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Howdy there, partner! Welcome on into the Stacker Saloon.

Saddle on up to a stool and spill the beans about your day, fire away with them questions, or let loose and give us the lowdown on your wild and woolly life. We're all ears, so don't hold back!

We're open round the clock, so mosey on in whenever you please!

Did some DYOR on Bitwage before I drink myself silly here

  • It seems that Bitwage favours people living in the Western world at present since it empowers people who accept USD, EUR, GBP & CAD in remuneration with the option to accept Bitcoin.
  • But all is not lost if you don’t work for a company that pays the above types of fiat. Bitwage doesn’t just let you accept your salary in BTC. If you are registered with Airbnb or Booking.com, you can implement 100% BTC payouts with Bitwage, where the spread is 1%. Or you can choose partial BTC payment and partial local bank deposit.
  • If you are a freelancer on Fiverr or Upwork, you can also make use of Bitwage, provided that you accept USD, EUR, GBP & CAD as payments.

If your salary isn’t paid out in these four currencies, have you found a way to get onboard with Bitwage?

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Anyone watching Monday Night Football?

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I have two of the top places on the front page. Not fair.

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Is this why you’re working on personalized feeds? So people can have k00b-less front pages?

Just kidding obviously, you post good content :)

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top 3 now frack!

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@siggy47 is quite lazy lately, only hanging around in the saloon, not posting anymore amazing metas

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I'm out hunting for material. The well has run dry.

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Just like the early days haha

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How dare you 😄

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I was about to ask you about that. You played the SN algo? 😂😂😂😂 Just joking.

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LOL am I drinking alone here? These people cannot handle to drink... Let's go R2D2, on Tatooine at Mos Eisley Bar. These cowboys don't know how to drink all night. https://imgprxy.stacker.news/b6_qZBFg15MEsNAHI2teExxj-STLe4HuM6-8LxTwaQg/rs:fit:600:500:0/g:no/aHR0cHM6Ly9pLnBvc3RpbWcuY2MvSzhITUpCNHYvbW9zLWVpc2xleS5naWY

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I'll be attending to my first Bitcoin Charlotte Meetup this evening... excited and kinda nervous since I don't know anyone there lol 😜

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I will send 1000 sats to the first 5 attendees at that meetup. Please tell them to send me their LN address or LNURL.

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I told them about this, I hope they join. Cool plebs.. I send them an invite through the telegram group. I hope they join, if they haven't already

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Enjoy! You have something in common with everyone

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Definitely my fren

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Trolls cook the best bait.

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Just watched a detterence dispense video on Nostr, pretty wild. Looks like the guy was 3d printing guns in Europe with a creality 3d printer.

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@k00b are you going to do something for SN Halloween ? Maybe some Blood Meridian-esque CSS vibes? A negative sats count scare gag?

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Thanks for the reminder. I'll try to come up with something!

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The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

-- H.P. Lovecraft

Fear is the weakness in all of us

-- In Flames - Fear is the Weakness

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I fear to comment on this post 😂😂😂

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narrator: but he didn't comment on the scary comment

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narrator: visibly confused

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this comment is like art, it is what you make out of it :)

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Good morning everyone! Monday is here so that means the week has begun, time to show it what we are made of and give it our absolute best, we've got this! I wish you a phenomenal week and may it be filled with success and profit!! Remember that you are important and awesome, if you're going through hard times remember that you're still here and you matter, we've had hardships before and we're still here giving it our best, tough times will pass and we will be here fighting the good fight, be well my friend and stay frosty let's do this!!!!

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Thanks Coach!

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And you. Always high energy from yourself!

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Of course my friend, and always passing that vibe to you guys, because we all matter, thank you and have a wonderful Monday buddy!!

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Loving the engagement on Stacker News in our Saloon 🤠! More learning today for me about Bitcoin as I fit it in during my Fiat job.

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@sn would be a Meme Monday contest today? I prepared a new meme for that. I don't want to win the prize. If I win I will fw the sats to Anita. I just want it for fun. But anyways I wish luck to all other participants in the contest. Guys, please try to be more spontaneous and unique, creating your own memes, not just recycling the old ones.

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Agreed. They must be shared. Totally agree with that. But also we want creativity and proof of work. I really want to see people using their brains.

Do you talk with your cats (if you have one)? I mean talking like with your friend, your kid, somebody you trust. Simple things, so they can understand what are you saying.

