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90 sats \ 3 replies \ @Semisol 5 May 2022 freebie
I signed up here just now. What are free comments and do I have to pay for comments after that?
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20 sats \ 2 replies \ @itsrealfake 5 May 2022
Free comments don't cost any sats to post. You can reply to a post 1 time for free, after that it's 10 sats to post.
Daily, the sats accumulated (or at least some of them) are redistributed among users. At this point, I've accumulated something like 1000 sats by making posts or getting the daily airdrop of accumulated sats (from user submissions).
I've never cashed out.
I was initially not sure about whether I would like it, or if the community would respond ideally, but at this point i think it's a great incentive to make good comments.
Welcome... enjoy yourself... and please bring us good content... preferably stuff I can read, because i'm not a huge fan of watching the tubes all day.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @EnormousPony 5 May 2022 freebie
I like the idea that your actions should cost something, even a single sat. It's better for the internet overall and with bitcoin this process is stupidly easy
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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 5 May 2022
Free comments are free. Free posts are free. After that it’s 1 sat to comment and 1 sat to post.
Also I agree on preferring reading. Not sure why folks upvote so many 3 hour podcasts.
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43 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b 4 May 2022
Okay ... P75 latency is around 200ms now which is about a 50% improvement. I just need to get it to 100ms and I'll be happy and can move on.
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20 sats \ 1 reply \ @tbonesteaks 5 May 2022
What is P75?
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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 5 May 2022
75th percentile. 25% of the latency is 200ms or worse basically.
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65 sats \ 4 replies \ @jp 4 May 2022
Yes 😂
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43 sats \ 3 replies \ @jp 4 May 2022
Sorry idk wtf this message was. Pretty sure I butt dialed this response and my phone made autocorrection
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101 sats \ 1 reply \ @tbonesteaks 5 May 2022
Well your butt earned you some sats. And I think that’s pretty impressive!
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @jp 5 May 2022
Here, have some sats - courtesy of my ass
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 4 May 2022
I was wondering if there was a bug or something lol
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21 sats \ 4 replies \ @FatBear 4 May 2022
What is stopping a node operator from not forwarding a payment to the next node in the route?
Could someone change their code to become a bad actor?
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25 sats \ 0 replies \ @Semisol 5 May 2022 freebie
Nothing is. The payment would be stuck.
This is a problem with invoices which are risky to retry due to potential loss of funds. But LND automatically prefers nodes less that fail or make payments get stuck.
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26 sats \ 1 reply \ @zuspotirko 4 May 2022
In a bad actor sits at the only cross road to split the network in halves (theoretically, this is unrealistic in practice due to internet) that is called an "eclipse attack". In Bitcoin both sides will know that because the Hashrate would seem unrealistic for both sides.
Also, the Bitcoin gossip network fulfills the "Continuous Byzantine Agreement". If everyone signs the message that they forward - malicious actors cannot fake messages. This so called "Dolev Strong Protocol". This makes malicious actors easy to identify and ignore. Honest actors establish p2p channels only with other honest actors.
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @FatBear 5 May 2022
Sorry, I was referring to lightning node operators. They see each payment routing through their node in real time.
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 4 May 2022
A specific payment I think is hard to do it, or even impossible.
You can disable a channel if you want. But that will be dumb and useless.
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23 sats \ 2 replies \ @nout 4 May 2022
If we ever have personalized view of the main SN list, it would be cool to be able to see someone elses perspective. Imo that could be a first class feature that also helps with discovering good content.
Going further, maybe it also provides a way for people to curate the personalized best news.
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @zuspotirko 4 May 2022
Personalized feeds are a big big feature and hard to implement. Rather for the far futer is my guess. But for sure a cool feature idea to keep in mind.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nout 5 May 2022
There are some aspects of personalization that may be easier... E.g. seeing posts that are in my selected languages.
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20 sats \ 3 replies \ @DarthCoin 4 May 2022
What was your last item/service/thing you bought/paid using bitcoin (over LN or not) ?
Me - last week I paid the rent. onchain. And some groceries over LN.
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20 sats \ 1 reply \ @avg 4 May 2022
How did you do it? Does your landlord simply accept Sats?
Last thing I paid was an anti spam fee to join a Telegram channel.
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 4 May 2022
How?
Bitcoin is in my blood
Freedom is in my heart
Knowledge is in my mind
With patience and convincing people around me.
I live on Bitcoin Standard from 2018.
https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/a-bitcoin-adoption-story
https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/living-with-bitcoin
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @0257a7f8a5 4 May 2022 freebie
I send some sats to this barber in South Africa
https://mobile.twitter.com/BitcoinEkasi/status/1521842781064503297
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