Benzema's episode ended the day he moved to Al-Ittihad, he is doing well there and has had few goals, let that slide and focus more on how the current team of Real Madrid has been. When a club undergoes major changes of players, there must be changes in how the players interact, how they play and how they win and since Casemiro was sold to Manchester United, their defence has changed even though Kroos and Rudiger are still in their prime protecting that with their life, it has really changed.

The centre forward has also experienced changes, Viniciuos has not been in the form the way he was during their last Champions League, no other player like Benzema that take advantage of assists like him that's why the effort of Viniciuos is sometimes wasted. Bellingham is good though, but that's not enough to me. If Ancelotti insists on riding the storm this season with the left players, so be it but I'm very confident that the fans are going to fry him before next year July.

With what he did put Liverpool, you will understand better that Newcastle flogged Liverpool by ball possession, the stats are there to check, they struggled to attack to neutralise their centre-back but they were able to hold onto Newcastle at the end of the minute. However, I think Van Dijk has been a menace to Liverpool, It either sleep on a defensive position or foul and get a consistent yellow card, it's the work of the defenders to be aggressive but must do so without fouling, even yesterday's card, he never thought he will foul to that extent that place them on 10 men against 11 men and now, he will miss the next 3 matches of Liverpools Premier League. There is no alternative defender that is as strong as him and if Salah is confirmed to be leaving as well, Liverpool will feel the heat in the coming weeks.

There is no fire without smoke, I am surprised as well about this fast move to leave the club after playing for them yesterday with a good assist but at the same time, I'm not surprised that he is leaving. Liverpool is very well known for its lack of player's welfare and financial increase in wages, that's how they let go of Mane last season and till now, they are still struggling to stay above the top 4 in the standing, if this turns to be official from Liverpool, I want to see how they are going to make it to the Champions League next season.

Right now, all indications of Salah is heading towards Saudi Arabia, that is the only place I think as well because he wouldn't be going back to Chelsea, Manchester United will not break the bank to have him and Pep is even on break, there is no any reputable club in Europe for that guy except Saudi Arabia, time will tell though.

Wait, what? Is there anything like a 100% guarantee in sports betting, not even the sports bookies will tell me to go all in and will do that, the same way there are chances of winning so there are high chances of losing, and if you lose, you will have no one t blame but yourself, and you know what, whenever I have a bankroll on $10,000, I will never use that on a bet, life is not all about betting, I will take my chances on other aspects of life; Bettin $10k for a bet is not even fun to me, that's more like a stupid idea.

In a real clause, whenever I hear anyone say a bet is 100% guaranteed to win, I do ignore them but in this situation, I will give it a try with another shot at funds that I don't need that time, perhaps max is going to be $100 and if that happens, I will be giving it a shot when there is a called but I wouldn't raise my wager, better to play safe and win for tomorrow or wager all your capital and go home without any means of having another money to play the next day.

I'm not sure why your username read Bhunter1997, does that refer to Bounty hunter? Is the 1997 has to do with your date of birth? 

If you once had a Bounty account or violated any rule with your first account and later find out, know that you will be caught with this one as well and if it's just a random name then only time will prove it.

Nevertheless, welcome to the forum. For more familiarity and rules of the forum, you should check Newbies - Read before posting

Business entity are very difficult to trust, they will disappoint you when you least expect and when that happens, it will end in regret and had I know. To disallowed this from happening to you, it's better you don't think of such idea because any business can become crippled in a day and if you have something stuck in there platform, you will be a victim. You may likely get your money or you may not get it, that depends on if you really read the terms and conditions during the course of registration, if they gives reasons why you may not have your money and you agree with them, then that's all for your money.

Your wallet doesn't itch you I believe, why not save it under your care instead of entrusting your money into another people you just won their money, don't you think they get hurt when they see you win and your balance keeps increasing. The early you start practicing self holding the better and safer your money.

Mane and Ronaldo combination has been a big blessing for AL Nasr, they both make a good team but there is something that bothers me about Ronaldo, it is the anger issue. We all know that no man is perfect in his profession, there is room for visible mistakes and invisible ones even the linemen find difficult to interpret, some are ignored just for the fun of it because if things are been done, the fun of it will not be there again but Ronaldo get angry easily when things don't go in his favour, he pushed away a staff that was trying to take pics with him, not humble and very mannerless I must say.

I can't wait for their domestic leagues to get hot like the Saudi Premier League is just round 5, there are more players that have been signed but have not had time yet to be featured in any of the matches, I want to see distribution and less attention on Ronaldo, maybe Neymar can make hattrick too the same way Ronaldo did this week.

