Did you actually read that link above?
As I understand the article, you could as well cram a banana up your dark star and stimulate your immune system that way.
Is this some sort of insider joke I just don't get because I am only following since few hundred pages?

I just can't find the above quote in the document linked no matter how hard I search. Could you help me?

You realize that the advice that the writer gave in the abc news article you linked was exactly not to listen to such advice from facebook, youtube and other lobotomy encounter groups?

I am not trying to call you out on your mistake, even so you repeated it by quoting something from a linked document that isn't there. I have a suspicion you don't really read the content of the links you post.

The above linked article is quite contradictory or at least much exaggerating to the original research you linked.

While we're at it, you certainly have made sure that the patient to whom you recommend to eat bananas doesn't have any kidney disease or otherwise impacted kidney functions, otherwise the accumulated potassium could seriously hurt or even kill the patient (oh it also radiates nicely, as all Geiger Counter freaks know too good, but these are not problematic levels):

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34225517

For understanding what TNF is, I found these two links from the US National Center for Biotechnology Information:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19137269

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2631033/

From the above link:


And from another link, that at least looks somewhat scientific since it lists sources for its claims:


To everybody else: I apologize for derailing this thread so much, I'll STFU now.
I just couldn't let this 'Banana cures cancer' thing and poor source quoting let go uncommented. People with cancer should get all our support and our love, but we should really spare them from the occasional well meant ill-advice of how to cure it as long as we are not really really qualified to do so. We could give them false hopes or even bring them in additional danger out of thin air which I sincerely feel is not fair to them!

Bitmain just announced their new S17e and T17e, the sudden spike in hash rate could be related to "burn-in" testing of these @bitmain </sarcasm>:

https://shop.bitmain.com/product/detail?pid=000201909090946242359e6UNfR00660

https://shop.bitmain.com/product/detail?pid=00020190910142542689Q3nfwAtK06CE

I'd rather call it a (government mandated) backdoor in GSM specs. And it is age old (in IT terms and literally):

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/23/white_hat_sim_hacker_disillusioned_and_dismayed_by_operator_response/


Edited to add: If you have an Apple or Android device you do not have to worry about this, they have already easier and better backdoors to come for you.

Observing @~10300 since what feels like years I start to feel like this:

I do not think this paints a correct image of the situation in China. My current information is that private persons are still allowed to hold and OTC trade cryptos, though exchanges are banned and banks are not allowed to deal with crypto by any means. The wikipedia page sums this up better:


OTOH not being able to cash out in a safe way probably acts like an outright ban for most small fish.

Big green candle seen
are the bulls in charge
psycodad wonders

My first Haiku but
not sure if 5 or 7 are needed
just trying a bit

thank you d_eddie
checked wikipedia page
but was not so sure

I am using
haikusyllablecounter [.com*]
but now I know

^ I feel rather bearish after looking at the pic...

Can I buy the rope from you cheaply once you're done? I mean at current prices I can't afford my own, brandnew rope and used network wires don't suit my weight..

Yeah, FUCK! I was lurred into going into a rather small but (for me) still noteable short this morning with the intent to pay some bills without losing much on my corn stack - got home a few minutes ago after driving psycomissus and psycomom around just to notice that I was fully rekt the one single day I was not starring at the charts non-stop like a complete psyco... (I really enjoyed the chart-less time until the moment I saw what happened today, was honestly anticipating some sideways downtrending).

I guess I have invented the absolutely best indicator available: The PGSI (Psycodad Goes Short Indicator). It never failed on me yet I tell you! Whenever I go short in a desperate attempt to pay some bills, this is what happens. No I don't get stopped out with minor losses, I get always truely rekt. I currently feel like GameKyuubi, except that the missus is not in a lesbian bar tonite (yet).

Oh well, better HODL on I guess. I try now to waste again the same amount on drinking insane amounts of booze and hope that tomorrow I won't remember neither of my two very bad decisions from today...

Something is probably wrong with me, when I feel uncomfortable with such big green dildos while still hodling most of my Bitchcoin.

Hell, women are pretty easy to understand compared to the BiTCh that she is at times.

