Ethereum’s Co-Founder Vitalik Buterin Donates Over $1 Billion To India Covid Relief

Hmmmm it would be interesting to see how these charities handle the crypto. 1b in crypto is more then enough to move and crash markets.
 
I'm not sure what's going with India and COVID? Is this the same strain that's in America and Europe or a new mutated version that's even more deadlier?
 
I'm not sure what's going with India and COVID? Is this the same strain that's in America and Europe or a new mutated version that's even more deadlier?
Apparently it has mutated 3 times, the dominant strain in India is B.1.617, not any deadlier but more infectious. Doesn't help that India is overpopulated either. The virus mutated its protein spikes which gave it the ability to have greater function to invade cells. Its a natural progression or survival instinct of viruses to mutate as they travel from host to host. A lot of scientists think over time that it will become like the common cold and become endemic, meaning it'll be here to stay and we'll have to either get vaccines every year like the Flu for the dominant strain or it'll be like the common cold, which we'll have to learn to live with it. I believe like them that it will become endemic and we'll have to learn to live with it.
 
Hmmmm it would be interesting to see how these charities handle the crypto. 1b in crypto is more then enough to move and crash markets.
It did crash SHIB, people are pissed, but hey, thats what you get when you support a craptastic meme coin. The founder of SHIBU "gave" the coins to him thinking he would just hold them and considered it a "burn" instead of actually burning the token.

Maybe this will teach all these newbs to crypto to support actual projects that are solving actual problems, not pump and dump dog coins meant to make the creators and a few whales very rich.
 
It did crash SHIB, people are pissed, but hey, thats what you get when you support a craptastic meme coin. The founder of SHIBU "gave" the coins to him thinking he would just hold them and considered it a "burn" instead of actually burning the token.

Maybe this will teach all these newbs to crypto to support actual projects that are solving actual problems, not pump and dump dog coins meant to make the creators and a few whales very rich.

Honestly I don´t think he did it entirely out of the goodness of his heart, these meme coins have been bombarding the Ethereum network lately and gas fees have increased. Maybe this was meant to scare off some of the euphoria with these meme coins.

But at any rate, a good deed is a good deed, whatever his intentions may be, so props for that.
 
Apparently it has mutated 3 times, the dominant strain in India is B.1.617, not any deadlier but more infectious. Doesn't help that India is overpopulated either. The virus mutated its protein spikes which gave it the ability to have greater function to invade cells. Its a natural progression or survival instinct of viruses to mutate as they travel from host to host. A lot of scientists think over time that it will become like the common cold and become endemic, meaning it'll be here to stay and we'll have to either get vaccines every year like the Flu for the dominant strain or it'll be like the common cold, which we'll have to learn to live with it. I believe like them that it will become endemic and we'll have to learn to live with it.
The upshot is that endemic diseases usually soften over time as the gentler variants dominate (since deadly or serious variants will have a harder time spreading). A few decades from now and COVID-19 may behave more like the common cold even if you've never had a vaccination. Of course, vaccination also means you'll either avoid an infection entirely or fast-track to that future of very mild cases.

At any rate: the donation is a good gesture, although I would have been tempted to donate to COVAX or directly purchase supplies like oxygen. And if there's that much spare crypto floating around... that tells me the cryptocurrency market isn't very sustainable.
 
It's nice to see that the people at the top of the pyramid are willing to spread it around some. India is in such a mess with COVID.

Just another reason people are yucky. I love living in the middle of nowhere.
 
Apparently it has mutated 3 times, the dominant strain in India is B.1.617, not any deadlier but more infectious. Doesn't help that India is overpopulated either. The virus mutated its protein spikes which gave it the ability to have greater function to invade cells. Its a natural progression or survival instinct of viruses to mutate as they travel from host to host. A lot of scientists think over time that it will become like the common cold and become endemic, meaning it'll be here to stay and we'll have to either get vaccines every year like the Flu for the dominant strain or it'll be like the common cold, which we'll have to learn to live with it. I believe like them that it will become endemic and we'll have to learn to live with it.

That's natural selection at work. The more deadly strains of any virus tend to die out because they debilitate or kill the host. A debilitated or dead host doesn't tend to do as much spreading as a host that is just slightly sick.
 
That's natural selection at work. The more deadly strains of any virus tend to die out because they debilitate or kill the host. A debilitated or dead host doesn't tend to do as much spreading as a host that is just slightly sick.

...or the hosts with the strongest immune systems survive it while the others...well...don’t.
 
...or the hosts with the strongest immune systems survive it while the others...well...don’t.
I'd imagine it depends on the selection pressure. The less hosts that are available then the more likely it'll evolve to spread easier. This also makes it easier to kill. Not having everyone vaccinated quickly will give the virus selection pressure to become more infectious.
 
