This only shows the strength of Bavaria. More recently, they regularly played in the Champions League finals and it can be said that they dominated there too, if not for Real, then this would be the era of Bayern. Therefore, I do not agree that Bayern can win the Bundesliga "in any conditions". They are just the strongest of all, but if they suddenly weaken, then there will be someone who can surpass them.
They have 11 final matches in Champions League, it is the same as what AC Milan have but Bayern won only 6 titles compare to 7 titles for AC Milan. Above them, there is only one, the King of Champions League, Real Madrid with 14 titles and 3 runner-up times. I am shocked to look at Wiki today and see that if Real Madrid play in Champions League final matches, they mostly win. Their win rate is higher than 82% that is unbelievable. Bayern Munich is just farming Bundesliga trophies. I think they have enough money to buy good players. So, I don’t think they are gonna be worsened anytime soon. On the other hand, I also don’t think that any other team is suddenly going to be so big that they will compete against Bayern Munich at the same level, let alone surpass them. Bayern Munich is going to be the winner of the Bundesliga in the season as well. And I don’t think this is going to change for at least three seasons to come. |
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Juventus are the most impressive team to me in the Serie A these days. Because even though they have had many missing players they have still done a great job. Their winning streak is still on and it has reached six games also. Maybe four of them were against weaker teams. But they played two big games against Lazio and Inter and completed them successfully. They scored 5 goals and conceded none in those two games. This is sign of a big improvement in their performance after a bad start here and a bad run in the Champions League also.
I guess the injured players would be ready until the next games and Juventus would come back even stronger than this.
Juventus is a team which has started a trend of performing badly at the start of the season and then recovering. The way they started the season it did not feel like they are going to go to the break without being in the top three at all. But they have achieved that. They are currently in the third position and I am also sure that when the Serie A resumes and when the squad is fully fit to play, they will be bringing in better results. But I just hope that they do not have to start fresh like at the start of the season when they started playing badly. |
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I was reading some of the replies in of @mr_jk's thread when he asked what will happen if bitcoin's price became stable?
The replies were unexpected hehehe. Much of them argued why or how can bitcoin be stable? This makes me ask the question do much of the holders of bitcoin want the price to be stable or do they really want it be volatile? I ask this because stability makes bitcoin become a good store of value and medium of exchange. Volatility makes it good for trading and speculation.
We just need to understand the big investment opportunity in Bitcoin so I do not think any of us want Bitcoin to be stable like stablecoins like usdt, BUSD etc. This will make Bitcoin to look like a normal currency which will not make it has a better value just like when you buy low and sell at higher price as the market keep going bull. This is one of the reasons why we keep investing in Bitcoin to make better profits. If this reason is affected then many of us will not bother investing in Bitcoin or the crypto market. If bitcoin becomes as stable as gold which means less volatile than it is now then I think people will also lose interest in bitcoin let alone bitcoin will be as stable as a stablecoin. A lot of people say bitcoin is superior to fiat or gold in every way but one truth that i see people don't talk about is that most of us are here because of the bitcoin price. 90% of market participants care about the price, only a few care about the technology and will support bitcoin regardless of its price. If bitcoin really becomes stable, I don't know if people will continue to use it or find another risky game. |
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FTX's death was because SBF used user funds from FTX to transfer to Alameda, Alameda used that money for investment and mortgage lending, from that very reason led to the collapse of FTX. It makes me wonder if anyone will trust a man like SBF enough to support him and invest in him again. He is a really talented guy but with such a lack of transparency in his work, it is not worth trusting anymore and a debt of up to 8 billion is a very large number, this has caused Binance to refuse to buy back FTX because if they buy back FTX, it will also have to pay FTX's debt of 8 billion.
Regardless of the time or the field we are taking about trust is always going to be a key component in any business, SBF could have all the positive characteristics we may imagine but he has proven that he is not someone trustworthy, and as such no one is going to be willing to lend him any amount of money no matter how much he needs it, which is why I find ironic he was mad about binance making a move against him, when there is evidence that SBF has been trying to make moves against binance for years. Do you watch this news often? There are a lot of articles alleging binance is the cause of FTX's death and the person who should be investigated is binance and not FTX. It seems that SBF spent a lot of money buying those newspapers to write that he was a victim in the war between the two exchanges and did not mention it was his fault. While there is plenty of evidence accusing him of transferring money to Alameda, there is even a conspiracy theory that he transferred billions of dollars to Democrats and that it was investor money.  |
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So we not surprise when elon reach into his deep pocket to buy twitter in billion dollar. Because he have unlimited money.
