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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!
Went for a late night walk in a blizzard, ask me anything.
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Thanks to @Natalia, I was able to embed a payment widget on my blog! I love learning new things!
Not sure where I could house my avatar though. Tried imgb and gravtar but the links don’t work on the widgets website. If anyone knows how I can insert my avatar, pls let me know!
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my pleasure:)!
I love learning new things!
Not sure where I could house my avatar though.
try upload to your blog and grab the link ( of the photo ), I didn't add the avatar to mine because I like things being simple and clean:) haha
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Ya I also decided to let go of the avatar. More important to get the widget up n running first lol
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50 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 12 Jan
Messing around with ML to make our search better. I hate how much glue and duct tape these things require to get working.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @AG 12 Jan
Yo gangsta fellows! Check what stackers are shilling this week #386261
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How many satoshis is a cowboy worth to you?
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Howdy!
Happy Friday folks.
Enjoy the discounted sats.
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Sold $40 of btc the other night to cover some dinner. Now I get to buy those sats back for a bit less. Loving this rare deflation of the US dollar! Maybe I'll buy some more just for a rainy inflationary day.
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Sold or spend?
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they sell the news
we stack cheaper sats
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Some is sell the news but I think it is primarily GBTC settling redemptions from yesterday. Likely more to come. GBTC volume is huge again today.
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60 sats \ 1 reply \ @gmd 12 Jan
Just traded off the high fee GBTC bag I had in my IRA. I ended up going with:
  • 1/3 HODL
  • 1/3 BRRR
  • 1/3 FBTC
I chose primarily based on coolness of the ticker names and then secondarily to spread out underlying central custody risk (Gemini, Coinbase, Fidelity) 😂
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99 sats \ 0 replies \ @mmall 12 Jan
BRRR won it for me, praise the twitter lurking intern. HODL, pretty good but they pronounced it HOE DEL on their TV ad so minus points there.
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Howdy partners!!! Tis Friday and the body knows it!! The weekend is about to begin so we've got to do this final week's push, we've got this. The first week of the year is gone and it was glorious, productive, profitable and successful. Time to relax and get a well deserved rest. I wish you all an amazing day, may it be filled with joy and love. Let's do this!! Remember that you matter and you're important, you're worthy and you deserve phenomenal things my friend, don't forget that. Be well and stay frosty!!
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100 sats \ 1 reply \ @gmd 12 Jan
Looks like we had a pretty good sell the news event with the ETFs... hoping we get a decent dip to buy some cheaper bitcoin before we head back up.
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Seems like it. Still, I am very optimistic. We're down to back where we were a week ago, and considering the run-up we've had over the last several months I'd expect a much harder dump if sell-the-news is the narrative.
Miners and MSTR are getting slaughtered. I'm envious of you guys in the US, we in the UK don't have access to any of this...!
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Day 25 of posting mining earnings from the day before: 715 sats on 11Jan2024! Running total: 19,812 sats!
Join us tomorrow for the first TopBuilder workshop.
Agenda:
  • How to Apply and Succeed at Wolf by Brian Atchure
  • Top Builder Roadmap Ahead by Car González
  • Building with LLM's with Marcus Workman
January 13, 2024 - 11:00am to 2:30 PM CST
In Person: 800 Brazos St suite 260 · Austin, TX
#Bitcoin #TopBuilder #BuildOnBitcoin
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Hope you have a great weekend!
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@k00b and I will be going live with SNL at 4pm CST
drop any sn posts that didn’t make the top 5 this week we should cover
🤘⚡️
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @Natalia 12 Jan
100 - the force is strong today!
thinking what movie I should watch tonight 🤔
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Very strong here with a winter storm in the Midwest!
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Second snow day this week. Getting buried here in the Midwest. Glad some popcorn and wthis historic Bitcoin week!
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Keep stacking, keep growing :)
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Shout out to the Cowboys and Cowgirls!
Stack Sats and stay humble!
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Whoop whoop
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Day 272 of snailposting everyday 'til BTC hits $100k.
...and 72 push-ups. (20 - 20 - 20 - 12)
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👍
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271 sats \ 2 replies \ @mango 12 Jan
Day 53 of horseposting everyday
Horse Stance: 2 minutes
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max push-ups:33
P.S Will be attempting 4 minutes HS on Sunday.
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Grande cavallo!
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Big horse lol. Buon Italiano!
