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1001  Economy / Gambling / Re: I miss the old OnChain gambling on: June 22, 2022, 03:28:15 PM
I guess it's still possible to gamble on the chain. There were many casinos running on the Tron network. It makes it possible to play fair game on smart contracts.

However, people find it more convenient to play in licensed and popular casinos.
They truly run onchain without the requirement to make an account with the casino? Everything is sent and received to your wallet? That's good, but from a technical perspective, TRON has made trade-offs in the Blockchain Trilemma for more scalability, but the network becomes more centralized.

The Blockchain Trilemma, https://www.ledger.com/academy/what-is-the-blockchain-trilemma
I would guess that even with a casino, even with defi, even with a stablecoin, whatever tron does there aren't enough people who trust them to put their money in there. The only thing that made people use tron at least a bit, was the fact that it was the cheapest network to move USDT around, and many people used that, but nowadays there are other stablecoins people use on other networks and that is the way it goes for the time being.

I feel like on-chain is gone, satoshidice was the only one that worked, erikvoorhees made all the money he could and since primedice-justdice period there hasn't been any successful one that stands today, and won't be one.
1002  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 2023 NBA Season on: June 21, 2022, 08:12:47 PM
I don't know if it's a good thing to trade Davis, I mean he was the one who help the Lakers win a championship, without him, Lebron would not win a championship. Lakers needs a good center, and since Westbrook is very inconsistent, then I would not expect the Lakers to improve next season.
He "was" the one that helped them, I mean just because he did, doesn't mean he should get a contract forever, that makes no sense at all. It would be a lot smarter if they could get rid of him right now and get someone who can continue to provide something.

Just the other day AD was on some show or something and he was talking about how he didn't picked up a ball since April, that is all you need to know about him and why he is a bad player, plus he gets injured all the time, even if you keep him and he plays well, there is a chance he could get injured. It is much better to get rid of him now, and get a player that will get you the ring this year, instead of the one that got it 2-3 years ago.
1003  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Which stablecoin do you "trust" the most? on: June 21, 2022, 03:10:38 PM
USDC is currently the option that I feel has gained more confidence than the rest. I also heard about Circle announcing Euro Coin, but honestly, after using other stablecoins like USDT and BUSD, I don't think it's too much of a risk to complain as a small trader. Despite seeing recent incidents of many projects losing the ability to support the very things they created, I also suspect many stablecoins today are being overused in this market.
USDC got a bit more attention because of two main reasons. One of them is the fact that Luna dropped so there are a lot of people who are not trusting stablecoins all that much, and fear what if the same thing happens to other ones as well, not the same method of course because USDT, USDC, BUSD are not algo stablecoins, but still a risk.

Second reason is that USA is a big nation with a ton of money, and USDC is made by the biggest (and even listed on Nasdaq) crypto company in the world, that creates a trust and since UST caused people to lose trust, finding the place that you can trust created a good reason for people to pick that one over the others.
1004  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Premier League Prediction Thread 2021/2022 on: June 20, 2022, 08:33:31 PM
I think, Liverpool will definitely sign in Nunez because they will not allow what happened in this season to repeat itself again in next premier league season than to use this opportunity to get talented strikers ahead of next season. It will be difficult for Liverpool to miss next season title because those new players their managements are about to sign in will really help the team to perform well in next season. I don't think Manchester city will have any interest on Erling Haaland because their performance caused them to embraced this season title to prove to the whole world that they remain unbeatable in this season.
The weird thing is that they got rid of Mane very quickly. I do not know why they did that, but instead of getting Nunez they could have made a lot more money if they kept Mane instead, would be cheaper to just sign him, and would be saving themselves another transfer.

In any case, what is done is done, and they rarely ever player with a striker, they have players who are playing in "forward" positions, like on offense, but they do not have pure strikers like mbappe, ronaldo, haaland those type of players are lacking. With nunez they "may" have found something like that and I am guessing that it is going to be fine for them, wouldn't be a bad idea at all.
1005  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: The Paper Money Revolution on: June 20, 2022, 07:29:28 PM
Is paper money really dead? How can we face off with bitcoin?

much better idea to make decorative artificial flowers, than using bank notes as wallpaper in the last century.

i was beginning to think that bank notes would soon only be used as toilet paper in the next high inflation cycle.. but then they changed it from paper/cotton based (nice and soft on the buttocks) and instead made plastic shiny banknotes (not excrement absorbing and too shiny to wipe anything, and "ouch" paper-cut on a butt-cheek is painful)

so its a good recycling method for bank notes to be artificial flower decorations
This is one of the most "original" comments that I have ever seen here and I would lvoe to give it a reward like oscars if I could, PAPER CUT ON BUTT CHEEK is a great band name as well lol, thinking more punk because of the gothic and depressive under tone Cheesy All jokes aside, I agree that paper money or banknotes as they are called, will not be available for too long.

