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Wales' loss to Cook Islands was put down to Wales having no NRL players in their team.
Round Two of the RLWC this week sees Australia unbackable against Scotland ( $101 ). Likewise, England is unbackable against France ( $21). New Zealand unbackable against Jamaica ( $101). Samoa against Greece ( $101) and Tonga to face off against Wales coming in at $41.
I've gone for Fiji over Italy: Fiji - Italy Money Line Fiji @ 1.09 Taken Amount: 0.06 mBTC Possible Payout: 0.065 mBTC
Ireland over Lebanon: Lebanon - Ireland Money Line Ireland @ 1.65 Taken Amount: 0.06 mBTC Possible Payout: 0.099 mBTC
and the only other match I can put money on, PNG over Cook Islands: Papua New Guinea - Cook Islands Money Line Papua New Guinea @ 1.09 Taken Amount: 0.06 mBTC Possible Payout: 0.065 mBTC
Always the optimist, I've put a parlay on France and Greece: England - France Money Line France @ 21.00 Tonga - Wales Money Line Wales @ 41.00 Taken Amount: 0.06 mBTC Possible Payout: 51.66 mBTC (my preferred parlay of the three paying one hundred to one would have netted 61,818 BTC if they win & if the betting site accepted the wager.
I'll put a wager on Canterbury over Wellington Canterbury - Wellington Money Line Canterbury @ 1.48 Taken Amount: 0.06 mBTC Possible Payout: 0.089 mBTC and the Vodacom Bulls Benetton Treviso - Vodacom Blue Bulls Money Line Vodacom Blue Bulls @ 1.64 Taken Amount: 0.06 mBTC Possible Payout: 0.098 mBTC and con Connacht Rugby - Scarlets
Money Line Connacht Rugby @ 1.42 Taken Amount: 0.06 mBTC Possible Payout: 0.085 mBTC
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Bans aren't explained too well as it is and we all know how some of the Admin/mods hit the flame button all too easy, so their fingers would probably get a little too itchy to slam someone down to newbie status to cherry pick who they want at the top/bottom of their ideal totem poll.
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If my recent transfer of funds gets confirmed soon I'll be able to place some crypto wagers on the fixtures over the coming days. I won't be able to see the Wales Vs Cook Islands game, but the NRL.com website should have highlights available not too long afterwards.
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Repaid. Thank you.
Shouldn't you be posting TX's as proof that loans were funded and repaid? (and the various threads that went with those loans for that matter?) |
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Why is he not banned again for Ban evasion with all his alt accounts?
A better question is "Who was gullible enough to UNban them in the first place? - (and by extension who supported their unbanning?)" |
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There's also "Double Legendary" where you have the 1,000 airdropped merits, then you earn an additional 1,000 merits through hard work and determination thus reaching the nominal "Legendary" status with 1,000 earned (instead of airdropped) merits.
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Bloomberg:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-03/feds-seized-311m-in-bitcoin-btc-the-crypto-hacker-stole-it-back?utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&utm_content=businessMillions in Cryptocurrency Vanished as Agents Watched Helplessly
Feds locked up a storage device full of ill-gotten tokens. Then someone started stealing the loot.By David Voreacos
3 October 2022 at 7:00 pm AESTGary Harmon grinned as he lounged in a bathtub full of dollar bills surrounded by scantily clad women. The moment, captured in a photo on his cellphone, could be part of his undoing. To US prosecutors, it’s evidence that he suddenly came into a lot of money.
The prosecutors accuse Harmon of a very unusual crime: remotely swiping Bitcoin stored on a computer device the government had already seized in another case, brought against his older brother, Larry. As authorities watched helplessly, 713 digital tokens—then worth almost $5 million—were somehow spirited away from the “hardware wallet” they were holding in an evidence locker.
Larry Harmon, who’s since pleaded guilty to laundering $311 million through crypto transactions, swore up and down he wasn’t involved in the disappearing act. Instead, Larry, 39, pointed the finger at Gary, 30, and ultimately helped to nail him. Gary is in federal jail in Washington, D.C., awaiting trial, and Larry is free on bail near Akron. The cases of the Harmons—literal crypto bros—show how the IRS and the FBI are succeeding in collecting evidence but still face challenges on the blockchain frontier. Authorities had to track digital money moving through a tangle of anonymous accounts to connect it to Larry. When they tried to seize it, they faced a problem: How do you put a fence around a quicksilver asset such as Bitcoin?
