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I don't need to live in a house either, but it's nice.

Hi :D

Bitcoin cash will win given a long horizon.

This is so sad. The opposite of what I'd hoped would happen... that the third world's failing currencies would make people there get into crypto first and end up benefiting them the most. Instead, the whole of crypto seems to be a 1st world number go up phenomenon.

I'll still be pushing Bitcoin Cash as a solution to people in countries that don't ban crypto.

You should add a few usefulness graphs, and then include Bitcoin Cash.

This. Let's take back the power (but don't be like this guy)... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM4gNVme5a0

Try Bitcoin Cash. It's the one that implemented Satoshi's suggested upping of the block size limit, has the same block history as BTC up until the fork, and solves moving value at low fees. This operation is the one people should care about the most. Fancier things will take time. The community hangs out at r/btc by historical accident.

Yeah, I'm sure people would be happy to transact in a crypto with 1000% inflation \s

Yes, it's a pity people are so easily manipulated.

Ledger.

You can't actually. Gold holds a unique spot on the periodic table. Another element isn't going to come into existence and compete with it here. Bitcoin on the other hand is in the fight for its life with the rest of the cryptocurrencies. I think that the one that's most useful will win out in the end... not the one that was most popular first (think myspace).

For a large fee and with a lot of uncertainty on if it will make it into a block. Try the fork of Bitcoin that still operates like Bitcoin used to up until 2016: Bitcoin Cash.

When the block size got blocked at 1MB from those looking to profit from moving transactions to layer 2 options... I switched over to Bitcoin Cash. If you try it out, it operates like Bitcoin has operated for years until the fee market started.

Not at the moment unfortunately. The display breaks down by the hierarchical organisation of the data source.

It might be possible to build up a list of regions as you navigate through the site, and then show only those in the bubble chart so that you can compare them. Interesting idea.

We wouldn't be able to aggregate infectious or R estimates for one or more regions together as the computation for those is done during deploy and then that processed data is uploaded along with the static site (it doesn't connect to a database to fetch data on the fly).

It's less the label smushing and more the fact that the bubbles overlap that annoys me. This makes it hard to see what's going on on mobile on arguably the most important chart on the site.

Plausible.io tells me that for today for the spike from this comment, 70% of users were on mobile. I might try the rotation thing. Thanks for the feedback!

We have some answers to those questions here: https://reproduction.live/about

tl;dr is that we use a single datasource (not managed by us but by many dedicated others) and use case counts to estimate number of currently infectious and from that we estimate R. The running time of our R estimation calculations for all regions is around 1.5 hours on a $10/month Digital Ocean droplet.

Sometimes strange looking results on our site picked up by guests can be fed back to the maintainers of the datasource resulting in a correction of the data.

On our website, R value estimation is done by my father, a retired computer science professor with a long history of mathematical modelling experience. This is hacker news right? :)

Thank you. The bubble chart in general looks bad on mobile and I'm not quite sure what to do about it. Maybe rotate it 180 degrees?

If you want to check R's history for any country/region... you can try out our website: https://reproduction.live/world

There is also a search on the landing page: https://reproduction.live which I should probably put in the sidebar of the dashboard page as well.

It's centralised at the repository level. There is only one main version of BTC that miners run. The devs have full control.

This looks great. Thanks!

Background: after sending the https://rt.live link to my father (a retired computer science professor with a background in mathematics), he recoded their estimation model in Julia and created a chart showing the estimated R value for South Africa (where we are from) over time. Since then, I've helped him extend this to work off the data that's being collected by https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/covid-19-open-data to provide R estimates for regions around the globe.

Get straight to your region of interest by searching on the landing page - https://reproduction.live

Or navigate through the region hierarchy from https://reproduction.live/world

Feedback appreciated! (I'm aware that the bubble chart isn't that helpful currently on mobile)

Damn, you must have motored that comment out.

Looks very useful. Your main website has this twice on it: "Vanila crew is in love with Meteor.js, which is latest technology based on JavaScript (Node.js). It gives you fast, realtime, scalable applications which work on all modern browsers and devices."

It's possible that you wanted to make the second instance "It makes your applications fast, real-time, scalable and able to work on all modern browsers and devices" ;)

This is great. Let the competitors come.