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!
Loving the Bitcoin life! It becomes clearer everyday!
We should start giving extra rewards to great comments posted earlier to a thread. It takes extra effort to add the first thoughtful comment to a post.
I've informally started doing a thing where, whenever I zap a post with no comments, I leave one. The logic is that if there's a comment, maybe someone will pay more attention to the post, which I zapped because I think it's worthy of attention. I try to be thoughtful, bc what's the point otherwise? but if it were explicitly incentivized (vs implicitly) I worry that there might be an avalanche of worthless "first!" comments. So you'd wind up doing more harm than good.
This is what always stops me when I get uppity about wanting some reward for link posts that have textual descriptions.
I think it is a good idea. In some way it already happens with the comments being zapped more if they are good and early because they may get more views. A top comment after a day or two may not be viewed much so it gets less zaps even if the comment is great too.
Good point! Maybe just changing the placeholder to "early thoughtful comments get more zaps" is enough.
Spent a little over a month without checking SN. Happy to see all of the crazy development going on with territories! :)
https://m.stacker.news/10739
is it cool if we chill herehttps://m.stacker.news/10731
That deer looks at you like you're invading its privacy
It is true we were likely annoying them
Should have showed it how to stack sats
Just don't onboard them with Muun in this fee environment.
And make sure to invite them to SN with a referral link so you get those sweet referral sats
Howdy!
Indiscriminate,
Bitcoin is without borders,
Prosperity spreads.
Lovely haiku to start off my morning. Thank you!
https://m.stacker.news/10702
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https://image.nostr.build/fc5215f8598bcff41241c6d38adbe28c91bc6d7513e2dbbb9d19796837c9220d.jpg
Hey @ekzyis I dove head first into YNAB last night and my head is spinning haha. But I will keep on trucking. Thinking maybe I might do the year sub to give it an honest go for a year.
Nice!
Yeah, the start is rough. It is something you need to get used to and in the beginning, you might not really see the benefits in the future clearly so it's easy to lose motivation.
But I guess you already looked through their stuff like The Four Rules and already know what I mean with "rough start" and "benefits in the future" :)
However, I don't really follow
Rule 4: Age Your Moneysince YNAB sees me buying bitcoin as spending my money, hahaI had a free year sub as a student and that's when I got hooked. I think YNAB is indeed my first SaaS that I am willing to pay for. But you can track when your YNAB payment is due also within YNAB! :)
this sounds more and more like I get paid to promote YNAB here, lol
Day 17 of posting mining earnings from the day before: 758 sats on 3Jan2024!
Running total: 14,000 sats!
Yesterday's comment
Day 18's comment
Do the profits pay for the costs? Or are you just mining for ideology?
I am definitely losing money on it right now, based on the current fiat value of sats compared to my initial investment + operating costs (electricity).
I haven't done the math, but there's a certain fiat value where this will be a profitable operation.
The other perspective is that I am paying a premium for KYC-free sats. So it just depends on how you look at things.
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0.0002 BTC i.e. 20,000 sats with a fee of 10,000 sats unless your withdrawal is 500,000 sats or more.
Source
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Yea, not going to happen lol
In my opinion language is overrated. I mean speaking? And it would be cool with a "no talk" month. Sort like "No Talk July". And nobody talked for a whole month?
Not speaking or not using language is not the same as not communicating. So its not a suggestion to be quiet.
I once did a 10 day Vipassana meditation retreat. No talking, or any other activity really besides eating. Interesting experience.
I am so tempted to try this.
But I am afraid it will kill me or I would go mad.
It's not easy. The first couple of days are the toughest for most people!
I will definitely try this and/or an ayahuasca retreat at some point in my life.
Life feels too unique to not try as many things as possible :)
You should. TBH I did not find it too useful, but I know others who claim they get great value out of these things.
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https://m.stacker.news/10678
Announcing Darina Oumanski as a TopBuilder mentor.
Apply for TopBuilder before Jan. 13th, 2024: https://buff.ly/48aCp6L
Territory top-up time tomorrow.
Looking forward to investing back the gains of this past month.
curious to know the satistics 👀
Thanks to a 25k boosted post yesterday (of which 50% is shared), it’s been decent enough.
Haven’t found a way to tally up the rewards, not sure there’s a view yet, but if I was to hazard a guess, probably at 40-50k sats for the month vs 100k outlay.
Tell a lie LOL, just tallied-up all notifications. ~privacy generated 18.5k sats, of which 12.5k came yesterday from the boosted post. Me needs to drum-up some more engagement.
I think we need another SN Foundry
hmmm tricky, so you need some big spenders/boosters and active creators so to break even 🧐
or just more stackers
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100%.
I’ve personally earned way more from the articles & comments posted there, hence why I thought the figure was higher. So in truth much closer to breaking even. Swings and roundabouts for now.
~oracle is due on Jan 6, ~security is due on Jan 16 and ~crypto is due on Jan 22.
Damn, I better start writing some good posts so I don't have to deposit funds because of my Zap to Zero experiment, lol
Maybe I should do a Zap to FIRE experiment.
Your territories should be part of your SN compensation package. I will be your agent when you sign your next contract.
You mean my account should be special and exempt from paying for territories?
We actually discussed internally how it makes sense that at least one engineer gets some experience with making a territory profitable (dogfooding) since ~bitcoin, ~tech, ~nostr and ~meta as the OG territories basically run themselves now.
