I think that this is an excellent suggestion.

Will check it out. Bitcoin only?

I completely agree with you @scaur!

I know @Bevan doesn't always imagine Peepeth is as "remarkable" as it should be, or growing as fast as would be ideal, or changing the world of social media fast enough... BUT the effort, grit, compassion and **purpose** behind this project is really inspiring.

Long live Peepeth!

Thank you, Bevan and the entire Peepeth fam here - all of you - for being early adopters with a vision of a better world. :-)

Come on, you took all the fun out of it. You know that anything advanced enough to create some sort of highly intricate simulations must be pretty high tech. Which probably means there are no jobs for them to do... so they'd all be sitting around watching their simulations.

God does not play dice. No... but maybe it plays The Sims?

I arrived at the very same conclusion quite some time ago... before I was a decade old.

Have your read *Illusions*, by Richard Bach?

The problem, still, is that theory has no regression stopper. You can still ask, well, where did you come from before here? Why would you care to nudge yourself to investigate the question "why" before you sent yourself into this existence?

(Is *this* seriously the best you could do?! [- we all have to ask that.])

The idea still appeals to me, but it certainly leaves plenty of unanswered questions.

We're very glad you're here! Speak whatever language you're most comfortable with and let the translation feature shine!

Oh, how true this is!

Also, this seems sorta bad for Bitcoin. Is he going to request royalties now for every Bitcoin transaction?

As the "real" Satoshi, I'm sure he'll place it in the public domain... cause he's so well known for doing what's best for civilization... ? 🤮

This is mildly surprising, but sort of why we need to replace the old systems with cryptographically fair, provable, audit-able, unbiased, decentralized systems to begin with.

Next Peeptreat emphasizes bare feet? @Bevan

I think you can do it. Not your first fast, is it?

Welcome!

How'd you discover Peepeth?

Intriguing idea... if true, then I suppose we'll find out in a couple decades when some of the traders write their memoirs.

Welcome to Peepeth @criptocuba!

Can you elaborate a little... who's engineering and who's paying for the stress tests? 🤔

Love that.

and Thank you.

Absolutely. My point was that one moat is probably not so much larger than any other in the space. And that the term "best" seems problematic to me. There are many metrics - so further qualification would lend a lot of clarity to the statement. The "best *brand*" - as you clarified later - is hardly disputable. Other metrics are much more so.

I wasn't trying to be confrontational or anything, just chiming in with my own perspective of the space. Not any more right or wrong than anyone else's.

>Tech is just a tool/toy. That's it.

#I-Agree-CallMeGwei

At the end of the day we're all in this together - and I'm reasonably certain that we're all going to be better off for blockchains broadly over the coming decades.

Just happy to share the space with all you fine Peeple!

End musings.

/5

The best tech will continually attract more mind-share and human interest... as has always happened on long time horizons. Why would currency be an exception to that relentless trend?

IMHO: either Bitcoin will iterate to become cheaper to secure and transact with and/or more general purpose... or it will slowly cede relevance in our lifetimes to the public virtual machine platforms it inspired.

No one in the space is safe from innovation or technical progress. I wouldn't ever bet on anything that entertained the idea that it could be.

/4

What no-one could never argue is that Bitcoin doesn't have the strongest brand and the longest proven resiliency in adverse conditions.

But to imagine that ~ ten years makes a protective moat but that ~ four years does not seems a bit like a cognitive dissonance to me.

And as for developer quality... that seems highly subjective. What's much less subjective is the *quantity* of developers in an ecosystem... and those metrics are much less favorable for Bitcoin.

Brands can only take you so far, we're often reminded of that with brick and mortars.

/3

Even distribution can be hijacked (forks).

What's hard to hijack is a network of participants within the ecosystem... buy that's the same across chain types.

What's probably hardest to hijack would be the hashing power behind Bitcoin. It's truly impressive, but it's also at risk because of it's expense. If a secure proof-of-stake chain offered the same security at lower costs, would Bitcoin's security be able to remain competitive?

Or would they adopt the more efficient model? (Let's not forget all of these open source projects have that ability.)

/2

I'm going to have to disagree with the implicit notion that a decentralized, public, general purpose computing chain is altogether simpler to disrupt than a currency-only chain.

What would force a disruption with a global virtual machine? The obvious answers: network metrics... such as capacity, throughput, distributed-ness, and adoption.

What could lead to a disruption of a virtual currency only chain? Inflation rates are not immune, there could be a lower inflation offering. Scarcity could be undermined with a more scare offering.

/1

The best for what?

