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Re: Hhampuz's Birthday 🎉 🎉🎂🎂
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PrimeNumber7
on 24/07/2025, 14:00:31 UTC
Happy birthday Hhampuz. I hope you had a great day and will have a great year!
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Re: Creating a transaction at the same exact second as another one
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PrimeNumber7
on 15/07/2025, 08:41:04 UTC
⭐ Merited by pooya87 (5) ,Mia Chloe (2) ,hosemary (2) ,ABCbits (2) ,Ambatman (1)
Transactions are included in the blockchain in sets. Each block will confirm a set of transactions, and the block will include transactions in the order they choose.

It is also not guaranteed that a transaction you broadcast will be included in the next block found.

So a transaction could be broadcast from address A to address B at a given time, you could broadcast a transaction to address B shortly thereafter, and the order of the two transactions will be up to whoever finds the next block.

You could potentially include a very large transaction fee to your transaction to have an increased probability that your transaction will be included in the very next block, potentially higher in the next block than the transaction from address A.
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Re: Acceptable uses of AI in the forum (unofficial)
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PrimeNumber7
on 15/07/2025, 08:32:34 UTC
So, it occurred to me recently to create a thread with AI for fun taking advantage of the dip after ATH and this is the result:

Bitcoin Bloodbath: Is the Bubble Finally Bursting?

This is an example of acceptable AI usage on the forum IMO and one where you don't pass off what you created with AI as your own. Although as you can see from the thread hardly anyone has bothered to look that the source article was a ChatGPT creation.

If anyone finds the thread wrong I hope they compare it to others in that section such as pushups, the nearly 1000 page Buy the Dip and HODL, the Buy Buy Buy buy Sell Sell Sell and others.

Also, I am going to modify point 7 from the OP as it seems that at least in some cases content created by humans and translated with AI may appear as AI generated by the detectors, so to be on the safe side it is better to use online translators than AI, although I am sure that in the not too distant future they will be integrated.
Are those quotes real? If they are not, it is a strong argument against using AI to post.

IMO, you should only use AI if the output is something that is interesting and/or useful to other forum members. Posting make-up quotes or made-up information is nothing other than spam.
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Re: Building in public a NEW Loyce.Club Design
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PrimeNumber7
on 07/07/2025, 21:12:19 UTC
I agree that the code produced by AI is often messy and won't always cover all edge cases. It is a good start, though. For someone like Loyce, who has no other way to create something, it provides a great way to be able to create something he otherwise would be unable to create.
There's no way in hell I'm going to switch from a reliable system I know, to some unknown code created by a language model.
Your resistance to using AI to help with your projects is understandable, and its totally used by you, so it is entirely your choice.

I might suggest this: try using AI to make a clone of loyce.club that uses a database. It might take a little bit of back and forth with the agent to get exactly what you want. The costs associated with running the clone will be a small fraction of your current project.

To build confidence, you can ask the assistant for an explanation about what the code does. You can also have an assistant for guidance on how to learn how to create SQL queries, and. how to code in the various languages your clone will use.

If you decide against this, fair enough -- I was just making a suggestion.


I agree that the code produced by AI is often messy and won't always cover all edge cases.
Sometimes it's good to ask AI to handle simple tasks in programming, but don't fully rely on it because that can cause more problems than it solves. I use it myself sometimes, like for generating complex MySQL queries, but there's no way I would just copy and paste the code without understanding it first.
Oh absolutely. But most programmers can review the produced code by an assistant and understand what it does.
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Re: No Kings parade celebrated - people reject authoritarian Trump
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PrimeNumber7
on 06/07/2025, 16:53:26 UTC
⭐ Merited by paxmao (2)
With the Secretary-General calling Trump "daddy", I am looking forward to the 'no daddies' protests.
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Re: Building in public a NEW Loyce.Club Design
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PrimeNumber7
on 06/07/2025, 16:20:12 UTC
I think this is probably something you could vibe code fairly easily with ChatGPT, or Claude.
I have mixed feelings with vibe coding. I tried it a couple of times and it just makes my code more messy and unusable in the long term. It also hallucinates a lot, so I spend a lot of time fixing stuff that doesn't even work/exist. It works for small things that don't require too much thinking (that's why I like the AI autocomplete features, but not the agents).