He is not so rich that money is unlimited, even though he is the richest man in the world, he does not always have billions of dollars in his bank account. In the acquisition of twitter, in addition to selling off Tesla shares, he also received a lot of help from other shareholders, including CZ. I was imagine when he find this forum that look unique because Satoshi was create this forum like he create bitcoin,
and after he look unique and look philanthropy then he want to buy this forum,
are you guy agree if Elon buy bitcointalk forum?,
that look superior if bitcointalk owned by a richest person like elon.
He doesn't love crypto as many people think, he buys twitter all for his business benefit, not for bitcoin or doge. Don't think that he is the savior of the market. He can buy TW, can buy Facebook... but I never thought he would think of buying bitcointalk, it's not beneficial for his business. |
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But Sam Bankman-Fried seems still positive after all that happened, we still don't know what will happen in the future, they just filed Bankruptcy Chapter 11, and they told us that they will still cater to customers. As most affected here for me are those customers, retail customers, or small customers that used FTX Exchange for their live saving.
In paper, go bankruptcy with Chapter 11 is not the end of FTX and customers likely won't lose all their capitals. But how much will they be compensated is still unknown and how FTX can come back is very vague. In the past, some traditional businesses have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy but have since been able to reopen through negotiations with customers and support from new sponsors. Trump's businesses also filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy a few times, but in the end they did not go bankrupt and reopened. But in the case of crypto companies, none of them have been able to resume operations yet so it is unlikely that FTX will be an exception. Whether the customer is compensated or not depends on the remaining assets of FTX, if it cannot be compensated, the investor will lose everything and cannot sue. |
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FTX's death was because SBF used user funds from FTX to transfer to Alameda, Alameda used that money for investment and mortgage lending, from that very reason led to the collapse of FTX. It makes me wonder if anyone will trust a man like SBF enough to support him and invest in him again. He is a really talented guy but with such a lack of transparency in his work, it is not worth trusting anymore and a debt of up to 8 billion is a very large number, this has caused Binance to refuse to buy back FTX because if they buy back FTX, it will also have to pay FTX's debt of 8 billion.
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with the ftt crash that affects solana greatly, it could simply implicated that solana could never replaces eth in the long run, let alone solana, even bnb with binance as a giant company backing it still could hardly surpass eth, so I definitely doubt that solana could pull it off and become the next eth. If there's coin out there that could become the next eth I'd say it's matic since it's like having the same characteristics with eth and it's already starting to grow in term of market valuation. solana in the other hand, still got hold back by the bad news revolving around the coin itself.
Solana had investments from FTX, which explains why the collapse of the exchange severely affected the crypto asset's (SOL) price on the market. It's trading below $20 at the time of this writing, compared to its All-time-high of over $200 per coin. That would be a terrible loss for early investors who got into the Solana hype back in 2021. To top it all off, Solana's been a victim of constant network outages during the course of 2022. A so-called Blockchain network that's unreliable for payments can't simply replace a behemoth like Ethereum. People are dreaming by thinking SOL is going to replace ETH anytime soon. It's not about speed or cost-efficiency, but rather decentralization and censorship-resistance. Until Solana or any other competitor put their focus on what matters most, Ethereum's position on the market will remain untouched. I'm fine with things just the way they are as long as there's healthy competition on the crypto/Blockchain space. Just my opinion  Admittedly, the death of FTX severely affects Solana as FTX is known to be Sol's biggest strategic investor. Currently, Sol's price is under $20, if you compare it to ATH it's a huge drop but if you compare it with Sol's ICO sale price of $0.10, now the original investors are still making huge profits investing in Sol. I don't appreciate Sol but it certainly won't die just because of FTX, as for Sol being able to replace ETH, at first I thought it was a myth and never happened. It's all just their marketing hype. |
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In football everything is possible, nothing is impossible. In fact Inter are one of the strongest teams in Serie A, there is no need to underestimate them even though at the moment they are not very convincing about their form. Napoli could drop points if Inter are too determined to maintain their good record, and this is always possible.
I will be happy if Napoli drop points in this match regardless of draw or defeat. I think an Inter win would be better for Serie A, it would close the gap in points between first and second in the standings a bit.
