I do have this piece on info my wife spent 4 days in the hospital with 2x pneumonia she is home and okay.
Happy to hear that Phil, in the end, health and family are the most important things.
I see some people try to imply that the last spike in Bitcoin price was due to tragic coronavirus and people are panicking and rushing to buy Bitcoin...
Some are always like that, whenever there is a disaster in the news they see millions rushing to buy bitcoin. The same happened at the start of the month with the Iran crisis.
Back to the mining speculation, I doubt the virus will take a real toll on the growth of hash rate if things don't escalate to really dangerous levels where all the lots are shut down. If we talk about container shipping is almost impossible for the virus to be able to survive a trip to the east coast of the US or our port of Rotterdam. Extreme resistant viruses are able to survive up 20 days but that only in constant conditions of low controlled humidity with constant temperatures and a container ship at sea is nothing like that. Air packages....well, that's a different story.
Next Difficulty Change: between +1.7145% and +4.0721%
Max is going down, probably around 1% in the end?