I'm coding 99% of the new beta.ninjastic.space by hand.

I agree that the code produced by AI is often messy and won't always cover all edge cases. It is a good start, though. For someone like Loyce, who has no other way to create something, it provides a great way to be able to create something he otherwise would be unable to create.
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Re: Musk calls for the creation of a truly American party
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PrimeNumber7
on 06/07/2025, 16:13:07 UTC
Third-party candidates are not realistically viable in the United States. They will generally act as a spoiler and will take votes away from one of the two major party candidates. Ross Perot is why Clinton was elected in 1992 (and reelected).

It is possible for the government to save some money from waste and fraud (there is a lot of this), however, the actual savings from this is limited. The only way to substantially reduce the deficit is via entitlement reforms.

Most of the rest of what is in the OP is nonsense bs.
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Re: Shoutbox? Anyone?
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PrimeNumber7
on 05/07/2025, 14:21:35 UTC
One of the forum admins even set up a discord server for forum members but a few years down the road, there is barely any activity there with just a few members texting once in a while, yet this is a generation where people tend to prefer instant messaging apps

That tells you one of two things about the audience in this forum, and a shoutbox/chatbox/trollbox? I don't think it's necessary, in my opinion.
This is probably the best solution. Anyone who wants to participate can join the Discord Server. Anyone who doesn't want this feature can not join.
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Re: How rampant are scams on this forum?
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PrimeNumber7
on 30/06/2025, 14:35:25 UTC
Re: topic: very

You should be careful when dealing with strangers on the internet when the currency involved (crypto) cannot be reversed.
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Re: Building in public a NEW Loyce.Club Design
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PrimeNumber7
on 30/06/2025, 13:51:07 UTC
I appreciate the effort, but came to the conclusion (years ago) that I don't really want to spend more time on "looks". My site loyce.club was never meant to be used on it's own, it was simply a place to dump data that I couldn't fit in a post. And it kinda got out of hand, with currently ~15 million HTML pages. If I'd ever change things, it should be by converting everything to a database system to make it much easier to change things, but since I still know nothing about databases, that's not going to happen any time soon.
So much to do, so little time....
Basically, you need to learn two things about databases:
- how to load a record (or a batch of records) into a database
- how to query a database

When you scrape data, you would load data into your database, and when someone visits loyce.club, the backend of your website should query the database and render a template based on the data. You would want to be sure that your backend doesn't allow for SQL injection attacks, but this is fairly simple to guard against.

I think this is probably something you could vibe code fairly easily with ChatGPT, or Claude.

This will also make adding information to each page, or changing the layout of a page as simple as making a change to a single template file.
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Re: Banned members should be indicated on their profile summary
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PrimeNumber7
on 26/04/2025, 21:52:58 UTC
I'm curious as to why what you wrote above is true.  Do you have any idea, or is that in itself a closely-held secret?
I don't know. I don't think it makes much sense, as recent bans are continuously published in modlog anyway.
Unless this has changed, those bans are only from "autobans" that are done to newbie (?) accounts and temp bans will not be shown in hte mod log.

IIRC, the fact that someone is banned is not public because theymos doens't want people potentially trying to impersonate banned users to make it look like they are evading a ban.

Also, banned users can still log in (to my knowledge), and read the forum, but they cannot post.
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Re: I asked Grok, "Who is OgNasty?"
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PrimeNumber7
on 22/04/2025, 22:50:16 UTC
This is a good biography of you in the bitcointalk. We didn't start the journey with you so we can only see what others have said.

