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33 sats \ 2 replies \ @faithandcredit 6 Dec 2022
Do you think that farming reduces CO2 emissions since the crops that are being grown grow fast and big and likely consume lots of CO2 in the process? Imagine a wheat field getting abandonded, no more farming, because of a tax or just its plain banned, what would grow instead? Some kind of weed? How much CO2 do they consume compared to for example wheat or any other crop a farmer would plant.
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33 sats \ 1 reply \ @faithandcredit 6 Dec 2022
The reason i ask is because of much the land around the world is covered by farms. We have developed and organised it and planted crops that grow optimally. Look at this picture, farms as far as the eye can see. But what if this farming stopped? There would be random weeds growing, maybe some trees, over time. But it wouldnt be as effecient as what the farmers can do.
https://i.ibb.co/HFrTgD6/image.png
You can argue that those fields are a form of natural solar panels. They are absorbing the sun AND co2 among other things, and providing energy to us in the end in the form of carbs and what not.
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40 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 6 Dec 2022
I'd guess this has been written about/researched pretty extensively. One of the arguments in favor of pastured cattle is it can revitalize deserts into grassland and "sink" more carbon. I'd guess there aren't significant deviations in normal CO2 metabolism between plants.
Farms, given the machinery and transportation involved in the end-to-end process, probably produce nearly as much carbon as they capture.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @AndyOwethu 6 Dec 2022
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @pitiunited 6 Dec 2022
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @swmtr 6 Dec 2022
With the kids bobsledding and enjoying a bank holiday:)
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33 sats \ 6 replies \ @gd 6 Dec 2022
I am prepping for investor meetings this week, looking to build out the CyberHornet team for the resources to deliver and support the entire product vision of Swarm.
From a product perspective, I've been running through testing and bug fixing with the Swarm stack (on-chain, no L2 yet) on regtest/testnet. It's become a real solid base for us to build on.
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0 sats \ 5 replies \ @nout 6 Dec 2022
What is the product vision of Swarm? :)
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1 sat \ 4 replies \ @gd 6 Dec 2022
A fully integrated node user experience for running Bitcoin L1, L2 (and future layers) that requires no technical experience to run or maintain.
This includes things like automatic channel (and liquidity) management, swapping funds between layers, managing multi-sig wallets with recovery potential and a lot more experience-enhancing features.
A Bitcoiner's node should be their preferred place to keep their funds, even if they're brand new. It's the most sovereign way to use the network, and we're making it much easier!
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121 sats \ 1 reply \ @tlmort91 7 Dec 2022
What you describe is close to what I have envisaged is a tool that I would end up using one day.
Ultimately though it would also have stablecoin functionality such that I can opt to keep a portion of my wealth in
I have no idea if thats where you think you are going but it is what I think would be a useful tool for me.
How you make money from that I don't know though.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @gd 7 Dec 2022
That's really cool to hear you've been thinking of similar solutions! I certainly see stables playing a part over LN as we progress further (I think stables over LN could possibly be Bitcoin's mid-bear market rally catalyst, kind of like what happened with Defi last BM).
As with all products, it'll take iterations and time to reach that world we envisage, but there is no real reason it can't exist.
In terms of the business model— we're going to start cloud-hosted, so Bitcoiners will pay a server subscription (much like Voltage currently). This will allow us to fund a lot of the software development, but ultimately the software will be open-sourced and free. We will still offer cloud-hosted services and bolster revenue by providing services to the lightning network itself (I'll leave that intentionally vague)
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @nout 6 Dec 2022
Interesting - is this a hardware or software-only play?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @gd 6 Dec 2022
It will begin life as a software play, there’s a long, long roadmap which will eventually bring us to full hardware/software integration (all of which will— in time, be open sourced)
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83 sats \ 2 replies \ @RealCoachAndy 6 Dec 2022
Good morning everyone!! Well I'm about to head for work and get this day started, it seems it's going to be a great one, of course with my coffee right now and finishing up reading some news, be well gang and take a deep breath and soak it all in. Stay frosty!
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @gd 6 Dec 2022
Ah, that reminds me— I'm due another coffee!
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @RealCoachAndy 6 Dec 2022
You knooooow it!!
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33 sats \ 3 replies \ @chungkingexpress 6 Dec 2022
I did not expect to encounter this. Caroline Ellison on an actual podcast.
https://i.postimg.cc/RZCsz1g6/Screen-Shot-2022-12-07-at-12-09-27-AM.png
EDIT:
Do I win some kind of meme prize?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @00 7 Dec 2022
At about the 8:00 mark she talks about how Alameada doesn't believe in using stop-losses lol.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Ge 6 Dec 2022
its wild to think someone like that could get that high...she was didn't do it alone they had ties and help to get where they were to perform what they did so trash all just to give btc a black eyes was a psy op for sure
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @gmd 6 Dec 2022
She is so bad. I think if these videos had been more public everyone would have withdrawn their money immediately.
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483 sats \ 4 replies \ @juan 6 Dec 2022
Hi all!
It's been 8 weeks since the team and I started building https://lightsats.com and today is our final day of the tournament with a live pitch to all the judges!
We're closing in on 1,000 users and we're only 119 users away to hit this goal.
I'd love to get help from the community to hit this goal.
If you sign up and send us a screenshot of your Lightsast dashboard via Twitter @lightsats21 we'll send you a link to claim 2100 sats on us🎉
By the way, here's the link to the live pitch today at 1pm EST in case you want to tune in!
https://lgt.st/final_pitch
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100 sats \ 1 reply \ @chungkingexpress 6 Dec 2022
UX is looking tight.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @juan 6 Dec 2022
Thanks! We didn't get a UX/UI Designer on the team in time but @zapp_ed helped us with some guidance which helped tremendously!
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100 sats \ 1 reply \ @gd 6 Dec 2022
Best of luck with the pitch, and great job on building and releasing the product!
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @juan 6 Dec 2022
Thanks a lot ✌🏼the support from the SN community through out these 8 weeks has been amazing so I really appreciate it.
I'll update you guys on how it goes!
It has been an awesome 8 weeks and couldn't have not done it with the team @_reneaaron and @rolznz
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