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Is it being judged on actual ability and content or popularity? Ill be the first to say I absolutely do not think I am the best here, however I can clearly see there seems to be a popularity contest happening if we are judging by sats...
I've been a writer for so long the distinction doesn't matter to me either way. Call it the "zen of being a writer".
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46 sats \ 8 replies \ @plebpoet 8h
curious 🧐 interesting, is the distinction that you mean to describe between popularity and content?
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It had to be addressed.
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112 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 4h
We actually discussed it among ourselves. It is a good question. When I award sats for best five posts in the bitcoin beginner territory, I stopped being bound by strict zaprank. In practice, it has turned out to usually be accurate, at least from my narrow and probably biased perspective. Either that or I'm lazy. I do reserve veto power there. I do think zaprank should be used in judging, but I wrestle with how much it should be relied upon.
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win/lose. Popular/unpopular. Victory/defeat. None of that matters if you have nothing to prove. The world will love you and hate you if you live hard enough in it. It's fickle.
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46 sats \ 4 replies \ @plebpoet 8h
I believe you and can confirm in fiat world this is the case. And I would echo I feel I have nothing to prove.
On the other hand this is a very singular experiment, the value of this contest being expressed in bitcoin
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While I appreciate that it is new to you, I was around when Bitcoin was unleashed along with some others around here I'm sure. The only reason it became valuable in the first place was due to Wikileaks. It sat around for quite some time before that. This, of course, implies that some people with fiat money had to get behind it, which by extension means that the custody of the chain was screwed around with and the network format that it was designed to model was changed. Hence, Bitcoin will value what its keepers value as a primary rule. Since its kingdom was built on Wikileaks, which held a lot of nasty kinds of things in its files, it will have a huge challenge to overcome supporting "dirty" things versus "clean" things.
What I like about the experiment is that it can change the publishing chain of command--I don't realistically expect it to reflect the value of the pieces involved, but admit it would be a pleasant surprise.
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The only reason it became valuable in the first place was due to Wikileaks
what are you talking about?
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My apologies. I figured that someone as smart as you seem to be when it comes to Bitcoin knew what is common knowledge concerning this part of bitcoin history, but it looks like I erred in that assessment: https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerhuang/2019/04/26/how-bitcoin-and-wikileaks-saved-each-other/
The top ten by zaprank (SN's combination of sats and trusts), the 100k sat grand prize will be judged on merits of the story.
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