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Top Posts
- @hodlpleb's wife receives a cancer diagnosis and stackers share their experience, advice, and support.
- Found out my wife has cancer. Been holding it together all day.
- 25.4k sats \ 69 comments \ @hodlpleb
- Found out my wife has cancer. Been holding it together all day.
- Gary Gensler, SEC chair, carefully FUDed bitcoin on CNBC this week. @kepford peels apart the talking points.
- They Aren't Sending Their Best to Fight Bitcoin. Right?
- 11.7k sats \ 40 comments \ @kepford
- They Aren't Sending Their Best to Fight Bitcoin. Right?
- Before you know it, Lightning will have collaboratively funded channels as @niftynei's Dual-funding BOLT got merged.
- Dual-funding BOLT Merged!
- 10.5k sats \ 9 comments \ @TonyGiorgio
- Dual-funding BOLT Merged!
- Bitcoin should improve monetizing journalism but how? @thebitcoinbugle shares some ideas and asks for more.
- Value for Value News Journalism Discussion Using Entirely Bitcoin
- 12.1k sats \ 25k boost \ 44 comments \ @thebitcoinbugle
- Value for Value News Journalism Discussion Using Entirely Bitcoin
- Ecash mint software is maturing but @BlueSlime thinks it's more of the same.
- Ecash is just digital fiat. Change my mind
- 14.8k sats \ 25k boost \ 112 comments \ @BlueSlime
- Ecash is just digital fiat. Change my mind
Don't miss
- Human Readable Bitcoin Payment Instructions
- LSP Directory
- Stop trying to use dice-rolled seeds unless you're an expert ❌
- Sunday Survey: What's your Bitcoin inheritance plan?
- How fiat will kill itself
- I'm at a beach bar in El Salvador rn, here are my 'notes from the underground'
- Chop Wood, Carry Water
- YCombinator's Kevin Hale on How to Pitch to VCs
- When will Bitcoin become as boring as gold?
- GDP is a Poor Measure of Economic Health
- Fedimint Prediction Markets Demo on Mutinynet
- The reality of the Danish fairytale
- Dont' use LN on Blockstream Green
Top meta
- SN release: NWC & LNBits for sending, LND for autowithdraw, NSFW labels, & more
- Stacker News Growth Deck
- POSTING COSTS: how much is too much?
- SN release: top territories, linked accounts in profile, deeper bolt11 deletion
- SN release: changeable territory billing
- Stacker News For Writers
- [draft] snip-0006: engagement-based zapping
- 🚩 First Stacker News CTF - NWC Debug Edition 🪲
- Random sort for items?
Top Monday meme \ 50.5k sats \ @davidw
Top Friday fun fact \ 10.6k sats \ @0xbitcoiner
During World War II, the allies had a plan to build an aircraft carrier made of ice.
Project Habakkuk or Habbakuk (spelling varies) was a plan by the British during the Second World War to construct an aircraft carrier out of pykrete, a mixture of wood pulp and ice, for use against German U-boats in the mid-Atlantic, which were beyond the flight range of land-based planes at that time. The plan was to create what would have been the largest ship ever at 600 metres (1,969 ft) long, which would have been much bigger than even USS Enterprise, the largest naval vessel ever, at 342 metres (1,122 ft) long. The idea came from Geoffrey Pyke, who worked for Combined Operations Headquarters. After promising scale tests and the creation of a prototype on Patricia Lake, Jasper National Park, in Alberta, Canada, the project was shelved due to rising costs, added requirements, and the availability of longer-range aircraft and escort carriers which closed the Mid-Atlantic gap that the project was intended to address.
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