It is not used that much even today and the more elder people start to pass away, the more younger generation will become older generation and thats when we will start to not use crypto at all. I am guessing that the best thing we can do right now would be to let time handle all of this, we do not need to do anything.
1006  Economy / Gambling / Re: FreeBitco.in-$200 FreeBTC⭐Win Lambo🔥0.2BTC DailyJackpot🏆$32,500 Wager Contest on: June 20, 2022, 02:46:26 PM
Convert them RP into free BTC bonuses. I get up to 171 Sats per hour, not bad tbh.
Tell me more about this method
If you want to avail the FREE BTC BONUS, you will use your Reward Points to redeem it. You should have enough RP, at least 116 as of writing to activate the 50% BONUS which is only valid for 24 hours.
I highly suggest not to do this because it requires you to be online plenty of times to make a profit out of this. If you are online and do this once a day, then you are going to end up with a problem and it will not be profitable, if you do it 18 times in a single day then it will definitely be amazing for you.

Can you be online for up to 18 hrs in a single day? I doubt that would work. In that case we have reward points bonus as well, which you can get, and then do that, and then do the satoshi one and then reward etc etc in a cycle and make more, but I feel like that is way too much work for a little gain, just collect the reward points and turn them into BTC once you reach 100k.
1007  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin is dead! on: June 19, 2022, 09:36:53 PM
I'll start by saying that I haven't sold anything since 2021 and still hold 80% of my bitcoins from 2016, but the price is looking the weakest I've ever seen it. It's not about the price in USD but the way it goes down week after week without any comebacks and retests. This is not normal even for Bitcoin. Looks like all that hype that institutions are coming to bitcoin is unwinding and it's going to end with a headache for all of us.

For me personally even $3k is nothing because I held all the way from 1k to 20k and back down to 3k, so if we were to fall down to 3k again I'd still hold, but it's painful to watch how a stupid USD pump can bring something that's being traded all around the world down.
This is the path I have taken as well, and even though it is 20k right now, I still have absolutely no reason to sell right now and would never sell. This doesn't mean that I am not upset about the price drop, of course I am upset about the price drop, why wouldn't I be? I have all my investments in just bitcoin these days, sold everything else and holding bitcoin only, so when that falls it does make me feel shitty about it for sure.

But, just because I am upset that it went down, doesn't change the data and the idea that bitcoin wins in the long run, me being upset has absolutely no relevance to profit making at all. This is why I do not sell just because I feel something, emotions have no place in trading.
1008  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ⚽UEFA Champions League Discussion Thread -- 2021/22 winner - Real Madrid! on: June 19, 2022, 09:05:48 PM
Actually in this case their back line in terms of players is very good but the problem is sometimes in a match they are always focused on attack and are not in a state of readiness when they face counter attacks because some players do not return to their positions on time.
It's also the case that when they lost against Villarreal this season they were focused on attacking but when they came on the counter they were overwhelmed which made this a drawback for them.
Yes, Bayern Munich is always included in the list of favorite teams to win the Champions League. In fact they always score a lot of goals in several matches, but that can't make up for their shortcomings that lie in defense as discussed here. Their defense only works in the domestic league but not for the bigger competitions.
I think their defense is not a "weakness" but more like a system thing. I have said many times that Bayern is too used to dominate in the league which is a problem for them in the UCL competition. It means that they are used to playing with a system that likes to dominate the other team, and when they face a team that is hard, they just end up not knowing what to do.

