^  Japan is Honda's race, so they had to.  Same as when it goes to Italy for Ferrari.  They have to win those races for their supporters. 


Yup got all on the way up behind Sainz. It would've been sweet if he got to the podium.  If not for Perez's improved performance as of late we'd be seeing both Ferraris on the podium.  Lol.  But not really sure what's gotten in Perez this season...  Maybe he needs to prove a point that he should be given a new contract.    

As for the race itself, I kinda was getting bored starting at around lap 21...  And I just can't pay as much attention to it anymore.

^  Yeah that's true...  And he had fought in some bangers during his prime.  Big reason why the UFC didn't get rid of him given how old he is.  And in this spot Bobby Green, he's given a fight that he could win as an underdog.  Could be a good night for him and an opportunity to end his fighting days with a high note.

UFC 300:  Embedded Episode 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnX4XOPpSNA

Here are some banger replays that showcase the fighters this weekend.  Enjoy...

UFC Free Fight:  Gaethje vs Poirier 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_9Ql-ra94I

UFC Free Fight:  Weili vs JJ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_Agg9bFT8o

UFC Free Fight:  Xiaonan vs Andrade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cQz8KJPnUY

UFC Free Fight:  Tsarukyan vs Dariush
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz_4j9M41G0

UFC Free Fight:  Oliviera vs Chandler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHrXAB0SzSc

All the match ups for 300 are solid from top to bottom.

Ah yeah...  Looks like I kinda got confused with the decimals.  Lol.  I was thinking .01 ETH is around 350 bucks or something.    Then I saw my wallet and it has around .011 or something for a tad close or over 35 bucks.  But yeah, it makes sense.  But it would make more sense if it was at least .01 ETH in total but across different networks.  Not sure if it could easily prevent sybils tho.  The amount is easy to get.  But maybe it could prevent the kind of sybil behavoir that controls 30 or more wallets.    Those guys who make airdrop farming for a living.  It's just funny because sybils take away the primary purpose of airdrops and turned it into something like a dump fest instead of something that could benefit the project's community.

Just as I thought...  Snow would win against the crowd favorite Bisu and with a resounding win he did.  It was 3 - 0.  As for the one with Soulkey and Mini...  Mini did really well at the first a couple of games.  But man...  What a win in the quarters by Soulkey by winning the last three games in this best of 5.  I think Soulkey will go to the final and win the whole thing again just as he did last year.

Here are the results.  Semi finals next week!

^  And it's funny cos when you look at those matches you realize that he didn't really make it big in the UFC because all of them are in the prelims.  Lol.  But he's good enough to stay in the UFC tho.  Against Bobby Green and at his age, I think he'll lose this one.  Will he retire?  Maybe...  And 300 is a good event to make a post fight announcement.

Anyway, here's what everybody is waiting for...  The Multi Master by jeremypwr.  Enjoy!

UFC 300:  Multi Master Challenge
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5492088.0

And here's Embedded.

UFC 300:  Embedded Episode 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uREFaFUnFkc

^  The main event is not what we really wanted but the rest of the event is so good, it makes up for it.  Something like Jones vs Aspinall would've made it complete tho.  That's the match up that everybody would surely wanna see.  Two of the best heavy weights in the UFC and it would've been a champ vs interim champ kind of thing.  But we can't get everything we want.

Again...  Here's the Countdown vid.

UFC 300:  Countdown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFLW7ZTP9zw

^  I'm more excited with the BMF match than the main event. 

Just 4 finishes in the event coupled with three split decisions makes me think it wasn't that good.  Not interested to watch the replay either.  Lol.  I did tune in for the main event tho.  I think Curtis threw the cleaner shots and had Allen in trouble in there...

And Allen's line was around 1.50 or something.  He didn't look good for a guy who's implied odds was lined high.

UFC Fight Night:  Allen vs Curtis Results

Brendan Allen def Chris Curtis  SD
Damon Jackson def Alexander Hernandez  SD
Jose Mariscal def Morgan Charriee SD
Ignacio Bahamondes def Christos Giagos  KO R1
Charlie Campbell def Trevor Peek  UD
Alex Morono def Court McGee  UD
Łukasz Brzeski def Valter Walker  UD
Norma Dumont def Germaine de Randamie  UD
Victor Hugo def Pedro Falcao  UD
Jean Matsumoto def Dan Argueta  SUB R2
Cesar Almeida def Dylan Budka  KO R2
Nora Cornolle def Melissa Mullins  TKO R2

UFC Fight Night:  Allen vs Curtis Post Fight Press Conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iZ_9QgD2oE

Wut?  .01 ETH?  Where?  Just in mainnet or spread and added together from all EVM wallets?  I still have a little over .01 ETH LP'd in some protocol that looks like it won't be airdropping any tokens anymore as it already had a presale.  I'll just pull that one out. I could also use it to move around different aggregators and use Layer Zero, Stargate as the bridge of course... 