Larry’s arrest in February 2020 was something of a milestone in crypto enforcement. In addition to the large sums of money involved, it was the first time anyone had been charged with crimes related to “mixing,” a practice that makes it much harder to trace transactions by jumbling together tokens from different owners. In 2014, Larry created a search engine called Grams, which helped users scour the darknet for illegal drugs, guns, and hacking services. Then users could pay via a mixing service he ran called Helix, earning Larry 2.5% of each transaction.
Mixing’s advocates in the crypto world say it enhances privacy. But under the online moniker “gramsadmin,” Larry touted Helix as a way to prevent law enforcement from tracing tainted Bitcoin.
Business took off. In late 2016, AlphaBay, then the largest market on the darknet, started steering its customers to Helix. US authorities were watching. An undercover FBI agent transferred Bitcoin from AlphaBay to Helix, establishing a link between them. In July 2017 the US shut down AlphaBay, calling it a major source of heroin and fentanyl. Authorities didn’t yet know who ran Helix. Months later, Larry closed down the mixer, having performed 356,000 Bitcoin transactions. More publicly he developed Dropbit, an app he promoted as the Venmo of crypto for transfers between users. Larry was a tireless promoter of Bitcoin and his company Coin Ninja. In a 2019 video on Twitter, he showed off his Bitcoin hat, shirt, and socks.
The US hunt to identify Helix’s operator picked up when IRS criminal agents joined the case. Bitcoin transactions are executed on a blockchain, a publicly viewable online database. The coins move between accounts with no names, just long strings of random-looking letters and numbers. Crypto transactions may seem free of fingerprints, but they often can be tracked down when individuals try to turn coins into cash. That’s where Larry made some mistakes.
Working with Chainalysis, a blockchain analytics company, the agents studied thousands of Helix transactions, subpoenaed emails, and ultimately found one involving a website that allows users to buy gift cards with Bitcoin. An email associated with Larry was used to open the account, says a person familiar with the matter who wasn’t authorized to discuss the case publicly.
Agents built a detailed financial picture of Larry. Inspecting his cloud accounts, they found a Google Glass photo of a computer screen showing the Helix administrator page. In early 2020, agents arrested him at his Akron office, where they also found a Trezor crypto storage device, a small computer attachment that looks a bit like an MP3 player.
Gary lived across the hall from the office. He talked to agents that morning and attended the hearing where prosecutors convinced a judge that Larry was a flight risk and should stay locked up. Larry was moved to a Washington jail, but when Covid-19 exploded, his lawyers sought his release on bail. Among the letters of support was one from Gary, who wrote effusively about Larry’s positive influence on his life, saying his older brother had given him a job, taught him coding, and “truly made me a better person.”
At the bail hearing on March 13, 2020, Assistant US Attorney Christopher Brown said Larry had “potentially tens of millions of dollars” in crypto assets that were illegal proceeds. Agents couldn’t gain access to them from the storage device found in his office because they didn’t have the correct passphrases to unlock them. But they could see, looking at the blockchain online, that addresses they had traced back to Larry controlled the money.
Hardware crypto wallets hold the cryptographic private keys—long strings of numbers and letters—that allow someone to go online and use a Bitcoin address for transactions. As a backup, Trezor hardware wallets can generate a “seed phrase,” a combination of as many as 24 words that can re-create those private keys on another device. In essence, anyone who knows the magic words and an additional PIN can take control of the Bitcoin. Unplugging the wallet device and physically locking it away is no protection. Brown warned that Larry could remotely take Bitcoin and that the government would be powerless to stop it. “Until we can secure them and transfer them to a government wallet, those are available for him or his family members to transfer,” he said in court. US District Judge Beryl Howell granted bail anyway.
Over six days in April 2020, IRS agents discovered Bitcoin was moved from the addresses they knew about. Prosecutors went back to court. Howell said she was “very skeptical” that the crime had occurred without Larry’s knowledge and direction. “Do you understand that?” the judge asked. “Yes, I do know,” Larry said. “Don’t try and be cute with me,” the judge snapped.
Howell ordered Larry to turn over all his passwords so agents could transfer the remaining 4,164 Bitcoins—then valued at $40 million—to a secure wallet. Larry did, and the thefts stopped. He continued to deny any role in the caper, but if it wasn’t Larry, who was it?
Within a month, Larry told prosecutors that Gary was the culprit, as did an informant. It took prosecutors 15 more months to get Larry to plead guilty to money laundering and agree to provide evidence against Gary and darknet operators. Larry faces up to 20 years in prison, but his cooperation with prosecutors will likely earn him a lesser sentence. He’s also been hit with a $60 million civil fine from the US Department of the Treasury.
Federal agents began building a case against Gary. An informant told them Gary had asked his advice on Bitcoin gambling services, records show. The source believed Gary wanted to use them to mix Bitcoin he took from Larry. Gary is “not the sharpest tool in the shed and did not think through the consequences for his brother” before he moved the Bitcoin, the informant said.
