ritual gift-giving. In fact, in many ways I understand the latter much better, after having been in this zapping economy for a while.
This seems like a non-trivial observation, since SN is often discussed as a way to earn sats, which it technically is. But much more powerful, in my experience, has been the pro-sociality that zapping sats back and forth has produced. Outside of potlatch, it reminds me of when you get to a point with a friend where you barely keep track of who's being beer or lunch or coffee. So even though you need money to do it, the power is not at all dependent on how much money you actually walk away with.
I'd be interested in other perspectives on this one bc the implications are large -- another way that psychology comes into play in this space.
Steve Wozniak shared a related quote you might like from the same 1984 Hackers Conference…
“Information should be free but your time should not”
https://medium.com/backchannel/the-definitive-story-of-information-wants-to-be-free-a8d95427641c#.y7d0amvr3
BTW, I keep forgetting to ask you this. I couldn't explain well what I was trying to talk to you about a few weeks ago. How hard would it be to just add another type post to the menu which would be an exact duplicate of a discussion post except with perpetual editing allowed? I'm not sure what to call it. Maybe "index?"
@DarthCoin, are you here for input too? Remember the other day we talked about this?
It's an echo chamber by design. If you're looking for divergent takes, the discourse will always be gated to some extent. Nocoiners are unlikely to ever show up here but they literally have no coins.
If your primary interest in bitcoin is as a ticker on a screen and NGU, this isn't the place for you either. You probably haven't taken self-custody, which is a prerequisite to joining here. SN appeals to the niche community of bitcoin but not necessarily everyone who owns some.
if you aren't doing it with your own node, you have to trust someone else to verify the bitcoin for you. Brother, let me tell you: sometimes even the nicest ones fake it. And I'm not just talking about the cheap tricks down at the fiat bank who tell you they have your money while they're giving it out at the back door.
How to make love to your Bitcoin node (when it's been a while)
Possibly one of the worst things I've ever written. Look for it tomorrow.
Ok. I owe you 10k sats for Fun Fact Friday bounty. Do you want me to send it to you now or wait until Friday to make sure the auto post works?