Yeah there's a bit of a difference in how they function but they're still pathogenic and it was more of a myth dispeller since a lot of the scientific community still believes it'll kill 95% of people.

I'm not sure about getting rid of the virus or whether it's possible but it's definitely possible to prevent the virus from spreading as much and inhibiting it's reproduction rate dramatically. I've also heard of successful drug trials for pregnant women, whereby the baby was HIV negative from a HIV positive mother.


A death rate of 4.1% is very close to my potential 5% in the OP and both are subject to everyone getting the medical treatment they need as it is required.
Viruses are able to replicate and evolve at a much higher rate than humans are, and such it may not be impossible for one virus to mutate it's way into being from blood transmittable to airbourne.

You're better off moving your thread to the lending section: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=65.0

You might also want to take a look at some threads already set up there to get an idea of what people are expecting.

I fell like this sort of data is sold too much these days. I'm sure I've ended up on a few mailing lists and there's nothing I've gotten through from anywhere crypto related that I haven't considered to be a scam...

Most of them are obvious scams with just bitcoin in the name and the rest are just something I probably wouldn't click on unless I could be bothered to research it.

So I was reflecting on stats from other viruses in comparison to coronavirus. While bubonic plague killed 95% of infectants in 1666, it wouldn't cause as serious a problem now if it became a pandemic (which is unlikely because I haven't met anyone with a pet flea)...

However, ebola has been known to kill in the west and has statistics of around 10-20% mortality rate associated with it in developed countries even if people are hooked up to external circulatory and ventilation systems - taking ebola as an example I'd suggest:
5-20% mortality rates
40-60% machine aided circulation and ventilation
80-100% hospitalisations (this may just have been on the safe side in the past but it seems like it'd likely happen this way again at least to start with)...
(these figures assume we have an abundance of all resources)

Of course, ebola didn't travel throuugh the air, it travelled through blood. But there may come a time when a virus like this occurs (airbourne and affects immune system cells in the blood) in which case we're almost all fucked.

People living on remote islands have a potential to get infected too since I think it's been proven that a wind can take a virus up into the atmosphere - below freezing point - and keep bringing it back down. It only has to come down once in the right place to affect others.

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Side note: if there was a really intelligent alien species, what's the chances they've made a tube that's currently floating towards us carrying one of these viruses......

I mean there are probably a few bits you could scrape from the lock time value but that'll also be very limited and it'll have to be a block height that has already passed...

20 bytes is what would be needed to store unique identifiers on the chain afaik so it's what you're going to have to put up with... But why you think others should download whatever junk you dump on there confuses me... Try it once or twice don't use 12+ kb of space that no one else can use for anything...

Are you sure it was the whitepaper? He published the title of a headline in the first block that was made (can't remember what it said now) if you open the first blk file bitcoin core downloads you can see what he wrote.

If you're after a way of storing data there are some solutions such as storj that link you up with people renting out hard drive space...

You can have other solutions as well such as only checking message that are from, to or contain a certain address... But you'd also have to check no one sabatages that so it might be better to just look at transactions FROM if you did try to go through with something like this.

Merging encoding and encryption functions is probably a good idea. As well as trying to symmetrically encrypt any private data, storing keys elsewhere...

Blockchain isn't designed for data storage. It can facilitate it but shouldn't be used directly for it... For the experienced - it's incredibly slow to access at least and for the novice it's just difficult to implement... Even not looking at the ethics of it it's still something that most consider.

No matter what chain you use, you're almost certainly better trying to compress the data you want to store so it becomes cheaper.

I don't know about other chains but bitcoin only allows 20 bytes of optional universal data per transaction. Some encoding strategies like run length encoding or other methodologies can help maintain data in a way. Also storing text as an alphabet or alphanumeric characters can be stored in 5 bytes or 6 bytes respectively and can use sub versions of bytes to store even more.

But bitcoins blockchain isn't made for handling this and will just push fees up for everyone else...

@OP, can you release the amount of coin that's been credited to your account or the order of it (i.e 0.1,0.01,0.001,.0001,.00001...

If it's just a tiny amount it might have been some dust someone was trying to use up or something or an accidental mistype.

What exchange is the address on, is it well known and well reviewed as the others have said? If it's not well reviewed it could be some sort of deposit scam.

