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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @3a42879d5f 9 Jul \ on: You wake up and it's 1995. What's the first thing you do? AskSN
Buy Bitc- oh wait.
Ey this is pretty cool! Love the automation you built. Simple idea and the business execution is looking good. I've had similar physical collectible business ideas (anime TCG cards) that failed miserably. I'm rooting for you!
One complaint, the coins in the carousel on the landing page have a pricetag and a buy tooltip. I was expecting to be able to click a coin I like, and be able to buy it. Turns out I can't. Clicking the buy now text just closes the tooltip. So it looks like the only alternative is to click the 'browse assets' button where I'm taken to the coins list page where I have to re-find the coin I liked.
I'm curious about the 'Login with Lightning' feature. I've never seen that before. Is it a custom implementation or is it something that's standardized? (I am curious to know if I can do that with my own websites)
Digging into the source code of the Login with Lighting page, my browser complains that there's a stray <script> tag which falls outside the <body>. IDK if there's a good reason for that, but it seemed to work anyway.
Last point, love the good performance of your landing page. I don't have a GPU and the page is still smooth. Lots of websites today don't run this smooth. Respect!
I need to rant about this somewhere. Scalping already means something horrible and violent and I don't like that people use it to describe free market arbitrage.
Nintendo Switch 2 sells for over $600 on eBay. Isn't this a sign that Nintendo's listing price is way too low?
I see this over and over again in VTuber merch drops. The merch sells out at droptime, and actually re-sells for higher on secondary markets. Isn't this a sign that the original price was too low?
I've done a lot of free market arbitrage over the years. I won't buy if I don't see a margin. There are huge margins with limited items because the listing price is too low.
I hear it again and again, influencers are worried about setting their prices too high to where their fans can't afford to buy their products. They're ignoring the market value out of a sense of moral obligation.
I want to agree with you because decentralization and p2p is essential, but I don't because it's not practical. There have been times in Bitcoin 2018-2021(?) where it cost me double digits worth of USD to make a Bitcoin transaction. IDK about you, but I'm not paying $10-40 USD in FEES to pay for a $5 subscription. In those times, I quit using Bitcoin and I used Paypal instead. I want Bitcoin to be a medium of exchange, not just a store of value.
Lightning isn't perfect and I'm not saying that's THE solution, but we can't scale transactions on-chain. Maybe you're sour about the blocksize wars? I know I am. I'm a Roger Ver fan and I wanted big blocks. We lost though, the market picked small blocks, and now we gotta figure something out.
Best thing we got is Lighting. I'm hopeful that something even better comes along. Something more private, p2p. I don't think it's Ecash. Cashu forgets, "Not your keys not your coin" and there's little incentive for custodians to play nice and not rug (other than ecash wallet app developers.) Wasn't there another two methods? Liquid? Or was that vaporware? I don't know.
Honestly my ideal scaling solution fantasy right now is a Dogecoin Drivechain. The drivechain would link transactions between BTC and DOGE. DOGE uses PoW so it's tolerable. Basically do business on DOGE and settle on BTC. IDK if that's realistic though, I'm not a bitcoin dev.
When I still had a job, I was getting paid in Bitcoin and my employer had no idea it was happening. To them, it just looked like direct deposit into a bank account, but that bank account was Bitwage. I set it up to pay me out 50% USD, 50% BTC. Bitcoin native jobs don't really matter with a system like this. If you're a worker and you want it, you just set it up and you got it.
It's good to know that they don't have to be enemies. They're just two guys who love similar things and each built some cool software, they just went about it a different way.
I've been lusting over https://frame.work/ .. I still don't have one, too broke, but I want it as my next computer.
I hear good things about Lenovo X1 Carbon.
System76 is great too. I had a Bonobo WS that I used for years and it was one of the best computers I've owned.
For your use case, you could probably find something on Newegg in the $600-$800 range that would do everything you need. Granted, I'm a Linux user and I have no idea what kind of computer you need to run Windows.
For multitasking, more RAM is always better. Nowadays I don't run anything less than 32GB. IDK anything about modern processors, but when I'm shopping I always use https://www.cpubenchmark.net/ to compare the processors of computers I'm interested in.
+1 the system76 recommendation. A few years ago I sold my System76 Bonobo WS because I got a desktop gifted to me, but then a few weeks later I started to miss the laptop. My only complaints with it were the fan noise and the 4K display. It didn't play nice with my multi-monitor setup, where one screen was 1080p and the laptop was 4K. But the laptop itself was very powerful, great for Docker/K8s/emulation and a workhorse that never let me down.
That outfit is bizarre! Neat effect on video. Cool to see the behind the scenes photos.
"Like Humans Do" has lived rent-free in my brain since I heard it on Media Player in Windows XP. My siblings and I must have danced and listened to it hundreds of times on loop.
cryptocurrency as "a medium of exchange is not supposed to survive
According to what? Your intuition?
"Speculative asset." God, please world, get up to date. I'm marking my calendar so I can laugh in 10 years when he's proven wrong.
I use and recommend DeArrow and SponsorBlock browser extensions. DeArrow makes video titles and thumbnails more truthful and frankly, more boring. It removes sensational thumbnails meant to entice and get you to click. I find myself watching less youtube because of it.
SponsorBlock blocks more than just ads-- it can block redundant previews/hooks that are meant to grab people's attention at the start of the video, as well as intermissions or intro animations. It can even help skip filler tangents and jokes. Overall, it saves me time.
Both extensions are from https://ajay.app/. Keep in mind there is a small learning curve and they take a little getting used to. Also YouTube just updated their site a few days ago which broke both extensions. So if you're thinking of trying, you might have to wait a few days until the extension maintainer gets them running again.