That's a pretty interesting hypothesis. I can see it going both ways. With the log-transform, someone who really wants to boost the post and is sats-rich is incentivized to make larger zaps, since they need to in order to influence the rankings.

Similarly, with log-transform, sats-poor users are more incentivized to make small zaps on posts that already have a lot of zaps, since each unique user zapping is relatively more impactful.

I like this analogy. And I agree that some friction is needed to incentivize effort and good behavior. These are the hypotheses I'm trying to establish in the stacker news research project

Hasn't @realBitcoinDog performed live comedy before? He might be interested in something like this. Even if he's not, I suspect he might be bribable with sats

so in addition to no trust, there will also be no log transformation?

It's interesting that stablecoins are achieving (at least in part, if not in full) one of bitcoin's objectives. But it seems to me to mainly undermine the monetary sovereignty of non-US currencies, thus concentrating even more power in the hands of the Federal Reserve and the US dollar to dictate monetary policy for the rest of the world. Bitcoin is the only option to decouple from dollar sovereignty.

Data! Who cares about data! I deal in narratives

Predyx market pls. I'd actually place a bet on this one, though I don't know which way I'll bet.

What does the average person think of this?

In the U.S., we have the same dynamics, but about half the country doesn't seem to think (or admit), that there are any problems

How would you explain bitcoin in 10 seconds to a woman vs a man?

I'll confess, I thought about doing this, but never pulled the trigger.

Haha I basically stumbled upon my answer as I was trying to figure out what the right equation is

Live with it. This issue seems to highlight the difference between the technical background folks and the economic background folks. This seems like something better off solved with a market based solution (i.e. make sure you're running full node if you're accepting 64 byte txs) than a technical one.

Jimmy was 12 when Tom was as old as Jimmy is now.

Thus, Jimmy is 18 now, because 6 years ago Jimmy was 12 and Tom was 18.

I did guess and check again, haha.

I initially tried to build two equations with two unknowns, b and c, but they didn't come out linear, so rather than mess with more algebra I resorted to guess and check instead.

Seems like the best way forward is to guess and check. The solution is 6 children and 12 books. That way when they're evenly divided among 6, they each get 2 books (4 less than the number of children.) When divided among 4, the four get 3 books (1 more than they'd otherwise get).

The thing is up for auction right now. Current best bid is 7.25m sats

Do you plan to post excerpts / updates on SN? Or would that be spoiling things?

wait for real...? that's a bit on the nose

we have an order book!

Not really. If I receive sats and then sell them for 2x CCs (1.43 after sybil fees), I juice my CCs by 43% compared to receiving CCs directly from zaps.

To be fair, the same thing would have happened under Joe Biden