China is restarting her economy first because they both started first and isolated people for 4 months. While its true that they are also in a recession, do not underestimate their own market. This is the largest population on earth.

The next best comparison is India, who knows when will it end there. Yet, it is the USA that has gone out of control, no other country let the virus spread so much and kill so many people than the United States. Well Europe as a whole is close.

The resident denier keeps saying "its only a flu", just like Trump and Bolsonaro, and look where those countries are now in the statistics. Of course "everything is a lie", people would have died the same without the virus, according to deniers, over half million people in 4 months died from other causes, and "just happened" to had covid-19... Half million from 2 million infected, just think about it, its a quarter of the population.

These deniers were here in Jan and Feb telling everyone it was all fake, i was warning you to buy supplies and get ready to spend months at home. Yet some people didn't listen, and were later scrambling for toilet paper in March, and now are desperate to go out and buy more...

The virus doesn't care if you have paper or if you are bored from the isolation, its out there waiting for you to come out. Its too late now.

Disciplined China kept people home for long enough to mitigate and isolate the virus enough so that they could restart activities internally. The rest of the world, have not for the most part, and by ignoring it are only making things much worse and will have to spend even more time isolated; what could have been a 4 months thing like in China, is becoming 6, 8, 12 or even more months in countries led by deniers.

You can order people to go out to work all you want from the safety of your mansion or skyscraper, but it would do you no good when millions of sick people that have "only a flu" cannot get out or bed and 1 out of 4 die grasping for air. Yes its true, another 1 in 4 don't feel a thing, maybe its only those you want? Darwinism at work i bet. The other 2 in 4 who don't die have to suffer in bed for over two weeks. So more than half the population cannot go out to work if you let them all get infected.

And no, all the ventilators of the world aren't going to help, you have to keep humans isolated from themselves to stop the thing in the first place. At least until a cure/vaccine is found, tested and approved by bureaucracy.

Truly spoken like the infamous 'If they have no bread, let them eat cake'! alleged to some princess which apparently never did said such a thing.

Guayaquil was overrun by patients and deaths, they have no space anywhere for them, and the President of that country fled to a remote island Galapagos? (where Darwin studied the turtles).

This is the reason NYC is mass burying people in "temporary sites", same situation, but with people in charge willing to make hard decisions.

In many countries you would be shot right there to get the bag stolen. It is enough money to pay for the hit, if you get the meaning. But yeah, UK is probably the kind of place you could do such things...

Of course this is nearly as stupid as going to the bank to withdraw a similar amount in cash. Sure you might be safe while in the bank, but then after you leave you'll get tailed, intercepted, etc.

The only solution is to never exchange into fiat in the first place.

This is destined to happen, mining is simply getting less and less profitable overtime, as production of coins is less and less so. Hashrate will gradually lower too, well maybe. Its a bit offset by asic mining getting better, but that industry too will soon stop being profitable (R&D of sha256 asics).

This is not the end of the world like some people think. First its not an on/off switch (just like peak oil) it occurs gradually. Second the reason miners quit is because its too expensive, and that means attacking Bitcoin is also too expensive, so even with a somewhat lower hashrate it isn't getting any riskier.

Logically the most expensive places like Europe stop mining first, until even in the last country on earth (with the cheapest electricity) it becomes too expensive to continue. And yet, after that there are: The people with "free" electricity (renewable, powerplant owners, whatever) and those who just don't care to lose money doing it (or have a Bitcoin related business and want to contribute). This is how in the next 119 years bitcoin is going to mine those less than 3 million coins that remain, with the vast majority in the following next years.

Those that think that unless mining is profitable Bitcoin dies, are wrong, and time will tell. Because this is unavoidable, in fact its written in the code...

But yes, the possibility of price rising enough to keep mining profitable for longer exists, it has already happened before. But it is my opinion that this is going to be less and less so overtime. The market is great self regulating itself.

They won't openly say it but some people are actually glad this happened. Europe for example, has the problem of population aging, there are too many elderly the State assigns resources for (Socialism, remember?); while the wealth producing youth keeps decreasing.

And so it happens that those elderly are dying mostly in their homes over there. Spain and Italy are gruesome examples. Of course this virus also kills the youth, but in a lesser proportion. So from a cold, Machiavellian point of view, this benefits the State. I think it was some Japanese politician (Japan has the same issue) that said: "Hurry up and die already", to the elderly.

