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Leo Wandersleb @LeoWandersleb - 46m
So this strategic reserve executive order clearly moved markets today and people are debating if it's good or bad for Bitcoin. Clearly Bitcoiners, Shitcoiners with seats at Trump's table and Shitcoiners without the latter sold the news. In summary, over 24h, BTC is down 4.1%, ETH 4.8%, XRP 1.9%, SOL 4.7%, ADA 11.3% and Doge 4.0%. The charts look all the same. Some "he signed" up-tick, some "sell the news" down swing, followed by some recovery. But why is Doge following this trend? Even the Monero chart appears to be affected by the EO in a similar pattern? https://i.nostr.build/wzgn746UFtS8SdlR.png https://i.nostr.build/ADi0D25dW5aCJjca.png https://i.nostr.build/SVWlnRu1wcC2UZp8.png https://i.nostr.build/aw3cuULWGjdzz2kz.png https://i.nostr.build/6MhodFdwQRyRgJjw.png
Leo Wandersleb @LeoWandersleb - 7h
I guess it gets him many views. And I find it fascinating how this POS (SBF, not TC) talks like he's above it all. Understanding psychopathy is helpful, isn't it?
Leo Wandersleb @LeoWandersleb - 9h
Tucker Carlson interviewed SBF. https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1897709140535132442
The product looks very immature. With two videos featuring it on the landing page, one about entropy from the video feed, explaining to the user for half of its length that he has to move the camera around to generated good entropy.
Leo Wandersleb @LeoWandersleb - 10h
Maybe imperfection isn’t a bug—it’s the point. We’re built to wander, second-guess, and course-correct. Perhaps boredom is just a reminder: Answers are useful, but questions keep us alive.
Leo Wandersleb @LeoWandersleb - 1d
Yeah and looking for lists of words and stuff ...
It's more nuanced. But yes, public source code is the minimum requirement to trust a product that's built to manage great wealth. Open source is better than public source as competing teams using the same code is the best way to have adversarial thinkers checking every line that goes into the repository. Public source is better than closed source or course. But with hardware wallets one aspect that bothers me is that the user has to trust what is on the device when he receives it. Trezor ships their devices "without firmware" but not without bootloader, so what if that bootloader isn't exactly what they claim it is? Could it patch any bootloader and firmware updates the user puts on the device in transit? nostr:npub1a3xjg8pngvgm8gcygvlwx3ptu2wsaz88asvmshkl9waznwf4vh3qqrx0r7 brought my attention to "Cardware Wallet" which advertises the inability to update the firmware as a security feature. 🤨 is it though? Bitcoin is not static. Do you want a hardware wallet that will never be able to use new features? This wallet brags about LN capability which I would assume to be a much faster moving field than base layer Bitcoin. But the fundamental issue is that the user probably cannot audit what software he's actually running as it comes pre-installed on the device. But it's open source. Or so they say.
Leo Wandersleb @LeoWandersleb - 2d
Putting on a good show.
Context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c8uZEnIqPo
Pest. Or Cholera.
A bit cringe. ... actually very very cringe CRINGE 😅 So they discuss my feed note by note and obviously I know what they are talking about, so that's funny but hardly "on the edge of my knowledge". In its current form it's more a game. "Guess who's feed they are talking about" I thought more of a podcast on the topics I'm interested in but taking for granted what I already know. Identify core interests of this author, pick 3 major topics for the podcast, estimate the author's knowledge, introduce topics telling an anecdote of the author to then dig deeper from there ... At some point the podcast just rushes through topics. What was the bone grinding about? It repeats some lines. videos and images are cryptic if you don't look at the actual media I guess. Lol. Image not found is intriguing. A bit of a puzzle. Especially cringe is the praising of mundane thoughts or even missing images but maybe this can be turned into some more explicit praise? "Why you should follow the author" kind of audio. Make it 5 minutes, discussing the notes with highest engagement ...
Drain the swamp ... said the swamp creature.
Invite-only screams centralization. Well, ... we are close to having a github replacement but I doubt it's this.
I'll happily listen to that one :D Split it into teaser and rest of podcast and release the full podcast only if the teaser gets enough zaps maybe?
