Bitcoin not Safu haven, but People Seem to not Mind that Not to promote this source, but according to them, the bloodbath or the recent bitcoin decline seem to be an opportunity for Japanese people to accumulate or buy more bitcoins. That is based from the number of people registering new accounts on the Japanese crypto exchange which is the bitbank. Imagine, a 40 percent spike for the number of people is quite huge and KYC doesn't restrict that to happen. What does that mean? For me, I know Japanese people's actions are so absolute and precise, they have huge discipline in many aspects that they take and with regards to the recent market decline, I believe that they know what they are doing, and with that, accumulation of huge amount of cyptocurrency would be advisable for us to consider. You don't have to be Japanese to know that this is a great moment to buy bitcoin, ever since it went under 6k. I know i would have, i i had any fiat money to begin with... In addition, Japan is one of the few countries that correctly stopped the virus, so for them like China that situation pretty much over (at least inside their country). Not taking this opportunity to buy things this cheap would be stupid to say the least. As for KYC, Japan has had long those strict regulations in place, so its not like they haven't already done it, they simply didn't see the opportunity to get in, but now they do. I have said so before: Even a global economic crisis, will NOT hurt bitcoin. Price fluctuation does not mean getting hurt. While the economies that are backing most fiat currencies may actually fail (ie. the rapidly USD losing value), bitcoin's purchasing power will not fall with them, they are not pegged unlike the "stable coins" who will follow fiat to the death. Bitcoin may have temporarily lost some value, but thats where it ends. It is fundamentally different to fiat and therefore unchained to the global economy crisis. Anyway just because Japan does this, or does that, should not be an indicator of anything. Some of them were also fooling around with ripple before so they can make mistakes... |
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according to us logic you can accuse the leader of a failed state that never had any financial air to breat to pay even just 1% of the police needed of anything that suits your agenda,
third world should beg for colonialism to escape their problems Right. When this is over, we should petition for a referendum to join the Union, no need to remain like Puerto Rico as a modern variant of a colony... |
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Official indictment press release: Nicolás Maduro Moros and 14 Current and Former Venezuelan Officials Charged with Narco-Terrorism, Corruption, Drug Trafficking and Other Criminal ChargesMaduro and Other High Ranking Venezuelan Officials Allegedly Partnered With the FARC to Use Cocaine as a Weapon to “Flood” the United States
Fomer President of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro Moros, Venezuela’s vice president for the economy, Venezuela’s Minister of Defense, and Venezuela’s Chief Supreme Court Justice are among those charged in New York City; Washington, DC; and Miami, along with current and former Venezuelan government officials as well as two Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) leaders, announced U.S. Attorney General William P. Barr, U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman of the Southern District of New York, U.S. Attorney Ariana Fajardo Orshan of the Southern District of Florida, Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, Acting Administrator Uttam Dhillon of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and Acting Executive Associate Director Alysa D. Erichs of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). So if we go back to the year 1989, Manuel Noriega in Panama was accused of similar charges. This of course was followed by the invasion of Panama and the capture and extraction of the accused, who was trialed and sentenced (for life) in the USA. Is this the prelude to a similar formula to end Maduro's regime? During the middle of COVID-19 no less... Well at least the people are conveniently isolating themselves in their homes... The New York times also wrote an article: Federal prosecutors accused President Nicolás Maduro of participating in a “narco-terrorism conspiracy” in a major escalation of the Trump administration’s efforts to pressure him to leave office.WASHINGTON — President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela was indicted in the United States on Thursday in a narco-terrorism and cocaine trafficking conspiracy in which prosecutors said he led a violent drug cartel even as he amassed power.
The indictment of a head of state was highly unusual and served as an escalation of the Trump administration’s campaign to pressure Mr. Maduro to leave office after his widely disputed re-election in 2018. Mr. Maduro has led Venezuela’s economy into shambles and prompted an exodus of millions of people into neighboring countries.
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The State Department is offering rewards of up to $15 million for information leading to the capture or conviction of Mr. Maduro, who remains in Venezuela, said Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States attorney in Manhattan. So... Open season to hunt the current Venezuelan regime, open to all civilian contractors worldwide? Hmmm basically they just painted a giant target symbol to my country... |
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When the first plane hit, what a terrible accident, a tragedy indeed.