Thank you. It is nice getting impartial feedback as opposed to the constant trolling that typically happens here when you become successful. It can be hard to know who is full of it and who is telling the truth. I think for those of us who are honest and do good, AI will continue to be a blessing.
I am not saying the response you received was inaccurate or biased, but any chatbot is only as good as how it is trained. Most AI companies will advertise themselves as being neutral, however, as with many tech companies, this is simply not the case. One example I would provide would be that of twitter pre-Musk takeover. Facebook and google are two other good examples.
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Re: After the epochtalk failure, should BitcoinTalk be open sourced as compensation?
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PrimeNumber7
on 18/04/2025, 09:17:16 UTC
According to the report made by theymos post the 2013 hack, SMF 1.x prohibits the publishing of the source code. So it looks like this is not going to be an option. (in addition to the reasons I mentioned previously)
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Re: After the epochtalk failure, should BitcoinTalk be open sourced as compensation?
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PrimeNumber7
on 17/04/2025, 12:32:08 UTC
⭐ Merited by EFS (5)
BitcoinTalk is using a modified version of SMF, which is open-source. Theymos (and others, at his direction) have made modifications to the code, mostly that are specific to the forum, the merit system for example. I suspect that theymos is weary of releasing the full source code of the forum out of fear that security issues will be found, and exploited (that might otherwise not be found).
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Re: AI post , Can you All OG members can prove it's not Human written.Open challenge
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PrimeNumber7
on 15/04/2025, 05:42:50 UTC
Re the topic, I agree with Mitchell, the words in the OP do not sound natural.

If this was written by AI, you either used a very bad one, or used a really strange prompt, or perhaps a unique prompt with the goal of hiding your AI use. You also may have changed some words in the response in order to "fool" AI detectors. I will even go as far as to speculate that the text in the OP will pass many AI detectors.

Regardless, the text in the OP is not of high value. I have advocated before that normal forum rules should apply when dealing with AI-created posts. I think the OP is probably a good example as to why..
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Re: Tariff Policy
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PrimeNumber7
on 14/04/2025, 09:52:14 UTC
I generally think that tariffs are not a positive thing to implement. Tariffs hinder trade by taxing trade between two countries.

With that being said, many other countries impose tariffs and non-tariff barriers to import trade from the US to their countries. Theft of IP and a mandate that a JV with 51% Chinese ownership are two of the worst non-tariff barriers that I can think of. But other countries are also guilty. Excessive regulation against US companies and government subsidies for domestic industries comes to mind for what many European countries engage in. So the status quo is not really free trade, it is an uneven playing field with many non-tariff trading barriers imposed on the US, and few imposed by the US on other countries.

There is also the issue of national security. In a war, or a time of national emergency, countries will prioritize the defense of their own country ahead of others when it comes to allocating supplies produced by its own domestic industry. This was somewhat highlighted by covid in 2020 especially. So you really want your own domestic industry to exist and have the ability to ramp up production for things you will need in a war.
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Re: Goodbye, world!
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PrimeNumber7
on 14/03/2025, 07:38:41 UTC
anyone can make a vanity address.

yes, "but given that

All of the information required to reconstruct the private key is published on the blockchain.

It is logical to think that it could be a steganography puzzle, so all the small details should be considered.

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Over time, Lauda cared increasingly about her privacy. She explicitly said in the OP that her 'Lauda' identity was ending, and she explicitly revoked her GPG keys (identity), and provided no replacement. Also, the "vibe" I remember getting when originally reading the OP was that either lauda might be in some kind of danger, and/or her personal information may have leaked to someone such that she was forced to leave. As such, I don't think Lauda left any "clues" as to her "new" forum identity, and I would even go as far as to say that her new forum identity, if one exists, was probably not created until some time after the OP was created.

If you believe that Lauda did something wrong (no one is above reproach, and I think that is a generally fair argument against anyone), and her new alts should be tagged, that is another topic of discussion, however, I would say that existing issues were more or less resolved when the OP was created, and I am not aware of any *new* issues that have come up since the OP was created, which was ~4.5 years ago.
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Re: Was Epochtalk doomed to fail?
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PrimeNumber7
on 20/02/2025, 09:24:29 UTC
So the main question that remains unanswered is why the funding was kept up for so long.
Ultimately, the money theymos spent on this project was his own. The money he received from donations were reasonably his when he received them. However, even if this was not the case, he only received approximately $70k in donations, denominated in BTC. He made the decision to not convert the BTC to fiat, and as a result, saw massive capital gains.

So I guess the answer to your question is that theymos is a millionaire who has wayyy more money than he knows what to do with.

