Yes, it will not be a Sunday morning as we usually watch during fights from the US. This is going to be held in Japan to there is a big time difference. Nevertheless, we can still watch it live, for those who are going to bet on this fight, for sure they are going to wait for it.
There are a lot of boxing this weekend, like the up and coming Berlanga against Quigley.
I'm interested to see this fight as both wanted to break into the limelight specially Berlanga who says that his dream fight is GGG or Canelo.
And Kazuto Ioka won by points. Unanimous decision: 115-113, 116-112, and 116-112. That's nice. The scorecards are almost the same and I believe all judges have good eyes. Six titles in four weight divisions. Wow. That's a record for Japan. Ioka actually started slowly while Franco have an aggressive start. But when he is all warmed up, the pace suddenly changed and he bombarded Franco with lots of accurate punches. I really thought Franco will have the upper hand after that weight issue that he could not cut. He is heavier and his punches will be heavy too, but I think Ioka did a great job at knowing it will also slow Franco down. The cut in his eye may have also changed Franco's accuracy. Good fight. I missed the Berlanga against Quigley. Is it still happening now? I am watching Adames versus Williams now at round 8 but I forgot to place a bet.  Edit: Ref stopped it. Why?! Williams is still punching. Adames won! Yeah, there was a time he was trying to survive but the time it was stopped, he was punching. Wrong timing for a stoppage from the ref. There was a window for it but he already missed it. Berlanga winning by decision, however, he was able to knock down Quigley, so it was a dominating win for the young boxer, Scores of 116-108, 116-108 and 118-106. And since Canelo has left Matchroom, who knows, maybe Bivol wil be next for Berlanga? I do agree, on the Adames vs Williams stoppage, too early by the referee, so another controversial decision by the 3rd man in the ring. Although it just moot probably, as Adames is ahead on the 3 judges scorecard. |
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Yeah, I thought this kind of scam trick from scammers are over, I usually saw this kind of modus way back from 2017-2019.
But it seems that they are not done and continue to just recycle everything, Elon Musk, the Twins and other famous crypto celebrities and using their face to create this kind of sites in hoping that someone will still fall for them this 2023.
You mentioned twitter as well, yeah still a safe heaven for them, despite Elon trying to clear out specially scams like this.
You're right, but then again, if this is a very effective method for them, they are going to repeat it over and over again. Just might take them 5 minutes to create a new website and but a domain at a cheap price. But then when someone falls for it, they are potentially going to earn 10x of what money they shell out. So it's going to be cyclical, every other celebrities are going to be hijack, so don't be surprised that it is still prevailing up to this day. |
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How far away from the next halving are we? It might be a combination of factors such as business consolidating their half yearly positions by shifting funds around or investment groups seeing the $25k price and deciding to throw a few million in Bitcoin's direction.
322 days give or take, so it's a little bit under one year from now. It's the FOMO though, when there is news of institutions getting into the Bitcoin ETF like Blackrock applying for now, the price seems to zoom in to $30k++. So it's not businesses consolidating, although institutional money has been in the market for so long. But this is different, everyone including retail wanted to jump and doesn't want to missed the opportunity that's why there is a huge shift in the funds for bitcoin as we speak and there could be more waiting from the outside, willing to jump into the market. |
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I like the idea of only having 21 million bitcoins.
Bitcoins get lost all the time, lost private keys.
In time we will have fewer and fewer bitcoins, currently it is thought 3-4 million bitcoins are already lost. This makes me sad.
I think this is part of the design of Satoshi, same as bitcoin transaction is irreversible, so why change it? I propose a redistribution method: >If an address did not have any activity in let's say the last 100 years the address is considered lost and the bitcoins are free to be mined in the next block. To prevent losing your bitcoins you make sure to transfer them to a new address every 100 years (I am not aware of any other method of "proving" you still have access to an address). P.S. This would be a change in the consensus mechanism, I know  P.S.S. I am aware of Satoshi's view on this "lost coins are a donation to everyone". Yes, but 4 million is a lot, do we want Bitcoin to still be used 1000 years from now? If this trend continues most if not all bitcoins would have been lost by then. Yeah and in addition to that, he also says that: When you forget a password to your wallet, your Bitcoins are lost forever. Which makes everyone else a bit richer. So that's it, everyone will be richer if someone lost his access to his BTC. So no need to put it back and be mined again. |
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Personally, i changed my mind and will now bet for the Japanese as the percentage of him winning got higher with this news of Franco not making the weight.