It is a shame for a club that has the highest number of UCL in the history of Football was waiting for a young boy who disappointed them last season, they didn't learned yet they tried to take advantage of his reef with PSG and the boy still stay at his country club, maybe they have learned by now, even Ronaldo didn't take them more like this to bring to the club and till today, he is still the most decorated player that has emerged from Laliga after Messi. 

Furthermore, Ancelloti's behaviour is becoming unacceptable, almost all the top players have gone injured and he is stubborn and keen on not signing any new players, he thinks he is the best when it comes to decisions but that's a wrong decision that will come back to hunt Los Blancos. I was one of his fans but I can't wait to see him go back to Brazil where will go and retire as a manager, overconfidence will make you do what is wrong without realising and that is the Joke the old man is playing with Real Madrid.

What is the obsession of China and the latest crackdown, bitcoin situation was different back then, not similar to gambling. They were cracking down on miners because it was illegal to mine according to them because of the greenhouse effect even when we know that it was bullshit in the first place, they also ban bitcoin trading. However, China has been anti-rival of innovations, they don't want her citizens to use things outside their country but wouldn't stop producing counterfeit products for West Africans to buy their low-graded quality, if we are to reverse China and the world, they will cry victim card every day.

Coming back to the unlicensed gambling platforms, if truly they are not registered, then I think it's dishonest of them to operate in China because that's unlawful behaviour. If they want to have a share of the gambling from China, they should register and follow the rules and regulations and if that is too much to accept, they should leave their country and go somewhere else that allows such behaviour.

First of all, for the transaction to confirm faster, it depends on how mempool is congested with unconfirmed transactions and how much sats you are willing to replace the fee with, if you pay a high transaction fee for Child pay for Parent(CPFP), it will confirm faster( most likely in the immediate block) but if you pay low a fee, it will stay in the mempool until a miner pick it up; If RBF is enable, you can bump the fee.

In addition, the CPFP transaction is paying the transaction fees of A--->B and B--->C together, but how fast it becomes confirm depends on how you prioritised the fees.

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Privacy is not only a right, it is a must we need to practice but sadly, many turn blind to their lifestyle being exposed to the public, They would rather be happy taking pictures and using Facebook apps and TikTok to show the progressive stage of their life but their information are been collected in underground. When I see a celebrity that has no social media account, it gives me adrenaline but most people don't know that private life is a happy life, not everything we must show the public but people don't just care about privacy a bit.

Before bitcoin was born crimes were around every corner and till today that bitcoin has matured to this stage, the crime rate is high, the fiat of the government system is not far from this but they will rather turn a blind eye to these things and focus on bitcoin and that's jealousy, they don't have power over it and it give them headache how people spend without knowing more about the spending history. 

Space X has been proactive in selling their BTC before the Media, the last one they did, they sold before making the announcement in their first quarter of 2023 and the announcement did a lot of damage, so people don't want to sit and let that happen again, everything surrounding them is now more of speculation, nobody knows and Elon has not made any positive words or green light if they still hold or not just like the way they did back then before acquiring Twitter(X) for liquidity.

In the current state of the bitcoin market, we have more market makers and traders than holders which is why, anytime there is FUD, the price use to falls because they will certainly reduce their long position to mitigate an uncertain loss especially when they are not sure about what is causing the FUD. The government can manipulate bitcoin price though, where there is power, expect the worst from such because they can do and undo. Who knows if they decide to pressure institutional institutions to sell their bitcoin.

Centralized exchanges are organization with sole aim of making profit, if they make that public, they know for sure that it will make the news, bad news travel more than anything especially in crypto but almost the exited centralized exchanges that went through this similar situation always debunk the news to mitigate the effect on them but no matter how they hide it, the truth will prevail, you can't hide in the dark forever and those who will leave the exchange will leave without looking back which of course a good thing, let's learn to keep our coins out of centralized exchanges, we don't have to wait until disaster happen. Anyways, people that will learn from these mistakes will do and some will still turn deaf ear.

Earlier this year, around May to be precise, It was reported that one of the trading exchanges, Patricia halted withdrawals^[1] which at first they claimed(lied) that it was due to blockchain congestion but what really happened to Patricia wasn't what was disclosed to the public at first, they actually lost $2m to hack around January 2022 but they keep mum and refuse to disclose that to the public not until they seize withdrawals around April this year.