Agents later found four emails sent to Gary’s Gmail account from no-reply@trezor.io, reflecting the re-creation of wallets on devices. He’s denied taking the Bitcoin. When agents interviewed him in July 2020, he said, “If I took it, why wouldn’t I take it all?”
Recently, Gary’s lawyer said in court that “just because the government cannot manage to keep up with its technology, that is not the defendant’s problem.”
The government says agents traced 519 of the stolen Bitcoin through two mixers. Although the mixing hides where the money went, prosecutors say the transactions correspond to a “dramatic transformation” in Gary’s finances. They say he deposited 68 Bitcoin with the BlockFi finance company, which lets people borrow against their coins. He used most as collateral for a $1.2 million loan. Some of that went to buy a luxury condo in Cleveland, prosecutors said. And then there was the picture on his phone, included in the government’s court filings, of the bathtub of bills.
Gary was arrested in July 2021, accused of money laundering and other crimes. Like his brother, he requested bail. Prosecutors said to secure bail Gary should have to turn over seed phrases to the stolen Bitcoin. His lawyer said that condition would force him to admit crimes, which violates his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
At a hearing in July, prosecutor Brown said Gary turned down two plea offers. His trial is scheduled for February.
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Note: he joined the same bounty and submit the same work report each week
Your catch ism't related to this thread, you should better report it to BM. Sorted.
Just a reminder to newbies and Jr Members - read The Fine Print! |
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I gave up after a season of placing bets on the UK premier football league because of the number of draws. Once the underdogs have been pounded by the top of the ladder teams there should be some fantastic games when the more evenly matched teams play against each-other.  Wales has yet to play - I'm wondering if @Welsh will have a look in? |
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The women's World Cup on Saturday sees a multitude of countries competing.
Scotland Vs Australia*
USA* Vs Japan.
France Vs England*
Italy Vs Canada*
Wales Vs New Zealand *
Fiji * Vs South Africa.
* Denotes favoured by the punters online with lower odds.
A parlay on all six less favoued would next $341,000 if it were accepted, however on just four (Scotland,Japan,France and Wales) yields a return of $26,280 on a $1 bet.
Prices are now available for the 2023 Euro Champions Cup with Leinster favourites on $3 and both Actress and Northampton wallowing on $67 then at the bottom of the table are the Ospreys at $201.
Well know who wins on the 21st May, 2023 after one a.m. here time.
Closer to home, in NZ this weekend,
Wellington* Vs Auckland
Canterbury* Vs BOP
I'm agreeing with the online punters with Wellington and Canterbury winning their respective matches.
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A better question is why just single me out for your gang mentality criticism? (much less turning a blind eye to the negative(s) on my own trust feedback page)
Time to lock this thread OP.
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Rugby Union.I'm just having a look now to see if I can place any bets - England won not that long ago, so the ladies should be able to take on Fiji quite convincingly. From recollection, New Zealand are a stronger team against arch rivals Australia while I'm not sure on the South African or French stats. Japan might beat Canada, Italy should walk over the USA while the England Vs Scotland game will be very close I would imagine. Rugby League.The RLWC starts next week and first up the underdogs (according to the tab.com.au website who were very accurate in the 2022 NRL series) England, Fiji, PNG and Lebanon makes for a $25,000 parlay at one dollar down. 
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I'm wondering if @Stalker22 was meaning "use your reputation" as collateral? 🤔
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You forgot the one hundred times the merits compared to what you have @Maasdamer
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I'm surprised he didn't wake up with a kidney or two missing...
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Naturally, you chose to ignore the stickied (SMF - irony) threads and the ground rules of lending in the forum.
Tell us about yourself.
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Funding in the next few minutes...
I think I beat you to it.  You did indeed.  |
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want 90$ to friday 15%
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Funding in the next few minutes... |
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I'm still mulling over whether the Panthers or Eels will win this week-end.
The 2022 NRL Grand-finals have been played and for both the Women's and Men's finals, the teams favoured by the gambling sites won their respective games.  On a long day of finals, the NRLW Newcastle Knights won against the Eels - even the Knight's Captain was hoping the Eels would win to set up the men to win their clash with the Panthers, alas it was not to be. Both Eels teams scored just twelve points in the losses - from recollection, there were two missed conversions which would have made both winning scores 32 - 12. As is tradition after the Grand Final, the teams to represent Australia internationally have been named with the World Cup in England kicking off on the 15 th of October.  (Was the Cup delayed from 2021? - check out the logo on the above promotional image from the NRL press release). |
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