I have seen many times enthusiasts of this technology express things like “I love bitcoin <3”. But I don't think they mean they love the money. At least not consciously.
I can understand from a technology point of view that bitcoin is like a magnet and once attracted it can be hard to detach. There is so much to discover and develop. I can understand someone loving money as such, why not. Although the concept of loving money causes me to dislike it, as the image of some greedy billionaire automatically pops into my head.
It is also common, or so it seems, for proponents of libertarian, economic liberal or anarchic tendencies to be attracted to bitcoin. The promises of decentralization, privacy or anonymity are potent. I personally fail to identify with any movement or specific characters or leaders.
Bitcoin is such a strange thing, it generates such contradictory things as these groups based mainly on individualism now want to create community through bitcoin. I think the greed and avarice that inherently accompany money have done enough damage to the world already. For the time being I will be careful about saying I love bitcoin.
They've been paying a lot of bitcoin in a ransomware attack. Since it sounds like the gunner got away, wonder if it was a professional with a gang (especially if UHC has stopped those payments). Figure a disgruntled person who didn't get coverage wouldn't have run, since they'd consider themselves a martyr (and realistically might not have long to live).
I feel like it's the principle of the matter. I wouldn't like names exposed. As it is, the heuristics here expose privacy anyway. More accurately than chainalysis. I don't want to get all self righteous, but I played fiat games, score keeping and keeping up with the Joneses my whole life. I'm pretty old, and I'm sick of it. I will agree with you that content here has certainly improved, and that's a plus.
Not sure why but I enjoy reading about prior bubbles. Here's a decent write-up of the dotcom bubble: https://ideas.ted.com/an-eye-opening-look-at-the-dot-com-bubble-of-2000-and-how-it-shapes-our-lives-today/
Feels to me like we're about to embark on a new bubble of epic proportions. At least that's what my gut tells me. It's surely the ultimate fate of AI is it not, for irrational exuberance to drive up the value of stocks, before it gets renamed to something not "artificial"? The internet was the Information Superhighway & cyberspace before it's name stuck. We have yet to see something similar with A.I. There is still scepticism about its impact and that to me shows the bubble has really yet to get going.
The way I've been using it:
Inline edit: short edits right where you are in the code and follow up questions about it.
Chat: As you said, to ask more wordy questions and explanations, some coding and follow-up, and use features like
@webto search web (and other such tags to add docs into context, etc.) which Composer can't do yet.Composer: As you said, most complex (and most capable/costly in terms of compute?) for bigger or extensive prompts.
My question to you as you seem experienced with it is for:
For Composer, since they released the Agent feature, I've been trying to figure out which option is best for what. Composer with VS without agent. Any tips?
Just pushed out a feature rich update for the node powering Mutiny Wallet: https://github.com/MutinyWallet/mutiny-node/releases/tag/v0.3.0
Working on some improvements and bug fixes for it and going to be pushing out another. Going on mainnet this week to start testing this out before a friends and family release later this month.