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Bitcoin Beginner Saloon #2

DarthCoin

Is it really necessary to run your private node? Isn’t enough for someone who lacks technical skills to use a self-custody wallet? 

ideasfromtheedge

True encounters are always, in one way or another, ‘ongoing encounters,’ like that of Émilie du Châtelet and Voltaire, who remained together for seventeen years, each nourishing the other’s work. 

And we are not obliged to remain together for an encounter to ‘continue’: it can extend its effects and remain alive in memory, as shown in Clint Eastwood’s beautiful film _The Bridges of Madison County_.

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Ongoing encounters

AskSN

My recent experiences have shown me that people's sincerity seems to decrease when they love, but increase when they hate. I’m almost convinced of it.

What's your experience? 

Have you noticed that people are less sincere in love but more honest in hate?

Photography



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As I read, dusk begins to fall and the room starts to darken. To avoid disturbing the gentleness of that dimness that fills the space, I turn on the small reading lamp. A circle of light — a small territory that detaches me completely from the world, entirely absorbed in what I read.

Outside, everything begins to fade: the streets, the voices, the noise of the world. Nothing can be heard except the rustle of paper, the quiet beating of the heart, and the lamp that stays awake, tireless. It knows all the secrets of sleepless nights, the underlined sentences, the sighs, and the eyelids that surrender.


The Reading Lamp

Stacker Saloon

saloon

I haven't been active on Stacker News for a while. Can someone tell me what these are that I see in the notifications? 🤔🤔

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I call it “society of provocation”. A society that grows and swells from its own abundance. It turns wealth into a daily spectacle or into an endless show of itself. A society that, through bright advertising, shining shop windows, tempting displays, wakes in a man the thirst to own, or the desire to possess, or to fill the emptiness with things.

At the same time, it leaves many in the shadow. It provokes them with images of plenty. It excites them with the hope of a fulfillment they will never reach. It creates needs, real or imagined, but denies the means to satisfy them.

So I call it a “society of provocation” because it keeps the gap, on purpose, between the treasures it holds and the glory with which it shows them: through the public nakedness of advertising, through pride in its way of life, through the invisible call to buy, through the gasping thirst to own, etc. 

How do you call it? 

How do you define today’s society?

the_stacker_muse

Memoir: Finding freedom in apparent failure

SimpleStacker

I like the idea that true freedom is both spiritual and practical, even economic (“buy bitcoin too”). 

In one sentence, what is your life's story?

k00b

A long conversation between fear and freedom. 

P.S. I have the impression that I came into this world to understand freedom, but I’m still trying to learn what it means.

What is your philosophy of life?

>My philosophy is: what people say about me is none of my business. I am who I am and I do what I do. I expect nothing and I accept everything. And that makes life easier. We live in a world where funerals are more important than the deceased, marriage is more important than love, appearance is more important than the soul. We live in a culture of packaging that despises the content.

Sir Anthony Hopkins

That’s exactly my philosophy as well. 

What about you? 

Can you locate where the airplane is? 
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An airplane somewhere among the clouds

Why is it so hard to get answers to simple questions on social media?

stack_harder

Many social media users don’t actually want to answer. They just want to debate, to promote themselves, or to push their opinion. Your question becomes an excuse for them to speak, not to help.

Will the voice of truth really be silenced by weapons?

> You like George Orwell, don’t you? 

Yes, I like him. 

It is heartbreaking!
Charlie Kirk was only 31 years old. He left behind his wife and two children.

He was killed because they could not endure his eloquence, intellect, faith, and zeal for the truth. His convictions are shared by nearly half of the American people, but he had the courage to articulate and openly defend them. This is the result when a society begins to label every differing opinion as “hate speech.”

As George Orwell once said:
“In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

Two children will grow up without a father, because in the America of “great freedoms,” some today cannot tolerate civilized debate.

They could not even accept it when Charlie handed them the microphone and invited them: “Come, change my mind. Let’s see if you have better arguments than I do.”

His confrontation was not merely with people who debate, but above all with a murderous ideology which, when it realizes it cannot win with words, turns to the gun.



BooksAndArticles

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Entertains and gives pleasure
Strengthens memory
Increases concentration skills
Improves self-expression
Expands knowledge
Encourages analytical and critical thinking
Reduces stress and anxiety
Improves sleep quality
Helps achieve goals

Agree or Disagree? 


BENEFITS OF READING

How to write better dialogue?

guerratotal

If you can’t write dialogue, you just can’t. It’s simple. Don’t bother trying, because you’ll never manage to write dialogue. If you don’t have that gift, you just don’t have it. That’s it. Sorry for being so direct. 😂


I read this quote on the web.

>I don’t work for money. I work for relationships. I work for network. I work for personal development. I work to provide services and goods and values to the market place. And if money comes as a returne, as a buy product, so be it. But to be working for money is to be working for what somebody else owns, because I don’t own that money. I don’t work for money. 

and it made me question my reasons for working. Money's probably not my main motivator; it's more likely those other things in the quote. 

What about you? Is money your main motivator?

Why do you work? Is money your main motivator?

bitcoin

I sold my Bitcoin to buy an apartment in Iran. Now I regret it.

0376fcf12d

It’s a sad story selling your precious Bitcoin for an apartment you don’t even need.

However, posts like this don’t really work here. No one is going to give you their precious sats just because you live in a poor country. Many of us here are stackers from poor countries too, working low-paying jobs but we don’t beg for sats.

Try to contribute something of value to the forum, and you’ll see just how generous other stackers can be.