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1621  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Premier League Prediction Thread 2022/2023 on: March 05, 2023, 10:56:43 PM
It was like a snowball effect and I wonder what Manchester United will do after this loss as well.
They aren't going to do anything special other than preparing for the next game, there is nothing wrong with losing, especially to a big team like Liverpool, the only problem with this defeat is the heavy scoreline, it is something that is completely unacceptable from a team with as much class as Manchester United, i am pretty sure the manager gave his players a dressing down in the locker room, but all they must do now is to pick themselves up and go again.

Having said that, i would not be in a hurry this time to think that Liverpool are now at their best, the last time i thought the same thing, they went on to lose 5-2 to Real Madrid in the CL, so i'd be keeping my fingers crossed and watching how things pan out for them, they have their eyes set on the top four, and they are drawing ever closer.
1622  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ⚽ Football Transfers Speculation, Odds and Predictions on: March 05, 2023, 08:45:43 PM
Asides Laporte's deal, Manchester city is very serious about bringing in Gvardiol and that may be done by next summer. For the sake of numerous competitions the club will be facing, I will not say that Emmaneul Akanji is not enough to give what ever is required from the Central defense. It will be a bit difficult if for fatigue reasons Akanji doesn't feature in Manchester city matches next season. I think Josko Gvadiol will be of great assistance.
Well i don't think City needs to sign a new central defender, they already have Dias, Stones, Akanji, Ake and Laporte, all these five are the quality central defenders that City have, thus i don't think they need new central defenders, except they sell one or two of them in the summer. What City needs in the summer are full-backs, they are lacking especially in the left side of defense, i know Ake has been playing there for now, but that is not his original position, Gomez is another option, but not good enough to play consistently for City, while on the right side of defense they have only Walker and Lewis. Cancelo has left the club on loan to Bayern Munich and i don't know if he would return to the Etihad, or if Bayern would make the buy a permanent one. City need at least one defender on both sides (RB and LB), they are lacking in those areas.
1623  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: UEFA Champions League 2022/23 Season on: March 05, 2023, 07:14:24 PM
I haven't seen any outstanding performances from PSG in the Champions League so far. The team is the best ever for League One. After adding Lionel Messi to the team, I did not notice any extraordinary performance.
Well i don't think anyone can outrightly say you are wrong in what you say, quite a lot of people, especially PSG fans expected more from the trio of Messi, Neymar and Mbappe, but they are currently not delivering the trophy that PSG fans want, which happens to be the CL. When they were eliminated by Real Madrid last season in the RO16, so many of their fans turned against them and started booing some players during their subsequent Ligue 1 matches, all of these was done to air their displeasure at that elimination.

PSG players will have that at the back of their minds coming into this second leg game against Bayern Munich, they cannot disappoint their fans twice in a row at exactly the same stage of the competition, but the reality is that they are staring elimination in the face, they are already losing, and they are going to the home of the German champions, which isn't an easy ground to win it, i think Bayern Munich are going to progress to the QF.
1624  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Beginners - Keep your rooms clean, keep your backups ready to use & bring away on: March 05, 2023, 06:46:14 PM
That is somewhat of an old thread, and in that topic all the suggestions on the best way to protect your backup was provided in it, i think making a second thread out of it is redundant because all the same suggestions would be repeated here. If there was anything unique you wanted to add, you could have just bumped the topic as it is still not yet locked.
1625  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Why recommend when they don't understand the risks? on: March 05, 2023, 06:04:49 PM
Why do you say, anything different from Bitcoin is pure gambling. I don't understand. Huh You mean all cryptos are gambling games except Bitcoin? It can't be true because all cryptos follow the same movements including Bitcoin, so if they are some kind of gambles, Bitcoin is also a casino game. Hence it's a little bit useless to take those precautions with altcoins, if you are not doing the same with bitcoin because you'll face exactly the same issues at the end.
I don't quite agree with you, whilst many altcoins (not all) might somewhat follow BTC's price movement, they are not similar in any other way, the only argument of altcoins being similar with Bitcoins can only be made in terms of price movements. Having said that, majority of altcoins do not have a strong network, are centralized and also pump and dump coins, thus even if Bitcoin depreciates in price and many altcoins follow suit, not all of them rise again when Bitcoin starts appreciating, so many of them die off because they have zero use cases.

These are some of the reasons why altcoins are more or less gambling, whilst Bitcoin isn't, because Bitcoin has an actual utility and a secure network, yes the price is volatile, but it cannot go extinct, neither can a flaw occur in the network that would lead to people's funds being stolen, but these can happen to most altcoins. Even if all of these are true, people should never forget the rule of thumb of investing only what they can afford to lose.
1626  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Writing down the words under same roof as my siblings on: March 05, 2023, 05:43:53 PM
Well it depends on the risk you feel you face having your seed phrase in the same house as your siblings (and you haven't really specified), if the risk is that of your siblings stealing your seed phrase and by extension, your funds, thus there is really nothing you can do than to move out of the house and leave alone before using Bitcoin and writing down your seed phrase, because if you are living with someone who you think can steal your seed phrase, then you are in danger of not only losing your Bitcoins, but quite a lot of valuable things you own.

