The fact is Satoshi had been long gone from the public by the time you added him as a "friend" on the P2P Foundation website. His P2P Foundation account was hacked sometime in 2014, so whoever "added" you was the hacker, who incidentally used the website to post as Satoshi and threaten to dox him if he wasn't paid some BTC.

This was the message he left using Satoshi's account on the P2P Foundation on September 9th, 2014:


That is who you were "friends" with.

Maybe you just weren't aware of it, but this occurred over 5 years ago you should have brought yourself up to speed on the matter in this time before attempting to pretend Satoshi was your "friend." LOL. He's your friend about as much as Tom from MySpace is my friend.

The hacking incident was even mentioned on the forum while you were a member.

Not exactly sure what you are doing here but I notice you keep editing your posts and putting in higher numbers than the original. Any reason for that in particular?

That is a bit horrifying, but its considered impolite to publish other peoples' PMs. He wrote to you in confidence. I would honestly just tell him to concentrate on writing more informative posts, but start by reading as much about crypto as he can before he tries. Right now his posts are pretty shit. He has no idea how this whole thing works, but he's looking to you for advice.

Hospitals can get 3x payment if a covid-19 diagnosis changes the surgical procedure payment bundling from regular treatment to treatment "with complications." This type of reimbursement manipulation has nothing to do with extra services or equipment and everything to do with diagnosis.

Hospital payments are made according to what are called Diagnostic Related Groups (DRGs). For example, treatment of a hospital stay for lung infection is billed by line item:

- type of hospital room used
- drugs administered
- medical supplies
- procedures performed by doctors, nurses, anesthesiologists, radiologists, etc.

The claim is sent to the insurance company which then uses computer software to bundle all the charges together to assign it a DRG to determine the payout. The software determines the patient was treated for a respiratory infection, which falls into one of these 3 DRGs (I made up the reimbursement figures but the DRG codes are real):

DRG 177 RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS AND INFLAMMATIONS WITH MCC - $15,000
DRG 178 RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS AND INFLAMMATIONS WITH CC - $10,000
DRG 179 RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS AND INFLAMMATIONS WITHOUT CC/MCC - $5,000

MCC = major complications
CC = complications

The software then looks at the diagnosis code(s) being put on the claim to determine which of the 3 codes to use. If pneumonia was the primary diagnosis, the software might assign the claim DRG 179 and the hospital will be reimbursed $5,000. If covid-19 was the primary diagnosis, the software might assign the claim DRG 177 and the hospital will be reimbursed $15,000.

So a difference of $10,000 is a great incentive for a hospital to potentially forge a fictitious diagnosis on a claim. Especially if a coder / medical biller employed by the hospital receives a cut from each successfully reimbursed claim. Even without this incentive, its easy to see why this is regularly taken advantage of by some of the more greedy hospitals, as they are capitalist enterprises by nature and looking to exploit every dollar they can out of a potentially broken / under-regulated system.

This behavior was already happening well before the coronavirus. There's no reason to think it isn't happening now.

Also, there are no "fact checkers" in the financial system of hospitals. There's very little oversight by the insurance companies themselves. They simply pass on the inflated costs to their customers.

Wow, this was another good call. I'm trying to learn CS:GO as I find it to be one of the more interesting e-sports. I signed up for esporttalk... hope the admin approves my account. When you reach the home screen it says,

"Welcome to esporTTalk.org
Sorry. We dont want You."

Pretty rude 

But you can sign up for an account anyway, just requires the admin to approve it.

Following this thread in hopes I can learn something.

The first one is a whole two days old, so I apologize for that.

I reported this one as plagiarism. Most of the other ones seem to have some quotations around them or the source of the content. But this one is definitely plagiarism.

Don't know how you can keep saying that. Its simply not true. It was at one point, but its not anymore. Wall Street deleveraged and sold off their holdings at the beginning of the stock market crash -- BTC was the first to plummet as they consider it to be the highest risk investment they could possibly make. Since that happened, BTC has moved more on its own and recovered better than the rest of the stock market, but that doesn't make it an independent market.

Up until March, bitcoin had only ever known bull market conditions and everybody operated under the assumption that there was no connection between the two. On March 12th we saw exactly how much is tied to the stock market, which is, at the very least, somewhat.

