But I don't want to digress from the topic now..
You're not digressing from the topic, this thread is about American Football regardless of where the game is played or watched. The popularity of the game or the NFL, in the US or other countries is well within the scope. I like Tom Brady also, even though he's never played for a team that I root for. I hope he gets his life on track actually sticks with it this time. I imagine the 49ers would love for him to join as a backup to Brock Purdy, which would be very helpful to the youngster's career, but honestly I don't see that happening. I doubt Brady would settle for a backup roll, and I expect him to focus on his family for now. There will be a time when we see him regularly in a broadcasting roll, of that I have no doubt. Agreed. However, it might depend on which job offer pays him higher. Tom Brady love to play and I reckon he would play into his 50s if his body permits this. Also playing for his team would certainly fulfill a childhood dream of his. I wish the 49ers would propose to him a 2 year contract with a tempting amount hehe. In any case, I have been hiding in embarassment from this thread because everything that I have predicted for the conference finals were wrong hehehehe. I will admit this now, Philadelphia Eagles is the best team in the NFL for this season. 49ers had bad luck, however, they would certainly have lost if Purdy was also playing. For the superbowl Eagles -2. |
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(im white but i see the preferential/un-preferential treatment of certain people)
You're seeing class treatment of people with money and connections.. a black guy with money and connections would have been treated in a similar fashion. If Will Smith or dare I say Bill Cosby did the same thing as SBF, he'd be treated the same. Stop making everything about race. *smh* Ross is in jail for how long? Must be because he's black.. oh wait, he's not.. nope, they were able to get his funds and didn't need him, and he had no real connections with powerful people, the color of his skin didn't matter.  As for SBF, more disappointment in the justice system.. we're heading towards this: .. aaand he's gone.It also depends on who the scammer stole money from. Sam Bankrupt-Fried's quick indictment and extradition was because he scammed the wrong people. Arthur Hayes is black, however, the punishment he received was only a slap on the wrist and he is presently allowed back to Bitmex. Do Kwon and Su Zhu are Asian but scammed the right type of people. The normal cryptobros of the community and the ponzi scheme operators in the cryptospace. The government would not be quick to waste resources on them hehehe. |
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@LeGaulois. The skeptical me is thinking that the government of Russia is discouraging the spreading of the thought that anyone can mine cryptocoins and be liberated from the captivity of traditional finance. The government clearly wants everyone to first ask permission from them first before you can do anything and only be granted permission through the issuance of licenses if they like you hehe.
Similar to other illegal businesses that make more profit than their legal counterparts, this would only cause illegal mining to expand more quickly.
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It appears that there might be more than the normal energy consumption happening in some residential areas of Russia hehehe. It would not be very shocking if there are people tapping other residents' electricity to mine cryptocoins. In any case, if the government begins a full mining crackdown, I reckon illegal mining will certainly be unavoidable for the survival of coins mined through proof of work. The Energy Committee of the State Council, an advisory body to the Russian president, has recommended imposing a ban on the minting of digital currencies in residential areas. Its members believe the measure will reduce fire hazards, local media reported.
The idea is to completely prohibit the production of cryptocurrencies in apartment blocks and houses in the country, or at least in parts of Russia experiencing energy deficits. Among them are Moscow and the Moscow Oblast, the region adjacent to the Russian capital.
The crypto-related activity, which is a source of additional income for many ordinary Russians, especially in places with access to cheap electricity, is not regulated yet. A bill tailored to do that is currently under review in the State Duma, the lower house of Russian parliament.Read in full https://news.bitcoin.com/ban-on-crypto-mining-in-residential-areas-proposed-in-russia/ |
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@o_e_l_e_o. They are following Bitfinex's tactic when it was hacked for much of their bitcoins in cold storage. As you say, the difference here is that Bitfinex were still operating. As insane as I think it was for Bitfinex users to accept payment in a centralized shitcoin, at least Bitfinex had some kind of strategy to recoup their losses and pay back their users. Celsius have nothing except a scam coin built from the ashes of a scam exchange. Celsius is thoroughly a ponzi. We cannot be quite certain if this was being done from the beginning, however, Celsius used the money from their customers to pump CEL tokens and customer withdrawals were funded by new deposits. This is a pyramid ponzi very much similar to those give us money and we double it in 3 months scam. Dean Happen, coin deployment specialist at Celsius, noticed that customer funds were being used to fund CEL purchases. In January 2021, he said internally that his title at Celsius should be “Ponzi Consultant.” And last year, Tappen called Celsius’ practice of using customer assets to fund CEL purchases as “very Ponzi like.”