What do you expect from a team of defenders that end up not even defending anyone because they are dominating so hard that opponents rarely come to attack, and then suddenly face teams that will constantly attack. That defense will not be ready for such a thing after active training type of games in the league.
1009  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar - UEFA Qualifiers on: June 19, 2022, 07:45:39 PM
It is going to be really awkward for me to have this World Cup in a month like November. Because we have always been accustomed to watching this beautiful tournament in summers. But maybe I'm very prejudiced about this and it will still be a lot of fun. However this will change the order of everything also. Because there is going to be a huge break for the domestic leagues then. This can cause the fixtures to be even tighter after the World Cup ends. Or maybe the season would end very late compared to normal.
Where are you from? We in Asia have no seasons so it really doesn't matter much if it's end or middle of the year, both times are when our own leagues don't play anyway.

I still don't get why it's a problem for most people, it's not like we are the ones playing football there, and most of the teams are on their off season anyway (except Europe but that's their problem lol).
There are a lot of people who like to gamble during the season, european one, where it's from late august to early June or even may basically, and that is a lot better for them because it's all the big clubs and teams play. And that is a very good thing because you see PSG, city, Liverpool, bayern, juventus, milan, chelsea, real, Barcelona etc etc etc all these huge names all play during the same weeks.

This means you can make 10 different bets, all on the same day, all for teams that have 300-400 or more million dollar worth clubs. You can't have that during summer, sure you can still gamble and find some games, but they won't be as big as the European ones.
1010  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 2022 NBA Season - Finals on: June 18, 2022, 09:32:18 PM
Wiggins is not part of the big 3, of course, they can replace him as long as the players that the Warriors will acquire will play the system of the Warriors. For sure there are plenty of players out there who are willing to play with the Warriors as this is a championship team.

Wiggins already earn a championship, so he will be more useful to whatever team that will acquire him through trade.
Whatever people say, I still think that Wiggins is a better third wheel than Draymond. I never really liked Draymond and I feel like he was there just because of his passing ability and his defense, which is definitely something they needed and fit the needs of the team so perfectly that they let him be.

But, he is a dirty player as we all know, he always uses his brain to find the weakest spot and tries to get away with many things. Dude could be the main reason why they lost 2016 title as well, he kicked everyone in the league, got punished and missed a finals game. So, I have to say that Curry-Klay-Wiggins sounds a lot better to me.
1011  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ⚽UEFA Champions League Discussion Thread -- 2021/22 winner - Real Madrid! on: June 18, 2022, 08:58:02 PM
Bayern Munich football tactic in general, they play with a system focused on attacking and scoring goals. This tactic may not always be consistent in the champions league. Because their opponents can find other solutions against this tactic of Munich and they can get points from Bayern Munich in this way. If they catch the balance of defense and attack, Munich can completely dominate the field this time.
It still works against weaker opponents for sure, but when there is a team that is close to their level, or better than them, then it becomes a bit of a problem since it would take Bayern to not make a single mistake and be super rapid against the other team as well.

I mean think about it this way, if there is a team they face which has even close levels of talent, and know how to do counter attacking, they could absurd any of Bayerns attacks and then they could use that to their advantage and get chances to score. This is what happened to them this year, and that is why they are not winning every year as well, it takes a bit of matchup chance for them to win it.
1012  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Your NBA Champion this season? on: June 18, 2022, 08:22:18 PM
I looked at the OP's post, the odds of the Warriors that time was;

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4- Warriors >8.50

Whoever won that kind of odds is a lucky better, congratulations to you, you also deserve to celebrate because you trusted the Warriors when they were not the favorite to win the championship.
That wasn't luck after all because the chance of Warriors getting into the playoffs and Finals was good. But at that time, it takes enough guts and courage to have that bet as it's still not that sure that they could really get in as the other teams in the league are also good. So, congratulations again OP for having a strong faith for the Golden State Warriors Wink
I still understand people who didn't expected Warriors to win the title, that makes sense if they missed out completely. The main reason was the fact that people didn't really expected much from Wiggins, nobody knew Poole will be this good, neither would Looney would be, people assumed the main trio got old, and Klay was coming off from an injury half way through the season. All of these combined makes it harder for Warriors to win it this year, one of the titles that they deserved the most.