And Kamino airdrop checker came out today.  Not sure why I got around 35 tokens.  Lmao.  I tried lending some stables in it for one day but then pulled them out as these Solana points farms are waaay over farmed.  Just stay away if you only have a smol bag.

^  Yup...  Another qualifying that finished with Sainz beating Leclerc again.  :/  Is this gonna become the trend for Ferrari this season.  If so Leclerc would be asking where is the fast car that he was promised last year?  Lol.  It's gonna be memes galore if the team doesn't deiiver it for him.

And did he already sign a new contract extending his stay beyond 2026?  Next year with Hamilton around he'll surely be having a lot tougher time against Lewis Hamilton.  I could already see all the memes...  

Anyway both Tsunoda and Alonso were impressive at quali.

And here it is...  They weigh in results with 4 fighters missing weight.    It shows that they don't really care about event as it's obv just a filler for the weekend before UFC 300.  All of these match ups I don't care for.  Allen vs Vettori would've been interesting if Vettori didn't pull out of the event due injury.  :/  But yeah, it is what it is.

Have fun with this even sports fans. 

UFC Fight Night:  Allen vs Curtis 2 Weigh In Results

Brendan Allen (186) vs Chris Curtis (186)
Alexander Hernandez (147.5)* vs Damon Jackson (146)
Morgan Charriere (145) vs Chepe Mariscal (145.5)
Ignacio Bahamondes (156) vs Christos Giagos (156)
Lukasz Brzeski (236) vs Valter Walker (264)
Charlie Campbell (155) vs Trevor Peek (155.5)
Court McGee (170.5) vs Alex Morono (171)
Germaine de Randamie (135) vs Norma Dumont (136)
Pedro Falcao (136) vs Victor Hugo (135.5)
Cynthia Calvillo (119)* vs Piera Rodriguez (116)
Dan Argueta (136) vs Jean Matsumoto (136)
Cesar Almeida (185.5) vs Dylan Budka (185.5)
Nora Cornolle (138.5)* vs Melissa Mullins (138)*

*Missed weight

UFC Fight Night:  Allen vs Curtis 2 Weigh Ins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHdDlFr2FCQ

UFC Fight Night:  Allen vs Curtis 2 Face Offs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jugYI8GcpNg

And last call to the jeremypwr's Multi Master...

UFC Fight Night 240:  Multi Master Challenge
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5491086.0

My picks...  Like for most of the events I kinda have an idea.  But for this one I have totally no idea for these matches and I didn't bother looking into them.  Most of my time online is spent hunting for airdrops lately.  Lolol. 

13. Brendan Allen
12. Alexander Hernandez 
11. Jose Mariscal   
10. Ignacio Bahamondes
9. Valter Walker
8. Trevor Peek 
7. Alex Morono           
6. Germaine de Randamie         
5. Victor Hugo           
         
3. Dan Argueta         
2. César Almeida           
1. Nora Cornolle

^  Whoa there...  Lol.  Wdym beat Lewis Hamilton and win his first driver's championship?    Nothing of that sort is happening as long as Hamilton is around.  There was that one year with Nico Rosberg but that was about it.  Rosberg called it quits and ran with his tail between his legs.  Lol.

As for George Russell, the only reason why he's beating Hamilton this year is cos Hamilton has been sucking more than Russell is improving.  I think even Vettel could beat Russell with the same car at any given week.  But that's just me...

All pretty good match ups across the board...  Prolly one of the best quarter finals I've seen as of late.  All great clubs, all great winners across Europe with the exception of PSG.    I mean it's a good club but mot really comparable with these other clubs.

Just looking at it, I think we shouldn't really write Bayern Munich off the board.  If you guys remember, Tuchel won the CL for Chelsea with an inferior squad.  He could do it again with Bayern imho.

Bayern to go thru and reach the semi finals is lined at 2.25. 

^  After Manchester United's loss to Chelsea, I think Ten Hag and his boys are currently so mad rn and they'll prolly try to beat the league leader with the best of their abilities in their next match this weekend.  And this is no ordinary club their up against...  It's Liverpool!  This is a huuuge game and one that they want to win to try and spoil their rival's title run.  I think they'd rather see City or Arsenal win the league than Liverpool.

Another thing about this match is it's in Old Trafford.  That should give United a slightly better chance than what the lines suggest.  Draw no bet at 3.45 for United...  Could be good.

Bro wrong thread.  


If he doesn't get the second drive at Mercedes there's another option for him and it's Red Bull since Perez will be leaving at the end of the season if he isn't given a new contract.  I think if Horner stays as team principal then there's prolly some chance Vettel goes back to Red Bull.  And I def wouldn't mind it imho.  He'll prolly even do a lot better than Perez.

Here are FP1 and FP2 results...