But...
When the 2nd plane hit, it was clear, we were under attack.
Covid19 is the first plane. IF there is a 2nd...
Actually this is about the 3rd, if you count previous MERS and SARS (this being SARS v2). Viruses do mutate on their own, even if you don't help them, as long as they find a host where to live. But during 9-11 America almost immediately stopped all air traffic. If they had done the same on this occasion, they would probably have fared a much better situation than what they have now. Was it fear of damaging the economy? But now you have it much worse... |
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Vaccinated last year from what?
From anything, except maybe the military versions of vaccines in the US which some say are less harmful, and therefore wouldn't weaken soldiers' protection from other viruses such as coronavirus so much. About half of Americans get the flu shot every year. That's far from people who get COVID-19 not having any previous vaccines. I don't know about America, but in other countries those yearly flu shots are only recommended to risk groups such as the elderly or health workers to avoid exposing their patients. There is mandated vaccination for a group of diseases (pentavalent?) applied mostly to infants. Adults here rarely get any vaccine at all. Until the mid 70ies people had mandated smallpox vaccine, you can recognize them, by the scar it leaves in the upper arm near the elbow where it was usually applied. By the time i was born, the practice stopped (WHO? declared the virus extinct). Should a "mad scientist" somehow kept a living sample somewhere, it could release it and have a lot of people killed. In theory everyone destroyed living samples and only frozen vaccine remains... |
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In the past the big question was, "How am I going to make my $million?" Now the additional question is, "And where am I going to find any toilet paper to buy?"  You are experiencing what my country did about 5~7 years ago, of course it was laughed off by foreigners. See who is laughing now. Get that soap while you still can... Saving water isn't a bad idea if you think there will be shortages (we have). Maybe buy and install a few tanks if you don't have. Fact: Humanity only started using toilet paper around 1920, exactly a century ago, when Americans introduced it as "medicated paper" or such. The history of the toilet (Water closet?) is also interesting, its on youtube. Very british. |
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Spain spends 432 million € in purchase of health related supplies from China.
Ecuador lengthens curfew.
Germany approves 750 million € budget to fight COVID-19.
Greenhouse gas emissions reduced worldwide due to virus halting human activities.
Italy 74386 cases 7503 deaths (currently with the highest fatality rate worldwide).
Cuba with 57 cases 1 death.
De facto gov of Bolivia will incarcerate anyone violating the quarantine.
Unprecedented holy week for the Pope: No crowds, many priests death or infected.
Colombia confirms 4th death among 500 cases.
Portugal with 3 thousand cases confirms 43 deaths.
Brazil with 2554 cases 59 deaths.
Venezuela with 106 cases.
Florida State declared disaster zone by Trump.
Seven provinces in Chile put under quarantine.
US Army takes control of New York streets.
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Nosotros recibimos ayuda primero de China, Cuba, Rusia y ahora la OMS. Pero no en metálico que es lo que daría el FMI (esos prestan, no donan). Si hemos podido detectar y atender casos, ha sido enteramente por los implementos enviados por China (que según Maduro, en principio asciende a 320mil kits de detección del COVID-19) y los implementos básicos que si, REALMENTE no los tenemos. Venezuela estaba sin nada, desnuda. Ni Gafas protectoras, ni guantes, y muy pocas mascarillas, no hablemos de los respiradores para el manejo de los casos graves.
Por ahora la crisis está controlada, gracias completamente a la ayuda extranjera porque el país tiene años con su sistema de salud (tanto público como privado) en ruinas. Los mismos Cubanos trabajando con las uñas, es muy triste tocar el tema salud en Venezuela (y no entraré en lo de la explotación de los médicos cubanos por su gobierno y el venezolano).
Afortunadamente lo primero que recomendaron tanto Chinos como Cubanos a Maduro, fue la cuarentena y aislamiento inmediato total. Eso yo lo vengo diciendo desde enero viendo como país por país fue padeciendo contagios masivos a falta de no tomar estas acciones básicas frente a cualquier enfermedad incurable.
