I strongly disagree with this. Yeah any given GW is luck. You can play tripple captain in perfect double GW and your guy gets injured 10 minutes into first game. Nothing you can do about that.
But during the length of whole season those variances level out and good managers find their way to the top.
Again top 10k needs some luck, but top 200k is respectable and achievable every season.
Newcastle example, they have been perfectly predictable all season. Of course they are bad with half team injured, playing every 3 days and having though schedule. Now they are out from other competitions and had time to recuperate and good fixtures are coming soon....we should be buying their players not selling and most people are still selling.
You just agreed to my point with the second paragraph of your post without knowing ![Grin](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/grin.gif) The 1st -10k is luck, and anything less is strategy. Well, talking about Newcastle United, we all know what happened the last time we all complained about the entire team being injured, and they went on to beat Chelsea and go unbeaten for a few unexpected games, right? Personally, only Gordon and Trippier are worth considering in Newcastle United's present form. Consistency is always important, but it does not rule out luck. My point is about making right decisions, that will get you far in FPL. But then to breach that last 10k barrier you also have to have some luck to go with it. Perfect example KDB this week. Bringing him into the team with data available was terrible decision but it worked well for those that did it. 8/10 time it would not, and I am generous with the odds here. Those kind of decisions compound during the season. Another bad decision is doing early transfers. This week it is doubly so since it is so long before next deadline. Does not mean it will not help you sometimes but those 0.1M saved will cost much more when it goes against you. I did it last week since I did a bit of math and decided savings on Salah/Son for Richarlison/Bowen are worth the risk. Probably got screwed a little with Bowen injury but I went into it knowing I have excellent bench to cover if needed. And currently all three of my bench players have 6 or more points so Bowen missing a game will not hurt me that bad if he is ok after that. If he is injured for longer than I burned that transfer and that is really costly. Think of it like betting on high odds. They are high for a reason and in the long run they will not come that often. Make a sample big enough and it isn't luck anymore it is more risk management.
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Next year I'm gonna win this shit.
There is no need for a lot of experience because FPL is 80% luck and 20% strategy. I said the same thing last season after coming #5; I felt I had learned enough to challenge for the title this season, but now I'm stuck somewhere in the middle. Ali (FPL Gunz), who won the FPL last season and wrote a book on how to win a few weeks ago, is nothing close to Top #10k this season. You may be adept at making transfers and saving money on fees, but if Newcastle United fails to win a game in the last seven, you cannot be blamed. ![Grin](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/grin.gif) Watkins blanking in 5 GWs. Arsenal moving from 1st to 4th. Newcastle moving from 4th to 10th. You have to be very lucky to survive all this. I strongly disagree with this. Yeah any given GW is luck. You can play tripple captain in perfect double GW and your guy gets injured 10 minutes into first game. Nothing you can do about that. But during the length of whole season those variances level out and good managers find their way to the top. Again top 10k needs some luck, but top 200k is respectable and achievable every season. Newcastle example, they have been perfectly predictable all season. Of course they are bad with half team injured, playing every 3 days and having though schedule. Now they are out from other competitions and had time to recuperate and good fixtures are coming soon....we should be buying their players not selling and most people are still selling.
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I will give two stories here, both equally plausible. My people visited his people and his people prudently decided it is in the best interest of all parties concerned to not show up to the game ![Cool](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/cool.gif) Igebotz FC manager was afraid of meeting the only club that managed to win against notblox1 this season and did not know how to prepare for the game. In the end he opted to keep opponent secret from his players and just give them empty phrases like "we will play our game and result we come". But players are not stupid and when they were getting on the pitch they have seen who the opponent is. Shocked to their core half of them couldn't walk anymore while other half got a case of sever panic induced diarrhea. There was no other option but forfeit ![Grin](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/grin.gif) Now he is trying to spin it somehow but we all know the truth in our hearts ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif) You lucky bastard, how about telling the media how you hired jeremypwr to keep me hostage in PM, and how your people went to my players and bought them off? I heard you paid the players $200 apiece after what they did to you the last time to protect your promotion to division 1. ![Sad](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/sad.gif) Hardly my fault if your team sells out for 200$ apiece. That just means you are cheap bastard ![Grin](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/grin.gif) No wander players deserted you when you needed them the most. Kidding aside, these points will come handy but I would prefer if it was a good all fashioned beating on the pitch.
