Hi folks.
Great site, great thread.
More details on me later...

Just wanted to say hello 

I got reborn.
My OpSec karma wasn't high enough to continue my journey to legendary nirvana.

I'm currently on it.

Thanks, but i just stumbled over this in Meta:


According to the rank-and-merit-Q&A thread where i got this from, it will take about 5 months to be able to wear the hat.
I'll keep it clean and safe in the meanwhile.

No more juggling. THIS will be the only active account from now on.

As a deprecated model, built in the mid 70's, i had no luck finding one, even on ebay.
Not even a f*cking tape machine or punch card writer was on offer  

Just wait for adoption to carry on, it's only a matter of time, i guess 

So far, yes. But that doesn't mean it's as good as over yet. Nobody knows the number of early, undiscovered infections, that maybe only induced mild forms of sickness, but the spreading continues. Two weeks incubation time ain't no shit.
However, the good news for China is, that the count of recovered is increasing faster now than the count of deaths, at least regarding official numbers.
The list of countries/regions where infections were found is still growing, too.
I think about four weeks (three from now) are needed to get a better picture of the spread and infection rates.

TLDR; But the statement on it's own could be interpreted in a way that means "all the overpaid managers are quite useless"?


That's well known, or should be, by the time, imo.
I had pretty good income, but the social and technical inabilities of my project manager(s) led to all of those effects, constantly. Even mid-night calls, which caused a new habit to switch off the phone when going to bed. Actually a good thing.
The moment i realized how tightly i was tied to my boss(es), i remember, was the one when i let my girlfriend drive the car in our "vacation", while managing servers over ssh  with a smartphone in 2009 (teeny weeny touchy screeny). Then i wanted twice the money per hour, to get my working hours count down, but they just happily paid and kept on bullshitting.
That taught me that money wasn't worth the paper it was printed on, still took me seven years to get into bitcoin, because of other reasons.

RAM and capacity are fine, actually.
But the memory controller is defective and L2 cache has no clock sync.


nor is a tweet a paper...

That could be fixed, tho.

But no, last option would be the famous "Frankenstein hack", i guess.
Let's just hope my wife won't just replace the whole computer for an iPad clone from alibaba...
That's how their algorithm usually works, as long as their cpu was patched using l.o.y.a.l.t.y. software or microcode being treated with l.o.v.e. updates.
 
(Sorry, out to you very rare computer genius women. You know, the ones who don't blush when you are asked to replace bloated china-capacitors on a mainboard by their more durable metal counterparts from texas instruments...)

Happened while i was out, as usual 
Ask me when i leave the house, expect a significant move in these times.

Ouch. The author calls bitcoin a "market with no fundamentals", whereas he is actually missing out important fundamentals himself, like miner politics, growing adoption and acceptance rates etc.
I guess someone is wrong on bitcoin right there 

His face, dude.
The moment he realizes she didn't mean the broadcasting company when she was giggling about BBC with her friends over the phone...

 

It's not good, but gets better.
Two weeks ago the infection count must have been around 1500, can anyone please confirm?
I lost that table somewhere, but i think it was bout 11 days from now in the past. So after a few days more we can check how long the delay from "confirmed infection" to dead/recovered really is. This will be important to estimate more realistic lethality numbers.
 
OT: I'm leaving the house with no internet for about two hours, so chances are higher that a big move will happen in that time.  
May it be UP!!!

*Imagination of Rocket Meme here*

So far. Even if recovered rate accelerates more, which i think is because of evolving threatment, the spread rate wouldn't be much different, but lethality may stay around 10% in the end, which is still f*cking high, compared to many other corona-viruses.

Do you have a source for the 5 day survival? Five days in which environments? Places without UV radiation, i guess.


Seems to work only once a day 

Usually a couple of hours, sometimes a bit longer in dark places.
Would be quite irritating if this coronabitch also falls out of this scheme.

Guess what, i was away.
Now that i'm back, we can go sideways again.

Would love to see $10k break tonight, tho.

Good morning.

Science also needs to check if and how fast the immune system recovers from the drop in lymphocytes.
Example: The measles, where infections are more dangerous to adults than to children, because the virus "resets" the immune system.
Children have more undeveloped immune systems, so a infection with measles does not much harm to the immune system, it continues to develop, the setback is small.
Whereas in case of an adult with fully developed immunity to various bacteria and viruses risks secondary complications right after the body finished fighting the main measles infection.
This mechanism was discovered just recently, i think mid 2019.

I was just about to ask. thanks.

Yep, around Feb 12th, if this channel holds up:



This is really nice. Well defined.

EDIT: I have been remembered by the forum that Newbies can't post image links (the hard way)  
Please someone quote for me, thanks!

Doesn't make much sense. All the other viruses numbers (excluding the flu) are from past seasons.
So as long as the nCoV season isn't over or all of the current and future infection cycles aren't complete, this type of comparison makes no sense.
Spread rate, acceleration and lethality, based on number tracking (because of two weeks incubation time and seven to ten days of sickness) are the only metrics that make sense at the time, and these are showing quite unpleasant results.
Playing down a possible pandemic outbreak doesn't make it less dangerous, it just contributes to more victims.

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Bitcoin is pounding the resistances below $10k, either a breakthrough (and a likely correction) occurs in the next few days, or it's more or less sideways before up.
I like the constant, shallow rise of the last weeks, seems like a stable growth which should result in less dips/barts.
I'm quite confident i'll belong to the big bearish loser group of el_duderino's halving game. However, i'm also excited, because my small stash grows in termns of fiat value.

Nope. If i were him, i'd be like:
Beware! "2020/02/20"...important date, the prophet of blah had his first ejaculation on a 20th feb. too, the prove is, it's written in the stars of the electric universe.

Or similar...

Try harder


EDIT: Good night at $9.794 #thisissomehint

I try not to, really.
Being sarcastic doesn't make me an asshole.
It would make me an asshole if i intended to hurt someone, though, but that's never my intention.

Just to be clear.

Texting lacks communication of emotions, in contrast to speaking. That's one of the main causes for fuzz on the interweb.
One just can't be sure to "read" his communication partner's intentions. The error rate is around 80%.

Now you're either projecting OR you are on the 80% side of communication.

Woke up to $10.061 today. Coffee tasted much better, somehow 

Not quite correct, considering that roughly 200 people are dying in wuhan on a daily basis, i mean normal deaths.
Now this also adds the possibility that some more "normally" deceased people are yet to be discovered because of the lockdown, but this should also have minor influence.

There are many variants of the flu-"stem", and vaccines are assembled with antibodies of the currently dominant variants that are registered in fall, for vaccination in winter. This is why the flu vaccine gets to about 50% effectiveness and this also varies every year.
The vaccination-argument is therefore a half pseudo one.

This is NOT the same as getting infected by the same coronavirus variant, which was rumored lately, or even passive transmission like with herpes.
There would be no vaccine against such, which adds a whole new dimension to an outbreak like this.

I read some national geographic article, must be centuries ago now, where the question of which lifeform will make it to be the most successful (ultimately) on earth was discussed, and leading scientists agreed on viruses, because of their ability to evolve, adapt and spread quickly. But a virus that kills the host would be ultimately unsuccessful as well, excluding maybe sea or even deep sea population*.


We're living on the edge, constantly, and we likely are as unaware as helpless. We just had that bucket full of luck that our species made it this far, especially if you look at extincted animals. Extinction is quite common in nature, the big one, the universe, multiverse, god, allah or however one may label it.

EDIT:
corrected summer -> winter.

* This could mean evolution can start all over again. Quite interesting aspect, imo.

Today in the german news:

Islamists in Germany recruiting jihad soldiers and seeking fundings for syrian jihadist groups via telegram. Of course, Bitcoin, anonymity and encryption were used as buzzwords heavily.
Is somebody (nocoinerz) trying to get the price down for a bargain?  


Quite mildly.
The median of the daily uptrend channel is at about $9.900 at the time. Let's see if this even gets touched.
EDIT. 4th day above the median line, by the way.

Traffic and industry about standing still in wuhan, just to remind you...
Still, these calculations are, if source parameters are verified, speculative at best.


Many of the extrapolation results of 2017's bubble top were between about $40k and$50k iirc.?
Just for comparison, if you know or remember better, please let me know.

What's next?
Jihan, Vitalik and Justin Sun founding the "shitcoin alliance"?  