2024 F1 Japanese Grand Prix FP2 Results

Max Verstappen   1:30.056      
Sergio Perez   1:30.237   +0.181s   
Carlos Sainz   1:30.269   +0.213s   
George Russell   1:30.530   +0.474s   
Lewis Hamilton   1:30.543   +0.487s   
Charles Leclerc   1:30.558   +0.502s   
Fernando Alonso  1:30.599   +0.543s   
Oscar Piastri   1:31.165   +1.109s   
Yuki Tsunoda   1:31.230   +1.174s   
Lando Norris   1:31.240   +1.184s   
Esteban Ocon   1:31.935   +1.879s   
Alexander Albon   1:31.943   +1.887s   
Nico Hulkenberg    1:31.958   +1.902s   
Valtteri Bottas   1:32.054   +1.998s   
Lance Stroll   1:32.055   +1.999s   
Ayumu Iwasa   1:32.103   +2.047s   
Pierre Gasly   1:32.277   +2.221s   
Zhou Guanyu   1:32.638   +2.582s   
Kevin Magnussen  1:32.803 +2.747s   
Logan Sargeant    1:33.204   +3.148s   

2024 F1 Japanese Grand Prix FP2 Results

Oscar Piastri   1:34.725      
Lewis Hamilton   1:35.226   +0.501s   
Charles Leclerc   1:38.760   +4.035s   
Yuki Tsunoda   1:40.946   +6.221s   
Daniel Ricciardo   1:41.913   +7.188s   
Zhou Guanyu
Valtteri Bottas
Alexander Albon   
Kevin Magnussen
Nico Hulkenberg   
Carlos Sainz
Lando Norris   
Esteban Ocon

The rain stopped FP2 short.  :/

^  But it's a main event and a 5 rounder.  So I'd rather see that than being a three round undercard.  And it's gonna be a lot better for Whittaker if it's 5 rounds.    I'm rooting for him.  Hope he wins and he gets his title shot and rematch vs DDP.  It could be his last.  I'd be really surprised if he tries to go at it again if he loses vs Chim.


And he's a humble guy.  It's hard not to like him.  Lol.

It's funny how the UFC has released all the promotional vids in YT days before the next event has even started.  Lolol.  Just shows how much of a filler it is.  

Go enjoy it I guess...

UFC 300:  Countdown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFLW7ZTP9zw

^  Now I think the Layer Zero devs will be forced to do a better airdrop or at least something at par with Wormhole's airdrop.    They can't be stingy and do it like Polyhedra or even ignore the community like Stark did.  I'm starting to feel good about LZ now.  With the volume I put in there I think I should be good for at least the minimum amount.  And if not I will pledgd my allegiance to Wormhole and only that for my crosschain needs.  But maybe some Alexar or Squid Router would be good. 

Anyway congrats to everybody who got the W airdrop.  Eat well guys. 

I'm with you but only because I'm looking purely at the chart and I'm not considering anything else but price action.  The daily chart still looks good imho even though it hasn't been able to break above around 73.7k USD since it hit that last month.  Weekly and monthly charts look a lot better and the red candle is really looking like just another normal correction.  Again imho.

And with the news of 2 billion USD worth of BTC to be sold, shouldn't everybody start selling down their bags by now?  If anything I think it's good news for the guys who are sidelined rn.

^  I don't think it's totally about not spoiling about his UFC run.  It's also about developing a fighter and taking care of him as he's one of the guys who have great potential to be a hall of famer type of guy and could be a great title holder.  And he's pretty good in interviews and press conferences too.  So he def has the whole package.  

The other good thing about him is he doesn't need to create some bs persona like McGregor did to attract the crowd.  He could just be himself and the crowd will still like him.

NIIIIIICE!!!  I honestly would love to see him get the second drive at Mercedes than the smug Alonso tbh...  And he'd be some sort of mentor for Mick Schumacher too which is ideal.  It was said that Vettel wanted Mick Schumacher to be his replacement after he had left and he was really fighting for this to happen.  But as we have already seen want happened, he was unsuccessful. 

Damn.  If Horner and Newey leaves for Ferrari and Vettel returns in F1 as a Mercedes driver, I'd be rooting for both Ferrari and Mercedes. 

^  Yup.  Lol.  But Bo Nickal did KO two of his opponents in the first round tho.  Which means he has powerrr in those hands and starch guys in the UFC.  And he also volunteered to fight Chimaev on short notice which I think there's def a chance of him winning it.  But the UFC didn't allow it and opted to let Usman fight Chim instead.

Here's the official live weigh in stream.

UFC Fight Night:  Allen vs Curtis Official Weigh Ins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX1LEzuzByc

And as I was browsing over UFC 301 at Tapology, Aldo is gonna fight in the event?  And vs Jonathan Martinez?  :/

https://www.tapology.com/fightcenter/bouts/855230-ufc-301-jonathan-dragon-martinez-vs-jose-aldo-junior

Not sure what to think of it tbh.  Who you guys got?