Having said that, if the risk is of them accidentally damaging your seed phrase, then there are ways to avoid that, you can have it kept in places you keep private stuffs where only you can access, there are many other suggestions that have been provided above too, if this is the risk you face, i think it is easy to solve, but if it is the aforementioned one, then you need to find a way to stay alone or with persons you trust.
1627  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: In the best interest of investors, Bounties shouldn't be paid in Tokens on: March 04, 2023, 11:31:39 PM
Going forward in the best interest of investors and the project itself, hope to see "more" bounties being paid with established coins in this industry.
I'm afraid that isn't going to happen, you cannot even blame bounty participants for dumping tokens immediately they receive it, it is because most of these tokens are worthless and even the project owners know it, so to salvage a little profit, the best move is to sell as soon as you have it. Quite a lot of bounty participants don't get paid at all these days, so if you manage to get paid, you have to sell off and gain something at least, it would be quite little, but much better than not getting paid, or holding a token that is a worthless and pump and dump.

Having said that, it costs the project owners nothing to generate their shit tokens and distribute it to participants, most of them have already made their profits before distribution and there is no future for the project afterwards. If they are ever going to pay in established coins, then they must be sure they have created something unique that has an actual utility, and that is something you can't find with all these new altcoin projects.
1628  Local / Nigeria (Naija) / Re: Tinubu's plan for Blockchain and eNaira is appealing despite lacking details. on: March 04, 2023, 10:56:59 PM
The Buhari administration bin show small interest in blockchain technology when them been talk say FG go train 30,000 Nigerians on Blockchain technology, if you read this link wella you go see say them talk say training go start in December 2022, but as i no register, i no know if everything go as them talk. Abeg if any user here register for this training, make them give us feedback on the progress.

Having said that, we no go fit know from now wetin Tinubu plans concerning blockchain be, as for eNaira, that one was developed under the buhari's administration, but if Tinubu's government go help in its promotion and use around the country e go still make sense, for now person no fit predict if them really get plans for blockchain technology as them talk. Another thing be say when government (not peculiar to Nigeria alone) they talk about blockchain technology use, na mostly about CBDC development and other centralized use of the blockchain technology wey no they too favor us as bitcoiners.
1629  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: I want to convert my money to bitcoin because of our current banking system in m on: March 03, 2023, 12:41:17 PM
I'm not aware of what's currently happening in Nigeria. However, banks rejecting you access to your money is one of the biggest motivations I'd say to finding an alternative. At least, with Bitcoin they'd never be rejected their right to their money. Obviously, paying with Bitcoin, and using Bitcoin really does depend on your local situations. Although, cities tend to offer a decent amount of services, and goods for Bitcoin. So, if you live somewhere which Bitcoin is popular in you can probably get by. Potentially, renting or mortgages would be the only limiting factors.
The CBN recently rolled out new cash/withdrawal policies, this created cash scarcity and restrictions to physical cash use, not to get into too much details but it has resulted in hardship for the people of Nigeria. Of course this is a very good reason to use Bitcoin, because with Bitcoin no institution can restrict your money: it is permissionless, but how do you spend Bitcoins in Nigeria, it is almost impossible, you can't find merchants that accept Bitcoin for payment, and if you want to convert your Bitcoin to cash through P2P, you receive your fiat in your bank account, and face the same problem over again. OP is considering converting all their money to circumvent this problem, but it doesn't solve it because they still do not have cash. What OP should is to convert a part of their money to Bitcoin and leave the rest of it in their bank for spending.
I think I'd prefer to hold my wealth in my hands, than a bank that's rejecting access to your money. If you can't withdraw your own money, then that's a red flag too me that the banks struggling or abusing it's power. You should always be able to access your own money.
We share absolutely the same view, i was only pointing it out to OP that converting all their money into Bitcoin doesn't solve the issue of available cash for spending in Nigeria. Do not forget that the only restriction here is on physical cash use, you can use mobile transfer to nearly an unlimited amount, but the banking network is usually a problem and quite a lot of merchants prefer payment with cash.
1630  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: I want to convert my money to bitcoin because of our current banking system in m on: March 03, 2023, 12:27:12 PM
This does not solve your issue in anyway: what you lack is physical cash as it has become difficult to withdraw cash from the bank due to the recent CBN policies on the naira, thus even if you convert all your naira for Bitcoins, you still do not have physical cash, but Bitcoins in your wallet. It even becomes worse in this case because you can hardly find any merchant accepting Bitcoins for payment in the country.
I don't fully know how bitcoin works. Is it the same way with the banking system? Will I get more value or less value in future times?
Since you don't know how Bitcoin works, i'd advice you hodl your money in the bank until you understand what you are doing to avoid loss.
1631  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Why recommend when they don't understand the risks? on: March 03, 2023, 12:17:02 PM
The thing is, don't tell people that any crypto (including Bitcoin) can change their lives and make them wealthy, doing so can put them into very grave risks, it is better to be open about it all by explaining to them what crypto is all about, and make sure to aptly differentiate between Bitcoin and Altcoins so whoever it is would understand that they do not function in the same way.

