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1101  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Premier League Prediction Thread 2022/2023 on: April 27, 2023, 05:36:10 AM
The quality of the players and mentality can be felt in this game. Everyone knows that Arsenal are very superior this season, but their strength has not been able to undermine Man City's dominance. Man City's first goal was absolutely classy. Stones' long ball from behind was picked up and saved well by Haaland, before sending a beautiful cross for De Bruyne. De Bruyne's movement is also extraordinary, none of Arsenal's four players can get in the way.
If this match happens before the latest 3 draws of Arsenal, they can play it better. After getting three disappointed draws and seeing their chance becomes smaller, Arsenal players began the match with not too high confidence. With Manchester City, they are strong and smart enough to beat Arsenal down with their attacking system. Manchester City are like Liverpool, and they both can make their opponents collapse within a few minutes.


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Arsenal's next away game awaits Newcastle United at St. James' Park who is also on fire. By previously undergoing the London Derby at the Emirates against Chelsea. If in these two matches Arsenal fail to win, you can be sure that the championship chances have run out.
One more defeat against Newcastle United, Arsenal will officially say goodbye to Premier League title. Their chance is very small now but if they lose more, they will finalize that fact.

Chelsea did not have improvement with their temporary coach, Frank Lampard and if they meet Arsenal in this condition, after losing 5 matches with Lampard, I don't believe they will be able to beat Arsenal.

Congratulations to Manchester city for the beautiful victory they got from Arsenal to alert other teams that they are very close to take over that premier league position from Arsenal
Only a win is enough for Manchester City but this big win means more. It breaks down Arsenal confidence and tears Arsenal apart with very bad psychology after the match. I really believe that with opposite psychological status after this match, Manchester City will go straight toward the title but Arsenal can have more decreasing performances in remaining matches.
1102  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: OpenSea investor cuts Platform’s Valuation By 75% on: April 27, 2023, 02:54:45 AM
Anyone heard this news? What's your take on this? It's this the beginning of the downfall of the NFT market or can we say that it will still survived till the next bull run?
The NFT technology is here and will be here. The NFT marketplaces not only OpenSea will be here, will exist with us. However, weak NFT projects, weak NFT marketplaces will be killed by the market, cryptocurrency community selection naturally. Only strong projects and strong NFT marketplaces will survive through bear market, crisis and can develop more.

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For me though, I'm not surprised, we are still the bear market, although it seems that majority of the coins are bouncing back, I still one big reason for the sudden downfall of the NFT market is the obvious bearish trend.

And that's how the market works as we all know it, sooner or later the hype will die down a bit, like the P2E model. So we will see if NFT can live or continue to exists till the next bull run. It will be the ultimate test for this market, in my opinion.
I believe NFT technology is a branch of blockchain technology like Proof of Work, Smart contracts and they will be here. Like many people accused Ethereum as a scam altcoin and their blockchain, technology, ERC-20 are paradise for smaller scam altcoins. I agree to disagree, Ethereum is not scam and you can not blame on its smart contracts as other developers from scam altcoin projects use their ERC-20 chain and Ethereum smart contracts to scam investors.

Do we blame Alfred Nobel because Putin decided to send his army to invade Ukraine? It is not a right accusation.
1103  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Electrum not opening on: April 27, 2023, 02:46:19 AM
I also encounter such problem, electrum not launching even though it is on the task manage.  I often rightclick electrum on the task manager and end process it then relaunch the electrum.  Mostly it works that way.  If it is persistent, I restart the PC and relaunch the electrum and it also solve the problem.

The reason behind the electrum not launching is possibly there is a glitch that make the interface of the electrum not appear.  It is also possible that there is conflict on the use of resources reason why the application just get listed on the task manager and yet the UI doesn't appear.
Sometimes you can not find Electrum wallet when you click on Start menu of Windows and Type Electrum. Restart your computer and repeat it, if it does not succeed, you can do following steps.

Find the wallet directory location: https://electrum.readthedocs.io/en/latest/faq.html#where-is-the-electrum-datadir-located
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Where is the Electrum datadir located?

The data directory of Electrum is where wallet files, config settings, logs, blockchain headers, etc are stored.

On Windows:

Show hidden files
Go to \Users\YourUserName\AppData\Roaming\Electrum (or %APPDATA%\Electrum)
On Mac:

Open Finder
Go to folder (shift+cmd+G) and type ~/.electrum
On Linux:

Home Folder
Go -> Location and type ~/.electrum

Where is my wallet file located?
The default wallet file is called default_wallet, which is created when you first run the application and is located in the /wallets folder, inside the datadir.

