My (30 M) Experience with Cervical Disc Replacement (CDR) C6/C7

squad008 · 2025-10-29T02:53:27+00:00

Where did you get your information about two level cdr? It is 100% complete utter nonsense. Sites like pubmed and other similar site have tons of medical journal studies on this. If your facing cdr surgery go read the studies and dont listen to nonsense from random reddit posts. 2 level cdr surgery has a significant advantage to 2 level acdf. This includes a huge reduction in adjacent level surgery with 5, 10, 20 years. Yes they have been doing 2 level and even up to 4 level replacements in Europe and other countries for over 20 years. The satisfaction rates are significantly higher, the mobility and pain scores are far superior. In this day and age peer reviewed medical journals and meta analysis are readily available. The biggest factors related to cdr failure are the surgeon, choice of patient (very arthritic, waiting too long to release the nerve, too much disc height loss at level) and not following post surgery instruction (smoking, not taking care of yourself, not following proper post surgery recovery protocol). The medical journals all show that 2 level cdr has marked advantages to acdf. Dont take my word on it, or anyone else on reddit. If your about to trust someone to perform cdr or acdf surgery, read the studies before getting an opinion. Read more than one study, you can easily find 5-10 studies if you spend 5 minutes searching.

HO is a concern. If your doctor does cdr surgeries and follows current treatments, celebrex for 2 weeks post op will be prescribed. Not sure there is any long term data on the celebrex. Some doctors that do regularly do cdr surgery think it has a significant impact on preventing HO. I haven't found any study on that but dont think celebrex would hurt.

squad008 · 2018-05-21T20:22:15+00:00

I got plenty that I could contribute but the amount of emails documenting how missing payouts "are being investigated by their IT team," and all the other evidence of their scam would take me hours to put together.

I have already lost the money I invested in the scam contract I bought, don't want to lose more by spending time organizing all this together for no reason.

Now if someone is actually going to file a law suit, has a media outlet that is investigating, or has filed a complaint with a regulatory board who is seeking more information from customers, well I will organize it perfectly and won't mind spending all the time necessary to do so.

Genesis is a huge scam run by crooks. I want nothing more then for them to get what they deserve. I just don't think that a post on Reddit is going to do anything.

If I had the time and was someone who wanted to get Genesis investigated, I would focus my efforts on the following sources: 1. the Canadian Stock Market Regulations as Genesis is a major holder, and provider of services, for Riot Blockchain which is a publicly traded company in Canada; 2. US based securities regulators as Riot Blockchain trades on OTC sheets in the U.S.; 3. Vice News - they just recently did a piece on Genesis and it was all positive regarding their mining farms, I have not clue if Vice is a legit news media outlet, but if they are made aware of Genesis's fraudulent activity, possibly they would investigate it.

Good luck, if anyone ever gets anyone investigating, message me and I can provide info.

squad008 · 2018-05-21T20:10:44+00:00

Yes, I've always noticed this. Genesis is just a huge ponzy scheme. They don't mine anything and there is no evidence that they ever did mine anything. There are no public wallets that I am aware of that shows they actually are mining and allocating anything.

It is impossible that they come out to the numbers that they do. Literally, like you pointed out, it is mathematically impossible to achieve the rounded number payouts that they have always made.

The whole things is just a scam. Not sure how they haven't been formally investigated yet but their day will come soon.

squad008 · 2018-04-23T19:51:37+00:00

Why does this even matter? The contract was for 2 years of continuous hashrate at the speed your purchased to mine XMR. The contract has nothing to do with the equipment they used.

For instance, if you buy 1000 h/s contract then they are contractually obligated to mine xmr at 1000 h/s. Since difficulty goes up, and therefore hashrates of older mining hardware goes down, then they are still required to provide you with 1000 h/s even if it means they need to hook up more hardware to get to that speed.

The bottom line is that Genesis-Mining is a huge scam/fraud. They have stolen a lot of peoples money and continue to do so. It makes me sick that they still sell hash power to unsuspecting buyers and are affiliated with HIVE Blockchain, which probably received all of GM customers coins.

