• daniyeg@lemmy.ml
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    20 hours ago

    fuck notcoin that piece of shit legitimised all these other grifts. now they all are selling boosters with other cryptos with no sign of actual launch. crypto is cancer.

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      3 hours ago

      crypto is cancer.

      odysee is actually a crypto video sharing website that uses it for videos and their currency it has some far right problems tho

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      4 hours ago

      crypto is cancer.

      I respectfully disagree. There are legitimate use cases do make sense. Of course, these don’t make tech bros rich quick so you don’t often hear about them.

      One of them that I like the idea of is NanoGPT. It’s a frontend to various AI services where you pay per request instead of making accounts for each and pay with Nano. I haven’t used it yet, but the currency makes a lot of sense there, as it is feeless and requests can cost less than a cent.

      Another one is Monero for goods and services that might be illicit under one’s jurisdiction. I don’t want to go into the discussion whether this is right or wrong; all I want to say is that laws can be nonsensical and dangerous.

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        Nano is a scam. They mined all the coins up front, and then told the most gullible rubes in the universe that everyone else had to fill out CAPTCHAs too.

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          Nano wasn’t mined, it was all created at inception, and as you correctly said distributed via CAPTCHA; this was to disincentivize or stop people running bots to claim it automatically. After the distribution period ended, the Nano foundation burned undistributed coins minus an amount that they kept to ensure further development. This fund ran out in 2023 if I’m not mistaken. It’s now being developed by volunteers.

          Do you know a better idea how such an initial airdrop would be done?

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        NanoGPT? What’s special about it? Is mining the nano coin used to create the AIs responses or is it just a crypto skin on top. If the latter we can self host AI.

        But beyond that many dislike crypto for gas cost and same for AI so strapping them together is way less palatable.

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          It’s just used as a means of payment for very small amounts, even less than a single cent if you calculate in dollars.

          If the latter we can self host AI.

          Sure you can; I certainly can’t, lacking the equipment, and the investment would be much higher than any return on it.

          But beyond that many dislike crypto for gas cost and same for AI so strapping them together is way less palatable.

          Nano, as I said, has no fees, and there’s no miners, it’s quite ecologically friendly. It does have other challenges (for example only being pseudonymous and fully traceable, plus fighting spam is an ongoing battle, no standard way of association a payment with an invoice). But I always liked its premise and it does make sense for such cases for me.

          The beauty with how they implemented is that there’s no explicit about apart from a wallet address they create for you, saved in a cookie, so you can straight up use it.

          I’m not trying to argue that this is somehow revolutionary or the right way to do it, but it manages to leverage the advantages quote well in my opinion.

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            3 hours ago

            So if I made a confident AI and hosted it on a website you could visit, you buy my tokens $5 for 5 tokens, responses priced at .01 tokens. Essentially its very cheap.

            Would you be as likely to use this service?

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              3 hours ago

              I mean if it’s competitive, why not?

              The thing is it’s unlikely you’d find a payment provider making this viable. For example, PayPal charges 49 US cents as a minimum fee, or 39 Eurocents. Even just credit card companies charge 5 cents fixed, so cheap payment processors will charge you about 10 cents per transaction plus variable rates and possibly a monthly fee.

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                2 hours ago

                True but these companies are gate keeper that also work with fiet to crypto so its just moving the issue. If I want to convert my British pounds I will be charged even if I sent it physically. How do you buy nano coin?

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                  It’s true that you need to factor in the conversion fees. The same however is true, maybe for a smaller fee, when converting between fiat currencies, though my bank is usually pretty fair. Other providers - again PayPal being an offender and often ATM operators - will often have worse rates.

                  NanoGPT itself doesn’t sell crypto I think, they include sellers for convenience. I provided mine years ago on Kraken which is a market exchange.

                  For testing, I just transferred 0.1 XNO to them, which arrived basically instantly without fees, it was credited to the wallet before I switched back windows to my browser.

                  I’ll try a prompt and get back here if you want? I mean this is not really the core of the discussion but for completion’s sake…

                  Edit: I created this with the Flux Pro model (the most expensive one I think) for about 0.1 XNO: AI result of "A close-up view of a girl looking through a wall of glass with her right hand touching the glass wall. Behind the glass wall, there's space with stars visible. The glass wall is slightly cracked, creating a prism of light."

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                    2 hours ago

                    So entry cost is the kicker, like for myself I don’t have any crypto, or at least crypto I can access (lost my monero keys) so for me to use nano I would still need to face conversion fees.

                    Tbh I hear about speeds but I’ve not had issues of slow transfers when it comes to fiat.

                    Sure, is it comparable to open AIs chatgpt?