Having said that, there is a difference between talking about Bitcoin/crypto to people and giving them financial advice or recommending crypto to them for investment purposes, you can do the former, educating people on how Bitcoin guarantees financial freedom and other whatnots, but the latter puts you in a very precarious position should the investment go south.
1632  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Premier League Prediction Thread 2022/2023 on: March 03, 2023, 11:51:39 AM
Arsenal will welcome Bournemouth to the Emirates tomorrow afternoon hoping to make it four Premier League victories on the bounce. I think Arsenal are the favorite in this fixture.
Arsenal are the absolute favorites in this game without a doubt, in the EPL they have been unplayable at the Emirates this season, losing only one game, and it was to the champions City, Bournemouth are going to be up against it tomorrow, and with how they have performed this season, i don't quite think they stand any chance of causing an upset tomorrow. Arsenal might even go eight points clear at the summit of the table by the end of the weekend, City have a very tough game against Newcastle, it is a game City can lose if they are not at their best, and if ever Arsenal go 8 points above City at this stage of the season, it is safe to say they would have one hand on the trophy already.
1633  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ⚽ Football Transfers Speculation, Odds and Predictions on: March 02, 2023, 07:22:49 PM
I understand If Chelsea's authority thinks that the results will get better in the future. Because sometimes the coaches do take time to bring in good results. But I highly doubt that this coach will actually be able to bring in good results. Because he already has good players on the team. So of course he should be bringing in good results. I am certain that the fans are already quite frustrated. My personal opinion is that if they are sure about something, they should probably give him chance till the end of this season. But if the results are still not coming, he should be sacked.
I think Todd Boehly doesn't want to sack Potter yet because he believes people who blame him for getting things completely wrong by sacking Tuchel and hiring Potter even when there was no concrete reason as to why he fired Tuchel, so he just wants to let things be for now and hope that Potter gets it right, because it does not sound right that he just bought Chelsea a couple of months ago (less than a year) and he has already fired and hired two managers.

Having said that, i think sooner or later Todd Boehly would have to sack Potter because i don't think the team can move forward with him, he is the kind of coach that performs well in a small team, but cannot handle the pressure of managing a big club, Chelsea are on the verge of being eliminated from the CL and also missing out on top four, definitely if all of that happens Potter would be shown the door.
1634  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Premier League Prediction Thread 2022/2023 on: March 02, 2023, 02:43:47 PM
Thus, they increased their point difference with City to 5.
Now the title race can begin in earnest, both teams have played equal number of games, and Arsenal sit at the top of the summit 5 points above Manchester City, who themselves have to be very careful as Manchester United are just lurking right behind them, if City slip up again, they could find themselves in third place in the blink of an eye. 13 games to go and Arteta and his boys are pushing hard to be EPL champions, i guess everyone now believes that they were not just a fluke, but they meant business. Arsenal have a much easier game this weekend than City, another twist? Just maybe, City play Newcastle, whilst Arsenal are at home to Bournemouth and i can't see them dropping points, City are more likely to drop points this weekend.
1635  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ⚽ Football Transfers Speculation, Odds and Predictions on: March 02, 2023, 02:34:27 PM
Jude bellingham targeted by so many teams. that makes manchester city has zero chance to get him from dortmund as bellingham may be joining real madrid. Kovacic was the best answer as a solution for jude bellingham that can't be gotten by manchester city.
Manchester City has equal chances (if not more) with the other teams vying to sign Jude Bellingham from Dortmund, i don't really know why you think City have zero chance of signing the English international, but i think you aren't correct. City have got the money, the trophies, the manager, the consistency and every other thing needed to sign Jude from Dortmund.

Having said that, there are many teams vying to sign Jude, but he can only go to one of them. Real Madrid looks like a possible destination, Liverpool too, as well as the Etihad of course, Jude just has to make his mind up because all the teams coming for him have the money to pay the asking price from Dortmund.
1636  Local / Nigeria (Naija) / Re: Nigerians Aren't Turning to the eNaira Despite Crippling Cash Shortages, WHY? on: March 02, 2023, 07:11:11 AM
Enaira no go fit solve this issue of cash shortage for Nigeria, the last time wey i check i no sure say CBN don mint pass 5 billion naira worth of Enaira, but that one no be the major issue, wetin they affect the Enaira use na adoption, many people no even know about am and they no they use am, thus if merchants and businesses never onboard themselves via the Enaira how people wan take use am right now wey cash they scarce.

