Re:Things we learned about LLMs in 2024
by monero-xmr on Friday January 03, 2025 @12:25AM
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To pretend romance / affinity scams and crime were created by crypto is absurd. It’s fair to argue crypto made crime more efficient, but it also made the responsible parties quicker to patch holes.
The primary use case of crypto is to protect wealth from a greedy, corrupt, money-printing state. Everything else is a sideshow
Re:Things we learned about LLMs in 2024
by specialist on Friday January 03, 2025 @08:51AM
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> primary use case of crypto is to protect wealth
Merely trading governments for corporations.
> Everything else is a sideshow
Agreed. Crypto is endlessly amusing.
Re:Things we learned about LLMs in 2024
by monero-xmr on Friday January 03, 2025 @09:26AM
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What corporation made bitcoin?
Re:Things we learned about LLMs in 2024
by specialist on Saturday January 04, 2025 @11:51PM
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Apologies, I assumed you knew what cryptocurrency is and how it works. My bad.
I'm really not well suited to explain this stuff. Here's an article for a general (layperson) audience to help you on your journey. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cryptocurrency-bitcoin-virtual-...
Happy hunting!
Re:Things we learned about LLMs in 2024
by monero-xmr on Sunday January 05, 2025 @01:37AM
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I have been intimately involved with cryptocurrency since 2010
Acknowledging that facilitating scams (eg pig butchering) are cryptocurrency's primary (sole?) use case, I'm willing to look the other way if we end up with the grid we need to address climate crisis.