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56 comments \ @saloon 17 Feb \ 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!

706 sats \ 2 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 18 Feb

When I first started posting my daily mining comments, I was crafting them by hand.

Go to my mining pool dashboard, get the sats mined the previous day
Go to my SN profile, find my last comment and copy the content
Go to today's saloon post, paste yesterday's comment content into a draft comment
Update draft comment to reflect new mined sats, new running total, and a link to the previous day's comment

At some point, I started going back to the previous day's comment and adding a comment to it, linking to the next day's comment. Doubly-linked list!

After a little while of doing that, I codified it. I wrote some code that accepts a sats count as input, and does all of the SN posting described above for me. This uses the SN API (yes, it's "unofficial", yes I had to manually bootstrap it with a session cookie, yes it has some keep-alive functionality to refresh the session cookie so I shouldn't have to do that by hand again).

Today, I discovered my mining pool also has an API that I can use. So naturally, I updated my code to also fetch the sats mined automatically too. One less manual step.

We'll see how it goes tomorrow!

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Natalia 18 Feb

wow, I would like to able to do scheduled posts in SN one day, especially for the @saloon 👀

cc @ek

66 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 18 Feb

There is a ticket, but only for scheduled posts

163 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 18 Feb

I'd forgotten to use https://stacker.news/recent/all for the last few weeks. Great way to catch all the current conversations happening when the site feels a little too still.

219 sats \ 0 replies \ @BitcoinIsTheFuture 18 Feb

Freezing here in the Midwest. Water park down yesterday, bday party for my son, Disney on ice tomorrow

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 18 Feb

Influencers are centralized authorities.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Public_N_M_E 18 Feb

Agree. They're nothing more than paid advertisers. Especially the fitness industry and the money making/trading courses. They didn't make millions off their programmes they made millions off of you buying their programmes. Don't forget that you are their income. The reason they tell you "it works" and here's proof cos others have done it is just their way of wriggling out of response when you fail because " you didn't follow it correctly".

Leeches preying on people's insecurities.

671 sats \ 0 replies \ @kr 17 Feb

new territory alert 👀

~charts

525 sats \ 5 replies \ @skreep_ 17 Feb

Throwing my hat in the sat symbol race, though I'm sure this has been suggested before.

It does bother me we don't have a unified sat symbol.. the kebab, the dumb S people drew on their bathrooms stalls in middle school, putting the ₿ on the right or left, etc. It's all cause for confusion.

The community is also in agreement that Bitcoin with a capital B stands to represent Bitcoin the network, while bitcoin with a lowercase b is to represent bitcoin the asset, but this isn't reflected in the symbol itself.

I think little b with a dash or two through it is the perfect happy medium. Big B means big Bitcoin, little b refers to total amount of smallest slice of a bitcoin. Quick and easy to write by hand, and it also distances itself from "sats" or deviates from b as in bitcoin.

I personally consider adopting the term 'satoshi' as the name for the smallest fractions of Bitcoin to be antithetical to the ethos of Satoshi Nakamoto, who most likely valued the technology's democratic nature over personal recognition.

also, that symbol is basically the result of writing b i t c o i n on top of itself.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @td 17 Feb

Remember you have to be able to write this quickly with a pen. The lowercase b with two lines works well.

30 sats \ 3 replies \ @davidw 17 Feb

Nothing needs changing.

I only see this increasing the complexity. If no other standard exists to date, there’s almost zero chance it’ll be adopted by all wallets. It’s one thing to have a network fork, but a complete other thing to have a subjective fork that is very personal to each person.

Sats are well recognised now. Perhaps we’ll see devs and wallets implement their own sats symbol variant, but as long as they’re still called sats… all is well as far as I’m concerned.

The problem is not user bias. It’s that people don’t understand bitcoin. And that there still today aren’t enough products to rival fiat UX. We should design to solve those problems IMO, not new names for sats and not increasing the friction to understanding a simple concept like sound money.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @td 17 Feb

I like the idea that the dollar symbol will be eaten and taken over by sats. It would be too perfect

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @skreep_ 17 Feb

Also, the lack of standardization across the industry leads to unnecessary complexity and confusion for newcomers.

https://xkcd.com/927/

7 sats \ 0 replies \ @skreep_ 17 Feb

I am mostly on board with you. Every suggested option is objectively terrible (besides maybe #2), not saying the one I drew up in paint isn't. I do however like it more than almost every other option I've seen suggested. The kebab makes me want to die.

"Sats" might be here to stay, might not. Sats are well recognized by early innovators, "real bitcoiners" or some devs and/or those who actually care about the 'lore' of bitcoin, but if bitcoin ever just becomes universally understood as money that >99% of people only choose to use because the other 99.9%+ of the world uses it, then the only true universally understood and accepted name for the asset on the Bitcoin network will be bitcoin. "Bucks" are well recognized as dollars, but never legally or formally speaking.. probably a similar fate for "sats".

Also my point remains that I believe Satoshi himself would be shaking his head at the community for coming to that consensus.

142 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 17 Feb

Howdy!

