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8261  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russia has developed covid-19 vaccine. on: August 11, 2020, 02:55:02 PM
but for added fun
the BBC reports how the UK's phase 2 has already got a deal that has already made 100million doses of its version for british use..
the funny parts are UK is only phase 2 stage also. but already preping for mass population usage
and also 100m doses just for the UK...... theres only 65mill people and not everyone will needs/want it..
This is not fun at all, you have actually pointed out the truth. I have gone through the link you provided and from it I saw another link:

Oxford vaccine triggers immune response
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-53469839

Because of the short period of time, they have not run for long enough to understand how long the antibodies (against the virus) produced by the body will last, the study in the Lancet showed. But, as time goes on, this will be known. Over 90% UK patient that were given one dose of the vaccine showed positive result while the remianing 10% people showed positive result after given 2 doeses of the vaccine. You are right. And this is just still second phase of testing.
8262  Other / Politics & Society / Russia has developed covid-19 vaccine. on: August 11, 2020, 12:53:56 PM
When I was reading the news, these were the key points:

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said a locally developed vaccine for Covid-19 has been given regulatory approval after less than two months of testing on humans.

Amid fears that safety could have been compromised, the World Health Organization (WHO) urged Russia last week to follow international guidelines for producing a vaccine against Covid-19.

Currently, the Russian vaccine is not among the WHO's list of six vaccines that have reached phase three clinical trials, which involve more widespread testing in humans.

Russian scientists said early-stage trials of the vaccine had been completed and the results were a success.

The Russian vaccine uses adapted strains of the adenovirus, a virus that usually causes the common cold, to trigger an immune response.

But the vaccine's approval by Russian regulators comes before the completion of a larger study involving thousands of people, known as a phase-three trial.

You can read the full news from the link below
BBC News - Coronavirus: Putin says vaccine has been approved for use
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-53735718
8263  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Donald Trump signs executive orders banning TikTok and WeChat on: August 11, 2020, 07:19:06 AM
There was a time when Android and many US companies backoff support a mobile phone giant, Huawei, the reason was because of the petition US government have against them that they are possibly helping to leak information from around the world including US for Chinese government. This was a great move by the US goverment.

The covid-19 pandemic is still even considered to be a artificially genetic modified virus which was produced from a laboratory from China. I consider this to be true as the virus later targetted USA. Now over 2.7 million people has contacted the disease in USA. It could be a weapon to reduce US power in the world by China.

Tiktok has now been considered a weapon by the US to leaking of information for China, I can not doubt this because China is doing everything to make sure to have the world power of which will not be good, a country that can sell to other countries and scattered all over the world to make progress but they do not make their country favorable for business from around the world, they did not support cryptocurrencies  but want to create their own digital yuan, they did not support social media from outside but they are making their own and their citizen have social media outside their country.

Donal Trump is right, they have to ban all Chinese company that they think could be providing information for Chinese goveremnts. Also, possibly WeChat could do that too and both have to banned from United States. The reason for the ban is because these social media apps are not trustworthy.
8264  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Misuse of hand sanitizers dangerous to health on: August 10, 2020, 05:22:00 PM
If you drink ethanol, the enzymes in the liver responsible for converting methanol to formic acid preferentially convert ethanol to acetic acid, giving the kidneys time to excrete the methanol before it is broken down in to the highly toxic formic acid.
Yes, this is right. Aside ethanol, fomepizole can also be used. Both fomepizole and ethanol act the same way by reducing the action of alcohol dehydrogenase on methanol through competitive inhibition in which fomepizole or ethanol compete with methanol in a way less methanol is converted and many methanol are not able to convert to formate but extreted by the kidney.

