There are already some privacy coins, such as Monero, but they don't seem to be widely popular. At least not as popular as ETH, LTC.
Is it because privacy is not a necessary requirement? Or are existing privacy coins not good enough?
Or is it because of regulation? Or is it that privacy coins make the public feel that they are always connected to criminal activities?
If a coin only hides the transaction amount, will it be popular?
When I was using Monero, I found that for offline cold wallets, it is a troublesome thing to check the balance. You have to wait for the wallet client to scan a large number of blocks to find all transactions associated with the account. If only the transaction amount is hidden, this problem will be solved.
Of course, this semi-privacy coin is also more friendly to supervision.
Will anyone be willing to use this kind of coin ?
As much as we want to be anonymous with crypto, but I guess that is not even possible right now. Of course there are mixers and privacy centric coins, like Monero, but if you look at them most are being delisted by exchanges because of regulatory pressures. But if you said that you have Monero then I guess you have to stick with it. Unless what you want could be developed later. However, as I have said, there is regulation around privacy coins that is hard to overcome. IRS Will Pay Up To $625,000 If You Can Crack Monero, Other Privacy Coins When the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) signaled that it was getting serious about cryptocurrency, the agency wasn’t kidding. The IRS is now offering cash to anyone who can “reliably produce useful results on a variety of real-world CI cryptocurrency investigations involving Monero and/or Lightning.” That’s right: they are looking for code crackers. https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2020/09/14/irs-will-pay-up-to-625000-if-you-can-crack-monero-other-privacy-coins/?sh=275c5eab85cc |
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NO RISK NO REWARD!!! I don't follow soccer but I do like a risky parlay now and then. Spend a couple dollars to win something decent. Of course you need a lot of luck, but if you hit it sure is a nice win. Good luck with the bet.
I'm also not into soccer, but yeah why not YOLO? And with that, any updates on the results though? might be good if the OP can come back and see if he won or not. Nevertheless though, as far as my experience in parlay, it's very difficult to hit specially if you are looking like 5 or more games. For me, the max that I bet on a parlay in tennis is 5, and my results is just 50-50 if I'm not mistaken. |
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Funny or not , the event was quite good right ? I mean , yea , sure Diaz was a bit slow and didn't care so much about the fight but overall , the event was good and Paul showed some progress in his boxing skills but also on this cardio. For bets...Paul had 1.20 odds so why should you have risk it for such low odds ? instead the UD and going all 10 rounds , had 4.20 odds and whoever placed that bet , big congrats!  Was not interested to bet though, but if the odds for a decision is that huge and someone put a big amount of money, then yeah, big congrats. But I guess boxing fans are slowly going into watching real fights, and this kind of exhibitions might be losing it's trend already. In any case, for sure there are fans who watch. this fight and maybe think that they got their money's worth or just a die hard fans of both fighters. So another million for Jake Paul for sure, and most likely Nate Diaz too get a huge paycheck. |
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Also, the PPV numbers, could it generate more than the recent Spence vs Crawford fight?
No way mate! Let's bet.  Many casuals already understood that their idol Jake Paul is not that special after losing his first fight against a real boxer. Although they have no idea that Tommy Fury is not even a top 20, very raw and clumsy so some might believe Paul's statement that he improved and that he is a real prospect to become a world champion. So maybe this can reach 500k PPV buys. The undercard is not that exciting either, it's a mismatch. Amanda Serrano clearly beat Heather Hardy years ago so at 41 she will lose worse than their first match. My PPV buys prediction in this event is 300k and I'm already generous with it as this could be much lower. I'm just trying to play the devil's advocate . But there are reports that they did get good numbers in this fight, but the reports is not yet official though, so we will have to wait. And it was the same results, Amanda Serrano won for a lopsided victory, and she punishes Heather Hardy in 10 rounds. Scores: 100-90, 100-90 and 99-91. |
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Yes, BTC bulls will come back again. And it could probably come anytime between 2024 and 2025 which could leave the ATH. Because almost all bitcoiners currently think that bitcoin will make a new ATH again. Moreover There is also a high chance of a major bull market in Bitcoin in the near future and this could happen as between as 2024.