BTC making me feel like Q3 2017  (when i started)

I had the last few weeks of parabolic rise in mind, not the actual 2017 predictions, but the "FOMO ones".
And yes, they we're certainly not the norm. But still, i think it made many people still sell their houses to buy bitcoin near the ATH.

There's a conspiracy theory behind that. It says that the CCP leaders and friends caused the nCoV outbreak and took advantage of the inside knowledge beforehand, shorted their holdings and fled the country before things got hot.
Don't ask ME if this is true or not

That yellow WASP synth  
Some other fine vintage stuff right there. Cool old dudes  

The handcare routine of the guy is a joke.
Pure waste of time and desinfectant, plus he doesn't seal the mask around the nosebone (pinch the lil metal strip).
A good how-not-to-video, at least.

What's up with the corn?
CME party poopers?

Be careful. I had an eurorack system, built some modules from kits as well as from scratch or by parts list and pcb layouts.
First i said to myself to stop at 2 rows of modules, then i built a new case with three rows (for diy modules test and presentation, the few which i sold). After that i made a 4 row case, but then i got problems with the supply power (too many modules for one PSU), so i assembled the 3 row case and added a 2 row desktop case with separate PSUs each. Then i stopped to add rows, but i still switched modules frequently, at least two per month, when i finally realized i got addicted and i don't have a chance to control it, so i sold everything off. Only one PSU and distibution board plus 1 set of mounting bars are left, because i have two diy clock divider modules that are not finished yet, and i wanted to test them before selling. The end was five or six years ago, i still didn't have the confidence to finish the modules because i am frightened a bit to mount, play and get addicted again.


Thanks, i am well aware of that. I was meaning the poor routine as such. The guy didn't spread and clean between the fingers, base of thumb, back of hands, fingertips and under his nails. This may work with the hands under flowing warm water and use of medical grade soap, but a good routine should last a minute, possibly more.
They should at least check his hands with UV light, so they can see where the disinfectant wasn't applied.

Bitcoin: I see we're approaching the median of the uptrend channel again, still can't post images because of newbie reset restrictions.

Thanks  
If i could do ascii art, i guess i'd circumvent the restrictions this way.

What the ... here's a link: https://i.imgur.com/u6lzs2v.png
I didn't change the lines since mid january and the chart still seems to fit in nicely. The lower boundary is closely followed by the dotted indicator, almost exactly parallel.
A beauty in it's own.


The climber has a nice pair of female tits tattooed on his buttcheek. not so gay... #nohomo

^
Even more good news, eh?
This beast seems quite nifty.
Slowly i start to consider some of the bioweapon fud to be real.

I found these masks always very creepy and disturbing, i like the ones without eye openings way better 
Worn by females, btw.

BTC rocketing, eh?
GO!!!

Yuck!
Look like designed by H.R. Giger, ultra creeeepy 
They have a nautical touch, somehow.

But no, i meant the plain old zipmouth mask, the one without eye openings.
Latex variants (zipless) look quite cool too, especially when the whole body is inside ultra tight latex, makes great looking tits too.

But there obviously is some support.

Honestly, i think BTC will do better than Ether. SOMA

I went to a spa this morning with fam, missed the whole action, had eight pages of WO to catch up.
What a nice day, especially feeling great being the only (!) adult without a smartphone in the spa, the whole day  
My skin is pretty irritated, as well as my eyes (chloride) but feels good to be back again.

Looking at BTCUSD hourly chart looking like a small earthquake on the richter scale plotter, we still didn't touch the median of the uptrending channel (daily), staying as low as $40 above. No worries so far. BTC keep going!

EDIT: I would even favor that the price doesn't gain more upward momentum before the halvening, which would make a solid base for the next weekly (and monthly) parabola.
The way it is these days feels just right.

Buzz Lightyear?

What i always said...  
Reading numbers is easy, but the timing dimension makes it difficult for us humans.
Even the flu numbers are yearly averages. Humans are still prone to one-dimensional thinking at the current level of evolution.


NOT the measles. This virus actually resets your immunity, this is also why it's best to get infected as a child. Adults with measles do not do so well, lethality because of secondary complications is higher.


Seems that the chinese/asian folks are more vulnerable to this nCoV-2019. I have read some notes about a certain receptor that people with more "western" genes don't have or not that many. May be or be related to the ACE-2, which was mentioned one or two posts after yours.

If this turns out to be true, conspiracy theorists will say that bilderberger or trump sent that virus to hubei.  

Yeah, and why should we let the neighbor's wife die, too?

dips and green dildos
volatility is high
price still goes upwards

my first #haiku in a while.

BTC slightly above the lower boundary of the uptrending channel (starting early january), which is at EMA50 (1d) on stamp right now i hope it doesn't go down below.
More unpleasant news about SARS-CoV-19, mostly unconfirmed and unofficial.
Good evening at $9.762, gents 

Does it make the shoe taste better or does the booze make you drunk enough you don't care?
However, i've done more disgusting things, but no.

The fear seems to spread faster than the actual virus  
But i'd also not give up anonymity and compromise OpSec for a bar of chocolate.
However, my two cents, let the world know where it can get hold of the handmade oral goodies (#nohomo) and everyone can go (or send some trustee) there and get hold of the chocolate bar anonymously.
I tried to send an art piece to theymos, he even replied and said "no way i can and will accept this". on the other hand, i totally had no problem accepting this.

So, moniseur chocolatier, why can't you just accept?
Strongly insisting on your little favour, as it seems, if it's not about honor (and therefore questionable), is not something i would classify as unsuspicious, to be honest.

EDIT: Also posting questionable RL info about theymos in this thread doesn't help to let one assume that you'd respect someone's privacy.

EDIT2: The public posting of anything private of any individual by a third party is instantly raising a red flag for me.

At first, i thought: Good idea! And merited it.
The second thoughts were more about repackaging the chocolate asap because of hidden geotracking electronics.
Call me paranoid, but i was careless with my OpSec in the past and i have learned some things from that.
On the other hand, i would have been called paranoid too, for claiming that the CIA is behind major established cryptography hardware companies in the 90s

Immediately after picking them up. The dude must not be tracked.

I see we broke the downward channel  
Due to CME or rumors about Mnuchin (how do you spell that name correctly? Looks like a typo...) is about to downregulate BTC markets. If so, "USDchain" seems to be in the making or at least seriously considered by the minister of finance?

Let's #hodl this out again  

Don't even try. Calm yours down with some weed. You will be too lazy to panic 
Alcohodl just makes you over-emotional, triggering a premature sell. 

Thanks 
When i have got the required merit and activity again, you will recognize me by my hat (it's on the shelf until then).

I also naively second the 25k opinion, but not in may, more like end of the year.

geez, gyrsur  
I'm also a bit oldfashioned but you might have missed that metrosexual is not a thing anymore, in fact since about ten years or so.  
Has a bit of 80s touch to it, which could be cool somehow nowadays again, but... NO  

EDIT: Better "weg geht er" (the guy in the pic) instead of "vegeta" LOL

Time to lose some weight, eh? 

By the way, got a private question for you.
It's just that i have to wait for another 2 activity points (about a week) until i can send you PM.

That's another 7 weeks, if i got the math right, and about 60 merits.
Or i can send it to you next week  
But we have (almost) all the time of the world (unless the Covid-19 strikes us down first).

That's civilisation. And civilisations end, yep. It's like the universe, collapsing, expanding, collapsing... eternally.
A good reason to spin your thoughts about different problems. Problems you can actually solve.
No offense, it's just that i was there before. Don't torture yourself.

EDIT: Thanks to emancipation! Well done, feminists. All in all it's just the backswing of ages of suppressing women.

+1 WOsMerit

Other perspective: We can't unite, women and men, as long as each fight for power over the other sex. We're actually far from homo sapiens, literally.
We're still homo stupidensis...

^^
Ibian, FEAR is the key to all our social miseries.
But fear exists for a reason, so it's inevitable.

Not that all what you wrote so far isn't correct, imho.

EDIT:
Bottom line: We're already fucked. We just don't know yet.


I really like your sense of humor! #nohomo

Keep that momentum, BTC  

https://twitter.com/whalecalls/status/1229867088392728578?s=19

HipPop... yuck!


EDIT
Take this, in the name of Kool Herc!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMsdzxuldQM

See my edited post above  
EDIT: But well, i got you, too 

gyrsur seems to be almost always there when needed. #nohomo
Posting the perfect bridge between two worlds, thanks.


It's even at the beginning yet.
This is not a test. Socially, economically and ethically.

