@24 how about a physical fitness forum where the posters ha…

Demonstrated opportunity cost needs to be quick to verify. That's why proof-of-work is good. You just run Hash256 and you verify that energy was spent.

I had a similar idea last year. Your heartbeat would be registered on-chain. Proof of existence (life) :)
Thinking of it, I made a twetch about it back then: https://twetch.app/t/778c102e23daebe758712ee665710e58981114e40e353632fb7e84d392e28f69

perhaps a flywheel holds a cryptographic private key as if it were a puzzle-dongle of sorts, unlocked by inertia or some such, and this could be installed in the users choice of: bicycle, rowing machine, stair machine, etc.

what if the participant was only able to post while in the act of proving physical exertion?

Perhaps signalling theory applied to people is best served in its human psychological context when its outside of a defined game with careful incentives such as bitcoin proof of work?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003347205806001

/pay @641 $1

It's easy to display proof-of-work to users and show them what difficulty was satisfied. That is a number. Humans can read numbers. That is all the psychology you need.

https://whatsonchain.com/tx/718c37c0d9ff4fc6c0413beb4ed247889afc23d449f68dfca683a6f381121f21

I tried to make a boost to show you. I don't know how to display it to you.

08626f6f7374706f7775044200000020bf8244cff4e5d42e7cbb36b6031398130edc1909de2201d46f2b531e2e45506f046066061c14000000000000000000000000000000000000000004000000002000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000007e7c557a766b7e52796b557a8254887e

557a8258887e7c7eaa7c6b7e7e7c8254887e6c7e7c8254887eaa01007e816c825488537f7681530121a5696b768100a0691d00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000007e6c539458959901007e819f6976a96c88ac !

hmm.

https://tx-protocol.glitch.me/tx/718c37c0d9ff4fc6c0413beb4ed247889afc23d449f68dfca683a6f381121f21

Nice! You can look at boosted content here: https://boostpow.com/c/408d3b99a06afd01e1717d78a7a9d2ee1c08f59003022429ae9b0a66075dfd40 There's an example. You can put in the content hash to replace what's there.

oh gosh!

the transaction isn't confirmed so of course the work hasnt been attached. I will wait for my speech to be timestamped.

...I simply can't wait for another iteration of the Poisson process that I may lend the weight of rare maths unto my message!

Well maybe you could help me build it out while you're waiting.

is this the settled interface to boosted content? a rolling feed is not perspicuous at all in this case (it evokes chronological order). it's not clear what's being communicated unless you already get it and disregard the format.

There is no settled interface to boosted content. Boost is just a protocol over the blockchain. There's a lot of work that needs to be done to make it easy for people to use.

at the moment I am most fascinated with the implications of human psychology re signalling theory, in the context of marketing and communication. I am going to need some time

Please try building something with
https://github.com/MatterPool/boostpow-api
and
https://github.com/MatterPool/boostpow-publish
and help us make boost into something easier to use.

i'm not the man for that job but something like this seems simple and clearer:

0. Go to boostpow.com
1. Hit 'explore content' (better: Hit 'find content uploaded to the BSV blockchain highlighted by POW boost')
2. Be requested to input txid
...

3. Display the data and amount of boost
4. Display a comparison chart that shows how the boost level of your content compares to all other boosted content.

We already have that other than item #4. That's something we're working on. boostpow.com

the more robust usecase will be when social media plataforms have boost instead of likes or karma (can't expect ppl to be checking boostpow). but for proof of concept purposes, i find the current interface misleading.

i know the equivalent to 1-3 can be done the site, but the way it is presented is not self-explanatory IMO. what's clear to you is not evident to all. very few will read the whitepaper, fewer with understanding.

Yeah unfortunately we haven't had time to do much with the site! It's been hard enough explaining the idea to people.

that's the reason for the suggestion! your interface is your explanation.

Yeah there's still a lot behind the scenes that needs to happen. I need to learn JavaScript to be able to work on the site I guess. :(