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41  Economy / Service Announcements / Vertex Market Secures $1.1 Million In Funds From Private Investors on: April 07, 2020, 02:25:29 PM
https://www.coincurb.com/news/vertex-market-1-1-million-successful-fundraising-amid-coronavirus-pandemic/

According to the official Vertex Medium account, the platform was able to secure $1.1 million in funds from private investors in Saudi Arabia. Vertex Market is a peer-to-peer marketplace similar to LocalBitcoins but available in most countries and supporting a wide variety of cryptocurrencies.

The platform was able to conduct a successful private fundraising that was initially valued at $2.2 million. The operation ended a couple of days ago and the $1.1 million raised will be used mostly for Marketing.

https://vertex.market/

42  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Countdown to war with China on: April 04, 2020, 01:21:05 PM
And a biological attack from a 3rd party has the potential to instigate that doesn't it?

What evidence do you have that this was a "biological attack"?

He has nothing, these are the classic conspiracies after every virus, it was the same for all the previous ones like Ebola, SARS, and others. It's always the same shit.
43  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Coronavirus Quarantines Are Coming, What to Stock Up on Now Before It’s Too Late on: March 17, 2020, 06:18:13 PM
The standard procedure states that you are allowed to buy food, go to hospitals or even work when in quarantine like the current one. Unless your government goes nuts and tries to become a dictatorship, you will be fine.

What good does being "allowed" to buy food do you if there is none to buy because the supply chain shut down, or because it is prohibitively expensive?

Here, the government has stated that the supply chains will continue working, at least at a national level and will not shut down. It is also illegal to massively pump up the prices of basic and needed items for humans.
44  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Coronavirus Outbreak on: March 17, 2020, 05:00:20 PM
You don't seem to understand the problem. If everyone gets infected, the deaths will be way higher or just as high. Anyways that's not even the problem, the problem is that this 'flu' is extremely contagious and without any measures taken it will spread extremely fast infecting 80-90% of the population in any country within months. No healthcare system can sustain that and would collapse. Do you not understand that?

Well of course if everyone gets infected deaths would be high, but what makes you think everyone is going to get infected? How do you know this is going to infect 80-90% of people? And the economy will collapse if everyone is told to stay in doors for however long never-mind the hospitals. How long are we meant to self-isolate for? I don't think staying indoors for a few months is going to cut it and even that would be disastrous. If it's as extreme as you say then why isn't there a full on lock-down for everyone already? Telling people to just not go to the cinema or sporting events isn't going to do anything if everyone is still going to work etc. How often are we going to have to self-isolate for before the coast is clear? Is this going to happen everytime a new form of SARS appears?


That's what scientists are predicting. In the US alone: 'The CDC reportedly predicted 160 million to 214 million infections, 2.4 million to 21 million hospitalizations and 200,000 to 1.7 million deaths in the country. ' It's not 90%, my bad, it's more like 70%, my point still stands though.

''How long are we meant to self-isolate for?'' As long as we have to mate. 'Is this going to happen everytime a new form of SARS appears?' Yes if it's serious enough, quit crying about it, not everything has a good solution.
45  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Coronavirus Quarantines Are Coming, What to Stock Up on Now Before It’s Too Late on: March 17, 2020, 02:49:23 PM
Quarantine doesn't mean you don't have access to food mate. You don't need to buy a ton of crap now for no reason.

Even if one does truly love Big Brother and there is no doubt in one's mind that He will always provide by turning water into wine or keeping your car running for 7 days on one day's worth of diesel...

...one can buy non-perishable stuff that one is eventually going to use just to hedge against inflation.  Laundry soap, plastic bags, etc, etc.  These things can also make good trading stock or simply be given away to a neighbor who was less prepared just in case Big Bro doesn't live up to one's expectations.



Yeah, let's buy all the toilet paper like idiots so older people and others who didn't have access to stores can't buy any.
46  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Coronavirus Outbreak on: March 17, 2020, 01:09:29 PM
People are panicking about this to an unbelievable extent. It's a bad disease, to be sure, and some precautions should be taken, but it's not worth putting the entire economy on hold. For example, maybe it'd be a good idea to 100% lock-down nursing homes, but cancelling all university classes and sporting events, or locking down entire countries, or stopping trade between the biggest economies in the world? I think we'll look back at this in a couple of years and see this as a huge hypochondriacal overreaction which kicked off quite a damaging recession. (Though the economy was already unstable in many ways: it's not just the virus.)

Agreed. They're going way overboard with this. Barely anyone is dying here especially when you compare it to other things like the flu. Keep calm and carry on in my opinion. If it goes full on zombie apocalypse then we can stay inside but doing this shit now is overkill and incredibly damaging in multiple ways. There's only been about 50 deaths so far in the UK. Flu kills about 50 a day, 20 people kill themselves every day and there's 450 die of cancer every day just in the UK but nobody's going hysteric over them. This is going to do do ridiculous damage to the economy which could take years to recover from and lots of business are going to go under, especially ones like airlines. I have a friend who's a self-employed personal trainer and pretty much all of his clients have cancelled this week already out of fear. He'll be out of business within the month if this continues.

