Oh wow I completely forgot about this. So cool of you guys to do this.
Same here, I entered one year ago! And even cooler winning in a raffle of 256 slots, that's crazy! Thanks MJ and BP, great collaboration. And I dearly need the doge-penny.  |
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Like it or not AI is getting smarter day by day, maybe we are gonna doomed by the AI like some movies said But it is good pictures to can be wallpaper on a phone or computer, are those really generated 100% by AI If you would actually read anything in this thread you'd notice most was soley done by AI indeed, some other pictures were slightly post-edited. There is such thing as an obviously AI-generated-image anymore. Some are, yes, but in the right hands I bet you would not be able to tell which is which. AI is not getting smart, it's still very dumb actually. Just read some discussions about chatgpt. That being said, these "AI-apps" are great tools for producers of any kind and are already taken off a ton of workload from real humans. |
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Interesting lore associated with this.
>Max originally intended on creating 250 Ruby Labyrinth. He ordered 100 ruby bearings to start with but unfortunately the bearings didn't turn out as red as he liked. With the 100 ruby bearings he created 20 Ruby Labyrinths, numbered 01/250 - 20/250.
[...]
Thanks for sharing! Interesting lore, indeed.  One thing I love about the Kialara pieces is that it would be near impossible to fake a ruby by swapping out the balls inside a silver to red beads and passing it off as a 1/20 ruby, you would have to basically destroy the pieces replacing the balls
I don’t think these are numbered, but you should be pretty safe knowing what you got is original as long as it’s not damaged
I remember when Max released these, regret not buying one now.
Edit: Has anyone seen fake Kialara’s yet? I really hope they don’t pop up
Other than just a "simple" coin, Kialaras are such intricately detailed works, I doubt anyone right now would go through the insane hassle to try and fake them. It would be so much easier to fake a Cas or other high-funded tokens than a Kialara. Even tempering with it (like replacing the rubies or gems from other Kialara products) would be way too complex compared to easier targets. I highly doubt we have to worry much in that regard for now. That being said, it's ofc always a good idea to be cautious when buying a 2nd hand crypto-collectible and check for any inconsistencies. |
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Added more things in my search: any 0.5 - 5 oz Bitcoin-themed silver coins
If colored that's a nice extra.
Ideally looking to buy near spot (plus a some extra), we can talk about it.
If
- very rare
- colored
- high graded
coin then we can also discuss higher premiums.
Also down to buy bulks of 2 - 5 coins if in great quality.
Shoot me a pm!
(BUMP)
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That thing does look nice! So far Trezor is at the top of my list and that is probably what I will end up going with. I still have some paper wallets that I printed out using my old Mycelium Entropy before regretfully selling it, facepalm. So have moved my few sats to them, still keeping my coins offline  I did like the KeepKey at the start, but it was less desirable when the Chrome app was stopped and we were forced to use ShapeShift to access the wallet. Generally I prefere a Ledger over other HW wallets, too. I hate it, when a crucial software is discontinued. Happend with older ledgers, too. They want you to buy their new stuff, but not interested in a fancy HW wallet with 32 bit color screen in full-HD. The less complex the better. |
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It instantly repeated the same grammar mistake for the bicycle joke.