Copy and paste your wallet file to your desktop or better your D disk as your backup. Even if you have the wallet seed backup, I still recommend you to copy and paste that wallet file.

Next, you uninstall Electrum wallet software, and reinstall it. If the new installed wallet software opens smoothly, you can copy and paste your wallet file to that directory location again, and use it. Or you can recover it from your wallet seed.
1104  Economy / Speculation / Re: this pump is because of russia? on: April 26, 2023, 01:38:57 PM
I read this news about Binance returned to Russia,
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/04/24/crypto-exchange-binance-is-back-in-russia-lifts-restrictions-on-russian-users-report/
i think just returning a exchange don't cause it, but pretty good news for russians
Binance and not only them but also other exchanges can move from one nation to another and other nations. Citizens in one country can use many exchanges, from local to global brands.

Years ago, China policies forced some cryptocurrency exchanges moved their head quarters from China mainland to other countries. The USA., Russia and other countries can contribute the same stories at different times. I think if you are in this market a few years, you will see they are not real reasons for Bitcoin pumps and more important Bitcoin growth.

The growth is come from its technology, design and its sharply increasing adoption growth. China, the USA., Russia and other countries are contributors to make a snowball effect for Bitcoin.
1105  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: save seed phrase in song. on: April 26, 2023, 03:18:55 AM
People can save their seed phrase in a book too. It is their choice and they are free to do that method but I don't.

I don't think if you complicate your method to store your seed phrase is good enough to secure it. If you store it in a book and leaves the book on your table, is it safe?

Is it safe if you hide it in your song and leave the song lyrics on your table?

I would like to keep it simple as it should be, a seed phrase but I store it safely and securely enough. It is enough for my backup method.

Splitting your seed phrase is bad idea too.
Bitcoin Q&A: Why is Seed Splitting a Bad Idea?
1106  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: UEFA Europa League 2022/23 Season on: April 26, 2023, 03:07:14 AM
You are right but I think Juventus will try hard for both Serie A and Europa League because they know Europa League a very risky and even a team like Manchester United can lose everything in a few minutes while they were the first hope for the Europa League title I guess Juventus will have a hard day against Sevilla because they are very much unpredictable in Europa league.
The competition in Serie A is very hard and it is not easy to know what teams will be last three clubs in the top four at the final day. Even Lazio at the second position can be kicked out of top four after only two match days. Serie A has 6 match days left and with very narrow differences amongst competitive clubs, many changes can appear in coming weeks.

Juventus will also have tough matches with Sevilla in Europa League semi finals and no guarantee that they can beat Sevilla as well as win the final match. So they have to pay attention on Serie A in which they have good advantage to end it in top four. It is less risky than betting all in Europa League.

For Serie A, I think Juventus no longer have a big chance to win it this season. But for the European League, it is clear that it is still very possible for Juventus to try to win the championship this season, because Manchester United who have been eliminated from the Europa League this season is the result of the mistakes of their own players.
It is impossible for Lazio and Juventus to catch Napoli with current big gaps and only 7 matches left. I believe that they really mind about Scudetto which is unreachable with current conditions. They are aware of their difficulties in top four competition too and I am surely that they must wisely diversify their player resources for both Serie A and Europa League to have as best achievement as possible in this chaotic season.
1107  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Saudi Professional League 2022/2023 on: April 25, 2023, 06:51:23 AM
Cristiano Ronaldo has now become an icon for Al Nassr. Of course, he must be careful with his movements. Of course, I'm sure Al Nassr officials will give Ronaldo a lot of chances.  Whatever he does, he will be free in Arabia. In terms of the league, he scores 11 goals in 11 games and plays with an average of 1 goal per game. A very good statistic in my opinion. In terms of points, it was bad for Al Nassr that they were behind Ittihad.
There is no big privileges to Cristiano Ronaldo inAl Nassr on field. I saw some of his team mates actually wanted to score goals by themselves in some situations at which if they make passes to Ronaldo, chance to score a goal would be bigger.

He has very good stats at his age and he even has better goal scoring rate than other younger players in Saudi Professional League. It proves all about the professionality and world-class level of Ronaldo. However, he is no longer be able to score in every match and can decide result in most of matches. He is an old player and he is at his 38 already.

Ronaldo is an icon for Al Nassr on marketing especially the European markets but on field, as I told, he does not has dominating contribution to convince his team mates to give him great passes as a hub of Al Nassr operation. Like the missing chance with which Ronald kicked the ball hits the cross bar, if he is younger a little bit, he can score a goal already.
1108  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: The two ways to invest in bitcoins. on: April 25, 2023, 03:09:20 AM
We can not say it is good or bad with Buying big and Buying small occasionally (DCA). It depends on each investor.

