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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!
Have a happy, easy Sunday
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Good morning it is a beautiful Sunday morning, a day for new beginnings so for everyone who is starting a new chapter in their lives I wish you all the best.
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Bitcoin has been running from 2009. You can get any single transaction from that time up to today.
Think about that. Any news story or photo, or website you've seen in 2009, most probably is long gone now.
Preserving things on the era of the Internet is very important, specially when all our lives are now digital, plus with the constant hacks we are seeing these days we can lose big chunks of our life in a day.
Bitcoin on the other hand keeps adding block after block, with all the transactions securely stored in the blockchain.
Society these days rarely value anything that is more than a couple of weeks old.
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Your words ring true, in this day an age we don't look at the past, we don't really value where we came from, we just lie in the now
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Very true.
  • My first iPhone, the 3GS was released in June 2009. There’s no way that is of any use to anyone now besides recycled metal.
  • YouTube Channels launched in 2009.
  • The Hangover the film was only released in 2009. Avatar, Up, Inglorious Bastards too. That was a good film year.
  • Social Network, Inception, KickAss didn’t follow until 2010.
  • Square was founded in 2009, with their proper public launch in Oct 2010. If only this 2009 tweet had been about Bitcoin Jack… https://twitter.com/jack/status/1741680949
  • Even Slack, which I thought was earlier, was not released until 2013.
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I love the Hangover Series
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Hey @k00b, in sats what was the largest zap ever on SN? Don't want to know who sent or received it just wondering if you know what the largest one was? I know we had some big ones during the Anita satsraiser.
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Legit ones, ie after sybil fees went live, 1.3m on the anita satsraiser. The next highest legit ones were bounty payments at 1m. Then 918k on the btc++ satsraiser. Then more satsraiser stuff and bounty stuff.
It drops off pretty quick after that. A little more than ten 100k zaps on random stuff.
Average zap is 72 sats.
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Cool. Thanks for the insights.
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If you have the option to be creative rather than emotional, be creative.
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I think you can't be creative if you are not a bit emotional. Good ideas comes from strong emotions about something. So both are kind of linked.
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Great point!
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Thanksgiving is a yearly reminder that we should be dehydrating bread and rehydrating it with something tastier than water.
Messing around with Liquid this Saturday. I actually really like it, maybe it's finally time for L-btc to become more used.
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Time to get some weekend exercise, some weekend rest, some weekend etc
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The 'etc' is 'try not to be a fatass' i think
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Do you think Kramer knows he’s Kramer? I think about this a lot
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Yes. Iirc he's commented about him being "you know... Me!" while kramering out because some potential girlfriend or something. But I only saw all episodes a year ago so memory can be shoddy.
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First day of the school holidays, and I’m off to my parents-in-law’s place in the Land of the Rising Sun. Hope to learn more and write better next month!
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Last minute I was last minute invited to hang out with a bitcoiner in town, who was with a friend of mine, about 45 minutes north of me. I had no plans, so I went ahead to meet this bitcoiner. (I'd never met him before, but he was hanging out with a bitcoiner friend I do know) He is in town with his pre-coiner wife, who's surprisingly open-minded about the whole thing. Turns out this recent convert had dived head first, and knew a few of the people I know in the community. We had hamburgers and steak. Then some ice cream. I drove home. No traffic. :)
I love meeting other bitcoiners, and growing the bitcoin family. Now to try to finish one of these essays to read at brunch tomorrow!
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I love these types of interactions too. It’s often difficult to call it a day and not keep ’yapping’. Probably the closest experience a human can have to being a young puppy.
It’s priceless having so much in common with strangers, and nerding out. Only thing that’s perhaps missing, is having a secret handshake
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the handshake comes just before joining the underground economy. no need to hand out willy-nilly.
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Great Saturday everyone!! The weekend has begun and time to relax, reflect and recharge. The three R's as I call it. Today is a good day to treat yourself with something YOU want. An ice cream cone, a nice juicy steak, a beer, a new pair of shoes, a fancy dinner, some peace and quiet and a glass of wine. Anything you desire is there for you because you deserve it, it was a fast week but hopefully it was fruitful and profitable. Just take today to rest and feel good. I wish you all an incredible weekend, may it be filled with joy, love and success. Remember that you matter and you're important my good friend. Thanks for being so awesome and let's just chill and enjoy. Be well and stay frosty gang!!
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Hope you had a great Thanksgiving Coach.
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Sure did my friend, had to work but it was good, was thankful for each and everyone of you and all the things I've got this year, it has been a great year. Have a phenomenal Sunday!!
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Howdy partners! We’re celebrating my sons 6th birthday today!
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Right on my youngest is 5. Happy Bday! Zapping some birthday sats to you for him.
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Howdy partner. Happy birthday to your son.
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Happy birthday
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Saw Napoleon last night. Was very disappointed.
spoil alert
Just ended up being a love story like what in the entire hell. So much history to draw from and the whole movie was about his obsession with his wife. Absolutely ridiculous. Don’t waste the fiat to see this.
