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Class of 2021 here. How do I enjoy a bull market? I’ve conditioned myself to desire drawdowns and max pain as I can obtain more sats per dollar. As I experience my first true bull market after diligently stacking in the bear the past two years, I’m filled with anxiety as I can buy fewer sats per dollar.
Am I overthinking this? Why does a rising bitcoin price give me anxiety when everyone else is celebrating?
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Life is hard. Having your assets appreciate in value is hell on earth. I suggest you get fired from your job, and acquire some complicated medical condition, that should fix your anxiety.
The day has come! 🫣 For a while, I’ve been looking at the wonderful Bitcoin community, shyly, from the sidelines, supporting people and what they do for Bitcoin.
I thought I had nothing to say, or share with the world.
Then I realized, as a recruiter, that I had spent a fine amount of time daily, talking to job seekers about how they could improve their chances of landing their first Bitcoin-only job, or with the managers, how they could improve their recruiting. So it hit me- I have a lot to share, and I should write it down!
Today, I humbly present you my two ebooks. One is for job seekers in the Bitcoin industry, and another one is for start-ups on how to improve, or build from the ground up, their hiring processes.
I do this for the Bitcoin community, with the hope that we can create a common ground for job seekers and companies to better understand each other. For that reason, these guides are completely free, and no data will be collected.
I want to thank the people who supported me during this project:
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nostr:npub16yvvw6g8dn9pqmh6uymjcsmy69lpdj0zch7jjy4sk67rpespc6gs596q7y for patiently listening to our ideas and for creating this Barbie Bitcoin vibe website
nostr:npub1t3ggcd843pnwcu6p4tcsesd02t5jx2aelpvusypu5hk0925nhauqjjl5g4 for his designs and for not giving up on us after realizing how many messages per minute we can send in the group chat
nostr:npub1jaxs73m0zadd7fkwmkef73srdpfkxs6krwdhvkp0axzefqlsrpuqcvsjkt last but not least, Martell, for her amazing support and professional advices
Go to: https://www.thunder.wtf/
I put a lot of love into these guides, so hopefully, you’ll find value in them 💜
How to exit the fiat mines, and get a job in Bitcoin land.
I doubt anger is an emotion that you have much choice in having. However I think it's pretty easy to deny you are angry. Most people go through their whole lives thinking they are in control of their emotions, when in fact they ignore their them, and therefore it's not really clear what is making the decisions.
I personally learnt to see the hidden anger, that way I can consciously decide what action to take, as opposed to the emotion unconsciously deciding for me.
I see anger as being about action, driving you to meet an unmet need, whether that be love, safety, respect, etc. It's a great tool to actually identify what needs/values are important too you.
Most #nostr clients still suck in terms of discoverability. But they don't have to.
They don't have to because we have all the right building blocks already, we just lack courage to steal. Yes, STEAL. I'd encourage everyone to steal—not copy—what other clients did well. In the spirit of "good artists copy, great artists steal."
Let's take a web-based reddit client for example, one that still works (sometimes) despite all the horrible API changes: https://www.popular.pics/
If you visit that site in your browser, you'll be greeted with something like this:
It's a viewer that supports multiple subreddits by default. You open it, and it just works. It has sensible defaults. (Important!) It defaults to multiple subreddits from the get-go. Subreddits that are visual, i.e. subreddits that have users posting visually pleasing images.
You can change these defaults easily, and the URL will update accordingly. This one is for subreddits concerning #nostr #bitcoin and #memes for example: https://www.popular.pics/reddit/subreddits/posts?r=nostr,bitcoin,memes - easy to share & easy to see what's going on. Steal this. Please.
Of course, if this is a nostr client (and if you're logged in) this should default to your personal web. The people and hashtags you follow; the communities and relays you are part of, etc. Bonus points if you implement an "expand" button which will expand your personal web by one degree, i.e. shows "friend of a friend" kind of stuff. Not only people you follow, but people followed by people you follow. Another click and it's two degrees. You get the idea.
Back to the interface, and the problem at hand: discoverability. As you can see, every image card quite prominently shows the subreddit it was posted the as well as the user who posted it.