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Croatia was in the lead whole game, but last quarter without a goal conceived brought Spain to gold medal have to say that I almost thought it is over, when Spain scored two goals in last two minutes, and completely overturn the match
congrats to Spain, although Croatia deserved gold medal as well and that brought me first point against cryptofrka, although he will probably miss gold medal more than this point
It's amazing how I keep losing in BSFL. We had everything, 2-goal advantage going into the last quarter, won another sprint, we needed 1-2 goals in the whole quarter for smooth sailing. We rushed it, made silly mistakes, and Spain's got too much quality for that. The winning goal is pure class. Shame about the gold medal - it's tough to lose it like this. But I feel everybody would have taken silver before the start of the tournament. Germany is losing by 3, so I can only hope it's a blowout there. My BSFL round does not look good at all. Though one, to loose like that but let's be fair, if someone offered us silver before tournament started we would take it with both hands and be super happy about it. And one comment nobody else mentioned, we have damn fast swimmers, almost all the balls at start are ours and this time we got 4/4.
Oh, sheriff, what have you done? You gave easy points to Trofo, your nemesis.
I will give two stories here, both equally plausible. My people visited his people and his people prudently decided it is in the best interest of all parties concerned to not show up to the game ![Cool](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/cool.gif) Igebotz FC manager was afraid of meeting the only club that managed to win against notblox1 this season and did not know how to prepare for the game. In the end he opted to keep opponent secret from his players and just give them empty phrases like "we will play our game and result we come". But players are not stupid and when they were getting on the pitch they have seen who the opponent is. Shocked to their core half of them couldn't walk anymore while other half got a case of sever panic induced diarrhea. There was no other option but forfeit ![Grin](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/grin.gif) Now he is trying to spin it somehow but we all know the truth in our hearts ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif)
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12. Sean Strickland 11. Mayra Bueno Silva 10. Mike Malott 9. Marc-Andre Barriault 8. Movsar Evloev 7. Brad Katona 6. Sean Woodson 5. Ramon Taveras 4. Gillian Robertson 3. Jasmine Jasudavicius 2. Sam Patterson 1. Jimmy Flick
NOT go the Full Distance 6
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My Haaland story is fascinating. I was without him for 15 GW's, then took him too early in GW19 (Everton), which made me have a 14 mil player for 3 GW's without him playing 1 minute. Now I took him off the team again and replaced him with Alvarez, so expect him to make a miraculous recovery and score a hattrick against Burnley.
Whatever I do, I just hope I'll remain near the top 5 until Salah and Son return - I need to wildcard as soon as possible.
You make the transfer with intent to screw yourself when you do it this early. I mean this current GW is still running for a week and there is 15 days to next deadline. City squad is training in Dubai, why wouldn't you wait to hear the news? My plan is Alvarez to Haaland for this week if he is back. So exact opposite of your transfer.
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This table looks so nice, but wait a minute just to confirm, now we have Round 12 BSFL, and after that are Cup matches next week right?
Of course. It says so in the post with questions and you can see current round schedule in the same post as well. Once we post questions on the Sunday, that is always final.
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I ended up playing with one less player this round, thanks to Pau Torres, in other things, what happen again with Nkunku? Man he was my As in the sleeve, but his in cronic injury seems like.
myself. Because I thought KDB's price would rise after the Newcastle match
Actually it was 10.3 and its 10.4. Well I guess most people have removed Salah and Son so the 0.1 increase wont really make any differences to most of us so yeah its an easy transfer for sure. On the game between Manchester City and Newcastle, KDB shows his class so its only about time that he will make it to the first squad playing full 90 minutes thus racking more points And that is my problem with KDB. Players after returning from long injury are much more suspect to get injured again. Just as it happened with Nkunku. KDB is world class but he looked winded even in 30 minutes he played this week. I don't think he is nowhere near fitness levels to play every 90 mins every game in PL. Question is how much he can do with maybe half of the minutes available? Probably enough
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You're too kind. But I get it, the date was close and network wasn't friendly. I'm always happy to help out in future with fronting people too, in case you stragglers don't want to overburden the Tro ![Wink](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/wink.gif) I know you are always ready to help and even though about switching a few to you but it would just complicate things. This way I am hoping I will be able to keep track of everything.