Para mi es insólita la reacción tardía de Europa y América en cerrar fronteras y suspender todo el tráfico de personas. Por ejemplo en enero Corea del Norte cerro todo tráfico con el exterior y Japón inmediatamente confinó un crucero y tuvo hasta críticas pero a la semana aparecieron los casos a bordo y tuvieron toda la razón (irónicamente algunos de estos pasajeros "repatriados" llevaron el virus a EEUU).
Y bueno al llegar a Europa era inminente su llegada a Venezuela, aparte de si tenemos cierta comunicación con China pero siempre con escala en países intermedios, a diferencia de Europa que son vuelos directos y efectivamente es como llegó a Caracas (por Maiquetía, literalmente).
Yo incluso pensaba viendo las cifras crecer en países vecinos que llegaría primero por allí, pero no. Ahora claro Colombia, Brasil y hasta Trinidad y Tobago con casos estaba pensando a principio de marzo que vendría para acá y había que actuar ya, y vino. El 13 anunciaron los primeros 2 casos y ya el 14 (visiblemente con asesoría Chino/Cubana) ordenaron la cuarentena "social" (aislamiento). Mientras tanto Colombia con mas casos, andaba apenas planteando "simular una cuarentena" (simulación que volvieron real luego).
Lo que nadie dice pero esperamos, es la lamentable cifra de fallecidos. Según las estadísticas globales, ya deberíamos tener el primero. A menos que el tratamiento cubano sea tan bueno como dicen. Yo escuché a un funcionario hablar de 15 recuperados de entre ya mas de 100 casos conocidos.
Los que están en Venezuela saben que la prevención es la única esperanza, como dije no hay sistema de salud para atender casi a nadie, a diferencia de los países desarrollados, en donde sus sistemas colapsaron por la avalancha de pacientes. si ese escenario se reproduce acá, la avalancha va a ser de fallecidos.
Por eso es mas urgente que la gente se encierre y no salga, para esperar que el virus se muera solo y no alimentarlo (salir a la calle es alimentarlo, "feeding it") con mas víctimas que prolongan las medidas de aislamiento mas y mas y mas.
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Viendo las imágenes del levantamiento en China, parece que tampoco es que volvamos a la normalidad tal y como era antes, al menos durante un periodo adicional. Las imágenes que vi ayer era de Chinos con mascarillas paseando por doquier, y eso no es una normalidad en sí. Veremos con detenimiento cómo proceden a lo largo de las próximas semanas, pero además del levantamiento de la cuarentena oficial, cabe levantar la cuarentena efectiva, la social y la de la paran oia.
En todo caso, un largo paseo por el monte o por la playa se antoja de lo primero … (no va a ser buscar un cajero BTC …).
En Asia es común ver la gente con mascarillas, en China es adicional por la contaminación tan tremenda (que irónicamente el virus detuvo temporalmente). tal como el coronavirus, la mascarilla se usa por gente con síntomas para disminuir el contagio a los demás, por ejemplo la gripe común. La regla no escrita es que quien quiera toser o estornudar la usa. Pero el problema está todavía en apogeo en el resto del mundo. Los chinos tomaron medidas bastante restrictivas, pero los otros países reaccionaron muy tarde y con mas contagios hay mas retraso en finalizar el problema. Pienso que en principio, una vez dominada la enfermedad a nivel nacional los países podrán funcionar a lo interno. Eso es porque otros países van a tardar mas en dominar la enfermedad, así que es lógico que el transporte internacional siga suspendido. Y eso por supuesto es un golpe tremendo a la economía. Pues yo a la bici, una actividad que tuve que sacrificar temporalmente... De todos modos en este país no se puede estar saliendo mucho porque tenemos nuestra propia crisis local que lleva años ya. |
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Lo que pasa es que Venezuela es un caso atípico siempre, de hecho vivo en un Estado del mismo donde es fronterizo, justamente se maneja mejor todo el comercio es con moneda extranjera, sobre todo los pesos colombianos ( COP ), pero debido a que la frontera sigue cerrada, el valor del peso con respecto al Bolívar ha disminuído, de hecho la especulación es brutal, hasta le colocan inflación a los mismos, esto es algo bastante extraño, creo que la economía como se mueve acá es muy extraña.