Look at any sort of chart comparing say the S&P 500 and the price of BTC over the last month and a half and the correlation is undeniable. It's not 100%, but its far greater than 0.

Fact is unless Wall Street is completely out of bitcoin there will always be some correlation between stocks and BTC.

There's literally a thousand other altcoins out there that "does what Satoshi wanted" according to your very low standards. The only difference between those and BSV is that BSV is being led by a fraudulent conman who insists that he is Satoshi, despite being thoroughly ridiculed by the bitcoin community and never offering a single shred of proof that he is.

I call usership the ultimate measure of success. So far BSV has a very small actual userbase. It is accepted by almost no one, for anything, anywhere. Here's some quick stats for you:

Bitcoin SV
Median Transaction Value   0.00002 BSV ($0.0039 USD)
Active Addresses last 24h   21,220

vs

Bitcoin
Median Transaction Value   0.035 BTC ($266.13 USD)
Active Addresses last 24h   660,855

BSV has spent so much effort into filling its blocks with meaningless transactions in order to say, "behold muh big blocks!" that its totally lost sight of what was supposed to be its main goal: acting as a form of digital currency.

Really, when was the last time you wanted to send 4/10th of a penny to somebody?

BSV is like 99% of other altcoins: a lot of "look what we can do" with nobody actually doing it. If it weren't backed by Calvin Ayre, pumping millions of dollars into propping up its place in the CMC rankings, it would have fallen somewhere between Bitcoin Gold and Bitcoin Diamond, where it should be.

Your response will include the words "troll" and "triggered," because that's all you ever have to say. I don't think you're mentally capable of coming up with an actual rebuttal, but I'd be delighted to be proven wrong.

You made up a lie that satoshi was your friend in order to promote your altcoin. That's pretty low.

This just isn't true:


You being "attacked" has nothing to do with Blockstream or BTC maximalism. It has to do with making shit up in order to promote your own investment, which is inherently untrustworthy behavior.

Sunday fun post courtesy of Arthur van Pelt:

https://twitter.com/MyLegacyKit/status/1254274673627615237


Best reply goes to Adam Back:


 

I'm kind of sad that only 1 of the 4 ever responded in this thread, and that was the guy with the long (longest?) hair. His name eludes me at the moment but he was here.

I was kind of hoping that Craig would stop by in the form of leaving a comment as satoshi just to show everyone who's boss. Sadly, that never materialized.

Have you guys been following the latest with Jimmy Nguyen? Apparently he claims he was always available to receive the subpoena from Ira Kleiman's lawyers but has just been too busy. He's been so busy that he hasn't had time to tweet or check his twitter either, I guess.

Brilliant!


I happened to have a highly leveraged BSV short open at the moment. Was biting my nails as it approached the $200 mark, but then the fever broke and it skidded down to $194. Closed out now. Am still down for the week overall. It remains a dangerous market to be trading.

I remember when I criticized him for advocating the murder of muslim children and he called me an NPC. Frankly any time he posts that's all I think about.

I would say he ruined Pickle Rick for me, but that's just not true. Nothing can ruin Pickle Rick.

I could easily name somewhere between 50 - 100 countries, and have been able to since the 5th grade (could probably name more then than now). The problem is, its just not a skill you need for anything, unless you want to be a participant on Jeopardy some day.


True B.

WTF. His face really looked like that? That's not photoshopped or something?

Dammit Jim, he's a pharmacist, not a comedian.

Are we shooting for honesty here? Hope not because I voted for option #1.

I voted first, and now I'm trying to grasp what having a negative IQ would entail...

Working backwards to justify my answer.

I suppose IQs can go negative. I mean, if the price of oil can go negative, then why not?

Amazing that people are actually going to vote for this tool in November.

She looks horrified.

The culprit was an extension that I was using was blocking off my access to the site... It was the DuckDuckGo extension. Not really worth it, so I uninstalled it.

Keep up the good work Loyce!

There's nothing too profound or interesting about it. I just asked theymos and he told me. Its his second ban, so I imagine the next time he does some dumb shit and gets banned, it will be permanently. That's usually how it goes.