It did crash SHIB, people are pissed, but hey, thats what you get when you support a craptastic meme coin. The founder of SHIBU "gave" the coins to him thinking he would just hold them and considered it a "burn" instead of actually burning the token.

Maybe this will teach all these newbs to crypto to support actual projects that are solving actual problems, not pump and dump dog coins meant to make the creators and a few whales very rich.

I wouldn't really say that this crashed SHIB. The value dropped by about 50% from the peak, but it was going to do that anyway at some point. The whole project is a scam. They gave Vitalik the coins not only as a "burn" but also to make it appear that the project had credibility. "Hey we're real, the founder of Ethereum owns half the coins!". That has an impact.

If he really wanted to crash SHIB he would have sold them all with a market order. That would have sent the price to zero. Instead he sold enough to send a message and added an exclamation mark by donating the rest. I think it was the best possible outcome given the scammy nature of SHIB.
 
The US has a population of 320 million people. In January, the US had 4000 deaths / day.
India has a population of 1,400 million people. India has recently had 4000 deaths / day.
That's less than 1/4 of the deaths per capita that the US had. The US has had over twice as many Americans die as India - 8x as many / capita. Where is our relief?

Screw the MSM. Tired of these elitists sympathizing with other countries before their own people. People need to think for themselves instead of getting played by their emotions.

Vitalik should have kept the money or done something better with it.
 
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The US has a population of 320 million people. In January, the US had 4000 deaths / day.
India has a population of 1,400 million people. India has recently had 4000 deaths / day.
That's less than 1/4 of the deaths per capita that the US had. The US has had over twice as many Americans die as India - 8x as many / capita. Where is our relief?

Screw the MSM. Tired of these elitists sympathizing with other countries before their own people. People need to think for themselves instead of getting played by their emotions.

Vitalik should have kept the money or done something better with it.
In 2019 according to the CDC 2,854,838 people died in the US in 2019
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm

Heart Disease and Cancer killed more people than Coronavirus by a large margin. When I bring this up to people, they say "Wow, what did they die of"....Anything and everything.
 
Good news for the day.

"Ethereum’s co-founder Vitalik Buterin, who became the world’s youngest known crypto billionaire less than two weeks ago, has donated over $1 billion in crypto to the India Covid Relief Fund and a range of other charities".
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ninaba...ief-fund-and-other-charities/?sh=2dbdad165484

The US depends on India for alot of stuff like pharmaceuticals and all their Doctors that came over here. Telemarketers and scammers on the other hand though.
 
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The US has a population of 320 million people. In January, the US had 4000 deaths / day.
India has a population of 1,400 million people. India has recently had 4000 deaths / day.
That's less than 1/4 of the deaths per capita that the US had. The US has had over twice as many Americans die as India - 8x as many / capita. Where is our relief?

Screw the MSM. Tired of these elitists sympathizing with other countries before their own people. People need to think for themselves instead of getting played by their emotions.

Vitalik should have kept the money or done something better with it.
The big difference is that in India people were dying from a lack of medical care. There were not enough hospital beds, oxygen, etc. This really only happened in New York in the US and only for a pretty short time. In contrast, India's health care system was on the verge of collapse.

Why are the US death rates so poor, then? We are an obese nation. Roughly 40% of us fall into that category. In India the rate is half that. Preexisting conditions make living through a severe COVID case less likely.

If the MSM fell short here it is in not getting all the relevant information out... or you don't know it because you've tuned the media out.
 
The big difference is that in India people were dying from a lack of medical care. There were not enough hospital beds, oxygen, etc. This really only happened in New York in the US and only for a pretty short time. In contrast, India's health care system was on the verge of collapse.

Why are the US death rates so poor, then? We are an obese nation. Roughly 40% of us fall into that category. In India the rate is half that. Preexisting conditions make living through a severe COVID case less likely.

If the MSM fell short here it is in not getting all the relevant information out... or you don't know it because you've tuned the media out.
just an added point, medical reporting in india is pretty shittastic. that 4K number is on the low side.
 
The big difference is that in India people were dying from a lack of medical care. There were not enough hospital beds, oxygen, etc. This really only happened in New York in the US and only for a pretty short time. In contrast, India's health care system was on the verge of collapse.

Why are the US death rates so poor, then? We are an obese nation. Roughly 40% of us fall into that category. In India the rate is half that. Preexisting conditions make living through a severe COVID case less likely.