I notice that if I do not do that with my cats, they came to me and trying to say that "we should talk"... It's a wonderful feeling when they do that and interrupt your busy day. It makes you think that you are somebody important in their life.

Talk to your cat. Every day.

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The fact that they "meow" strictly for us is pretty great

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in fact meow is not talking for them. Is more like expressing their feelings in that moment. Is like "auch" or "wow", "uuufff", something like that.

When a cat will "talk" with you will make different noise, like "fffrrr" , "mmrrr"or "trrroorrr" with different intonations. If you reply to those sounds with short words, they will reply again with other "words". Pay attention to those sounds, they try to communicate with you. Especially in the morning.

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Do you talk with your cats (if you have one)?

I try to talk (better: communicate) with every animal I meet, lol

I want to have pets someday but my current life situation isn't good for pets.

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wow, amazing start at min 2: "most people don't know how to behave around wild animals and this leads to more conflict"

So fucking true!

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The Force when is used wisely, leads to Balance. Balance leads to Peace.

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no, this is animal stress. Never do that to your pet. Don't even consider it a pet, consider it more as your companion. That cat HATES that crazy lady. LITERALLY. Don't do harm, is one of the first rules of natural law.

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Thanks, I have something interesting to watch today.

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ᕦ(ò_óˇ) Day 10 of exercising everyday before the saloon opens

Woke up at 9:30AM. Slept for 6h 30min since I wanted to finally finish my latest blog post last night. It should have been out 2 weeks ago, lol

Went to the calisthenics park and did mostly my usual routine: 10 push-ups, 10 squats, 10 inverted rows, 10 knee raises. I replaced lunges with step-ups since it's more fun and I want to shake things up to keep it interesting. I actually wanted to do box jumps but quickly realized I am too afraid. I'll do them when I feel more confident. So doing box jumps can be a mini goal for me :)

Did this routine only 2x today (instead of 3x) since I wanted to be done faster; felt that it was harder than usually to keep my streak up; and I didn't sleep enough. Also, I realized my core was still a little sore when I did the knee raises. So I wanted to "roll with the punches" as I learned from YNAB. To finish, I did 3x supermans at the end with 45s holding and 15s breaks.

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Excellent. As for box jumps…

You can try frog squats to build up; squat down touch the ground with the palms of your hands if possible, jump forward a small step, land, squat and immediately jump forward again. Walk back. Two hops and walk back, reset.

More advanced you step up to a low box and jump down to a two footed landing. Once you have practised that you jump down with a two footed landing and then immediately jump forward and two footed landing. Jump down, jump forward, reset.

The trick is as soon as you land you jump or squat forward again. You want to use the down spring compression to aid the jump forward/up. These are plyometric drills and help develop power and body awareness which are necessary prerequisites for a safe box jump.

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Oh, just noticed that I never responded but I wanted to:

Thanks for all this knowledge sharing, I really appreciate you taking the time to reply in such detail.

Feels like I have a personal coach, haha :)

And frog squats sound fun! I'll try them out next time.

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No worries at all. Callisthenics and outdoor training are my thing.

And you do have a coach. Indeed, I am actually qualified lol.

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SN is beautiful, something that very few understand it (I see many that still struggle to understand the cowboy hat). SN have a lot of potential, that bitcoiners still cannot imagine. And is just the beginning. You will remember my words.

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I’m starting to treat the cowboy hat as Sakura cherry blossoms - something of transient beauty. The more I try to hold on to it, the faster I lose it

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I always enjoy the; ‘found a hat, lost a hat, what’s a hat?’ posts

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people are so lost nowadays, especially in wild west. If they lost so easy a simple hat, imagine what they are doing in real life...

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Shitcoinery, using exchanges as banks to store their tokens, buying jpegs as digital art, drinking meths and licking pavements. The potential list is endless….

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we should do that list

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Where is Darth and what have you done with him? Lol

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I find SN to be better than Reddit. I think SN should be called "the front page of the internet."

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Not interested to sell my content to Reddit even if it pays me a fortune. The engagement here is unparalleled

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You had me at "shitposting saloon." 😂

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shitposting is actually about creativity, right @nemo

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Welcome to the FREAKIN Guardians of the Galaxy.

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I am Groot.

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Day 163 of snailposting everyday 'til BTC hits $100k.