I don't know if this is also Trump's (USA) and Bolsonaro's (Brazil) mindset, when they wanted to "do nothing" and let the virus "wash" the country...

But its true that some people; politicians, wealthy, believe this is benefiting them in the long run. Logically people with money can easily isolate themselves at home since they don't need to work to live. The masses can go out and die for them, to keep their assets valuable of course.

I don't see this particularly benefiting for Bitcoin, unless one of the leading fiat currencies crash due to politician abuse (ie. printing); but this is a side-effect of a damaged economy product of people being unable to work for months rather than some sort of scare of using physical money; and clueless politicians following advise from Chicago school boys.

That or when people learn about the dangers of fiat (printing) money, and the vaport money that doesn't exist anywhere but comprises 90%+ of fiat, thanks to fractional reserve banking.

Bitcoin has indeed remained stable in the middle of an economic world collapse, that should tell them something at this point...

The fact that USA is printing additional money right now to "bail" some people, should concern USD holders. If the USD crashes you will NOT have time to sell it. No one can do that to Bitcoin. No one can come and say: "gee, lets bailout that poor exchange that got its funds stolen by "creating" (printing) some more coins and them some". Can your altcoin say the same? Most don't.

And the best part is, you won't be able to do this again.

Yes, if you buy bitcoin, and wait, you could still eventually sell it for gain, but always less than before. Altcoins (that survive) may act in a similar fashion, but in a smaller magnitude. The closer you go back in time to the beginning of bitcoin, the more spectacular gains could be made.

In a retrospective, you should have sold your bitcoin in Dec 2017, bitcoin has yet to reach the value it managed that year. And of course buy when it goes cheap. Now is not such a bad time to buy, but take a look a few years later rather than weeks before selling again...

Guayaquil (Ecuador) mayor: City has run out of space for patients and death.
Ecuador: 7,603 cases, 355 deaths, 696 recoveries.
53 thousand people fined in Italy during holy week for breaching quarantine. Over 20 thousand deaths.
Italy: 162,488 cases, 21,067 deaths, 37,130 recoveries.
Petroleum loses 10% price WTI falls to $20 despite OPEC reductions.
Bernie Sanders supports Joe Biden for presidency in the USA.
New York with over 10 thousand deaths.
USA: 606,822 cases, 25,473 deaths, 38,166 recoveries.
Nordic countries reopen schools and commerce.
Argentina extends quarantine with open banks and mandatory mask use, with fines up to $1230 (USD).
Argentina: 2,277 cases, 102 deaths, 559 recoveries.
Venezuela: 193 cases, 9 deaths, 110 recoveries.
France extends strict isolation until May 11th.
France: 143,303 cases, 15,729 deaths, 28,805 recoveries.
Spain giving 10 million face masks for free.
Spain: 172,541 cases, 18,056 deaths, 67,504 recoveries.
Fears in China from second wave looming.
China: 82,249 cases, 3,341 deaths, 77,738 recoveries.
Cuba: 766 cases, 21 deaths, 132 recoveries.

So far in only 4 months of Pandemic, the world has had:
1,996,862 cases, 126,537 deaths and 478,315 recoveries.

With the USA becoming the super-spreader, all guestimations for deaths in a year of COVID-19 are increasing every day.

Forget the economy, it is lost beyond hope. Stay home regardless of what the inept authorities say. If you save in bitcoin and kept enough supplies as i recommended to obtain in February, you'll be fine. It is about time Americans learn what hyperinflation is...

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No todo el mundo está parado, China está levantándose, llevo días diciéndolo, Ya incluso Wuhan abrió sus puertos y ferrocarriles. Y China es un mercado importantísimo para bitcoin.

El resto de la economía mundial está en estado critico, aguantando la enfermedad. Algunos países reabrirán por adelantado en medio del desespero, empeorando su situación interna con el brote descontrolado que eso producirá. Otros se están tomando su tiempo retrasando luego su recuperación económica. Argentina por ejemplo dijo que no pagará mas deuda externa hasta el 31 de diciembre, es decir, un default.

En algún momento este precio bajo de bitcoin será cosa del pasado, posiblemente cuando las economías mejoren, posiblemente antes.