What would be the penalty for him not making weight? Can he still make the fight happen? I was thinking if a boxer does not make it to the weigh-in, that would result in disqualification. Maybe my knowledge is not correct. The obvious penalty for him not making weight is that he was stripped of his WBA belt, other than that i don't have any knowledge but there is no news yet that the fight will be cancelled because of Franco's disqualification. If Team Franco will do their best to trim the excess weight which is 6 pounds, that would be disastrous for him. I have already put my bet, Ioka by decision @2.70, hope this fight will push through. Goodluck on your bet, adding extra weight might work both ways though, a) the added weight might help Franco specially in the power division and maybe he can withstand the power punches of Ioka in return. But maybe if the fight goes to distance he might tire and not put the volume that he wanted against the accuracy of Ioka. b) the added weight will make him sloppy in this fight as he is not accustomed to as the last fight was at 115 lbs. So we will see which scenario will likely take shape in the fight. |
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It should've been David Benavidez.
Well, Canelo Alvarez's camp wins. I don't think they want their boxer to be on the brink of losing so they will go for a smaller guy who will try and increase his weight and then go slower. Which I think will be a match for Canelo.
I was waiting for them to say it will be up against Benavidez because I thought Canelo's camp will be forced to do it after they knew that they could not get a rematch from Bivol and before the WBC title is stripped from him.
On the other hand, it was also reported that Benavidez has sign a 3 fight contract with PBC, so eventually I think they are in a collision course later. For sure this is the target of Benavidez as well so Canelo can't go and hide on his excuses anymore. Unless he doesnt' want to fight David and chooses other fighters in the stable of PBC. Here it goes, I just wish this will be an exciting fight. I guess I will be forced to bet for Canelo here as Jermall Charlo will need to gain weight while he is training which I think will be a hard task. If it's Benavidez, then I might bet for him.
No odds yet since the fight is rumored to be scheduled on September, nevertheless, Canelo is the favorite here and ML might not be attractive. And so if we want to bet then we should look for other options, at least a good return to us and worth the money. |
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Maybe there's a chance they'll meet if Inoue loses to Fulton. In that case, both Casimero and Inoue would become challengers, and who knows, if Fulton decides not to move up, Casimero might have a chance to fight the champion again and claim the belt. In that scenario, he could then accommodate Inoue as his challenger. It may sound unusual, but I believe it's another possibility to consider.
Maybe. But, I just don't want to get my hopes up because there's a chance Inoue will try the other two belts so that he could fight Fulton again. I think that's the strategy for most of the top seeds and simply about those below them. For now, Casimero has to prove something big and for that, he might need knockouts or defeat high ranks in their weight class in a dominating way. Anyway here are our fights for tomorrow. Joshua Franco versus Kazuto Ioka - WBA Junior Bantamweight Title Will be held in Japan. So this means it will be at night for those who will be watching in GMT+8 time zones. Not a Sunday morning boxing. Learned my lesson already. An issue happened during the weigh-in but I think they agreed it will still continue. “It’s been a tough week,” Franco admitted to the assembled media on Friday. “There was a point when we thought the fight wasn’t going to happen. Both teams came to an agreement. We’re going to continue the fight. Everything is good.
“I felt good. I’m happy and I’m ready to go.”
That's good news. Yes, it will not be a Sunday morning as we usually watch during fights from the US. This is going to be held in Japan to there is a big time difference. Nevertheless, we can still watch it live, for those who are going to bet on this fight, for sure they are going to wait for it. There are a lot of boxing this weekend, like the up and coming Berlanga against Quigley. I'm interested to see this fight as both wanted to break into the limelight specially Berlanga who says that his dream fight is GGG or Canelo. |
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Is of no doubt the market has already turned green and ETH surpasses 1.9k, though I was having this feeling to enter the market now that we have full confidence that we are no longer going dip. But I am a bit confused if this could be a bear trap, what do you think of the market is there any good analyst to give accurate results on what would happen next or to know if this is a bear trap.
We might just hit the resistance though, and it might be hard to break $2,000 in my opinion. However, why are so confused? just continue to buy if you think that Ethereum will have another biggest bull run in 2024-2025. You should take advantage of the situation and as what I have been preaching before, don't complicate things. Bear traps, catching a falling knife, this terms will really make you muddled in the world of crypto. So the best thing to do is just make it simply and buy in dip and timing the market on when to sell during a bull run. |
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What are your thoughts on this spontaneous rise again in the price of BTC hitting 30k twice just within the first quarter of 2023. Do you you think it's going to plummet again or do better above 40k? Or is just one of a tempting rise to fall again even below the 25k-26k it did for the past weeks after hitting 30-31k around the month of April?
