Https://stacks.co is building smart contracts through a separate blockchain which reads and writes to the main bitcoin blockchain. There are others too. These higher expression layers will allow bitcoin to be used in finance with reduced counterparty risk. Bitcoin is money. Please don’t FOMO into any of these projects; just put a few sats in; see how they work / don’t work. Beta testing mentality. These other... Source: over 1 year ago

We have DeFi on bitcoin — https://stacks.co. Source: over 1 year ago

TLDR: The sBTC whitepaper proposes Stacks[1] and sBTC[2] as layer-two mechanism for unlocking defi (DEXs, NFTs, and other dapps, etc.) on top of the Bitcoin blockchain. I've started deconstructing and analyzing it in relation to what it means for both Bitcoin and Stacks. [1] https://stacks.co/ [2] https://assets.stacks.co/sbtc.pdf. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

I suggest fellow Bitcoiners research the stacks project https://stacks.co. Source: over 1 year ago

Stake (they call it stack) Stacks and get paid in either BTC or STX (stacks.co). No trust needed - as you keep your coins in your own wallet and delegate them like you do with Tezos. Source: about 2 years ago

Perhaps. I am looking at https://saidit.net/, Quora, and other platforms as well. Source: 11 months ago

What's the criteria you'd need to be met for "something comparable"? Because I'd say running our own https://saidit.net/ site would be pretty identical. Source: 11 months ago

I love IRC but it serves a slightly different purpose. It isn't threaded and it sacrifices permanency for instantaneousness. In my opinion, a forums and chat rooms compliment each other. Saidit is one good Reddit alternative that implements IRC. It's based on Reddit's code but with some modifications. Every page has an embedded IRC box specific to that subcommunity. Source: 12 months ago

For Reddit alternatives, it looks like https://saidit.net/ (https://github.com/libertysoft3/saidit) and https://phuks.co/ (https://github.com/Phuks-co/throat) could be viable alternatives. They're open source, have the UX features we desire (threaded, voting, sorting, collapsing). Source: 11 months ago

Someone already did it - it's called saidit and it works well but very few people have gone there so far. Source: 11 months ago