If Napoli drop points in this game then it is very good for competition in Serie A. But they also will not let their comfortable position fall in front of Inter Milan. However now Napoli is a very good and consistent team in Seria A compared to Inter Milan who are starting to find their true identity by pushing up in the standings. Inter Milan does have a chance to beat or at least hold a draw, but Napoli are one step ahead of Inter Milan. This match is going to take place on the 5th of January the next year by the way. So there is a long time to go till then. And between that type of break, anything can happen. As far as I remember, we have seen a lot of teams losing consistency after there is a break for the World Cup or any kind of big break like this. So, I really cannot predict what’s going to happen after a big break in club football. But what I understand is that right now Napoli has breathing space for them. The pressure is on Inter to win. So Napoli is going to have to psychological advantage when the competition starts again. |
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In the 2nd ODI match, Nepal team got a great win against united arab emirates. In today's match, Nepal started the batting badly, but in the last phase, they performed amazing batting. United Arab emirates initially batted and gave a target of 192 runs to Nepal. Chasing a target of 192 runs, Nepal team achieved the target by losing 7 wickets in 47.5 overs. Nepal team won by 3 wickets against united arab emirates due to good performance of Nepal team
This is just a bilateral tour and not a part of the 2019–2023 ICC Cricket World Cup League 2. Therefore a win in this series won't do any good for Nepal. And they are currently at the 6th position (only Papua New Guinea is behind them in the points table) in WCL2. For any increase in funding, either they need to qualify for the Asia Cup, or they need to finish within top-3 in WCL2. At this point, both the scenarios look impossible. And their next WLC2 tri-series is against two very strong sides - Namibia and Scotland. In spite of this, I think that this win is going to be a great confidence booster for the team as a whole. Honestly, I do not know if they will actually be able to accomplish this. Due to the fact that there is still one match left to play. However, it was still a close. The Nepalese team had to fight hard in order to achieve this win, even though the total was not that high. In addition, I think that if they do end up winning the series, that will also be a benefit to them in the long run. At least not from the statistical point of view. But it is going to be a good win to achieve against the UAE which has made their team out of only expats. |
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Before the closure of games just to kick off for the world cup games starting in Sunday morning German side Borrussia Dortmund has lost twice which saw them puting that form in a absurded position also missing out on Reus again one if Dortmund most important and loyalist to injury missing a big international chance for the fourth time. Chelsea will use this game to bounce back up I am just hoping most of our players doesn't come back injured I don't think so. Look at the how worst the match history from chelsea compared with dortmund. 5 games 2 draws and 3 loses. That proves if chelsea was in the worst form right now. Dortmund has a better match history compared with chelsea. I think that when you consider the performance from player in the world cup still not comparable with once they played for their team. dortmund and chelsea have almost the same matches history. A bit difficult to predict which one from both that will be winning. I think that the most difficult match is to predicting the match like this rather than a big club that against a club that has bad performance compared with it but the history proves chelsea has a strong mentalism over dortmund. It can be seen from how chelsea was always passing last 16 easily without any doubt. Im taking chelsea for now. I think that players are not going to care about injuries when they’re playing for the national team in the World Cup. How many times we have seen players coming back with an injury from the World Cup? And obviously, players are going to give much more importance to the World Cup instead to club football. Right now, neither Chelsea nor Dortmund’s playing well. So, it will be detrimental for them if any of the layers pick up an injury in the World Cup. |
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Marseille deserved this win in fact. There were some serious problems in their defense in the Monaco game. Balerdi caused a really easy penalty and he must be regretful for that. On Monaco's second goal, Marseille left a huge space in the midfield and it was too easy for Volland to score. However their having a really good day about scoring helped them very much still. Veretout's goal helped them join the game again. After that there was a really dramatic goal in the last minute thanks to Payet - Kolasinac duo. It was an incredible cross by Payet indeed.
Marseille are back in action again as it seems. This is their second win in a row. Beating teams like Lyon and Monaco will give them extra confidence surely. Maybe we have a long break now but I still expect them to be fully motivated to maintain this series. It depends on whether to have important players injured of course.
Marseille is a team, which also showed some really big promises this season. They were really close to the top of the table. But they could not perform consistently. Just like the other teams in this league, except for PSG. The last match for Marseille is good to have a sleep-ended in a draw. Marseille had to wait till the 98th minute to make the 3 points sure. After being 2-1 down, they had to work really hard to come back in that match. At one point it honestly felt like it was going to be a draw. And towards the end, it was absolute chaos. But I thought Marseille had better control over the match compared to Monaco. |
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There is not too much to talk about Chelsea indeed. They are in a horrible shape and the biggest reasons are obvious already:
- Wrong tactical choices and game plan by Graham Potter
- Struggling with scoring goals
The first one can be solved by Potter easily in fact. He is going to have a lot of time to think about where he is doing wrong and to fix things after. He was doing really great with Brighton actually. But he is still unable to find the right strategies for Chelsea. He hasn't had a big team experience so far. Maybe that's why.
