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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @gmd 9 Mar 2022
Working on a $4k green daily candle. Weekly chart looking very bullish. I used to want the price to go up so I could feel validated but now I'm more worried we might not get back into the low 30s so I can stack more.
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21 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b 9 Mar 2022
I'm working on making boost more expensive. It's definitely overpowered and overused at this point.
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26 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 9 Mar 2022
Deployed. Boost must now be at least 1000 sats.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 9 Mar 2022
I'm not sure this will mitigate the issue because the largest offender(s) appear to maintain a handful of trusted accounts that upvote their own content ... But good to have some direction on how WoT needs to be tuned. Trust will probably need an aggressive decay so that maintaining several trusted accounts requires more work.
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37 sats \ 5 replies \ @earnbitcoin 9 Mar 2022
If SN wants to be useful for longform posts, like blog posts and such, the twelve minute edit window really makes it difficult to use for that purpose.
If the rationale for the edit restriction is so that the replies remain relevant to the post (i.e., where I can't completely change the content such that the replies would refer to something the post might no longer include), then how about allowing appends? For example:
[18m]
Oops, that was supposed read "10 minute" edit window, not "12 minute".
[6m]
Update: And now this just happened, ... blah blah blah
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36 sats \ 3 replies \ @nout 10 Mar 2022
Or make updating after 10m cost some extra sats... ;)
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @earnbitcoin 10 Mar 2022
There's a reason, I assume, why there's an edit window. Permitting that to be bypassed by paying a fee kind of eliminates the justification why it exists in the first place.
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 10 Mar 2022
It doesn't eliminate it any more than paying a speeding ticket eliminates the need for speed limits. The point is to deter unwanted behavior.
If you're taking someone to hospital it might be warranted to break the speed limit and you're comfortable paying for the speeding ticket (should you get one).
If there's a problem with fines/fees as a deterrence in general it's that wealthy people will be able to break the rules more.
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @nout 10 Mar 2022
This way the wealthy people redistribute those sats to all other users, so that may be an interesting effect... (compared to a national government collecting fines, with sats all of this can happen directly, which is cool...)
It's definitely tricky to predict the actual behavior and it will be also changing over time as the community on SN grows and transforms.
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15 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 9 Mar 2022
Interesting idea. Made a gh issue: https://github.com/stackernews/stacker.news/issues/121
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31 sats \ 0 replies \ @Martin 9 Mar 2022
I'm so in love with the lightning network, it blows my mind how it's not talk about that much we are looking at a technology that enables instant settlement, low fees to transact and what I believe is a technology that will change global trade forever Visa and MasterCard are fucked, the lightning network is the future of global payments, it's just a matter of time...
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47 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryptocoin 9 Mar 2022
I was just reading some Tweets and saw one that was a three-word reply that was really clever and quite funny. So I wanted to upvote it, to send some sats to that witty person. And I was trying to remember where I click to upvote it, to send some sats.
That's what SN has done to me. I now think in terms of monetarily giving credit to someone when they have provided value to me (a quick little chuckle, in this instance).
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31 sats \ 2 replies \ @zuspotirko 9 Mar 2022
Idk if you probably thought about this but I just had the idea that SN could be an EXCELLENT competitor to fiverr and the like...
There is probably not much demand yet in the early stage of SN right now. But I can maybe imagine that small things like "Quick, I need a few designs" or "Can someone photoshop this small thing for 200k sats" etc. to become even bigger than "real ~jobs". But I'm definitely no expert.
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28 sats \ 0 replies \ @earnbitcoin 9 Mar 2022
There's kind of like an explosion of gig / task / microtask marketplaces right now. Numerous shitcoins have their own (e.g., Timerr is just the latest) now. And on the other extreme, a number of earlier bitcoin-related ones are either defunct or have no activity.
Workers don't want to waste time on multiple platforms to find work, and employers want to go to the one platform where all the workers are (which is Upwork). So gaining traction is incredibly difficult. And the level of functionality needed is beyond just a simple paragraph of text. There is work (and employer) reputation / history, escrow of the payment before the worker begins the work, dispute moderation, etc. -- so Stacker News would not, without adding significant additional functionality, be suitable as an alternative in this space, IMO.
Here's a post with a pretty comprehensive list of the space:
Freelancing platforms which pay in Bitcoin
https://cointastical.medium.com/freelancing-platforms-which-pay-in-bitcoin-e38be56166df
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5 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 9 Mar 2022
Yeah I think skills/task commerce is interesting. We can go so many directions
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