Please share your thoughts about this.
This time is different, as people like to say IMO the price was always at 30k, but there's a difference between real value and spot price. Spot price is determined by trades on the biggest exchanges and 2 of them got sued by the SEC, which was a move to drag the price down and allow institutions to buy from you. They also wanted to introduce their own government backed exchange and force Binance out of the US, which worked. The price is now returning to its former level that was achieved naturally in q1 of this year. The drop was driven by the US government and if you panicked and sold to them, that's your loss. I think that we will continue to go up, especially when the blackrock ETF gets approved. What do you mean in the whole post. I don't think I really understand you well. Are you in anyway saying that the exchanges prevent the bitcoin price rise or they in a way influence it with the spot price. This therefore means that if there are no exchanges, the market movers will trade bitcoin directly against ordinary users to give the true value of bitcoin? I don't think that what he intend to say though, he might be pointing to the US government, against their hard line stance on crypto itself. And instead of pulling the price down with the whole SEC vs exchanges, the price suddenly goes up to $30k. And we used to have this price already, it's that we just reclaim it again, so good job for the market and all the investors. And if you sell during the negative news on Binance, then it's your loss. There still another catch here, if we seen BlackRock ETF gets approved, although the chance might be slim, we might see a huge rally again. |
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I have given Franco the first fight, yes, it's very close but I guess the sheer volume alone could have tip the scale for him. But nevertheless, the Japanese judges are not going to award him the win as Ioka is one of their respected champion. Unless Franco is the clear winner or wins by knockout, then he could have the belt. But Ioka is very tough and that's why he is willing for a rematch here.
Franco should have the initiative and be the aggressor just like he did in their first fight, this is the disadvantage of fighting a champion on his own turf, you have to take the crown decisively, and if the fight is too close the judges will go for the home favorite. Franco has no choice but to go all out, and go for knock out I'm sure he is prepare for this and its going to be a war between the two as both fighters have the same style and the same motivation to win the match. He really did his best to be the aggressor in this fight, that's why the volume is in his side. Just to be fair though and we want it to be clear, even if the fight is made in Japan, the judges who score it are not Japanese, (but maybe they could have been sway to favor the Japanese, we don't know). Scores were 114-114 and 114-114 from two of the three, with the third scoring it 115-113 for Franco. It is also noted that Franco weight is over the limit he official pre-fight weigh-in saw Franco (18-1-3, 8KOs) tip the scales at 55.2 kilograms—roughly 121.7 pounds, which is nearly two full divisions above the 115-pound limit. He was granted two hours to lose as much weight as possible, per a fight week agreement reached between the respective teams. However, Franco’s body had already shut down as he was only able to get down to 121 ¼ pounds (55 kilograms).
Ioka was well under the limit on the first attempt, as the Osaka-born boxer—now based out of Tokyo—was 52 kilograms (roughly 114.6 pounds) https://www.boxingscene.com/joshua-franco-still-over-115-pound-limit-wba-title-stake-only-kazuto-ioka-rematch--175600 |
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For the case of Casimero in which we have been discussing, the burden is on his side. If Inoue wins then most likely it will be Tapales for unification. And so with that, Casimero needs to make a move by fighting rank boxers. That's the only way that Inoue will be interested on him, if he still can proved himself at 122 lbs.
Regarding about John Riel Casimero's current situation, so far, he did a good job in having two successive fights with both wins on his side but it ain't enough because Naoya Inoue is fighting directly for a championship belt while Casimero is still fighting to have a decent rankings even though he was the one who advanced first in this weight class. He cannot do anything about it because he met an unfortunate issue in his last weight class which made him climb much earlier, that said, he should do one more fight this year to increase his chances next year. He fought a Japanese in this first fight at bantamweight, not impressive and there are controversies. And then Fillipus Nghitumbwa, yeah, he did knock him down, but the fight ended in the judges score card and it's a very close win for him, not the dominating fashion that we are expecting. Although he moved up in rank, we can call that two fights are no-bearing as it seems just like a test for Casimero. Maybe just to remain active. The big test for him is to fight any on the top 5 rank fighter, have the fight in the US so that there will be hype. |
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would you prefer to gamble in a casino and make some money or learn about futures trading and make some money?
Personally, I would rather play in a casino and make some money, although there is a big risk not making one. For trading you need to have that knowledge and it will take sometime for you to learn and they you have to sit in front of your computer. So it's a complicated thing as compare to simply gambling. Which one do you actually find to be more easier and I believe that futures trading is also capable of giving someone life-changing money but which one do you believe is less risky than the other?