I almost avoid Bitcoin podcasts as it's usually an hour of stuff I could have said myself, living and breathing Bitcoin since many years and maybe a few sound bites that are really nicely put what I also knew already. On the other hand, a podcast is great on subjects I'm not familiar with, where every argument is inspiring. But who wants to learn about only new stuff in new fields all the time? I want a tool that generates podcasts at the edge of my knowledge! Clearly, the edge of my knowledge is a niche market but with LLMs it should be possible to create this for really cheap. Feed the LLM with all my nostr posts. That should give it a clear idea of my interests and an educated guess about depth, preferred style and language etc. to create such a podcast. nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzqvhpsfmr23gwhv795lgjc8uw0v44z3pe4sg2vlh08k0an3wx3cj9qyg8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnhd9hx2qgdwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkcqpqp5egrm0j35vcs5p5a3zct9xk3t4e42va8mm4z5crsxnvd8pdyn3s502g9e
So nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s came up with a podcast generator that turns a headline into a conversation and then a podcast with two voices talking about the topic. That sounds great and like it could actually generate a lot of money. Next he'll probably have the LLM pick the headlines, too based on how much past episodes generated, to churn out an episode every hour. And listeners will give their ⚡to surface what has actual value to them. The podcast generator would again feed to the biggest audience possible. But what if there was a way to make money going for the smallest niche possible?
Leo Wandersleb @LeoWandersleb - 3d
I'm starting to believe that LLMs have great potential to keep us dumb and unproductive. It's great fun to throw Sonnet at some big code base and get the resemblance of new features in seconds but the more involved it gets the more it tends to introduce errors and then you are just debugging which is a great opportunity to add more errors and then the task can only be abandoned after spending time and money on it. So if you have no idea about coding, it gives you a magic wand that can summon stuff you couldn't imagine before but for somebody who has summoned stuff for many years this magic wand is kind of under-powered still.
OpenRouter appears to be the main player in the field of providing access to multiple LLMs and while it appears to have some features I'm missing at nostr:npub16g4umvwj2pduqc8kt2rv6heq2vhvtulyrsr2a20d4suldwnkl4hquekv4h, its payment process is the best advertisement to not using them. First of all, I **have to** create an account and agree to the privacy policy and TOS. Ok, nobody reads those, right? Then my first query fails due to lack of funds. Sure, same with nostr:npub16g4umvwj2pduqc8kt2rv6heq2vhvtulyrsr2a20d4suldwnkl4hquekv4h. Let's add some funds, shall we? I heard they also accept "crypto". https://i.nostr.build/fBCSX9QzE6BskwXK.png I have to opt in to use crypto and it defaults to $10 but the due amount is $10.53? A 5.3% fee for using the hardest money possible? That's quite a surprise, given nostr:npub16g4umvwj2pduqc8kt2rv6heq2vhvtulyrsr2a20d4suldwnkl4hquekv4h has a 5% discount instead. So, whatever. I'm not going to stay long. I just want to try this out to know what I'm missing out on. After all, nostr:npub16g4umvwj2pduqc8kt2rv6heq2vhvtulyrsr2a20d4suldwnkl4hquekv4h costs a ton when using in the Cline plugin and while some claim it's just how Cline works, I wanted to see for myself if changing between the providers mid session would change the fees. But not with $10. How about $5? Well, no surprise, the fee just went up a bit but not much. 5.4% it is, so I'm getting my wallet ready ... but what is this??? https://i.nostr.build/chBuUJGZ5gd3zBao.png I want to make a payment, not connect a wallet. Apparently Bitcoin is not supported at least by this merchant. Clicking on "Open Billing Portal" on the other hand opens stripe and pre-fills my full name and email address. I can't edit neither. Guess I have to trust stripe to not have harvested my email before hitting that submit button. We will see in my spam folder. https://i.nostr.build/rOAxYt4flc3bpXsw.png Well, ... guess I'll leave it to the PPQ team to monitor their competition and trust them after having seen enough red flags elsewhere.
Leo Wandersleb @LeoWandersleb - 6d
Firefox is more dead every other week.