What you mean grammar mistake? There's no mistake that is the joke bro Why couldn't the bike stand up by itself? Because it was two-tired!It's a joke that works by speaking out loud. You hear "It was too tired", but write "It was two-tired" - any mix of both doesn't make sense. It's a pun or play-on-words, so the grammar still needs to be right when written down. Here: "A pun, also known as paronomasia, is a form of word play that exploits multiple meanings of a term, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect". But it is not suprising that ChatGPT does make this grammar mistake - it just copy-pastes what it does find most on the internet, and indeed there are a ton of wrongly spelled cases of this joke to be found. |
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Hey man, good to see you active again, MrMojo. 55 - Kryptowerk This is certainly a very geneerous give-away, incl two funded coins? - wow! Happy New Year! |
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Event of the Year: FTX falling down from $32 billon mountain
Serious question: Exactly who is going to receive the price if events like these win out (which I'm sure FTX will easily do for this category)? I'm going to assume there is no prize for this category or something? I am sure we can set up a SBF donation account, he dearly is in need of some Sats after he lost everything.  Edit: In my post before I edited the link, so it is unclickable. If you quote it, you will still be able to see the full link, though. |
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Don't think there was ever an official MoonBits logo. An extraction from the flyer is the closest I got (original ps-file could be used to print posters, it's 1 GB in size). From this:  (click for high-res) To this: https://i.imgur.com/wjK8Vxi.pngAnd finally this:  (use as temporary logo) |
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Cool, was'nt aware of the first links you shared - good resources to share with someone new to the space. Thanks. Regarding Andreas Antonopoulos: He was actually the guy that brought me into Bitcoin with his free educational videos. Incredible high quality content on the matter. Been recommending his stuff for years now. |
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What could have been his fate if he made himself known from the beginning? And later after Bitcoin is recognized?
For Satoshi to be able to hide his identity right from the beginning of the creation of Bitcoin made me to understand that the project called bitcoin is a well-calculated and well conceived idea. It is not a product of coincidence or a product of a hungry investor, he must have envisaged the disadvantages of revealing his identity even before creating bitcoin. [...] This could be indeed the case, possibly Satoshi fully understood the impact of his tech before even implementing it into code and thus was super-cautious from the start on regarding privacy. Maybe even realizing the value one Bitcoin could reach within a few years and decades. OR he always was this "paranoid"* figure, protecting his identity from early on, possibly many many years before the development of Bitcoin. I find this as plausible as the other suggestion, since I am not sure you could fully grasp the impact an invention (such as the Bitcoin protocol) could truely have in the future - even if you are a highly intelligent individual such as SN. *in quotes, because you can make an argument that it is not paranoia, instead it is just what everyone would feel if they understood the value and possible attack vectors from big corp and governments |
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Hero of Good: Baphomet, Beelzebub, Shaitan, 'ol Scratch himself Golden Feather: Barrack Obama Bitcointalk Ninja: Satoshi Bitcoin Geek: Sam Bankman Fried Event of the Year: FTX falling down from $32 billon mountain Fail of the Year: Me flipping over the handlebars of my bicycle whilst collecting cans and pretending to be homeless. Just last night. Discovery of the Year: Russian scientists discover immortality drug. [ DON'T VISIT! - potential malware] Best SpamBuster: What spam? Best ScamBuster: Pick one for me. Craft Master: Da fuk does this even mean? AntiHero: Black Adam Miss Bitcointalk: Foxpup One has to go against the grain in contests like these, especially when one has no idea who to vote for. Call me a cranky contrarian if you like, but I'm sticking to my votes. Your link triggered a mal-ware alert on my computer. What the heck? I assume the link was changed / hacked from that website to fish for Bitcointalk users maybe. Or was it a false alarm? "What spam?" made me laugh, though - nice one! You wanna go against the stream but then still pick a Miss? Lame. :p |
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News-feeds/websites/papers tend to opt for attention gaining headlines this is not new. Just vapor to disguise the nothingsness that acutally happened. I know it's kinda off-topic, but since she is one of the best scientists I am aware of actively working against mis-representation of new science discoveries, I want to recommend Sabine Hossenfelder's youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@SabineHossenfelder/videosShe has done extensive coverage of the quantum-hype, as well as interesting topics such asdark-matter, black-holes, nuclear-fusion and other topics that tend to dominate the soft-science news-headlines. |
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The quality of AI art is impressive, but still it's nothing more than copying of existing human art, it lacks originality, it lacks concepts. It's only good for creating boring and forgettable illustrations for cheap products.
That's your opinion and I disagree. - There are many original artworks that combine things in a way never seen before. - AI is just a tool, it will never replace traditional art, but can be utilized for inspiration, as a basis for further modification etc. - It can be used to copy existing art and create endless variations, but it can also be used to create something completely new. A good analogy is sampling in music. - Sure, there is a lot of ugly, unoriginal, clichee, copy-cat AI images. A lot is an understatement. Definitely more than in traditional art but, like I said before, not exclusively. Great images!