P.S.: Do not expect another leg up in foreseeable timespan as I am completely done with shorts for the moment.

P.P.S.: Just ignore my ramblings, I am already too friggin drunk to be taken nearly serious. After all it has been a very nice recovery bounce today.

Absolutely marvelous work, I can only imagine the fun playing with such a machine. Must be like laser-cutters, modern 3D printers and so on.
Have a merit on me.


Opsec-wise walking around with a BTC-sign on your hoodie's sleeve is probably on par with a cross-hair painted on your back with a text below saying "Hit persevering with a large wrench to extract private keys".

Anyway, cool work!
/me tips hat

You forgot to link the reference you got that from:



https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-rallies-hardest-in-november-so-why-are-the-charts-bearish

TFTFY

Aparently some alarm formations still got the 30shot can at home. Until 2007 every soldier had this can at home together with the rifle. The rule is that the can may only be opened when a mobilization for a given unit is declared and should serve as self protection while on the way to engaging.
While rumour has it that it was easy to get your hands on a few rounds "for home use" when in regular trainings, you always wanted to have a sealed can to show in inspections, I understand they are pretty serious about that. Losing or just opening it seems to translate to quite some time in the cooler. <- Gyrsur pointed that out already..


On another note: The girls on the picture in the original post are most probably so called Jungschützen, this is a shooting training open to all Swiss teens from the age of 15 and serves as preparation for military service. For the time of the training they get their personal rifle which they take home with them. The picture most probably shows the chicks on their way from or to the local shooting range.
So in Switzerland it can easily happen that you see an army assault rifle in the corner of the kids room.

TFTFY - The responsibility for having a place for every citizen in a shelter has been moved back to the gubbermint quite some time ago (luckily, as these shelter-beasts cost quite a fortune when building a house). There was even a time when regular inspections made sure you have all the equipment in there needed for an emergency (like beds, air-filtering etc.).
It was always fun to watch my dad telling the inspectors to GTFO when they asked him to buy beds for our shelter. Our very own plan for an atomic blast was always to open a bottle of good wine and to enjoy the mushroom and the glow.

Nah, it just evolved from smart people in front of dumb terminals to millenials in front of smart phones.
kinda  

Thought I'd post this link as further deterrent to trust a bank safe no matter where (referring to the country where you'd think you could trust a safe to some degree):

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/business/bank-burglary_safe-deposit-boxes-plundered-in-basel/43961252

AFAIK no refunds have been paid to safe owners to date..

On top of that you have to yell "Cukoo" every hour... [1]

When Microshaft announced the github takeover I moved our stuff to a self-hosted gitea instance and back it up via duplicity to a protonmail account. Fixed.

Being in this business since the early 90s I learned that whatever you use from Redmond will bite you sooner or later (often sooner).

Check this thread for some recent discussion on this topic:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5204092

I am currently testing a few of these services (with mixed results) and blockfi is still one of them. I'll probably be posting my results after some time to above thread.

But generally, as cAPSLOCK implied: Not your keys - not your coins. Don't forget that and make sure the return is worth the risk.
Even the most-uber-trusted entity can lose all your funds any time.

OSX is derived from FreeBSD, it has no roots in Linux at all.
Though cups and few other goodies are contributed by Apple for all BSDs and Linux.

Been there too, swapped parents spinning rust against SSDs, now they often think they forgot to shutdown because it boots so quick to login screen (Linux, as I have several medical certificates allowing me to stay clear of any MS products).

The best way to accelerate Windows is at escape velocity.

When BTC goes 1mio, the tax authorities will have software that tells them exactly to which wallet an address holding coins belongs as bitserve already explained, there will be certainly no more "under the radar" by then latest. Some block explorers can do a good job on associating addresses to wallets already nowadays.
Also consider that when BTC goes to 1mio, you won't be able to cash out the smallest amount to fiat without KYC, I would consider that too.

Like bitserve I'd also strongly really recommend against such a 1000-split. Otherwise you need to go through a mixer or an exchange but these fees would kill your plan completely.

