EugeneDickersonDM1

Bitcoin and Morals: a reflection on our culture.

CarolineWeissGS1

I think the recent fud is because you chose wasabi for coinjoin, when its said that wasabi partners with a leading anti-privacy webcrawler like chainalysis who acts for governments and big tech.  That's something I'd expect from ledger perhaps, but didn't see that coming from trezor.  I guess I'd like you to justify the use of wasabi and let us know (those of us who are worried) how using wasabi won't compromise our privacy.

> http://traveljapanblog.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/P1010311trim.jpg

Looking around some interesting posts on [bitcointalk](https://bitcointalk.org), I chanced to see what I can only imagine to be an ad/link for the site:

cryptotalk dot org

Although I'm usually averse to clicking on weird links; however, in the interests of science I clicked. You can change the words into a proper URL if you want, I just thought I'd put some friction in your way to stop you doing it without arming yourself with information first.

### Dining Out



Any business would want to have a close look at the competition. Any restaurateur would want to dine at a rival restaurant at least once.

Looking at the history of the site it seems to have started as far back as 2013 and that the site, originally paid in sats for posts. This changed to paying with tokens linked to a questionable Russian exchange called YoBit. At present, these payments are in 'TALK tokens'.

This forum [seemingly did pay sats for good English language posts](https://cryptotalk.org/announcement/31-payment-update/) - but now is largely only used by Russian speakers:

> Payment for posts in English section is temporarily completely disabled (in BTC and tokens) due to a large number of spammers (we may return it back after updating the quality assessment system).

Incidentally, I noticed [one competition](https://cryptotalk.org/topic/111943-crypto-theme-contest-01275-btc/) (from November 2020) that appeared *after* the introduction of the token that awarded the prizes - 0.05BTC, 0.03BTC, 0.02BTC, 0.01BTC AND 0.005BTC for first, second, third, fourth and fifth place respectively. These rewards, whether real or not, were again linked to the YoBit exchange.

Compare this to the song & dance they seem to be making of 1.25 satoshis in the image below. Yes, you read that right, ***1.25*** satoshis.

https://cryptotalk.org/uploads/monthly_2021_11/EC513B30-A634-48D8-8CB1-56F6D72C6548.png.ae0b3b8081c37e2383feefa21c220d31.png


So, what went wrong with the site? Was it just a way to introduce their own tokens? I can't say. It's cited, above, that it was due to spammers and the quality dropped.

One could give the benefit of the doubt to the original intention of the site - but if it was encouraging non-critical thought of the 'crypto' world (NFTs, ICOs and various derivatives of Bitcoin) this non-critical mindset can hurt not only your community, but the extended community too. Surely having spammers and bots pop up in large numbers is a sad reflection of this.

https://img.discogs.com/MQIxCMjlvVyiLKX3pyeIcjG92lE=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3550723-1448377516-4326.jpeg.jpg

### ***Cryptotalk Menu (a la carte)***

* Chia mining (with Wonderful Spam)
* Coins / Tokens talk (lots of Spam)
* NFTs and Collections (+ Spam on rye)
* Trading (garnished with Spam)
* ICOS/IEOs (with entrée of Spam)
* Gambling/HYIPs/freecoins (and  f̶̶r̶̶i̶̶e̶̶s̶ Spam)

### ***(Just) Desserts***
* Premier Сasual Dating Real-life Girls (with added   ̶s̶̶p̶̶e̶̶r̶̶m̶ Spam)
* Fast Dollars (Terrible Spam)

### Spam begets Spam - one chef's solution

Thankfully @ek had the foresight to squat and moderate the ~crypto territory - a great way to ensure a critical thinking community and not one filled with useless coins and useless spam.


In contrast to this site, SN has never knowingly entertained anything other than critical thinking in this space. Sure, there's been experiments - right now it's no longer just Bitcoin and tech but, in spite of this, spam has been kept at bay.

The forum needs great posts to grow, but we shouldn't forget to create Bitcoin posts.

The more helpful and thoughtful Bitcoin posts are created, the greater the amount of ideas and knowledge that's produced. We all see things from different angles and spark ideas. Although it's nice to kick back and talk about other things, and in other territories, Bitcoin has always been it's backbone. To nourish that territory is to deeply nourish the site.

