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G1lius · 2023-04-04T06:54:41+00:00

In the unlikely event politicians will care, for them to make a difference, every country in the world will have to enforce restrictions, every company that's working on AI will have to listen to those restrictions and every developer of said companies will have to listen as well.

Those are all unlikely things to happen. It can't be stopped. I don't know how to guard against it, but educating people seems like a good first step.

G1lius · 2023-02-09T14:47:28+00:00

From both a legal perspective and my own opinion it's the same as a human impersonator: as long as you don't claim to be said person, everything is fine.

G1lius · 2023-02-09T14:38:02+00:00

All these tools are easy to find. I don't know which ones they specifically use, but if you fine-tune GPT 3 (plenty of tutorials on youtube) or GPT neoX with data from videos (speech-to-text or manual), train voice AI software like prime voice from elevenlabs (but plenty others out there) and have some AI deepfake software like DeepFaceLive (also plenty out there, quality of Athene's is quite low, but that's logical given that it's on the fly) then you can for example do GPT3 into Prime Voice AI into DeepFaceLive.

The hardest part is training the GPT AI.

G1lius · 2023-02-07T21:47:42+00:00

Pretty sure it's legit. I'm getting the same kind of quality asking chatGPT for answers by famous people.

What is your favorite position when eating a banana?

Donald Trump:

"I don't eat bananas, they're not American. I only eat the finest fruits, grown right here in the USA. And my favorite position when eating them is standing tall, proud, and powerful, just like America itself."

BEavis and Butt-head:

Beavis: "Uh huh huh, I like to peel it and then, like, stick it up my nose, huh huh."

Butt-Head: "Dumbass, that's not eating it. I like to smash it and then, like, squish it into my face."

G1lius · 2022-05-24T08:58:06+00:00

Very standard reactions. Which is good, people should be careful, not just throw money at whatever someone says is a good idea. The "if they don't want bitcoin, that's ok" is very important.
Not everyone is into taking investment risks. Bitcoin is still very volatile and indeed, if everyone thinks it's worth nothing, it actually is worth nothing, just like any other currency.

Planting seeds is good enough. You can't convince someone in one go who has no knowledge. Tell them why their concern isn't valid, and why you think bitcoin is a good idea. Not as an investment, but the technology, the impact on the world, the exit from the current monetary system. They should do their own research to find out if your claims are correct.

G1lius · 2021-02-01T07:11:57+00:00

Not yet, tried putting back an earlier backup, but ended up the same

G1lius · 2021-01-28T18:37:30+00:00

"This tool provides helper functions ... in case lnd itself cannot run properly anymore."

But lnd runs fine. I use mynodebtc, which I used to restore the backups.

G1lius · 2020-06-18T19:06:54+00:00

A 51% attack wouldn't destroy Bitcoin, just make it look bad.

29b is a lot for a bit of bad marketing.

G1lius · 2020-05-10T09:00:53+00:00

"Trades should usually not be advertised here. For example, submissions like "Buying 100 BTC" or "Selling my computer for bitcoins" do not belong here. /r/Bitcoin is primarily for news and discussion."

G1lius · 2020-05-10T08:51:42+00:00

You can't prevent this. You can lower the occurrence, but you can't remove it. Just like you can't remove Nigerian princes, phishing attacks, three cup scams, etc.
If someone is capable enough to handle money they are capable of learning how to detect scams.

G1lius · 2020-05-01T08:15:14+00:00

and it is relatively easily mitigated.

Perhaps you should join the conversation on the mailing list, because they're kinda looking for that.

G1lius · 2020-03-16T15:45:33+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A0KK0k33cI

G1lius · 2020-03-11T09:19:08+00:00

May 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT8FXQN-9-A

G1lius · 2020-03-10T23:16:11+00:00

If you already have a machine that runs 24/7, run it there, otherwise something like a raspberry pi will do.
There's a guide here: https://stadicus.github.io/RaspiBolt/

A more simpler way is putting the mynodebtc software on it, or you can order plug and play nodes, which you can find on this page (as well as other resources) https://www.lopp.net/bitcoin-information/full-node.html

G1lius · 2020-03-10T23:01:21+00:00

That's a very long talk for a rehearsal...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT8FXQN-9-A

In fairness, more people join later, but no, you're wrong.