(I recently had all of the symptoms of the virus. I wonder if I had it, or if it was just the ordinary flu. It was very unpleasant, though I got over it in a few days.)

I get really bad throat infections with flu-like symptoms a few times a year and they're very unpleasant for a few days to a week but as with the flu young/healthy people will likely get over it. It just seems to be mostly killing the already nearly-dead with underlying health conditions anyway and they're probably the ones that need to self-isolate unless it starts killing anyone else.

You don't seem to understand the problem. If everyone gets infected, the deaths will be way higher or just as high. Anyways that's not even the problem, the problem is that this 'flu' is extremely contagious and without any measures taken it will spread extremely fast infecting 80-90% of the population in any country within months. No healthcare system can sustain that and would collapse. Do you not understand that?
47  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Coronavirus Quarantines Are Coming, What to Stock Up on Now Before It’s Too Late on: March 17, 2020, 10:47:56 AM
It's not an assumption, we are under quarantine here in Spain and everyone has access to food. You can go to work as well.

And the past guarantees the future does it?

The standard procedure states that you are allowed to buy food, go to hospitals or even work when in quarantine like the current one. Unless your government goes nuts and tries to become a dictatorship, you will be fine.
48  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Coronavirus Outbreak on: March 16, 2020, 11:14:36 PM
C'mon! Nobody would use a bioweapon that infects the whole planet. That's like actually using nuclear weapons, which makes absolutely no sense.

Yeah because humans have never purposely depopulated or perpetrated genocide on tens or hundreds of millions of people before right? You also assume their goal isn't to cause total economic breakdown. There are a lot of people getting FILTHY rich off of this crisis, let alone the amount of control this is giving governments all over the world an excuse to take. The CCP LOVES this outbreak. Now they have an excuse to lock down the whole nation, stop any dissidents, and round them up for "quarantine" never to be seen again.


I have a high level of confidence that this is a bioweapon

At 3-4% fatality rate?  Must be US made.  Smiley

You assume the goal is to have maximum fatalities. What if the goal is to cause economic chaos to profit from it and give governments excuses to systematically strip rights? This outbreak seems to be achieving those objectives pretty efficiently.

Also, you ever hear of the military strategy of using sappers before? What causes more harm? Killing a soldier, or wounding them so they take up several times more resources to care for? Stop getting your concept of what bio-weapons are from movies.


More:

"Coronavirus Australia: Queensland researchers find ‘cure’, want drug trial"

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/coronavirus-australia-queensland-researchers-find-cure-want-drug-trial/news-story/93e7656da0cff4fc4d2c5e51706accb5


Speaking of achieving ulterior motives and control:

"Denmark rushes through emergency coronavirus law"

https://www.thelocal.dk/20200313/denmark-passes-far-reaching-emergency-coronavirus-law

"As well as enforcing quarantine measures, the law also allows the authorities to force people to be vaccinated"


Or is it just a virus like dozens of others? Not everything has to be a conspiracy
49  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Coronavirus Quarantines Are Coming, What to Stock Up on Now Before It’s Too Late on: March 16, 2020, 11:13:28 PM
Quarantine doesn't mean you don't have access to food mate. You don't need to buy a ton of crap now for no reason.

That is a bold assumption.

It's not an assumption, we are under quarantine here in Spain and everyone has access to food. You can go to work as well.
50  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Coronavirus Quarantines Are Coming, What to Stock Up on Now Before It’s Too Late on: March 16, 2020, 09:06:58 PM
Quarantine doesn't mean you don't have access to food mate. You don't need to buy a ton of crap now for no reason.

You are assuming the supply chains will continue working.

Even if you can buy food, you should limit the number of trips you make to the store.


Here in Spain it's a national lockdown but you can still go to the grocery store and they are making sure they continue working.
51  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Coronavirus Outbreak on: March 16, 2020, 08:55:27 PM
I have a high level of confidence that this is a bioweapon

At 3-4% fatality rate?  Must be US made.  Smiley
Look closer.

Closer to what mate? According to the recent stats at 181k confirmed cases and 7k deaths, it's less than 4%. However, according to scientists, the number of infected people is waay higher than official numbers. What's your point exactly?
The virus is asymptomatic for 2 weeks and the number of infected has a doubling time of 6 days. This gives us, roughly, death/(currentinfected/4). Or in other words multiply the 4% by 4 for the correct number.

The second main method to calculate it is death/(death+cured). Pick whichever one you prefer.

'The virus is asymptomatic for 2 weeks' Where did you get this info from?
Common knowledge for weeks. At least. Check google and youtube.

No, it's not common knowledge, just give us your source or shut the fuck up. You are making shit up.
Alright look. I have very little investment in this thread and none in you. I do not have time to hunt for a direct link that you may or may not choose to poo-poo on. I told you where you can go to find the info you want. If you don't care enough to spend 30 seconds to do a search then that's on you.