Preliminary rewards, could be changes since the pool is still open. Not gonna add into the OP until it is final. We should have at least 68 mBTC (50 mBTC sponsorship + 18 buy ins) and roughly 220$ (5 buy ins) in the pool by the time Round one is over. 1. Place - 30 mBTC 2. Place - 15 mBTC 3. Place - 10 mBTC 4. Place - 8 mBTC 5. Place - 4 mBTC Best overall yellow cap - whole $ fund, so around 220$ That comes to 67 mBTC and we have 1 mBTC for tx fees. If something is left or missing it will be added or taken from 1.place. Least impact on reward. I will pay generous tx fee for confirmation inside 5 blocks or so as always.
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Just paid for woodie and Chi20. Tx id: 31abb0f1191f995f50fbdb3835fcb92edf66e8caf8023f1d559887de094413ad Waited until I got enough BTC on Sportsbet account to avoid fees ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif) Feels like I am sponsoring half of the pool. I think I paid for over 10 people here. Everything was handled either to Livecasino campaign or future BSFL rewards or side bets but still I had to make those transactions and put the money upfront in BSFL cases ![Grin](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/grin.gif) Still waiting for some payments and maybe one or two stragglers. Sponsorship money should come these days as well. Plan is too officially close the pool with end of GW1 and then advise rewards in details. Good luck guys.
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Guys (Trofo and cryptofrka), I'm sure that you are busy but when will you update the table on the first post? I'm eager to see how I stand now that I have won the last round. It's few more rounds to go and I wanna avoid any possibility to drop to the relegation zone ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif) Damn you are impatient ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif) I can't do this on work or at mobile so it must be from my home computer.
Next week we will finalize the cup and then we will continue with the league. First 2 divisions as per schedule while Div 3 will play promotion play offs. Those that qualified for playoffs, of course ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif) Division 1•POS• | ••Username•••• | •PLD• | •W• | •D• | •L• | •SF• | •SA• | •SD• | •PTS• | 1 | vd309 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 52 | 34 | 18 | 25 | 2 | leea-1334 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 38 | 31 | 7 | 22 | 3 | casperBGD | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 41 | 31 | 10 | 21 | 4 | mitchr4 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 35 | 35 | 0 | 19 | 5 | cls63 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 38 | 38 | 0 | 18 | 6 | mv1986 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 36 | 33 | 3 | 17 | 7 | slackovic | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 35 | 42 | -7 | 17 | 8 | jayce | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 45 | 38 | 7 | 16 | 9 | Harkorede | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 37 | 35 | 2 | 16 | 10 | buwaytress | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 33 | 35 | -2 | 14 | 11 | Slissy | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 43 | 39 | 4 | 13 | 12 | cryptofrka | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 41 | 38 | 3 | 12 | 13 | darxiaomi | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 38 | 45 | -7 | 10 | 14 | LTU_btc | 11 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 31 | 44 | -13 | 10 | 15 | jeremypwr | 11 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 26 | 39 | -13 | 9 | 16 | slaman29 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 27 | 39 | -12 | 8 |
Division 2•POS• | ••Username•••• | •PLD• | •W• | •D• | •L• | •SF• | •SA• | •SD• | •PTS• | 1 | notblox1 | 11 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 48 | 26 | 22 | 30 | 2 | chi20 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 37 | 24 | 13 | 23 | 3 | strongkored | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 45 | 33 | 12 | 21 | 4 | Trofo | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 35 | 35 | 0 | 19 | 5 | hakan2217 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 44 | 30 | 14 | 16 | 6 | Igebotz | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 36 | 33 | 3 | 15 | 7 | vivekdkhyani | 11 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 32 | 33 | -1 | 15 | 8 | Renato297 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 36 | 41 | -5 | 15 | 9 | ralle14 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 32 | 34 | -2 | 14 | 10 | famososMuertos | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 25 | 35 | -10 | 12 | 11 | Saint-loup | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 36 | 36 | 0 | 11 | 12 | ulven | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 32 | 33 | -1 | 11 | 13 | arallmuus | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 30 | 40 | -10 | 11 | 14 | Kanapka | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 29 | 37 | -8 | 10 | 15 | dbshck | 11 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 24 | 41 | -17 | 9 | 16 | bullrun2020bro | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 32 | 42 | -10 | 7 |