If the MSM fell short here it is in not getting all the relevant information out... or you don't know it because you've tuned the media out.
Another way of looking at things is that maybe if India didn't overpopulate its country they wouldn't be dying from lack of medical care or malnourished?

MSM seeks to divide Americans. They tell Americans to hate each other for race, religion, gender, body composition, etc. They seek to tear down this country, because the elites want our wealth. They teach people to hate themselves for what they have. We need to have more compassion for our fellow Americans if we want to keep this country together. The US has it's own problems.

sc5mu93 that is probably true, but we only have the numbers we have. Is it 8x true? No one knows.
 
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If it were as bad in India as they say it is why wouldn't they use real pictures instead of lying?
 
Apparently it has mutated 3 times, the dominant strain in India is B.1.617, not any deadlier but more infectious. Doesn't help that India is overpopulated either. The virus mutated its protein spikes which gave it the ability to have greater function to invade cells. Its a natural progression or survival instinct of viruses to mutate as they travel from host to host. A lot of scientists think over time that it will become like the common cold and become endemic, meaning it'll be here to stay and we'll have to either get vaccines every year like the Flu for the dominant strain or it'll be like the common cold, which we'll have to learn to live with it. I believe like them that it will become endemic and we'll have to learn to live with it.
Yep. I’ve said from day one that the economic ruin was not worth it given that this thing will be around forever. The people who died, as cold as it sounds, were eventually going to get this thing and likely die anyways. That’s my opinion. This thing is going to be like the common cold. Was it worth the economic devastation and lives lost? I doubt it.
 
Yep. I’ve said from day one that the economic ruin was not worth it given that this thing will be around forever. The people who died, as cold as it sounds, were eventually going to get this thing and likely die anyways. That’s my opinion. This thing is going to be like the common cold. Was it worth the economic devastation and lives lost? I doubt it.

The whole thing was politicized from Day 1. I just can't take seriously any death counts when you have public officials saying that if someone dies while being COVID positive it was a COVID death even if the COVID was not the main cause of death. Follow the money. If a hospital gets extra money for patient care due to various and several COVID relief bills, why wouldn't they classify more as COVID with for-profit health care systems? It starts to put in perspective why the US has such a high death rate due to COVID.
 
The whole thing was politicized from Day 1. I just can't take seriously any death counts when you have public officials saying that if someone dies while being COVID positive it was a COVID death even if the COVID was not the main cause of death. Follow the money. If a hospital gets extra money for patient care due to various and several COVID relief bills, why wouldn't they classify more as COVID? It starts to put in perspective why the US has such a high death rate due to COVID.

I've known dozens of people who tested positive over the past 14 months, and every single one was a mild case or asymptomatic. None of them were the model of health, either. Among them were people with obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, alcoholism, smoking, and even cancer. People need to turn off their TVs, get their noses out of their phones, and actually take a good hard look at what's going on (and not going on) around them.
 
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Another way of looking at things is that maybe if India didn't overpopulate its country they wouldn't be dying from lack of medical care or malnourished?

MSM seeks to divide Americans. They tell Americans to hate each other for race, religion, gender, body composition, etc. They seek to tear down this country, because the elites want our wealth. They teach people to hate themselves for what they have. We need to have more compassion for our fellow Americans if we want to keep this country together. The US has it's own problems.

sc5mu93 that is probably true, but we only have the numbers we have. Is it 8x true? No one knows.

It isn't just the media that seeks to divide. I'm not going to comment any further than that other than to say the US has major systemic problems and is on the verge of becoming a failed democracy (again).

As far as the comment regarding India's population... dude, that's either ignorant or racist. India has only been an independent nation since 1947 and it is not their government's fault they have such a large population. Maybe if they weren't exploited as a nation for literally centuries they wouldn't be so bad off. What you said is like blaming Native Americans for a poor standard of living on reservations. That's not reality.

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The fact that you got likes on your comment says a lot, too. Mods can just nuke my account. I'm not coming back to this cesspool. Adding H to my pi-hole's block list right now.
 
Yep. I’ve said from day one that the economic ruin was not worth it given that this thing will be around forever. The people who died, as cold as it sounds, were eventually going to get this thing and likely die anyways. That’s my opinion. This thing is going to be like the common cold. Was it worth the economic devastation and lives lost? I doubt it.
To be fair, it wasn't as bad due to all the preventative measures taken. Those that died from it were likely part of the group that didn't believe in wearing a mask, or just didn't take it seriously. The economic devastation is like the people that you say were going to die from COVID eventually. Their businesses were already on the edge of failure.
 