Like i did 2017. But i bought back in only days later (18% loss in fiat equivalent). Lesson learned, thanks.
But yeah, this was not the very beginning of the bull run.

Too much now  
I need some of that female energy (on top of me). To compensate for this pic 
See you later, guys!

I wish i did. Didn't happen, because of health reasons. #notcovid19  
When i walked across the punching bag, i hung it in place and jabbed, dabbed and palm-striked my own male energy up a little.
Now i should confess to shiva and watch a movie ("outbreak","world war Z"...?) or small timeframe BTCUSD charts until i fall asleep.

Antonio Banderas?
What's the movie's title?

Checked out "Zombieland 2" yesterday. They quite managed to keep up the laughs, but the plot was far too predictable. At least the key scenes were still surprising and there is a hidden candy after the ending, in mids the credits. I'd recommend it to anyone with a good stomach, who also doesn't sleep alone afterwards  


Observing $10.065
Bart forming?
Or loading up the spring to bounce through $10.500? Alotta shorts sitting there, BTC will need much volume to excel.
Shorters be like [Put sad looking bear meme here]

Thanks, bro.
I actually LOVED it, i just didn't remember these scenes, must be over a century ago now!
It was all about the new receptionist, afair. Time to re-watch, must be on my NAS somewhere.

EDIT:

https://twitter.com/BakktBot/status/1230032316879294466
Bakkt's acceptance seems to be growing steadily, may be undervalued?

Imo, hashpower will likely drop, though.
As soon as difficulty catches up, halvening could be delayed a couple of days.

LOL
If that is JJG, who is lying on that bed? Lambie or r0ach?  


Of course. I was meaning "catching up" downwards. "falling" or "declining" would have been better wordings.

Me too.


Thanks, unfortunately i'm out of merit, so +1 WOsMerit 

Don't you care what other people think of you 
But if you didn't do so, watch the movie. The character your nick was overlaid next to on the screenshot is the most noble one in this masterpiece.

I had a bad dream tonight. Peter Schiff wanking off hard to r0ach inserting a buttered gold bar into his emergency exit door, while Mnuchin was secretly watching from outside, lubing up a big red silicone dildo with balls in the shape of the dollar sign. This was already hard, but seconds after waking up, i was checking the BTC price to calm myself down a little, and that's where the real nightmare was starting. I hope i am still dreaming while typing this into WO.... [insert vomit emoticon here]

*sigh* 

Congrats.
Just started to learn teach my 10yr old son five card draw. I guess we can move to fixed limit holdem in a couple of weeks  

You can try. Still there is KYC at the exchanges and brokers, Fiat accounts of cryptomarketplaces are known to banks.
Localbitoins and the likes are vulnerable to be declared illegal, like mixing, and governments are working on ultimately getting rid of cash.
Way out? Anybody?

Right then. Only my broker registered all my buys. But it's definitely not like providing a full list.
What about traders? Seems premature.

Nice one!
Too good to be reserved for held back until sunday

Covid19 at the gates?
Venetia is not far from my home, and there are carneval events until mid next week with many north-italian visitors taking place.
Mankind is still too dumb to control an outbreak this big. I bet this will shake the economies quite intensively in the near future.

This is human. Most take situations seriously when the maximum damage is almost already done.
We're chatting apes, not much more.
Einstein said that mankind is able to use a few % of their brain capacity, but i say he was way too optimistic.

(edited my mediocre english to better english, which is still worse than usual today)

Well, i still have this kind of scenario in the back of my head. It's just that i sold BTC mostly at the most unfavorable times in the past, so i stay away from selling since 10/2018.
I'm doubting #hodl from time to time, as well as now. Not to save fiat, but to upsize my btc "stash" more quickly than using DCA. This has gone a bit wrong in the past times, which keeps me from selling, on the other hand it made me able to really hodl now, even down to pretty low prices.

There's still a border between my home and italy, but it's open to heavy tourism as well, especially at carneval, easter and christmas season.
I also got a nice plate of venetian mortadella last weekend.
I'm not sure if i would have denied passed on it today.  

This is fine...

This is not even the worst.
Half of the world is abusing china as a cheap delivery whore.
We, as customers, are indirectly supporting this "by accident", when buying goods that were more or less made in china. But not only.
It's more like the human made system itself is an asshole system, imo. It implies asshole nations and gives them room to grow.

That was what i was talking about. Chatting apes. Good luck to all 

It's sunday, so i corrected your apologies for you:
------------
El duderino
was out for dinner last eve
too drunk to share stuff
------------
#haiku

Honestly, we need some pics of nice dinners, drinks and gals, for lack of enjoyment when the sentiment is bearish or Covid19 takes over WO temporarily.
I'm for my part grateful for that.
Good that we seem to have entered the uptrend channel from below again today  

Darwin Award 2020?


And box jumps (pro tip from a skateboarder).

EDIT:
MOST IMPORTANT when doing squats: The knee caps must not stick out in front over your (vertical) toe level. So it's more like sitting down on a looow bench or the ground (deep squats). Doing squats with the kneecaps going out too far forward (butt above heel) is going to damage your knees over time. You gotta get that ass behind the heels as far as possible. Beginners and elderly can hold on to something in front of them with both hands (straight arms).


Another flat-earther?

When support becomes resistance 

Two more days and i am able to post images again (as a Jr. Member)  
First image will be a surprise to some of you, i'm currently working on it

BTC ($9.789) is resuming its steady, slow rise after some hourly barting.
SARS-nCoV-2 lingering at the border or even already inside. Interesting times.

Looks like "MB" to me.
Prolly meaning "My Bitch"


Same here, but i have about 20 years to go where you are now, age wise...
Still, my wife still does not know how to even handle a seed etc. My kids are too young. When they are adult, each one will be given the seed to a wallet with a single bitcoin, if everything works out as planned. I also thought about asking a notary about that problem, tomorrow, when i have to go there because of some other reason.


TLDR
In short: Another kind in the way of BAKKT or different?

Another move related to CME?

https://twitter.com/BitBitCrypto/status/1231990445439361024

F*ck CME, imo 

Get FFP3 masks from germany/europe.
3M are good, don't know of others. They also make some good goggles.

EDIT: Just saw you quoted some birdies. So for all others, if you need masks that work... (N98 effectively).

My explanation: Human nature.
Everything that is not considered or established as solid and secure in times of FUD is likely to drop.
And we all know the history and historic value of gold. 1+1=1
The biggest influences of human decisions are emotions and habits (i think there is a statement from Einstein or Freud that also highlights this).

Good Evening (GMT)

My shot:


At least a very similar facial expression, no sunglasses but other angle/direction.

EDIT: May somebody please quote for display of the linked image? THANKS 
Tomorrow the image posting restriction should be gone, so i don't have to bother anyone anymore.

Observing $9.359
BTC seems to recover from the dumps, resistance is weakening and hopefully there will be no more dumps within the next few days.


Trump: If ... ever ... falls 1,000 points in a single day...
Me: When moon sun?  

We have power outages a few times a year because trees falling over power lines, because of heavy snow (yet to come this year) or storms (had enough already).
So to a certain amount we're prepped already over here, it should last us about up to two weeks (six person household).

People in our village are like:
Covid19: "Just a flu..."
No more beer: "We're all going to die!"
And it's even not as ironic as most of you might think  

Bitcoin: Looks like good support above $9.000, i'm starting to worry when it breaks through. At the time it's still easy hodling.

Well, Trump should about to be almost famous for the almost granted backfiring effects of his decisions and orders. A mad man in a critical age, on the top of a nation's administration. This is the reason for real democracies (let's say: more democratic, to be fair) to not rely on decisions of a single man or instance.

Toilet paper, drinking water, household water, rice, beans, noodles, chicken food (for egg/protein supply), dairy, candles, firewood, fuel, soap. Just like almost every cottage in the mountains would have stored somewhere. Plus we have a lot of farmers here (milk, meat, dairy), about 150 pounds of vegetables, fish and meat in the freezer(s). Next step is to up for photovoltaic panels, but i put half of the money into corn and also some fair amount into working memory training and therapy.
Always buy the soft toilet paper, in case you ever run out of paper tissues.

Please post more of that bearish stuff, it seems the price goes up mostly always afterwards  

EDIT: Observing $9.176

Dig twitter, there are already enough conspiracy theory followers on this book. The WHO warned about pandemics about 30 years ago, too.
It was about time, i'd say.

Hard to get some beans, noodles and rice already.

Came home and i saw that i already advanced to Jr. Member!!! ...again 
Again?