Buying big - Although this is generally not advised, I think buying big can be good if you can afford to buy big and then follow up with adding small amounts to what you have. Buying big will help you get a good amount of bitcoins quickly.
If you have solid belief in Bitcoin, you can buy a big amount and hold it. This requires you to have very solid belief which can not be affected by news, fuds, market volatility. It is for very professional and successful investors. However, even if you are such investor, DCA is helpful for you.

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Buying small occasionally, otherwise known by the name of dollar cost averaging - This is method that is advised for people who are not rich, and who do not have enough money to buy big. I think if you have enough money to buy big and follow up with buying small amounts, but you just decide to buy small amounts regularly, you are not doing the best for yourself.  
The DCA investment way is best for small investors who can not afford big capital to invest in Bitcoin at beginning. However, they can accumulate bitcoin gradually by DCA and slowly increase their total capital in Bitcoin.

This is helpful for new investors to avoid panic, fear, uncertainty in this volatile market. This potentially helps newbie investors to become successful investors.

DCA tools:
https://dcabtc.com/
https://coinmarketcap.com/portfolio-tracker/
https://www.coingecko.com/en/portfolio

You can create your free accounts on Coinmarketcap, Coingecko and practice your demo DCA and see how DCA works.
1109  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Cryptocurrency, a Decentralized digital currency or commodity on: April 25, 2023, 03:02:40 AM
Recently, I have begun to wonder on the crypto market volatility and how this Cryptocurrency in general is called a Decentralized digital currency .
Could  you give me a sourced document that mentions cryptocurrency is decentralized in general, please.

As I know, only Bitcoin is a decentralized cryptocurrency. Other cryptocurrencies are more or less centralized from their coin/token distributions to power distributions on their either Proof of Work or Proof of Stake or other algorithmed networks.

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From another point of view which will be analysed here, I see Cryptocurrency as a digital commodity that functions as currency in some cases.
This discussion is non sense at the moment as far as there is no clear regulations about that. There are debates in the USA. congress about that as well in the world. We must wait for clearer laws and regulations on cryptocurrency.

Temporarily, we can see that in this bear market, latest two years, it is a first time we no longer see callings like Bitcoin will be banned globally, cryptocurrencies will be banned globally. That is very good signal for this industry when global governments are changing themselves to accept Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies one way or another.
1110  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Maybe I should wait before owning my bitcoin on: April 24, 2023, 01:53:53 AM
But a wallet like electrum is not oriented towards trading activities, so it is still the most recommended choice. Even if your analytical skills are the worst, at least you will hold on longer than most traders regardless of looking at the chart, you still have a chance to beat real traders in terms of investment profits. Bitcoin has the lowest volatile risk, just buy a fraction of your weekly/monthly salary.
When you hold your bitcoins in a non custodial wallet like Electrum wallet, you intentionally or unintentionally reduce your trading intensity. If you want to trade, you have to make an on-chain transaction from Electrum to your exchange account, and wait for 1 to 3 confirmations (depends on each exchange requirement) to start trading.

If you store your bitcoins directly on an exchange, you can trade it any time like when you feel panic or being greed.

Trading can not help you rich but holding can help you. In addition, by storing your bitcoins on exchanges, you have more risk.
Reminder: do not keep your money in online accounts
1111  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Italian League Prediction Thread (Serie A) on: April 24, 2023, 01:31:52 AM
Napoli won and Juventus has been robbed again with a valid goal removed by VAR.

UEFA/FICG mafia is going on.
The defeat of Juventus and Lazio makes top four competition continues to be opened and interesting for a bunch of clubs: Lazio, Juventus, Roma, AC Milan, Inter Milan and even Atalanta still have their chance to end this season within top four.

Next hours, Atalanta will have a big match with AS Roma and if they win against AS Roma, this competition will become more exciting. Even Lazio and Juventus are not safe at their second and third positions as their differences against other competitors are not too big. Example, from Juventus to Atalanta, the gap is only 10 points and if Atalanta win their match today, it will become only 7 points.

AC Milan with a 2 - 0 win against Leece are challenging the fourth position of AS Roma as they have same points now.
1112  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: UEFA Europa League 2022/23 Season on: April 23, 2023, 04:19:46 AM
I think that people shall not underestimage juventus. Juventus is now getting a mentality boosting after serie a was just giving back the deduction points.