Lo bueno es que a medida que el dólar sube hace que suba el precio de adquirir en Bitcoin, al menos en localbitcoins.com es así, aunque toda esta inyección de Dólares en los mercados especulativos para aumentar la credibilidad y la confianza de los inversores, espero que no se acelere el gran crash económico mundial, ya tienen la excusa perfecta, realmente en estos momentos es muy bueno tener Bitcoin en este tipo de economía inestable, por ello es un punto muy favorable a Bitcoin teniendo en cuenta que es un país que tiene y maneja muy buenos volúmenes de comercio del mismo.
Bueno, el bolívar como dije a vuelto a sus andanzas hoy en 84k bolívares por dólar. Es lógico que nadie debe retenerlos porque cada día que pasa pierde valor, pero en generar es mala idea guardar monedas fiat incluso pesos porque en cualquier momento se desploma mas ahora que hay una crisis mundial y las economías de casi todos los países se han detenido (apenas China está regresando sola a un mundo en cuarentena). Algunos políticos inculcan a la gente que eso de que pongan precios alocados es algo malo. En lugar de eso hay que enseñar a la gente a no dejarse llevar y "votar con la billetera", es decir no comprarle al que se "excede" y no ponerse a pelear con ellos. No les compres y listo, ese el verdadero poder, no la violencia. El bolívar estuvo aguantado como 3 meses en 75k, ¿eso fue entrada de dólares? ¿Entonces el gobierno estaba comprando bolívares continuamente? La economía global ahora está inestable, pero la Venezolana lleva prácticamente toda la gestión de Maduro en caída libre. PS: Los nombres de las monedas siempre van en minúsculas, para distinguirlos precisamente en este caso, de la familia Bolívar. La regla aplica en inglés: Bitcoin es el proyecto (tecnología, red, etc) completo, bitcoin es la moneda. Ej: precio de bitcoin, vs proyecto Bitcoin; o su creador Satoshi vs la unidad satoshi. |
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Venezuela ya lleva 91 casos con 15 recuperados. Se mantiene la cuarentena con aislamiento; se suspendió el pago de alquileres y el corte de servicios por seis meses, y algún bono están dando (los bonos del gobierno siempre son insignificantes, como un par de dólares que parece mucho en un país donde el salario promedio no pasa de $10).
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The only people who need to stay home are those who were vaccinated in the last year. They're the ones who show no symptoms and spread it to many people for up to 2 weeks.
Regular non vaccinated people can go out and carry on business as usual. To us anti-vaxxers this is no more than a regular head and chest cold that shows symptoms after the normal 3 days from exposure.
Vaccinated last year from what? This virus has no vaccine, everyone getting it had no previous vaccine. People have to isolate BECAUSE there is no vaccine, especially those in the high risk groups like the elderly, the ones that typically also get their yearly flu vaccine. Of course if you believe in your own words, you will probably head for a Darwin award. |
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I live in NYC.
Cons:
Everything is closed except grocery, liquor and pharmacies. Restaurants are allowed to do delivery/take out, but most of them just closed. The smaller stores only let a couple people in at a time and you have to wear gloves (provided at the door). Grocery stores have limited hours. Other than chicken and toilet paper it's easy to get what I need.
Feel pretty trapped. I've only left my (small) apartment for maybe a total of 4 hours in the past 11 days.
There's a bit of anxiety with the high number of cases around me. When I do go out for walks or to get food I literally think about it the whole time. I know my odds are good, but getting any kind of sick would really suck right now. My girl friend, who I share a tiny apartment with, has asthma issues and I know she would get super stressed if either of us got sick.
Most stress comes from having several relatives who are very old, one just finished chemo (lives about 40 miles away), and one is in a nursing home. They're all just super sad that pretty much all family visits, the thing they look forward to more than anything, have stopped, and we don't know for how long, it breaks my heart really. The one in the nursing home is basically in prison. She went from daily family visits and social activities like knitting club and puzzles and stuff to literally not allowed to leave her room. Plus she fucked up her ipad somehow and can't get facetime to work. I've spent hours trying to trouble shoot with her over the phone but it's a lost cause.