When it comes to the scoring problem, it can be fixed by making a transfer in January. Maybe it is more difficult to find a solid striker in the middle of the season. But they can still use the advantage of being one of the prominent teams.
First of all, Chelsea made a bad choice by bringing in Potter. I do not think he is any kind of upgrade compared to Tuchel. I actually think that the previous coach Tuchel was actually doing a better job. But they have made their choice. And for some reason, a lot of people are saying that now they want Tuchel back. If they do that, I also don’t think it is going to be much of a help at this point. I think the best thing for Chelsea is going to be helping Potter with enough amount of money that he needs. And if he cannot bring the results, even after that, I think that is going to be their time when they should think about changing the authority, not before that. |
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This was Xavi's last shot I think!  After dropping out of the champions league, the pressure would have been unbearably high on both him, but also the directors of Barcelona because of the fans. The club can't stick to a coach that is not able to compete with Real Madrid on par. Now that they can spend the Winter break in the first place a lot of the pressure was relieved. If he was like 6 points or so behind Real Madrid right now (and they also lost the clasico), this might already have been the end for him. Now everything is good for Barcelona especially in Laliga. Xavi has given Barcelona the best even though they haven't had much luck in the Champions League. Barcelona and Xavi must evaluate the many things and weaknesses in the Champions League and fix them so they don't make the same mistakes for several ongoing competitions. I don't think Xavi deserves to be sacked by Barcelona for losing the Champions League. Xavi needs time to restore Barcelona's glory because there are actually a lot of problems to be solved there and they can't be solved in just one season. I trust Xavi, it's the best way to keep supporting him. I wouldn’t be so happy if I was a Barcelona supporter. Because there are only two points clear of Real Madrid. And that is not a very big lead, to be honest. Obviously, this is positive for Barcelona considering that they lost to Real Madrid. But Barcelona cannot afford to make any mistakes if they want to stay at the top of the table. And Xavi will have to bring the La Liga title to Barcelona because otherwise there will be consequences. He knows that very well. Barcelona does have some problems with the team. They will have to work hard to overcome those problems quickly. I am not only talking about money problems. |
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I don't think any team has a chance to change Bayern Munich's position. Bayern Munich is a powerful club. Also their management is experienced. And they have a lot of money. They can take any player in their team. On the other hand, other teams in the Bundesliga do not spend a lot of money to sign players. So no team is able to break Bayern Munich's dominance in the Bundesliga.
You true, so far bayern munchen is the ruling team in the bundesliga and it is difficult for other teams to try to break this dominance, the financial strength possessed by bayern munchen allows them to continue to strengthen their team every season so that the consistency of bayern munchen game remains stable every season, apart from munchen indeed there are other strong teams like dortmund, but it looks like dortmund is still very difficult to compete with bayern munchen because indeed the business mentality owned by dortmund is bigger, in the last few weeks Union Berlin managed to be at the top of the standings but finally munchen managed to regain 1st position and sent union berlin out of the top 4. This season, there was a little help that probably some other team will be able to beat Bayern Munich to the title race because Bayern Munich started this season really badly. But we are watching the same story again. Bayern Munich is back in first place on the Bundesliga table and now I don’t think the other teams will be able to dethrone them. I always thought that Dortmund was the club which is the most formidable competitor for Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga, but we have been proven wrong again and again. And once again, we are being proven that Bayern Munich actually does not have any competition in the Bundesliga. And that further proves the point that Bayern Munich is going to dominate the Bundesliga in the future as well. |
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This break in the competition should help some teams to better prepare for the continuation of the season and increase the chances of a better result.
I'm thinking of Liverpool in particular, who usually start the season worse, but in the second part of the season they play much better and achieve much better results.
If they were to play their match against Real now, they wouldn't have much of a chance, but I'm sure that in the spring they will be much better and more ready for the match with Real.
In any case, a very uncertain and exciting competition awaits us, and we still do not know in what condition the players will return from the world cup.