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⚡️🐌⚡️

After $100k I will have an existential crisis, unless the Snail were to add a zero and keep on slugging :)

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What happens after $100k?

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A countdown to $1M I suppose.

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Going straight for the big gun predictions. I love it!!!

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I boldly predicted $100k before day 220, but I doubt this will happen now.

It does not matter. The snail marches on. He will get there in his own time.

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64 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 25 Sep 2023

Day 420 100k ez

That will be June 8, 2024

Remember my words xD

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__@_'-' will get there, regardless of the timeframe.

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I think we'll only see Bitcoin trading above $100k by end of next year. I hope your prediction comes true first.

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270 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 25 Sep 2023

everyone claps

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I'm anxiously waiting for $100k then.

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Your Snailness Has Arrived!

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Blood test this morning, and I'm not even supposed to drink black coffee before I go. Miserable. I need my fix, man.

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my blood test is a glass of red wine. If I can drink the whole bottle, than my red cells are low. If after 1 glass I feel bad, then I stop, I have too many red cells.

My life is simple.

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Makes as much sense as what I'm doing

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My grandfather lived 110 years (very wise man). And his all life was doing that: 1 glass of wine every day. At least.

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My great grandfather lived to 101 and drank red wine from morning until night. He walked me to school every day when he was 96. I didn't know it, but he was an annoying drunk. Everyone celebrated at his funeral.

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THIS. There are many misconceptions about people that drink a lot. Yes there are idiots that drink until they get crazy and don't know when to stop. There are others that can drink a lot but they know when to stop and don't embarrass themselves in public. Yet are both drunks but not the same.

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I'm going to start drinking 2 glasses of wine everyday. 220 years, here I come. I doubt I'll be as wise as him but I'll at least live long enough to see Bitcoin trading at $1B.

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All good until the part with "Bitcoin trading at $1B."... that is shitcoinery, just to think that you will trade your sats...

https://imgprxy.stacker.news/F7T8uMpvaTSZAVnxl8lVon4U_y6UlSyeJpZn8UtMAlg/rs:fit:600:500:0/g:no/aHR0cHM6Ly9pLnBvc3RpbWcuY2MvQzFaUUhmTUcvbWF0cml4LW5lby0yLmpwZw

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Lol. It's a good thing the edit option is still available. 🤣

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Can you at least have a beer or better yet, a glass of whiskey?

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I dont see why not

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That's the spirit 🥃

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I guess a go on the crack pipe is off the cards as well then! Lol

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You know, they said nothing about not smoking crack. Hmmm

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Looks like I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing glue. https://youtu.be/lm8fYf53SMg?si=NXt95Q-syD4V05AM

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Especially now that glue is cheaper than crack.

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Johnny, how about some more coffee? ‘No thanks!’

Love that line.

If you ever get the chance watch a film called Zero Hour. It’s the film Airplane was a remake of. It had a lot of the same dialogue but without the punchlines. Its funny in it’s own way for that reason.

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Really? I'll have to check that out. That Johnny line is funny as hell

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Yearly bullshit. It makes the family happy.

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Once upon a time lost money on shitcoins but never BTC. The end

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Well, hopefully the end of shitcoiner chicanery… and the ongoing adoption of better money.

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I saw something on Twitter about buying Bitcoin in stead of an iPhone 15. I think it was about the value change over time for the two assets. Guess which one increases over time.

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make me a quick spoiler

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Interesting... I had NDE 3 times in my life. For real. But that is another story.

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OMG, storytime when?

The show also mentioned that the people who experienced NDE could choose either the peace side or back to the struggles in this realm. Was it the same as how you experienced?

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is kind of more personal story, not sure I can share it entirely here. Is also linked to WHY Darth start helping people with Bitcoin.

I am waiting for that new SN feature @k00b where users can hide a message, sent as a reply to another user. Only the user can see it, other must pay a big fee to see it.

Here is the request on Github

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is kind of more personal story, not sure I can share it entirely here.

okay,looking forward, but we also have the magic 10 mins window now.

the girl in the show also came back to help others 😳

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I could try. People already have a lot of misconceptions about Darth and that could create even more. Behind that ugly mask, is a good guy with a big heart and open mind.

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this is a good mood to start the day

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16 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 25 Sep 2023

@nemo claiming the saloon

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LOL like capture the flag games

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Caesar liberating his peers.

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I like that guy's confidence

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Chimemepanzee

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What's a Chimemepanzee? 😅

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