Pros:
Eating healthier since I can't go out.
Definitely one of the most productive times of my life.
Working from home I can accomplish in 3 hours what takes 9 when you factor in commute, bullshitting with co workers, pointless meetings.
Finally stopped putting it off and developed pretty solid self education routine (graphql, express and node), building some cool side projects and will likely have a better job soon.
I'm going to a sweet cabin on a big lake in the middle of nowhere next week for a while. Still just me and my gf, but it's gonna be amazing to have all that space and breath fresh air.
Here you are not allowed to go out for a reason that is not going to procure medicine of food, you should absolutely not "go out for walks" period. Exercise at home, however you can (follow exercise videos online etc). It would be tremendously sad, that this plan of yours could be THE way you get infected. You should try to avoid getting out of your apartment/house at all costs. The danger is not just people, its places where people have been (it DOES help a lot to wear gloves, AND never touch your face before plenty of hand-washing with soap). Your plan, would be sound if you payed attention when i was warning people here a month ago, but now it is too late, you are in the middle of a heavily infected city, it is almost sure you can get infected by going out at this point, so you should not (and avoid bringing it to her). If you can have your food/medicine delivered do that, and remember to handle the boxes with gloves. DO NOT GO OUT. Isolation is no joke, this is what many western countries failed to realize in time. As for your relatives, they have to isolate themselves, not get visits, not pay visits. Basically follow what i just told you to do. Facetime is a bad app, try getting something not Apple centric, something you can use on any device not just Apple products. The reason the virus spreads, is because people need to deny their social habits and needs. Isolation is not funny but a must to stop an incurable virus, even if you survive it, someone else that gets it from you might not. This is what you have to think as the reason to isolate yourself, to avoid spreading it to others. |
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So you want them to go back in time, and make it an autonomous city state ruled by a christian monarchy no less. This isn't going to happen, and the Ottoman Empire wasn't a mere city state, or christian, but Islamic caliphate. Besides why would you want to change their religion? Who are YOU to pick THEIR religion? Are you from the mistaken view that Islam cannot be peaceful, when that is the very meaning of the word? Christianity also has its long history of violence, so the religion is not the problem people are. Should i remind you how the Ottoman Empire was stopped from invading Europe? Should i mention how the "christian" Vlad the Impaler got its nickname from? This is the guy that single handedly stopped a many times larger Ottoman army in their tracks by breaking people minds with the "spectacle" they saw... While the fictional vampire tales made later that came to our days are all utter garbage, the REAL Vlad was actually far crueler, medieval style. The Pope had a serious trouble with him as he was both a devil to ex-commune and the savior of (Christian) Europe from the Ottoman (Islamic) empire. Sure there are also the crusades, the witch burning, inquisitions, etc. This is THE AGE when Islam was seen as the civilized, cultured and even scientifically advanced world, precisely by the likes of the Ottoman, vs the DARK savage Europe. Again, its the people. Funny thing you need to be told that... |
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So, cops hit you just because you was in public during quarantine? Wow, this is way too much. Ok, it's lockdown, but police can't hit people on streets without any reason. People still need to to buy food or go to work. Most of us don't go out of home without important reason.
I think that complete lockdown isn't solutiom, despite pandemy. Obviously, shops most continue to work. And I think that most factories also should work, with all precautions obviously. Otherwise huge recession will begin. This pandemy already hurts economy a lot.