I don't think that the bulls has left the market for good, it's that the bears really take over after reaching our all time high in 2021. And with that, it's hard for the bulls to keep phase with the current market price and even if they wanted to push it, there are a lot of negative things that happen last year and even this year as well, pulling the price or at least making $30,000 as the resistance level. But as we have known about the market cycles, sooner or later, we will have the catalyst for a bull run, that is the block halving. Just less than a year from now, and then after that activity, the bulls will slowly take control of the market again. |
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We already have El Salvador as a model of what happens when the government tries to push for Bitcoin adoption. Adoption is not increasing as much as bitcoiners have hoped, because legal concerns are only one of the many factors that slow down adoption. Other factors are risks of loss, high fees, price volatility. Combine it with the fact that average people have no problems with banks and payment networks, and it's not surprise that Bitcoin is rarely used as a currency even after 14 years.
And we can see that the IMF has putting pressures on El Salvador "Given the legal risks, fiscal fragility and largely speculative nature of crypto markets, the authorities should reconsider their plans to expand government exposures to bitcoin," the IMF said in a statement. https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/imf-says-el-salvadors-bitcoin-risks-have-not-materialized-should-be-addressed-2023-02-11/And with that statement, I don't think that IMF will simply adopt and embrace bitcoin per se and makes it as legal means of exchange. Sorry to burst the bubble for the OP. Just think of bitcoin's volatility as one major drawback why countries are not willing to take the risk. |
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~ The fight is off now due to a failed drug test by Whyte  . This is a bummer, Anthony Joshua wanted this fight to happen because he wanted to reboot his confidence and what more than an opponent he once defeated but i was expecting Dillian Whyte to land some heavy shots and surprise Anthony Joshua in the rematch and may even become even with one each. Oh well, everyone was thinking that this could be just a walk in the park for Joshua and win and bring back his confidence. And just like the case of others before him, he pleaded not guilty, but we will see what will be the outcome, for sure they are going to look at his B sample. If we have to recall back, Conor Benn failed a drug test too when he was supposedly to face Chris Eubank Jr. But was cleared later But it's too late for Dillian Whyte here, the best thing for Matchroom is to find a replacement ASAP. |
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I agree, Valdez looks amateur against Stevenson, and it just shows how good Shakur is at his level. But the did win a comeback again and won in the judges card. And so he is given a shot again his fellow Mexican Navarette who looks bad on the other hand and almost got knockout by an unknown fighter.
But I guess he has a big heart and believe in himself that he can make a bounce back after tasting the canvass in that fight. And won by a technical knockout over Liam in round 9. And for me this is a fight of the year candidate.
I'm sure it is, it's been a long time since we've seen a rivalry like that of Morales and Barrera, I hope the hype lived up to that they have the same style both aggressive and love to move forward, they don't care being hit as long as they can hit, but compared to Barrera - Morales who hate each other in their rivalry both fighters has respect to each other, let's see in their weigh in and the actual fight, if the fight is close and the two fighters do their things we can see a rematch. This could be an explosive fight and either boxer would kiss the canvass if hit with those heavy bombs. This is one of the fights that is hard to predict who will win but I'm more inclined to back Oscar Valdez as I think he has more power of the two but we might see an upset here too because Navarrete has more experience than Valdez.  Bookies predicts that this fight would go the distance but i think otherwise. Initially I thought that Valdez is like 1.5x favorite, but it seems that the odds has moved a lot as we get closer to the fight. I haven't put my bet yet, but if this fight favors Oscar as per bookies then most likely it will be the case that he will win. And for those bettors, this odd is still big, as they are willing to like bet in the thousands of dollars, so still it's going to be a big win for them. But for us, this is not the case, and so it's better to look for options here. |
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I know this is not going to be profitable or make any sense for some they are just ignoring this fight but for me, I am Trying my luck right now, so here is my pick for this game Jake Paul VS Nate DiazThe stake odds for this game are 1.22 for Jake Paul and 4.10 for Nate Diaz, for this fight we all know Nate Diaz from the UFC a former UFC fighter with a great style of stand-up and Jui-Jitsu Well in this match he might have some hidden strategy for Jake Paul against a boxer, and how can he apply his MMA techniques against a boxing match, while Jake Paul the problem child has taken on a lot of MMA fighters in the past so this is not new to him and for this fight against Jake Paul this is going to be a handicap for Nate Diaz, as jake Paul have many wins against an MMA fighter, but against a boxer he is nothing, but because his opponent is a former MMA fighter this is surely a one-sided fight, my pick is surely Jake Paul  Yeah, I think it's an easy pick for Jake Paul in this fight. Perhaps what's interesting though is what round he is going to finished Nate Diaz. Nate could have a stealer cardio, but this is a different league for him so he might not last a distance here. And to make huge profits for this fight, it's better to throw big money on Jake Paul, just saying. Also, the PPV numbers, could it generate more than the recent Spence vs Crawford fight? |
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^^ That is doable fight, both are with TR and Loma wanted to bounce back from a narrowing lost against Devin Haney. On the other hand, Shakur Stevenson might have settled at 135 lbs and so he needs another dance partner to solidify his position at this division.