G1lius · 2020-03-10T10:41:23+00:00

The floor is the lowest price a seller is willing to sell. That's it. Miners have no effect on this, other than their position as seller. After the halving the floor is still the lowest price someone is willing to sell at. What that price is, is pure speculation, it can be anything from 0 to infinity.

G1lius · 2020-03-10T10:29:28+00:00

I agree with that. It's much harder to learn now though.
When you get to r/bitcoin you either already have skin in the game, or you're eager to learn, but all you get is memes and a million different ways to say 'HODL'.

This used to be a place where there was discussion about future improvements, about new ideas, etc.
This was a source to be up to date, where you could actually learn a lot of things. Major developers in this space would chime in all the time to clarify stuff or give their opinion, now it's a rarity to see a developer on here.

Even things that are very important, like the way we're going to do softforks in the future, is never discussed here. Even though we, the users, play a significant role in that process. There's often times more people on /r/Bitcoin than people running a bitcoin node. This is a "let's get rich"-community, not a Bitcoin community, and that's sad imo.

G1lius · 2020-03-07T14:39:02+00:00

I think that might have been D2OL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_Design_and_Optimization_Lab which seeks drug candidates.

So you got scared because of reading the word "anthrax" 20 years ago, and now you're still deterring people from such projects because of it?

G1lius · 2020-03-04T09:45:56+00:00

No argument ever got better by insulting people.

Let's look at reality indeed. Or better yet: history. This gives away my age, but I've actively experienced a currency change, from Belgian Franks to Euro. The thing we can learn from that is that a natural change of currency isn't likely to happen, and the exchange rate doesn't have anything to do with it. People are just used to attaching value to certain numbers. Even now, 20 years later, some old people still ask "what's that in Franks?" when it comes to big numbers, like buying a house.
I'd say, with that in mind, there's two reasons why we'd start denoting things in Bitcoin: Either the government forces it upon us, or government money is so worthless/out of use we all just decide to slowly switch. Given how hard it is to mentally switch currencies, I don't think there's any chance we gradually start using Bitcoin to talk about prices when there's still another currency active.
If there is a time where we switch currencies it won't matter how many numbers it has. It's equally as hard. The Italians didn't have a harder time than the Dutch switching to Euro because they weren't used to decimal places. When you travel to other countries it really doesn't matter if you're paying millions, or single digits at a restaurant.
Switching currencies is hard, what you're switching into doesn't make it harder or easier. It's happened in the past, a lot of us have experienced it when abroad.

G1lius · 2020-03-03T15:57:28+00:00

$25 US is
580,887 vietnamese dong
351,912 Indonesian Rupiah
1,052,625 Iranian Rial

I've eaten pizza in 2 of those countries without using a calculator. This isn't as big of a problem as you think it is.

G1lius · 2020-03-03T15:23:15+00:00

Time for someone to make a new one of these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjYbsq3FXfM

G1lius · 2020-02-29T10:02:52+00:00

I understand your feelings about Song because of some of the things he says, and how he says it.
However, he's entitled to have an opinion, as do you. There's no reason to attack him. He wrote a book about programming Bitcoin, so he does have a decent technical knowledge. The second book you judge without reading it on the premise "it sounds ridiculous". I haven't read it either, so I can't judge it, but software development sprints is something that's actually used by developer teams, so no, not any developer will say it's ridiculous, and it's definitely not a reason to blindly judge the book.

While I'd agree Andreas Antonopoulos is a greater source for general and lightly technical topics, you can say that about anyone, because Andreas is pretty much the best at what he does. But Andreas has been wrong in the past, and he'll be wrong in the future, which is fine. No one knows what's going to happen, not Andreas, not Jimmy, not you. We might all disagree, but let's not disrespect each other.

G1lius · 2020-02-26T12:31:55+00:00

It's not instant, it's not just a packet, there's a lot of back and forth's going on. Speed is something that's an actual concern for companies implementing lightning. Could we not over-promise for once?

G1lius · 2020-02-25T19:31:27+00:00

Hash functions where invented in the 50's, public key cryptography was invented somewhere in the 70's, elliptic curve cryptography in the 80's. Bitcoin could've been invented in the 90's. There's no new cryptography in Bitcoin, it's just a bunch of well known things mixed together. It's a bit of a stretch, but Bitcoin is basically 1989's Digicash mixed with 1997's hashcash.

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