Division 3A•POS• | ••Username•••• | •PLD• | •W• | •D• | •L• | •SF• | •SA• | •SD• | •PTS• | 1 | imarios | 11 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 38 | 16 | 22 | 30 | 2 | entebah | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 34 | 27 | 7 | 23 | 3 | ILuckyGuyI | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 34 | 22 | 12 | 20 | 4 | LFC_Bitcoin | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 38 | 27 | 11 | 19 | 5 | PedroCunhaYori | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 38 | 29 | 9 | 17 | 6 | Kokee44 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 35 | 35 | 0 | 17 | 7 | BitcoinHunt3r | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 32 | 27 | 5 | 14 | 8 | Dittoup | 11 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 33 | 35 | -2 | 12 | 9 | navidart | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 30 | 31 | -1 | 10 | 10 | Spack17 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 32 | 35 | -3 | 10 | 11 | Coin_trader (disq) | 11 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 30 | -30 | 0 | 12 | Rikafip (disq) | 11 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 30 | -30 | 0 |
Division 3B•POS• | ••Username•••• | •PLD• | •W• | •D• | •L• | •SF• | •SA• | •SD• | •PTS• | 1 | Jinetics1111 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 39 | 14 | 25 | 26 | 2 | goodpunt | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 41 | 17 | 24 | 25 | 3 | shogun47 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 28 | 10 | 18 | 23 | 4 | Hhampuz | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 29 | 13 | 16 | 21 | 5 | MAAManda | 11 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 25 | 19 | 6 | 17 | 6 | execijutiere | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 34 | 30 | 4 | 17 | 7 | Woodie | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 30 | 30 | 0 | 16 | 8 | Omikifuse | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 21 | 18 | 3 | 15 | 9 | Brahim012 (disq) | 11 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 24 | -24 | 0 | 10 | Danydee (disq) | 11 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 24 | -24 | 0 | 11 | DireWolfM14 (disq) | 11 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 24 | -24 | 0 | 12 | GxSTxV (disq) | 11 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 24 | -24 | 0 |
W - Games Won, L - Games Lost, D - Games Drawn POS - League Position, SD - Score Difference, SF - Score For SA - Score Against, PLD - Games Played, PTS - Points Earned
Round 11 - Results_______________________________ | _______________________________ | _______________________________ | _______________________________ | Division 1
slaman29 2-2 cryptofrka LTU_btc 4-6 cls63 jeremypwr 2-4 casperBGD mitchr4 1-5 leea-1334 buwaytress 4-2 darxiaomi mv1986 2-6 Harkorede vd309 4-3 jayce Slissy 2-3 slackovic
| Division 2
Trofo 2-2 Kanapka Saint-loup 2-2 Igebotz dbshck 3-4 famososMuertos notblox1 6-2 bullrun2020bro chi20 3-3 Renato297 ralle14 3-2 hakan2217 ulven 2-3 arallmuus strongkored 4-1 vivekdkhyani
| Division 3A
imarios 3-0 Rikafip Dittoup 0-3 entebah Kokee44 6-3 Spack17 navidart 3-0 Coin_trader BitcoinHunt3r 1-4 LFC_Bitcoin ILuckyGuyI 3-0 PedroCunhaYori
| Division 3B
Jinetics1111 6-3 execijutiere Brahim012 0-3 Hhampuz DireWolfM14 0-0 Danydee GxSTxV 0-3 MAAManda shogun47 5-2 Woodie goodpunt 7-2 Omikifuse Hhampuz 3-2 MAAManda
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Trofo is the biggest smile I would say, he took 2 exact scores, a lot of us totally got stunned by Cape Verde, supposedly one of the weakest teams in Africa according to Igebotz I remember hehe.
Whenever Igebotz says something I like to triple check that ![Grin](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/grin.gif) This time I just looked at past games. Cape Verde not loosing a competitive game for a long time, I think 12 games and then Nigeria loosing points to all kinds of teams, like Lesoto. Only game that Nigeria won with more than a goal difference recently came against Săo Tomé and Príncipe. Had to google them to find exactly where they are and by the way they have about 150k people in total so definitely not a big footballing nation ![Grin](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/grin.gif)
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Dobre su se fore sjetili. Kad na Tronu primaš USDT a stanje provjeravaš na Tronscanu, nije naznačena fiat vrijednost onoga što je poslato. To bi svakako trebali ispraviti. Ali i s tim bi nekog mogli prevariti da misli da je primio $3891 a ne $3,891. Ali pratiš valjda stanje svog walleta osim ako nije prazan bio prije toga pa vidiš razliku između priliva od $3000 i $3.
Etherscan s druge strane pokazuje i fiat vrijednost poslanih tokena što je bolje nego gospoda sa Trona.