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Weak sauce. Hollywood needs new movies about new topics!
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Thanks for the review. I was debating on watching it, but I'll wait for it to stream.
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disappointing... reviews are surprisingly poor as well. was looking forward to watching this one
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not so surprising given it's ridley scott.
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Yeah better off skipping it in theaters the battle scenes are cool but not enough to see it in theaters
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Day 224 of snailposting everyday 'til BTC hits $100k.
...and 24 push-up(s).
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This is the 3d printable snail collection. Maybe it helps your next post. https://www.thingiverse.com/dingu/collections/30138263/things
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Horse Stance: 2 minutes 1 second
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It's good to see the __@_'-' in the saloon.
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(actually did 25 because I lost count lol)
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I would recommend one more push-up, just to have a round number.
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Lol. __@_'-' having the toilet all to its self for the rest of the weekend.
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I don't know but I been told if the horse don't pull you got to carry the load I don't know whose back's that strong Maybe find out before too long
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I just watched a Blondie video from '81 and noticed the band following a very dapper time traveling Bitcoiner
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Fab 5 Freddie!
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Lol. Bitcoin maxis spread-out across the timeline.
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You saw Blondie live? Details?
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I was gonna reply, 'rinse out your earhorn gramps - it was a video'...
...then realized you were replying to someone else!
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I'm glad you posted that photo anyway.
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She is a great performer. I never saw Blondie live. Back in the day I wasn't much of a fan. I had countless opportunities to see them in their prime but declined.
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Sorry guys, I'm kinda busy these days with some work, can't join too much on SN & Saloon. But I try to keep my cowboy hat on.
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No need to apologize buddy. When life happens there's nothing we can do but live that life. Let us know if there's anything we can assist with. Even if its just to cheer you on ;)
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I hope you have good weather
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where is the proof of work? 😂😂 it's me saying what are you busying with:)
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It a gorgeous Saturday!
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Gorgeous indeed. Just a bit hot to my liking.
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Yeah. been more than an hour and the snail is nowhere to be found. Hopefully I'll get to say hello when I'm back later.
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...or the push ups have got finally got the better of him.
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Lol. @orthwyrm can take 10x the amount of push-up and not even break a sweat. Lol.
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Can't select titles because it has an element on top.
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yes, all feedback is appreciated!
one thing to keep in mind is that this landing page will specifically be targeted for people who might never have found Stacker News through the typical Lightning chatter on the internet.
imagine people who are Bitcoin-adjacent or just general early tech adopters who haven’t ever used Bitcoin.
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Should say forget likes, stack sats. Also, I would recommend not using the terminology "get paid". "get rewarded" maybe.
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If you’re feeling poetic:
  1. Daily chats, earn your sats
  2. Share ideas, paid from peers
  3. Earn in sats, for unique chats
  4. Post a link, earn a drink
  5. Post something new, bitcoin for you
  6. Earn Bitcoin, for discussions you join
  7. Share a link, get paid in a blink
  8. Receive a Zap, for news ASAP
  9. Post a story, for magic money
  10. Pocket money for rocket stories
  11. Magic money, by being funny
  12. Make a post, earn the most
Anyone got any faves?
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52 sats \ 1 reply \ @kr 26 Nov 2023
good idea!
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Haha yeah, not quite good enough to be from a bot. Thought didn’t even cross my mind 😄
Can definitely confirm those are a few minutes I won’t see back again
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I know this isn't your legal alley @siggy47 but could they potentially run into any legal issues by suggesting users are getting "paid" to post?
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where did you see this 👀
just the "Forget Likes, Make Money" doesn't really resonate with me
agree, maybe " Forget Likes, Stack Sats " is better?
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one thing to consider is that outside of our Lightning community basically nobody knows what sats are
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I think this is why the word ‘Zap’ is important.
  1. I asked someone “do you know what the word zap means?” and she couldn’t answer.
  2. Then I asked what do you think of when I say “Zap your friends” she instantly said “send them money”. But couldn’t articulate why, besides saying it is definitely not anything bad. It was the only reasonable explanation because there’s no other context that fits.
I believe this is something we can lean into more. Having a catchy word or verb to grab attention sometimes adds a) intrigue, b) a mysterious hook and c) sometimes people get the connotation without needing to have had any prior exposure to the word.
Hopefully you can do some more user testing like this to confirm which catchy tagline is best.
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Top of funnel marketing stuff doesn’t dictate what’s further down the funnel. It just helps get people interested in moving down the funnel at all.
Bitcoin’s top of funnel is NGU even if we’d all argue there are other reasons to be excited about bitcoin.
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Would you mind elaborating on that recommendation without straying too far in your reasoning? Why is using "make money" bad - specifically?
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Lmao. So true, and people fall for this scam day. I would much rather buy Bitcoin on Black Friday then some garbage I don't need.
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look again!
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Pew Pew :) howdy there!
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I guess its just us today.
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They're all sleeping in the horse's manger outside after last night.
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maybe they will carve @nemocat
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