When I was young, I was incredibly awkward. In early grade school, I literally didn't talk to anyone. My first teachers thought I a had a learning disability. I used to sit in my front yard alone and stare at the dirt for hours at a time. I didn't have a single friend that was outside of my imagination. I can not tell you the name of one other child or teacher from school from that time period. As far as school goes, it's almost like those first 9 years didn't happen.
My father was a very troubled man, not longed for this world. He didn't make "good decisions". When I was 7, he was dating a 17 year old. So naturally, we were fleeing the state together to keep him out of trouble for being with a minor. Now I was a strange child in a new school, in a strange place. I don't remember much about my childhood, but I do remember the time a kid twice my size threw me against a wall and I broke my arm in 3 places. It hurt. The pain was pretty bad, but what what hurt the most was the fact that I didn't know this kid. I never did anything to him. I was completely innocent. I felt bullied. Why would he do this? Later I would see him again in a court room crying. And then, I felt sorry for him. Imagine that.
When I was ten, CPS, took me away from my father. I spent some time living in a scary building for children without homes. Eventually, they found my mother and she took me to live with her. I didn't speak for weeks. I didn't know this woman. I wanted to be with my dad, not this stranger. I was very angry. This was the story of the snowflake.
I started to come online in fifth grade. Today I could show you a picture of my class and tell you almost everyone's name. Suddenly I was present in the world. I even made a few friends. We called ourselves the class clowns. Suddenly, I couldn't shut up. I would get in trouble daily for talking in class nonstop with my new best friend. He was a "real" friend. His name was Richard. 💚
This changed everything. Now I had an partner. We went everywhere together. He was a strange sensitive soul like me. He lifted me up and made me feel real. We would get to school early to look at books in the library. We shared all of our secrets with each other. I finally felt safe to be a human child in a human child place.
There were still bullies. And now, even I could be a bully! With the help of my new friend, I could also put people down in order to feel better about myself. But who was safe to bully? We found a pair of outcasts. One was fat, and one was skinny. Since one was fat, we knew we could outrun them as a pair. And the skinny one couldn't do anything about it on his own. So we followed them around, mocking them with Bulk and Skull theme song sounds. Shout out to the Power Rangers. There was another kid that was so strange, I could even bully him all on my own. I once saw him sitting alone playing with his own snot on the concrete. He was also mentally retarded. Yeah, now I was the kid that picked on that kid. He got it the worse. There was a boy from Cambodia that was always sitting alone. He once told us a story about pooping in holes where he came from. This was hilarious, so naturally, we laughed at him every chance we got. Yep, the snowflake had become the bully. I was putting people down to build myself up and while it may I have felt good in a way, I always knew it wasn't me.
Since those early days, I have grown up a lot. I have exhausted myself with self reflection. I have journeyed around the world, seeking to better understand myself. And I now know, just like the bullies that hurt me, I was in a lot of pain most of my younger years. I have forgiven myself for hurting others. Now I stand up for the underdog and no bully will ever have power over me again.
Here on Stacker News, there are some bullies.
I can think of one.
They need not be named.
There is no reason to name them.
Consider that for a moment.
There are many people on SN that are able to educate and offer value, while also being able to listen with compassion and lift others up. In fact, there are too many to list. Bitcoin and SN is full of loving individuals. We don't need gatekeepers. Bitcoin will be just fine with out any one of us judging who is "smart" enough to make the cut our earn a "badge".
There is no reason for this to go on. The beautiful thing about stacker, is we all get a vote.
So please help me. Be brave! Speak up. Downzap when you see disrespectful behavior, regardless of how popular the perpetrator is. Stand up for those who are being put down and pushed away simply because they aren't there yet when it comes to Bitcoin. We were all new to Bitcoin at some point. Stop defending bullies. Stop with the, "ohh, that's just how they are", nonsense. We ALL deserve better. We can make a change here. We can nurture a community that fosters diversity and educates all at the same time. There is NEVER a good reason to put others down. We only need love and kindness. Bitcoin is love in money form. So let's respect Bitcoin by doing what we know is right. And let's share everything, not just "the corn". Think bigger! Bitcoin and stacker news are for the whole world. We should aim to be inclusive and expansive.
Please help me.
Please share your stories about being bullied or being a bully. Is anyone out there like me, both a bully and a snowflake? If I am a overly sensitive, tell me about that. Be vulnerable. Be honest. Be open. Please zap⚡⚡⚡ this post so it can reach more eyeballs.
And please, always be respectful. I love you all. Have a beautiful day.
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Interesting. I thought you guys kept a portion. Why don't you use SN account to host saloon daily and we can all zap it as donations to SN in appreciation for the work you guys are doing? I know you guys have your angel funding but I am sure the community would like to contribute to the sustainability and success of the site.
Emphasis on pay to post is good. It's easier when thinking about SN to focus on the innovation of receiving sats ("earning"), but a forum where you must pay to post is an equally powerful innovation.
I'm curious for your thoughts about the incentives of SN rewards. Here is how I understand it:
Posters have an incentive to post good posts -- people will zap them if they do.