Apart from the beautiful masonry layout (did I already mention that you should steal this too?), that's the one thing I like most about this image interface: it's so fucking easy to discover stuff. You click on a subreddit, and boom, you see all images from this subreddit.
You click on a username, and boom, you see all images from this user.
You will discover new subreddits via the "user" view (most users post to multiple subreddits) and you will discover new users via the "subreddit" view (most subreddits have posts from multiple users). You can spend DAYS just clicking through stuff, and we could do the same on nostr with #hashtags (or NIP-72 communities) and usernames (yay, we have those).
Even more, you could go from user to NIP-05 provider, which basically gives a list of users under a single domain. Or you could show what kind of actual lists (NIP-51 lists) the user is part of, so you again have a list of users which you could use as a base for your exploration, populating the grid view which is the base of this image client. And again, because this is nostr, we get a "ghost" mode FOR FREE. You can use someone else's npub and look at things through their eyes. Some clients implement this quite well already. Most people have no idea that this is possible (because we suck at discoverability, including discoverability of features).
Pinstr is ALMOST there, but it takes like ~5 clicks to get to a hashtag (and it doesn't always work for me). Slidestr has potential and is also ALMOST there, but again, it takes like ~3 clicks to get to a profile and open it in Slidestr and you have to know exactly what you're doing, which isn't exactly discoverability-friendly. Same for hashtags, which are even more hidden, as as you have to open an almost invisible menu at the bottom of the image view.
Don't get me wrong, I love what we have. But we shouldn't be afraid to steal what other clients did well in the past, especially stuff that has been around for a long time. To me, the popular pics client is near perfect. No pop-ups. No modals. No unnecessary clicks. Everything makes sense and is in the right place. It doesn't waste space and is beautiful to boot.
I think we're very close to greatness on many fronts, and I hope that—with some technical improvements that are around the corner, as well with some help from #nostrdesign—we can finally kick some ass in the discoverability department too.
Some great ideas. Especially the seeing follows of my follows.
What makes you conclude that LLMs won't get us to AGI?
You do highlight my point thou. For the majority of plebs, hardware wallets like this, arent really needed. Even for you it's likely still a waste of sats, you're better off with something else, unless you're making regular large transactions.
I've ran gettxoutsetinfo a few times, and it seemed about the right amount.
Okay Mr Money Pants. I can't wait to get as rich as you so I can just burn sats just because. :)
Just like Bitcoin, you should generate the private key (the 32 bytes), from the words, not the words from the private key. Bip-39 feeds the words as a string into a PBKDF2 using SHA-512, which provides the master seed for HD wallets (64 bytes). So whether it's 12, 17, 24, or 102 words, it will all work, however any more words then 12 doesn't add any extra security.
Btw, why not implement a Bip-32 like hit hierarchical deterministic nostr accounts? This way you could have the master account that can access it's subordinate accounts.
12 BIP-39 words is all you need. 24 words doesn't add any extra security.
Just go with your gut and get it. Don't think too much about why you need all these cool features.
Step 1: Don't rely on a secure element in the first place as most use cases are fine with a stateless device.
Step 2: Save a truck load of money. The end.
Btw, art shared online was always worth nothing, don't let the NFT grifters convince you otherwise :). The value in art is the artists time. Their time is valued based on the subjective opinion of the artist and their patron.
Not a fault of the medium (the AI tool), just a lack of imagination of the creator.
For me, the medium of art is just one aspect. The concepts and vision for the work make up the majority of its beauty. AI tools are just your brushes and paint; the medium.
I like it. Sure, why not, it was your intent, your prompts, and your selection out of the numerous other images that didn't meet your creative vision. Just as you used generative AI tools today, before you used graphic design tools and a computer yesterday, and others the paint brushes and acrylic made not by the artist.
Why do you think the price is leading the ETF growth? Is it a reporting lag or the market being front run?
Follow the power cord to the coal powered power plant; that end.
You have shifting conclusions. This is what and ETF is, the fund holds the Bitcoin.