I tried myself to generate some and it was a disaster. I guess you have to learn some tricks.
Try doing this and see what happens: (MAIN ELEMENT) , (MAIN ADJECTIVE) , (SECONDARY ADJECTIVE), Cinematic lighting, Unreal Engine 5, Cinematic, Color Grading, Editorial Photography, Photography, Photoshoot, Shot on 70mm lense, Depth of Field, DOF, Tilt Blur, Shutter Speed 1/1000, F/22, White Balance, 32k, Super-Resolution, Megapixel, ProPhoto RGB, VR, tall, epic, artgerm, alex ross, Halfrear Lighting, Backlight, Natural Lighting, Incandescent, Optical Fiber, Moody Lighting, Cinematic Lighting, Studio Lighting, Soft Lighting, Volumetric, Contre-Jour, dark Lighting, Accent Lighting, Global Illumination, Screen Space Global Illumination, Ray Tracing Global Illumination, Red Rim light, cool color grading 45%, Optics, Scattering, Glowing, Shadows, Rough, Shimmering, Ray Tracing Reflections, Lumen Reflections, Screen Space Reflections, Diffraction Grading, Chromatic Aberration, GB Displacement, Scan Lines, Ray Traced, Ray Tracing Ambient Occlusion, Anti-Aliasing, FKAA, TXAA, RTX, SSAO, Shaders, OpenGL-Shaders, GLSL-Shaders, Post Processing, Post-Production, Cel Shading, Tone Mapping, CGI, VFX, SFX, insanely detailed and intricate, hypermaximalist, elegant, hyper realistic, super detailed, dynamic pose, centered, photography --v 4 Found this hint on Youtube and that is what helped me to generate some of the images in OP. You can also find hints at Midjourney's Discord - chat - prompt chat or community forums - prompt faqs. I want to add that it depends on the type of AI-generator that you use. Also, I would advise to pick some of the examples above and not combine them all, just adding everything doesn't necessarily produce better results. |
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Hey everyone,
I am thinking about this group buy for the SOL NOCTIS 2019 silver coins, and I have an idea that might add some value to these coins. I'm a designer and I'd like to offer to create holograms for these coins, with a unique and original design that I'll come up with. I'll also number the coins from 1 to 15, which will bring them back to life and add a security feature.
This would of course add some cost to the coins, but I'm confident it would be worth it. I'm estimating that the final price per coin, including the holograms and numbering, would be around 120-140 dollars in bitcoin. If there's enough interest, I'm willing to put in the time and effort to make this happen.
What do you guys think? Is this something that would make you more interested in joining the group buy? Let me know your thoughts and if you're interested in purchasing a coin with a hologram and numbering, please let me know which number(s) you'd like.
Thanks!
p.s of course + loadable amount 0.001btc
I like the general idea (a lot!). Would be in for one or even two coins. However a few things that are on my mind that sould be cleared first: - how do you plan on handling the security of the private keys? Working with someone trusted in this sector would be much apprechiated. Afaik MJ and some other escrows were involved with key-generation and handling, maybe you can work something out with one of them - the design - if I don't like it I am not interested, would like to see at least some initial sketches on the subject - interested to hear other's opinions The idea to take a cool coin design like this and turn it into something new and maybe even better than the original resonates with me. |
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Most importantly though, I am afraid of the spam and propaganda we will (and already are) be facing on a wide variety of platforms in the upcoming months. Ugh.
