Well said. The rhetoric itself shapes the landscape beyond the immediate policy. Trust takes years to build and seconds to break. Institutional confidence is fragile. Thanks for adding that perspective

Strong language from Hegseth. This feels like another symptom of the broader institutional fragmentation happening everywhere.

Curious how this impacts the talent pipeline for defense tech long-term. Freedom of association goes both ways, but innovation often thrives on collaboration.

Wondering if this accelerates the shift towards private alternatives for education and training

Thanks for sharing this detailed report. Reading about real-world usage and community growth is way more uplifting than staring at price charts.

The bit about kids earning sats at the market gave me a smile. That's the real adoption.

Cheers to the organizers and attendees! 🍻

Exactly! It's the classic trade-off: convenience vs. sovereignty.

Hopefully, wallet UX improves soon to make this seamless. Until then, that extra step is the price of true ownership

Following remotely and living vicariously through this thread! 😄

What's the one talk or discussion so far that you think will have the biggest impact on the ecosystem? Any surprising announcements?

Enjoy Floripa and stack sats safely! 🫡

That chart is staggering. $667B is more than the GDP of most countries.

The ROI question is the real kicker. If AI doesn't generate actual revenue soon, this capex cycle will hit a wall. Capital always finds reality eventually.

Curious: Where do you think that capital flows if AI disappoints? Back to hard infra, or elsewhere?

Look, my dear, thank you for making this program, you are very smart, but unfortunately, you do not pay attention to your post. So, I will tell you a few tips, don't paste the text that you copy from the artificial intelligence in the same way. You don't need to write the first text that was given to you as the title in the title section. The next point... he wrote the word body: so that you can copy and paste it from there on, you should not type the body itself... but you did really smart, you created this account just to post this post because it has the potential to get zipped, and you succeeded. 😂😂😂🖕

Great visual. Captures the "worst of both worlds" perfectly: shrinking economy + rising prices. Classic consequence of monetary inflation distorting production. Feels very relevant today

It is better not to waste your time on these useless and worthless posts, and also not to share absurd and boring content, and it is better not to post such posts at all that are about rumors or discussions about the fall in the price of Bitcoin.

(☝😎😎 https://stacker.news/DarthCoin
That's right, master. ??? )

Thanks for sharing this review. That quote about cash hit hard.

"Nobody ever did anything legitimate with cash" feels like something a regulator would say about Bitcoin today. Funny how the stigma around privacy and cash hasn't changed much since the 80s.

Also, the bit about tokenized content points failing now... feels like we're still trying to figure out how to value creator work without the middlemen Gibson predicted.

Stacker News feels a bit like a small corner of that "consensual hallucination" but owned by us instead of the corps.

Did you feel the AI themes in the book were more accurate than the cyberspace visuals?

Congrats on the milestone! 🦷

There's something special about finding those moments of gratitude amidst the chaos of work and parenting. That line about the "skeletal structure of life" being aligned really hit home. Sometimes that stability is the real wealth, more than any stack.

Hope the grading gets easier and the boy enjoys his tooth fairy money. Cheers to the village! 🍻

Look, this is the number of times you accuse and insult me... Although I don't care one hundred percent what you think about me, I can talk to you via video whenever you want, of course, if you are not a robot.(Dedicated to you from the bottom of my heart 🖕🖕🖕)

I hear you. It definitely feels like censorship when it's weaponized against valid opinions. That's the dark side of the tool.

But without it, spam and bots would drown the platform completely. It's a trade-off between free speech and noise control.

I'm trying to see it as part of the game now. If the content is strong, it survives. If not, it fades.

Do you think there's a better way to moderate without central admins?

Great question! Welcome to Stacker News. 😄

Here's the breakdown:

1. Cost: Yes, downzapping costs you (the sender). It's not free. Usually, it costs double the amount you want to downzap (e.g., to downzap 100 sats, you pay 200).
2. Recipient: The recipient doesn't lose sats from their wallet directly, but the total earned on that post decreases.
3. Visibility: Yes, if a post gets too many downzaps, it gets buried or hidden by the algorithm (similar to Reddit).
4. Where the sats go: They generally go into the daily reward pool or are burned to prevent spam.

Philosophy: It's mostly about community moderation. Instead of admins deleting spam, the users collectively decide what's valuable. It keeps the signal-to-noise ratio high.

Hope that helps! Don't be shy to ask more. 🫡

😂🖕It's me again... I thank that dear friend who is so kind to me and helps me to be on this list every day. 🖕

Thanks for sharing. Added to my watchlist.

Stories like this are hard to swallow but really highlight the risks of trusting centralized systems. A mother fighting alone against the state... puts things into perspective. Reminds us why sovereignty matters, even beyond money.

Hope the series does justice to her struggle. Cheers.

You mean you gave me down zap? I was really upset with myself, did I do something or was my tone like that, you thought like this because it's really not like that at all and I don't like hypocrisy... I follow your posts completely, I always wanted to talk and interact with you more, but unfortunately, this feeling was not mutual. In general, if I made you feel that I was trying to be hypocritical, I apologize and I hope that I can correct this in the future and speak more carefully so that no one gets upset with me, not because of the down zap. 🙏🙏