I remember people hated Warriors when they won with Durant on the team and I get it, they were the best team and ADDED Durant to that roster after a 73 win season, but this one is much different ,they really worked very hard t oget it and they deserve every ounce of joy.
1013  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Italian League Prediction Thread (Serie A) on: June 18, 2022, 07:12:36 PM
Ronaldo still has the instinct to score a strong goal when he is in front of the opponent's goal and he has proven it last season with Manchester United where Ronaldo is very often the savior or decisive victory for Manchester United.
but at his age now which is 37 years old I think he will not return to Serie A, maybe he will only play 1 more season in Europe's top league after that he will return to sporting lisbon as he has said that he wants to retire in sporting lisbon, his first club.
It's obvious that the "talent" he has can't go away, even when players are 50+ years old, they know how to play and their brain still tells them what should be done. It is the fact that their bodies start to get brittle and injured easily that gets them to retire eventually, do not know when but they usually do it around 40 years old.

However, Ronaldo took care of his body like a temple just like Lebron James did in NBA, which means that Ronaldo may still be one of the best, because he has both the talent and the body for keep going. I am guessing that he may not be as good as he was when he was 30, but he is still one of the best strikers there are out there.
1014  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: The Hunt for new NFT project on: June 18, 2022, 03:05:31 PM
I am looking for new NFT project that has very good utility Do you have any project in mind that can be as good as APE NFT in future? What new NFT project you are presently into? Bored Ape Yacht NFT and other are just way too overpriced.
NFT have explosive potential and are here to stay, I hope it will not go like game machines they just burned users' money when they ditched games, so this should be the time to introduce new NFT projects to generate higher user engagement. but if buying APE NFT and getting 10% of your investment back with daily dividend why not.
This is what I believe; you can make games, but make games that people will want to spend money on. The most common example is that people played Fortnite right? They spent billions on it as well but they didn't really cared about making a return, so why would they think about the same thing in the future when there is an NFT situation going on?

I have to say that there is a chance that we could have an NFT game situation going on, which would make it possible for some NFT project to create games and then people would love the game so much that they wouldn't care about the profit part at all. This has been said many times, but when that happens, it is going to change the NFT world for sure.
1015  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Gambling Problem, Is it Possible to be a Thing of the Past? on: June 17, 2022, 09:05:52 PM
Self-exclusion feature? That's just a formality to make a good reputation for the casino.It just like telling an addicted gambler to "stop gambilng" and fell to deaf ear.If they are serious,they can just banned the gambler account for like 1-2 weeks and said it's for the prevention of addiction.
But it could be a new program implemented in the casino. But as for the application, I don't think it will be easy because as you said, it will not make addicted gamblers stop as easy as they would like. But the question is how the casino will know if a gambler is addicted because if you look at the time spent, many other gamblers also spend a lot of time playing gambling. Maybe we're better off waiting for the latest updates from those who've tried using it so we can know what's going on.
I assume that the point is not to make them stop completely, because you can't do that, even if you do that with one casino, they could go to another casino and that is why it is not just about making it completely impossible for them to gamble. It is just making it a bit harder for them to gamble the way they do.

Like for example if you are addicted, many psychologists suggest changing your routine, saying things like "go for a walk" is not good because you are walking, it is good because you are doing something that you normally do not do, the walking part is just an example there, plus it is healthy so you know, win-win. Same here, if you gamble at one place the same way for years, and then can't, even if you switch up somewhere else, it would make it harder for you, hence maybe give you a small tiny chance of quitting all together.
1016  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: 8 months low, no better time than now. on: June 17, 2022, 07:25:49 PM
One of the most important things is that bitcoin is a very volatile asset, there is risk and there is also potential, but because this market is free then anything can happen as long as they consider it the best way to make a profit.

The Fed's aggressive rate hikes have an impact on bitcoin and all other investment assets. This is a situation that may not be favorable for previous investors but will certainly be very profitable for those who arrive late because the opportunity to buy at a discount just appears. But traders' concerns and the panic they experienced had sent prices lower as support was unable to withstand the heavy selling pressure. I'm sure sooner or later the price will form a new pattern, this will be good in the future.
The aggressive interest rate hikes are because of inflation. We have been in an inflation for a while now, due to pandemic free money printing period. Not that this is a better option, but at least it is more controllable situation. With the interests so high, people would take their money out of the markets, and into the interests, which will leave a lot less money available for the world to use. In this regard, everything will stagger, the growth will stop and inflation will go down.

