My opinion was the same as most of the voters here, but I guess Fury was just too lazy. He has everything: technique, reach, height, and weight, but if he's too lazy to train, then he has nothing. The signs were there, starting with his sluggish performance against Ngannou when he could have easily beaten him if he had trained well. Instead, he was in trouble! If and only if Fury isn't injured and spends the rest of the months training like hell, then he still has a chance to get his revenge.
Agreed that he was lazy against Francis Ngannou in the fight and I speculate also in his training. However, I very much disagree that Tyson Fury was was lazy during his training against Usyk. This fight was for history and legacy! We can be quite certain that both of these boxers wanted the victory and used all of their stamina and strength. It was a split decision. There was no lazy boxer in this fight. Usyk was better than Fury despite Usyk's smaller size. |
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News update. Trump promised to free Ross Ulbricht on day 1 of his presidency hehehehee. It appears that the Biden administration should free him before November if they want to compete against Trump on his procrypto campaign hehehe. I am quite certain that everyone will agree that this is certainly good news for many bitcoiners and the cryptospace community.  Donald J. Trump has pledged to commute Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht’s life sentence to time served if he’s re-elected president
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“If you vote for me, on Day 1, I will commute the sentence of Ross Ulbricht to a sentence of time served,” Trump said during his Saturday night remarks at the Libertarian National Convention in Washington, D.C. “He’s already served 11 years, we’re gonna get him home.”Source https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2024/05/26/trump-pledges-to-free-silk-road-creator-ross-ulbricht-if-re-elected/This is the video of the speech. https://streamable.com/x7kcmg |
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@Die_empty. Did you see the fight between Bitboy vs. the other crypto influencer which I forgot the name. According to social media the influencer is a kickboxing practitioner who competed in this sport since he was 7 years old. Yes, it was arranged. The influencer's face was arranged by Bitboy heheheheh.  |
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^^ It's really hard to proved it though, it's one sample from Ryan's urine and it has been split to Sample A and Sample B. Perhaps what they have to show is that what Ryan did take prior to that fight that makes his sample positive of a banned substance. And from what I have found about Ostarine, Ostarine is a type of drug called a selective androgen receptor modulator (SARM). It's not approved by the FDA, but is sometimes found in supplements.
Ostarine attaches to proteins in the body known as androgen receptors. When ostarine binds to these receptors, it tells muscles to grow.
https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-1564/ostarineSo it's a drug to help someone grow muscle, the question, do Ryan need to have more muscle in this fight? Why is it to take only 1 urine sample that was split into 2? If the sample was contaminated before the split, how would the other sample prove for or against? I reckon this should be 2 samples taken on different occasions. This might be before their weigh in and the other sample taken before they go inside the ring. Has there been any record of boxers testing positive on samples A and B then declared negative after an investigation? I am disappointed and I accept that King Ry might have cheated, however, if we consider the corruption in boxing, it would also not be very shocking if there is a conspiracy against King Ry. |
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It is very much clear that we cannot agree on similar arguments much of the time in the forum. However, I reckon everyone can support this ban on CBDC which is being argued that it can be used as a tool for surveillance and the invasion of privacy. The politicians from any country who will back the implementation of CBDC in your jurisdictions should be taken out from their positions. Do not vote for them. Just as US politicians were finding common ground over crypto, the bipartisan bliss vanished over an old divisive issue — central bank digital currencies.
The rift over CBDCs was on full display on Thursday, when the House of Representatives voted to prohibit the Treasury from creating a digital dollar without explicit authorisation from Congress.
The bill, dubbed the CBDC Anti-Surveillance State Act, was sponsored by Tom Emmer, a Republican from Minnesota and one of the crypto industry’s biggest congressional allies.
“For more than two years, we have worked to educate, grow support, and pass this important legislation, which prevents unelected bureaucrats from issuing a financial surveillance tool to fundamentally undermine our American values,” Emmer said in a statement on X.Read in full https://www.dlnews.com/articles/regulation/us-house-passes-bill-banning-surveillance-tool-cbdcs/ |
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and they'll not promote projects of meme coins that have no useful ness
Without memecoins, activity on Ethereum would be cut in half. Even if you don't personally trade them, they contribute to the health of the network. Memecoins activity is presently leaving Ethereum and much of their creators and much of the traders who like gambling on them are on Solana already. The fees are smaller and the execution of the trades are faster. In any case, for the people who are scratching their heads why the ETF approval became a dump the news signal, let us tell them that it was a similar occurrence in bitcoin. After the dump, bitcoin pumped for 6 months hehehehehe. |
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So this comes from a well know source, so I wouldn't be surprised. Maybe they are doing their due diligence to test it the right way and make sure that it is not contaminated whatsoever because their decision are going to be very important to the boxing world.
With that, we need to wait further and see if Ryan's is going to be exonerated or not as there are already a trial by publicity here and he has been labeled as a cheater by some boxers.