Are we not just meant to use "if it sounds too good to be true it probably is"?

This looks like an obvious scam and an unoriginal one at that (2.5x after 200 hours).

Generally for whatever purpose you have that requires it... Weird topic to make though, if you don't know maybe you shouldn't try.

Generally:
trading - you want to invest in two assets at once so take a loan using the first as collateral
Speculating - don't want to sell your crypto but know you're getting funds in soon then you could get those funds and offer crypto as collateral...

A private key is mathematical operation on your key so you won't be able to get the output... Its a bit like a remainder function, you won't be able to reverse engineer it.

The hash can be used to attempt to brute force your password if you have any info on what it could be?

Even if you know it was a certain number of characters (below 12-16) in length.

I'm guessing we're going to see a spike at some point...

Since the crash happened now, property prices generally take 18 months to collapse following the stock market crashes. Some funds following the stock markets in real estate have taken a 60% hit... I can imagine this continuing quite a bit, especially since governments haven't offered any stimulus to renters and a lot will stop paying and get evicted i reckon...

I'd still be expecting to see a nice exponential bitcoin spike in the next 18 months...

That was completely missed by me until someone brought it up on another thread. It's possible since gold is no longer really an uninflated asset that people are turning to bitcoin as the government's inherently have no control over its function and there's 21 million until the community technocratically decides otherwise.

Most of the world and governments seem interested in trying to keep companies afloat and stock markets looking promising by pumping huge funds into them and trying to keep liquidity high. I think we should start to be cautious but still more assured of the strength of bitcoin and the cryptocurrency world as a whole...

We rebounded from 3800 to 6000 pretty quickly and at a greater strength than the S&P of ftse rebounding.... Maybe the smart minds really are in and backing crypto these days... Just something to reflect on there....

You're not going to do well publishing the stats unless it's with Germany or South Korea. No one else has the neccessary testing equipment, they're just testing the sick people.
The health board of the UK suggests it's a conservative 0.6%, the scientific community put their at worst estimate for developed countries to be around 1-1.6%.

Recovereds definitely aren't tested either - more peopel recover from the infecction than die but worldometer had it at a confirmed rate of less than 50%

There may have been some differences between the two crashes:
1. The stock market crashed because many companies were expected to fail under the pressures of the pandemic
2. Bitcoin collapsed because some people expected a huge collapse since the stock market lost 5 trillion and bitcoin only lost <100 billion in market cap and had a lot lower market cap to start with... There was also no offered bailout strategy with bitcoin as there was to the stock market - and look how much better it's done already at rebounding...

You should be able to make threads in archival.

I think you can only delete a thread if it hasn't had any views yet so if you're planning on looking at something as a public user then you're almost definitely going to have problems with this (i.e. checking how something looks on a different device)... And someone might just immediately click it.

Bitcoin is a replacement for cash. The same you have just said there is the same that could be said about cash? You're investing in something (or earning somethiing) that is just going to not be worth anything in the future but is just a change of state. Your hours turn to $£euro or btc and then you can choose to invest them into other stuff.

the interesting part isn't the currency itself but it's what you could do with the power of the blockchain. It's both overestimated and underestimated in its power. But if we go off current ideas and lots of things such as real estate and stocks are put on the chain, we use the current legislation:
1. You list a house for sale, and allow for viewings, signing your key to suggest you own it
2. Someone makes an offer you want to accept
3. A multisig is entered into with your house, their funds, and two solicitors to authenticate everything (or just a registrar instead of solicitors).
4. The house sale can go ahead if all conditions in the multisig contract are fulfilled. Different entities such as your serveyor and builder could be added to the contract so you don't have to search for/order paperwork.

Similar products such as decentralised finance are becoming available too, such as up to 8%/3%/1% on DAI/ETH/BTC...

It's bigger and rounder than the flu virus so it should really travel a shorter distance but these sorts of things havent been tested but it's known cough particulates cant travel further than 8 metres so I'd put the distance there.

There have been reports that viruses have been able to travel across the Pacific on air currents high in the atmosphere... Whether these have actually happened or not isn't really that well known but viruses can generally get everywhere by blowing in the wind so I wouldn't even include it...