"""Weekly conversation starters posted by forum_bot.py as the verified account. Edit freely: the Thursday "Hot take" cycles through HOT_TAKES by week number. Keep them honest and genuinely arguable (no price talk, no promises), and about MoonBite, mining or crypto in general. Short, plain words. """ HOT_TAKES = [ "A fair launch doesn't matter if one person mines half the blocks.", "CPU mining is the only fair way left for regular people to get coins.", "Anonymous founders are a red flag, even when the code is open.", "A coin with no exchange listing has no real value yet.", "Small networks should grow slowly. Fast growth attracts the wrong people.", "Unsigned downloads are a bigger risk than a 51% attack for a new coin.", "Most people will never run their own node, and that's fine.", "Halvings matter less than people think. Usage matters more.", "A new coin should spend its first year on safety, not marketing.", "Web wallets are too risky. Everyone should use a desktop wallet.", "The best thing a small coin can do is publish its mistakes.", "Merchants won't accept a coin until it has a stable price, and it won't get a stable price until merchants accept it.", ] RIG_PROMPT = """What are you mining on this week? Share your CPU, your hashrate, and how many blocks you found. Laptops and old desktops count. Small numbers are welcome: this network is small, so every machine shows up in the hashrate. Tip: the daily Network report shows how long a machine like yours should wait for a block on average.""" HOT_TAKE_PROMPT = """This week's statement to argue about: > {take} Agree or disagree, and say why. Vote up the reply that changes your mind, not the one you agree with. Keep it about ideas, not people.""" PREDICTION_PROMPT = """Where will the chain be next Saturday? Right now: Chain height: {height} Network hashrate: {rate} Reply with your guess for both. Next Saturday this thread gets a reply with the real numbers from the node, so we can see who was closest. Just for fun: no prizes, no bets.""" PREDICTION_RESULT = """The real numbers, read from the node now: Chain height: {height} Network hashrate: {rate} Who was closest? The new prediction thread for next week is up."""