Heh, i wonder where is that nice country you live in that society expects cops NOT to hit people, be thankful they are not shot on the spot. If anything, the cop would be endangering himself by getting close to a possible diseased... If you have to go out you have to do it alone, and keep your distance from others at all times. It would be good if you had gloves and a mask, but there are simply not enough of them. Only reason to go out is to procure food or medicine (if no delivery is available); no socializing, no getting close to others for no reason. If you fail to abide or your country fails to make people comply, the virus spreads and the situation lasts longer. In this state of emergency, any "rights" you may feel to have, are suspended. This is exactly what people feel when their gov is ousted by a military junta or such, it is a nice experience for some of you to experience this first hand. And the surviving is also part of the experience, but usually it means hiding from people's bullets, not an invisible virus. China stopped it because they implemented strong measures like this, after the local gov failed the central gov acted. Other countries were more lax, and are now paying the consequences. Current top 10 countries by deaths: - Italy 6820
- Spain 3445
- China 3281
- Iran 2206
- France 1100
- United States 804
- United Kingdom 422
- Netherlands 357
- Germany 181
- Belgium 178
As you can see it is running rampant in hyper connected Europe, its also thriving in the USA. Also there is a reason the richer countries got it faster: people there actually have money to travel. This very simple fact is ignored by some. Of course, they also had more money for tourism, or simply more business. When was the last time you wanted to visit a poor country? Ever been to Haiti? And guess what, an average Haitian could never afford a plane ticket in the first place. Does it mean the poor countries won't get it? Actually, they don't even have health care in many cases, not only are they getting it (late but getting it), they can easily overcome the top 10 countries. And act as recurring source of the virus worldwide. |
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Staying at home doesn't kill the virus, it just means you will be vulnerable when you do go out eventually, or when you have things delivered. Building a healthy immune system to kill the virus in your body is the way to gain permanent protection. It saddens me to see so many people in the supermarkets buying pharma products to destroy their immune systems, and none of them is wearing gloves.
If the entire world magically stayed isolated for two weeks (twice), the virus would die by itself. Unfortunately people keep going out and getting infected and infect others. The quarantine is slowing down this process at best, which may also lengthen the thing as well. But the idea is to help healthcare better cope with the sudden influx of patients. In many countries this has gone out of hand, as they did not isolate themselves seriously. And it happens that those countries have the highest death count, simply because there are not enough places and resources to treat them all and there are too many grave cases at once from uncontrolled spreading. And, while far fetched, it might even give time for a vaccine/cure. |
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Almost everything we do in life is based on trust. If we trust people who have control like a dictator, we are placing ourselves in danger. But sometimes we almost don't have any other choice if we need to get food. Its a very effective tool for domination: from the stomach. Many people here say that's exactly the method, since if you want to eat, you have to be nice with the ruler and his ministers... With a destroyed economy (way before the virus) and little barely any national production incapable to satisfy 10% of the actual demand, most people are forced to depend from the State to live. Its not like, you could work and feed yourself, not anymore anyway. Only a rapidly diminishing minority can still do that. Most people have to eat whatever the gov puts in that box, which is often just grains and pasta, few tuna/sardine cans if you are lucky, maybe some oil and milk. Meat? What's that? Its been years... The "Maduro diet" is sarcastically called here. Of course the man himself (and his closest officials) are very well fed. The big irony is that, for many people, the quarantine doesn't really change things much. There is little economic activity left to shutdown anyway, and people were already avoiding staying long outside because its too expensive and too dangerous (criminals target those with money to go out). And, Bitcoin is about being trustless. Only the code its executing matters, not the whim of the few. |
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This Israeli historian/philosopher figured out what the "endgame" of the "elite" will be this crisis: in short "mass surveillance"... Just imagine what that will mean for the BTC price...  While i agree that world governments are ramping up mass surveillance, i fail to see a connection with the virus. The usual suspects for pushing this are terrorism and criminals... Coincidentally (or not) i also fail to see the connection with bitcoin. This mass surveillance business has been going on at least since 9-11 if not before. |
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hi i have t1 16 th/s miner. can i use braiins frimware  my miner control boards have not memory card socket. It is recommended that you do not. T1 support is getting completely dropped following next release. This is because the T1 was barely a basic test use at best. Its better that you keep your factory firmware. If you try it, you will be on your own. |
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Respecto al Petro ahora que su creador habló, me quedó claro que tenía una idea en principio igual a la tuya: un token ERC-20 (smartcontract) de emisión limitada, descentralizado (obviamente usando el blockchain de Ethereum). Y llegaron los políticos, y lo arruinaron todo... |
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