There is a lot of money to be made via LLMs (which is really what the OP is referring to), and that is not from sig deals. The creators of LLMs want their models to be relevant and accurate, so I somewhat understand why some might use the forum to create LLM-created posts, although there are probably some ethical issues in doing so.

Anything a LLM says is not plagiarism. If there is a topic that I find interesting regarding something I don't know a lot about, I might read articles from what I believe to be reputable sources, and I might paraphrase information that I find across several sources in my post. That is essentially what a LLM does.

If I am not mistaken, you are The Pharmacist. IIRC, you were able to get your name changed a while back.

Maybe I am missing something, but if you remember the passphrases used? Why couldn't you just use the passphrasees to generate the private key and address?

I don't really see much value in knowing the details of the transaction if you don't know the private key, and the private key can lead you to information that will allow you to get the details of the transaction so you can create a new transaction to spend the coin.

I have never been a defendant in any federal criminal case, but I don't think the defendant normally signs any documents on the paperwork involving the case.

More importantly, I cannot stress how much of a bad idea it is to not have a lawyer in a criminal case (or any case you are a party to for that matter). A lawyer can speak on your behalf while anything they say in court cannot be used against you. If you represent yourself, anything you say 'as your lawyer' can be used against you, even if you misspeak.

Further, you can have your lawyer implement whatever strategy you like (provided it is legal) for your defense.

Right now, it is fairly easy to craft adversarial prompts on most mainstream products that use LLMs. Over time, it should become more difficult to get around these blocks. However I do agree, it will always be possible to get around these blocks, and there will likely be alternate products that do not have these kinds of blocks.

Apple has a similar service that will create a `dummy` email address when you sign up for a service, and all emails will be sent to your iCloud email address. The current implementation can be improved as the `to` field currently says `Hide My Email` regardless of the email address alias it was sent to.

I would be most worried about banks, and other companies that deal with my money sending email to the correct address, as that is where the risk is in terms of a fraudulent email. I would want to minimize the number of companies that have access to any emails being sent by any company dealing with my money.

Spam filtering has always been done using AI. We have seen vast improvements in the machine learning space over the past few years, and I expect to see a lot of additional improvement given the vast amount of money being poured into AI right now.

If you are referring to Bard (the Google version of Chat GPT), it will have safeguards in place to prevent these types of outright scams from being generated by their product with no legitimate use case. Obviously these are not foolproof....

It will be difficult to protect against fraudulent emails, and really already is difficult to spot them by the content alone. A good first start would be to use a unique private email for each service or website you will potentially receive email from, which will result in you knowing if an email is from a particular company based on the email address they send the email to.

Email providers will probably need to do a really good job at detecting and filtering out fraudulent emails.

Sorry to nerco bump this thread....

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It appears that Ulbricht is likely to get pardoned in the near future. Trump said today that he will commute the sentence of DPR/Ulbricht when he is reelected.

I have mixed feelings about this. His sentence is certainly harsh for the crimes he was convicted of. OTOH, there is substantial evidence that he intended to use violence to protect his business. It would be inappropriate for the judge to consider this when handing down his sentence because he was not convicted of this, but as someone outside the judicial process, I am free to consider any evidence that is available to me.

You are correct, that is my mistake. Either way, censoring any link to bit mixer doesn't make a lot of sense because the underlying link will not lead to a working service.

That is not how the quote feature works. When you "quote" a post, you can make the post say whatever you want it to say. The text inside the quote box is not linked to the original post in the database.

I looked in my outbox, and this is the only PM I sent to you in the past several years:
I don't anticipate being particularly active in the future. Based on some of the responses in the thread of a spammer crying about hilarious removing posts (he wasn't even the mod who removed the posts), it looks like there is still a lot of trash posts.

No, I don't anticipate being active enough to participate in an sig deal. Although I think I probably could get into a campaign if I tried. It's a moot point either way.

And yes, my post was funny, thank you for the LOL


Are you a Rams fan? They have a decent roster this year, even with Donald's retirement. At a minimum, I think they will do better than my Panthers, but that is not a very high bar...

Gotcha. It probably isn't unreasonable for the OP to believe that hilarious removed his posts, although this is not necessarily actually the case.

After reading the threads in question, it appears the underlying root cause the OP's posts were removed is because they are low value posts. If I had to guess, I would say the OP is trying to sow discord about Hilarious.

It would be pretty cool if he was, but I don't think he is. As SilverCryptoBullet mentioned, TMAN liked to use "pajeet" and the OP used "jeet". Although the two words are somewhat similar, they are transparently different words.

I think if TMAN were to decide to return to the forum, he would access the forum login page on his browser, immidiately enter the passphraise to his account, and start posting from his TMAN account.

If someone wants to place a monitory bet on the OP being TMAN, maybe Rodger Ver could mediate the bet once he crosses the boarder into the US.

His profile says he is on an extended break, and that there will be long delays in responses.


yes, a lot of those I mentioned were notable members when I remember them being here. Them being gone makes things feel very different.