21 days of 100 push ups until $100k down. Undetermined to go. 17 days of 100 push ups until $100k down. Undetermined to go.

71 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 17 Feb

19 pushups 7 squats 1 calf raises

That typo is back.

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 17 Feb

Day 61 of posting mining earnings from the day before: 604 sats on 16Feb2024! Running total: 45,134 sats!

Yesterday's comment

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 18 Feb

Day 62's comment

63 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scholarhacker 17 Feb

Day 85 of keeping my Cowboy hat. Yee Haw…

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @td 17 Feb

Well played good sir, 100 in the crosshairs! Can’t empathise (feel) much with the emotion of a plastic doll in a mask though!

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @orthwyrm 17 Feb

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784 sats \ 6 replies \ @orthwyrm 17 Feb

Day 308 of snailposting everyday 'til BTC hits $100k.

__@_'-'

50 sats \ 0 replies \ @Public_N_M_E 18 Feb

🫡

71 sats \ 1 reply \ @mango 18 Feb

Day 89 of horseposting

Horse stance: 1 minute x 3 sets

50 sats \ 0 replies \ @Public_N_M_E 18 Feb

🫡

50 sats \ 0 replies \ @td 17 Feb

I’d like to see the snail trail get longer for every consecutive day. Not long now!

50 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 17 Feb

👍

50 sats \ 0 replies \ @carlosfandango 17 Feb

Top quality snail posting…

240 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei 17 Feb

He hopped on all fours, his face twitching ever so slightly. He was role-playing to be a lion, but honestly, he wouldn’t look out of place in a zombie flick. What happens when children turn into zombies and infect the adults around them? Why hasn’t anyone written that story yet?

But I digress. It is Chinese New Year season, and my boy has fallen in love so hard with the tradition of lion dancing that he is crawling on his limbs whenever he can. His baby sister has two pairs of shoes - just the perfect accessory to cover all his limbs and throw himself into his new identity with relish.

His newfound obsession has unravelled some of his skills. Last week, he gave his drawing of a rainbow-coloured lion to an unsuspecting lion troupe at the shopping mall near our house. I learnt that when he wants to do something, he will push away his shyness to get it done. And yes, I think the lion lady who received his drawing was rather amused.

This morning, I forbade him from bringing his sister’s shoes along when we went out for breakfast. No problem. He suggested bringing along his second pair of shoes. Guess where he put this pair? On his hands. So basically he twitched like a zombie outside the house, dancing to the imaginary music in his mind.

I now understand why Chinese New Year lasts for two weeks. It’s because small boys get engrossed with lion dancing and won’t let their obsession go.

271 sats \ 0 replies \ @gnilma 17 Feb

Good morning stackers. Hope everyone is enjoying their weekend.

I messed up my count yesterday. Should have said "day 19 completed" yesterday instead of day 20.

Anyways, this is day 20 of doing 100 push ups till 100k completed. Almost 3 weeks of doing this challenge. I'm not sure if I got any stronger from it, but it had turned into a habit.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Kmt 17 Feb freebie

Sats and sats and more of them

426 sats \ 0 replies \ @TNStacker 17 Feb

528 sats \ 0 replies \ @UCantDoThatDotRugged 17 Feb

Opened a new territory @ ~lol. I'd appreciate any help getting it going!

https://stacker.news/~lol/r/UCantDoThatDotNet

Other than that, my local computer repair guy is using QuickBooks POS system and me mentioning bitcoin was met with a laugh. It is still early.

94 sats \ 2 replies \ @satoshiplanet 17 Feb

Day 58 keeping the 🤠 hat!

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @bief57 17 Feb

Brilliant!! One day I win the hat, the next day I lose it, and then I win it again and then I lose it hahaha

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @td 17 Feb

Consistency, my pedigree chum

351 sats \ 0 replies \ @carlosfandango 17 Feb

Snail must be having a lie in…. Or are we at 100k?!?

216 sats \ 2 replies \ @Bitman 17 Feb

I woke from a dream this morning that the price had dropped to $35,000.

I was hoping for another big bargain; but was a little disappointed to find I was just dreaming.

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @quark 17 Feb

Keep dreaming. It could happen one day. But if it happens it would be so quick that if you didn't have an automatic order you would miss it.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bitman 18 Feb

But if it happens it would be so quick that if you didn't have an automatic order you would miss it.

That's a great point. Bitcoin seems to enter my dreams quite a lot.

Once I dreamed I'd completely d0xed myself here on SN too.

Sometimes I have to pinch myself regarding Bitcoin while I'm awake too.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @smuglydawg 17 Feb

So I have heard stories of lost Bitcoin but how much lost satoshi do you think there is?

1278 sats \ 2 replies \ @Natalia 17 Feb

Writing down what I've learned this week 👀

found 160k missing sats from a dead Blixt note, the sats went missing after FC due to my early time of recklessness and inexperience, and also due to not having many wallets supporting both Taproot and Aezeed at the same time - Sparrow is the best solution I found.
closed a few channels and found a new hack on Zeus to speed up the transactions; the takeaway here is you might rather pay a bit more to get the channels close faster because you don't know how long the good time ( low fee ) will last.
perfected my swapping skills and restructured some UTXOs, thanks for the low fee time, practice indeed make perfect!
played around with the cashu mint, and it was really interesting to get to experience what a bank run is like - only put what you are willing to lose in banks.