Yes, a break in this competition will help some teams especially Liverpool. however, not all teams benefit from the world cup break. some teams will be disadvantaged by players who experience fatigue, may get injured after playing their matches in the world cup. Nonetheless, it appears Klopp has benefited from the World Cup hiatus. as we predicted, if Liverpool played their match with unstable team performance conditions. many of us predict, Liverpool will be powerless against Madrid in the round of 16 later. however, by having a long break due to the world cup break. Klopp, can rearrange his troops and restore the mentality of his troops, plus provide time off for the recovery of injured players. I hope that after the world cup break ends, Liverpool can show their best game against Real Madrid. I think these types of breaks are better for those teams which are underperforming. And these types of brakes is not good for those teams which are performing well and consistently, because this certainly takes out the momentum from them in my opinion. But I think a team which is performing well is more likely to come back and start performing well regardless of a break unless they have injury issues. And this is one thing that clubs will have to be really careful about. But then again, they honestly cannot do anything if a player gets injured, trying to give his full effort at the World Cup for his national team. |
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Liverpool formation actually changed to 4-3-3 and Firmino as central forward and Nunez filled left winger position, not any changed with Liverpool starting eleven opponent Southampton and three points achievement is needed if want take top position standing before international FIFA World Cup break out. Salah keep filled the usual position as right winger side and have little changed on midfielder area where Jordan Henderson not include in line up listed. Have many changed formation use by Klopp after several main player get injured, actually Nunez is not winger side position but after Luis Diaz injured Klopp have moved Nunez become winger player.
But it looks like Klopp managed to concoct this strategy by winning 3-1 against Southampton. Darwin Nunez also managed to score 2 goals in this match, in my opinion it's not bad to fill Luis Diaz's position. Maybe in the future Klopp will apply a formation like this when some of his players are absent when injured. Compared to previous matches, Liverpool's performance against Southampton was mixed. They played well and won. Liverpool's performance has improved in the last few matches. They have managed to beat strong teams like Napoli and Tottenham. And in the last match, they also won against Southampton. Even so, I'd say Liverpool's performance is completely erratic. I don't think Liverpool can maintain that consistency after the World Cup break. They will lose the truck again. Liverpool still has a lot of weaknesses within the team. I honestly think that Liverpool is improving. But surely they are getting better. A lot of people thought that Klopp might get sacked. But right now I don’t think that is going to happen. Things are improving for Liverpool. Now Liverpool got two back-to-back wins. And yes, I agree that none of those were actually very convincing but a win is a win. And I think it is just simply because the players in Liverpool were not able to perform at their best. But at the same time, I am not going to say that all the problems of Liverpool have been solved. They are still going through that improvement phase and they still have a lot more to do to get back on the top of the table. |
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FTX and FTX.us were both hacked at the same time, the story behind this is still unclear but it is better for everyone to remove all links and stop accessing both exchanges to avoid unfortunate incidents in the future. I wouldn't believe this was an external attack, this could be their internal attack and someone trying to collect their last property to run away. This could be the worst disaster in crypto history.
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I have never seen any official bitcoin accounts on any platform. Look at that twitter account created in 2011 but it's also not recognized as official by TW, so it's just a normal user's account and it doesn't represent bitcoin. Bitcoin is open source and not controlled by anyone, be careful what you are following on social media, it can lead you to some scams. It's very hard to find any readable, informative posts in Twitter anyway.
Twitter is considered a favorite place for investors, all information is regularly and fully updated on it, and as long as you know how to select information, it will be very useful. |
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Don't get your point, if something is getting centralized then it is controllable so for an average joe the chances of making profits will become less cause manipulators know when to trigger the button which pours profits in their pockets. Bitcoin is not really anonymous but its completely decentralized so there is a difference between anonymity and authority. If we actually wanted the privacy then monero might be the king but it isn't the case. If it's about manipulation, I still believe that the crypto market is being manipulated even with bitcoin and not just with centralized altcoins. If we compare bitcoin to gold or stocks, bitcoin is too young, its capitalization is too small and it is not regulated by any legal authority, so the manipulation will never stop. The market is so vulnerable, even a few tweets from Elon caused an immediate reaction from bitcoin or the market. So whether concentrated or not, they are still manipulated, making prices to profit from big forces. Yes, I agree with you, bitcoin is not really anonymous, it is just decentralized and I think that is enough for us to avoid government control and tracking. Anonymous coins like XMR although very well anonymous but not decentralized like bitcoin and they are being targeted by the government, they are too risky. |
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