I didn't think self-moderation would be a big deal, and was done to prevent the spammers, and trolls, but I removed it a few days ago.

I thought about him, but given the fact that he was last active in March 2020, at the height of the pandemic, and last posted a month prior, I have long assumed that he may have been lost to covid. IIRC, he lived in Europe, which was pretty bad around that time. This is speculation, and I don't have any specific information about him.

Its nice to see you too EFS.

I have not really been active on any other forum as much as I have been here. I have a reddit account, but I really have barely ever even lurked there. There's stack overflow, but I really am not even logged in when I search for something, so I am not even sure if I would consider myself to be a 'member' there.

Congrats on your decade here!

I am not really sure what you are talking about. I see that you decided to leave a negative rating for me for this thread. I have not traded here in a long time, barely even post anymore, so the rating is not going to affect me. I hope it makes you feel better.

Looking at the post history, it doesn't look like that account is very active here recently either. It looks like the post he made 20 posts ago was in June of last year.

I probably could if it was a big deal. Doing so would involve buying a power cable for an old MacBook, so it would take a few days if I needed to. Either way, I am not planning on doing any kind of business.

I removed the self-moderation by moving the thread to a section that does not allow self-moderation (meta in my case), and back here.

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One other thing that I wanted to mention was the woodcollector saga. The dude was definitely misrepresenting that he was "hand carving" (or whatever the specific claim with his "hands" was) his pieces, but he did make interesting art pieces related to bitcoin. Once he was called out for his dishonesty, a lot of drama followed, and eventually, he turned into a very good troll. It was just one memory I have of the forum.

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thank you to the others who I did not directly respond to.

The bitmixer campaign was going on for at least 3 years (~150 weeks). Although it was a mixer, I understand it was seized, so there really isn't much point in censoring discussions about it (anyone going to their website will likely end up at the seizure notice).

It doesn't look like it was quite up for 2 years, but the primedice campaign was one of the best back in the day, especially if you could make a lot of good posts, although it was also one of the worst for the forum because a lot of people spammed with it, sadly.

Its interesting that one has been running for nearly 10 years!

I have a couple of questions:
1 - what is Jeetscointalk?
2 - how do you know that hilarious was the one who deleted the two posts in question?

I am not sure where the thread those posts were posted in are, so I can't get the full context, but based on your screenshots, I would say your posts were probably removed for being low-effort/value. I would suggest putting more effort into your posts.

Hi everyone,

In about two months, I will have been on the forum for 10 years. I have not been able to spend much time on the forum recently, certainly nowhere near as much time as I have in the past, and I am not sure I would remember to visit on my anniversary, so I figured I would create a thread today.

Time sure does fly when you are having fun. It is hard to believe it was 10 years ago when I first joined the forum. It is an understatement to say that a lot has changed over the years. A lot of people have lost their reputation they spent years building up, sometimes for good reason, often times not. A handful of people have been arrested for reasons related to their involvement in their Bitcoin-related activities. Sadly, some of the forum members I had the opportunity to get to know and talk to have died. I honestly cried when I saw that o_e_l_e_o had locked his goodbye/farewell thread.

Sadly, many seem to have actually left the forum, despite that they say that no one really leaves. BadBear, tomatocage, shorena, Blazr, escrow.ms, DarkStar, monbux, redsn0w, devthedev, Lauda, Dogedigital, blazed, MadZ, Muhammed Zakir, marcotheminer, xetsr, dogie, Vod seems to have left, and somewhat recently returned. There are others I have forgotten. If you have left, and happen to read this, maybe you can stop by to say hello, lol.

It is sad to see someone who was last active in 2020. The world was turned upside-down due to covid.

I certainly have made mistakes during my time on the forum. I can say however that my North Star has always been what I believed to be right at the time.

Anyway, I hope that everyone is doing well.

This thread was opened 5 years ago yesterday. I am surprised that both sides are still going at it with each other after all this time.

I think it’s best for everyone involved to just drop it.

Can my name please be removed from the OP? I have not been able to help with stuck transactions for years and still receive messages asking for help

Congratulations on ten years on the forum. Things sure have changed a lot over the past decade.

I haven’t been active much as of lately, but I do like to stop by from time to time and read various posts. My ten year anniversary will be in about a year.

I am sure you have been able to learn a lot over your time here. I know I have.

Good times.

It looks like he was using his own custom software when he was implementing his scans and made some bad choices when signing transactions.

It makes sense though. He often needed to monitor the blockchain and take specific action based on particular activity as part of his scams.

Both accounts still exist, and neither will be deleted. The names associated with both accounts have changed. Most likely, the UID is the primary key in the forum database in the members table. However, BPIP appears to log changes based on the account name. There isn't any rule against changing a p key, but it is best if they are immutable.

I am not sure if it is possible to track changes to trust lists based on the UID. In any case, BPIP appears to have failed to detect the name change and included entries on its log that did not actually happen.