This is mainly for VB1001:

That's what i thought yesterday, about 30 minutes after i had a fair amount of white russian (not the drink   )
#nohomo



Browser zoom gave up   Had to copy/paste. Daaaamn  

EDIT: What about the bug? Nuked or gave up?

Thanks, i think i have been reading this several times but i must have always forgotten about it.
Knocking against $9.2k  

EDIT: Aaaaaannnd through 

Starting to look good. Maybe R0ach threw all his PM on the market and goes all in on corn again?  

EDIT: According to the daytime it seems that JPM's paper on crypto had some positive influence on the western market.

 
Actually the best laugh of the week so far 

Time for some bear repellent

Thanks 
Off for some child care, homework revision and a big, hot coffee!

Uh, oh, no... Sorry, bro!
According to a testing from last year, the bacterial and fungal density, count and variety of the bottom side of the grips on McDonald's trays are higher than on their toilet seats!
No joke, mister. You probably get in contact with SARS-CoV-2 from an asymptomatic carrier this way, either directly or indirectly via the wiping cloths that do not get exchanged for several days. You're better off by getting their "food" through the McDrive instead.

Most linux distributions can be run on read-only filesystems (same as from cd) BUT the only true security hole is running them as root, because volumes can be remounted in rw mode on the fly. I'm using this strategy on my raspberryPi that is running the game console emulators for the kids. They don't do no shutdown, they just pull the plug/wallwart. Roms are stored on etx4 USB, mounted read-only. This one is just mounted in rw mode on the PC, to manage the roms and emulator binaries.

Just make sure you run linux as unprivileged user. Privilege escalation is a thing though, but unlikely on patched systems. However, when you're not connected to the net, i doubt there is a fair chance of catching a successful exploit via USB.

I would care less if i am running as unpriv. user on a system that is not network connected. I didn't mention that i'd never use a host with actual user data on it. I thought that would be clear because i was replying to Dabs' "frozen sysimage" approach. I would definitely not use a guest VM but a dedicated box that i can reset via dd or similar disc imaging tools, i wasn't clear on that, as i just recognize while typing this.
And yes, it's part of the very basics: there is no 100% security, only 100% security against certain (and therefor known) attack vectors.

Just sent some Sats for consolidation to an exchange via SegWit from Electrum with slider set at lowest fee (5.1 sat/b) and i got notified by the exchange about the deposit almost instantly.
 
NICE!!!

Phew, this could turn out very ugly.
Not because of real Covid-19 threats, but because of the people panicking. Globally.

A co-worker of my wife visited his parents and they didn't let him in, even though there is not a single confirmed case yet in the province they live in.
When normal people go mad, mad people become the norm.
Interesting times, indeed.

Newer BIOSes.
I forgot to mention, i'd never use such for plugging in untrusted usb media.
My good old Pentium-M notebook is still running, as long as mains power is supplied.
12 year old NAS with usb should also do, wouldn't even accept input devices.
Totally wrong?


Imo, it depends if the reset procedure copies over a default BIOS from actual ROM (safer, resets to factory BIOS) or a copy of the current BIOS from NVRAM (not safe at all).
I'd suggest it's the latter. I have a P7 milspec grade board made by asus, dual bios, read from NVRAM. So i wouldn't consider anything like this as safe as long as proven otherwise (security standard certification).


The less (free) information from china (and similar dictatorships), the worse the situation, imo.


The "fear" phase.

Who would stick a note like this onto anything that must not be touched, anyway?

Dems, Reps... Doesn't make much difference.
We're fucked, globally, economically, we just don't realize yet.
Does anybody still thinks politicians are working for us?  
It's we that work for them, they just orchestrate our behaviour, but that's not how democracy should look like. It would cost a lot of our blood to change this.
And even if we wanted to, they would make us to fight against each other than against the establishment for something better.
We're just too dumb (yet) to be really free.
Any government is just elected, temporary dictatorship. The old greeks would likely stab themselves in shame, if they'd know what "democracy" looks like today.

Two times could be too much already...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3J7AmojLGrs

Yesterday i wanted to buy some noodles. The noodles shelves were empty, as well as rice, canned beans and eggs. Today i was at the supermarket again, still not restocked, flour and evaporated milk shelves now empty too. I asked for restock, they said at noon. I returned there at noon, people with carts full of toilet paper waiting for the delivery truck.
I went to a small store at the city border and got all i wanted there, easily. No need to touch my prepper reserves yet. People are endlessly dumb. They will smash their heads for a bottle of soda in the supermarkets soon, while i will shop the grocery stores in a relaxed manner.
But you have to know this: Four confirmed Covid19 cases in the whole country so far...
This is insane.

EDIT: Fishing "season" starts mid of April, too. I'm set. Quotes because fish can be caught all year, but it's harder in winter, of course.

There goes my coinbase account 
Any exchange recommendations for EU citizens?
Kraken? Do they still suck so bad?

Observing $8.735
Sideways mode (idling for possible pump?)

Thanks, i'll have a look.
Holding a couple of IOTA crap, maybe even down to zero. Otherwise it's the king only i put my spare fiat into  

EDIT: Real life calling me, (back)read you guys later! Have a nice one 

You know how horse piss tastes like?!  

How come?    


Could be that we all have to accept SARS-CoV-2 Covid19 as seasonal additional to the flu.

Corona virus
the newest chinese export
now all over earth

What gives, one might think
while some others panicking
bitcoin doesn't care

#doublehaiku

Nothing else to say atm.

Saw this too. Unbelievable. They even believe in the "healing power" of licking the shrine.
I consider this as an example of Darwin's Law. Some cultures are just too dumb to succeed (EDIT: and/or survive).
Reminds me of flat earthers a little.


Almost always i read something like this from you, i have to compulsively think about Patrick Bateman. #nohomo
Btw: The movie is like an audiovisual sleeping pill, compared to the novel, imo.


The chinese government seems to have some success in limiting the outbreak applying strict measures.
I don't see much of a chance for the rest of the world, excluding north korea and russia. I refer to Darwin's Law again.
My last hope is that the virus doesn't survive summer's sun ultraviolet radiation levels (like SARS).
However, my UV-C equipment is set up and ready. It can decontaminate a whole room and every surface within that is reached by its light, in a matter of minutes, without the side effect of producing ozone. My health now only relies on family members that have to go to work or school. Everything else is manageable by using soap and proper hand washing techniques. As a person with hyper-reactive immune system, i have to take stronger measures each winter, i'm already used to that by now.


The bright side of the two-sided-medal.

JHW of course, ya noob  

Choose between these two possible translations:

JEHOWA = "He, who is"

JAHWE = "All there is"

A tip from the school of Yedi:


A tip from me:
The original wiseasses of the church made the wrong choice.

Other than this, after zooming a little, this looks like a clean, round bottom to me (insert perfrect female butt pic here).

Of course, i presented kind of a modernised representation. Didn't want to throw full hardcore at you, but i see i can't add anything of value for you now.
"I am that i am" is also the far better translation, forgive my sloppiness. 

Yes it does. Colon is lined with enormous count of nerve cells, which are believed to interact with the brain. As well as i don't have a source link handy, i don't know if this evidence was strengthened in the meantime.
And according to this, heavy consumption of certain food, wheat meal, HFCS, sucrose, fat... harms, at least changes gut bacteria that is linked to process or create serotonine/dopamine in the colon. On the other hand, colon bacteria population was discovered to be influenced by psychic illness, and the findings correlated to a good amount to the colon popuplation of obese people.

It's a two sided sword indeed, while fructose and fructans (fructose alcohols, as in wheat) play an important role here.
For example, i was diagnosed as anxious/depressive two decades ago, and i was able to change my mood and strength by a diet i held because i was later diagnosed with fructose malabsorption. Even today, when i eat too much fructose/fructans i get angry, nervous, my muscles become weak and hurt, skin problems etc.
My colon suffered from inflammation for decades, taking a shit several times a day was causing malnutrition, which in turn led to vitamin deficiencies, these caused my memory problems.

So i can say for sure that brain fitness and nutrition are linked directly.
 

Isn't China/Asia the region behind the most bitcoin volume? I think we already saw the impact, i suggest a substantial drop in the stock market is yet to come, at latest when half of the US and EU will have to stay at home for collective self-quarantine. The halvening will most likely unfold it's rising potential a while after it has taken place,as it was before. Probably there will also be some additional action in advance, because of anticipation.

But that's uhm... just my opinion, man 

Absolutely. Whenever i read his writings i have to think of Patrick Bateman in "American Psycho".