And if Haney goes up to 135 lbs, then he will vacant his belt and so it will be open up and maybe this fight could be made for at least one of those sanctioning body. Two of the best 135 lbs, very technical, I think it will be a chess match between this two if ever they faces each other.
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if you read the title, yep, you got that right, a female boxer called out Kieth Thurman for a fight. several days ago I saw articles going around talking about Claressa Shields calling out Keith Thurman and saying that she'll fight him and thinks that she can outbox him. I thought this would just die down because Kieth Thurman wouldn't respond to it but then earlier I saw an article where Keith Thurman basically accepts her offer to fight for a charity event and also would give her several advantages more protective gear just to make it safer. anyway, I've seen some highlights of Claressa Shields's fight and I think she is a good boxer(her belts shoes that) but I don't think she can handle Men's Boxing, especially with someone like Kieth Thurman. not sure if this fight will ever go through but I am extremely curious to see how she'll show off her skills if she ever actually fights Kieth Thurman for a charity event. if you are curious, after Kieth Thurman accepted her offer, she responded by showing a video of her sparring with men, and I gotta say, it wasn't good. If it is for a charity, for sure the score will be a draw in the end, and they will just play and toy around inside the ring and not hurting each other. But if this is going to be a real fight, full 12 rounds, with judges and referee, I don't think that Shields will have a change against the likes of Thurman, so this is a bad idea. I think Thurman will love to fight if this is for a cause and charity though and that's why he stated that he is willing to accept with some protection for Shields as he might not control himself in the end. So just imagine if Thurman can hit Claressa in the body first, for sure it's going to hurt and later Shields might have regret about this idea of fighting Keith, IMHO. |
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Am i wrong to think that this information on the internet needs to be updated.
You are late with your assumptions though, at the start of 2017 or at least when my memory is still fresh, that's when this whole KYC started to also haunt crypto base gambling platform. Prior to that it was just a very simple steps for gamblers to deposit and withdraw their bitcoins (99% of crypto based that time only caters or acccept BTC). But time has change, and maybe this is the price that we have to pay after 2017's bull run as every sector, specially government and banking started to take notice and so they imposed mandatory KYC. |
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XRP transfer is almost an instant and I was been satisfied with that. And thinking about another project to become a competitor, I don't simply think that it will stop XRP from its business. In fact, they even survive the SEC, so I don't think they will give up because of such competition.
For me, SWIFT is not a threat to XRP and I will tell you that this really happens in business. But what worried by XRP supporters is the SEC's interventions about its progress.
This has been the main objective of XRP though, to be as competitive as other crypto, to be fast and quick. And I will say that Swift has the monopoly way before crypto was introduce and they don't have any competition. But right now with the advent of crypto like XRP who focuses on banking transactions, it's going to be very different now. And perhaps Swift needs to adapt to the ever changing business. XRP though is taking advantage of everything here, they even partnered with Moneygram already if I'm not mistaken. So competition is going to be tough as far as cross border payments. |
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Let me say since the beginning of this year we have been getting different prediction on Bitcoin prizes and investors too have been keeping their hopes very high on those predictions... Those doing these predictions are having so much expectations and they said, Bitcoin will recover to $25k in 2024 and then rise to $45k in 2025 them by 2030 Bitcoin will get to $69k. Other crypto analysts suggest even higher price targets ranging from $100,000 to $1 million, but we should keep in mind that all Bitcoin forecasts are predictions. CLICK HERE With all these being said I feel is time we face the reality that all these are just predictions, is under probability. It's just a wild and educated guess. Specially in a market that is very volatile such as bitcoin, predicting the price movement is very hard. And if you heard about the so called S2F model, which the majority (including myself), was a solid predicting model, and that everything goes on smooth until it didn't hit the $100,000 prediction last bull run. So we should learn and accept the fact that everything is prediction here. And it's going to be a hit or miss even if they presented solid and strong facts a why the price will go this X in the next bull run. |
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It's hard not to notice it because it's been shared to almost all social media platforms and sports outlet are getting busy again because of this issue that Nonito Donaire himself posted. It will be hard for him to digest it specially after the fact that it came from his own father whom he thought he had his 100 percent unwavering support but in reality, he hoped that his own son will be defeated in his campaign to be a champion once again and worse, will be KO'd against Santiago. That's just too unfortunate man!