Both can give you life changing money. But I think gambling might be the easier to do that for you. Winning big jackpot in a casino or maybe if you try lottery and hit it, then that is going to be a big windfall. |
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Thanks for the heads up! The online space is now becoming a more dangerous water to tread. Utmost vigilance is needed more than ever. It's clear malwares are fast developing. It's worrisome reading this new kid on the block especially knowing that the development of this one has a "focus on anti-analysis and defense evasion." I'm afraid this might not easily be detected by weaker anti-virus.
Every click matters now more than ever. A single error could cost us our entire wallet.
I agree, and every year the attack is getting bolder from this cyber criminals and it's really hard to detect this malware. That's why we really need to be vigilant in this times. I mean we don't want to lose our money just like that because we have work hard for that. Majority of us are doing DCA months after months so going to be very difficult to see that one day everything is gone because those hackers was able to install their malware on our machines. So the burden is upon us to be very careful of links or any source of malware, (like downloading from unknown and not secure sites). |
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Do you think Bitcoin will continue to outperform these indexes by the end of the year, or will traditional stocks or fiat currency outperform in Q3 & Q4?
I will be biased as I voted for Bitcoin. Nevertheless we have seen how it's price fluctuation is. In the beginning of this year the price goes up to 40%++ if I'm not mistaken and it could indicate that more is coming and that's what we get in the first 6 months. So I wouldn't be surprised that money from investors is going to pour in the next 6 months in preparation of the block halving and the eventual bull run that everyone is expecting. So wise investors knows where the money is, and for sure they have been accumulating already and this pattern will continue and so Bitcoin market will outperform this traditional market not just this year, but perhaps in the next 2 years. |
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You mean Teofimo Lopez?
Well, yes, there is a good chance that it was planned to add some hype between them and to even market the fight to have a lot of attention from the public. I mean, that is surely not new because we have already saw plethora of boxers and camps who have done the same thing, so it's not really that shocking anymore. But let's see because I have a feeling that Teo might have crossed the line when he tried to burn Josh Taylor thru some words, it might be interesting though because Taylor have already said some few words too after that.
If in fact things are like that, personally these kinds of rumors are sometimes very true, I remember the time I put an article where I said that Spence was finally going to accept the fight against Crawford, and most people thought it was fake , and even at one point I believed it, the only thing I don't like to publish things that are strange or much less fake , because they are from good sources, they are sources that are found in boxing information, in forums, in everything It has to do with sport , that's why I think that this is not bad and it is very Probable that it will Happen. It's better to post it though and claim that it is a rumor, and it's very different from fake news in my opinion. And we all know that those fights are really going to happen in the future because of the money involved in boxing as this is a business now. So it might not be the exact date of the rumor, but still if there is smoke then obviously there is fire. For the case of Casimero in which we have been discussing, the burden is on his side. If Inoue wins then most likely it will be Tapales for unification. And so with that, Casimero needs to make a move by fighting rank boxers. That's the only way that Inoue will be interested on him, if he still can proved himself at 122 lbs. |
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The case of Jermall Charlo is really intriguing to say the least, he hasn't fought since 2021, and yet WBC hasn't stripped him of their championship. And there is a rumor floating around that says Charlo has been in some mental problems, it could be personal, that's why he hasn't fought for a long time.
And suddenly we heard that he is going back in fighting and then have Canelo as his comeback fight?
So very interesting pick of opponent from the Canelo side, for sure they know all the back story and it's obvious they are cherry picking Charlo for Canelo here.
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Since the fight will be held in Japan, I will be rooting for the Japanese fighter to win. Here are my reasons:
There may be a chance that the judges could be biased towards their fellow countryman.
Joshua Franco is not known for his knockout power, having only recorded 8 knockouts in his 18 wins.
Despite the advantages I mentioned above, the odds for Kazuto Ioka are quite attractive.
After we witnessed how it turned out for Casimero when he fought that Japanese guy in their country, this will likely be the same scenario as that because they are not afraid anymore to give an advantage to their fellow countrymen as long as they have the privilege to do so. Franco needs to work hard in his training because even a clear knockout will result in disqualification if he hits his opponent close to the not permissible part. He needs to put pressure and give his best in throwing multiple punches since his knockout percentage is not well; he will probably win by unanimous decision if he shows them domination throughout the rounds. I'm not really sure who you describing here, Casimero, if you are referring to Akaho, he is a Japanese, but the fight happens in South Korea though.