Mine
I had a similar setup 11 years ago. The double bed was standard, but i mounted my screen behind a wooden board with black velvet lining, with the three front 5.1 speakers mounted around the display. The board was tilted off a horizontal platform, using hinges and a metal chain to adjust the angle, very simple but effective. The platform was hung from the ceiling, on two rails from sliding doors, mounted in the direction of the bed's axis, over the center of the bed. I was able to play in almost any position, from sitting upright to lying flat, after adjusting the angle and height. Watching movies also was great. The display was only 26" diameter, but considering the resolution of the screen and the human eye, it was more than sufficient at the lower distance. I hit my head occasionally when getting out of bed in the dark, nothing too serious, though. I still have the rails in the basement, so maybe i will build something like this again. Of course, i had a wireless keyboard, and this was the only annoying thing about it: Typing while lying flat.

I got the idea from a movie, where a games programmer like was living in an automated chair with screens hung above and in front of him, split keyboard in the armrests (iirc). Funny, as i just googled for it, i found the title "Grandma's Boy", from 2006, directed by Nicholaus Goossen (*).

EDIT:
(*) That name was rising some memories about someone you might know...

modern? NO WAY!
Let me go on:
It more reminds me of the old times of techno, in the mid 90s, where all the power of a raving masterpiece of techno came from a simple but powerful hookline, uncomplicated sound design in the ways a jupiter8 or minimoog could deliver, accompanied by a tb-303 bassline, while the emotions of the listener were unchained by about only the arrangement, which brought him/her onto a journey through the universe of his/her own mind. I might have swallowed, sniffed, licked and smoked too much of all the funky substances offered to me these days to maximise the experience this way, but hey, techno was made with that in mind. It was like woodstock reloaded in the nineties, unlike that uniform, commercial, high polished polyrhytm techno music scene of today.
A track from 2018, which is free from all that and still makes you float away, like in the old days, that's indeed a brilliant piece of work.
I need to get some very old mp3s now, thanks for igniting the spark    

I intentionally read it as "who is". Problem solved. Merited.

Always good to have Manners...
Yummy 

Had a hell of a bad day today. The topping of all was a marten killing one of our chickens, and the kids found it. Some infant's tears later, i had to fix the compound for about two hours in pouring rain and set up a trap. I spare you all the other ugly details of this disaster tuesday.
Feels good to hang around and backread a whole day of WO. Feels like home²  
Hope your day was better, y'all.

The corn didn't even move so much. Unusual, when i am busy with RL. A strange day, indeed.

Depends.
I'd vote for Gentlemand, if you need some fucked up, but brilliant perv fantasies.
I'd vote for JJG if you need a 800+ page book of flawless on-topic breakdown analysis, say within a week.

 

I can feel you #nohomo
For my part, i promised my wife to set the four footed killer free, in the wild. She even suggested leaving 2 eggs per day outside the compartment, so it doesn't attack the chickens (uhm... yeah?)  
Mofo will go swimming, with a stone at least four times its own weight. I will spontaneously decide if i knock him out before, because of mercy'n stuff. I have seen enough blood today. I like it clean and the fish will be happy about a nice extra dinner. The leftover corpse of the victim is prepared for the fox, he should have taken it already.
It's a win-win-lose-lose. Fair enough, imo.

Biden's about only chance is to act as the "sane" guy. Trump has to look like a clown besides him. He tries so hard to look serious.
Or America is really that stupid, then it's "good night", like in Mike Judge's "Idiocracy"  

EDIT:
While it's not sunday
i'm in mood for a haiku
Waiting for pumps, too

 

This video is actually a good example of what i was meaning.


It worked in that society/state of evolution. But we're in a new age, an age where we are not forced to use our brains to survive and achieve "security", because we already have. But our brains go on, running wild, in any imaginable variant. A high developed brain in a world lacking of challenges creates challenges, and their carriers start to believe that their (current) personal life-challenge is real, so brainfuckery and reality gets mixed up.
We need to stop acting unconsciously and start to observe what our mind really does to us. This is the next step in evolution and it might take us thousands of years. In between we might get anywhere between the jetsons and the flintstones, possibly more than once.


Don't worry. It's constantly swinging. We already had enough of that socialism, now we consider this as "normal", the pendulum starts to swing in the other direction again. History repeats itself. When the ww2 generation extincted, its grandchildren are ready to do it wrong all again.

EDIT:
There even isn't anything like "wrong" or "right", but just "results" of events.

This is a point-of-view issue. If you look at a circle from the side, with a point moving with linear speed along the circle, it moves at the speed "pattern" of a pendulum. Don't know how to better describe this in english, but the essence is that we're trying to express the same thing(s), imo.

EDIT: Or a half circle, and the moving point moves from end to end.

And all things are temporary. Almost all. I totall agree with that.

So it's: Sacrifice the weak and elderly, overload and ruin healthcare to save the olympics?
I thought Japanese were intelligent?

It's just my uhm... opinion, man 
Thanks for the link, looks good after flying briefly over it.

Yes  
The only chance is reproduction at a faster pace than we'd be killed off by the virus.
Gotta tell my hot young neighborhood chick ASAP.
Oh, wait... That vasectomy last year...
Well, she doesn't know about it, so why bother?!  
Time to save the world!

Nope, i'm just a free rider  

EDIT: Already reproduced several times, so no remorse.

Thanks. This was what i was trying to say by "looking at the circle sideways" before, but you explained it about 99% better 

Isn't that kind of the same thing like hillary vs. bernie was?

Nooo  
He was meaning that if you invest all of your money into BTC, you have "lost" it.
But you have BTC, at the other hand. Which is not Fiat. So it's "lost".
Not a lie. Cleverly spoken.


Pedantic? Nope.
It's the details that make many, often important differences.
Would that translate directly to the movement of a metronome, too?

I can imagine this to be changed if the number of possibly infected cases in the US is going through the roof.
Either this, or full quarantine for the whole country.

EDIT: Today all the missing parts for my 36watt UV-C Lamp arrived. I can disinfect my car, clothes, hair and skin (in emergency cases, because of cell damage through UV radiation) after coming home and disinfect my hands, even before i touch the handle of the front door of the house. Still, what bothers me the most is that four kids in this household can contract CoV every fucking schoolday and then the whole family is likely fucked. I hope they close down schools at the right time, not as late as in italy, for example. Trump is one thing, but in my country the politicians are even more naive and corrupt than him. Prone to fuck up.

Oh, yeah. And please, BTC... would you kindly break resistance and resume your way up while i sleep?
I wanna see some vegeta memes again...

Idiots. When it comes to the worst, most of the people will have to restock. Everybody seems to care to not get infected, but if they fail, we'll be fucked by the consequences of political decisions, typically not of the far sighted type. Only then will i touch my prepper food and toilet paper.
About the only things that i'm dependent on are mains power and some source of water (even rain will do).
For the very bad situations i have a DC/AC converter lying around, which is designed to work with car batteries. So solar power will do, as long as i can regulate the voltage down to 12V.

Out of newspaper too? 

The virus itself is too small, correct.
But it has to be bound to aerosols or droplets to be inhaled and that is where the mask actually works.
The handling of that mask is critical. You have to put it on/off using gloves, discard them with the mask immideately, wash your hands, wash your face.
Alternatively, treat the mask with UV-C light or ozone, this also takes the stink and it can even be re-used.
The mask is an additional security measure, not a remedy. It just lowers the risk to get infected, IF you take all the other measures to protect yourself serious, too.

True.
Actually people don't die because of the virus, but because of their immune reactions consequences.
If you have a weak system, it will over-react to the virus. If you have a strong system, it will react less or quicker.
A few exceptions to this rule, but it's mostly correct, imo.

I myself have a hyperreactive kind of immune response. I catch a small cold and feel ill for like a week or two, without fever. Don't know what that means in terms of health risk with nCoV, but my lungs and organs are healthy. And i'm within the "safe" age band, below 70yrs.
Children seem to get infected less or develop less severe symptoms, is this still true and what do the virologists say?

You can bring out some more detail by adjusting the resizing parameters.
I suggest pre-sharpening (strong) before reducing size with dithering set to "preserve details"-like settings (presets in photoshop and the likes will do fine).
The current version is f*cking blurry.

Sorry, can't rember the background, but it looks cleaner now  
Reducing size almost always needs a bit of sharpening, as a rule of thumb.


I did indeed miss that one. Thanks for reposting.

