Actually, I think inflation has already exposed the true nature for all to see, and we see one example as it did post Second World War when the theathre owners got together and said, you know what, let's have every ticket issued tied down to a reserve of gold.

In the entire period until 1971, not a single bank defaulted. But then, we all got tired of the lessons and went bank to fractional reserve (and now zero reserve).

I mentioned the theory of degrowth in an earlier post -- what do you think of this as an alternative model to economic growth?

Previous winner is right smack in the middle there with just over 14 hours to go;)

In fact, it seems the mark is closer to THREE of the previous winners. Maybe some people are better at predicting/coughing up random guesses than others, eh?

Who here thinks we'lll see major move to 5k or 7k?

Well done to the MultiMaster winners (and poker too!!). I still can't play it, sadly, customer support said it was due to my location, although it is strange I can still access other parts of SB. You guys feel weird to play on computer-generated results or it's just me that's weird?

Steve: awesome 10% cashback promo! I could have done with it a while back splashing on roulette =p

Fair enough, figment, I didn't realise they were that vast in difference. I really just use CMC as a quick checker but I see Gecko ranking well in Google these days anyway. But I think rather than discourage CMC, maybe better to encourage proper behaviour and tell people to use multiple sources. It could be part of my apathy is that I don't trade nor speculate more than necessity, and my volume's at p2p anyway... so I don't feel the need to get numbers that are right. I assume everything I see isn't accurate =\

A weird choice of teams to choose to play, especially when relegation is potentially much more important to the English teams than Europe competitions at this stage (it's worth a lot more guaranteed money, whereas they could KO early from Europe).

Anyway, yeah, toke, you can donate some btc to me when Liverpool get crowned champs.

I actually still have a nice bet waiting to cash out too (Liverpool winning the season).

I have VPN access, but it's simply not working for some. On my SB account for example, I can use VPN to access most of the site, but it still blocks me on some games and options possibly based on my recorded location IPs.

BTW, there are still good free VPNs to use, as simple as browser extensions, if all you need is access.

Also, ok with same SwC settings. Could do with much earlier time though with daylight savings I def can't make it

No need to wait for the near future, though. Most bookies have some kind of free thing going on now without deposit. Fiat sportsbooks usually give you boosted odds on first bet or even just free bets. FJ has free competitions, and gives out all those bonuses periodically. No need to wait, just go and try;)

I would say it's a lot of luck, but since I bet on long odds, a bit of knowledge of the game helps a lot too, when trying to identify a win possibility all the bookies are ignoring.

@Betwrong sorry I must have miscommunicated what I meant =D For the average player trying impossible hits like that, they lose maybe I don't know hundreds of dollars at most in a year just trying for dumb luck.

But what I meant by wiping out an old player was the MoneyPot example I was talking about. They had a lotto game that people kept winning huge Bitcoin jackpots by only playing with a few satoshi. It was practically unlikely but statistically possible -- and it wiped out what was once the crypto gambling industry's biggest bitcoin bankroll.

I think, for the average user like me, Coingekko and Coinmarketcap really aren't very much different from each other. I've never really understood why the hate for CMC, when they're only giving, as you say: "what they say they have versus what they probably have".

I mean, honest data reporting should not be expected from any centralised exchange, and the aggregator can only report what's reported.

But to OP: Coinbase. You're at least protected by some of the guarantees they have as a registered financial institution in the UK. Otherwise, take out your own insurance =)

In case anyone wants to relive classic moments from their favourite team/game, here's a collection of UEFA games free to watch on UEFA TV:
https://www.uefa.com/uefaeuro-2020/news/025b-0f07234151fa-fe167d581509-1000--watch-classic-games-on-uefa-tv/

Favourite watch for me so far is the highlights of Liverpool's 4-3 Dortmund escape. Forgot how young Coutinho looked. And wow our defenders scoring haha. The list actually doesn't have the Istanbul final so you could say I'm aggrieved =p

@LeGaulois yeah Binance has been pretty adept at moving ahead of the regulation curve, though I suspect it's really because of a strong relationship with the current China regime, otherwise they'd have gone after Binance no matter how many times they jumped ship. Even their CSR efforts and diversification out into other blockchain sectors is all in preparation for this.

I foresee a huge whitelabelling brand in the end and a very small Binance-only foothold.

