It's one or the other.

n/Android, do we want to use Votes or Zaps?

Satellite.earth has implemented the ability to use Votes or Zaps to determine the popularity of the content inside individual communities. The choice is up to all of us.

If we pick votes, that means anyone, including non-bitcoiners, can participate. This mimics Reddit. If we pick zaps, that means people would need to have sats to boost a submission. This would mimic Stacker.news.

Both methods have pros and cons. I am a fan of being inclusive, but I'm also a fan of the value for value model of using Zaps. What are your thoughts?

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That's not how I roll, they can reflect on this note and change their ways without getting defensive

There are certain blue check bitcoiners, who shall remain nameless, who just pop onto nostr once a week to cross post and shill t-shirts and podcasts

Do not engage with these larps 🫡

good morning #coffeechain got a double yolk egg for my coffee this morning and i think that is good luck so i am sharing with you 🍀💜🫂 hope you have a happy day! 🤙

What are some of the best articles written about #nostr so far?

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Now that I write Rust, can I finally call myself a real dev?

I spoke at a big bitcoin-adjacent company this week and one of the best questions was from someone who asked what the downsides of bitcoin adoption might be.

I always do appreciate these steelman questions, the skeptical questions, the ones where we challenge ourselves. Only when we can answer those types of questions do we understand the concept that we are promoting.

So the classic example is that in modern economic literature, "deflation is bad". This, however, is only the case in a highly indebted system. Normally, deflation is good. Money appreciates, technology improves, and goods and services get cheaper over time as they should. Price of Tomorrow covers this well. My book touches on this too, etc. The "deflation is bad" meme is still alive in modern economic discourse and thus is worth countering, but I think in the bitcoin spectrum of communities, people get that deflation is fine and good.

My answer to the question was in two parts.

The first part was technological determinism. In other words, if we were to re-run humanity multiple times, there are certain rare accidents that might not replicate, and other commonalities that probably would. Much like steam engines, internal combustion engines, electricity, and nuclear power, I think a decentralized network of money is something we would eventually come across. In our case, Bitcoin came into existence as soon as the bandwidth and encryption tech allowed it to. In other universes or simulations it might look a bit different (e.g. might not be 21 million or ten minute block times exactly), but I think decentralized real-time settlement would become apparent as readily as electricity does, for any civilization that reaches this point. So ethics aside, it just is what it is. It exists, and thus we must deal with it.

The second part was that in my view, transparency and individual empowerment is rarely a bad thing. Half of the world is autocratic. And half of the world (not quite the same half) deals with massive structural inflation. A decentralized spreadsheet that allows individuals to store and send value can't possibly be a bad thing, unless humanity itself is totally corrupted. I then went into more detail with examples about historical war financing, and all sorts of tangible stuff. In other words, a whole chapter full of stuff. I've addressed this in some articles to.

In your view, if you had to steelman the argument as best as you could, what are the scenarios where bitcoin is *BAD* for humanity rather than good for it, on net?

just barely caught my UV window today 🌞 busy week

reorienting day around the sunlight is fun and it definitely reduces stress, gets you outdoors way more & brings clarity of purpose

biggest challenge for me is going to sleep earlier, any tips?

Skip breakfast, buy more #bitcoin

ChatGPT is wild.

I sent it my current js code for timechain. Then said, i need to make a new call for current hash (provided url), construct a new call based on the response, only then can I fetch the metadata of the block (provided url template), showed it the json results, asked it to re-format the results (like date) so they make sense for a humans, output it in the UI and then make sure to update the metadata when a new block comes in from my original code.

I had to iterate a few times because it gave errors, but i was analysing the results and gave feedback and ChatGPT fixed those errors.

I hate writing javascript and suck at it but ChatGPT made it very easy for me to execute on my ideas without help of a dev. As long as you have some understanding, its a great companion.

Hey Brock Pierce, I know where you can get 1/2 off on orange jumpsuits. Act quickly time is running out.

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Zone 2 training has transformed so many aspects of my performance and fitness. Continuing with heavy weights on body building and then staying in the heart rate zone of 132-142 BPM for 45 minutes straight!

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