I actually found a good summary of most papers on titter, somewhere it's also mentioned that two strains of nCoV were identified, one inducing severe, one inducing only mild symptoms.

https://twitter.com/JacobCanfield

Well, at least we're possibly only semi-fucked  

EDIT: Just saw that PUMP. It's a bit steep, so i hope no barting involved. We'll see anyway 
GO, BTC !!!

Dumbfuckery in my home country going on.
Not that government officials still call that thing (the virus and the disease) "corona", they announce a healed survivor and several new cases as "good news". Additionally, the odd Influenza comparison always comes as a follow-up in every statement. They recommend to isolate infected children at home, in a separate room, keeping a distance of 1-2 meters, for 14 days. WTF

I'll go pick up the kids and then it's time for transformation into the cooking father  
Have a nice day, see you later on today, when we hover at $10k, hopefully.

EDIT: Just listened to a radio interview with the minister of health, he said he will delay measurements to control the spreading of CoV, because it's too early. He also made a comparison to Italy, he said their authorities ordered closing of schools and to stay at home way too early.
You can't control spreading in hindsight, only prophylactic. In other words, he just waits for the virus to go away by itself. What a fucking moron! We must be the dumbest country neighbor of Italy... 

I agree (when looking at short timeframe charts). So if there's no pump within the next couple of hours, i guess it's sideways again (or bart finishes his haircut soon).

"Sacrifice your grandparents for education"?
"Ruin the health care system by sending your kids to school, so you can continue to work"?


Highest Covid19 lethality in the world?


EDIT: Welcome back, JJG 

Somebody who really deserves the title "Hero".
Thumbs up  

Prejudice. It's dangerous and worth shit.


It's a mistake. "Equality" is also the wrong term. It's about stopping to undervalue and suppress women. That "Equality" is also misunderstood by feminists, who (would) suppress and undervalue men. We're developed enough to get along now.

Ahm, dude... It's winter here (and in italy, germany...) and the thing is spreading like mad.
Check your sources  

EDIT: UV Radiation will likely kill it, as with SARS. This also explains the low spread rates on the southern hemisphere and near the equator.

EDIT2: One last time: Get yourself UV-C lamps (phillips, pl-l lamps got ozone filtering glass tube) if you want to desinfect surfaces, rooms, clothing. SAFETY PRECAUTIONS MANDATORY! It's no fun to survive and realize you became blind or develop skin cancer...

checked 
no offense (that's why the emoticon twinkles)

Six pages to backread  
I'm still in a hurry, wife got sick (i hope it's a "normal" virus, but no rhinitis and a sore throat for a start *fingers crossed*).
Just wanted to contribute this quickly to Covid-Observer:

https://www.inverse.com/article/60949-keto-diet-influenza-fight-infection
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31732517

Does not hurt. May be of some value for WO brothers who get sick.

I see i messed up the stats this month a bit, sorry for that. Should be the first and last time.

I also don't like the latest numbers. Italy goes ahead Iran. Deaths vs. Cured in the USA looks horrible, too (17 vs 15), is that to blame on the "healthcare" system?
Italy and Austria carnival tourism should show some effects in the following week, too. Good luck! Hope you're prepped out.
 

Good read, thanks.
LowCarb works for a reason.
An old man told me,  you can't go wrong if you don't consume all the things that are heavily advertised.
Think about it. Eat Burgers, drink Coke, all that carbopumped fastfood and snacks, become fat, be a cash cow for the pharma industry and finally die younger.

 

newspaper

Sheeeeiit, i was thinking to get rich with the facemasks, and now i only have 50 rolls of TP to compensate.
I'm just a bad trader, i guess...

Some say a shaved canyon helps a lot. Anal bleaching might be even better.
Seriously, get creative. From newspaper pieces to old socks and shirts which i'll dry in the sun, scrape off the dry poo and wash them again.
Anything goes  


I thought they were for pleasuring females.

Does need a new vacuum, tho...

One german died today in hurgada (egypt).
He was there since a week.

German infections are relatively "young" and they  started with intensive testing and contact tracing in the beginning.
In Italy, friendly kisses and hugs are part of the culture. This also adds to the explosive increase, also many elderly there. They say it's because of extensive use of olive oil in their cooking.

A german virologist (don't remember his name) said in an interview on NDR (afair) that mutations are not too bad, because viruses tend to mutate into variants that don't kill the host for effectiveness of the spreading. Makes sense. The interview was available online this week, i didn't find a link, might have watched it on the smartphone.

EDIT:

Forgot it's sunday
wife is still sick a little
time to post again

#lifehaiku

the corn is falling
but i am out of fiat
fuck, i do not care

#charthaiku

Idk if there is an official statement, but i'd say tourism. Also quite some italians from the lombardy region working in ski resorts in the southern west of austria, hosting many international guests.

Not really, imo. That's what you get with millions of chinese tourists on vacation around their new year and two weeks of incubation time. And the resulting R0 of 3-3,5 has good impact on the growth of case numbers, too.

EDIT: Oh yeah, and this takes us to 3-4 weeks to get the first dead patient to be diagnosed in hospital. Imagine the spread within this time. More and more cases pop up, everywhere. In the southern hemisphere the temperature, level of UV-C radiation and air humidity makes it much more difficult to spread. Most cases and fatalities are foreigners there. But since they are going into fall and winter soon, the situation may get significantly worse, southward of the equator, in the next few months.
Travel bans should be planned ahead, but you know, "economy first"  
By then case numbers in the northern hemisphere should get much better.

I bet he went panic buying toilet paper  

$8k, not bad.
I'm awaiting fiat. I hope it's available soon enough.

Best part is when daddy finally runs and abandons his family.
Instant divorce reason, imho.

I read some opinion on titter today, that the dumps are caused by miners to buy rigs in anticipation to the halvening.
Would make quite some sense.

https://twitter.com/BurgerCryptoAM/status/1236923375689359360

First comment on this tweet, from "LogD".

tried xhamster?

F*ck that. I wouldn't even get hard by an angry naked teen chick. I need real women.

My last Ex was kinda grumpy and naive, 24 yrs at that age, while i was 32. Kinda similar case as greta, emotionally, but older of course. As i can remember my youngest partners, ONS or relationship, they hardly moved at all until the age of 17+, so "sex" was more like enjoying a silent movie.

I refine that with "grown woman" (is aware of her desires and can communicate them, is sexually proactive, doesn't bitch around because lack of fulfillment, intelligent to some degree).

Let's be honest. It would be boring otherwise 

So they gonna close down subway stations?
From yesterday, we have national limits of 100 people indoors, 500 people outdoors per gathering.
Borders to Italy are closed, only limited passing allowed, as delivery trucks (drivers will be interviewed and checked for symptoms), nationals will have to go into quarantine after returning to the country. high schools and universities to be closed on monday, switching to e-learning, schools and childcare facilities should evaluate and prepare for possible closure within the next days/weeks.
People advised to stay at home, go out only if needed and reduce contacts to people, avoid crowds.

I think we had 200 cases so far, no deaths, one critical case and a handful of healed patients.
Testing is done only when symptoms occur, followed by contact tracing if positive. Contact persons are informed and put into home quarantine for 14 days.
No real worries, yet.

Absolutely no sweat above unless below $7.6k
How many times has the trust in bitcoin been tested already?
#hodl

Does Full Tilt etc. now require you to wash hands before buying into an online tournament, too?


Wrong way to look at it.
If you swim in a sea of fools, you have to enlighten youself that there are some islands populated with nice, intelligent people. This should be your reference, or you might drown in masses of idiots. Don't get frustrated by the things you can't change. Change your view/approach  

EDIT: I had to combat this too. Once you don't belong to the idiots any more, you start to recognize how many they are.

It's within the brain. If we don't use it consciously, it starts to produce random output (like constantly background-dreaming), but our minds are not yet developed so far that we can recognize this as virtual, so we consider it as real. Our minds are constantly talking to us, and most of the time it's pretty dumb/bad shit. It's pre-warming for what it's needed, but if we distract ourselves by media, entertainment and so on, we don't use it. So it starts using us....

Totally makes sense. But we (the few) can't change that. So it's better to look at the positive aspects of our personal human life, or we make this life our personal hell.
Just retreat, little by little, from the masses. Surround yourself by "healthy" people.

Most important:
And keep away from others piss 

Imo, communism (or something like it) could work, but not as long as there is an economy.
Mankind made a big mistake when inventing "money". We can't turn it back, the experiment failed.
The hippie idea wasn't that bad, but they fucked it up, for various reasons. We have to go with what is left, or go away, i agree.

