Those aren't LLMs, they're completely different specialized models for those tasks

we really need to enumerate exactly what the fuck this shitscam is actually delivering - if anywhere. not flash in the pan stuff, sustained improvements to processes and quantified evaluations.

Because we're already paying for it all on our electric, water, and electronics costs whether we like it or not. I'm fucking sick of the imposition but if it's going to continue they need to make a damned good argument for it all.

Now.

Medical and Science models aren't LLMs and those spaces were already using lots of algorithm based models.

Did you copy-paste that from Moltbook, or are you a lost LLM agent?

Proof of Stake: the one with most money is most likely to be elected.

This is misleading. Winning the validation election doesn't give you more power.

The one who is most dishonest gets their stake burned.

Did larger blocks ever become popular, since the BTC, BCH split?

At least on the Ethereum ecosystem, it has been increasing slowly until last year. See "Ethereum Mainnet: Historical TPS Capacity" [TPS = transactions per second] graph here: https://www.growthepie.com/quick-bites/ethereum-scaling

Since launch, Ethereum Mainnet has methodically improved efficiency and capacity without compromising decentralization or security. It went through several key upgrades, each contributing to incremental improvements in efficiency and capacity. You can read more about these on our ecosystem page. From 2015 to today, Ethereum scaled from ~0.71 TPS to 24.9 TPS, a 35.0x increase.

After years of steady gains, the pace is set to accelerate. The goal is to scale by ~3x per year with upcoming improvements. This takes today's 24.9 TPS into the thousands before decade's end.

There are many other upgrades yet to come. You can also find more details about them here: https://forkcast.org/

But the scaling approach also changed. We are no longer just looking for vertical scaling, like larger blocks, but also via horizontal scaling, which is usually called Ethereum Layer 2, which aims at millions of TPS. That first link also has more details in case you want to dive deeper.

Did the lightning payment network ever become popular?

As far as I am aware, it's barely used

That won't be the case for long, see here for some quick bites in case you are interested: https://www.growthepie.com/quick-bites/ethereum-scaling

Ethereum is on a clear path to scale. Over the next six years, Ethereum Mainnet throughput is expected to surge toward 10,000 transactions per second (TPS) - roughly 1 gigagas per second - while Layer 2s (L2) collectively push the ecosystem toward million-TPS capacity.

For example, one of the Ethereum L2 rollups mentioned, MegaEth, is expected to have mainnet launch date this month after a 35k TPS stress test.

How?

Ethereum's strategy combines multiple approaches to sustainably increase capacity while preserving its core principles:

• EIP-7938 (Dankrad Feist) - proposes a default, exponential gas-limit growth schedule where clients vote automatically to increase L1 capacity over time (subject to coordination and override). Read the spec here.

• Lean Ethereum (Justin Drake) - a design philosophy to streamline consensus, data, and execution, leveraging DAS and real-time zkVMs for “beast mode” performance while staying verifiable. More.

• More EIPs - parallel efforts improve execution, networking, and data availability. Slide overview [<- google docs alert].

The aim isn't raw TPS alone - it's sustainable, decentralized scale that remains easy to verify.

Visa crypto chief bets on stablecoin settlement, sees volumes growing

I didn't mean for everything, I meant if crypto could ever fix its shit it could be a useful tool for folks affected by the issues with payment processors

But it would have to be stable in value, not suck for making transactions, and not be wildly wasteful

Let's be realistic, that isn't an equivalent alternative

Sending mail is pseudo-anonymous at best. It's exceptionally slow. Most importantly, it's insecure to the point where most postal services explicitly recommend against mailing cash

xmr is a cryptocurrency which aims to make reading transactions from the chain impossible. Iirc the main mechanism of this is that they bundle a lot of transactions together and send out coins from that pool only once it is large enough, without preserving each specific coin. This repeats for a few proxies. You could trace a coin from origin to endpoint, but this would be pretty much useless as you cannot know whether the endpoint was the intended one or not.

The ledger being public doesn't necessarily mean anyone knows who "13LPtD4GG1XX7fgrze6xMR5V284rRQg9jv" is. But yeah, you can of course track the movement of funds, and make educated guesses on which addresses belong to who.

XMR uses some really cool cryptography actually. Zero-knowledge proofs and shit.

That's literally what caused bitcoin mixer services to exist where you throw some amount of BTC in an account with them, tell them how much you want paid to whom, and then it takes all the transactions for a certain (usually random) time period and plays a shell game with them, passing funds from account to account in various amounts and resulting ultimately in the right amount going from you to the target via multiple intermediaries. Slow because it involves a lot of transactions, but the idea was to make it hard to trace exactly who was paying who, beyond being able to know that one or more of the user accounts were paying some amount to one or more of the destination accounts.

Over the last 5 years or so, law enforcement has been shutting down several such organizations for money laundering, being illegal money transmitting businesses or things along those lines as appropriate to the jurisdiction.

Even without them, with good opsec it can be hard to tie a BTC wallet address to a human person, which is the point of anonymous payment.

Not all crypto is the same. ZCASH uses an encrypted ledger. Monero combines transactions and redistributes to obfuscate.

With monero the ledger is encrypted and has a bunch of obfuscated/fake data in it

If you bought crypto, same way money laundering works. Otherwise you can earn crypto while remaining anonymous (but in the case of a VPN, connecting to it from your home IP after anonymously buying it kind of defeats the purpose [partially])

Zcash has opt in anonymization. So it really doesn't work because any offramp can just not accept any zcash that has been obfuscated. With monero, its all obfuscated by default.

Admittedly I'm not a hardcore crytography nerd, but I know they've been improving things for years, and that message on that mailing list looked like it was 10 years old.

Not saying your wrong, but Id take it with a grain of salt. Anytime I see a newer encrypted block chain I see it and think whatever improvements have been done here, will eventually bleed into monero because of that. And that unlike the other encrypted blockchain, people will still actively be using xmr for real transactions.

I'm not sure I'd trust whatever that link is as a source that XMR isn't secure... I mean, what even is that link?

Good news! Put that cash in an envelope and post it to them and they’ll give you VPN time: https://mullvad.net/en/pricing

It's a privacy-first VPN.

When i used the silkroad they had a coin tumbler built into it

Bitcoin is, and even then if you send it through a tumbler it becomes difficult to track who is buying what. But most markets these days don't even accept Bitcoin, they only accept monero (xmr), which is anonymous.

that's why you make sure you don't leave PII that links to you in that transaction. Buy bitcoin with cash from your local shady dealer (of course you can buy drugs from them directly, but BTC is still good for drugs they don't carry)

You know, that's a good point. LLMs themselves aren't horrible abominations - it's capitalism that, as usual, ruined a good thing.

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I thought the context was obvious - in server hardware and infrastructure required to house it.

Verifying this number thought seems essentially impossible.

Tons of CO2 released into the atmosphere is a pretty standard way to measure climate impact.