Yeah, just unfortunate that these things happened to the Donaires. If my memory serves me right, this is the second time that they have this kind of trouble. The first, it was on the money thing where Rachel (Nonito Jr's wife) was involved but this time around i don't read any article on what causes the break-up. What kind of father that wishes hard to his son, grudges must be so deep that he hoped Nonito Jr will be KOed by Santiago but i hope one day everything will be well for their family. I guess it's all about the money and the involvement of Rachel, obviously, the younger Donaire chooses to follow Rachel and then step aside his father. And so with this kind of thing, someone will really gets hurt and most likely his father didn't like that and so up to now, even though he has grand kids with Nonito Jr, he still can't get over that he was bypass. He doesn't need to wish it though as Inoue has knockout his son already. |
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Anyhow, we can only see if Tapales will surprise us with an upset win although technically, Inoue really dominated him at everything.
I hate to say this but Tapales will just hand over the title to Inoue, in their meeting after Inoue's win against Fulton Tapales did not show confidence that he could beat Inoue, compared to Casimero who keeps daring him to fight him, its already given that Inoue will become the undisputed Super Bantamweight champion without serious opposition from anyone, he will sweep it and move on the higher division for more challenges, it's easier to make a plan when you are as good as Inoue. Man, even if Tapales shows interest in his demeanor, I will still have the same views with this match up. Obviously, Tapales is a mismatch against Inoue, in all aspects. In fact there will be a huge chance for Inoue to knock him out if he will not change his fighting stance which is too open for Inoue has the speed and power. I don't know what else to say here, but goodluck for Tapales facing the toughest opponent he'll ever have for the rest of his career, most probably. If he wins, it could be one of the biggest upset in boxing history. Yup we can call it a mismatch, even with Fulton, who we thought could be the bigger guy as he is a natural super bantamweight and has been in tough fight was no match to the monster. And with that kind of performance and what Tapales has shown, it's hard to see how Marlon can put up a big upset here. He really need to be in top shape, super fast and power in both hands. But he is not a natural power puncher and everything points to Inoue to win in another spectacular knockout. |
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Initially though, I thought that Navarette will give Valdez a good fight, specially as a champion and he is the underdog. But looking at his previous fight against Liam Wilson, I think Oscar is much smarter and technically sound as Liam is. So I wouldn't be surprised if this fight will not go to the distance and someone will have to taste the canvass here.
Valdez will make sure he wins this fight as he came from an embarrassing loss. He needs to rise in prominence again as an exciting boxer, and that means he has to win by KO. Oscar Valdez looked really bad against Shakur Stevenson as he was dominated in most of the rounds, if not the entire fight. Now, he has a chance to redeem himself, and he will not waste this opportunity. It's a very difficult match up for him against a defensive Shakur, for me it's like Floyd vs Marquez minus the knock down. It was a total beating. However, I think Valdez really learn his lessons on that fight and that's why he is the favorite here as sports bookies knows that he can bounce back and Navarette doesn't look good in his last outing. Just like everyone is thinking, perhaps Oscar Valdez could win via KO.
Or the fight not going to the distance here. It's going to be as good as how it is hype, nevertheless, Valdez could win here. |
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I don't think anyone here expected Donaire to lose, but it turns out the opposite happened. We thought Santiago would be a good match for Donaire's target to KO his opponent, but Santiago has matured and knows how to play the game well. He clearly knew how to beat Donaire, resulting in a unanimous decision win.