I also don't think $400k for a developer is unreasonable. Especially considering the potential for the project to end at any time, even if it lasted for 10+ years. Slickage obviously needed to make a profit, so not all of that money went to the developers, but most of it probably did.

The project failed, which, unfortunately, is not uncommon in software development. Could things have been handled differently? Yes, hindsight is 20/20. Meta spent billions on the "metaverse" in about 20% of the time, and that has been pretty much abandoned.
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Re: DefaultTrust changes
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PrimeNumber7
on 20/02/2025, 08:31:05 UTC
Thinking of the two "voter" criteria...
- You must have at least 10 people directly trusting you each with an earned merit of at least 10, not including merit you yourself sent. These "votes" are limited.
- You must have at least 2 people directly trusting you with an earned merit of at least 250, not including merit you yourself sent. These "votes" are limited.
Somebody PMed me pointing out an example of someone included in DT1 only because they were trusted by a permabanned member. I was aware that permabanned members were allowed to be voters, but I thought it'd be too rare to matter. But now I'm leaning toward excluding them.

Also, I've increasingly been feeling that something should be done about inactive voters. Currently, a user can be inactive for years, but still contribute toward those two criteria. The specific way I'm leaning toward addressing this is to require that voters must have received merit from at least 2 distinct users in the last 3 years.

I did a pretend reshuffle, and compared to the 136 users who were eligible for DT1 last time, with the above 2 changes, these users were no longer eligible: bavicrypto, be.open, Best_Change, comit, digicoinuser, ekiller, ezeminer, finaleshot2016, Gunthar, Harkorede, Heisenberg_Hunter, hybridsole, joniboini, Koal-84, Lachrymose, mandown, and witcher_sense. (Some of these users may have become ineligible for reasons other than the above two changes; I just compared the output today after the changes to the output on Feb 1.)

If instead it was "voters must have received merit from at least 3 distinct users in the last 3 years", then these users would also become ineligible: Baofeng, MinoRaiola, and Russlenat. I'm leaning toward 2, mainly just on the principle of preferring a larger list generally.

What do people think of these two changes?
Receiving merit means that you are making high quality posts (according to the intentions of the merit system), while being included in someone's trust list means that you give accurate trust ratings (according to the intentions of the trust system). The two will generally contain the same people, however, they might not always. An old user might come online occasionally to trade, while not make any posts.

I do agree that with age, the DT system needs to be modified to prevent, for example, someone who is included by 50 inactive users from staying on DT after deciding to scam their trading partners after a history of honest trading.

Over time, people devote less and less time to the forum, and some are difficult to get in touch with.

One possible option would be to modify the trust system such that ratings decay over time. Users could have the option to specify a date of a transaction (with a blank date defaulting to the date of the rating), and older ratings could be semi-hidden and/or have a lessor effect on a user's trust score.
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Re: No longer pursuing Epochtalk
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PrimeNumber7
on 20/02/2025, 08:04:19 UTC
⭐ Merited by JayJuanGee (1) ,jamyr (1)
Spending an outrageous sum of donated funds on an unknown company when everyone said it was a bad idea and would not work.  I don't see it as a violation of being the Admin here, but it's... a bit tacky, I guess.  I suppose an analogy would be like spending taxpayer money on DEI initiatives that nobody wanted, asked for, or thought would result in a positive outcome. 

 - Not asking the community (or Donators) how we wanted our funds spent was unprofessional.
 - Spending money on an unknown company always has some amount of risk.
 - Now we have to spend time on this drama.

The insane amount of BTC that was wasted is unimportant, and I'd feel exactly the same if the wasted amount was 100x more or 100x less.  If I'd been holding the BTC, no BTC would've been wasted at all, and in fact it would have grown from airdrops as I respect the responsibility that comes with fiduciary duty.

At the time proposals to create the new forum software were solicited, there were issues with the software the forum was running on. Since, theymos (likely with the help of others) has improved the software such that these issues are no longer applicable. 

For the reasons stated above, I don't think it is reasonable to say that new forum software was not needed in 2011, when the project started. Perhaps in the years after the project started, the new software was no longer needed, however, the overwhelming majority of the funds spent on the new forum software came from capital gains, not donations. So by the time the software was no longer needed, it was theymos spending his own money.