If fomepizole is not avalable, then ethanol is the best option which is more available.
8265  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Misuse of hand sanitizers dangerous to health on: August 10, 2020, 11:35:18 AM
The fear/dread already created about the covid-19 causing more harm than the novel corona virus itself.
Even in a medical treatment process there is emphasises to relax patient anxiety, more action in relaxing citizens this period should be done. Promote
+ Previous/normal healthy live style people do -even before corona-
Eating,exercising, avoid non sterile areas like subways railings, bus supports,dust bins and more.
A relaxed mind, health life/immune will go far in covid-19 battle
Well, your comments are good and helpful also. There have been some topics created by Jet Cash about covid-19 in relation to immunity, healthy living and appropriate food and fruit consumption in Serious discussion board, many of this issue are addressed too. For more reading, you can check the link above. You are very right.

Like you commented, imo too, using soap to wash hands will be better at home, while sanitizers would be better for outdoor purposes.

f the patients died because the ingredients are harmful, who manufactured and where do these sanitizers came from?
This is the question that governments need to answer after making appropriate investigations. Normally, only the poisoning alcohol called methanol could result to vision loss or impairment, and that can also lead to fast dead when not even consumed in excess. The people or companies manufacturing this type of sernitizers needs to be jailed. But I guess, it will be locally made sanitizers which are not recommended. Industrially made ones are better, the ones that will be properly monitored by certain government bodies related to public health. The ingredients used to make the sanitizers will be listed on the sanitizers package, we should also check this out to make sure that only ethanol or isopropyl alcohols is used with the three other ingredients, and to make sure no other ingredent(s) added. WHO recommendation should be strictly and completely followed.


8266  Other / Politics & Society / Misuse of hand sanitizers dangerous to health on: August 10, 2020, 10:40:52 AM
There was a news I read on CNN: People are dying after drinking hand sanitizer, CDC says
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/08/05/health/hand-sanitizer-cdc-warning-study-wellness/index.html

(CNN)- People are getting sick and even dying after swallowing hand sanitizer, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday. Four died and others have suffered impaired vision or seizures, the CDC says.

I was very shocked when I read this and research for possible reasons hand sanitizers can be ingested leading to death. The reason for the ingestion of hand sanitizers not yet known, but possibly some people could think the composition of hand sanitizers could not be harmful. According to World Health Organization, the recommended hand sanitizer composition are:

Hand Sanitizer Composition recommended by WHO
Isopropyl alcohol or ethanol
Hydrogen peroxide
Glycerol
Sterile distilled or boiled cold water

Normally, mild or recommended does of all the components used for hand sanitizers are unharmful, this could (maybe) be the reason why thses are the combinations recommended by WHO,. Some people could broswed about it and concluded it not harmful, they could just feel sick which may not even be covid 19 disease but ingested hand sanitizer and died. But, I still think of this, why people are having impaired vision and/or dying? This led me to these findings.

Alcohols
Isopropyl alcohol and ethanol mild consumption are not dangerous, isopropyl alcohol excessive consumption is not safe, which is used to attempt suicide but the best which is recommended is the ethanol which is used in making alcoholic drinks. The rest of the alcohols (methanol, rubbing and denatured alcohols) are poisonous to our health.

Methanol poisoning
Methyl alcohol (methanol) is the most dangerous of its kind, when consumed, the body broken it down into formaldehyde first by alcohol dehydrogenase which is later converted to formate by aldehyde dehydrogenase, this takes place in the liver.

Direct symptoms of methanol ingestion
1. It directly depresses the central nervous system

Symptom by forming format (formic acid)
1. It cause impaired vision or completely loss of vision
2. Acidosis
3. putaminal hemorrhages
4. Unconsciousnes
5. Progress to death by respiratory failure.

With the symptoms listed above, I think people are now using metanol in making hand sanitizers which is dangerous to health. Even, it can be absorped through the skin, inhale through it fumes and dangerous but its ingestion makes it more dangous and can lead to impaired vision and/or death.