What can I say, I guess it's time for Donaire to hang up his gloves. He is already old, and it's evident he doesn't have the same activity he had in the past. To think that Santiago isn't even a top contender, and he still defeated Donaire via UD, that's enough to conclude his boxing journey is over.
Congratulations to Santiago! It was a good win for him, and now he is the champion.
It's just that Donaire can't pull the trigger anymore and yup nobody expected (at least we Filipinos) of this outcome. Santiago is ranked lower then in the minds of an ordinary fans, this fight is one that would make Donaire look good in the ring and once again break another record but turned out that this could be the end of his colorful career, nothing to be ashamed of and nothing else to prove so yeah, it's time to hang up the gloves for good. Congrats to those who back Santiago, very juice odds. Yup, there's nothing to prove he got his chance during his prime and we know how he performs before, But after this loss, it's better to hang his gloves and not to think about fighting again. In his age, health is important. Good thing that there's no further major damage after the fight, it might be a good blessing and a good way to say his farewell in the ring. Yes, really hard to see Donaire losing, actually he has a good chance, however, as the fight goes on, he is fading and I see that he could be losing this fight and let it slip away. But we will give credit to Santiago, they had a good game plan against Donaire and they executed it very well and even though he was caught with that left hand, it seems that Donaire's power is gone. And just like the rest of you guys say, maybe this fight is enough reason for him and Rachel to decide to quit and not fight again. He has done everything in his career and several times after his lost, we thought that he is done. However, losing back to back specially against Santiago, it doesn't look good for Donaire. |
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Nailed it. Crawford annihilated Spence. It was so one sided I'm surprised Spence wants a round 2. In the terms it has to be by the end of the year so likely Spence vs Crawford 2 in December. After knocking Spence down in the 7th I thought it was likely that round or the 8th but still snuck in my tko 7-9th rounds. No question who runs welterweight boxing right now and was the fight Crawford needed in his career to kill off any naysayers. Is there a rematch clause on their deal? I do not think that there is a need for a rematch on this fight since Crawford literraly annihilated Spence Jr. I was very surprised since he make Spence Jr. looks like an amateur. I do not know the huge gap in their ability. Spence Jr. tried to fight back but the good defense of Crawford prevented him instead Spence effort to deal a devastating blow to Crawford backed fire to him since Crawford is way quicker taking advantage of the opening when Spences tries to hit big. Yes, there is a rematch clause in the contract. But the clause included terms like while the loser may activate it, the winner will be the one to determine the weight. This early, Spence expressed interest for a rematch. But he also earlier mentioned that whatever the result of this match he'll be moving to 154. That's going to be a problem. Lucky for him, Crawford is open for it. He's also been planning to move up. So if the rematch will indeed be activated and Crawford is willing to have it at 154, then there will be a rematch. It's another story though if the rematch is actually needed and interesting to watch. For me it is not anymore necessary. A rematch is usually interesting when the fight is close and that the winner will have to prove once again that he is indeed the better boxer. In this case, Crawford has nothing to prove. He is clearly of a different level. Spence wasn't able to compete. Just make it complicated though, if they are going to fight at 154 lbs, then technically there should be no belt on the line? Or if Spence is down with that, and obviously Crawford too, then they could go and sign the contract. It's interesting though that Crawford has now a beef with Jermell Charlo, you can see that after he put down Spence he is taunting Charlo (with the red get up), in the crowd. So this is another storyboard for Crawford if he goes to the route of 154 lbs and then fight Charlo who is a close friend of Spence and trains at the same gym. https://twitter.com/MichaelBensonn/status/1685564113148055552And just to add, I think Spence is the best American boxer that we have seen, after Floyd and Andre Ward. |
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Dear all,
Here to discuss wagering.
Wagering is an activity to redeem gambling bonuses, increase the rank of your account in a casino and a whole series of other advantages ...
Share your opinion and what are your tips or tricks on this topic
You mean wagering requirements so that you can go on the next rank up so that you will get some perks like cash back, boost in your bet and others? I don't think there is such a trick on it. Simply you just have to wager more, or if you can join some tournaments and or competitions, then surely your account will go up and will some advantages. But other than that, I don't think there is such a trick or something that you need. You just need to be consistent on that platform bet and then most likely the rewards will come your way. |
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