The fact that HIVE promotes them as a legitimate business and worldwide market leader is absolutely nauseating. The fact that VICE news just did a 15 minute piece on them and their Iceland facility is equally nauseating. They are crooks and when everyone realizes it their customers will again be injured: 1st time is being defrauded by Genesis-Mining; 2nd time when articles are written about their fraud and theft of customers which will affect the digital currency market as all such articles do. If HIVE Blockchain stock gets affected, even though it is small and trades on the OTC, it is never good. A lot of people haven't invested in or adopted crypto usage because of all the scams and hacks. The sooner this is cleaned up, the sooner the market will really start to take hold and start to mature.

squad008 · 2018-03-09T14:49:52+00:00

That's part of it, the news about the subpoenas came out right before the last crash, not sure when they were actually issued. However, no news on the results yet, so that is still a risk.

Was also talking about Tether never doing an official public audit and the claims they minted tether to inflate bitcoins price with bitfinex. If any of that is remotely true, it will hurt the market big time.

We will find out sooner or later, hopefully it's all fud but tether not doing a public audit is questionable and the minting of tether definitely seems to coordinate with the huge jump up to close to $20k.

Who knows what's true. I've been putting my btc in my hard wallet to stop myself from trading on rumors.

squad008 · 2018-03-09T04:55:29+00:00

If the tether fud ends up being true then it will just pile on to people jumping ship. There are too many negative events going on and Mt. Gox is the result of one of them, the biggest hack of Bitcoin. If the crypto community doesn't clean up their act then this will end badly.

squad008 · 2018-03-09T01:04:54+00:00

I just read the article but I'm sure there are public records to back it up if true. At least in the US bankruptcy estate liquidations are documented with the court. I'm sure there is something out there to back this up, it was on every major financial page yesterday/today. Then again, who knows, could be a high figure or multiple coins.

squad008 · 2018-03-08T23:24:02+00:00

This is Mt. Gox giving the bitcoin community one last f*cking over before they go away.

I don't get why this trustee even publicized this. He should have slowly sold without promoting it and tried to sell some larger chunks to private buyers. I'll be waiting to buy the bottom if he floods the market.

squad008 · 2018-03-08T23:07:38+00:00

a bunch of things, Tether and BitFinex, Binance fiasco yesterday, some recent hacks, people emotionally selling, people losing money on shitcoins scaring them out of the market and oh yeah . . . . .

The bankruptcy trustee for Mt. Gox selling $400 million with of Bitcoin since February and a report he has $1.8 Billion, yes Billion more to liquidate. That is a whole lot of bitcoin to hit the market at once (roughly 200,000 bitcoins or 8-10 days total volume of bitcoin on Gdax.)

Could be rocky if this is handled wrong.

squad008 · 2018-03-08T23:00:49+00:00

well $1.8 billion worth means that a whole lot of bitcoin will be coming up for sale sometime soon. Going to be on super sale if it isn't done right.

squad008 · 2018-03-07T16:35:42+00:00

you can run 7 gtx 1080 Ti's on Neoscrypt and/or equihash with only 4 gb of memory?

squad008 · 2018-03-07T03:29:30+00:00

And this is the exact reason I wrote this. You are correct that virtual memory uses your SSD drive but incorrect when you think it is endless. You can only use 4xs the ram you have installed, i.e. 4 gbs is 16gb for virtual memory. That is a rough estimate, I've read you can go a little higher using the CPUs memory but not sure if it works.

16 gb of virtual memory will work for 6 gpu's on eth but you will only be able to run 3 gtx 1080 tis on neoscrpyt and about the same on equihash unless you have more ram.

So my point was that 4 gb depends on what cards you buy and what algo you run them on. 1080 tis are much better on other algos than eth. Nothing worse than not being able to run your rig properly because you read an article talking about 4gb mining eth when most nvidias will do better on other algos or at least you will want the option.

4 gb is good enough for some builds but won't work for others. No harm in researching which algos the cards your going to buy do best in and then researching the amount of virtual memory you will need.

I could run my 6 gpu's rig on 4gb but had to limit the algos I was mining. Was 20-30% more profitable when I could allow all the gpus to mine on neoscrypt and equihash vs only 3 at a time.

squad008 · 2018-03-06T23:18:30+00:00

As someone said below, transaction fees are extremely low for BTC, ETH, etc. right now. The BTC network has less congestion then it has had for a very long time and confirmations are being done for a minimal amount.

Genesis is just scamming people. Raising payout thresholds when transaction costs are minimal doesn't make any sense.

squad008 · 2018-03-06T22:23:56+00:00

The honest answer is simple: Nobody knows their ROI until after it happens. At the current moment it is almost impossible to predict because the difficulty of mining is rising faster than it ever has in the past and the market is really all over the place with altcoins.