Seems you ran out of these: üüüüüüüüüüüü ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ
For you to copy/paste next time 

atm it's pumping.
observing $7.810

That's MS. Improving features until they break. It's a tradition, it seems.

good morning.
next 35 mins are critical.
observing $7417

EDIT:

Guys, if the fifth consecutive RED weekly candle ends up below $7.5k, i think this might get pretty ugly.
So far on the last few occasions, after four or five red weekly candles the corn was reaching a local bottom. But there are quite some days to go  

EDIT: At the time it looks tempting to park some of my stash in dollars and buy back in lower. Trumpster Dumpster may make this work out for me.
PlusToken dumps confirmed? anybody knows something? there are $100M dump rumor-tweets that say it's .

Still about x3.5 for me at these levels. More buying fiat takes about two weeks to arrive at my banking account.
Just thinking.

certainly. but when? 

bargain timez  

Read back. There were evidences. I even posted a screeny.
What a fucking day!

PlusToken guys are in a hurry. Probably hiding in the US at the time?  

As i stated before, "resistance" is completely virtual and, most important, momentarily.
And even if you consider "resistance" as resistance, it slowed down and degraded the dip by several %.
Or did you like to see corn falling to $5k and below?

Agree. That didn't come out as clear to me from the previous posts.
I was able to up my BTC holdings by a fraction of my "trading reserve" at an exchange.
I'm prepared now for further rise or fall. Good thing i was at home and had time for SOMA analysis, which made me do the right thing just a couple of minutes before the dump started. I made market rebuys, unfortunately, but the "loss" is not really high, especially in contrast to the gains.

I just fear that almost nobody is in the mood to buy but hodlers.
Most big players will likely stay invested but keep their hands off the buy button.
Average joe will be scared by todays dump 

Just wanted to say the same.
SOMA it's not yet over.

Read his last sentence. I'm looking for sideways, at least a day or two. Like with $3k last year. When i see AND feel the capitulation  

bitcoin will stand. It's more a test of holders. (not hodlers)

I guess so. I won't be touching my fiat until corona situation will easen up. I had some luck with trading today, since i saw the dip coming SOMA (#notliteral).
I bought back gradually about $200 up from the ADL on the way up tp 5.900
It looks like capitulation in 2019 now, but i still wait. I also waited back then, missed the dip by a few 100s, but i was satisfied. I do almost all trades manually, therefor quite rarely. I just wait out now, more fiat will be coming in the next 2-3 weeks. Can't await some more dips, will also be happy when the price is rising. I expect a slow rise, if any, in the near future, and so i can still buy without fomo-ing every little green candle.

This one was a month earlier:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDc_6KRaX6Q

It's funny and subtitled, but i think it was posted here before, too.
Jason Park (the singer) is also a fucking good skateboarder. Check some skate vids on the channel, he's awesome.


I had alarms enabled for BTC in blockfolio, and it felt like having whatsapp installed (which i don't have). Ding-ding all day long...

This is a sign of the times. Almost everybody is ready to freak out about anything. The media and politics have exploited and built the fear in folks so much to manipulate them, now it swings back. They just overdid it. Poor panicky people, i can feel for them, really. puppets on strings.


The whole crux about explained in two sentences. Chapeau!

WMA200 breakage looks close in my charts.

what you and most other hodlers did before for years: wait it out and buy the dip.

EDIT:
It's easy. The lower we fall, the higher my safety margin on the way up. 

depends on the country. Miners should have some reserved BTC to get over it for some time.
It even might look to some of us that todays dump was the result of a big miner liquidating reserve btc (for whatever reason).
I read a tweet today, that many sold bitcoin from today came from wallets that were untouched since 9-10 years.

EDIT: I thought a split second about CSW and the "tulip trust", but then i had to laugh about my own stupidity 

hashrate drop, followed by difficulty decrease and many last gen cheap asic boxes on the 2nd hand market.

realistically said, that's about it. Side effects included.
Out of sMerit, so +1 WOsMerit

EDIT: Thanks LFC_Bitcoin, finally able to send a merit.

Me too. Buy on the way down. Gradually. Makes you feel less of a fool after unexpected trend reversal (most times).

Please post a screenshot. Just for reference, because i only have SMA in my charts.
thanks

EDIT: Saw it already. Posting frequency today is unbelievable. I don't remember hitting "save" on new comments so often as today.

^^ 60%?
So back to $3k.
Rinse and repeat...

Great. Exactly the one i always keep my eye on. Thank ya.

Good Night, WO 

Two strains were identified so far. Science shit. Both were found in Italy.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2020/03/04/coronavirus-has-mutated-aggressive-disease-say-scientists/

There even was a profile available on the net, i saw it on my smartphone, so i don't have the link (private browsing always on).
Good news is that a vaccine will most likely be effective against both and also most strain mutations.

When i picked up the kids at school today (which is closing down for at least two weeks now) i heard other parents talk about investing in bitcoin, because the price sunk $1000 (...) "No, it's even down $2000! ...", "Then i'm gonna buy for sure now!" ... (and so on). I didn't join the talk, but what i really heard from it was:

"Bitcoin is low, i'm gonna catch the falling knife"
"Bitcoin is even lower, i'm finally buy the blood and become a coiner"

So i guess that BTC will tank even lower after the rise from $4.x cools off.
Many people gonna loose their newly invested money to the whales, at least to some good percentage.
I'll wait for it. I can still buy on the way up until about $6.5k if i'm totally wrong.
My final word (opinion): Bitcoin will go lower before the slow rise to next ATH. When i look at all the pumps after 04/2019, i'd say the bottom could be somewhere between $3 and $3.5k.

I regularly suffer from sleep attacks when watching youtube videos. For real.
Most time i wake up because the back of my head smacks against the wall. My couch has no backrest, only a dozen of pillows. More like a bed in the corner of the living room. However, this is also induced by the baroreceptors near the spine. I lean back and relax, five minutes later, at max, i'm out. Born workaholic  
But when watching youtube's influencers videos, or trying to, sleep attacks kick in even when sitting at the table. The only difference is that my head nods forward. I kissed my keyboard more than once, already  

That's why i heard his secret nickname is "Donald Thumb".
He can massage a prostate while squeezing both balls with two fingers each. 

Look at the bright side:
you will save a lot of cash.
more money for corn!

Mills gritt is paused.
My advice: do some planking
To maintain your strength.

May someone go on?
And then somebody else, too?
For endless haiku.

Probably going to win the halvening prediction game?  
But i don't really want to, if you know what i mean...

These insecure times will shake out quite some hands, i guess. But after that, slow recovery should take place and depending on the world economy sentiment, we could moon again. 2021 ATH may be cancelled, though. 2022-2024 will probably take us to flying heights again.
We'll see, we'll hodl.

In Europe we're advised to stay home unless we really need to go out, restrict social life as much as possible. We're about 1-2 weeks ahead, so i'd recommend to think ahead and adjust. Stock things you need, before everybody else hits the supermarkets.
For anxiety/depression: It helped me a lot to adapt to a belief that my time on this planet is limited, until a special "expiration date", regardless what i do to avoid or delay it. Now imagine you're in the future where you reach that date and just died. As you look back onto your life, ask yourself what would have you done differently, starting from NOW. What did you really want to do/achieve and didn't yet do it because of whatever. Go into yourself and meditate that.
At some point you will hopefully see clearly what you want and what you have to do, to get it. This is life. Depression and anxiety is just like being semi-dead, waiting for the expiration date. Don't trust the voice in your head that keeps you from doing what you want. Because it will try even more so, after you find out what you want to do with your precious life.
Sounds esoteric? I know. It helped me a lot to get out of the depressions of my 30s and to become proud of the nerd i always wanted to get away from, just to fit in.
Life just doesn't work like that.

EDIT: Still it was a piece of work to get out of the hole, but it payed somewhat off for me.

TBH, the way these guys wear their masks looks more like inviting a virus 

Seconded.
On the other hand, most of us drive cars in public traffic, every day. Accidents at speeds above 30mph are potentially lethal. Additionally, most people i know that passed actually died in cars. Not from cancer, a flu or violence, nope. Car accidents. We risk our life every day. Second: Drugs. Not the nice ones, but mostly pharma stuff combined with other deadly drugs like opiates or alcohol. When you look at causes of death, ranked by occurances, and compare that with what most people fear to die of, it will leave you wondering (at least).

