Topic: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion - page 8205. (Read 26710683 times)

Totally agree.  However, that's been the case for years and similar posts have been on this very thread since I started reading it in 2014. Unfortunately, the whole 'HODL until I'm rich' mentality has undermined the very purpose of BTC.

Oh, and can we finally put to bed the whole idea of BTC as a safe haven - whilst global stock markets face their worst day since the 2008 financial crisis, BTC tanks even more.  If BTC really was a safe haven, it would be mooning now. Gold still seems to be the haven of choice.

This is really, really bad. That's a 5% death rate. However as we discussed a few days ago, it takes a while from people getting sick to either dying or being cured. With a doubling time of a week (6 days) and 2-4 weeks from getting sick to whichever conclusion, we are looking at at least a 20% death rate. Possibly more but I won't venture there at this time.

Bergamo, northern Lombardy, is Ground Zero for Italy’s coronavirus crisis. The city has 1,245 positive cases, a number that rose by 248 yesterday. Hospitals are under enormous pressure and doctors are having to make agonising choices about their priorities. In a post on Facebook, Dr Daniele Macchini of the Humanitas Gavazzeni hospital, revealed what frontline workers were facing as he warned against public complacency. His words have been translated and edited for length.

I understand the importance of not generating panic, but the gravity of this situation is not well understood, and I shiver when I hear people saying they don’t care, or complain because they cannot go to the gym or play football.

I myself was shocked to see the total reorganisation of the hospital over the past week: the wards slowly emptied, non-urgent activities interrupted, the intensive care unit given over to make room for more beds.

I remember how I spent my night shift a week ago nervously waiting for a call from the microbiology department waiting for the response of the test on the first suspected case in our hospital, and thinking of the possible consequences for us.

If I think again about that night, now that I see what is going on, my anxiety at a single case seems ludicrous. It is reductive to call the current situation dramatic, but I have no other words. The war has literally exploded and the battles are relentless, day and night.

People show up at the hospital one after the other. They have nothing like the problems caused by seasonal flu. They can’t breathe, they need oxygen.

There aren’t many therapies for this virus. It depends mainly on your body.

What we can do is simply support the body when it can’t keep it up any more. Now we dramatically need those beds. All the emptied wards are being filled again at an incredible pace.

The boards with the name of the patients, with different colours for each different units, are all red and the diagnosis is always the same: bilateral interstitial pneumonia. There are no longer surgeons, urologists, orthopaedists – we are all just doctors trying to fight this tsunami that crashed on us. The number of cases is rising, with 15 or 20 new patients every day for the same reason.

The results of the tests come one after the other: positive, positive, positive. Suddenly, the emergency room is on the brink of collapse.

The symptoms are always the same: high temperature and shortness of breath, high temperature and cough, shortness of breath.

Some need to be intubated and sent to the emergency care unit already. For others, it’s just too late…

The staff are literally exhausted. Social life is suspended for us. For almost two weeks, I voluntarily decided not to see my son or family members, for fear of infecting them and consequently infecting elderly relatives with other health problems.

So, you should be patient too, if you can’t go to the theatre, museums or to the gym. Try to have mercy for all the older people you could exterminate.

We have no alternative [but to be here]. It is our job... in the end we only try to be useful for everyone. Now, try to do it too.

With our actions, we influence the life and death of a few dozen people.

With your actions, you could influence many more.

Time to attack 8k 

Did not see this posted yet, 39 page report:

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6616225/Plustoken-Report.pdf

- Italy reports 1,797 new cases, bringing total to 9,172 as deaths increases to 463.

This inaugural Special Situation Report will deliver the facts about PlusToken through the lens of on-chain bitcoin analysis

It's still going exponential but measures taken to date near the epicenter have bought some time (skewed R_0). Notably Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong have adopted excellent public information and transparency measures that essentially crowd source the public to do much of the contract tracing and reporting, self-isolating, etc. China went full draconian and beat it into submission, along with their people and their economy (if you believe anything coming out of CCP)

The West's socialised inept bureaucrat top down message management is letting it take hold in Western countries.

Outside china fatalities are now at >800 and doubling every 3 days ... I'll let you do the math on when we reach the million mark IF nothing is changed in the containment approach (Italy went full retard because they let it get out of control).

Sad.

Is this a reliable source? I tracked it on https://corona.kompa.ai/ and the number of people infected (113,809) and killed (4,010) is completely different from the number that you give  Now let's see what is a fake source  https://corona.kompa.ai/ is from the World Health Organization (WHO), what about your information?

Guys, has anyone seen the news about these books yet 

I see it in articles, here and here
I'm not a superstitious person, but they surprised me, is it a coincidence? Or is prophecy really accurate? They even mention Wuhan - China 

Coronavirus update:

There are 114,422 confirmed cases worldwide, with 4,027 deaths.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

God-fucking-damnit... This bleeding. Just bought more dip @ $7,400... Muh wallet... Going to have to start rationing my powder at this rate...

Sheeeeeeit.

I'm fucking out of cash boys.

You guys still think china virus is bullish?

What happened? Why are we following the DOW instead of the inverse?

Is Bitcoin just a luxury?

The purpose is to make me rich. It does that well.

Not how markets work.

I did notice your posts bouncing all over the place.

You don't want to have more than 2 kids especially when everybody and everything is super stupid in the last 10-15 years.

I wouldn't want my child to watch retarded youtubers on youtube for example. I grow up by watching pokémon and that was the most awesome shit I have ever witnessed.

Even 2 kids is too much tbh. It is either 1 or none. My logic says none but biology says at least one.

So 29 is OK to me.

#bitcoin

difficulty adjustment appr. +6,8% today.

I marked the adj. of 5%+ (relevant adj.) from 2015.

green = price higher/equal until next relevant Adj.
red = price lower until next relevant adj.

a relevant adj. doesn´t lead to higher prices in general but often.

Bitcoin’s hash rate difficulty increased by almost 7% today at 5:50 am. The next scheduled difficulty rate recalibration will take place on March 21st at the very earliest, or in 2016 blocks. As difficulty increases it makes the network much harder to attack.