Writing from a tax paradise with regards to crypto coins it could be perceived as offensive and rude if I would say "just pay your taxes then", but it could save you some trouble and a lot of fees though I am not in your shoes and can't judge what taxes would eat away.

If you are referring to things like localbitcoins, then possibly you may be right. But I personally would bet that by the time BTC is 1mio we'll have all sorts of AML in every country that forbids these kind of P2P transactions, at least for amounts larger than say a few hundred USD.

In my country the amount limits for legal cash transactions will be again reduced soon, and the hawks among the legislators are up to reduce it further.

Can't speak for the US, I am almost-EU situated. I haven't changed moneys for abroad recently, but I am pretty sure you'll have a hard time here changing $5000 to EUR in a bank or exchange office where you are not customer (hence fully identified). And it only gets worse these days.

What is now $5000 as limit will ony go lower quickly.
Cash is evil for most of the money economy. Just think about how often the butcher can go to the baker with the $20 cash you gave him for steaks. And how often the baker can come back to the butcher to buy again steaks (or buy services from you and you spend it again at the butcher). Right, endlessly, because $20 stay $20 nobody is taking a cut of 1-5%.
Now play this in your mind with credit cards, paypal, apple pay or whatever and you'll find that after a few times going back and forth all the money is at the payment provider because the fees ate all of the $20.

How can they force us into this scheme? Buy outlawing cash transactions step by step.

I have to add, when we talk about 1 BTC = 1mio USD I expect we are talking about 5 years +. And my point was merely to take the tendency that legal amounts for cash transactions are constantly lowered into Gyrsurs risk assessment when he plans such a step.

(off to watch Oilers vs Bruins)

I disagree about the bolded sentence. ECDSA is pretty much about prime numbers.
-> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_Curve_DSA

But maybe I misunderstood you here or missed some irony, sorry then.

(Edited to add: I agree though, that golden-dragons post is pretty nonsensical)

It is a staged production from https://autonomousweapons.org/ , though I bet some TLAs are deploying more capable thingies right as we speak.

I just can't resist to brag all around about my Basorexia card:



What a day, first some nice pump on BTC and then this.
And later I'll even get one of my favourite dishes - Picata Milanese, I have no more wishes for today.

(Please save the breakout above $8k for tomorrow, today was good enough already for me.)  

Got this in the mail this morning, guess there will be events to unfold in the next days and we will find out how much of the much bespoken safe haven BTC is really during crisis time.

https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/aa20-006a

(However this might be also an excuse to blame the Iranians for any piece of IT equipment falling over int the next days - that could come handy if office361 goes titsup once more)

Such honour - much excitement.

Thanks god the US missiles are a tad smarter.
Considering that some of these participants end up in front of the joystick of a predator makes me feel a bit worried.

Is it PoW (Proof of Wank) ?
Might consider mining it a bit here and there..

Good looking:

And then rename account to Cap'n Crunch? 

That's not a backup. Seen this too many times, people trusting the cloud, then comes a thunderstorm and that specific cloud where your goodies were is blown away (with or without encryption).  Think decentralization!
I used duplicity with free protonmail accounts to backup some important data offsite (additionally to local backups).

I agree thet Veracrypt looks mature, unlike i.e. encfs based things that shouldn't be trusted with important data as its not good enough for that. But it's a nice overview that VB1001 posted, thanks.

That's still not a backup, the article VB1001 quoted talks about backing up to the cloud, not just having a synch'd copy there.
(I know backing up is for coward pussies but still I beg to differ)

Nope, fucking scary actually.
But it seems not Trezors fault, the STM32 micro misbehaves when it is voltage "glitched".
Basically the device is useless as hardware wallet without replacement, except when the seed is protected by a BIP39 passphrase (which is what Kraken recommends as fix/cure).

^ Krakens blog article is really very detailed and well written. You need only a minimal electronic understanding to reproduce the attack. (<- Meaning the crims will be up to speed quickly).

Just admit it, you're the alt of somebody here!!

Reported, flagged and ..
..merited 

This is so old news that you have to dust it off before reading.
Well known since at least the 90s, documented and proofed since the early 2000s.