La economía mundial sigue cayendo pero bitcoin se detuvo. Y los gobiernos toman medidas desesperadas que agravan la situación. No creo que esa impresión alocada de dinero en EEUU sea sana para ellos, a pesar de sus ventajas; es irónicamente uno de los países que mas mal manejó la crisis. El dólar estadounidense podría incluso colapsar lo cual arrastrará a otras economías.

Ecuador has 7,257 cases, 315 deaths and 411 recoveries.
Chile has 6,927 cases, 73 deaths and 1,864 recoveries.
Colombia has 2,709 cases, 100 deaths and 214 recoveries.
USA to have more deaths than all wars since 1945.
UK's PM out from ICU but still in hospital.
Spain had over 619 deaths in a single day.
"Not wearing a mask is stupid" Chinese medic Wang Xinghuan from Leishenshan hospital says.

All PPS pools charge more because their model is so risky (they act like a bank) so a 4% fee is common. From them, viabtc as mentioned can take a long time for a payout due to the minimum withdrawal, which most of those pools set at 0.01₿, except Poolin which is half that.

The other PPLNS pool is also taking months for payments, but there is in fact one that does find many blocks very often: Slushpool.

This pplns+ pool takes 2%, and with 6 Exa hashes per second, its finding about 10 blocks per DAY. So yeah, ramping up and averaging is instant, PPS like with half the fees... Min withdrawal is still 0.01₿ (unless you are willing to lose an extra 0.0001₿ per withdraw).

The + thing usually means they don't keep the tx (miner) fees to themselves, this is what most pools (except Antpool) do nowdays.

Bitmain's firmware from 2019 onwards, removes SSH access. Since you have Linux experience, you should already know how bad this is.

Don't you mean the SSH server? The miner has to have an ssh server to respond to any client wanting to connect. It was probably openssh...

If there is still SD card boot, maybe you could inspect this way? Don't worry, I'm sure we will find a way in, its only a matter of time...

That was incredibly discriminatory, short-sighted and blatant lie. Christians nationalists? Christians obey the State? Garbage. Everyone is different and the young muslims are no different to the young anything.

Yeah there are Arab Christians and American Muslims, go figure...

Clearly someone here is against freedom of religion, freedom of belief. Whats next, freedom of association? Of course if you get close to them, you become one of them!

Or he can leave it to the States and wash his hands... Isn't that the American way?

It also makes sense in a way. If all Governors manage their States properly, according to WHO recommendations, ie full lockdown where is needed, etc then the other States without cases can continue while restricting movement of people in/out the state, forcing them into quarantine, etc.

Actually Juggy777 you missed the other result: "Attempt" to recover the economy by letting people go out, while the Pandemic ravages everyone breaking the economy into pieces anyway.

So its really not like the options are just "save the economy, or trust the doctors". Trusting the doctors might actually save your economy from an even worse result. You see, if things were locked down in say, February. this probably wouldn't have gone out of hand and very likely things would be over by now.

Also many things have already happened, even if you forcibly reopen business, its is not going to be the same as before the virus, this is going to take a lot more time to heal.

The only thing i'm waiting to see is if the USD will finally collapse. I hope you have at least part of your savings in bitcoin...

Well it is out of hand in Brazil. Bolsonaro essentially followed Trump's example: "Its only a flu, Brazilians can just resist it and develop antibodies on their own", this created a serious impasse with his own health minister whom he wanted to sack out but apparently the Military intervened and stopped him.

Brazil is one of the countries in South America where government officials dismissed the pandemic entirely, like the attitude of a few forum members. My country shares the Amazon, and we also have Yanomami, i haven't heard about them getting infected yet. Here, to reach them you need like walk 3 days inside the jungle, with some river boat use. They have been victims in the past from (human) atrocities, usually related with illegal mining mafias.

Its not like people from outside never visit them, so the disease could have been easily carried in (you can carry it without knowing for a week, and even some remain asymptomatic all the way). If it hits them hard, it could easily wipe the community where it hits. They live in a kind of big round house with open roof except the inside walls around it where they sleep etc. So think communal house life like.

The shootings are in Philippines, but China did enforce their lockdowns in the designated areas (and people there know not to disobey the State...). Now that things are over, even Wuhan has reopened to the rest of the country while most of the world enters lockdown (or spread the virus by not locking).