Bitcoin isn't powering this novel social platform you're on now (though with anchoring it could sorta do it)... It doesn't allow you to compute on it, so it's de-facto not the best for computing.

It's the best at a narrative of a fixed supply in a world of inflationary assets. That has its own drawbacks too, though they're quite a few decades away from being pressing.

Bitcoin is not the best at furthering creativity, innovation, or ambitious technological and societal changes.

Time will tell if it's the best at mimicking gold.

I hope it will chronicle the results over time...

So you can compare "you up until a year ago" to "you up until today"...? And maybe even just get results for 2018 and then 2019... to reflect on how you represented yourself in any given year.

Just spitballing.

I think Keybase is moving in the right direction in a lot of ways. File sharing with people you don't know many details of is amazing... open your file browser open up a folder with their username and your username and you're done.

Not having to share email or phone number to exchange information is a game changer. Everything else is just icing on the cake.

You see nothing. Now, that's interesting...

This is a test:

It should just show some code.
If you see a line, then we have an issue.

Alright, well, due to the **overwhelming** number of responses to my last inquiry (😂) - I have another question for the Peepeth community.

Who here uses Keybase.io?

Yes! That's what I was talkin' about.

Who here is using web2 logins?

Show of hands, please.

Welcome, Jim. Glad to see you well on your way to being surrounded by badges.

Starting with the life-saving one is commendable.

Glad to have you on Peepeth.

>No one looks in the mirror!
>Everyone's too busy looking in the mirror!

Love this little exchange here. My two gwei: People all have their heads in their phones (no doubt often using *them* as their only mirror).

Introspection is hard, it takes time - people often don't like either of those requirements. With all that time spent on their phones, you'd think people would be learning at an exponential rate... instead the most addictive platforms trap them in an echo chamber. Wasted time.

Peepeth (and open data broadly) to the rescue!

Also, I have a palindromic number of followers... which isn't going to happen again for a while, probably. That's worthy of a blockchain secured, ipfs hosted screen shot, isn't it?

(To all of those followers: Thanks for being an adventurous bunch of blockchain early adopters. So grateful to be on this journey with each and every one of you.)

@abcoathup is *so* going to use this well.

Where can people p👀p the benefits of the badges again?

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Wait a minute. I have 560 characters to work with here on the Peepeth front end! 🕺

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You, @bevan, have certainly been busy delivering features.

Thank you for all your hard work and trying to deliver a better-for-everyone's-mental-health social media platform.

I think many of them mostly care for network effects when it comes to social media at this point. Choices that don't cost anything network-access-wise will be mostly a new concept.

Of course simple (and awesome) are generally good too!

If it's a stand alone website, then that's harder to nail down. If you have a choice of front ends and can move between them all with ease... well, that's a big deal. One that hasn't been a thing before.

Getting things evenly distributed is hard. Even with blockchains decentralizing platforms... electricity, keyboards, and internet access will need to be accessible for people to participate.

We'll get there.

Why? You can't tip that on Peepeth until we get cross-chain swaps. You can tip in ether **right now**. Or use it to post directly to the Peepeth smart contracts and feel truly liberated.

Hmmm... if you're already gonna buy... maybe buy both?

That's neat.

Welcome to Peepeth!

I chuckled.

But then a cringed a little...

... because that's truer than it should be and revolutions require better. We need fewer graph watchers and more Solidity experimenters.

Slowly but surely... one programmer, trail-blazer, creative at a time... cents will follow.

Good luck out there @OneBit. Stay clear-minded and never give up. Don't ever talk yourself down or out of being amazing.

The digital, decentralized "playing field" is probably the only one where we can all start out on an equal footing.

This is often overlooked, but for many... will be completely life changing if we can successfully realize the vision and keep things truly decentralized and open.

The government can't give you emotional support... even if that's what you really want. But, if you're lucky, they can offer you some financial support, hopefully short-term, so you can focus on getting other aspects of yourself and your life in order. Why refuse that help?

And this is not true. If you ever feel it is true... that's only because you haven't yet proven yourself wrong. Don't wait for an invitation.

This is hard to read. Even though you've not been around here long and you're currently drinking a little.

Life is hard. Without family it's damn hard. Without community it's probably crushingly hard.

When life's already that hard: substances only make it harder

I switched to Google Chrome (from Firefox) because it was so much faster than everything else back in the day. Since then I've made a conscious decision to forgo speed in some cases for privacy. Today I use Vivaldi or Brave.

That's great news!

(How are these images ordered?)

How much would you pay to keep your streak going during some holidays? Would that be cheating?

Ah, oh well... embracing #web0