Bailey, Lubka, Klipsten, Held, Saylor, etc - good or bad for Bitcoin? What's your take on the David Baileys, Steven Lubkas, Cory Klipstens, Dan Helds, Saylors, etc, of the online Bitcoin scene? To me, they seem like people who just care about playing the Wall Street game on top of Bitcoin. I probably shouldn’t call them grifters/scammers; that’s too harsh when you compare them with some of the actual ones (if you know, you know), because they aren’t committing any crime (that we know of). To me, they just have too much of a fiat mindset that is incompatible with what I think Bitcoin is trying to achieve. Or maybe they are just mirrors of what we'd all become in case we were running the companies they are? My first instinct is to judge them harshly, so I'd be happy to have someone giving me some counterweight to my knee-jerk reaction, to help me judge them more generously. Feel free to comment if you think they don't belong on the same list. Reading myself, this sounds like a Bitcoin maxi purity test. Well, I wrote it, so I should just post it now.
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What's your take on the David Baileys, Steven Lubkas, Cory Klipstens, Dan Helds, Saylors, etc, of the online Bitcoin scene? To me, they seem like p...
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 Someone just sent me this. A month old, still timely... degens will never learn. An addict in need? Brian provides the drugs. > We just bumped up the max leverage from 20x to 50x on international perpetual futures. > A bunch of traders asked for this update. Let us know what else we can add!
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In the past 24 hours, you may have received an ad over lightning where I conducted a casual social experiment, not adhering to strict scientific protocols but rather for amusement. For this, I utilized eaglesats.com. A detailed discussion about this business model can be found in a recent post here:
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. The premise of the experiment was simple: I offered participants the chance to send me 1,000 sats, and in return, they would receive 2,000 sats back to their LNURL address, which they were instructed to include in their payment comments. I sent out about 5000 messages at 5 sats each. Observations from the experiment include: - I collected approximately 15,000 sats and paid out around 20,000 sats. Some participants sent smaller amounts, likely skeptical of a potential scam. After immediately reimbursing the first participant, I decided to wait until the experiment concluded an hour ago. This was to prevent others from creating multiple addresses to exploit the system after realizing the offer was legitimate. - Over 90% of the participants used Wallet of Satoshi. - Some participants failed to follow simple instructions. I received several 1,000 sat payments without a corresponding return address. Consequently, I didn't need to disburse 30,000 sats in total. This issue could also stem from a limitation in some wallets where custom messages are truncated, as discussed in one of the comments here:
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. - The experiment showed that people are still vulnerable to falling for double-your-bitcoin scams. While I did honor the payback in this case, malicious actors might not do the same. Yesterday, the minimum payment on eaglesats.com was 5 sats/message. Now, it is at 10 sats/message. I presume this is as a reaction to the messages posted here:
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PSA: Probably going to disable LNURL messages below 100 sat payments in LN.tips - the spam has been going wild in recent days.

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 to avoid people getting spammed for too little money.
Sending out sats. 5000 sats for each of the first 5 AI-generated images somehow linked to Nostr's 3th birthday. Double sats for the most creative and unexpected image.
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