... SHRRARSV is similar to SHRARRSV in MHV. This is an adaptation to murine Furin. N501Y is the signature mutation of serial passage adaptation in mice. This is very obviously a lab escape of a mouse serially passaged variant.

Both the S1, the RBM and the FCS of the UK variant show obvious sign of adaptation in mice. Mouse can not be “naturally” infected with field isolates of CoV2. The S1 deletions are found in MA15 variants of SARS. N501Y is the RBM adaptation mutation you see in serially passaged mice.  https://jvi.asm.org/content/82/12/6078 … the SHRRARSV is very similar to the SHRARRSI of MHV. It also appeared to revert a cell culture signature in the original WuHan-Hu-1 by removing the Heparan Sulfate binding motif in the S1-S2.

Charging your Tesla using the Lightning Network.


http://andyschroder.com/DistributedCharge/

I think we do, to facilitate new hodlers. 15 somethings is easier, and much more satisfying, than 0.015. Counting in sats is confusing with all the digits - and they're not even in groups of 3s!

It's just marketing, all right. Maybe it's just me.

Echoing what we have said repeatedly in recent months, namely that the next leg higher in bitcoin will come on the back not of continued retail chasing but due to institutional rotation into the cryptocurrency (for another example of this, see "169-Year-Old Mass Mutual Buys $100 Million In Bitcoin"), Eric Peters, CEO of One River Asset Management, told Bloomberg he set up a new company to seize on the growing interest in cryptocurrencies among institutional investors. In addition to its initial purchases, One River Digital Asset Management has commitments that will bring its holdings of Bitcoin and Ether to about $1 billion as of early 2021.

Kinda cool/weird that 12/17/17 and 12/16/20  End up banner days in the history of BTC.  What if it goes over 30k tomorrow?  Sorry... just in dream mode.

Agreed, things are valuable because of our subjective view and many times this depends on what we can do with them, a perfect and modern example of this was oil, for thousands of years farmers excavated in order to try to find underground water and cursed their luck when they found oil, why? Because we could do nothing with it and as such it was not valuable, but then we learned how to do something with it and farmers went from cursing their luck to dance in happiness when they found oil.

Another good example of subjective value and how it changes depending on our circumstances is a bottle of water and 10k dollars in a bank account, a bottle of water is not very valuable if you are in a city and the 10k dollars will be of more use in those circumstances, but if you are lost in the desert then the value of that bottle of water increases dramatically while the 10k dollars in your bank account become useless during those circumstances.

I know it sounds weird but isn't this what bitcoin is - a decentralized network which runs on the protocol adopted by 'general consensus' using the code adopted by 'general consensus' which is regularly updated and improved by 'general consensus'.

So why shouldn't we calculate the intrinsic value of bitcoin (the currency) with the 'general consensus' approach as well? If we continuosly look into the market, it is very easy to feel the nerves of the traders. So if market shows excessive price support at the certain price such that trend line constantly reverse from that point then we can safely assume that most of the traders feel bitcoin should at least worth this much.

Currently like I said in previous post, the range of $17-17.5K shows the most appropriate instrinsic value. Even yesterday, bitcoin had short-term downtrend but as soon as it came in this range, it experienced strong bounce back and once again started gaining premium. Now it is almost $18.75 and gaining.

Paying for pr0n is stupid, regardless of method.

But to pay for pr0n with BTC, one has got to be Darwin-certified brain-dead.