Advice
1. Be careful and purchase good and recommended hand sanitizer
2. Ingestion of hand sanitizers is not appropriate, if anyone develop any illness, the person should not even think it is corona virus and should report this in hospital as soon as possible.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methanol_toxicity
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/08/05/health/hand-sanitizer-cdc-warning-study-wellness/index.html
https://www.healthline.com/health/how-to-make-hand-sanitizer#how-to-make


You may also like to read these topics created by Jet Cash on serious discussion board.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5266824.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5267490.0
8267  Economy / Economics / Re: Btc and gold can now be called "safe" on: August 10, 2020, 08:43:42 AM
Gold has been a safe asset even before the creation of fiat currencies but about bitcoin, it is becomming stronger year by year, many countries are now accepting bitcoin as a form of payment, many countries have even legalize it. In italy, bitcoin is the third latest payment methods after Paypal and credit cards, the USA has over 6000 bitcoin ATMs, bitcoin is used to pay in hotels, dancing bars and used as other means of payments in Slovenia. This years 2020, Australian residents can now pay for bitcoin at more than 3,500 national post offices, French court considers bitcoin money, cryptocurrencies are now legitimized in South Korea, Australia and India. Also, there are many charity given in the world accepting bitcoin as a payment method. These are just few of such above.

With all these said, bitcoin is not at any experimental stage again but is not a currency to be called money. So, people should consider bitcoin as a safe asset.

Only the issue on ground now is the invention of quantum computers, the primitive quantum computers is never a problem, the problem are the ones that will be created later which will be more sophisticated, but indeed not a problem as bitcoin will also have a quantum resistant EDCSA (Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm) that will not allow the computers to reveal private keys from addresses.

Make that $12k as bitcoin has break to the price today
Bitcoin increase above $12000 today, but the $12000 resistance is so strong, and the price is still around $11,960 at the time of posting this.

8268  Other / Ivory Tower / Re: Is Trump right about blaming China for Covid19? on: August 10, 2020, 03:15:54 AM
All I can say is yes. China's main target is USA, probably to reduce their world power, and reducing their economic standard. Why is the virus now more concentrated in USA?

This is my take on this.
8269  Other / Serious discussion / Re: The Fat Emperor discusses the evolution of the human diet. on: August 10, 2020, 03:11:04 AM
This is not wrong but completely right, it is evident that sugar could spread cancer cells in the body. But also, it is good to emphasize how sugar could delay healing process in some certain circumstances. To make this short, a good example is the inflammation of the pericardium (pericarditis), pericardium is the space situated posterior to (behind) the sternum of the chest. Acute pericarditis can be treated with enough rests, adequate sleep, the use of nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAID) like aspirin and also drugs like ibuprofen.

But in some certain conditions, only rests and adequate sleep can cure this inflammation, and also if supported with fruits, vegetables and other health-benefit foods.

But sugar can only delay the healing of the inflammation and this possibly could worsen if care is not taken.
8270  Other / Serious discussion / Re: The Fat Emperor discusses the evolution of the human diet. on: August 08, 2020, 10:07:41 PM
I just want to add my ideas to it. Normally if we think of it very well, the first humans that evolved will be unable to think like us to cook, but will be able to eat the fruits on the the trees. This makes me believe the first mankinds are eating fruits.

Later, after the modern era evolved, things have changed, there are now processed foods with high calories, sugars are extracted from the sugar cain and sugar beet plants, also are oils extraction from plants that contain high amount of chesterol and high density lipoprotein, their are sodas and my junk foods. That aside, many crops are now planted with artificial ferterlizers instead of organic manure, there are genetically modified plants like maize and animals like chickens.

So, as modern humans evolve, the food we eat also evolves.

I want to make some more illustration.
I eat carrots, sweet potatoes, oranges, sugar cains, pineapples, ripe bananas and plantains and many other fruits like that, but I have good health and no bowel upset, and all I could still hear from dieticians is to eat more but they contain sugar. But another person that consume sugar a lot has bowel upset, it can even lead to inflammation in the body as well as spreading cancer cells. So, why is the sugar in the fruit I am eating makes me healthy while the sugar that was extracted from the fruits I eat can do me harm?

