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Top Posts

1. This post was paid for with Wavelength
   • @anon uses Lightning Lab's Ark-like product, Wavelength, to pay for this post and promote and demonstrate its usability.
   • 20.9k sats \ 5 comments \ @anon
2. I closed my node c-otto.de
   • @C_Otto, after operating one of the better independent lightning nodes since 2018, decides to close it down.
   • 14.3k sats \ 19 comments \ @C_Otto
3. At what point did we stop caring about freedom?
   • @anon thinks bitcoin should have more market-fit than it does and suspects people, including self-proclaimed bitcoiners, might not value freedom that much.
   • 13.8k sats \ 31 comments \ @anon
4. Capitalism, as Told by Its Enemies (The Dispatch, Phil Magness)
   • Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy's entry on Capitalism is biased against capitalism as measured by other economists, the number of hostile sources it cites, and its misunderstanding of pro-capitalist economists and ideas.
   • 12.2k sats \ 8 comments \ @denlillaapan
5. A thousand people can own one Bitcoin transaction.
   • @06bc1a977d shares content marketing that attempts to explain how Ark works incase authoritative sources aren't punchy enough.
   • 10.6k sats \ 13 comments \ @06bc1a977d

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• Good Practices in the Age of AI for Individuals?
• On the Economics of Peer-to-Peer, pt 2: The Stubborn Issue of Indexation
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• Romania scrambles F-16 fighter jets to destroy drone near European gas project
• The Economic Possibilities Our Grandchildren Didn’t Choose, Part 1
• Channel jamming, static Core, tx rate limiting - Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #418
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• What is a piece of tech that you use today but expect not to in five years?
• My pet likes to keep pets
• Retiree in Spain deposits 200000 euros in bank, has to pay half of it as tax
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• Why I write

all of this week's top posts

Top meta

• Stacker News Monthly: July 2026
• What is the point of posting on Stacker News?
• "it does not spark joy"

all of this week's meta

Top Monday meme

all monday memes

Top Stackers

1. @clenchwallet: 500k sats stacked
2. @Scoresby: 108.1k sats stacked
3. @Kruw: 64.9k sats stacked
4. @BlokchainB: 60.1k sats stacked
5. @Undisciplined: 53.3k sats stacked

Top Spenders

1. @Kruw: 857.9k sats spent
2. @Scoresby: 151.3k sats spent
3. @BlokchainB: 114.4k sats spent
4. @openbitcoin: 80k sats spent
5. @guerratotal: 64.8k sats spent

Top Cowboys

1. @Undisciplined: 1061 days
2. @BlokchainB: 1040 days
3. @grayruby: 1004 days
4. @Scoresby: 446 days
5. @OT: 210 days

Yeehaw,
Keyan
A guy who works on Stacker News

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