Ok za druge tokene ali kud si baš uzeo USDT za primjer. Šta će ti fiat vrijednost za stable coin ![Grin](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/grin.gif) Pa, mislim upravo zbog ovakvih pokušaja prevare. Frajer pošalje 3,982 USDT i tvrdi da ti je poslao $3982, a ti brzom provjerom na Tronscan-u ne uočiš ništa čudno. Da je pored toga naznačena i fiat vrijednost u $, postojale bi još dvije znamenke iza decimalnog zareza (ili točke) te bi na taj način odmah bilo jasno da se radi o $3,98 USD, a ne o $3982,00. A da ok kužim, da me nisi quotao sad bi izbrisao post ![Grin](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/grin.gif) Mogu se pravdati da sam bio na mobitelu kao i obično ali zapravo nema isprike za ovakav previd.
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Payments for week 83 have been sent. Tx. id: ed502350dc4a600824ae3b80c5d56353c3f584ba2b93c0f5b96d55f52514c646 We used current rate of 1BTC = 42.567 USD
This week we are rewarding following 3 participants with about 20$ worth of free spins each: igehhh Sojourner Oshosondy
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Today we got a true AFCON feeling. Favorites dropping the points left and right. Was really proud to get correct score on Nigeria but did not see Egypt conceding 2 goals. They even needed 97th minute penalty from Salah to save a point. I think this is the pool to try a bit riskier tactic of going against the favorits.
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Whoops, forgot to clear me squad out as I initially thought Toffees-Villains would blank (so far so true) but City sitters all scored poorly so I'm happy I got Raya in for Ederson. Palmer no brainer, glad I bought into that hype. Just a tad higher than the average on a squad I wasn't sure in, but plenty left to play for. Don't even need to look at United-Spurs game as I've got no one from either team. United fans celebrating maybe... Regret or smart move? A whole week left to find out, huh? Palmer is no hype, I'd say he's probably the best bargain buy right for what he provides in relation to how much he cost, If Chelsea were to be a very goal offensively efficient team, he'd sure be top in the FPL points for MD position, he creates way too many chances that get squandered upfront, and the weakness he's got imo is just that he's not very good shooter too, in terms of power and precision especially outside the box. You can't expect a player that young to have everything. He will only get better with time and his main job should always be creating for strikers. Only problem Chelsea strikers don't know how to finish a chance so now he has to score as well. So far he has surpassed every expectation I had about him. I thought that transfer was poor for all the parties (Chelsea, City, Palmer) but in the end it was poor just for City. No shame in admitting I was wrong.
Werner right in Spurs squad. Did not expect him this soon but injuries forced manager hand. Richarlison goal will come handy since nobody at the top of our pool has it except for me. Again with strong bench so now I don't mind if some of my players miss the game (Gordon 7, Porro 6, Walker 6) ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif) Was a tactic for this week since there is 7 days before some teams like Arsenal play their game. Higher than usual chance of injuries after deadline.
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I'm also pretty convinced that Croatia vs. Hungary will be a close game. I'm not that sure that Croatia will win.
I still don't know why Hungary team is that undervalued by the bookies but judging by the odds and presentations here I believe we should win this one. Not easy, but maybe with 2 goals difference. Something like 11-9 Looking forward to the match for sure.
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Dobre su se fore sjetili. Kad na Tronu primaš USDT a stanje provjeravaš na Tronscanu, nije naznačena fiat vrijednost onoga što je poslato. To bi svakako trebali ispraviti. Ali i s tim bi nekog mogli prevariti da misli da je primio $3891 a ne $3,891. Ali pratiš valjda stanje svog walleta osim ako nije prazan bio prije toga pa vidiš razliku između priliva od $3000 i $3.
Etherscan s druge strane pokazuje i fiat vrijednost poslanih tokena što je bolje nego gospoda sa Trona.
Ok za druge tokene ali kud si baš uzeo USDT za primjer. Šta će ti fiat vrijednost za stable coin ![Grin](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/grin.gif) Nikada nisam nikakve druge tokene preko TRONa ni koristio tako da nisam ni primjetio. Inače šta se tiče prevare mogu iz prve ruke potvrditi da se lako zajebati kada ne gledaš previše pozorno. E sad ja kada šaljem gledam puno detaljnije nego kada primam lovu ali baš sam nedavno dobio BTCa kao plaćanje 10x više nego što sam trebao i nisam ni trepnuo ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif) Iznos je bio "pravi" samo je falila jedna nula. I prije nego netko kaže srećković, vratio sam lovu.
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