What scares me most is the Taiwan vs. China conflict because we are near it and there is the possibility that we will get into battle when we should not be there. Only those leaders benefit from it, and the people suffer.

Crude oil consumption has reached a peak and now the exports from Saudi Arabia are declining. The prices are struggling in the $80-$90 per barrel range, and this is despite all the production cuts being implemented by the OPEC+. Saudis are more intelligent when compared to some of their neighboring states. They don't have any other natural resources apart from oil, and they know that they will be in trouble once the EVs replace gasoline and diesel driven vehicles. But then the question arises. Can this big spending on cricket be justified? Without the Indian players, I don't know how they are going to make any sort of profits.

Even now the oil source is their major revenue, and the country plan to generate revenue through different sources. This is how it is possible to stand strong, even if the oil revenue gets disturbed as we can't expect things to be same as now. As said Saudi Arabia have spent big on Football and now the prime focus is upon Cricket as it holds a big fanbase from the Asian countries.
More restrictions were relaxed and the government is trying to make Western people get into the country. This is kind of plan to make people invest into their country. Rather than money it is the visibility they get through it. Even now for IPL they're (visit Saudi) is the official sponsor.

The current king (Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud) is quite intelligent and he has realized that it will be impossible for Saudi Arabia to survive on oil revenues alone in the long term. That is why he is trying to diversify the economy. And unlike Qatar, Saudi Arabia is not exactly swimming in wads of money. They do have a large population of natives to take care of. Qatar has only 300,000 citizens, while KSA as per the latest census is home to 25 million natives. That explains why Saudi Arabia is more accommodative of the outside culture when compared to Qatar. But only time will tell whether their big plans will get realized or not.

The Russian threat to use nuclear weapons after turning Belarus into a nuclear military target, and the adoption of a law punishing 25 years for deserters from military service, are all indications that Russia is going through difficult times to cope with the conflict in Ukraine, which has become certain that Russia did not expect to be involved in it in this way. .
The same signs can be seen on the economic side, since Russia is forced to sell its products at less than half the world price to cover the costs of the war. Recently, after being convinced that abandoning the European market is a real disaster without alternatives, it has chosen a partnership with Turkey to distribute its products to global markets again.

In my opinion, all the reasons you give for not buying Bitcoin are the reasons you should be buying Bitcoin.

There's nothing like competition between Bitcoin and Ethereum, they've been in existence from day one. Both Bitcoin and Ethereum have experienced successful pumps during the bull market; they complement one another.  Both developments have room for growth, and the area would be utterly desolate without these two well-built structures. Both Bitcoin and Ethereum are well-known and promising initiatives in the cryptocurrency space; they both have robust blockchains and a sizable investor base that is unmatched by other forms of investment.

I think Saudi Arabia doesn't pay much attention to earning money. They are very enthusiastic about spending money. If they want to substitute cricket league for profit then they will fail. But I think they are planning something to introduce their country to the world.
They must be going through a long planning process. They are widely known in football. Also they want to do something that can take their country to another level globally. They are the ones who consistently keep an eye on cricket. To be honest I think big cricketers can join there if the money is spent. However, no cricket league is complete without Indian cricketers and that's why IPL is the best.

What I dont like about Pavlovich, that he is a predictable fighter so far. Maybe his opponents does not allow us to look on him from different angle, but we all know that he will go to close distance and try to knockout with punches. He is like a Ngannou with a bit different skin and stats. It even look like he would better fit in like a boxer or bare knuckle fighter. With all that weight, if Curtis drags him down, Pavlovich would drawn in ground game imho.

Some countries, their leaders doesn't do anything to help these poor people. Like making more job opportunities to these people. Sometimes it's not about the people it's the leaders sometimes fault that makes more people poor. In my country many people are so hardworking but still they are poor. I saw some are looking for fresh graduate students but the requirements is with experience LOL. The education in some countries are very poor that they didn't get a lot of job opportunities because of the poor system.

I thought the so-called ethereuem network migration from proof of work to proof of stake will solve their network problems and to hear that ethereum holders still have to pay high gas fees for transactions is a show off of how the so-called proof of stake propaganda was a failed experiment.

They won their last Serie A game like six weeks ago, but for some reason they beat Benfica in the first leg. This is odd and I think it is quite some time ago that I saw a team performing so bad, but still being in the champions league and still top five in the Serie A. In the last five games there is only one team that was as bad as Inter and that was Lecce. Additionally they are still in the Coppa as well and the result wasn't too bad in Turin either!

Now they are losing game after game but perform decently in the other competitions. It must be a touch decision for the management to stick to Inzaghi, but what are you going to do when you can still win two titles but play bad in the league? You can't even sack him...

Both Milan teams (AC Milan and Inter Milan) are falling behind two Rome teams (Lazio and Roma) and their gaps with Lazio at the second position becomes bigger in last several weeks. AS Roma just have a big win against Udinese that helps them to increase a gap with AC Milan to 3 points. I don't say it is a safe gap for AS Roma but at least, they can hold their third position at least one more week day without any risk of take over from AC Milan.

Not only Inter Milan but also Juventus are very likely to lose their chance to participate in top four. Juventus hope is over and they will have to focus on Europa League. They won Benfica 1 - 0 in Turin and will have to get a draw at least in Portugal to join semi final stage of Europa League.