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Great job. Nice sets as well. Are you feeling stronger?
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Yes. My girlfriend's grandmother said I looked "as broad as a wardrobe", which I am choosing to accept as a compliment.
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Hahaha "wardrobe", just imagine if this get 6 months more :S ... come on BTC price in fiat... just inflate, it's in your core and give this snail a break.
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Not gonna lie, this is getting to be a pain in the ass. But a promise is a promise, and I will hit 100 / day.
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It is a compliment!
I’m sure she meant to say ‘built like a brick shithouse’ (one of the finest compliments you can receive from an elderly relative) but was probably being polite :D
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There is something of a communication barrier here because she's Italian and doesn't speak a lick of English, so I'm still not sure how to interpret it.
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Well my Italian is very ropey (only been learning for a year) but something like;
‘Grande come un gabinetto di mattoni!’
And I think you should be grateful - if she thought you were underweight you would have been fed pasta 24/7
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Oh, molto bene!
Non parlo bene l'italiano, haha.
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I us the following all the time;
Non parlo bene, ma ci provo.
(I don’t speak well… but I try)
Well would you look at that, 1M sats zapped.
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Impressive… the circular zapping keeps the community going…
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yesterday i tested my sdcard and it was fine (full node raspberry crashed: Kernel panic) so i installed raspbian then i intalled bitcoincore but i ve noticed some very slow behaviour, even my ssh terminal was kind of frozen so i understood that the sdcard was corrupt/damage I m going to resintall everything with a brand new sdcard
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Try to avoid SD cards for valuable thinks, like your node :S ...
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why ??
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They are not ready to use as a 7x24 read/write actions, just search a little and pic the first link https://www.howtogeek.com/887545/how-long-do-sd-cards-last/
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I have a website running on a RPi that has been up continuously since 2014. It is on the same SD for 10 years. The whole SD card corruption is overblown.
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I agree. But in my experience with a pu it's best to wire up (and add code for) a pi power button - as there isn't one built in when it ships. In my early dabblings I lost a couple SD cards without that small button to rely on when things go wrong. (Pulling power cord at the wall killed the cards.)
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If it's a mostly static website, there are mostly read operations on the card. That's fine. What's wearing down an sd card are write operations, which are aplenty when running a Bitcoin node.
But even then, a failure is not a guarantee, just a probability (just like 10 minutes until next block is not guaranteed).
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may be but in 1.5y , it s going to be the 3rd time i m installing the full node.
probably for your website there are much more less read/write actions
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Maybe. I generate all images every 5 minutes from db data, and there are writes to the db every 18 seconds. This db is on the SD.
Maybe look at your fstab and mount frequently written directories to tmpfs if you don't really need them and/or turn down your logging verbosity. There are a lot of little tweaks you can do to make things more efficient if need be.
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i m going to test on a hard drive but thks for the tip
thks
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Day 22 wearing the cowboy hat 🤠
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Come on snail! Get your press ups in..
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fine...
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Fine?
F**ked up, Insecure, Neurotic and Emotional?
They are only press ups… can’t hurt you. Although it might hurt later lol
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The bus came by and i got on, that's when it all began, There was cowboy neal at the wheel of the bus to never ever land.
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Yee-haw
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Yee-haw
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Yee-haw!
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I lost my hat in a wind storm yesterday riding across the prairie.
I'll have a shot. Yee-haw!
I'm game. Yeehaw!
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111 sats \ 0 replies \ @Roll 12 Jan
yee-haa and Hippa
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Can I get a yee-haw? Yee-haw!
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Yeeeeeeeeeee-haw :)
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yee-haw
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yee-haw!
haha, and I can't believe you are faster than me!
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The early bird gets the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese…
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but all I want is sats, nor worm or cheese:)) 👀
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Sell the cheese for sat-eese!
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26 sats \ 1 reply \ @Natalia 12 Jan
so I should sell the cheese in ~Agora for sats? 😂
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Obvs! Or release you own cheese-coin if you feel the call of the void…
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I need OP_CLTV for unhealthy food and beverages.
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Thank you for the heads-up
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Great! Imagine a SN tool to get html embedded codes from SN posts and be showed within our blogs, it would be great but in the meantime... Thanks for sharing!
