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My personal views and thoughts.

Stacker News in the Next 5 Years

Stacker News, where Stackers is people that's not just about stacking sats. It's about stacking knowledge, skills, relationships, attitudes. The goal is not necessarily how many sats you hold; it's sovereignty, love, peace, happiness, and satisfaction.

1. Bitcoin at the Center

All interaction here is powered by the power of Bitcoin. That's what makes SN an outstanding community. Stacker News it's a V4V and PoW enabled people's economy. In my opinion, in the next 5 years, with more individuals living on Bitcoin Standard or Sats Standard whatever the preference, SN will be the most natural town square in the world to belong to it.

2. A Global Town Square

Stacker News will likely grow beyond its current mostly English-speaking audience, becoming a truly global community. I see multi-language territories. Territories in Arabic, Chinese, Spanish, French, Russian, Portuguese, Hindi, Swahili and etc.
Bitcoin adoption it looks is quicker in the Global South. That wave of merchants and individuals adoption will revolutionize SN as well. More stories from markets, villages, and cities where Bitcoin is already money and BTC & sats already the currency. Earning (as in ~jobs Territory), spending (as on ~AGORA Territory) and saving in sats (more resources as shared in ~Bitcoin Territory, ~Bitcoin_Beginners Territory and etc) = learning to, and living as sovereign individuals and sovereign communities.

3. A P2P And V4V Economy

By 2030, SN's value-first, community-verified economy will be immune to fiat manipulation. The culture remains: no masters, no slaves, only peers.

4. Stackers

SN is already where Bitcoiners learn from each other. That role only grows in the next 5 years: tutorials, circular economy case studies, self-sovereignty tools, memes that are one of the modern tools for peaceful revolution.

5. The Bigger Picture

Stacker News in the next 5 years is not just a website or a forum. It's: *Sovereign individuals exchanging value daily. *A Bitcoin-based (based on the real money) economy of work, services, and culture. *Communities and "Bitcoin tribes" thriving therein. *Nostr identities and portable reputation so you’re never trapped.
And above all: a place where stackers stack not only sats, but also, stacking knowledge, skills and tools, stacking sovereignty, stacking freedom, responsibilities, stacking relationships, stacking joy.

We Stackers be like:

Eventually, I knew the entire world would meet this Potentially, I have the key to make earthly honey fruit trees.
In the next 5 years, SN it will be the global town square where free people meet to create and share a life of sovereignty, peace, and happiness — powered by Bitcoin and free, open-source tools.
natural town square
But will the SN model keep out the bots posting gratuitous violence currently infesting that other town square led by a well known South African fellow with a messias complex?
Also, @remindme in 5 years~~
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42 sats \ 2 replies \ @Scoresby 2h
This is the 100 million sat question.
I'm hopeful the answer is yes. But I don't think we've really been tested yet.
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I think we have better tools to get a yes answer, but we'll see how it plays out.
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You're right.
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37 sats \ 1 reply \ @OneOneSeven 3h
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Wise words, @k00b. I think I might have missed that SNL episode
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67 sats \ 1 reply \ @0xbitcoiner 3h
SN it will be the global town square ...
I don’t think so! Hope I’m wrong, but this pay-to-post or pay-to-comment thing doesn’t really seem like it’s gonna catch on. Honestly, maybe that’s for the best, once the masses take over, stuff changes a lot, and there’s a good chance it changes for the worse.
@remindme in 5 years
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35 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 2h
I suspect there is a certain threshold where communities start to lose their culture that was the original attraction. This happened with Twitter for me and I know many others that share that sense.
I think the idea of having everyone in one place talking all the time is gonna have all kinds of problems just as it does in cities and nation states. There needs to be some shared cultural morals/ideas to bind them.
@remindme in 5 years
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16 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 3h
@remindme in 5 years
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modern tools for peaceful revolution
the term "peaceful revolution" can be enhanced to an "evolution of consciousness;" revolution implies that there is another cycle coming; however, cycles are a trap: seconds, minutes, days, weeks, moons, years... 20 year turnings, galactic cycles, etc.
indeed if one is accumulating knowledge about everything, the cycles are respected, but a sentient man may rise above being a cycle-driven creature;
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In the next 5 years, SN it will be the global town square where free people meet to create and share a life of sovereignty, peace, and happiness — powered by Bitcoin and free, open-source tools.
SN is already there.
Tell me one more name where you get all of these together today?
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