Hibernation Mode

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October is an interesting month. It's that time of year when death is pretty front and center in our minds. Whether it be from all of the horror movies, Dia De Los Muertos, Halloween in general, or the leaves falling from the trees and all the green slowly withering away. Uptober seems to be pretty much dead as well. I'm not even going to look at the charts right now, but from what I have seen over the past few days, BTC isn't handing out any treats right now. It's all tricks and just like everything else is dying, hope is dying right along with it.

I've kind of moved myself into hibernation mode just like many of the wild animals are doing. It's kind of an instinctual thing to just keep stacking whatever tokens I can and hope that one day "spring" will come and things will turn around a bit. The fact is, I have been dealing with some real world stuff lately that has taken most of my attention. Which isn't a bad thing... otherwise, I might be totally depressed by the crypto world.

I've been working on some projects for #thepub community lately and I although I have hinted at them a bit in the past, I am ready to share the full scope of what I have been working on with you today.

The basic premise is, I wanted to use the @thepub account to start curating the posts that people have been making in #thepub community which can be found here. To do this, I started leveraging AI via Google AI Studio to build a bot that could vote on posts that met a certain criteria in The Pub. After hitting my rate limit and several failed attempts, I finally shifted gears.

The biggest issue was the fact that not many people post in The Pub, so for me to test the code, I often had to wait days for someone to actually post in the community to see if the upvote would actually work.

As I said though, I finally gave up on using that tool, and instead, I used my free Claude subscription to see if it could code me something better. Turns out, it could.

Here is the dashboard that Claude coded for me based on the prompts I gave it for my voting bot. As I said, there are certain limits. It will only vote on people who have 50 rep or higher, and the post has to be something like 450 words. The community is also small enough right now that I will be monitoring the posts. If I start to see someone abusing the bot, I will add them to the blacklist I had built in.

The biggest issue is the account has no HP right now to vote. I have a few people that delegated, but any delegations that you are able to spare are welcome. Unlike other projects, I can't guarantee you a return right now. I have a piece built into the code to pay out delegators, but I don't know if it works, and I want to give the account time to get bigger. For example, you can see in he code I have the payout set to 40% for delegators right now. If I can verify that works, I'd like up that amount to closer to 80% or higher, but like I said, I want to build @thepub account up a bit.

Based on the page I vibe coded about a week ago, I need something like 30,000 HP on @thepub account to be able to give out like 25 $.02 upvotes to people's posts per day. I know, it's not great, but we have to start somewhere right?

As I said, there is also a blacklist piece. Given the fact that I am delegating to the account, and also the fact that I post in #thepub a lot, I didn't want there to be the illusion that I was self voting, so I added myself to the blacklist. If you delegate and you would like to be added to the blacklist, please just let me know. Or if there is some other reason you want to be excluded, just let me know.

I'm not asking for your full stack, but if a dozen people (or more) could spare maybe 500 HP, it could help build @thepub account into a nice curation account for #thepub community.

If you end up not being happy with what I am doing here, just pull your delegation back, I fully understand.

Likewise, if things go well and we grow enough, you could start to earn a decent return on your delegation. So pass the word around and let people know that there will be some incentives to posting in The Pub community, but if you choose to ignore the rules of the community, you will suffer the consequences.

The bot is running on a stand alone server in my environment at work. I think it has pretty low overhead and from what I have seen over the past few days, it seems to be working fine. If you have posted a post in The Pub that meets the criteria, you should see a paltry vote from @thepub.

Of course, there is also The Pub Discord Community where you can join and hang out with us when we aren't playing around on HIVE.

I decided to grill up some chicken wings last weekend using one of my favorite Dizzy Dust Brand seasonings called Tsunami Swim. They were delicious and I am sharing some photos with you here.

Meanwhile, my favorite small modular nuclear reactor company NuScale just entered a deal with Doosan Manufacturing that will finally move their reactor from just a blueprint and concept to a physical reality. This is a huge deal for the small startup company that has already received some major approvals from the US government. Upon the news, the stock jumped 7% and though it is still down from the IPO price, I think this is great news for the company.

Finally, these are a few of the 1 oz bars that I recently ordered from APMEX to give to my nephew for Christmas. I plan on keeping one for myself and the other two will go to him along with the Route 66 Goldback that I shared with you last week. If you didn't see it, you should go back and check it out. These pieces were part of their deal where you buy pure silver off the secondary market for a smaller price above spot. The premiums are usually $2 to $3 lower for these secondary market pieces than some of the other ones. If you don't really care what is on the bars or rounds and you simply want to stack silver, this is a great way to go.