{"id":20800,"date":"2021-10-21T22:10:32","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T22:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/?p=20800"},"modified":"2021-10-21T22:15:07","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T22:15:07","slug":"medical-downtime-and-quick-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2021\/10\/21\/medical-downtime-and-quick-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical downtime and quick notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry I haven&#8217;t got anything written this week \u2014 I appear to have become someone who gets migraines, or something with similar symptoms. (Ibuprofen, aspirin, paracetamol and codeine failing to work separately or together &#8230; how annoying.) Been out of it for much of the week. That and trying to keep up with the day job as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2021\/10\/21\/medical-downtime-and-quick-notes\/smashopt2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20801\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-20801\" src=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/smashopt2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"453\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><small><i>I first used this image on my <a href=\"https:\/\/suburbia.net\/~fun\/scn\/new.html\">1990s website about Scientology.<\/a><\/i><\/small><\/p>\n<p>I have half-drafted notes on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tether&#8217;s recent woes (Bloomberg, CFTC)<\/li>\n<li>How that led to the present BTC pump \u2014 all-time-high today!! If properly measured in USDT, not USD<\/li>\n<li>El Salvador \u2014 the ongoing comedy gold that is the Chivo network<\/li>\n<li>Facebook, Novi and Diem \u2014 they&#8217;re using Paxos after all, but totally not abandoning Diem, they swear!<\/li>\n<li>a story from the 2000s \u2014 Digital Monetary Trust: how to do crypto-style shadow bank shenanigans without all that tedious messing about with cryptography<\/li>\n<li>a thousand words of notes for the next news update<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That said, I can still tweet through it! I&#8217;ll continue to post random crypto news amongst the floods of whatever nonsense I find amusing at @davidgerard. [<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/davidgerard\"><em>Twitter<\/em><\/a>]<\/p>\n<br><br><div align=\"center\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=8420236\"><img src=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/become_a_patron_button.svg\" alt=\"Become a Patron!\" title=\"Become a Patron!\" width=217 height=51><\/a><br><p style=\"align:center;\" class=\"patreon-badge\"><i>Your subscriptions keep this site going. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=8420236\">Sign up today!<\/a><\/i><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I appear to have become someone who gets migraines. Or something similar. How annoying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/smashopt3.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20800"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20810,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20800\/revisions\/20810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}