Having said that, if CBN wan promote the Enaira, i feel say now na the best time, Nigerians they find cash like mad, so if CBN feel say them go fit mint sufficient Enaira to solve a little of the problem, then make them go on a thorough program to educate people about the Enaira, wetin people no understand, them no go fit use. I feel say another reason why people no they put eye for Enaira na because cryptocurrencies don already they very popular for Naija, thus people no wan use CBDC's at all because them no go fit make any ROI from am, and because e they centralized.
1637  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: UEFA Champions League 2022/23 Season on: March 01, 2023, 08:37:00 PM
PSG can also win there with 0-3, that would not surprise me either. But that only works if Mbappe is fit, and he seems to be quite fit anyway. Bayern are also not in the very best phase at the moment and are certainly vulnerable.
It is very unlikely that PSG can go to the Allianz Arena and beat Bayern Munich 3-0, Bayern would have to be at their worst to lose by such a high margin at home, Bayern Munich didn't start the year well but they are beginning to garner some momentum, PSG too have struggled for quite sometime now, they are either dropping points or winning games by the skin of their teeth, so the two teams aren't at their absolute best, so talking about vulnerabilty i'd say it is pretty even.

Having said that, i think it is Bayern Munich that are going to advance, they are't the team under immense pressure, it is PSG, last season when PSG were eliminated in this same stage (RO16), they faced a lot of backlash from their fans which even resulted in some players being booed at home, they would have that at the back of their mind in this second leg game, and it could increase the pressure and make them less composed. It is Bayern Munich that's going to progress imo.
1638  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ⚽ Football Transfers Speculation, Odds and Predictions on: March 01, 2023, 06:33:09 PM
I haven't checked that, but if Mbappe's statements are true then I'm honestly shocked to hear that. I agree with you that it will be very difficult for AC milan to sign this player of his current form and for a very high price. Moreover, many other teams also want this player, which financially I think they are more prepared than AC Milan. But if AC Milan can really get his signature, it will be a big transfer and also I think he will contribute a lot to one of the big teams in Serie A.
I think quite a lot of people are taking Mbappe's comments out of context, Mbappe never said he wants to join AC Milan, neither is AC Milan looking to sign Mbappe, not that they wouldn't love it if Mbappe is their player, but they can't pay his salary/wages and transfer fee. What Mbappe said was that he likes AC Milan, and if he ever moved to the Seria A he would sign for AC Milan, i guess he might never move to the Seria A after all, lol. In football quite a lot of things can change, there have been coaches who said they would never manage a particular team, or players who said they would never play for a particular team, but in the end they did; thus i wouldn't be surprised if Mbappe ever moves to the Seria A in the future and signs for a club that's not AC Milan, that is just how the game works.
1639  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Premier League Prediction Thread 2022/2023 on: March 01, 2023, 05:34:40 PM
But I personally think Arteta is going to beat Everton today.
I personally think the same thing too, i mean, Arsenal can see themselves go five points ahead of Manchester City at the summit of the EPL table with a win tonight, that is an advantage too alluring for them to miss, i know Everton were able to win the first leg tie at Goodison Park, but i expect a completely different game tonight at the Emirates. Arsenal have only lost once at the Emirates in the EPL this season, and it was to Manchester City, i cannot see Everton becoming the second side to defeat them there, it does not look like something that can happen.

Having said that, it is always tricky to play teams in the relegation zone fighting for their lives, that is the position Everton find themselves in this season, the relegation battle gives teams an extra spring in their steps to up their game, but i think the best result Everton can get tonight is a draw.
1640  Local / Nigeria (Naija) / Re: Abeg all this political Mata for different threads don do. on: March 01, 2023, 02:12:33 PM
Na always quality over quantity and na one value we suppose to dey instill In the minds of people and newbies and we all suppose to dey preach the gospel of quality..
Na wetin many Nigerian users no know, the main thing no be to fill up the board with new posts or to they start new threads, everything suppose happen in an organic way, no need to rush anything, i go they happy even if we still they for the first page of this board, but with only quality threads and posts, and not all these duplicate posts wey i just they see everywhere for this board.

Having said that, my Nigerian brothers make we calm down, we fit lowkey they chase quality users comot from this board, if you just look at the first page of this board you go see plenty threads wey no suppose they here because they are duplicate threads and spam. We don complain tire, but at this point ehn, e be like say the only solution here na for us to get our own Nigerian moderator wey go be Nigerian user.
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