Natural foods are better, and has helped in healing processes in the body, but processed ones are not healthy like natural ones, they are even containing high calories that can lead to obesity and many others not mentioned. The chemical combination of nutrients and fibers in natural food is made to heal and make our immunity strong unlike the altered ones in processed foods.

I will encourage people to stay natural.
8271  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Corrupt prostitutions tool -government- on: August 08, 2020, 05:45:20 PM
Lives becomes hard/a nightmare for citizens under a corrupt leadership.
I believe your country can not be from the western world if this is the case, and there are still many countries in the world like this. If I have to convey plain truth, some leaders are not meant to be leaders because they do not carry the characteristics of been leaders. Let us look at Africa countries for example. Check some of the characteristics of their leaders:

1. Only African leaders go for medical treatment abroad.
2. They lack the knowledge to rule there nations
3. Most of them have citizenship abroad.
4. Their sons and daughter are given birth to in abroad and are called citizens of countries like USA, England etc.

This defineds that there is a problem in such countries, and if care is not taking, it can lead to more problem in future.

Most developing countries are in Africa, and some part of Asia, the countries depends on whites, they did not want to stand and be independent to certain extent, they did not produce goods and services like they ought to, this is the cause of unemployment, unemployment makes life of people in such country miserable.

If your leaders can one day realize not to depend on western nations, and nations like China, you produce manufacturing companies and the likes, then, your country standard of living will be more quality. But, with the corruption you talked about, it is likely this can not be done, that is why I said they lack the knowledge to rule.
8272  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Nigeria Becomes Fastest Growing Crypto Market In The World on: August 08, 2020, 05:24:35 PM
From above link above: https://bitcoinworld.co.in/nigeria-becomes-fastest-growing-crypto-market-in-the-world/
Among top countries in Q2, 2020 leading in peer to peer Bitcoin transactional trades on the African continent were:
Nigeria – $34.4 million dollars.
South Africa – $15.2 million dollars.
Kenya – $7.8 million.
Ghana – $640,000.
Tanzania – $600,000.


This is great, this indicate an increament in the rate of bitcoin adoption in Nigeria, with time, peer to peer bitcoin transaction trades in Nigeria will increase, also it will increase in many other countries in Africa.
8273  Other / Meta / Re: Moving topic detection? on: August 08, 2020, 11:07:30 AM
We can move our topics in bitcointalk forum to other sections, and moderators can do the same thing for us.
Is there some way to detect when topic is moved?
Maybe some bot or script exist that I am not aware of, but it would be interesting to have this option with notification.
I am not expert yet on this forum, but I think no way to do this, but we can make a suggestion on this forum about it. It will be easy for moderators to notify us through personal messages if our topic is moved and the board it is moved to.
8274  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: Why do exchanges get away with faking trade volume? on: August 08, 2020, 10:49:49 AM
Does anyone else agree that it's way too easy to open an exchange nowadays,
It is not easy to open a safe and reputed exchange, but can be easy for scammers to set up a fake exchange.

And then some of them do things like listing scamcoins that can be predicted to become worthless, ripping off investors. If a stock were to do this, their owners would go to jail.
There are scam in forex too but no opportunity to create new fiat money as all are centralized and owned by countries. Unlike, cryptocurrencies, they are decentrlaized and can be created by anybody, that is why some are subjected to pump and dump.

And then other exchanges blatantly misreport their trading volume as much higher than it actually is. If a regulated forex platform would to do this, they would be heavily fined.
That does not mean it is not happening in forex, a lot of scams that happen in crypto is occuring in forex too

Sure forex has their own share of scam platforms but in my opinion it is way too easy to set up an crypto exchange without worrying about the legal aspects. There should be more scrutiny and regulation around exchanges.
Imo, if you are talking about centralized crypto exchanges, they are also well regulated but there are some ways scam can be legit, a good example is the puming and dumping of coin. Aside forex, let me use a well reguated organization for you, have service sim provider scammed you before? They can scam people with as little as $0.1 dollar, why government never done anything?