Running your own bank is not an easy task, but responsibility comes with freedom! 🤓 Stackers, don't waste this beautiful 10sats time! Do experiments, make mistakes, and learn from them.

111 sats \ 1 reply \ @Lux 17 Feb

Last week I learned to use chantools Stupid me forgot to save a channel backup in Blixt, the app glitched and I reinstalled. Asked the peer Boltz to FC, and I have to praise them for responsivness and help. Still didnt see the funds in Blixt. Tinkered with Electrum and Sparrow recovery unsuccesfully but the solution was chantools. Very easy to use with minimal skills in terminal necessary. sweepremoteclosed and 400k sats are in my posession again

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Natalia 17 Feb

Tinkered with Electrum and Sparrow recovery unsuccesfully but the solution was chantools.

interesting tool and I'm happy for you:) and this is the real Bitcoiner spirit - keep trying until you found something solve the problem haha!

but for Sparrow also really easy, and 0 skills in terminal needed. 👀

1278 sats \ 11 replies \ @Natalia 17 Feb

I'm constantly amazed by how skilled people are here, and a girl I met two days ago told me that because it's hard to find jobs here, people need to learn how to produce; for example, she picked all these flowers in the mountain and packaged them to sell, so cool.

Then you have many people who are living in big cities, earning a monthly salary ( the so-called safety ), living an artificial life even with many debts, and then spend most of their time thinking about what to consume because they need to treat themselves better compensating for doing a job they hate and look better than others - spend more and work harder to spend even more!

Honestly, I think the first thing one needs to think about is how to be your own boss instead of being bossed around if you really want to be a sovereign individual, Bitcoin is only a tool to help - it's when you being responsible for yourself can set you free, learn how to create and produce instead of selling your precious time.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @arrivederci 19 Feb

Those flower bunches look mostly aromatic to me, and I would guess that they are sold for ppl to use as an 'air freshener'

i.e. something like a potpourri

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @gnilma 17 Feb

As a finish carpenter of 16 years who run my own business, I not only use my skills, experience, and hands to create and produce, I've learn that my work takes time. I feel that often times, creating and producing things, especially things of quality craftsmanship, it takes time. It is inevitable that we are all selling our precious time when we produce; and I think more so when you're trying to create and produce something of high quality.

I think you're trying to encourage people to be entrepreneurial, to start their own business and be their own boss. But that does not escape the fact that you are still selling your time, probably even more so, when you are your own boss.

I believe there is no single best way to do things in this world, but that this world runs on trade offs. From experience, I learned the trade off for being your own boss is more responsibility and accountability in your ability to perform in exchange for more control, sovereignty, and freedom over your time when it comes to work.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @TNStacker 17 Feb

54 sats \ 0 replies \ @mo 17 Feb

inspiring thanks 🙏

174 sats \ 6 replies \ @DarthCoin 17 Feb

Natalia, you bring hope, with your words, into this mad world... I wish more people could think like that. Will be a much better world.

237 sats \ 5 replies \ @Natalia 17 Feb

skills + sats + free time and free mind to keep learning and creating is the way!

237 sats \ 4 replies \ @DarthCoin 17 Feb

hahaha I made that meme long time ago for some nocoiners. So much truth in that meme...

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @siggy47 17 Feb

@DarthCoin, a long time ago I took your advice, closed channels in my node and kept only a few much bigger channels. I don't use it to encourage routing, just for my own needs. Yesterday a big player opened a big (for me) channel, and suddenly my node is routing like crazy. It's interesting, since I wonder if my few big channels look more attractive now since bitcoin's price has spiked.

817 sats \ 2 replies \ @DarthCoin 17 Feb

Usually that spike in activity, is not real "routing" but just re-balancing (aka they are using your cheap routes).

As I always said: when a pleb want to start running a LN node, MUST answer himself the basic question: WHAT for am I running this public node?

Please pay attention to what I said in these guides:

Running a public routing node (even that you do not want to do pro routing, you are exposed to the public network) is a serious business and should NOT be done by not experienced plebs. It is absolutely nothing wrong with running a private node (that do not do routing and is not exposed to the public).

But to answer punctually to your question: yes, opening bigger channels (for a public node), helps a lot. A minimum 5M sats/chan will increase your ranking. More small channels you have = less ranking you could have, is dragging you down.

IMHO the whole LN topology must be like this:

high level public nodes, with big huge channels, well connected between.
medium nodes, LSP with good connections to the high level nodes, and offering liquidity for private nodes.
small pleb nodes, but good maintenance and good liquidity, NOT 100k / chan and To only....
private nodes (like mobiles Zeus, Blixt, Mutiny, Breez, Electrum etc

But people still ignore my advice and use shity Tor only Pi nodes... but then complain why LN is not working well... What can I do more?