This Week's Issue

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Welcome to Books & Articles Weekly.

Sorry about the delay in posting this week’s edition. Travel and a bit of food poisoning messed up my schedule. Results for the territory were a little disappointing. It’s not a good sign when the prior Weekly winds up as the current week’s top post. Still, there was plenty of good content. Maybe this little bull run is making stackers gun shy about zapping.

Thanks to everyone who contributed.

There is a zap award for the top 5 posts weekly. It will be broken down as follows:

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Posts will be judged using SN zaprank. The cut off time is 9:00am EST (1300GMT) Saturday morning. I will post the top 5 winners shortly around 9:00am every Saturday morning.

I reserve the right to not award any sats for the week. I also reserve the right to deny sat awards to bare link posts. I recognize that link posts can be valuable, so I will only only exercise discretion for low quality links that garner few sats or engagement from stackers.

Happy reading!

As always, please reply with suggestions and opinions on how to make this territory better.

Logo design by @plebpoet Link to last week’s post: #1239120

Siggy’s Suggestions

The Quiet Fork by @GreaterthanFiction

Enjoy @GreaterthanFiction’s latest offering. This steady flow of fiction mens so much for the territory, in my opinion.

Index Of Selected Posts

Writing Contests

Stackers’ Blogs

My Bitcoin Journey

Inspired by Writing Contest #1, this is where stacker’s bitcoin origin stories will be posted for easy reference.

Grayruby’s Bitcoin story by @grayruby
I Put ¼ Of A Bitcoin In A Landfill by @brandonsbytes
From Selling Newspapers To Finding Bitcoin by @Coinsreporter
My bitcoin journey by @Carreson
"Who are you?" — How do I want to answer? by @IamSINGLE
"My journey with Bitcoin: the experience of an ordinary Cuban" by @BTCLNAT
@realBitcoinDog Bitcoin Story - No, social media had nothing to do with it xD by @realBitcoinDog

Book Clubs

Books

The Universal Good Deal by @cleophas
Who Brought The Steak Tartare?, Chapter 1 by @cleophas
The Final Product by @cleophas
The Penal Preserve, Chapter 1 by @cleophas
Happy The Hippo, an absolutely wonderful children’s book written by @cryotosensei for his son.
The Rogue Scholar by @jbschirtzinger
Submersible by @johnbnevin
And Then She Disappears - Block 1 by @ginkgo

Book Reviews

Bitcoin Academic Articles & Reviews

Movie & Television Reviews

Essays

Poetry

Short Stories

Comics

Apriori Flower 01:16 - Are We Better? - Dhamma Comic by @Nuttall

108 sats \ 3 replies \ @GreaterthanFiction 5 Oct

Appreciate the shout out @siggy47 also hope the momentum in this territory only has temporary dwindled. Will keep writing if people keep reading and zapping! Welcome any specific feedback on the stories and what you’d like to see next.

21 sats \ 2 replies \ @siggy47 OP 5 Oct

I like the bitcoin fantasy stuff, but really, I think any subject matter you choose will be welcome. Stories set in the past and present could be interesting too, even if you decide to highlight the problems people experienced as a result of shitty fiat.

36 sats \ 1 reply \ @GreaterthanFiction 5 Oct

Thanks for those thoughts. I try to draw on current trends to project out into the future (the last one being inspired by OP_Return wars). Could explore more flashbacks to go between time periods though-stay tuned many more to come!

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 OP 5 Oct

I'm looking forward to whatever you have in store for us.

96 sats \ 3 replies \ @denlillaapan 5 Oct

I'm sorry, Siggy!

...I can't be running around IRL and carry the econ + books territories :/

(but there'll be an exclusive for you SOOOON!)

33 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 OP 5 Oct

It can't be easy being a guy in such high demand.

36 sats \ 0 replies \ @denlillaapan 5 Oct

I know ;/

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei 5 Oct

Sounds exciting! Can’t wait!

36 sats \ 3 replies \ @carlosfandango 6 Oct

Hope you are feeling better!

20 sats \ 2 replies \ @siggy47 OP 6 Oct

Thanks. I don't know what that was, but I was floored for a day or so. Either food poisoning or I picked something up on the plane. How are things with you? How are your hands doing?

36 sats \ 1 reply \ @carlosfandango 6 Oct

It’s horrible to be laid low. Thanks for asking - I am ok. The pain comes and goes. Currently enjoying some rather effective anti-inflammatory jabs but it was a huge step for me to have them.

The dog is a good comfort but he would be a useless sled dog. I let him pull and then when I do let him go he sits down and wonders why…. he’s an odd breed for sure!

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 OP 6 Oct

I'm glad you have gotten some relief. Sounds like the dog knows how good he has it and just wants to relax. He's no fool.