I feel like there is an overreacting to UCL, it's not an easy cup to win and there shouldn't be a pressure on the players. In any case, Mbappe is very very young, he will still be playing football after Messi and Neymar retires, which means that we could see the owners building a whole team around him yet again and again, maybe get some other known players.

Like for example, everyone talks about Jude Bellingham going to premier league as an English player, what if PSG ends up paying him good money to go there? If they can build a team of players age 25 or under, to surround Mbappe with great talent, then even if they don't win now, they can win 5-6 years later with that roster.

I heard the news that bitcoin is most close to receiving 500 GB size hard disk data, so I am just confused if a newbie or beginner tries to start download bitcoin, how much minimum hard disk he must buy and prepare?

Germany must get up because if not it will likely be more difficult to get points back because Spain is not an easy opponent what if something goes wrong again in Germany vs Spain match this will certainly be unexpected again for the second defeat and I think Spain will try to win even though Germany will be stronger than that but it is a very crucial and interesting spectacle.

So in this group phase, Germany should be able to win again if they draw with Spain I don't think it's a comfortable position for Germany, so they should be able to get points, at least for the next victory.

Japan vs Costa Rica, I'm sure Japan can dominate the game to win it because Costa Rica doesn't look like it will be better than Japan because I saw from the previous statistics but Japan certainly has more motivation for the game they won before with Germany.

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Extra time drama. Maybe that's what Iran's news page will show after picking up their first 3 points at the World Cup against Wales.
The 90+8 and 90+11 minutes will be the most memorable minutes if Iran manages to qualify from Group B later.

Carlos Queiroz was the influential tactician behind Iran's dramatic victory over Wales. 4 midfielders replaced by him including Azmoun. Iran's first scorer against Wales, Cheshmi was a player who played as a center back, but Queiroz included him in place of a player who played as a midfielder. At first I thought that Queiroz decided to keep the draw, but what happened instead was to win.

Right, I don't care about making money from the forum personally. (I've actually thought about getting rid of the forum ads, since it's often a big headache and the forum has enough reserves for a long time, but operating at a significant loss while there's money basically just sitting on the table feels wrong, even if the level of loss is sustainable for quite a while.)

The things on the forum which encourage spam are allowed mainly because it's part of the forum's mission to be as free as possible. Eg. banning bounties would undoubtedly reduce spam, but that'd be destroying an entire economy/population/culture which has been able to develop due to the forum's freedom. I am willing to take this sort of action, but only as an absolute last resort. It's always preferable to handle these problems by reshaping the environment to make them non-problems, rather than removing some freedom.

It's wonderful when someone is able to constructively do something on the forum instead of continuing with whatever they were expected to do under the status quo. Enabling that sort of thing is exactly why Bitcoin and this forum were created. Though bitcointalk.org is not a worldwide welfare organization, and people are not entitled to make money.

Limiting newbie participation is very harmful for a community. Newbie jail will never return: I consider the newbie-jail period to have been extremely damaging to the forum. When barriers to participation are too high, then the best people often just won't go to the trouble of joining, and the people who are willing to jump through the hoops are often people who aren't good for the community: people with nothing better to do, scammers, get-rick-quickers, etc. Having a permanent newbie jail policy would improve things a lot in the short-term, but would end up being a fatal poison to the community.

The low signal-to-noise is a real issue which seriously annoys me and is often on my mind. But as you mention, fixing it non-destructively is difficult.

Primarily, it's just that freedom + size = mess, and with bitcointalk.org I've chosen to keep freedom about as high as possible, for example allowing paid signature ads, poor English, micro-earning services which often attract a spammy crowd, etc. Banning these things (and other noise-generating factors) would be easily possible, and would immediately lead to a cleaner environment, but it'd also be a less free environment. IMO there are enough highly-controlled platforms around, and I'd prefer to try maximizing the freedom axis. (Maximizing freedom on the forum was a policy started by Satoshi when he was an admin, BTW, though it was years after he left before the forum became large enough for freedom to actually come in conflict with signal much.)

Bitcointalk.org is under active development on two parallel paths:

• First, although the outward appearance hasn't changed much at all since 2010, I have made tons of changes to the code, including many features. About a year ago for example I added the Merit system, which has improved signal-to-noise quite a bit, by means of changing incentives.
• Second, a completely new software platform has long been in development. This software is open source, can be run now, and an instance of it is available for example at https://www.cryptos-currencies.com/ . But I don't think that it's quite complete enough to migrate bitcointalk.org to it yet.

