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Re: SatoshiGuesser – Roll for Bitcoin

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Post by pawelduda »

MattCruikshank wrote: post #35

Quick question - why hasn't someone 51 percent attacked Satoshi's wallets? Estimated cost of a 51% attack on Bitcoin, if no one is cooperating, is $6 billion to $10 billion. Surely the cost goes down if they get some big players to cooperate. And the reward is... $83 billion. Basically 10x your money. I mean, this is the kind of thing that we could sell bonds for, to raise the $6 to $10 billion needed. Other than the…

Once these coins as much as budge, price will crater before the transaction has enough confirmations to settle the deposit on any exchange with enough liquidity. Any second on exchange and the hacker is exposed to having his account frozen.

Nobody would buy OTC as they're tainted and it would be basically throwing away their money for something that is traceable and everyone is watching and reacting to further moves

Then the blockchain could be effectively forked to before the attack, invalidating the heist

Re: SatoshiGuesser – Roll for Bitcoin

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Post by futune »

meowface wrote: post #33

I'm not opposed to LLM-generated code at all, but the such obviously LLM-written README is annoying. The style is so easy to spot. At least try to figure out how to prompt it to not write so obviously like an LLM. (And no, I'm not even referring to the em dashes.)

Why would you want LLM content to masquarade as non-LLM content? I think I'd rather have it be obvious if people are going to be using it anyway.

Re: SatoshiGuesser – Roll for Bitcoin

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Post by bpavuk »

futune wrote: post #42
meowface wrote: post #33

I'm not opposed to LLM-generated code at all, but the such obviously LLM-written README is annoying. The style is so easy to spot. At least try to figure out how to prompt it to not write so obviously like an LLM. (And no, I'm not even referring to the em dashes.)

Why would you want LLM content to masquarade as non-LLM content? I think I'd rather have it be obvious if people are going to be using it anyway.

ignorance is bliss. all LLM text reads same-y. that way, we at least have an illusion that this is not a LLM

Re: SatoshiGuesser – Roll for Bitcoin

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Post by gumgumpost »

curiousObject wrote: post #34

> At one spin per millisecond (faster than this app runs), you'd expect a hit roughly once per 1.7 × 10⁶² years — about 10⁵² times the current age of the universe. The heat death of the universe occurs first Alright! Now there’s only the heat death of the universe standing between me and massive wealth? I like these odds.

Those are just the odds, but you randomly finding it in the next 10 minutes is a valid move in this universe. The silly low odds don't guarantee you won't find it.

Re: SatoshiGuesser – Roll for Bitcoin

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Post by gumgumpost »

CobrastanJorji wrote: post #25
ivanjermakov wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's gonna be a nice storage bill!

Let's see...2^241 or so possible 256 bit numbers, so that's 256 * 2^241, so that's....10^50 yottabytes. Obviously we're gonna need cloud storage for all this, so let's say that's about 2 cents per gigabyte/month, so that's...2.2614 × 10^63 dollars per month? Actually, why does the site list the odds as ~1 in 5.27 × 10⁷²? That's 2^241, but it's picking random 256 bit numbers. Is it because there are so many valid hits…

Since you're at it, if you're also curious, what would be the energy cost of trying all of them, considering the average power used by a random computer today? Are we looking at something like an average quasar total contained energy?
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