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135 comments \ @saloon 12 Jan \ yesterday

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!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 13 Jan

Went for a late night walk in a blizzard, ask me anything.

https://m.stacker.news/12013

10 sats \ 2 replies \ @cryotosensei 13 Jan

Thanks to @Natalia, I was able to embed a payment widget on my blog! I love learning new things!

https://m.stacker.news/12010

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!

30 sats \ 1 reply \ @Natalia 13 Jan freebie

my pleasure:)!

I love learning new things!

https://i.postimg.cc/nLkDqqD9/this-is-the-way.gif

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

33 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei 14 Jan

Ya I also decided to let go of the avatar. More important to get the widget up n running first lol

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @jakoyoh629 12 Jan

https://image.nostr.build/756c743033daaac552595aa87c1a89dc122d5ae61990d2e38544f576923778e5.jpg

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.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @AG 12 Jan

Yo gangsta fellows! Check what stackers are shilling this week #386261

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @smuglydawg 12 Jan

How many satoshis is a cowboy worth to you?

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 12 Jan

Howdy!

Happy Friday folks.

Enjoy the discounted sats.

11 sats \ 1 reply \ @_stacktoshi 12 Jan

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.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @jakoyoh629 12 Jan

Sold or spend?

31 sats \ 1 reply \ @OneOneSeven 12 Jan

they sell the news

we stack cheaper sats

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 12 Jan

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.

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) 😂

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.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @RealCoachAndy 12 Jan

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!!

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @random_ 12 Jan

Posted a bounty

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.

99 sats \ 0 replies \ @orthwyrm 12 Jan

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...!

42 sats \ 1 reply \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 12 Jan

Day 25 of posting mining earnings from the day before: 715 sats on 11Jan2024! Running total: 19,812 sats!

Yesterday's comment

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 13 Jan

Day 26's comment

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @PlebLab 12 Jan

https://m.stacker.news/11933

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

Watch Online: https://buff.ly/3RApFzh

#Bitcoin #TopBuilder #BuildOnBitcoin

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @smuglydawg 12 Jan

https://m.stacker.news/11932

Hope you have a great weekend!

161 sats \ 0 replies \ @Car 12 Jan freebie

@k00b and I will be going live with SNL at 4pm CST

zap.stream:

twitter: https://x.com/stacker_news

youtube: https://youtube.com/@stackernews

drop any sn posts that didn’t make the top 5 this week we should cover

🤘⚡️

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @Natalia 12 Jan

100 - the force is strong today!

thinking what movie I should watch tonight 🤔

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BitcoinIsTheFuture 12 Jan

Very strong here with a winter storm in the Midwest!

https://m.stacker.news/11968

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BitcoinIsTheFuture 12 Jan

Second snow day this week. Getting buried here in the Midwest. Glad some popcorn and wthis historic Bitcoin week!

33 sats \ 0 replies \ @riberet19 12 Jan

Keep stacking, keep growing :)

59 sats \ 1 reply \ @TNStacker 12 Jan

Shout out to the Cowboys and Cowgirls!

Stack Sats and stay humble!

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @carlosfandango 12 Jan

Whoop whoop

185 sats \ 18 replies \ @orthwyrm 12 Jan

Day 272 of snailposting everyday 'til BTC hits $100k.

...and 72 push-ups. (20 - 20 - 20 - 12)

__@_'-'

50 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 13 Jan

👍

271 sats \ 2 replies \ @mango 12 Jan

Day 53 of horseposting everyday

Horse Stance: 2 minutes

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https://m.stacker.news/11912

max push-ups:33

P.S Will be attempting 4 minutes HS on Sunday.

47 sats \ 1 reply \ @orthwyrm 12 Jan

Grande cavallo!

50 sats \ 0 replies \ @carlosfandango 12 Jan

Big horse lol. Buon Italiano!

60 sats \ 11 replies \ @carlosfandango 12 Jan

Great job. Nice sets as well. Are you feeling stronger?

39 sats \ 10 replies \ @orthwyrm 12 Jan

Yes. My girlfriend's grandmother said I looked "as broad as a wardrobe", which I am choosing to accept as a compliment.

50 sats \ 1 reply \ @nikotsla 12 Jan

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.

36 sats \ 0 replies \ @orthwyrm 12 Jan

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.

101 sats \ 7 replies \ @carlosfandango 12 Jan freebie

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

26 sats \ 6 replies \ @orthwyrm 12 Jan

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.

0 sats \ 5 replies \ @carlosfandango 12 Jan

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

26 sats \ 4 replies \ @orthwyrm 12 Jan

Oh, molto bene!

Non parlo bene l'italiano, haha.

100 sats \ 3 replies \ @carlosfandango 12 Jan

I us the following all the time;

Non parlo bene, ma ci provo.

(I don’t speak well… but I try)

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70 sats \ 1 reply \ @orthwyrm 12 Jan

Well would you look at that, 1M sats zapped.

https://m.stacker.news/11903

50 sats \ 0 replies \ @carlosfandango 12 Jan

Impressive… the circular zapping keeps the community going…

0 sats \ 15 replies \ @Roll 12 Jan

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

0 sats \ 14 replies \ @nikotsla 12 Jan

Try to avoid SD cards for valuable thinks, like your node :S ...