Imo, not that crypto exchanges are not regulated, there are shady scam in forex too and it is everywhere like that. It is we that should be careful.
8275  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Zero fee for bitcoin transaction [Historical data] on: August 08, 2020, 06:49:25 AM
Zero fee blocks is possible but gone are the days, I do not even think there are wallets that can allow donor not to pay zero fee for their transactions. I really like this topic as it contain details about zero fee blocks.

With the level of adoption of bitcoin, zero fee blocks is impossible again as it has become the thing of the past because such transactions can no even have 1 confirmation and can not be mined into recepient's address.
8276  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: [Guide] - How to use different order types. on: August 07, 2020, 10:35:51 PM
For example, what's the difference between Stop Limit and One-Cancels-the-other and for Immediate or Cancel how long will it take before the order gets cancelled?
Stop limit or stop loss
It has three features:
1. Current price
2. Limit order
3. Stop price

For example, bitcoin current price for tether is $9500, you can set the stop price to be $9300 and the limit order to be $9250. This means an order of $9250 bitcoin to by tether will be fulfilled mediately the price of bitcoin get to $9300

Immediate or Cancel (IOC)
It means if you want to place the order, if the market price favor the order, the order will be placed immediately, but if the market does not favor the order, the order will be canceled immediately.

For example, bitcoin price is at $9500, if you use IOC order at $9490 to buy tether, the order will be canceled immediately because nobody in your exchange to sell for lower price.  But if you place IOC order at $9510, the order will be fulfilled immediately. So, this order if not fulfilled immediately, it will be canceled.

 
One-Cancels-the-other (OCO)
For OCO, you can use the below link for you to understand it. And from the link is the example below. 
https://www.google.com/amp/s/academy.binance.com/tutorials/what-is-an-oco-order%3famp=1

You have 300 USDT in your account, and you think the overall trend of the BNB/USDT market is going up. You want to enter the market at a reasonable price. The last traded price of BNB is 28.05 USDT, and the resistance is around 29.50 USDT. You want to buy BNB when it hits 27.00 USDT, but you also don’t want to miss out on the opportunity when the price breaks the resistance price. Therefore you can place an OCO order with a quantity of 10, which combines a limit buy order and a stop limit buy order. The price of the limit maker order is 27.00 USDT. For the stop limit order, the stop price is 29.50 USDT and the limit buy price is 30.00 USDT.

But I believe you know day trading is very risky, using lowest possible amount for it for months is better for learning.

8277  Other / Serious discussion / Re: 12 Coronavirus Autopsy Cases Reveal TRUTH About How Coronavirus Patients Dying on: August 07, 2020, 09:53:16 PM
The YouTube video is really educative as I learn many things I do not know before about covid 19, it is now clear to me that people having the disease could possibly have medical conditions knowingly or unknownly to them, medical conditions like:

1. Coronary artery disease (CAD) also called myocardial infection, necrosis of the heart cells resulted as a result of blood cloths in heart arteries that led to embolism and throbolism, the embolism is caused by arteriosclerotic plague.
2. Asthma
3. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
4. Hypertension or increase in blood blood pressure
5. Peripheral artery disease
6. Obesity
7. Pneumonia

According to the epidemiological study, out of 100% people that were infected, 80% showed mild or no symptoms at all, roughly 15%-20% with pneumonia, 4% with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and/or shock, and 1% people that died.

With what I commented above, it is clear that most people that healed from the disease have good health conditions but few people with the conditions mentioned above or related ones likely died.

