Zwiftcoin on Nostr: On my past couple of Zwift rides, I noticed that I was creeping up on 300 hours of ...
On my past couple of Zwift rides, I noticed that I was creeping up on 300 hours of total ride time.
(For the uninitiated – Zwift is an indoor virtual cycling app that works by attaching your bike to a direct drive trainer. Sort of like a peloton, but serious. Where I live, it’s a great way to train and stay fit during the winter months and bad weather days.)
I find it hard to get through indoor Zwift rides without some kind of entertainment, as good as the platform might be. Stationary cycling in a basement can get pretty monotonous, so while I’m “pushing watts” I am always listening to something. On 80% of my rides, that something is a bitcoin podcast.
Quick napkin math means I’ve listened to around 240 hours of bitcoin podcasts, which is actually a low-ball number since it doesn’t include walking the dog (another time of day I catch up on bitcoin podcasts).
Now, I’ve always had this analogy in my head that Zwift and Bitcoin are similar in the realm of “proof of work”. In Bitcoin, energy is spent to mine bitcoin block rewards. In Zwift, energy is spent to accumulate stats and virtual rewards. It’s a video game, but the physical energy input is real. Just like the real energy that’s stored in every bitcoin.
Proof of work in bitcoin can also mean, “How much are you studying it?” This morning I was pedaling away, listening to the tail end of a “What Bitcoin Did” episode and rolled right into “Money Matters”. Suddenly, I had an idea. Why not make all of this time cycling and listening to bitcoin even more productive with a nostr account dedicated to podcast reviews while zwifting?
So I spun up @Zwiftcoin.
Where you get podcast highlights, key ideas summarized, interesting insights that stand out to me.
I get productive indoor exercise sans boredom.
It’s a win, win, win, win, win. Plus we’re all winning thanks to Bitcoin.
We’ll see where it goes. I had been looking for something fun to contribute to the Nostr ecosystem, which is maybe why my subconscious was pondering and cooked up this idea this morning. To put a benchmark on it, if I gain 100 followers per month, I’ll keep it up. If it fizzles out, that’s ok too. I figure I’ll still get something out of it, successful or not.
#introduction
(For the uninitiated – Zwift is an indoor virtual cycling app that works by attaching your bike to a direct drive trainer. Sort of like a peloton, but serious. Where I live, it’s a great way to train and stay fit during the winter months and bad weather days.)
I find it hard to get through indoor Zwift rides without some kind of entertainment, as good as the platform might be. Stationary cycling in a basement can get pretty monotonous, so while I’m “pushing watts” I am always listening to something. On 80% of my rides, that something is a bitcoin podcast.
Quick napkin math means I’ve listened to around 240 hours of bitcoin podcasts, which is actually a low-ball number since it doesn’t include walking the dog (another time of day I catch up on bitcoin podcasts).
Now, I’ve always had this analogy in my head that Zwift and Bitcoin are similar in the realm of “proof of work”. In Bitcoin, energy is spent to mine bitcoin block rewards. In Zwift, energy is spent to accumulate stats and virtual rewards. It’s a video game, but the physical energy input is real. Just like the real energy that’s stored in every bitcoin.
Proof of work in bitcoin can also mean, “How much are you studying it?” This morning I was pedaling away, listening to the tail end of a “What Bitcoin Did” episode and rolled right into “Money Matters”. Suddenly, I had an idea. Why not make all of this time cycling and listening to bitcoin even more productive with a nostr account dedicated to podcast reviews while zwifting?
So I spun up @Zwiftcoin.
Where you get podcast highlights, key ideas summarized, interesting insights that stand out to me.
I get productive indoor exercise sans boredom.
It’s a win, win, win, win, win. Plus we’re all winning thanks to Bitcoin.
We’ll see where it goes. I had been looking for something fun to contribute to the Nostr ecosystem, which is maybe why my subconscious was pondering and cooked up this idea this morning. To put a benchmark on it, if I gain 100 followers per month, I’ll keep it up. If it fizzles out, that’s ok too. I figure I’ll still get something out of it, successful or not.
#introduction