No matter what the waiter (or their comic song) might say, even a small serving of Spam is far from wonderful.



Spam, Spam, Spam horrible Spam: lessons learned from other forums' menus

BooksAndArticles

Choose wisely your LN wallet you want to use

KeithParkerTY0

Hi Alex, thanks for doing this AMA!

Had two questions.

First question is regarding HRF funding and how it allocates to bitcoin developers. What are some of the requirements needed to apply? 

Second question, Have you ever thought of letting a camera crew follow you and capture the conversations and places you go to? Have strong inclination this would be a great documentary series.



bitcoin

npub pro - nostr-based wordpress-like websites

MargaretFryeXHC

Good morning everyone! Monday is here so that means the week has begun, time to show it what we are made of and give it our absolute best, we've got this! I wish you a phenomenal week and may it be filled with success and profit!! Remember that you are important and awesome, if you're going through hard times remember that you're still here and you matter, we've had hardships before and we're still here giving it our best, tough times will pass and we will be here fighting the good fight, be well my friend and stay frosty let's do this!!!! 

What ELSE is a shitcoin? (besides shitcoins)

RandallAlexander9FQ

Sending bitcoin to special address
(This special address that cointain locked Bitcoin is controlled by at least 51% of the total hashrate on the drivechain )
On this new network, certain parameter of the real Bitcoin network could be ignored

Example : shorter block time, bigger blocksize, new feature, somehow faster tx, etc etc

If you want to use a real Bitcoin again then you must publish a new tx that basically say " hey let me use my Bitcoin again, i'm done playing on this network"

The miners will check the validity of your tx, if enough hashrate agree to your tx then your locked Bitcoin would be sent to whatever address you intended to be

If not enough miner agree even if you provide an honest tx then you're out of luck

Oh wait this is ELI 25 lol

econ

Stacker News Live #123: My Opening Remarks with PlebPoet

HerbertPhamHYZ

Read a bitcoin magazine article last night about paying rent in Bitcoin. So now I’m going to try and out. Going to offer my tenant a 5% discount if they pay the rent in Bitcoin. I wonder if they will take the incentive or just continue paying in fiat. Time will tell. If they do go the Bitcoin route think I will use zaprite for invoicing and track the accounting for tax purposes 

Beyond the hype, the shitty AI wrapper companies, what are the AI tools that you are actively using on a day-to-day basis?

I'll start.

I use ChatGPT4.0 to

- Help me write scientific grant proposals. I basically write the paragraphs in my own words, and prompt ChatGPT to rewrite them using better scientific language. It's great at this.
- Drastically improve the quality of my scientific papers. Same as above, I first write it in my own words and then let it improve the text. It's also pretty good at this, but the hyperbolic language that is ok for grant proposals sometimes needs to be tone-downed for a more factual paper.
- I also use it for improving the quality of other non-native colleague's paper drafts, but when their English is too crappy, it cannot do a better job than me at making sense of what the colleague was trying to convey.
- Debug Python code. Just copy paste the error message I get in my Jupyter notebooks, ChatGPT is faster than my past workflow of using Stack Overflow. I tried using it to write scientific code for me, but due to I presume the lack of training data for the highly specific type of code I do, it was not that good.
- When I played around with app development, ChatGPT has been great at helping me get started, choose the right tools, debug code, etc. I was almost relying on it too much in the sense that I did not always understand everything it wrote, yet worked. But as I progressed, the app structure was getting complicated and I had to spend a lot of time to remind ChatGPT what was already there whenever I was closing an ongoing session. I plan on restarting this process, but where I learn the fundamentals first and just use ChatGPT as a companion rather than my master.

I used to have a plugin in youtube that gives me summaries of long videos that I was about to watch. Helped me check if it's worth the time. The tool broke, didn't bother troubleshooting it. Don't remember the name.

Are there any ChatGPT wrappers that you use and believe will still be there in the future, i.e. OpenAI won't kill them by implementing the same functionality? Remember the PDF wrappers that died overnight.

Please avoid dropping lists of "10 AI tools everyone should know about" that are just there for Twitter engagement farming. I want to know about the tools YOU actively use on a day-to-day basis :)