On both development paths, we try to tackle signal-vs-noise by methods such as categorizing posts better, improving incentives, trying to create smaller sub-communities, etc., but not via restriction, if at all possible.

While I don't claim to have nearly maximized the signal-to-noise which might be possible even given a high degree of freedom, bitcointalk.org is pretty anarchic, and it will always be so. (Though note that some sections are much better than others.) If that doesn't appeal to you, then you should use a different site. Smaller communities, like IRC channels and similar, can be both free and have a high signal-to-noise ratio. This was bitcointalk.org in 2010-2013, but it's now too large. You can also have large communities that are more strictly moderated, like r/Bitcoin.

But unfortunately Ronaldo and Messi could not beat the record for top scorers in the World Cup of all time belonging to Miroslav Klose, even Ronaldo and Messi have never written their names on the top scorer board in the World Cup championship, as long as they participated in the World Cup, scoring goals in the world cup is a great thing, that's true, but they can't score as many goals in 1 World Cup event as Miroslav Klose, even Pele and Maradona can't do it, what you say doesn't make me an extraordinary thing, even all players in the world can do it...

The performances of smaller teams like Canada, Japan and KSA surprised everyone. And so I see no reason to think that Brazil or Portugal will easily win the next matches. Every match of this World Cup has become quite competitive.

The result is unknown and South Korea should not be underestimated. Another Asian-South American matchup. Uruguay will have a hard time serving a goal to South Korea. Let's see how things turn out.

Indeed, Spain played very brilliantly in their first match, they scored 7 goals without reply, showing their ferocity. Luis Enrique was very brave to bring out his young players to destroy Costa Rica in the first game.

Meanwhile, Hansi Flick only relies on players who can be said to be old. The Group E stage is likely to be dominated by Japan and Spain, while Germany and Costa Rica will be the spectators of the Qatar World Cup.

I also predicted that Qatar will wins their opening match. England and Senegal will also win their matches, Croatia will also win their match with Morocco. Why Qatar will win their first leg is that, they have strong defense their midfielders are also good. All the rest predictions you made are very good.

DCA (Dollar Cost Averaging

CBDCs are still fiat currencies that are made digital. They're not much different from the fiat that we use through fiat online wallets. It's just that there's no more hard cash representing them. They remain centralized because they're still issued by governments' central banks. They are still subject to the same inflationary mechanism. They're still continuously devalued. They're still under the control and decision of a few powerful individuals. The disadvantage, however, is that they're more easily tracked, monitored, frozen, seized, confiscated.   

The point is it doesn't actually compete against Bitcoin.

Bitcoin created first or Binance exchange created first? and if I remember correctly, binance has only been around since 2017 and before that we also had many other centralized exchanges. All of them have a lifespan and are always replaced by other exchanges from time to time. So there is no reason that when binance dies the cryptocurrency will also disappear, but if bitcoin dies there is a high probability that the market and exchanges will be gone.

Binance or tether or any other company or project is just a part of this market, so without them there would be another product to replace them.

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Fiat is not completely anonymous but it can still be anonymous, just like criminals use fiat to launder money and do their evil deeds without being detected by the police. But if we get rid of fiat completely and replace it with CBDC, things can be very different because the government can control everything even our smallest actions.

But it is true that CBDC cannot affect bitcoin because in my opinion bitcoin is not a currency but an asset more like gold, but regulation will affect bitcoin.

Well, this is a very good thing to do especially in predictions but indeed when looking at the predictions for Brazil I agree but it's still a little difficult to see France being there
In fact, there is nothing wrong, but indeed by looking at the current condition of France, I was actually a little skeptical of France, especially by looking at their matches in the last few trials.

The prediction above looks real and it is likely what may play out. The only place I have doubt is Belgium team going to final. Belgium was good in the past when hazard, Lukaku and Kevin were all playing in good form. Itt is only Kevin that is still in good form the other two have lost their form. Although there are other young players in the team that can carry the team along players like Troosard and Tielemans

If Bitcoin is preferably kept in Centralised exchange i think it is no longer decentralised to the owner because the don't have the keys to unlock and spend their coin but rather the rely on this third party intermediaries who decide how much the are eligible to transfer depending on their KYC verification level.

I believe private keys is what makes every Bitcoin owner decentralised not just the coin itself

The fear of misplacing seed phrase and private keys is still a big concern to many who believe they are careless with storing and keeping important datas.