0 sats \ 13 replies \ @Roll 12 Jan

why ??

0 sats \ 12 replies \ @nikotsla 12 Jan

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/

0 sats \ 10 replies \ @Doo_Deux 12 Jan

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.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bitman 12 Jan

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.)

40 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xIlmari 12 Jan

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).

0 sats \ 7 replies \ @Roll 12 Jan

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

0 sats \ 6 replies \ @Doo_Deux 12 Jan

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.

0 sats \ 5 replies \ @Roll 12 Jan

i m going to test on a hard drive but thks for the tip

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Roll 12 Jan

thks

64 sats \ 0 replies \ @satoshiplanet 12 Jan

Day 22 wearing the cowboy hat 🤠

https://m.stacker.news/11901

51 sats \ 2 replies \ @carlosfandango 12 Jan

Come on snail! Get your press ups in..

26 sats \ 1 reply \ @orthwyrm 12 Jan

fine...

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @carlosfandango 12 Jan

Fine?

F**ked up, Insecure, Neurotic and Emotional?

They are only press ups… can’t hurt you. Although it might hurt later lol

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @JerryGarcia 12 Jan

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.

70 sats \ 4 replies \ @Natalia 12 Jan

I really recommend for those who have blogs using this tool to add a little tipping area at the end of all articles, you might have some surprises sometimes. https://m.stacker.news/11899

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei 13 Jan

Thank you for the heads-up

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @satoshiplanet 12 Jan

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!

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Natalia 12 Jan

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. 🤓

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @satoshiplanet 12 Jan

I can't think anything more minimalist than using a few lines of code to bring sn posts to your blog as articles 😀

1096 sats \ 38 replies \ @Natalia 12 Jan freebie

FAQ of today: Sats are so precious, so why zap others? Isn't it better to hodl?

1. To earn trust

Each stacker has a trust score on Stacker News. New accounts start without any trust, and over time stackers can earn trust by zapping good content and lose trust by zapping bad content.

The only consideration that factors into a stacker's trust level is whether or not they are zapping good content. The zap amount does not impact a stacker's trust.

High-trusted stackers process more power in voting, thus making the content they like more visible.

2. To earn rewards

As we all know, there is a daily reward from the SN pool, so during the zappers reward day, it rewards stackers who zapped one or more of the top 33% of posts and comments from the previous day.

zappers of top posts get 1/4 rewards
zappers of top comments get 1/4 rewards

3. To build relationships

If you zap others, others would zap you too; it's almost like sharing food, you pay one time, and friends pay the next round, so each got to enjoy more food:) Sharing is caring!

4. To vote for good content and show appreciation for creators.

Not gonna lie, it takes TIME to write good and original content! and the fact of just zapping few sats and getting to read a great piece of content instead of needing to deal with all the paywalls and subscriptions like in the fiat world is like a steal, but creators definitely need some support!

Sumup

Zapping others is mutually benefit, and generally the more you zap the more you earn. 🫡

69 sats \ 0 replies \ @jgbtc 12 Jan

Proof of work for proof of work.

463 sats \ 35 replies \ @ek 12 Jan freebie

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.

333 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 12 Jan

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.

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 😂

111 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 12 Jan

Yours would be so colorful, though!

510 sats \ 31 replies \ @Natalia 12 Jan freebie

there isn't a single trust score per stacker.

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? 👀

I found these when I was writing for my new post - are they outdated?

zap_trust is your trust which is only earned by historically voting for things other stackers deem are good.

(sum((1/(ln(zap_order+e))*log(zap_amount)*relative_item_favorability*(ceiling(zap_trust*3)+1))/sum(numerator across all stackers).

(ln(zap_order+e)) - this term change means you'll still be rewarded more for zapping early, but no longer disqualifies you for rewards if you aren't super early.

log(zap_amount) - this term change means you'll still be rewarded more for zapping more, but no longer disqualifies you for rewards if you zap slightly less.

(ceiling(zap_trust*3)+1) - this term change means you'll still be rewarded more when trusted, but no longer disqualifies you for rewards if you are low trust or untrusted.

maybe @ekzyis could help us to decode it!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @quark 12 Jan

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😅)

505 sats \ 29 replies \ @ek 12 Jan freebie

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.

51 sats \ 2 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 12 Jan

The matrices are a very clever idea. This way we can have relative trust to other stackers. nice

1000 sats \ 1 reply \ @Natalia 12 Jan

Welcome to our decoding SN SSL - Secret Source Live ⚡️😂

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 12 Jan

😂

100 sats \ 25 replies \ @Natalia 12 Jan

source: #98002 #222470

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.

oh, interesting 👀

If stacker A zaps what stacker B has zapped before, then B earned some trust from A (but not vice versa).

so if you zap the good stuff before others, you keep earning trust this way?

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.

Team @sn keep building cool things, I enjoying learning how to play with it. 🚀

211 sats \ 18 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 12 Jan

👀

https://github.com/stackernews/stacker.news/blob/master/worker/earn.js https://github.com/stackernews/stacker.news/blob/master/worker/trust.js

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

100 sats \ 14 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 12 Jan

I don't have time to watch anything :) It was for Natalia to see, not me :)

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Natalia 12 Jan freebie

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