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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.
We are non-partisan, one issue voters: If a candidate supports an optimistic technology-enabled future, we are for them. If they want to choke off important technologies, we are against them.
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:
- Active Duty Marine Infantry Officer until 2.5 years ago when I finished up active time and went back to school to learn to code so I could work on Bitcoin
- Taught a bunch of bitcoin education courses, most recently at Base58 with @niftynei as her TA
- Been contributing to open source bitcoin and lightning projects for about 2 years now, most extensively in Fedimint
- Worked at OKCoin and OKX for a couple months as a backend developer on the fiat and "web3" teams, quit to work exclusively on Bitcoin again like I had when just doing open source
- Started working at Fedi a couple months ago
- Currently running the AI4ALL Hackathon, a remote hackathon running the month of July on using Bitcoin to scale and improve the privacy of generative AI applications https://bolt.fun/tournaments/ai4all/overview
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.
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!