This literally only happens in the US. The US healthcare system is the most expensive and the worst in the developed world. Most developed countries don't bankrupt their citizens for falling ill. The stupidity of the US healthcare system and the greed of the US politicians who fight so hard to maintain this corrupt system for their own profit is not an argument against modern medicine. It's only an argument against US politics.


Again, this is only an argument against the US.



I never said they play no role in heart function. I said deranged salt levels do not cause heart attacks. That is a super basic fact. Nice strawman though.



Recognised risk != medical "mis-hap". If you are cracking someone's chest open and putting them on cardiac bypass to perform a heart transplant, valve replacement, coronary artery bypass grafting, etc. you can do everything right and the patient can still die. That is the nature of "risk".



The vast majority of medical work is for things that are not emergencies. Joint replacement surgeries for arthritic hips and knees. Cholecystectomies for gallstones. Corrective spinal surgeries for scoliosis. Nissen fundoplications for GERD. Varicose vein surgeries. Hernia repairs. Gastric bands. Total abdominal hysterectomies. Salpingo-oophorectomies. Etc. Etc. Etc. None of these procedures are either emergency surgery or life-saving. They are for relieving symptoms and improving quality of life. And yet every surgery, no matter how small, and no matter if everything goes right, still carries a risk of mortality. This is not a difficult concept.

As I said before, all you are doing with your ongoing ramblings is proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that you have absolutely no understanding of medicine or healthcare.

Thanks for proving my point so eloquently.

Over 30% of the population have MRSA at any given time. Everyone who attends hospital is routinely screened for it. They came out of hospital with a new diagnosis, not a new a infection.

Bowel perforation is a completely recognised risk of any colonoscopy. This would have been clearly stated in the consent form.

Low salt levels do not cause heart attacks. Period.

Again, all you are proving is that you have literally zero knowledge or education in matters of medicine and healthcare. Why anyone would listen to your nonsense ramblings about vaccines is beyond me. But please, post more incoherent spam about how I'm part of some secret world vaccine mafia.

The mempool is currently the fullest it has been in about a month, with transactions needing fees of 40+ sats/byte to confirm in the next block. Your fee of $0.45 is around 8000 satoshi - this could be anywhere from 40 to 10 or even less sats/byte depending on the size of your transaction. You may have to wait 24 hours or more for it to confirm.

There is literally no reason to use a wallet that won't let you set your own fees. It is such a basic requirements. In future, use the sites below to give you a good idea of fees required for quick confirmation and adjust your wallet settings accordingly.

https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#1,2d - graphical representation of current size of mempool

https://www.coinb.in/#fees - fee calculator

Nope.

First of all, there is absolutely no guarantee that you will only lose 25 times in a row. It doesn't matter if you have lost 2 or 25 in a row - with a house edge of 1% on most crypto dice games, you have exactly a 50.5% change of losing again. Assuming otherwise is known as the Gambler's fallacy. The world record is actually a series of 26 black in a row, and millions were lost during this streak as gamblers wrongly assumed (as you have done) that red was more likely to come up next.

Secondly, assuming an initial bet of only $1 (and therefore, a profit on every run of only $1), the bankroll needed to support a losing streak of 25 is $33,554,432. If you are willing to risk $33.5 million to potentially win $1, then I have a bridge to sell you.

I've posted about the US healthcare system before on this forum, so I'll quote a relevant section of one of my previous posts below. The US healthcare system is the worst in the developed world. US citizens spend significantly more of their income on healthcare, and the US government spends significantly more of its GDP on healthcare, than any other developed nation. And for that astronomical price, US citizens get the worst healthcare in the developed world.

I'm not going to get involved in this debate, because anti-vaxxers are as insane as the flat earthers. There is literally no point arguing - they won't accept the evidence because they don't understand what is and is not evidence. Facebook moms "doing their research" are somehow equivalent to hundreds of years of global scientific advancement in their eyes.

I only wanted to comment on this, because this is a whole new level of stupid:


A significant proportion of deaths are as a result of complications of surgery. Every surgery, no matter how minor, carries a risk of death with it. If doctors strike, all non-emergency operations are cancelled, and that risk of death disappears. Failure to understand this completely basic fact is just more proof that you have literally zero idea how healthcare works.

Also, I am a doctor, and I confirm I am "in the club". I only get the real vaccines made from unicorn tears.

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I fall on this side of the fence. All my gambling is to increase my stack of bitcoin. I never need to cash out my crypto if I don't want to, and if it all falls to zero, my quality of life won't change in the slightest. I am firmly in bitcoin for the long-term, and so short term price fluctuations are meaningless - I wouldn't even have known the price was down if every board on this forum hadn't been spammed with topics about bitcoin being dead.

