I take concern over the energy required to mint new BTC. It is massive and the problem most likely increase. Miners must pay for energy used to energy corps/companies. BTC has a constant leak that transfers value to the energy corporations pockets. I hold BTC, but believe it has not solved what it aimed to achieve and something else will likely take its place before too long.
@0x_noot@Rosentica I am new and have no current collection. Therdore I'm selling most pulls to pull more packs. More pulls, more expose to more cards, more chance to hit good stuff. This is my only real edge.
@Treki33@Rosentica Dunno what there is to teach. Open lots of packs. When I see a post about new cards or what cards are now in a particular pack, I will go open some. I am new and no real collection, so I sell most pulls to go again. Opening more packs this way is my only real edge.
This one is for you…
To those who show up every day.
To those who haven’t lost the ability to clap for others.
To those who stay positive, despite setbacks.
To those who can disagree without becoming enemies.
To those who choose kindness when grave-dancing is easier.
To those who can still see the beauty in this crazy place.
A toast to the good ones.
Don’t ever let this world convince you to become anything less. 🥃
Why I'm Building Sat Rush
The thing I could never get over about Bitcoin is that in the beginning, anyone could mine it. A laptop, an internet connection, some patience - and the network paid you in the hardest money ever created.
That door closed. Mining became warehouses, industrial power contracts, a game for people with capital measured in megawatts. But the magic was never in holding Bitcoin. It was in earning it.
That's the itch @SatRush scratches. Obviously we're not pretending a sixty-second game on Solana is the same thing as running an ASIC. But the shape of it - show up, commit, take your block, get paid in sats you actually own - that we could build.
A miner in Lagos with $1 and a miner in Chicago with $1,000 stand at the same board, mining the same assets, earning the same Bitcoin (and the even more scarce solana:SATqS9DYpLQsM2z51P4QCoqJRHa5wboV4qjJerJRUSH token).
And it's working in ways I didn't fully let myself hope for. Two people have already mined their way to a whole Bitcoin on our platform. Full coiners, minted one round at a time.
We've earned trust the boring way. Every round is fair by construction - the randomness is committed before anyone deploys, and every result can be recomputed by anyone on-chain.
When the math told us our own model was wrong, we didn't defend it - we tore up the fee structure, gave losing blocks their money back, made the Epoch Vault prizes equal, and shipped it.
We may get things wrong again. This whole idea that protocols should ship the first and final version at the same time assumes that everything will always be perfect on day one. That never matches reality. And most importantly, it doesn't allow room to listen to real customer feedback.
Even solana:SATqS9DYpLQsM2z51P4QCoqJRHa5wboV4qjJerJRUSH - the protocol token - has to be earned. No presale. No venture round. No team allocation. RUSH is mined by playing, the way Bitcoin was mined by working - and then we pushed the scarcity one step further than Bitcoin ever did.
Bitcoin's supply only ever climbs toward its cap. solana:SATqS9DYpLQsM2z51P4QCoqJRHa5wboV4qjJerJRUSH is engineered so its supply can move the other way.
In fact we have bought back & burned 8X more than we have minted. And it pays its stakers in Bitcoin, not in more of itself. If crypto's tokens are the problem, RUSH had to be the counter-argument.
I don't know exactly where this goes. What I do know is how it feels the first time sats you earned land in your vault. Earned. That feeling used to belong to anyone with a laptop, and we're bringing it back.
We can't put a Bitcoin mining warehouse in everyone's backyard. But we can put @SatRush in everyone's hands.
Come mine some Bitcoin.
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🫡 From the depths —
The White Whale 🐋
Here's an honest update, after making the Satrush coin and crate (too small atm) we figured that our game design and visual asset design process was not good enough.
That's why for the last 36 hours we have revamped how we do it. We studied, thought through various established practices and implemented the best methods.
We ll be sharing more previews of the game as we develop it using this new methodology.