To be fair, it wasn't as bad due to all the preventative measures taken. Those that died from it were likely part of the group that didn't believe in wearing a mask, or just didn't take it seriously. The economic devastation is like the people that you say were going to die from COVID eventually. Their businesses were already on the edge of failure.
Once the virus was allowed to spread outside of China it was over. I dispute your claim that the lockdowns and masks saved any meaningful amount of lives compared to the number of kids along with adults driven to suicide, drugs, and our the drain of our culture along with the economic impacts that will be felt for decades. Never mind the fact that the virus will be around and mutating until the end of time killing people, and it’s highly probable our arms race with the mRNA vaccines will only make the problem worse long term since it’s mutating faster then our ability to contain it.

The local business statement of yours is an absolute joke. Some areas of the country outright prevented some businesses from operating at all. Period. Where I live has been absolutely destroyed, and the government of the state of Hawaii along with the county of Oahu continue inane measures. Hawaii has been absolutely devastated, and it won’t be coming back for decades due to the economic impacts of the lockdowns.

The only people who made good out of all of this were the Amazon’s of the world. Our government enriched them, and drove the nail in the coffin for local business.
 
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To be fair, it wasn't as bad due to all the preventative measures taken. Those that died from it were likely part of the group that didn't believe in wearing a mask, or just didn't take it seriously. The economic devastation is like the people that you say were going to die from COVID eventually. Their businesses were already on the edge of failure.
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The only people who made good out of all of this were the Amazon’s of the world. Our government enriched them, and drove the nail in the coffin for local business.
Once again, Socialism is synonymous with Corporatism, and they certainly play off of one another.
Welp, we can't have a dark cyberpunk world like ours without shadow governments and megacorps. :borg:
 
Wow, look what some kid can do, have not seen this kind of generosity from Bezos or any of those guys.
Well, you've done it: you glossed over Bezos' kind donation of $500 million to a yacht manufacturing company as if it was nothing.

Seriously, you have to love this guy. He figured out how to subsume the local mom&pop economy like a coyote eating your pets. But now, what's a sixty year old test tube Vin Diesel with more riches than god to do after America declared SpaceX homecoming queen and threw Blue Origin on the scrap heap? Thats right, take Luis Guzman as a girlfriend and go sulk on a boat.

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Well, you've done it: you glossed over Bezos' kind donation of $500 million to a yacht manufacturing company as if it was nothing.

Seriously, you have to love this guy. He figured out how to subsume the local economy like a coyote eating your pets. But now, what's a sixty year old test tube Vin Diesel with more riches than god to do after America declared SpaceX homecoming queen and threw Blue Origin on the scrap heap? Thats right, take Luis Guzman as a girlfriend and go sulk on a boat.

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I'd be his boat bitch any time he wanted me to.

I can't blame the guy for spending all the money he's made. He's not the one who shut local business down for over a year.
 
Once the virus was allowed to spread outside of China it was over. I dispute your claim that the lockdowns and masks saved any meaningful amount of lives compared to the number of kids along with adults driven to suicide, drugs, and our the drain of our culture along with the economic impacts that will be felt for decades.
Actually suicide rates dropped during the pandemic. I don't know about drugs and etc but suicides are down.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/w...-during-the-2020-pandemic-but-why-11617887838
Never mind the fact that the virus will be around and mutating until the end of time killing people, and it’s highly probable our arms race with the mRNA vaccines will only make the problem worse long term since it’s mutating faster then our ability to contain it.
That sounds about right. We still don't know if long term use of mRNA has any real side effects either.
The local business statement of yours is an absolute joke. Some areas of the country outright prevented some businesses from operating at all. Period. Where I live has been absolutely destroyed, and the government of the state of Hawaii along with the county of Oahu continue inane measures. Hawaii has been absolutely devastated, and it won’t be coming back for decades due to the economic impacts of the lockdowns.
There's good reasons for this. My father who worked at a Diner was infected with COVID from his job. You can't exactly wear a mask working in the kitchen and people who eat food off plates will leave some COVID behind for you to clean off those plates. There were two dishwashers who both went missing and it turns out they both died from COVID. One his 40's and the other in his 50's. The owner of this Diner also died and he was in his 70's. The cook in his 60's died about a month later, also from COVID. Nearly the entire Diner's workers have died from COVID. My father survived COVID but not the rest of the people.

There's a very good reason to shutdown some businesses.
The only people who made good out of all of this were the Amazon’s of the world. Our government enriched them, and drove the nail in the coffin for local business.
Lets be honest here, the Amazon's of the world were already working hard to destroy retail businesses. You'd be a damned fool if you believe without shutdowns it wouldn't happen. All COVID did was speed up the demise of those businesses. Just like the donation of Ethereum to India is just speeding up the demise of paper money.

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