What happened like a joke turned out to be true, they have massively sacked workers and worked to get back to business again but from the look of things, they are not done with their fraud because, instead of them to resume withdrawals and allow customers to have access to their bitcoin, they decide to carry out another heist; they lunch a Patricia token(PTK)^[2] pegged to USDT with a whitepaper^[3] which is not listed on any exchange, if they have the USDTbank in the first place, they wouldn't launch another shitty stablecoin. Not only did they stop there.

They converted the user's BTC balance to the worthless stablecoin without their knowledge, no emails were sent, and no notification, who does that? Why convert BTC to PTK tokens they don't need? Looking at the status of the company, they don't have the means to pay back the customers, they don't have the liquidity to settle all the debts, the BTC on the user's wallet is only database value, no intrinsic value and this is just another FTX scam.

What have you learned? Not your keys, definitely not your coins. Never leave your BTC on another man's land, they control it while you only control the front end, you don't have the keys and you can't control what will happen in the future. Learn to keep your coins in your custody and protect your private keys and seed phrase.

[1] https://techcabal.com/2023/05/27/patricia-loses-2m-to-hack/
[2] https://techcabal.com/2023/08/19/patricia-customer-assets/
[3] https://mypatricia.co/resources/blog/patricia-token-white-paper

I thought IDO meant Initial decentralized offering, what is coming over these guys these days or is Defi now Cefi. People were neglecting IEO back then because of the KYC issues and then people came up with the idea of IDO, some investors that value privacy started having the advantage of getting earlier to this project public sale through a mechanism and policy but it strange that they now request for KYC, this is really bad or perhaps this is the reality of bear market to reduce participants.

It is not a must that you will have to partake in IDO, if they insist, kindly allow them to do their things, it's even difficult to get high returns on the new project they sell, they don't have any returns, and the max you can get is 2x or you may get dump on if the project is not worth it.

If life was to be fair to people and I have a way to turn things around, I will make sure individual never suffer to make a living, my decision and willingness to help will not stop the riches from amassing their wealth but I will make sure the poor breathe and have access to good health, well fed with good food and basic amenities, this will be  a standard practice for the world until we have a new place called another world but I will make sure the world eradicate poverty free where poverty will be a discussion of the past like the way we had slavery in the 70s and 80s.

I will also change the financial system of the government, that thing is not working, only favour the people around in power and such financial system is nothing but garbage, the inflation they created is killing an average person with low purchasing power of their fiats., I will kill that idea and make sure to have a standard currency that will be generally accept as world reserve currency, this is going to be my change to the world if and if the opportunity is available.

You are a very funny type of person. You know quite well that there is no such kind of business that you will launch today and start milking profits the next day. It's possible that you can have profit but you will experience low sales in the business unless the business is alrean established one or perhaps a big company names like in the form of franchise as we do have in food business, for example the likes of Mr. Bigs, KFC, Chicken republic and Burger King Wil start selling the day you launch them but you may experience low volume of sales but will improved with time as the awareness continues to grow.

Do you have some kind of business in your mind, well I will advise you to try a restaurant business, that's the only thing I know everybody need including a mad man, you will get patronize by people and if you have a special recipes that people like, then that's the cathch to get attention and taste to stick to your restaurant for launch and dinners. You may also failed actually, so be careful and good luck.

There was a time I had Binance my first Binance account and there was no KYC back then, you can used a dummy email and a password to get access to every features then before the introduction of P2P and Launchpad and I can tell you that you that I enjoyed it because I don't live my coins on them, I deposit other coins, swap to BTC and move them out and everyone like me where all there but when KYC became a mandatory thing, they lose users like me but till today, it's suprise me how they managed to get back users this much, perhaps their launchpad marketing and gains made people like the exchange but I don't like them a bit.

If Binance go down today, I'm sorry to say that bitcoin price will half the original price today because they have lots of coin in there reserves wallets that can do lot of damages, institutional and microstrategy all have assets under them. I pray they don't collapse but if it does, it's going to be a hell on earth for crypto and everyone, that's why we must reduce our dependency on centralized exchanges.

The intention is never getting my hands on fiat in the first place, I don't used fiat unless I get paid in it which I can't avoid especially when it comes to bill settlement and groceries but I can choose how my investment can be, and it will continue to remain in btc, you know they say 1 BTC = 1 BTC, the nominal value will be determine by me when I decide to sell. I don't even have much  realized profit yet, it's still the way the I bought it at the market value with slight profits in value but the quantity remain the same, you don't loss until you sold.

It wouldn't cause you less sleep if BTC price swings downward or plunged, if you have more fiat, but more to keep you average on the amount you bought and sell when the price peaked or sell when you fee enough profit has been made and incase you want to become the hodl gang, you are welcome to the club.