I take this as a sign that Corona wears off in the news and doesn't create enough clicks for the MSM.

Oh, next we're going to learn that Switzerland has a semi-secret agreement with NATO: Neutral in peace time, member in war times. How useful.

Just got news from a friend in Shenzhen:
Almost all companies in and around Shenzhen are closed down by government until at least 2nd week of March!
No electronics going out from there in the next weeks.

I believe the impact for the economy worldwide will be huge. Moneys might want to get out of stocks into something different... (<- minor relevance to WO)

I see unrests coming to the western societies when I-thingies get short on supply and hipster fanbois will be forced to sit in Starbucks with their yesteryear I-gadget. (<- j/k - for the Chinese it's a f*cking hard time right now and I feel very sorry for them)

That's not true! Alcohol is fine as long as you make sure to drink enough to see double figures, so that price looks something like 95'950'000. Though this could cause some overexcitement leading to want to sell as you say. Best to stop drinking when only some numbers start to appear doubled.

Otherwise any drug keeping you busy enough no to want to check prices for an hour or two will do just fine. For example a nice dose of benzodiazepine could make you wake up on Thursday and getting excited about price being at 8900 as you only remember when you last checked it was like 3500..

TFTFY.

Maybe, but maybe it is just because the textile industry in the north or Italy relies heavily on illegal Chinese workers. Rumours are one of these brought a gift from his/her trip home for CNY back to Italy.

Yeah, sorry for being around longer than expected but as vapourminer said, we're already slowly getting our coats.

I am sure once we boomers are all gone and generation Greta runs the show from a mobile phone App things will finally improve to the better.

It's not like it hasn't been seen in the wild yet:

https://www.malwaretech.com/2015/04/hard-disk-firmware-hacking-part-1.html

https://www.wired.com/2015/02/nsa-firmware-hacking/

The true BofH like clickety-clickety when "cleaning up" annoying users home directories can only be made with these. Loved them but my vivid temperament in younger years didn't let me use a keyboard for more than a few weeks...

One of my secondary DNS servers for >100 zones + backup resolver for ~80 nodes, doing 2 queries/s over 24h avg runs on an embedded 486-class embedded system with no complaints since years.

For home or SoHo, an old embedded system that can run Linux w/ at least 64MB RAM will do just fine.

Unlike northern Switzerland where a lot of people also didn't give a f*ck that all carnival activities were officially cancelled and actually forbidden, so police went and closed down all restaurants for a day to make sure partying folks really go home.
Funny enough the carnival 1km over the border in southern Germany was carried out as normal.

In Switzerland currently all sports events are completely forbidden and no games will take place (no hockey playoffs, football season interrupted and most probably the hockey world championship in May will also be affected if not cancelled).

Meanwhile medical emergency stations are overran by idiots with a running nose that want to be tested against THE flu. Canned food, milk, sugar, flour shelves are constantly restocked to fill demand as people are hoarding food.

And in other news, my Chinese contacts start to tell me that business is starting to resume around Shenzhen this week and they are ready to ship within the next days.

My popcorn is stocked up to a 4 week supply.

Exactly, and ~7 Americans die from falling down a stair every single day. 
About 2 a day drown in a swimming pool.
And lets not forget about all the fine Sackler products that kill ~118 people in the US each and every day. (1)

The wars kill too (especially having been there and returning home): 22 suicides of US army veterans in average per every day, roughly one per hour. (2)

If any of this is shocking to you, your personal risk assessment is terribly biased. For starters I highly recommend Dan Gardners "risk". (3)

(1) https://www.iii.org/node/32171
(2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_veteran_suicide
(3) https://www.amazon.com/Risk-Science-Politics-Fear-Gardner/dp/0753515539/


I would also like to point out, that every single person that dies from (or with) a Corona infection is counted. But only people with serious health problems get tested and therefor counted, plus a few that come under suspicion from contacts they had.
Nobody knows how many people just had and eventually self-cured Corona in the last weeks, it's not like it's much different to regular flu - except being very mild. Ask yourself if you are going to inform the authorities when you feel like having the flu but are not in critical condition? I'd sit it out at home and don't tell anybody as I don't want to be quarantined. All these are then non-lethal infections that are not counted toward the recoveries and therefor giving a way to high lethality ratio. That leads me to conclude that while Corona is more contagious than seasonal flu atm, it is not as dangerous.