The best ways to deal with covid 19 is to:
1. Exercise daily, and this can also help reduce obesity
2. Eating healthy foods, especially fruits
3. Minimising stress
4. Not smoking
5. Having good sleep
6. Not drinking too much alcohol (low long term consumption or high short term consumption)
7. This is very important too, to have medical conditions under control.

As well can see, if all these listed above are practiced, they will all improve our immunity, and protect our body from mircoorganisms invasion to a great extent and also defending our body against any invasion and disease.

And do not forget to always use face mask and senitizers.
8278  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: [Guide] - How to use different order types. on: August 07, 2020, 02:49:03 PM
I have a question, why there is no Stop Market? A stoploss where you will set only the market price and the current price will sell/buy your stop market order.
For example, if the price of bitcoin is at $9100, and we place stop loss at $9080, it is possible that bitcoin can fall from $9100 to $9070 immediately which means the trade is too tight to be fulfilled, and will not be fulfilled unless the price increase to or above $9080. This may not happen, and the order will not be filled if the price continue to fall.

So, that is just stop loss, the stop market you are taking about is the limit order, else the order will not be fulfilled, it just means for example, if bitcoin is at $9100, the stop loss to be placed at $9100 as the stop market you meant, this will not make the order to be fulfilled at all if the price is dropping drastically, and lead to more losses without any order fulfilled.

So, in conclusion, the stop market you meant is practically impossible if the market continues to fall. To just make the order to be fulfilled, using a little price slightly below current price to make a limit order is better.
8279  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: [Guide] - How to use different order types. on: August 07, 2020, 10:36:51 AM
This is a well written article about order types. I for one prefer to use the limit order, stop loss and OCO, the reason not using market order is because it is risky. It may not be so risky for strong coins like bitcoin because i have used it one or twice before and the price the bitcoin converted to tether was good. But I noticed it is not good for altcoin, especially if it has low market cap.

Market order vs limit order
Be it high or low market cap, limit order is the best option because you will be the one to set the price yourself and you can adjust it to a price your order will be completed in time.

There was a day I used market order to trade digibyte, the current price was at $0.0023 at the time but the order was placed at $0.19, this also happened to me when I purchase curio, and both were great losses for me. So, I am not using market order again. Using the limit order is the better for someone not to lose much funds while trading coins.

The stop lose if used appropriately, it has no issue, it really helps and so is OCO as well.

8280  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Crypto scams revealed on: August 07, 2020, 10:01:34 AM
Please refer to this topic https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5264627.0
In summary, he was scammed twice. First was when he sent bitcoins to a ponzi scheme and second was when he paid a bitcoin recovery scam service in an attempt to get back his bitcoins from the ponzi.

The story may sound ridiculous but it happens to many beginners. Some newbies still fall for different types of scams like fake giveaways and bitcoin doublers. Another example is the recent hack on twitter, the scammers used the accounts of famous people to fool followers. If not for Coinbase, 1,000 more users would have fallen victim. They stopped the $280,000 worth of btc transactions from being deposited into the scammer's account.

Quote
Coinbase says it prevented just over 1,000 customers from sending around $280,000 worth of bitcoin during last Wednesday’s attack. Roughly 14 Coinbase users sent around $3,000 worth of bitcoin to the scam’s bitcoin address before the company moved to blacklist it, the company said.
- https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/20/21331499/coinbase-twitter-hack-elon-musk-bill-gates-joe-biden-bitcoin-scam

If you or someone else you know fell victim to these scams, please be informed that the btc sent to scammers are most likely unrecoverable. If you ever encounter a site that says they'll get it back for you at a fee, do not fall for it because they are also scams. Bitcoin transactions cannot be reversed and the only possible way I know to recover the funds is if the scammer themselves are careless in sending btc to centralized exchanges or services without obfuscating the transaction.


This has been a scam, truly another type of scam I have to include to the list. If a person for being novice is scammed and scammed again through these recovery services, it will not make any sense and it is considered double losses.
 
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