As per Dan Rafael's post, Ryan Garcia's B sample was still positive for the banned PED Ostarine. I do think that this post is from a reliable source as Dan Rafael was also the one divulging on the A sample being positive. With this development, what could be the sanctions of the governing bodies to Ryan Garcia? Could he be banned from boxing on his entire life? I am very sad and also very much disappointed on this. King Ry, similar to the scammer Tank, might also be a scammer. What does this imply for Devin Haney? This does not cause his strong boxing image before his loss to return unless he makes the decision to start challenging the other champions in his weight division beginning with Pitbull, later challenge Matias then the final challenge against Teo. In any case, King Ry's legal team is arguing that there might be a contamination. Garcia's legal team responded to the claims by stating independent hair-sample analysis came back negative, which would indicate contamination rather than long-term use.Source https://wwos.nine.com.au/combat-sports/boxing-news-2024-ryan-garcia-positive-drug-test-b-sample-vs-devin-haney-social-media/96427ba8-fc86-4228-b3b0-d10624e3d62e |
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That is a very brave prediction of yours hehehe. I will also offer a brave prediction. I predict Islam Makhachev will win against Dustin Poirier very much similar to Khabib and this will be with a rear naked choke hehe.
In any case, I wish @Saint-loup will not see this prediction because he might again challenge me to bet against him and I will again be forced to be brave heheheheeh. This might become another donation for him. However, yes it will be a rear naked choke.
You've called me?  Last time you've bet against me, you didn't lose, you didn't win either, nobody won unfortunately actually IIRC. How much do you want to bet? Which odds do you propose? Hehehehehe I did not expect for you to see this heehehhee.  However, I cannot be very certain how much odds I can propose to you because there are many types of submission technics in mixed martial arts. The rear naked choke is only one of them. If I propose something, you might tell me that I am being unfair. Also, Islam can also win with a knockout punch or a technical knockout. It appears that I cannot be brave for you hehehehe. |
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Does anyone have news updates on the SEC's wells against Uniswap after what appears to be a uturn of the Biden administration's war on the cryptospace?
It appears that there might be nothing for uncle Gary on this case. Similar to the precedent on Ripple's case, the tokens by themselves that were listed and offered directly on a secondary market in Uniswap are not an investment contracts that will not pass the Howey test.
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@Bureau. I reckon that after the approval of the ETF, we can be quite certain that institutional investors from traditional finance will begin twapping on Ethereum and take the new all time high for this to more than $20k. However, there is another man who might have more on his roadmap that will make Ethereum the blockchain for traditional global finance, for real world asset tokenization and the new internet platform for new financial applications. This man's name is Larry Fink the new mayor of Bitcoin.  |
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19b-4 filings were approved just an hour or so ago. If the S-1 filings are approved (can take weeks still), this will make the US the fourth country to have spot Ethereum ETFs, after Brazil, the UK (Bermuda), and China (Hong Kong). Price is quiet until now, but somewhat of a pump occurred today earlier, when the SEC had already given clear hints that the approval was coming soon. I think however the ETH price in Bitcoin and the dominance could go up to 2023 levels (dominance of around 20% and BTC price of 0.006 approximately, which would be around $4000 at current Bitcoin prices). The reason for this prediction is that the ETH ETF approval means that the field would be "leveled" again between BTC and ETH as it was before the Bitcoin ETF approvals, but then Bitcoin was able to take some advantage since January which caused the dip below 0.005 in ETH/BTC price. The 2021 ATH is however still relatively distant, at approximately $4880. I think if Bitcoin breaks its own ATH and goes over $75000, then also an ETH ATH is possible relatively soon. I was very much mistaken hehe. My prediction was uncle Gary would postpone approval similar to what he has done on bitcoin. However, it appears that according to some rumors on social media, the Democrats are beginning to have a procrypto agenda because Trump has become more popular caused by his procrypto statements in his speeches. This is headshaking because the cryptospace has become a political theatre for collecting votes for the presidential election on November hehehe. |
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Never heard about them...here is one of the many positive aspects of not using social networks or time waster  I had seen posts about bitboy on some telegram groups but I didn't think it was something with followers and a certain "frequency". if they are intended as "fun" and not "sports" matches, they have a point in existing... otherwise it just becomes a way to ridicule a sport, and this Is not fun anymore  Hehe it depends on how you use social media and who you are following. However, social media is always certainly good for the latest news updates and articles. On Nic Carter he is a very intelligent investor and he knows much about bitcoin. He has good understanding and opinions on this. On David Hoffman he is a cohost on Bankless podcast and he is an Ethereum maximalist hehehe. I speculate that Nic and David had a high temper argument on social media and they have made the decision to settle this argument with a fight under full contact karate rules on May 30 heheheheee. |