Wrt to the economy and markets it's a different thing. Extreme fear is appropriate there (hell, panic is even fine). That's the typical bespoken weak and ill patient catching a little cold that can kill him. Corona being the little cold for economy.

In other news: people in countries with sub-optimal health care conditions are more likely to die from a flu.
Still waiting to see people here in outbreak territory fall over on the streets like seen in the authentic footage from China.

A cruise ship is a true incubator/hotbed for any virus, just check the number of cruise ships quarantined for norovirus outbreaks every year.

Cruise ships are basically floating retirement homes (2/3 of passengers are >40).

Once they raise it to 2BTC at least, I might become interested infected.

TFTFY, the federal council publicly rejected any rumours that it's closing borders to Italy. There are health checks in place now, and people that do not work in Switzerland get recommended to return to Italy by customs, but there is no legal base currently for rejecting entering Switzerland. Who wants to cross the border can cross the border.

Also this most probably will not happen, as the healthcare in southern Switzerland (Ticino) is basically run by Italian cross-border commuters ('frontalieri').
Same is valid for northern Switzerland, there it are the German and French cross-border commuters keeping healthcare running.

Switzerland has (as of posting this) 645 cases reported / 613 confirmed, 3 death so far (all already in critical condition before infection). These numbers will change once the ICU capacity is used up but it's still looking like a slightly more contagious but slightly less dangerous flu.

2019 ~210'000 patients in Switzerland saw their doctors due to a seasonal flu infection. ~1500 died 2019 in Switzerland from the seasonal flu.
And mind you there is even a vaccine for the flu, so this might be much higher without the availability of a vaccine.

I hate to disappoint the millenials but unfortunately this surely won't get them rid of the boomers.

I clearly said "cases reported".

I'd say a majority of people tested have strong symptoms at least or are already critical when they are tested. The very vast amount of cases are untested (hence not reported) - unlike with the seasonal flu where you need to see a doctor for a medical certificate when you don't go to work, therefor most of the cases get reported.

So, say for everyone tested, there are dozens of untested cases (and recovering silently, some even without noticing they had a flu). None of them dies, a lot of them have Corona and recover just unnoticed from any statistics. At 5 untested and recovered per one tested you get already completely different numbers and I am sure the ratio is even higher.

Problem is that the powerful players ('big pharma') are not the slightest interested in developing a vaccine due to lacking financial incentives. Why bother developing a vaccine to be sold for a few bucks the shot when you can sell cancer therapies that cost mio's each shot. All the successful big players sold their vaccine research years ago as no good profit is expected there.

Also by the time they would come up with a vaccine, the flu could be gone already (at least in public perception) and the money spent for nothing as once the fear and panic wears off nobody will buy that vaccine. Other diseases are more certain to stay and give good profits (i.e. cancer, alzheimer etc.).

We should all engage in a nice group hug and then get fucking drunk to just sit it out. Time is working for us hodlers but against almost everything else I believe (or maybe just hope).

As always, prepare for the worst, hope for the best, enjoy the ride.

All big supermarkets here are overrun by idiots, though the small grocery stores in the villages are stocked up to the ceiling. I could choose between 7 different kinds of finest ass-wiping-material a few hours ago.
That said, if you can afford the shipping I can send you literally shitloads of TP.

I have to smile heartly when I imagine the FOMO moving from TPR to BTC in the very very near future. Moon could possibly be closer than it ever was.

Wanna buy?? How many sheets you want? 

In the very near future only coiners will be able to afford a few sheets of toilet paper every month (TP whales will be trading full rolls on black market).

Nocoiners will have to wipe their butts with dirty, thin, single-layered, rough and cheaply made USD.

Nice one, old though.
While in this doom porn mode make sure to get "The Flu" too. Incidentally a Korean movie... (got recommended to me by a Chinese friend in January).