I don't really care about Inter's loss against Monza, but what concerns me is what happened to AC Milan. When Milan have the chance to add more points, it's always as I think, they didn't win. Maybe A draw is a better results than a loss, but while AC Milan still needs a lot of points to lock in 4th place, they still show an annoying inconsistency.

I don't see that New Zealand team can play any better than this. This time the New Zealand team is batting first but still not able to score many runs. The score of 35/1 in the 6th over is not much that we can talk about except that they have lost only one wicket.
I guess that this New Zealand team is not capable of beating Pakistan; they should rather focus more on security than on the game.
If Pakistan wins this match, then they will win the series too and it will put the nail in the coffin to the oppositon security concerns.

There is no doubt now we have a young crown prince who is already involved in many controversies and trying to change image of this kingdom and himself but it's never been easy because right now if any country wants to have the biggest franchise league in cricket it's not possible without India, and they are already announces their players never been involved in this league so most chances this could be not going to happen even if we have something this could be not near the IPL, but they can achieve some better figures due to their huge influence in few countries like they have in soccer and also their huge investments can do something.
But I guess this could be not near the IPL anyhow and ICC also can't do anything mean they will never be direct party in this case with they have no enough power to force other boards for this franchise league in near future.

Sometimes some players are just not happy with their situation in a club. I mean he is given time, and when Kroos and Modric leaves then he will be given even more time and he has great friends around him as well like camavinga and valverde that are young like him as well, so he "should" be happy and stay.
But maybe he is just not happy at all? I wouldn't know, I am just guessing based on this rumor, maybe right now he is super happy and will stay with the team and we are talking about something that won't happen. But, if it really happens then we are going to definitely see a player that was unhappy with his surroundings if he leaves, because no football reason is logical for him to leave, he is in the perfect position right now.

After Milan's draw, although their team will not be adversely affected, the opposition team is very under-performing compared to them, so Milan team needed to win this match. However, I hope that the Milan team will correct their mistakes and play the next matches responsibly and ensure victory.

The case with Afghanistan is a bit tricky. After the Taliban took over administration, the ICC refused to release any payments to the Afghanistan Cricket Board. They are receiving some minor funding from the Asian Cricket Council, but apart from that the ACB has been running low on money for some time now. ECB and CA are adamant that the funding should be released only after ACB could guarantee women's participation in cricket. The future looks uncertain for now, and most of the national team players have moved out to countries such as the United Arab Emirates.

I am sure @OP is somehow happy with his investment now that Bitcoin has increased in price from the date he sold his wife jewelry to invest in Bitcoin.  The move is not in vain and proven to be profitable.  I wonder if @OP is planning to cash out the profit of his investment or stay to hodl the Bitcoin investment until the next Bitcoin uptrend.


I would do the same but I will invest not because of its volatility but rather because Bitcoin market is in the late bear market or early bull market and Bitcoin is a known trend that it will increase in price after halving and the possible breaking of ATH a year after the halving. 

of the many fights there will be I'm thinking of adding this one to my parlay:

Clay Guida - Rafa Garcia
Clay Guida is a guy who already has a very advanced age, he is 41 years old (honestly, it was time for him to retire) and he also has a long professional career because he started in 2003 as a professional athlete and had 60 fights of which he won 38 fights and lost in 22 fights and only had 7 wins by knockout, 16 wins by decision and 14 wins by submission and has great skill in wrestling and grappling. while his opponent Rafa García who is much younger is 28 years old and started his professional career in 2014 and has had 17 fights in which he won 14 fights 3 defeats. Rafa García only managed to win by knockout in just one fight, he had 8 wins by submission and 5 wins by decision

well, Rafa García doesn't have strong punches, from what I could see and he doesn't have a good defense and Clay Guida has a lot of experience and has less good results compared to rafa garcia, in case I decide to bet on this fight I'll consider betting on rafa garcia due to the fact that he is younger but I still see a great imbalance in the odds values, since I don't see rafa garcia as much superior to clay guida, for me the odds should be more balanced in this fight, anyway I still have time to decide whether to add to my parlay or not

Well, you had an urgent need for money and you sold your bitcoin in profit, there is nothing wrong in it. The good thing is that the Bitcoin price was above your buying price at the time you needed to sell your coins. Otherwise, you might have to sell your bitcoins in loss as you needed the money in any case.

However, there are people who bought bitcoin near 20,000$ and they sold at 30,000$ and thought they should do some profit taking. Nothing wrong with that approach too but I would say why would anyone sell Bitcoin at 30,000$ when they may get a chance to sell at 100,000$ in a year or two? If your vision is long term, you should not get excited and cash out at only 1.5x.

We have third world countries individuals on the forum and that $60k is worth millions in their country. After they convert the Bitcoin to their local currencies, they don't have to spend all the Bitcoin. They can reinvest in other things that can make them rich.

Or they can continue holding the Bitcoin until it increases higher in price, Bitcoin is predicted to reach $100k in the next bull market and with $100k in some of this countries is a very big money that they can be called millionaires.

But I don't think we can achieve this in 2023, it'll take more than the end of year for Bitcoin to increase to a good amount to give us good profits, we have to wait for the bull market to come before we can estimate how high Bitcoin can go.