Thanks for the update @betwrong and yeah, I'm pretty sure 10 btc wins aren't unusual for the big players and vets in the space, just as I said, I remember how the unlikely yet possible megahits with dust amounts wiped out one of the old players. High win limits are definitely attractive but they must know what they're doing to expose themselves to that amount of risk or relatively small gains;) Kudos in any case!

Maybe so, maybe so. But I got into sportsbetting mainly because I played the games (except tennis, which I can't play for shit). It's really because I was a football player that I got interested plus the feeling of riding with your team, almost as if betting on them is also putting money where my mouth is.

I think it's unfair to compare sports people and esports. It's a different kind of talent, and you simply don't get the same kind of family gathering and community support with esports. There's definitely a camaraderie there but very niche and it can get elitist. Just my opinion.

Hey guys, realised two things today:
Daylight savings put me an hour ahead so the game is at 6pm which is not good for me thanks to househusband duties =( Nevertheless I attempted to play like last week but this time, am locked out.

It started happening with Multimaster, and now Poker too. Support told me before, let's just say that it's a problem of the IP location I'm accessing from, which simply won't let me go in. Sorry =\

Good luck all! Damn that extra pot;)

@examplens: I'm down for that, maybe ask all yellow hats and wooden spoons to do a random draw too, to pick the bonus winners. I know. Complicated. I think I've had one yellow hat, or was that last season? haha.

@LFC: Yeah, we'll just wait. It'll resume, in whatever form, and whenever. And it'll still be fun. And everyone in football will remember our (eventual) win;)

@cryptofrka: I actually have been reading a lot about the "degrowth movement" since last year and it's funny that this is happening now. Hard to summarise easily here but in degrowth, negative GDP isn't such a bad thing and it focuses on work that brings actual value to society. This is one good article about it: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bj9yjq/the-radical-plan-to-save-the-planet-by-working-less

and this: https://www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2017/11/19/why-branko-milanovic-is-wrong-about-de-growth

Don't know really. With public trust in media these days, I would actually say people are a bit more intelligent than we take them for, and they probably will ask themselves at some point if Bitcoin really is as bad as all the people responsible for taking the economy down are saying. I'd actually prefer people to see for themselves the misconceptions and misinformation that's spread about Bitcoin. Better than the shillfest that positive media headlines seem to be all about.

Yeah, I think if we start removing all the thinking about profits, TV deals, partnerships, etc, that's the most obvious and logical thing to do. But if we start thinking about them, even legally, litigation would be far more costly than paying off contractual obligations (plus surely they've got insurance).

P.S. Anyone read tThe talk emerging about players not being fit after so long not playing, well, that's also really silly. If players aren't keeping fit on their own, they shouldn't be paid salaries.

Depends on where you live and how oil is part of your economy. I'll give you 2 scenarios:

1. Brunei.
- Oil price fixed at 53 brunei cents (currently about $0.37) since 1983. That's also the highest quality petrol you can get. You get cheaper fuel if you want.
- 0 taxable income.
- Oil is virtually all of state revenue
- welfare state, pensions, free healthcare, free education till University (actually you even get a student allowance and get sent abroad)

Since oil started crashing around 2014 (thereabouts, can't remember) state's been cutting down on benefits. Fewer scholarships, fewer trips outside, more strict welfare rules. It affects all Bruneians.

2. Malaysia
- Oil price subsidised by govt, floating price since the noughties
- One of the highest taxable income in the region.
- Oil is a majority but not all of state revenue
- hugely increasing foreign debt since the noughties

Govt complains of less and less revenue thanks to oil price, but people are happier as petrol has never been cheaper. Petrol price has a huge knockon effect for the consumer. Food gets more expensive. Public transport too. Regular Malaysians are happier now. Rich Malaysians not so.

Absolutely, people need to eat and pay the bills so for as long as the state can shoulder some of that burden, it'll be fine. Same as what I always say about Bitcoin (people aren't gonna go out and buy more in crisis, they're gonna buy rice and bread first). But it's not going to work out if things go on like this, economy wise. The system really needs to break beyond repair.

This will be bad, and like you, I feel terrible about those whose livelihoods rely on mobility. My two siblings work in event management and hotel industry, so those were actually going down even second half of 2019. Then when Chinese tourists and businessmen stopped coming, that was it.

Bitcoiner though I be, I'm also telling people it's not as safe as many speculators would like you to think.

It's as real as stocks and forex. But also as risky, if not even more so. The fact people ask if it generates money and how quickly or how easy? Just says a lot about how misunderstood Bitcoin is -- even if strictly from the sense of investment/speculation.