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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Got the very same wallet version as you. After a lot of fiddling I got it synched up to block # 2354097 but I am unable to send any coins to Stex (worked on Tradesatoshi).
Looking at the block explorer the block height seems to be # 2260554 so I assume we are on a fork since quite some time.

Otherwise the diff shown in the block explorer is 0.015.. which is strange for a Scrypt AUXPOW coin.

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).

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.

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.

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.

Since this is in Bitcoin I am somewhat hesitating to refer to FLO (Florincoin), but nonetheless it could be relevant depending on your requirements regarding security and space for notarizations.

FLO obviously doesn't offer the level of security that BTC has due to much lower hashrate, but it allows you to store up to 1024 bytes of flodata per tx directly and easily from the wallet.

HTH

What is the current wallet version or github tag to use?

I am getting
TIA

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.

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...

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/

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.

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.

Have surprisingly been able to w/d a small amount of DOGE.
Went almost instantly, though that was right when the news broke that they are going to close shop.
Havent' checked but I guess meanwhile you can't either buy DOGE for regular price or the DOGE wallet is in maintenance too.

TFTFY.