China's current worry now is getting the virus from abroad, so they are being strict with people coming from other countries. But is essentially over and have restarted production and business activities. They spent 3 months living indoors.

During restrictions people could go out only to buy food or medicine, 1 person per household using mask and gloves. The State supplied food in some cases.

What will happen is that those countries that contain the virus, will reopen activities from the inside, probably keeping borders closed or forcing people coming from abroad into forced isolation (my country is doing that).

But right now, at least for internal activity, its over in China.

Well it happened. America is now officially the country with highest mortality, it is the undisputed number 1 with:
USA with 533,115 Cases, 20,580 deaths, and 30,502 recoveries.
Followed by:
Spain with 166,019 cases, 16,972 deaths and 62,391 recoveries.
Italy with 152,271 cases, 19,468 deaths and 32,534 recoveries.
France with 129,654 cases, 13,832 deaths and 26,391 recoveries.

Of course you can live in eternal denial, it won't change the facts. And it might even knock your door...

In the meantime

China with 82,052 cases, 3,339 deaths and 77,575 recoveries reports no new cases.

Someone wanted Pakistan stats:
Pakistan with 5,170 cases, 88 deaths 1,026 recoveries.

Many countries followed WHO recommendations and kept the curve flattened, giving their healthcare chance to cope with demand. You'll notice a higher number of recoveries in those places. Then there is the people that think its only a flu.., the numbers speak for themselves.

By the way, the Spanish flu was actually a flu too!

Argentina extends quarantine until April 26th, and defaults their debt.
Argentina: 1,975 cases, 83 deaths, 440 recoveries.
WHO warns about the dangers of lifting the quarantines "too soon"
USA becomes the first country in the world to report over 2,000 deaths in a single day.
USA: 503,177 cases, 18,761 deaths, 27,314 recoveries.
Venezuela with 175 cases, 9 deaths and 84 recoveries.
Thailand hospital uses little masks for newborns.
Colombia with 2,473 cases, 80 deaths and 197 recoveries.
Brazil has 19,943 cases, 1,074 deaths and 173 recoveries.
Peru places armored vehicles near border with Ecuador
Peru: 5,897 cases, 169 deaths and 1,569 recoveries.
Ecuador: 7,161 cases, 297 deaths and 368 recoveries.
Italy extends isolation until May 3rd.
Italy: 147,577 cases, 18,849 deaths and 30,455 recoveries.

Here is my opinion: USA is about to take the lead in both cases and deaths. Considering their much smaller population vs China, it says a lot about who is more capable to implement proper measures for a biohazard worldwide threat, and this wasn't a terrorist attack...

No war, its simple market freedom. This is the reason America lost most of its manufacturing, because it was cheaper to do the same things elsewhere.

So what are you going to do if i don't join your union? How much money do you think the people in my country are willing to work for? Did you know we have the lowest wage in the world? Its currently about 4 USD a month for a full time job. And if you are somehow in a very good company and you are a stellar programmer, you might be able to earn... oh 10 times more! (40 USD a WHOLE MONTH).

So lets not even talk about hours.

You can do nothing about this. This is world inequality for you. There is people willing to do it cheap, and there is people looking to hire those people.

As for quality and results, its random. But its probably cheaper for an employer to try and discard until finding the gem to exploit than hiring "from the union".

It is funny you go the protectionist way (Like Trump). The Chinese that make your products, often don't buy them because they can't. The average Chinese won't buy an iPhone, they might get a knockoff or some other android that looks suspiciously similar, but not the actual thing because the price is probably 10 times more. Of course that doesn't include the rich elite who don't mind buying everything imported.

In the end protectionism doesn't work, it only makes your already expensive lifestyle even more expensive, since you have less choice (ie. no more cheap Chinese goods). And you already lost your production capacity, maybe because manufacturing became more expensive, because people joined unions...

China is now the world's production power. If China coughs, the world gets sick (quite literally, recently). This is globalization, and there is no going back to mercantilism and other outdated practices that can only harm your economy more.

Perhaps if you dropped the Chicago school and studied the Austrians, you might find an advantage, but its probably not coming from America, unless the USD collapses and somehow people there see the light of Bitcoin before that happens.