I'm surprised I've seen very little analysis of this... We all love to dunk on X, but is the code actually biased towards "rage-bait"? Is it over-promoting Elon's tweets?
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Globe99
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Scientist | Libertarian | Early millennial | Nerd | Urbanist | "Filthy Casual" Bitcoiner
Projects I like:
nostr:npub1qwe3auavzmlfzkul67j02atcntgd8hwynvj2794zjmuuly6czcds69qldl Nostr-based service and reputation marketplace
nostr:npub1wrzguj625auyeysfuuxzf7ywhzlwfz9gm3fml2lul72gwqxw8n9swtcm02 Bitcoin-based time-locked crowdfunding
https://blockforgebtc.com/blockforge A fully on-chain voxel world, living on Bitcoin forever.
#pinball diary... went to my local spot...
Godzilla: got a few multiballs, otherwise couldn't get much going
Medieval Madness: doing better at "Troll battle" (animatronic trolls pop out into the playfield and you've got to whack them 3 times), but still haven't been able to completely defeat them
Grand Lizard is an older game with pretty harsh dynamics, but I like it because it's got this great old-school #dnd feel
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#Wordle 1,678 5/6*
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You want to know why mainstream Bitcoin adoption (or really any other form of crypto) hasn't taken off yet in the US?
It's not bad UX. It's not Michael Saylor, it's not Luke Dashjr. It's not even Trump.
It's this question on the form 1040:
If you so much as pay for a cup of coffee with Bitcoin in the USA, you're legally obligated to click "yes" here, which immediately plunges you into a rabbit hole of record keeping, "basis", long- vs short-term capital gains, 5 different tax forms, with 100+ pages of instructions, and on and on...
Or just check "no," and congratulations, you're officially lying on your taxes. And good luck claiming you just "forgot", it's not like some 20th question buried after "farm income", or some Schedule X you forgot to submit; it's right there, clear as crystal, "yes or no" in the middle of the page.
Sure, if you're a "Bitcoiner" you're probably used to this... You've got spreadsheets and accountants already helping you. Or if you're just not going to tell the government, fine, more power to you.
But are we really so delusional as to think that *most* Americans, like more than 1%, are going to be willing to go through with this shit to spend their "money" when they can just Tap to Pay for that coffee and not have to worry about any of this?
If you so much as pay for a cup of coffee with Bitcoin in the USA, you're legally obligated to click "yes" here, which immediately plunges you into a rabbit hole of record keeping, "basis", long- vs short-term capital gains, 5 different tax forms, with 100+ pages of instructions, and on and on...
Or just check "no," and congratulations, you're officially lying on your taxes. And good luck claiming you just "forgot", it's not like some 20th question buried after "farm income", or some Schedule X you forgot to submit; it's right there, clear as crystal, "yes or no" in the middle of the page.
Sure, if you're a "Bitcoiner" you're probably used to this... You've got spreadsheets and accountants already helping you. Or if you're just not going to tell the government, fine, more power to you.
But are we really so delusional as to think that *most* Americans, like more than 1%, are going to be willing to go through with this shit to spend their "money" when they can just Tap to Pay for that coffee and not have to worry about any of this?
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After flipping around between #nostrudel (which has improved a lot since I've last used it), #nostria, #nosotros, and occasionally #iris I'm back to #coracle for the time being as a Web client.
Literally nothing else but Coracle can do something as simple as "a list of hashtags," which is... kinda nuts to me. It's like, just do the same thing as an npub follow list, but with hashtags... Why is that so hard?