Both Juventus and Sevilla have a very volatile season so far. After all, at least so far they have reclaimed their positions in domestic leagues. Juventus have good chance to complete Serie A well enough to join Champions League next season. Even if they get some bad punishment in a next season from FIGC, they will be able to join Champions League which is meaningful for their finance.

Sevilla are at a safer position in La Liga and they gradually exit the relegation zone. At least now they have less risk to be relegated like two months ago.

I think both teams have an equal chance of qualifying but Juventus have a superior squad than Sevilla so I predict Juve will qualify for the final. But Sevilla is a team that is experienced enough in the Europa League to have been able to prove its capacity that they are ready to win the title. The results of the match against MU have made them now enter as serious challengers in the tournament. But of course Allegri really understands the condition of his opponent's squad and he will take advantage of every opportunity to win.
Allegri with his achievement with AC Milan and Juventus in the past Champions League seasons can help Juventus to have appropriate tactics in semi finals to control Sevilla. They will hardly to beat Sevilla that are a best title holder in Europa League in history. From the defeat of Manchester United, Allegri and Juventus will have to play and achieve good result in Turin as playing with Sevilla in Seville is risky.
1113  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Premier League Prediction Thread 2022/2023 on: April 23, 2023, 03:15:00 AM
For Liverpool it could be the best if Tottenham wins against Newcastle and then has six points advantage over Liverpool, but they are two games down and they have their game against Tottenham by the end of April at Anfield Road. If this happens then both teams stay in distance for Liverpool. It is also risky as Liverpool could end up with empty hands, but if they still aim for their big goal to make it into the Champions League for 2023/2024, this would be the best that could happen to them.
Liverpool can make a last take over like Tottenham did in the last season with Arsenal. Liverpool will have to focus on their performances in remaining matches but whether they can complete in top four, it will depend on other clubs. I don't think Liverpool consider Tottenham as their biggest competitor in the race to top four. Tottenham are at the fifth position, under Newcastle United and Manchester United.

Bad news for Liverpool is they will have to beat both Tottenham and Newcastle United to participate in top four. With not many remaining matches, this task is difficult for Liverpool but they only can try as it is best they can do. Try their best in remaining matches and wait for support of luckiness and destiny.
1114  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: If bitcoin was to be physical product? on: April 23, 2023, 03:09:57 AM
Let me say, when the first time you heard about bitcoin, you begins to wonder what is it all about and finally you gets to see it as physical product like lands, cars, gold or diamonds that's instances.
It was not designed to be something like a physical asset. It is designed as a digital asset or virtual asset as some people called it like that.

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This products also people invest in it but not everybody probably the rich, I believe many people won't have had the money to buy bitcoin or even put interest even if you have the money.
You don't have to be rich or millionaire or billionaire to buy Bitcoin. Satoshi Nakamoto thought about it so he designed bitcoin with satoshi as the smallest unit. You can buy some satoshis, hundreds of satoshis or more and of course you don't have to be billionaire to buy a fraction of bitcoin.

Some people don't know about that and think they have to buy 1, 2, 3 bitcoins only. It's misinformation and misunderstanding.
1115  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: UEFA Europa League 2022/23 Season on: April 22, 2023, 03:40:46 AM
I see that winning the Europa league is very important to Ten Hag. The question is, why reserve Rashford till second half when you know the young man was physically fit to play in that match?? I thought the best he would do is to rest him in some epl games in preparation of this game.
Rashford had problems with his body and he was not fully ready for the match especially he was not ready to start in their debut squad. At least Ten Hag reserved Rashford and planned to use the player in some conditions but it's clearly that he did not think after sending Rashford in, just two minutes later Manchester United got a second conceded goal which mostly shut down their chance to beat Sevilla or even just equalize the match.

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Problem also lies in the attacking line. When a team attackers are doing their duty, leisure from other teams is dampened and there will be ease on the defenders of the team with active attackers. But in Man United case against Sevilla, the attacking line wasn't good as usual compared to when Rashford starts
The biggest problem come from their defense line first. When their defensive players made mistakes and caused two conceded goals in a home-away match, with big pressure from Sevilla fans, I am sure you can not expect to see their attacking players can play well to revert the match result for them. It is impossible mission especially with this version of Manchester United which was easily broken at Anfield weeks ago.
1116  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: Did bitcoin has trading signals and indictors like forex? on: April 22, 2023, 03:35:16 AM
Can we use the same analysis on forex to appropriate our trading on bitcoin like the way gold and US dollar trades same signals.

