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Be careful with vanity address generators. A cryptocurrency market maker once lost around $160,000,000 in a vanity Ethereum address because the generator they used was only seeded with 32 bits of entropy.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffkauflin/2022/09/20/profanit...


Indeed, be careful with anything that involves secret bits.

This tool uses proper crypto/rand initialisation of the starting key https://github.com/AlexanderYastrebov/onion-vanity-address/b...

Check out my other vanity generators (they all use crypto/rand):

https://github.com/AlexanderYastrebov/wireguard-vanity-key

https://github.com/AlexanderYastrebov/age-vanity-keygen

https://github.com/AlexanderYastrebov/ethereum-vanity-addres...


It took me a while to find how to obtain the official mappings, but this article seems to have instructions: https://minescript.net/mappings

According to the article, official mappings can be found here: https://piston-meta.mojang.com/mc/game/version_manifest_v2.j...


They're also linked on the wiki page for each release, along with links to the client and server jars: https://minecraft.wiki/w/Java_Edition_1.21.5


I would add that SBF was at one point the 2nd largest donor to Democrats.


SBF/FTX was also a massive donor (using customer money) to Republicans. They routed that money through Ryan Salame, I guess to avoid appearing to be as unprincipled as they actually were.

The common theme to the donations ("payoff" or "bribe" might be more accurate), whether to D or R was to weaken any push for crypto regulations.


Correct. I think it is fair to say that SBF would rather be associated with Democrats based on how he wanted to hide the donations to Republicans.


I'll bet he's kicking himself now... he made the wrong bet associating himself with Democrats, who let justice take its course despite the donations, when these days Trump will just take a payoff and issue a pardon.



Actually the opposite. SBF was lobbying for crypto regulations. Of course those regulations would benefit FTX as an incumbent.


This particular market is too illiquid to mean anything.

Right now, there is only about $500 in liquidity if you wanted to buy in at the 20% ask with a market order. After that the next sell limit order it as 96%.



That's the total market volume, not the volume on SBF.


I imagine at least one guy that could create the market for you and then get the profit.


SBF already did an unauthorized interview in prison with Tucker Carslon.


The pardoning of all of over 1000 people involved in January 6th is a good example of this.


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Is autopen a particular sore point in the US for some reason?


Yet you can decide that the secret documents store in your toilet are declassified with a thought?


There's a potential implication that the president wasn't the one making the decisions and they were political favors doled out by unnamed and unaccountable staff. If the president felt strongly about that perception he could've signed them himself. But he seemingly didn't.


The autopen has been widely used without controversy, including by Trump.


The controversy with Biden is that the autopen was allegedly used without the President's knowledge or directive. Nobody has a problem with POTUS's signature getting on a piece of paper without his hand actually holding the pen; that's not the point here.


"Allegedly" is the key word here. Alleged by people who allege a whole lot of untrue things and don't seem to have any evidence for this particular thing.


There is absolutely no evidence it was used without his knowledge.


Did he say that pardons were issued that he did not approve of?


There is not, but right wing propaganda avoids lots of actual news, events and statements because it doesn't look good.

To fill the time there are lots of narratives about non issues without evidence.


I think the conspiracy is that someone pardoned people without Joe Biden's approval right before Trump was inaugurated.


There's a conspiracy theory that Biden wasn't competent enough to sign stuff, at least for some period at the end of his term, with the implication being that none of those presidential acts are valid. Anybody who believes this is mired in an impenetrable misinformation bubble and should be dismissed out of hand.


There’s a conspiracy theory that Biden was secretly competent at the end of his presidency despite public appearances otherwise.


Hey I'm not disagreeing that he was in cognitive decline, but the idea that all executive action should be nullified because of that is crank shit.


> What about pardoning 8,000 people by autopen?

Is there more to this comment than whataboutism? The core concern raised in this part of the thread is Trump's outsized corruption:

> It's all transactional. Do something Trump likes, he'll help you, laws, morals, and ethics be damned.


Ah yes. Pardoning folks who were imprisoned for possession of marijuana is exactly the same--worse even, because "autopen"--as pardoning folks who were imprisoned for insurrection / political violence in support of the guy doing the pardoning. Very smart take.


No one was imprisoned for "insurrection." The vast majority were charged only with entering restricted grounds.


18 were charged with seditious conspiracy. Over 500 were charged with assaulting, resisting, or impeding law enforcement officers. And many more were still awaiting trial, including Daniel Ball, who was accused of throwing explosives at police officers, were also pardoned by Trump. Many of these pardoned individuals have gone on to commit further felonies, including Daniel Ball, who was just arrested for plotting to murder Hakeem Jeffries.

But again, you seem to be missing the point: a president pardoning people who support him is very different than pardoning ordinary people who were imprisoned for crimes that are no longer crimes.


Biden issued several blanket pardons for any crimes that people may have committed for a period of a decade. That doesn't strike me as particularly discerning.


Your comments don't strike me as engaging with the material of anyone elses unless you can score political points, why are you here?


Was he bribed to do so?


Here's a blog post I liked that explains a connection: https://sander.ai/2024/09/02/spectral-autoregression.html

They call diffusion a form of "spectral autoregression", because it tends to first predict lower frequency features, and later predict higher frequency features.


ChatGPT often says yes to both a question and its inverse. People like to hear yes more than no.


You missed their point. They were making a joke about over-reliance on AI.


I'm assuming they mean gpt-5-mini. I'm honestly surprised how many people I've heard say "5o".


Update: Someone in the comments pointed out the missing higher frequencies are just due to YouTube's compression, so I have unlisted the video. I got ahead of myself and made an assumption about it being AI.


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