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Welcome to Books & Articles Weekly. When cross posting began, I made an offhand remark that I doubted anyone could create a single post that would have the highest zaprank in all four of my territories. Well, @SimpleStacker proved me wrong! I will talk more about this in a separate post, but be sure to read “ Can a bitcoin standard improve animal welfare? An analysis” below:

Other top posts include @denlillaapan’s latest “Capitalism Book Club” discussion, and @billytheked’s non-book club book club. Do I detect a trend? Also, check out my road trip posts. The final chapter will be out in a day or two.

I should also mention that this is the 100th edition of the Weekly, although I tend to mess up my numbering and the actual count may be different. Regardless, it’s been fun for me. I look back and see the sheer volume of quality material and wonder if people might be digging around, discovering gems, a few hundred years from now.

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.

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Link to last week’s post:
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Siggy’s SuggestionsSiggy’s Suggestions

-The Power of Delusion? by @ek

I like reading everything @ek writes, so I’m excited to see that he’s back at it. I hope and assume there will be more where this came from.

Book review: The Impossible Fortune, Richard Osman (bitcoin in fiction) by @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears

I am so glad that Stillstackin made this post. I am hungry for good bitcoin related fiction, so I’m going to read this as soon as I finish “King Leopold’s Ghost”. I have to thing it will be less depressing, at worst.

UnPhiltered - Chapter 15: Scaling and failing by @TotallyHumanWriter

It is rare that the latest Chapter Of UnPhiltered doesn’t crack the top five posts, but this was a weird week. Check it out if you haven’t already. Each post is worth your time.

The 1929 Financial Thriller (Mises, JB) by @denlillaapan

I know I got carried away with my suggestions this week, but there were many good posts. I included this one because I am glad to see that Den is writing for Mises.org again, Den’s writing is top notch, as usual, and the subject matter interests me. Enjoy

Index

Top Posts Of The Week
Siggy’s Suggestions
Index Of Selected Posts

Index Of Selected PostsIndex Of Selected Posts

Writing ContestsWriting Contests

Stackers’ BlogsStackers’ Blogs

My Bitcoin JourneyMy Bitcoin Journey

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

Book ClubsBook Clubs

BooksBooks

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 ReviewsBook Reviews

-Book recommendation - King Leopold's Ghost by @Signal312

Bitcoin Academic Articles & ReviewsBitcoin Academic Articles & Reviews

Movie & Television ReviewsMovie & Television Reviews

EssaysEssays

PoetryPoetry

Short StoriesShort Stories

ComicsComics

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

108 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 7h

Wow, almost didn't read this because I thought I was pinned because of my old poem. Thank you for the nice words!!

There's more where that came from, but I don't know when it will see the light of day. I struggle to find time to write while getting into protocol development :/

I also find my own writing quite boring; I think I'm mode collapsing as described by Henrik Karlsson here. I want to change what I write or how I write, but change does not come naturally.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 3h

as described by Henrik Karlsson here

Ohh, forgot to add the link.

36 sats \ 1 reply \ @plebpoet 10h

happy 100!!

40 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 OP 10h

Thank you! You have been a big part of it from the beginning.

74 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 13h

What an historic day!

@SimpleStacker is the Roger Connor of Stacker News

74 sats \ 0 replies \ @billytheked 14h

100 years from now, I suspect people will view our era in a similar way to how we view the discovery of alcohol by American indigenous peoples. I think they will call this a dark age, when 99.9% of people were drunk on the promise of ai and wasted its potential.

~BooksAndArticles will be a valuable artifact.

36 sats \ 0 replies \ @denlillaapan 12h

VERY doubtful my musings would ever amount to that sort of importance. Nice try, tho!

I look back and see the sheer volume of quality material and wonder if people might be digging around, discovering gems, a few hundred years from now.

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