Did bitcoin has trading signals and indictors different from forex or they're all same signals and indictors but different price movement from bitcoin?
Market capital size is important as it is helpful for institutional investors and traders to get in and get out as well as making their market manipulations. Indicators are available to use and you can keep your strategy as simple as possible but you can make it very complicated with so many indicators.

With trading, it's not true to say what strategy with included indicators, is good or bad. As it depends on not only the market, quality of the strategy and inclusive indicators but also personal trait of a person who uses it. A same strategy can work for me but can not work for you as we have different traits, patience, discipline and different capital size.
1117  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Inactive BTC whale transfers $8M worth Bitcoin After 10 years Inactivity on: April 22, 2023, 03:29:27 AM
How come a holder did not transfer his bitcoins after being inactive for ten years i.e. in 2021 when the price of bitcoins peaked, but in today's down market why did he transfer his bitcoins?
We can not step in shoes of that whale but everything is possible and my guess is he can move his bitcoins to a new wallet. Years ago, we did not have multisig wallet but now we have it. If that whale feels like a multisig wallet is better than a single signature wallet, he could make his decision to change his way for bitcoin storage.

If it is not related to cash out, it's very possible like the reason I guessed.
1118  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: UEFA Europa League 2022/23 Season on: April 21, 2023, 03:55:35 AM
Mourinho won the Europa conference league with Roma last season, now he wants to win the Europa league, and i feel Roma can do it, the team is strong and they obviously have a very good manager who knows how to win trophies. Feyenoord did their best but Roma were better than them tonight and deserved to qualify for the Europa league semifinal. The 4 teams remaining in the competition are very strong: Roma, Juventus, Sevilla and Bayern Leverkusen, i think the champion is either going to be Sevilla or Roma.
They are on their way to repeat it in Europa League and are very closely to the final match. Bayer Leverkusen looks to be a best opponent for Roma as it is harder to meet another club from Serie A Juventus or Sevilla that is a King of Europa League.

Bayer Leverkusen is similar to Feyenoord with very good form at Bundesliga and they will be another challenge for Roma. I think Mourinho will be able to help Roma to find best tactics to beat Bayer Leverkusen.

Consistency is a key to make it happen. Roma was able to win with huge scores against feyenoord. Roma goes to the semi final. The special one becomes even closer to the chance to get europa league trophy.
As roma can take advantage when it will be facing leverkusen. Mourinho must have faced xabi alonso. Xabi has ever coached by the special one when xabi was playing for madrid.
The understanding of Xabi Alonso can help him and Leverkusen to figure out some ways to play with Roma and Mourinho. However, Mourinho has more experienced than Xabi Alonso with his longer career and his clever tactics for knock-out matches. Xabi is doing his great job at Leverkusen but meeting Mourinho at the moment is difficult for Xabi.
1119  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin as indestructible asset on: April 21, 2023, 02:50:10 AM
Can cryptocurrency be hacked is a very general question.

A cryptocurrency wallet can be hacked by bugs in its wallet software or by user carelessness and bad security practice as well as lack of appropriate protection on their devices.
A cryptocurrency exchange can be hacked and users can lose their cryptocurrency.

A bigger question is "Can a cryptocurrency blockchain be hacked?"
It is possible if code is not good enough and it is more risky with staking, masternode, smart contract blockchain.
With Proof of Work blockchain with too high total hash rate, risk is smaller or nearly zero because with Bitcoin network, to own 51% of its total hash rate is impossible task.

In a summary, you must choose a right cryptocurrency to use with as least risk of hack, attack as possible, then choose a good wallet software to use.
1120  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: UEFA Europa League 2022/23 Season on: April 21, 2023, 02:19:45 AM
The absence of Lisandro Martinez and Varane has indeed weakened Manchester United's defense. I observed that the movements and mobility of the Maguire and Lindelof duo were very slow, making MU's defense look very vulnerable.
Although Manchester United had the upper hand in ball possession, the opportunities they created were quite minimal. This is in contrast to Sevilla's defense, which was very solid and compact in last night's match. Even MU's midfielders found it difficult to create opportunities to score. This is a really unlucky game for Manchester United.
Manchester United just killed themselves in both matches and their defenders are all responsible for their failure in Europa League quarter finals.

Maguire just had another terrible match and with this latest mistake, his career in Old Trafford has an ending point. I don't think Manchester United and Ten Hag will want to use him anymore and they will not build their plan around Maguire for their defense system. They have to focus on their defense system as it is a foundation for success. From goalkeeper, central defenders to swing backs, they must to buy some better players.
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