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Imagine a SN tool to get html embedded codes from SN posts and be showed within our blogs
but then it seems quite complicated, I like to keep things simple. 🤓
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I can't think anything more minimalist than using a few lines of code to bring sn posts to your blog as articles 😀
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69 sats \ 0 replies \ @jgbtc 12 Jan
Proof of work for proof of work.
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Great write-up :)
However, regarding the trust scores: there isn't a single trust score per stacker. Trust scores are calculated between stackers.
If stacker A zaps what stacker B has zapped before, then B earned some trust from A (but not vice versa).
We do this to show everyone more of the content they like. If you use an inkognito tab, you should see that the items on the frontpage are ranked slightly different.
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That's very interesting.
If we implemented the trust score idea from these cowboy hat ideas, then we'd have different colored hats depending on who's looking at us.
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269 sats \ 1 reply \ @Natalia 12 Jan
indeed, but we don't really need the hat to tell us who do we trust? haha
I enjoy wearing no hat 😂
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Yours would be so colorful, though!
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Very interesting. It seems trust score is important. One day we may have to do proof of trust and save the trust scores in the Blockchain (as inscriptions or something😅)
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really, but I think each stacker have their own trust score, but then in posts and comments ranking wise, then it's calculated among stackers?
Since gently personalized feeds, we use a matrix [0] so every stacker has a trust score from the PoV of another stacker. Before that, we all just saw content from the PoV of @k00b's account iirc.
I found these when I was writing for my new post - are they outdated?
Source? Is this from a comment from @k00b? Didn't find this formula in the FAQ.
However, I think it's good or at least very close [1]. The only "error" is maybe this:
zap_trust is your trust [from the PoV of another stacker] which is only earned by historically voting for things other stackers deem are good that stacker deems good.
Afaik, we didn't change the formula how content is ranked. Only how zap_trust is generated.
And I realized that what I wrote yesterday wasn't true:
I'm so bad when it comes to our own reward system. That's probably the part of the code base that I have the least experience with.
How you ranking works is the part of the code base that I have the least experience with. You always ask the best questions @Natalia! lol
When I have time, I'll look more into it today to give you an answer like here.
Also, thank you very much for writing these guides! They are very helpful, even for me who works at SN lol. SN is like an organism. It sometimes starts to do things even we, "the architects", didn't expect. And this is good and fun! SN lives from the community doing whatever it wants with SN. We just want to give you tools so you can do more awesome, weird, crazy stuff :)
And as you mentioned here:
Not gonna lie, it takes TIME to write good and original content!
It does take time. That's what I realized last time I wanted to write about ranking (but I guess I also took it way too seriously since I wanted to include the evolution of ranking, too).
And I think you are better at writing such guides than me. :)

[0] no, not that kind of matrix; this kind of matrix [1] code is the source of truth and I didn't check before writing this reply since else I might have disappeared for an hour or more.
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The matrices are a very clever idea. This way we can have relative trust to other stackers. nice
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1000 sats \ 1 reply \ @Natalia 12 Jan
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21 sats \ 16 replies \ @ek 12 Jan
What do you see? :)
Maybe you can explain it to me and then I only have to correct a few things which is indeed a lot easier than me trying to explain everything lol
I call this the StackOverflow Effect
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I don't have time to watch anything :) It was for Natalia to see, not me :)
How earnings (used to) work: 1/3: top 21% posts over last 36 hours, scored on a relative basis 1/3: top 21% comments over last 36 hours, scored on a relative basis 1/3: top upvoters of top posts/comments, scored on: - their trust - how much they tipped - how early they upvoted it - how the post/comment scored
Now: 100% of earnings go to either top 33% of comments/posts or top 33% of upvoters
about this, I feel like it's still calculate over last 36 hours? I remember like there was one time, a post of mine got rewarded two days in a row. 🤔
the source of truth!
digging mode on.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 12 Jan
so if you zap the good stuff before others, you keep earning trust this way?
I think there is a ceiling at 0.9 but basically, yes.
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0 sats \ 4 replies \ @ek 12 Jan
source: #98002 #222470
Yeah, those are still relevant but you missed the latest release affecting ranking (iirc) from October 2023:
most of us will see the same content but it'll be ranked to suit your zapping preferences ever so slightly
But not blaming you, our search is really bad. I am even surprised that you found those old release posts, lol
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But not blaming you, our search is really bad.
oh yes, much could be improved 🥸
And I need to do the diggings for my new posts, so I've tried different ways to search things - with certain filters, it gets better.
Great stuff!
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