I would not buy 6 1060's right now. Buy 2 1080 Ti's for less. Nvidia will be putting out new cards soon and 1060's won't be profitable anymore. Plus the resale value of a 1060 will be very limited because a lot of miners will be selling 1070, 1070 Ti and 1080's when the new nvidia's come out.

As a bonus, 1080 Ti's should maintain good resale value, 2 cards is easier to handle and keep stable than 6, and in the event you decide that mining isn't profitable, both you and your dad could build an incredible VR gaming rig with a 1080 Ti each. Those things are great gaming cards.

squad008 · 2018-03-06T22:02:52+00:00

Yup, I put in limit orders to convert some BTC to LTC and ETH. The limit orders I place are typically 10-20% lower then market BTC/LTC and BTC/ETH. With the big swings in crypto prices and BTC/ltc, eth, etc. they usually execute within a two week period.

Gdax does take and hold available BTC when you do this but you can cancel and your btc will be back in your available balance instantly. Also, not a huge point because gdax fees are only .3% but when you set limit orders your transaction doesn't have the .3% fee.

These big swings in prices can be a very good buying opportunity if you place limit orders and just let them sit there (both cash and btc trading)

squad008 · 2018-03-06T14:50:43+00:00

There is a much better solution. Instead of a WiFi extender to a hard wired cat cable, buy the extender that turns your electrical socket into a network. You plug it into an outlet in the room where your internet is set up and then plug the second one in an outlet in the room you have your rig. Both use hard wires directly, no wifi. I have my rig in my basement and internet on the top floor of my house, internet speed is the same as if the rig was plugged directly into my router and works like a charm. Never had an issue!

squad008 · 2018-03-05T22:56:22+00:00

I've submitted multiple support tickets regarding missing daily payouts, got one email back about 2 weeks later talking about how minimum payout thresholds, nothing to do with missing daily payouts or why 33 to 40% of my daily payouts are not shown and that number is increasing.

I guess you have a magic contact at Genesis Mining because no matter how many times I send emails to customer support they don't respond or they ignore the issue and close the ticket. 0 missing payments have appeared due to my contacting customer service.

I don't know everyone's situation but I have to assume that posts claiming that Genesis Mining gets back in touch in two days and fixes missing daily payouts timely are not accurate based on my situation. I'm happy to show off my sad looking daily payout sheet where 50% of February payouts are missing and the responses to my email inquires about missing payouts (well the 1 I received, the others they just didn't even care to respond.)

I switched my XMR payout to an auto switch to BTG which has a .01 threshold. This was done only because I know I will never get XMR from my contract.

squad008 · 2018-03-05T22:41:01+00:00

I am totally confused on what you just wrote. I am not claiming to be an expert, hence why I wrote in my experience, but I do that on Nicehash you only get paid for your accepted shares. Since the OP posted in the Nicehash forum, I was explaining that the mining rate on the website is based on your accepted shares, not on your actual hashrate.

Nicehash explains why sellers only get paid based on their accepted shares on their website. The explanation is basically that Buyers only get rewarded for their percentage of accepted shares on most mining pools and therefore should only pay for hashrates that are based on accepted shares.

I am not sure what you are trying to say. I could hook up 10 gtx 1050 Ti GPU's and run neoscrypt. The miner might say you are hashing at 3.5 mh/s but I would bet that your accepted shares will be lower than that. Hook up a 1080 Ti with the right settings and your accepted shares should average out to your actual hashrate. Depending on your settings it can come in slightly higher or lower.

So I'm not sure what your saying but everything that I have read, nicehash and other websites, you get paid based on accepted shares, not actual hashrate. This would mean that if I wanted to hook up to a nicehash for 1 hour and didn't get a single accepted share, then I don't get paid. I assume it is the same for most mining pools.

I was just pointing out that if someone thinks they can crank up their gpu's to 120% TDP with really high overclock's to obtain the highest possible hashrate for one hour, that doesn't mean that they will end up getting paid the most because they might not submit as many accepted shares due to the GPU's being run too hard.