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Price-wise it is OK to be bullish because bitcoin is a deflationary asset but adoption-wise, it is kind of concerning. We have already seen Litecoin beating Bitcoin on bitpay stats and that happened 5 months consecutively. I don't think the stats for May will be much different. People simply don't use bitcoin for payments anymore and it is not people's fault, they simply can't use it because of the high fees and that's why they are using something else. In this situation, it happens to be litecoin.  https://bitpay.com/stats/Maybe it is better this way. If people want to make payments, they can choose an alt and there are no shortage of good, cheap & fast altcoins. Litecoin, Dogecoin, XMR and even bcash is not that bad if you want to pay cheap tx fees. People who want to get digital gold, they'll get bitcoin. However, if everyone considers where the bitcoin community and much of the toxic maximalists are taking bitcoin, this should certainly be expected, I reckon. They do not want a medium of exchange, only HODL. They want a store of value and it appears that they presently are beginning to have a store of value. Also, not only a store of value, they also have a speculative investment hehehehe. |
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We should also not forget this tweet. https://x.com/JSeyff/status/1792636774067413502Eric and James, who are well-known ETF analysts, made a tweet a few hours ago showing & increasing their prediction on the chance of ETF approval to 75%, which was also announced on Bloomberg. A few hours after the news was speculated, we started seeing the turn-up on the market. Eth already crossed $3700 from $3100, which it was trading earlier, and Bitcoin hit $71,000+, and we are still counting other alts that were also not left out. I just hope this pump doesn't stop half way or the market takes another turn immediately after the ETH approval, just like what happens with Bitcoin. 75% is very high and this is almost a certainty if Eric and James increased this by 3x from their original estimations. The prediction market in Polymarket has also increased to 69% from 61%. We can presently be certain that we will witness another pump after approval or a dump of disappointment after rejection or postponement heheheh. In any case, agreed! I also wish this pump will not stop! If uncle Gary rejects this or postpones, I wish all of the Democratic candidates will lose on November! |
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News update. The CEO of Grayscale Michael Sonnenshein has resigned. It appears the cause of this might be because of his mistake of not quickly decreasing their fees to the more competitive rates on the ETF market after the approval? The expensive fees might have also been the cause of the big outflows from GBTC. Michael Sonnenshein will be replaced by Peter Mintzberg from Goldman Sachs. He was congratulated by Barry Silbet which might also imply that this is his decision. Grayscale Investments, one of the world’s largest crypto asset management firms, has appointed Peter Mintzberg as its new chief effective officer, effective August 15, 2024.
Mintzberg, a seasoned strategist with over twenty years in asset management, will also join Grayscale’s Board of Directors.
Previously, Mintzberg held the position of global head of strategy for asset and wealth management at Goldman Sachs and has served in leadership roles at BlackRock, OppenheimerFunds, and Invesco.Source https://finance.yahoo.com/news/grayscale-investments-names-peter-mintzberg-173918411.html |
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 I reckon if you do not know these names then it appears that you either do not care for the news around the cryptospace or you have not been following the cryptospace very much closely. In any case, after Bitboy's victory we have another crypto influencer fight between Nic Carter and Bankless cohost David Hoffman hehehehe. This will be on May 30 in Austin Texas where the next Consensus crypto conference will occur. You can bet on Polymarket. https://polymarket.com/event/nic-carter-vs-david-hoffman-Fight?tid=1716350519171Also, these influencer fights are not done randomly. This is an agreement to fight between 2 influencers who hate each other on social media heheheheheh. |
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@legiteum. It appears that bitcoin and the whole of the cryptospace might pump more than 500% under the Biden administration if he signs the bill that will repeal SAB121. This SAB121 that was imposed by uncle Gary is an accounting rule that would force centralized custodians to include the cryptocoins under their custody as liabilities in their balance sheets. I am not quote certain how difficult this will be on the custodians, however, it appears that they are against this.
The bill to repeal this will be on Biden's desk to be signed and created into law or he might veto this. I reckon this might be a signal if Joe Biden has changed to procrypto or if he continues to be anticrypto. The deadline for this is on May 28.
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@OcTradism. On Conor's fight vs. Michael Chandler on June 29, I reckon there might be a promotion where Duelbits might offer everyone to bet for a knockout victory for Conor and if the bet is a loss, you will be given your money back hehehe. I predict Conor might knockout Chandler on round 2.
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I will leave my predictions here:
Makhachev will lose, if he doesn't lose Dustin will show the way on how to defeat him and in his next fight Makhachev loses.
Strickland beats Paulo by knockout, the judges won't need to decide this one.
That is a very brave prediction of yours hehehe. I will also offer a brave prediction. I predict Islam Makhachev will win against Dustin Poirier very much similar to Khabib and this will be with a rear naked choke hehe. In any case, I wish @Saint-loup will not see this prediction because he might again challenge me to bet against him and I will again be forced to be brave heheheheeh. This might become another donation for him. However, yes it will be a rear naked choke. |
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On the Democrats and the cryptospace, there are people on social media that are beginning to speculate that the Democrats are retreating on their anticrypto agenda. It also appears that this might begin on the approval of the ETF for Ethereum. The decision on approval or rejection will be on May 23.
On uncle Gary's decision, I have predicted that it will be another postponement or a rejection. However, the pump on the market might be telling be that I might be wrong hehehe.
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