I have been producing all sorts of blog content for years and almost all of those articles in recent years have been bitcoin content. When it comes to finding useful bitcoin images to use in my articles, almost all royalty-free image services have nothing but those stupid physical coins for bitcoin images. Here is an example of what I am talking about.
Creating Quality Royalty-Free Bitcoin Images
I have been using Unsplash for all of my images for a few years now because I love their sort of freemium "open source attribution" model. They provide a platform for photographers to show their photography skills, give away their work for absolutely free, grow their following, and potentially get hired for photography jobs.
Since I can't stand the lack of quality bitcoin images that are available online, I have decided to create bitcoin images and release them to the entire world via the Unsplash license. It's my hope that bitcoin content producers all around the world can use my bitcoin images to build and create whatever they want without worrying about paying any sort of royalty. As far as the price of bitcoin images is concerned, it's a race to the bottom.
IMHO, bitcoin is best visualized as nodes, miners, private keys, seed words, orange pills, 0s & 1s, and anything else that the pleb network can come up with. Bitcoin is definitely NOT a physical coin with a "B" embossed on it.
To get some of my first bitcoin images published, I purchased a broken S9 just so I could take pics of the hash boards, upload them to Unsplash, and let anyone in the world use them without having to pay me a royalty. I will upload more in the not so distant future but for now here is my collection of bitcoin photos.
I want this to help people like you to have access to quality bitcoin images at zero cost. The more images I am able to publish (and other bitcoiners who want to publish free photos), the more content that we can all use to produce quality bitcoin content like featured bitcoin images, art, etc.
Here is an example of what I am talking about. This is a blog post by Foundation Devices: https://foundationdevices.com/2023/06/make-12-words-the-standard/
They were able to write this article and use my seed phrase image without needing to ask me for permission to use the photo or attribute credit to me.
What sorts of images do you need or would you like to see more of? I will do what I can to produce them and publish them on Unsplash so we can drown out all of the images of silly bitcoin "B" coins.
If you want to help fund more quality bitcoin images, you can just zap some sats here on Stacker news or you can donate here on my Geyser page and let me know what you want more of.
Even better, if you're a bitcoiner who think you can create quality bitcoin images, please join me and publish some of your own royalty-free bitcoin images.
Thanks in advance to anyone who contributes in any way they can.
Mempool.space is the greatest block explorer, easily. And it has never let me down when i check to make sure the fee i use will be in the next block..always always accurate on what block you'll be in too!
When you see shit like this it just makes you realize how much paper bitcoin is still out there. Short term holders have sold quite a bit and Miners have sold down a little bit but nowhere near the level to match this type of buying, plus what is going on with MSTR and Tether, plus the plebs. All the fluctuation in price is coming from vapour backed futures, options and other stupid derivatives. as long as the contracts roll they never need to settle and deliver the Bitcoin. They will eventually get squeezed into oblivion when people demand the bitcoin instead of the next paper contract. Then all hell will break loose. Until then paper is in control.
Yep, basically this is me. And it's largely because of what they outline in the points that follow. Most of the heavy-handed regulation types are representing entrenched interests who would prefer to choke out competition while avoiding innovating or taking risks. This feels, for lack of a better term, completely unnatural.
Brief Bio:
INFLOOENCERS
People who spread news and educate for free === good for bitcoin
People who inform/educate while reading ads === inflooencor
Ads are mind viruses. They prey on people's appeal to authority (a logical fallacy). If a product actually fills a NEED it does not need marketing. It will be found and if its useful, naturally will tell others about it. If your product cant scale thru word of mouth, its probably an inferior or not-needed (high time preference) product. A simple heuristic that has severed me well, anytime you are fed a paid endorsement, boycott that product and brand immediately and forever.
Also people who inform/educate and charge you a fee/paywall === infloorncor
Information wants to be free. By holding information for ransom, you create the illusion of scarcity. As if what you have to say is more valuable because YOU said it. This behavior is deeply rooted in egoism. It creates Inflooencors.
I don't think it's a good idea to integrate with Nostr at this moment.
Both Nostr and Stacker News are relatively new, so they likely have many features in development.
Integration would likely require a significant amount of developer time.
Instead of fully integrating, perhaps it would be more efficient to simply add a field to the Stacker News user profile where users can input their Nostr public key.
I still want to make more improvements to the
rolesimplementations.Right now they are just PoCs that demo how the low-level APIs can be used. But I want to eventually put them into a shape where they could be used as high-level API for custom implementations of roles (e.g.: pools, proxies and JDs).
https://image.nostr.build/9598f5fd42611de13c43a4e8216c67396eb87a16fe614edc4412bba93fa09fb9.png
I don't know, but it sounds... Possible. 🌞
I've noticed (also in my family) that women often times say / propose something, only to instantly scan the expressions of the people around, after which they either back paddle- or expand on their initial stance.
To me, it bears a resemblance to the idea you're proposing in your post:
In contrast, a man might (with the assistance of the minority) simply knuckle his proposal through, no matter the general consensus.
Something along those lines, ain't it?
Interesting, interesting. I hope that you post about your other thoughts as well, I'd gladly read them. 🤠🔥⚡
Edit: Props on the formatting, I've gotta get on your level!