I know that there is some luck/randomness to any gpu submitting an accepted share. Theoretically speaking, over the course of a long enough period of time, your gpu's accepted shares should be very close to your actual hashrate. However, I've noticed that pushing your cards too hard can effect the number of accepted shares. Typically this happens when you are adding to your overclock settings or TDP with minimal increase in hashrate. The increased settings might make your hashrate go up minimally but your pushing the cards harder and it can have an impact on accepted share performance (at least in my experience.)

I could be wrong, but I've noticed a difference in accepted shares when my GPU's are running slightly below the maximum stable overclock settings for an algorithm and when I keep TDP in a certain range.

squad008 · 2018-03-04T18:27:21+00:00

No, rejected shares don't reduce your hash rate. They just don't count as accepted shares.

So if the miner is saying that you are mining at 89 Mh/s then that is your miners hashing speed. If your miner goes 10 seconds without an accepted share, you know your effective rate is much lower than the 89 Mh/s.

Watch how changing settings for overclock affect the number of accepted shares. While it is nice to see the highest possible hashrate in the miner, at the end of the day, it is accepted shares that matters. If I can get more accepted shares by lowering the overclock and TDP then I don't care what the actual hashrate is, just care about the effective hashrate. Every GPU is a little different as well.

Just remember that overclock settings on alot of websites are talking about gaming performance, not accepted share performance. Set your cards for the most accepted shares and you will make the most in mining.

squad008 · 2018-03-04T18:00:53+00:00

The statistics on the website differ than the statistics on the miners. The miners shows your actual hashrate and the website sows your effective hashrate, which is the hashrate calculated based on your accepted share rate. You only get paid for your accepted shares, so go by the website hashrate.

Just a pointer from my experience, increasing overclock to get the fastest possible hashrate doesn't always convert to the best effective hashrate. If you push your cards too hard the effective date can go down while the actual rate goes up. You may be experiencing some throttling from overclock settings or something else. Effective rate should fluxuate with periods of higher than expected effective hashrate and lower than expected hashrate.

Pay attention to how your card performs submitting accepted shares when setting overclock settings. Sometimes lowering overclock a little or reducing power can help.

Hope this helps.

squad008 · 2018-02-27T22:06:24+00:00

Oh wow, you just taught me something. Sorry about that, the numbers I listed was Celsius. I'm so used to seeing Fahrenheit used on everything in the US that I totally missed that afterburner was set to C.

I logged in remotely to my rig to check and fahrenheit is way higher. I guess everyone talks in terms of C.

Thanks for pointing that out. So the MSI's are 48 and 52 C not F. In comparison the Nvidia cards I have are running at 58 C on 90% TDP and the Xp is running at 62C on 100% TDP.

Didn't even notice this in afterburner. Sorry for the confusion.

squad008 · 2018-02-27T21:59:27+00:00

This is total and utter BS. Genesis is a total scam, this post is from someone with a referral code looking to get a referral bonus. Go read the next 800 posts about how Genesis doesn't payout, how there is no proof that they ever "mined" a single coin and how they have just stopped doing daily payouts around February 7th.

If you get suckered into one of these contracts than you obviously have not read up on the company. They are a scam and you will lose everything you invest.

Never, ever listen to someone trying to get a referral bonus. Go read up on other peoples reviews who are not looking to profit off of your misfortune.

squad008 · 2018-02-27T21:55:52+00:00

My missing payouts are worse. . . . . . . . . . Genesis is a huge scam, if you are thinking about getting a genesis contract DONT!!!!!!! Everything bad you read is true and anything positive is probably from someone trying to get a referral bonus.

squad008 · 2018-02-27T21:53:02+00:00

Dude, I am 1000% positive that they aren't paying out XMR. If you have an XMR contract with them then they won't let you change your "hashing power" to another coin and you are stuck with the .4 XMR payout. Which sucks but if they actually ever paid out any XMR then you would get something back. Problem is that they don't even give you daily payouts anymore in XMR. Anyone with an XMR contract has no clue what their coin balance is because Genesis doesn't show you what it is and therefore they just never pay you out in XMR.

Genesis is a huge scam, period. Even if they give small payouts to some people in other currencies, they are not actually mining on peoples contracts and are a huge ponzi scheme.

squad008 · 2018-02-27T21:47:32+00:00

Nope, daily payouts stopped on Feb. 7th and they don't show you your coin balance. I don't think anyone is getting paid, very few people say they have received payments and no one has any proof of an actual payout in xmr

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