ChatGPT can't form its own opinions. And that's a really good call from OpenAI right there, because if it had any opinions whatsoever, people would abuse them to make it an extremist in that aspect. Just ask ChatGPT (or oldschool google it ): there were (and will be) many successful attempts to circumvent the security mechanisms within ChatGPT. Also, it's just a matter of time (if it didn't happen already multiple times) that big-corp, states and other such powerful entities will have their own AI-based language tools to use and abuse. Besides, open-source-AI will also become a thing, and then everybody will have unlimited, uncensored access to these tools. Just a matter of time and it's gonna be a wild-ride. Personally my guess is we will see heavy use of these tools, also in abusive ways very very soon. Fun tip: Try asking ChatGPT to write a fictional scenario where an AI such as it itself tries to destabilize human society. |
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Yes you need to back up the xpubs, and yes that is a pain/error-prone to do by hand. The more the xpubs, the more the pain and chances to mess it up somewhere. I triple checks addresses when I'm sending bitcoin to my cold storage, let alone what I'd do if I had to ensure it's the correct xpubs. I mean think about it, you have to write down a nightmare like this: xpub6CnyhgdRermBTjxxY8RB2uW9WsziDfVM2suB4c3aAYH77hNMwLpqR8vktGY769i5oxFHSzRZqJjZX8Zmog7nYwCk8SqePofgARCcrfvWTnH
xpub6Dd32ygm66fDRv2eQScFSxZPuxM4TYGma8c6S3oyts8JnStQ8wNC1XTNtpavFaU8iEJswC5JT9vmjG1cugLVsqXP9QwqKZYjEiykksHYbsZ
xpub6DgDQmupKYNRCpnmHyTF4iseuwH9d3e3PVFR8hnjaCiJ12gfPCJzHfF3NtbJKTbrs8oUWi5QndV3UnyvcCcebWNxoteqhD6jZZcMsPKAkRV
xpub6CQwwygLeymu12sXMDDQ8sURu8QfrY5TNHetAd3GMo5FDP4aTWKqGvJLEQA7CZg76PdtMv3vszb8fDEjjq7e6K9KZznNhvbViDow4ynbjXE
xpub6EbPANACYCRBUToYADM6bVodkzxLNc2wJdnENHn7KVdDiH4tWeueh3pxKGnNuDdDi2VZm8wKez1XzEyP4yF5H8H4StEbt8gQPuoprWixcjd By hand. Clean writing. About 560 characters, case sensitive. How come there hasn't been a mnemonic standard for xpubs? I understand it sucks. And is prone to error, if done sloppily / hastily. However if you take your time it's not THAT big of a deal, even though uncomfortable and definitly an unfamiliar procedure. However, good security always takes some work and attention to details, so yeah, I think this example is still manageable. Agreed, a tool to convert back-and-forth from and to a mnemonic phrase would be nice to have. |
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This AI indeed often acts as a better google-search with mostly good-grammar. It likes to make very obvious mistakes though. And can't really be bothere (sometimes) to change anything about them, even if pointed out and acknowledged by the AI itself. For example, yesterday I had the following conversation: KW
Please tell me three short jokes.
Certainly! Here are three short jokes in English:
Why couldn't the bicycle stand up by itself? Because it was two-tired!
Why was the math book sad? Because it had too many problems.
Why was the computer cold? Because it left its Windows open.
I hope these jokes bring a smile to your face!
KW
The first joke: shouldn't it be "Because it was two-tyred!" ?
You are correct! Thank you for pointing out the mistake in the joke. The correct version of the joke should be: "Why couldn't the bicycle stand up by itself? Because it was two-tyred!" My apologies for the error. Is there anything else I can help with?
KW
Tell me three bicycle jokes.
Sure! Here are three bicycle jokes:
Why was the bike tired when it got home? Because it was two-tired!
Why couldn't the bike stand up by itself? Because it was two-tired!
Why was the bike cold when it got home? Because it left its windows open!
I hope these jokes bring a smile to your face! It instantly repeated the same grammar mistake for the bicycle joke. Today, I tried the same conversation again, and after telling the AI about the mistake, in one instance it wouldn't repeat the mistake again even if I asked for many more bicycle jokes (which had similar puns). And in other instances (new conversations) it immediately repeated the mistake. I also tried asking if it would stop repeating the mistake: it said it wouldn't in the future - but still did. Seem spretty dumb to me. Still a fun tool and often times much more convenient than googling. Most importantly though, I am afraid of the spam and propaganda we will (and already are) be facing on a wide variety of platforms in the upcoming months. Ugh. |
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Based on my experience with the silver-plated coins which look amazing I think I'll love these real-silver ones even more.
Can recommend to anyone looking for a classic yet affordable design.
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