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I wonder if it's possible to customize the prompt in order to make the output more unique otherwise everyone who is using ChatGPT for fantasy writing will end up with very samey and super recognizable style.

I travel a lot and eat out a lot and I haven't noticed any discernible difference in service between the countries with obligatory, optional and prohibited tipping.

As I got older I started getting neck pain though, if I sit too awkward. But still no headaches ;)

Rather than going through Google and Stackoverflow it felt like working side-by-side with a moderately competent developer. Mind you, I have tried the google-and-stackoverflow method before for the exact same thing, and failed every time ;-)

Today, I asked ChatGPT to develop the React app for me. ChatGPT guided me through the entire process starting from installing npm and necessary dependencies. The commands it suggested sometimes didn't work but every time I just copy-pasted the resulting error message into ChatGPT and it offered a working solution. I gave it the example of JSON output from my API backend and it generated the search UI which, to my surprise, worked.

My wet dream for the past few months was to implement infinite scrolling for my search. Again, after hours of google searches, tutorials, etc. I just gave up every single time. Not today. I asked ChatGPT to add infinite scrolling to my app. It wasn't easy. It didn't produce a working app immediately, it took a couple hours of conversations: I had many questions how different parts of React worked, how to fix errors etc. etc. In the end however, I had my working search app, and with infinite scroll to boot!

I haven't done a single google search or consulted any external documentation to do it and I was able to progress faster than I have ever did before when learning a new thing. ChatGPT is, for all intents and purposes, magic.

Consider high frequency trading. Does it really matter for capital allocation that you can sell your Google stock for a fair price in 10ms instead of 20ms? There are hundreds of PhDs working on algorithms and billions invested into infrastructure to make those 20ms into 10ms, which I'd argue is a byproduct of how exchanges work and doesn't serve humanity in any way.

In the end I stumbled upon a shop that accepted bitcoin and got my PSN card in the time it took to get one network confirmation.

Edit: what I meant is that EpicScale in all likelihood mines another cryptocurrency, not bitcoin. Especially that it seems to use CPU which is utterly useless for bitcoin mining (you won't even get $0.01 in a year with the latest i7!)

If the site certificate is not pinned, you can use a 3rd party service hosted outside the MITM proxy to compare certificate fingerprints (such as https://www.grc.com/fingerprints.htm)

Are you saying there are 7+ million BTC stored on exchanges? I disagree based on two data points: Bistamp's reserves were 180K in November 2013 and MtGox's were 850K (with 650K of them missing) at the time of its death.

Even if you add BTC-E, Chinese exchanges, Coinbase and LocalBitcoins, it most likely won't exceed 2-3 million which means the remaining 80% is owned by end users directly.

"We are working to determine what has gone wrong. The majority of our coins are swept and placed in cold storage often so this shouldn’t be a major issue right now but we are still working to determine the breadth of the issue. This seems to be a server issue and not a compromise but our teams are still investigating."

E.g. a law abiding tor relay operator in Mauritania may decide to block the infamous underground apostasy discussion forum. It still remains accessible via other routes but the Mauritanian relay is now not involved with serving the site in any way.

If they actually need to pay to that many different addresses it would be far superior to make a single tx with multiple outputs.

My first theory was that someone is trying to inflate tx volume and the simplest idea they came up was scripting the Bitcoin client to make thousands of small payments in a row.

Tab-separated columns are as follows:

- Date - Percentage of "strange" txs - Number of transactions with strange txs discarded - Length of the longest chain of strange txs

Note: coinbase transactions are ignored by the script as they are "involuntary" and do not represent economic activity.

I'm not sure what the sender of these transactions is doing (trying to inflate tx volume? some badly written software?strange mixing algorithm?) though even if you discard those transactions from analysis it doesn't change the overall picture much.

First, a 486 with 64K RAM is ridiculous as they typically had multiple megabytes of memory.

Second, he worked with that PC for 7 years and isn't quite confident of how much memory it had? This doesn't sound quite right either. I can clearly remember the amounts of RAM my first few PCs had, starting from 1999.

This is where your plan fails. Since it is very easy to rollback the payment with paypal, no one is going to sell you bitcoins in exchange for it, except for tiny amounts.

If you look at localbitcoins for example, there are very few sellers who accept paypal, all of them limit trades to very small amounts (mostly $100-200) and require high feedback scores and some form of KYC

Excerpt from one of the offers: "Due to previous fraudulent transactions. I can only sell you bitcoin via PayPal if you take a photo of yourself holding valid U.S. government issued ID where your face matches the photo. "

I don't disagree, this is a valid criticism. What I meant by moving goalposts was that the argument changed from "you can't pay with bitcoin anywhere" to "you can pay with bitcoin at Newegg but this doesn't count because their merchant immediately converts them into dollars"

Personally I see it as a gradual acceptance of a new technology by the public.

If only it was called something like "transaction security auditing" or "ledger integrity verification" so that people would take it more seriously for what it really is.

I have a novel idea for a decentralized application which I think might take off. There is no way in hell I will build this with Ethereum where it will disproportionally benefit "early adopters" doing nothing and sitting on their butts. (Instead I will likely fork an existing codebase such as NXT or one of the lighter altcoins)

I believe many developers interesting in building actual apps (not 10-line code snippets shown as examples on the website) feel the same.

To build on the analogy from an earlier Ethereum thread, that's like Google selling developer versions of Google Glass but because of speculators buying them in bulk, the price is $100,000 per item. As a result, no one actually develops for the platform.

You are correct that the protocol itself doesn't have a minimum output size, so if you mine a block yourself you can include dust reliably.

For example, you could use a similar method to "store" data using Paypal: use the amount of cents in each transaction to encode a byte of data (e.g. $1.17 means 0x75 etc.) and make transfers to random people until enough bytes have been transferred. That's it, your copyrighted data or CP is now forever "stored" on Paypal servers.

I don't think this accusation will hold up in any reasonable court. Taking into account the cost of storing data (20 bytes in a single output of minimum 5400 satoshi + fees) your hypothetical instructions and code to retrieve the images would be of comparable size to any images you can reasonably store.