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Alex Waltz profile picture
Satoshi Nakamoto rurns 51!
5th April 1975 is considered Satoshi's birthday.

This is known because his profile on the p2pFoundation says so.

But no exact date is display so where does the 5th of April come from?

There is no snapshots from 4th to 5th April in same year available :(

But using these 4 snapshoots on the archiving sites, we can deduce with 100% certainty the DOB is 5th of April.

- 3 April 2014: 38
- 4 April 2014: 38
- 28 May 2014: 39
- 5 April 2015: 40

3 & 4 April 2014, he was 38
Hadn’t turned 39 yet - birthday after 4 April

28 May 2014, he was 39
Birthday is before May 28.

5 April 2015, he was 40
Birthday is on or before April 5, but after 4th, which means the 5 is DOB

Since he was 39 in 2014, he was born in 1975.

Worth noting the 1st person to point this out was gwern on reddit in 2014.





Alex Waltz profile picture
I am very new AI stuff, so may be missing something.

Is reinforcement learning not an amazing tool to find strange Bitcoin consenseus bugs and edge cases?

I mean is consenseus written in the code not a super verifiable problem?

If yes, its fairly trivial and quite low cost to implement something like this.

So we should do it ASAP, as an adversary could do this with ease and attack Bitcoin.
DZC · 16w
I didn't buy two years later at around $30 because it was clearly overpriced. Damn it, I was late to the party!!
Alex Waltz profile picture
Did you know?

The coinbase TX with most outputs (919) was mined by Eligius Pool(now Ocean ) on 2011-06-27?

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DZC · 34w
... and it is? 🤔
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The legendary Bitcoin Bar - Room 77

One of the 1st places in the world to accept Bitcoin.
Did not accept Bitcoins from Coinbase.

Pictures from 30 Aug 2018.



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waxwing · 35w
Anybody else tinkering with local LLMs: do you have recommendations for generic system prompts? I want to avoid the useless guff ("Great question!") so I wrote this; I know it's a bit repeating itself...
Alex Waltz profile picture
I kinda developed a habbit of visually parsing the 1st 2 sentances, and now I ignore them (with chatGPT)

Interesting is that Grok does not do this, and it's way more disagreable than any other LLMs I tried. In fact if I say something that is obviously incorrect it will point that out, where as chatGPT it's like rationalising a way to agree with me.

As for using other LLMs they were pretty much unusable(for the tasks I was doing), and local ones similary not smart enough.
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waxwing · 35w
I should try Grok. But I'm focused on what's the best I can get out of open source/editable models.
Alex Waltz profile picture
One things nostr is definetly better than Twitter is posting pictures.

The picture are less compressed and thus better quality.

However the previewing crop feature needs improvement(at least in primat)