Or you get credited back the sats you do pay.
Wow! How do you deal to moderating x3 territories? Are you planning to keep them all? For how long?
What do you mean exactly with moderating?
For me, it's more a time problem to post interesting stuff there. I do have idea for interesting posts.
And to "moderate" ~crypto, I simply raised posting costs to 256 sats and every post that is not OT gets the posting costs refunded by me (+ additional sats, depending on how much I liked the post). And looking through recent, I would say this approach has potential. People posting OT are funding the territory while every other post gets to stand out from the OT stuff at the same time.
https://m.stacker.news/10690
I also updated the territory description but I think @grayruby is right. No one looks at the territory description as it is.
Another factor is that I like all three territories. That's why I founded them in the first place. They are like children to me, lol:
I am planning to keep them forever or until I find someone better than me for them.
Nice nice nice... exiting! I really wish you'll find the way and the time to post on all of them!
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Thinking about designing some limited edition t-shirts to support the ~Agora territory, what's your thoughts?
Do it.
✅ Done! https://agora.ftp.sh
Do it charge in bitcoin. If they are made in America I will buy one from you
Yes they are! Well, we are planning to use an online service for print, something like painful but better + with a global provider that craft eco-friendly t-shirts and locations all over the world (we are focusing only in one product for now).
And guess what! YES, we will definitely accept bitcoin only!
The question is more for @SN team here... the designs will be featuring the ~AGORA and wondering if we could use SN logo somewhere?
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Ok, is not a cowboy hat... we'll continue working to find a proper one ;)
there will be a hat too... but not for everyone 😉
14 days and cowboy hat is still stuck on my head, yeeeeeehaa! 🤠
I made it to 10 days and am overjoyed!
Good morning gang!! It's Thursday and for me it's back to work, so it's going to be a tough getting back on track since I'm still groggy but nothing like a nice hot cup of coffee can fix, the holidays were amazing but it's nice to get back in the routine of work, see my students again and get things done, I wish you all an incredible day, may it be filled with success, love and productivity. We've got this gang, I believe in you and you're important and what you do matters, so kick bum and show this week who's boss. As always, be well and stay frosty my good friend!!
They will fight us.
Study #bitcoin and be prepared!
https://m.stacker.news/10664
Hmm, very tempted to rotate some capital into RIOT and MARA for my tax sheltered accounts.
Why not cleanspark and bitfarms?
I am bullish on mining but no particular company, so figure I'd simply go with the current leaders (might add HUT8).
This does not always work out (I got burned by Core Scientific last year), but my bet is that the bear market is probably over and no other major players are likely to be flushed out.
Day 264 of snailposting everyday 'til BTC hits $100k.
...and 64 push-ups. (40 - 24)
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Awesome numbers!
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Day 45 of horseposting everyday
Horse Stance: 2 minutes x 3 sets
(~20 minutes breaks in between. Trying this for a week or so and make an attempt to 4 minutes soon. Doing this to correct my form towards the end.)
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https://m.stacker.news/10662
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Wow, so 6 minutes total?
3rd set was pure pain from the start. Sweating like a pig, hands were trembling all long. breathing was off too. Needs more work.
And you still hold it for 2 minutes? You're wild.
He's more horse than man!
(__ ,_) \_,-/ /__ )__, )/ _\_ / /d \ \ \__ / _.' / ( ' (,-,) | |_ |_, ,-.___|_ /_, / ) .__ ) \ \ \\`-..- \(`. \( \_\ `._ \`-,'`. `-. `' `-.__ \ `,' |-,._) ! ,') `-. ( ,-' ( ,-.) \ \ \ _/ \_ \_ |\_ \`-'._ ) ( ,'( / )/ __,','__/( /__(^ 7..1"@nemo 's words were on repeat in my mind before the 3rd set.
"just psych yourself up, and go!"
The feeling of accomplishment after, was worth it :)
@nemo's words ricochet in all our heads, I would say :)
Still, very impressive!
Thank you, ser. I made an attempt to catch up with your pushups yesterday. Managed 32. New PB. :)
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It's remarkably hard to do push-ups with a dog licking your face.
Rocky chased chickens, this is your version.
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https://m.stacker.news/10660
My New Year’s resolution of living the BTC standard is getting off to a great start when I managed to buy a $10 voucher from Bitrefill today from the sats I gathered here on SN! Plus, I received 188 sats as cashback!
Yeah I’m thinking is this the year I stop holding cash, stop using credit cards and do everything from bitcoin? I tried it last year but I reverted back
Is using Xapo debit card an option for you? I think I will try this out this year
Nah it’s not. No products in the USA let you spend directly from a bitcoin balance
Good morning stackers! Wishing you a positive day. Stay safe out there! Keep growing and learning in this digital Wild West.
https://m.stacker.news/10657
Yeehaw
I’m in my 40s n believe that I can still grow
Yes we can. Never give up :)
Never back down, never give up!
why not, there's nothing can stop you!
Thank you for the vote of confidence
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Too late! Ouch!
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In another time's forgotten space
Your eyes looked through your mother's face
Wildflower seed on the sand and stone
May the four winds blow you safely home
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Hmmm. I am a hoodie conoisseur (or however you spell that). Is this an especially good one for some reason?
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You should have posted it i the ~Agora territory ;)
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Nice!
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