Of course, it will bring poverty with it as well, people who are wealthy got the money and put it on interest, people who are poor, will be living in fear of not knowing when the next money will come, but it will get better hopefully.
1017  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Premier League Prediction Thread 2021/2022 on: June 17, 2022, 06:52:01 PM
Arsenal's efforts in improving the quality of players and the performance of the club in general are very commendable at this time because it is just an effort and the evidence also does not exist because the new season has not started, so to ensure this can be very good for Arsenal is when next season It's already started and everyone can see how Arsenal played to win games at the start of the season.
every club management must evaluate after the season is over. and Arsenal responded to last season's achievements quite well. but it all depends on how Arsenal can maximize their spending. when the manager manages to create his best squad potion, that will be great. but if they fail to make the game better, it means Arsenal is wasting their money on wasted purchases.
Every team has periods where they spend like 7 million on an untested player from some youth system in another nation and turn out to be a great marvelous player, or a player that has been a superstar so far and buy him and turns out to be bad.

Look at Hazard for Madrid, even Madrid that usually finds players who are actually amazing and rarely makes any mistakes, even with Bale got so much out of him before he turned to be bad, but Hazard was just straight up bad player for them. So, I have to say that Arsenal could make amazing transfers, or terrible ones, only time will tell and we will not know even if we see the names and the prices.
1018  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ⚽ Football Transfers Speculation, Odds and Predictions on: June 17, 2022, 09:40:08 AM
according to transfermarkt.co.uk, manchester united are favorites to sign portuguese midfielder Vitinha from fc porto, who has a €40 million transfer clause
It looks like in this case Manchester United are starting to shift targets because for the last few days De Jong has always been the center but after being rejected again and again by Barcelona it seems that United are starting to look for other players. Actually Vitinha is a pretty good player if you look at his performances at Porto but to sign this player is definitely not an easy step, especially if we look at Pinto da Costa's statement as club president who clearly says that plowing Vitinha is not easy and the price is not cheap either.
Which makes sense, I mean if they can't get him, why offer more than what he should be worth? Get someone else instead. We are not short on good midfielders, you can spend like 100 million and build a whole midfield for yourself at that level, there are players going for 20-30-40 million euro at these days and it could be done for sure.

This means now they have a clean slate, they can't get De Jong, so they can try to argue against any team that they do not want their players THAT badly, and could move on, so each time they offer a team some money, they will have the advantage of moving on and finding another target and keep doing that until they find a proper player.
1019  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Premier League Prediction Thread 2021/2022 on: June 16, 2022, 09:05:22 PM
Actually Rashford as potential player but last season he not get enough minutes playing for Manchester United and can't showed his top level performance. If actually true with Erik tan Hag not priority with getting more attacking position player will give chance for Rashford getting back his position with Manchester United as regular player. I think Rashford can placed on right winger poaition or make him as central forward with Mancheater United always give this position for Cristiano Ronaldo.
I do agree that they do not need any attacking players at all, they have enough and with that in mind Rasford will probably get some minutes. Teams playing in Premier league end up playing too many games, both in league, then cup games, then champions league (in united case not so much) and so forth which ends up being 50+ games a year.

So, one player could literally play 30 games and then another for the same position could play 20 games all season, hence why most teams that are rich, end up getting 2 players for the same position. All in all, I am guessing that the best thing to do for United would be focusing on defense and midfield for now.
1020  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ⚽ Football Transfers Speculation, Odds and Predictions on: June 16, 2022, 05:14:42 AM
It seems that the health check is only limited to requirements. Fantastic value for a young player like Nunez. 22 years with indigo transfers may be more than 100 million euros due to other deals. The hope is that he can adapt to Liverpool immediately.  Otherwise it will be a detrimental purchase. But looking at the ability shown while at Benfica it is in line with his current price. Nunez is the striker of today. Nunez is not only a finisher, but he can help take possession of the ball like Mbaape. Well with this of course the EPL competition will be even more interesting. I'm still waiting for what Man United and Chelsea are doing in this transfer market.
I do agree that he is a fantastic young star and he will be a great contribution, but even while agreeing to all of that, 75 million seems like a big number isn't it? I mean it could even reach as high as 100 million if they won everything for example, and that is just way too much money. Don't get me wrong, they are building the next super star level team with diaz and nunez and all that when salah and mane end up being gone, which doesn't look like impossible at this point.

I would guess that if they keep this up and keep getting young stars like this and keep Klopp at the head, then they are going to keep being awesome like this for another decade. But only if every transfer they make, turn out to be a good one and not a bust.
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