Commenters have an incentive to make good comments and engage in the conversation -- people might zap their comments.
What is the incentive for zappers?
SN rewards (and the leaderboard) look to me like an attempt to incentivize zapping.
If SN removes rewards, the only reason to zap good content is "good will." It seems to me that the less we have to rely on people doing the "right" thing and the more we give them an incentive to do the "right" thing, the better everything works.
(I would say this is one of the major flaws of most governments: we expect elected officials to do useful/good work without providing any sort of incentive to do so. People are self-intetested. We can rely on this.)
Do you have thoughts on alternative ways to incentivize zapping?
(I suppose an incentive for zappers might be to encourage more good content, do you think this is a good enough incentive?)
Even those of us who “own” a home are just renting it from the government.
Wow, that's quite a distribution of answers.
I do think Earth is a forever home for humanity, but I also expect there will be a lunar research base at some point. We have permanent research colonies in Antarctica already and the space station has been continuously inhabited for a long time now.
Economists tend to have extreme recency bias. She appears to be a fairly young economist. I'm guessing she doesn't even know that the ZIRP she grew up with is an historical aberration.
I strongly suspect we will see a fake top around ~$120K that will lead to people thinking they are smart by selling all of their Bitcoin to buy back 2x their stack at $60K, only to watch the price move to $360K, which makes them FOMO buy back 1/3 of what they had instead of 2x—because it’s clearly going to $1M next and they think they will maximize fiat returns. This is how Bitcoin gets distributed rather than consolidated.
If you have to spend some bitcoin to pay for dreams (buying a business, buying a house), that’s one thing, and timing it can be an art, but trying to outsmart the market usually ends in getting manipulated out of position by the bigger funds that can control the price against you.
All that said, DCA in and DCA out (over a certain excess return APY) is also my strategy for over-allocating in.
It’s the people who try to time the market by going all in and all out that get super rekt.
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Living in different time zones makes it difficult to join the calls but I would definitely listen to them of they were recorded.
As has been previously stated in other discussions here, and more broadly, a lot (most ?) held Bitcoin has been through a KYC process in it's acquisition, so any on chain activity is by default tied to the legal fiction ID of the holder - apart from that, there is the also the transparent nature of the blockchain, and the default ability to monitor the amounts, activity, and any grouping of other outputs in the sending of transactions (the 'clustering' that Chain analysis companies routinely sift the blockchain to collect) of Bitcoin transacted on chain, unless the user deliberately employs techniques to obfuscate any/some of these aspects - so on chain in particular privacy is weak at best both in relation to ID and to activity using Bitcoin for most people - then there is the potential leaking of location in the broadcasting of a TX unless the user employs other techniques to obfuscate that - it's far from a simple situation, and many people are no doubt revealing far more about themselves and their actions than they would prefer, or perhaps even realise.
i go with 99, hoping someone else gets the satisfaction of tipping 1 sat and seeing an even 100.
i’ve also been thinking about ways to get more people to tip, or at least to change their default tip amounts to something more significant... thoughts on something like this in replacement of the current tip settings panel?
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Spending too much time being distracted online rather than doing what I know I should be doing.
Darknet Diaries! Fantastic show about all kinds of stuff, from cyberheists to pentesting to other crimes.
In the same vein, the two-season Lazarus Heist from the BBC is a deep dive into North Korea's assorted cybercrimes (including trying to plant employees at some crypto exchanges), and is riviting.
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History is an amazing deep dive (each episode can run 5-6 hours, and he released 2-4 episodes a year) into history from a non-historian's perspective.
And one I love that's a little lighter:
You Must Remember This: A look at classic Hollywood, ranging from the early days all the way to the '90s. Incredibly well-researched.
Day 325 of snailposting everyday 'til BTC hits $100k.
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Day 138 of snailposting everyday 'til BTC hits $100k.
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Completely agree. It blows my mind how some people don't spend sats when they have the chance "because they want to have bitcoin, not dollars".
Well, fuck, I concur. But if you have an easy way to turn BTC to USD and viceversa, why not Spend & Replace? This helps promote adoption.
These people hoarding BTC that hard as if they were Gollum might find themselves in the future having millions in value but having no use for it because we didn't manage to make a free, black, circular economy before the governments went full authoritarian with CBDCs and against Bitcoin.
https://m.stacker.news/4798
That's very useful feedback. Thanks a lot.
The bitcoin on-chain fees increased rapidly within a short amount of time (spiking by more than 500x). Channels may automatically close as a protective measure. This isn't something specific to Alby, it's a built-in failsafe mechanism within the Lightning Network itself, designed to keep your funds secure during unexpected network events.
Is there a way to recover my funds without opening another channel?
No funds are lost and you don't need to do anything. Since this was a forced channel closure, your bitcoin will reappear in the savings balance of your Hub within 14 days.
Where's my savings account?
Your savings account is your bitcoin onchain wallet. You find it on the "Node" page of your Hub.
https://m.stacker.news/47489
it works just fine today.
Any update or feature that could jeopardize these things, jeopardizes everything. Don't break something that works today because you're responding to a theoretical problem of tomorrow.