I have given Franco the first fight, yes, it's very close but I guess the sheer volume alone could have tip the scale for him. But nevertheless, the Japanese judges are not going to award him the win as Ioka is one of their respected champion. Unless Franco is the clear winner or wins by knockout, then he could have the belt. But Ioka is very tough and that's why he is willing for a rematch here. |
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Network congestion is now quite normal in Ethereum so many users are interacting with it so it is inevitable for Ethereum gas fee to increase.
It somewhat cleared for now, maybe everyone wanted to have a very cheap transaction fee, just like what we have seeing before. But I guess we won't have that experience as the fee might be ok for now, but there could be factors that might affect the fees again. So we can't be sure of the fees in the future. Specially when we are in a bull run, I'm seeing network congestion again, IMHO. In my opinion, the issue of high gas fees for transactions has been a problem for a long time, but I personally prefer using the Tron(trx), BSC or Polygon network instead of the ETH network. , because it is much cheaper
Tron(TRX) is good, but still though, I don't know if it is just me, but I also find it quite expensive. But the good thing is that we have a lot of options for now like what we have mentioned. It's up to us what we wanted to use to be able to get around with this high tx fees. |
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The closest that we can see the odds in my opinion is Tapales, another good Filipino boxer. So the plan is as we have heard is that the winner of this fight, vs Marlon Tapales next for unification.
So if that happens then we can compare at least what will be the odds for Casimero. As if we are just changing the name of Tapales here. So before we talk about Casimero vs Inoue or Fulton, we will see first Tapales vs Inoue or Fulton and I think it will be a great fight although going to be very hard for the Filipino as he needed all the tools to beat either boxer.
You are right there mate, WBA has given the clearance to Tapales to fight whoever wins on the Inoue vs Fulton fight, they have not ordered Tapales to defend his belt via mandatory defense so this action is good for the Filipino pug. But for me, Casimero has the higher chance of defeating either Inoue or Fulton but he has to do his thing first (win every fight) before calling out whoever will be the unified champion in this division. For his part, Tapales is already a big winner by just fighting for the unified belt as i think this could be the biggest purse that he will receive in his boxing career, that's for sure. Yes, I also believed that Tapales really did a good job in his career, as opposed to Casimero who seems to have to reset everything right now at 122 lbs. So it's going to be very difficult for Marlon to overcome who ever he fights next for the unification fight. But who knows, he had a good year already, and upsets can happen anytime. And even if he loses that belt of his, he will still be in the rankings and maybe will be given another chance to fight for the belt or face tough opponents. So definitely there will be exposure for him. Just watching Inoue vs Payano riht now, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxRLwFkrWgQ. That straight right hand though, it's crushing. Before Casimero's career took a downturn, he was already nearing his peak, and his success was more impressive than Tapales'. He had notable victories that contributed to his ongoing popularity, even though he is no longer a champion. Therefore, I believe we should trust him. As long as he maintains his patience and remains focused on winning his upcoming fights, there's a good chance he will have another opportunity to fight for a championship in the future. And I think Casimero has learned his lessons from that huge mistake, and if I'm not mistaken, he has a whole different team now, taking care of him (he has a Japanese manager), and most importantly the people behind him, trainers, nutritionist and others. And we have seen that he has won 2 fights already, although the first win was questionable or at least very controversial. But we should wait though, we can't compare his path with his fellow Filipino Tapales. Marlon is enjoying more successes now as he is a 2 belt champion. Nevertheless, we know that Casimero is still very much on the hunt for a belt in the super bantam. |
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Nah! I don't think that Lopez is really serious about that statement because he just became a star in super-light and achieve a difficult feat that not everybody can achieve. And now he's retiring? I don't really think so. I view it as a tactic so that he can have what he wanted but I doubt as well that he can get what he want as he's still starting to build his career from scratch. Too early for him to demand though.
I read in one caption on social media that he wants more if he wants to make a comeback maybe a bait for promoters to give what he wants because he totally dominated Taylor and won the undisputed title, but it's early to ask for that he is not yet fully established his name as a pound for pound fighter, there are other boxers who still has a claim for that title. That's what him and his father wanted, and I do agree that it might be a bait for promoters after his contract with Top Rank. But if they are asking for too much money then I doubt that promoters are going to bite on it. He even doesn't crack the pound for pound list. Although he is a great boxer, but still his level might not be that elite for now. We'll know in the coming months if he is that serious or the boxing organizations will have to order championship fights on all their top-ranking contenders, and Taylor will have a chance at that.
We will see, now that Regis Prograis has won and defended his belt and calling for him. Maybe in the next coming months he might come out of his retirement and have a unification fight with Prograis. |
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