LFC's advice is solid if you are converting in and out of fiat constantly. But if you are like me, and don't care about the fiat value, then you can just gamble on uninterrupted.

I wouldn't go as far as saying Warren Buffet is ignorant or making a fool of himself. He knows exactly the pros and cons of fiat, and I'm sure he knows the pros and cons of cryptocurrency as well. The fact is his companies and his wealth are entirely based on fiat. Of course he is going to talk down anything that is a risk to that.

Fiat definitely has many drawbacks, and as I showed in my previous post, is completely unstable and has lost >95% of its purchasing power in the last 100 years. Warren Buffet is well aware of that, but his entire existence is based on using fiat, so of course he isn't going to admit that. It's just the same as the years the tobacco industry spent trying to hide the research that smoking is awful for you.

I did the same. Dumped all that BitcoinTrash as soon as I claimed it. Turns out that was a much better decision than holding on to this trash and just watching its value slow drop over time. BCH is down to 0.074BTC, and I fully expect it to continue dumping as most people are only in it to claim their forked coins.

Looks like Poloniex and HitBTC have now opened their markets for BCHSV and BCHABC. Am I the only one who things those names are truly ridiculous? Just as ridiculous/stupid as them constantly bleating about being "the real bitcoin".

Binance allows deposits, trading and withdrawals of up to 2 BTC per 24 hour period without any KYC. KYC is only required if you want to withdrawal more than 2 BTC per day. Given that, there is literally no good reason to use some unknown exchange that is infinitely more likely to scam you.



Yup. They chase crazy gains from ICOs or some unknown coin on some unknown exchange, but at best they will just lose their money, and at worst, end up sending their documents to some complete scammer and have their identity stolen.

Are you panicking now?

Probably time to log-off for today. Every board is being spammed with countless new topics about bitcoin crashing, panic selling, crypto is dead, etc. It gets pretty boring after a while. If you honestly believe crypto is dead, then just sell everything and leave the forum. You don't need to spam the place on your way out.

I'll continue to do what I've done all year - largely ignore the price, and continue to use bitcoin as a currency as and when I can.

I think you are giving them too much credit. I suspect the number of exchanges scamming to recover their losses is far smaller than the number of exchanges created for the sole purpose of scamming. It's not difficult to create a basic exchange, and even if you can't manage that, you can buy a pre-made one for not much money. The ICO market proves that there are literally thousands of morons that will sign up to anything with a website, and send you both their personal documents and their crypto in a heartbeat.

These scam exchanges (and scam ICOs, ETH twitter scams, doubler scams, etc) will all continue as long as their is a steady stream of naive fools willing to part with their money so readily. It's much safer to stick to large, reputable exchanges that have been trading for years than going near a new and unproven exchange.

The gap between Leicester and the other top teams was huge. The season before they won, they were 20th for 18 weeks. They were also saved from relegation by seven wins in the last nine games. The season before that, they were in the Championship.

Obviously I'm joking when I say Fulham to to win, but can you imagine the scenes if they did. Will be equally crazy if they go down again this season after spending so much.

That would certainly be an improvement. Some of the other suggestions in this thread such as Metcalfe's law or unique addresses, while nice ideas, don't really work, as addresses != users. It would be very easy to simply set up a bot to create thousands of new wallets and addresses for my shitcoin and artificially pump its rankings. Similarly, I could just send millions of tokens back and forth between my own addresses to artificially pump its transaction value.

The most useful metric is real world use, but you can't put a number on that.

Jokanovic sacked and immediately replaced by Ranieri. A shame for Joka after leading Fulham to promotion, but understandable given their 1 win and 5 points from 12 games. I wonder how Ranieri will do though - his counter attacking style is very different to how Fulham usually play.

Still, Fulham to win the Premier League next season. You heard it here first. Dilly ding, dilly dong.

I agree with you in principle, but the issue is that you can't easily put a number on characteristics such as "decentralization" and "utility". Marketcap is used because it is easy to calculate and easy to understand, Even although it is next to meaningless for the reasons I have outlined above.

Perhaps we could also make a category called "obvious shitcoins" and move all the coins like BCH, EOS, USDT, TRX, BTG, XVG, and a thousand other alts to that category. Would certainly help to de-clutter the frontpage of coinmarketcap.

You could always use the Flag of Saint David, the Patron Saint of Wales.


In which case, I'm sure you could piss Jet Cash off even more by using one of several Welsh Nationalist flags, such as this one.

I'm not even a Liverpool fan, but god, do I hope they beat City. Actually, I hope anyone beats City. Unlikely to happen though, as you say.

Spurs are really scraping by with their 1-0 wins. And they haven't really had tough fixtures so far this season. An injury to Kane and they will fall apart. Arsenal could easily take 4th from them.

And yeah, United will be lucky with a 5th place finish, let alone top 4.