ROFLOL, here is my last smerit.

Though I beg to differ, I am a rat.
While the difference is subtle, most rats take it as an insult getting called a mouse  
(But we both enjoy scaring the shit out of kitties here and there)

What's wrong with plain old email?
Perfectly decentralized (maybe except root dns servers).

How is protonmail decentralized? That's a perfect example for a centralized service IMHO.

I've edited the quote of the original post for you.
Please take some time to digest it again and make sure you understand the original question.

Switzerland has had its first mobilization since WWII.
Army and civil protection are supporting hospitals and police already since last week.

Don't know if its true, but it sounds so british that I am confident it is.

*thumbs-up*

+1, I have setup an instance last week for friends and family and I have to say I am excited how good it works. Can even be hooked up to a SIP PBX so people from ordinary phones can join in.

In my case I used a VPS with 2 CPUs and 2GB RAM running Debian, tested it with 5-6 participants.
Had the first "virtual" dinner with parents yesterday and while strange it gave some feeling of normality.

..or open source. I agree with your general sentiment, but OSS is a bit a different story.

It could be worse, he could have sent the army to bring democracy to some far flung place.

But on a serious note: I really wonder for how much longer the American people will let an obvious morbus pick patient run the show.

Just make sure you don't fall of the bike and possibly need medical assistance, that is exactly what this all is about.
It's not only about not getting the bat flu bug only, it's generally about avoiding to need medical care right now. In best case for you, you take the bed from someone needing it, in worst case you don't get the treatment you'd get in regular times.

I've been on racetracks when young (ages ago), I understand the fascination of having your knee on the tarmac at 200km/h totally - but still #StayAtHome and possibly save a fellow Dutch's life!

In my country mortgage interest are going bananas since today, but in the opposite direction as expected (+15-25 base points in one day depending on bank for a 10yr mortgage). *

I get a feeling in my gut, that the lockdown/mass-dying is the warm and cozy part of this crisis.

Bullish for BTC, TP and bottled water, but being rich won't help if everything collapses around us.


* (in german) https://insideparadeplatz.ch/2020/03/20/hypo-zinsen-schiessen-hoch/

Depending on required video quality a jitsi server can easily be run from one of the parties (read: a simple consumer DSL/cable internet connection).
You could as well make a point in saying that everything using the internet is centralized by its nature, otherwise we'd have to establish p2p layer 1 links between all parties but we currently rely on the services from a few large players running the tier 1 internet.

While you are certainly right with your numbers (I was making admittedly similar comparisons in the past regarding the lethality risk of Corona), one important point is that these accidents happen nicely spread over a whole year. The problem with Corona is that it all happens within 2-3 weeks.

It has never been about body count in the first place, and indeed the personal risk for individuals dying from Corona is miniscule compared to many dozens of other prevalent risks in society (like as you correctly pointed toward obesity for example).

The (justified) fear is that perfectable cureable injuries or illnesses can lead to death within those weeks and this again can lead to people losing trust in the society, system, their healthcare insurance etc. if their lil daughter dies from a little cut while helping in the kitchen because there is just nobody to treat her (sew the scar, inject tetanus vaccination etc.). That is a situation you can't want at any price because it would fuck us all up to the same degree.

Agree, bullish for BTC, but not so bullish for anybody needing a lil medical care in the next weeks.

Also, I agree that the number of death from the resulting recession will be so much higher than the death toll owed to Corona itself.

It all is about a possible total collapse of the already thinned-out (for Americans: non-existent) healthcare system.

Then again, I personally would be totally scared by an illness that has the same individual risks as driving a bike on the streets of Delhi. As of today I could avoid that risk luckily.

Also, I would appreciate if you could condensate two or three of your posts into one. Your opinion is as valuable as everybody's else here, but you won't win the argument by filling pages making fun of people with differing opinions.

That said, stay safe, keep cool and take care of yourself and your beloved ones.
And naturally: hodl!

How convenient to have such exact, up to the minute figures...
Is he travelling around the world constantly counting dead bodies?
Or is every place in world reporting death figures to him directly?

Social Media at its best I guess.