Idk, 'Conclusion:
This work provides additional evidence for a median incubation period for COVID-19 of approximately 5 days, similar to SARS.'  (https://annals.org/aim/fullarticle/2762808/incubation-period-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-from-publicly-reported)

Also, a doubling time of 6 days? Where did you see that? According to this https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/italy/ the doubling time seems to be faster?
52  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Coronavirus Outbreak on: March 16, 2020, 08:47:16 PM
I have a high level of confidence that this is a bioweapon

At 3-4% fatality rate?  Must be US made.  Smiley
Look closer.

Closer to what mate? According to the recent stats at 181k confirmed cases and 7k deaths, it's less than 4%. However, according to scientists, the number of infected people is waay higher than official numbers. What's your point exactly?
The virus is asymptomatic for 2 weeks and the number of infected has a doubling time of 6 days. This gives us, roughly, death/(currentinfected/4). Or in other words multiply the 4% by 4 for the correct number.

The second main method to calculate it is death/(death+cured). Pick whichever one you prefer.

'The virus is asymptomatic for 2 weeks' Where did you get this info from?
Common knowledge for weeks. At least. Check google and youtube.

No, it's not common knowledge, just give us your source or shut the fuck up. You are making shit up.
53  Other / Politics & Society / Re: coronavirus as excuse to stop muslim and african zerg from entering the country? on: March 16, 2020, 08:38:28 PM
are border closures around corona virus a great nonracist nonislamophobic excuse to protect a region from muslim and african third world migration zerg?

will they take it?

No, quit posting garbage.
54  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Coronavirus Outbreak on: March 16, 2020, 08:36:32 PM
I have a high level of confidence that this is a bioweapon

At 3-4% fatality rate?  Must be US made.  Smiley
Look closer.

Closer to what mate? According to the recent stats at 181k confirmed cases and 7k deaths, it's less than 4%. However, according to scientists, the number of infected people is waay higher than official numbers. What's your point exactly?
The virus is asymptomatic for 2 weeks and the number of infected has a doubling time of 6 days. This gives us, roughly, death/(currentinfected/4). Or in other words multiply the 4% by 4 for the correct number.

The second main method to calculate it is death/(death+cured). Pick whichever one you prefer.

'The virus is asymptomatic for 2 weeks' Where did you get this info from?
55  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Coronavirus Quarantines Are Coming, What to Stock Up on Now Before It’s Too Late on: March 16, 2020, 07:54:49 PM
Quarantine doesn't mean you don't have access to food mate. You don't need to buy a ton of crap now for no reason.
56  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Coronavirus Outbreak on: March 16, 2020, 07:53:06 PM
I have a high level of confidence that this is a bioweapon

At 3-4% fatality rate?  Must be US made.  Smiley
Look closer.

Closer to what mate? According to the recent stats at 181k confirmed cases and 7k deaths, it's less than 4%. However, according to scientists, the number of infected people is waay higher than official numbers. What's your point exactly?
57  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Is AMFEIX a Huge Scam? on: March 10, 2020, 06:20:53 PM

All Amfeix results -  https://amfeix.now.sh from Ethereum blockchain

Oh, I see you are working with them. Why should anyone believe in random numbers? I could write that I'm making +20% per day while trading, why should anyone believe me? Where is the proof?
58  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Is AMFEIX a Huge Scam? on: March 06, 2020, 11:04:23 AM
While 100% returns a year has certainly been demonstrated by many cryptocurrencies, I'm not sure how any genuine company can unequivocably offer such a return without there being one or more drawbacks.

Looks like the platform enforces a minimum investment limit, indicative of a platform that will eventually pull an investment scam.

Likewise, an anonymous team and absolutely no information on how the return is generated are also huge red flags.

The article seems to say that the platform raised over $50 million though, can't see the source for it though? Seems unlikely that they could have raised such a huge amount without more fireworks.

I know but, you can check it out through their own BTC address: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/33ns4GGpz7vVAfoXDpJttwd7XkwtnvtTjw

Go to https://amfeix.com/ and scroll down to 'Wallet Address'.
59  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Is AMFEIX a Huge Scam? on: March 05, 2020, 09:38:05 PM
Yes. How could anyone think that it’s not? If they can get 100% return they would just borrow the money from someone. And yet I’m sure there are plenty of people who will put money in and then complain later.

There are plenty of venture capitalists who would gladly lend them money. Family and friends etc

They got around $50 million from investors already...
60  Economy / Scam Accusations / Is AMFEIX a Huge Scam? on: March 05, 2020, 08:28:24 PM
https://www.coincurb.com/news/is-amfeix-simply-a-huge-scam/

Promising returns of over 100% a year, AMFEIX seems to be a classic example of ‘too good to be true’. AMFEIX calls itself an investment bank and has been featured on Yahoo Finance, NewsBTC and other mainstream media.

A bank featured on popular news channels can’t be a scam, right? Probably wrong.

One of the best ways to detect any scam is to look for amazing economic returns, something that offers you the ability to become rich quick or huge 100% returns on your money is most likely a scam.

There is even a thread here, investors-based about the platform https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5157085.0

What do you guys think, 100% scam?
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