Set your limits, establish hygiene and prophylactic routines, stick to them no matter what. It gives you a feeling of (self)control and this is the foundation to stay clear and focused in times of trouble. Don't think ahead too much, but rather trust in yourself to handle the current situation in the best possible way, whichever and whenever it may occur. Always try to know what to do. It's the opposite of panicking.

EDIT: Oh yeah, and watch "Zombieland" both parts. It's just a horror-comedy movie, but it teaches the viewer about the benefits of developing rules and stick to them to stay alive. No need for developing compulsive strategies, though.

Merited for repeatedly giving me the best laughs on the interweb.


Yesterday we closed the border to italy. Unilaterally, like i'd expect from our snoddy, arrogant chancellor.
I heard rumors about traffic jams all the way down to Udine. Can't verify, but sounds a bit too extreme to me.
Finally, people here are starting to grasp the situation. Schools were planned to close next wednesday, today the government preponed that to monday.
Infection hotspots in Tyrol were put under quarantine. All shops closed from monday, except gas stations, pharmacies, food stores and the likes. Worried people starting to run hospitals and doctors, because the covid hotline is overloaded.
we're about two weeks behind, with only 2 dead (afaik), about 450 proven infected now. Was 202 two days ago.
I don't have to tell you what that means.

So does anybody think i'd care about the price of bitcoin?

Good morning!

Yeah, i might sound too bearish because of the $3k - $3.5k range, but i will buy at higher prices too without much loss (or much less gain, if you want to see it that way).
I'm easy with holding out and waiting, in times of uncertainty i refuse to make moves, because this has brought negative results in the past, mostly.

I just think of something like an ATH delay. Mainly because of market insecurities and (big) miner politics. S2F is a model that has to prove itself at least for another market cycle, starting with capitulation before halvening, which we kind of already had 2019, but maybe not. Maybe capitulation is now. But who is clearing 9 year old addresses? I don't have the links here on my PC, and maybe titter is a source nobody can really trust, but i guess somebody will sum up the recent market events in a nice summary, which will hopefully be found by a WO member and linked here.

Bossian... You know by now, i hate to hate people. But i would so much like to see him lose the bet.

& that is the moment i want to catch to buy. Tax refund fiat incoming in 3... 2... 1... (weeks, unfortunately).

Situation in Austria (not Australia) is similar, we are about 10 days behind with infection counts when compared with Italy. We should reach 1000 infections today, at the current pace. About 1000 testings per day are possible. 6k done so far. 1 dead.

You know all the work/life data from fillippone already, but there seems to be a secondary effect:

Many families are staying at home together, which brings them more closely together, in an emotional way. No father/mother is distracted from being close to their loved ones by working all day and spend their earned money on hobbies or "useless" goods. This might be enough for many to question their life priorities, maybe it will be enough to shift their consciousness from being a tiny, tiny cogwheel in the global clockwork of economy, to more important things in their relatively short life than chasing wealth before dying. The economy doesn't care if worker no. 2.122.391.231 dies and is of no more use, because worker no. 2.122.391.232 will happily take his place. And so on. I'm quite happy to see the start of a transformation in the people throug a shift of values. Crisis always seems to bring people together, helping families and neighborhoods to unite. They way it meant to be, probably, until monetarization and ever growing consumption distracted us all.

It may also lead to a new baby boom. First i was laughing about this thought, but think twice  
Many couples where working all day, going to the gym, going out, considering having a baby is too expensive...
Now they don't know what to do with their time, at home, in a nice warm bed...  

I was sleeping almost all day yesterday, medium fatigue, woke up with a cough, pain in joins and muscles and a sore throat. Raised temperature, but too low for fever. And tiiired. That's why i didnt post.
May have already cought the CoV at Judo training last week, maybe it's a coincidence. I don't care, it's very mild. Not even a runny nose. All our kids are also more or less sick a little, only the two youngest ones with a little more intensity in symptoms, coughing pretty much at night. Also pretty normal. My wife is allergic, you wouldn't be able to tell if she's sick, coughing and sneezing and tiredness already for three weeks now.
Nobody goes out, just the children playing in the woods, nobody else is near. We have food stocked for two weeks and enjoy the close family life, all is well.
This is fine. I'll go take another nap now.

woke up on alarm
blockfolio said corn's up
more than 3 percent

still cough and joint pains
my wife calls me "covid" now
me: it's just a flu

happy haiku sunday  

thanks dude, no problem
infos are more important
the show must go on

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Austrian province Tyrol officially on lockdown now, as it's the national hotspot (shares italian border). An infected waiter in an apres-ski bar infected many tourists, possibly in the hundreds, mainly from scandinavia. According to virologists, apres-ski bars are very efficient spreading facilities. Also because of the lazy way to "wash" (rinse, tbh) drinking glasses. Real virologists order beverages in bottles when they go out, i heard in a recent interview. So will i.
No more public meetings allowed here, parks closed, bars and restaurants too. Police will be watching from tomorrow, army reservists are called to duty. This is fine...

EDIT: corrected some embarrassing grammar errors.

Careful.
Zinc is depleting copper, which can get you in even worse immune and heart conditions. The safe margin is 50mg (effective) for zinc, and for medium term. So it depends on the form of zinc you take. Picolinate is most effective in metabolisation, so you have to take much less of it that Zn-oxide, for example.
I have issues with my colon and i take effectively 30mg zn (picolinate) per day since more than 8 years. I get some health problems if i wouldn't and my copper levels are monitored regularly. These are always a tad below normal, but i have to take 30mg ZnP for the same effects as a healthy person might have from 5-10mg.
Zinc helps building and restoring mucosa. That's the reason for the immune "boost".

SARS-COV-2 is very effective. It needs no more than 1-2 viruses on mucosa to get you infected.
I doubt zinc will help a lot here, but if you suffer from herpes labialis, herpes simplex a lot, gum bleeding, soft and broken fingernails as well as dry skin and skin eczema, it will help and won't hurt.

When you catch a virus, a keto diet should help in improving healing and symptoms, also in prevention, as even lab tested in vivo (with mice). Hairy M.L. left a link some dozens of pages before about the lab results.

In these... sensitive times... more confrontation is the least we need.
Just look back at history an learn what offensive politics brought to us so far.
What's happening is all to similar to what happened just before ww2.
The ordinary people are to pay the bill for any mess that is started or fueled.
You can't be saying that you want this, or do you?

There is a science called "complex system theory".
The basic outline: If you respond to complex problems (like an exponentially spreading virus outbreak) with a simple solution, it is inevitable to fail.
There are many, many examples in history.

EDIT: And Boris is as simple as simple can be.


The weather also makes the virus stay alive on surfaces longer. Man, i hope you all get out of this very mess soon and healthy, i even told the kids that the annual vacation in Italy is likely to be suspended for 2020   

Right, everybody knows spreading is inevitable. Even B. Johnson.
But if infection rate isn't going to slow down very soon, many unforeseen and unwanted side-effects will accumulate into a BIG mess, even bigger than the mess we will be going through within the next few weeks/months. It's just a question if you want to get stabbed in a hand or in the liver.
But don't worry. Give it some more weeks and everybody who is unwilling to learn will finally do it. Even if it's in a very hard way.

EDIT: Avoiding closed spaces would at least help a lot with the spreading. The virus doesn't survive for long times outside. That's what the virologists say. As long as people are gathering in rooms, halls, churches, factories, markets (i remind you of wuhan wet market), the disease will spread, faster and faster.

Local bottom forming, and support strengthening, resistance remaining constant.
Breakout very likely, imho. But also a very good opportunity to counter-trade and dump coins on us.
  what's next 

There is a valid point of criticism on most decision makers at the time. They listen a lot to medical pros and virologists, but epidemiologists and economists are seen sparingly. These would be more important. So Boris leaves it up to fate. Well, good luck! The brits will need it.

A pandemic is indeed of complex nature, in all its details. It's defined by "uncontrolled" spread, world wide. So you can't contain it, just slow it down.
If you don't slow it down, you're fucked. That's the only simple aspect of this problem.
People will panic, hospitals will break down, their staff will break down too. China, Italy as role models.
But if Boris' experts are more competent that the WHO's, they might even be right.
But if i would lead a nation, i wouldn't gamble with the life and health of my people.

EDIT:

cnn.com


now extrapolate that...

Sorry, i wasn't too wise in choice of words and i second your opinion. Not really optimistic.
But on the smaller timeframes: I chose it for visualizing the narrowing spread. Trading activity seems to be quite low, something might be in the air, imho.