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@klaus said in The Bitcoin/Crypto Thread:

Forget about it. These days, you need special very sophisticated hardware ("Bitcoin ASIC", something like this) for mining. Even a $5K GPU doesn't cut it anymore these days. And even then you need to participate in "mining pools" to ever mine anything.

I started mining almost 2 weeks ago using my AMD Radeon 5800 video card. I've gotten over $50 so far and paid less than $15 for electricity. It's winter now so dumping a couple hundred watts into the house helps keep it warm, so even the cost of power isn't a waste. I use nicehash.com to sell the hash power.

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Somniflex is 19.95 for 28 strips.

Duck tape could be cut into several hundred seals for less than $7.

We don’t need no steenking vaccine here in California.
Every month we can delay the vaccine is a month we (the Democratic machine) hold absolute power.

“SACRAMENTO, Calif. —
As the quest for a COVID-19 vaccine continues, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday that California is launching a scientific safety review workgroup in which top health experts will independently review vaccines that are approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration before distribution happens in the state.

"This vaccine plan will move at the speed of trust. You have to have confidence in the efficacy of the vaccine, confidence that we’re not rushing to judgement in terms of its distribution and its accessibility," Newsom said during his noon press briefing.”

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@George-K
The Lancet article has been discredited.

“After publication of our Lancet Article,1 several concerns were raised with respect to the veracity of the data and analyses conducted by Surgisphere Corporation and its founder and our co-author, Sapan Desai, in our publication. We launched an independent third-party peer review of Surgisphere with the consent of Sapan Desai to evaluate the origination of the database elements, to confirm the completeness of the database, and to replicate the analyses presented in the paper.
Our independent peer reviewers informed us that Surgisphere would not transfer the full dataset, client contracts, and the full ISO audit report to their servers for analysis as such transfer would violate client agreements and confidentiality requirements. As such, our reviewers were not able to conduct an independent and private peer review and therefore notified us of their withdrawal from the peer-review process.
We always aspire to perform our research in accordance with the highest ethical and professional guidelines. We can never forget the responsibility we have as researchers to scrupulously ensure that we rely on data sources that adhere to our high standards. Based on this development, we can no longer vouch for the veracity of the primary data sources. Due to this unfortunate development, the authors request that the paper be retracted.
We all entered this collaboration to contribute in good faith and at a time of great need during the COVID-19 pandemic. We deeply apologise to you, the editors, and the journal readership for any embarrassment or inconvenience that this may have caused.“

One rumor is that Surgisphere consists of a cryptocurrency trader, a science fiction writer, and an online sex performer. So much for peer reviewed.