The examiner found that Celsius didn’t have enough liquidity to cover future withdrawals in the period leading up to its withdrawal pause, and that it had to rely on new customers to fund further claims. This would be typical of a Ponzi case, but the examiner didn’t explicitly state that it amounted to one.Source https://blockworks.co/news/celsius-execs-joked-that-investors-thought-the-cel-token-was-going-to-the-moon |
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I remember watching videos of people participating in those matches where they exchange slaps and wait for someone to be knocked out. I just Googled this and found this: https://www.powerslap.com/It's amazing how it looks like, and this made me interested in watching it. You could also join if you want  https://www.powerslap.com/#aboutReally interesting fights though. I like the part of the site where it shows the W-L records. Agreed, uncle Dana wants this to be accepted as a sport, however, very much similar to the NFL the concussions from this sport might make the regulators very concerned and this will cause them to question if it is right for them to let power slap continue. The NFL is established already. The regulators cannot do anything to stop the NFL comissioners but power slap is a very young sport with very small viewership. It would be easy for regulators to freeze power slap's license, I reckon. In any case, this might be the real power slap that we certainly might want hehehehehee.  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5H1sTpy0yBc |
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News update. The FTX comedy show continues. I cannot understand what the lawyers are doing. Alameda Research wants to sue and receive $445 million from Voyager for funding Alameda when Caroline Ellison needed more liquidity for her gambling addiction?This is head scratching. There should be a hidden agenda there somewhere unless I misunderstood everything.  FTX-linked Alameda Research sues Voyager Digital for over $445M
Lawyers are seeking to recover funds that Alameda Research paid to Voyager after the crypto lender filed for bankruptcy protection in July and before Alameda Research filed for bankruptcy protection.
“Largely lost in the (justified) attention paid to the alleged misconduct of Alameda and its now-indicted former leadership has been the role played by Voyager and other cryptocurrency ‘lenders’ who funded Alameda and fueled that alleged misconduct, either knowingly or recklessly,” lawyers for FTX and Alameda wrote in the filing.Source https://www.theblock.co/post/206907/ftx-linked-alameda-research-sues-voyager-digital-for-over-445m |
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@o_e_l_e_o. They are following Bitfinex's tactic when it was hacked for much of their bitcoins in cold storage. The difference however, is Bitfinex had a community of loyal traders that supported the exchange and has shown this support through buying the tokens during the presale. This gave Bitfinex the cashflow to give the exchange more time to wait for the markets to pump and close the blackhole in their balance sheet. But I am not quite certain what type of magic was done by their accounting department hehehe.
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The best argument for bye bye bear market is Asian countries with the highest adoption of bitcoin and the cryptospace are beginning to buy now which might help avoid bitcoin from dumping lower. It might also be good to start closely following the news from Asia on crypto regulations and developments to have some idea on what might the future appear like.
I don't underestimate the Asian markets, but I think that the purchasing power is still much stronger in the west, although it is obvious that people in countries with a lower standard are far more interested in Bitcoin. According to some research, Vietnam, the Philippines and India are in the top 5 countries according to the global adoption index, but at the same time, from time to time we get bad news from India about how they want to ban cryptocurrencies or increase already high taxes. Something similar to this news, in China, they appear to have begun reversing their policies against digital assets starting with NFTs.
I would say that it is quite unrealistic to expect that China will change its attitude towards Bitcoin, but it does not surprise me that this attitude can change when it comes to some other forms of crypto assets. Absolute control has always been China's first priority, and they certainly cannot achieve that when it comes to Bitcoin. In addition, a complete change of policy towards the entire sector would mean that they admit that they were wrong, and the communists avoid that at all costs. However, did the first market pumps after a bear market not always begin in Asia before the western countries and everyone else began to notice what was really happening? Was this not always what occured in the past? I speculate that it might not be much different when the next bull market arrives again. The storyline might again be people from Asia will be the first to arrive and the westerners will be the last with much of them again the people who will be dumped on. |
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 "We expect further declines in the future given our view that these cryptocurrencies do not fulfill any of the three traditional roles of a currency: they are neither a medium of exchange, nor a unit of measurement, nor a store of value." We can't say they were completely wrong when it comes to cryptocurrencies in general, but when it comes to Bitcoin it's hard to find any significant bank or financial institution that thought differently 4+ years ago. Banks should therefore never be a benchmark or an indicator of someone's decision to invest or not in something - they just want to appear smart from time to time, as if no one in the world knows elementary mathematics. They might have learned their mistakes from 2018 and presently they have made the decision to buy everything they can for their institutional investor friends during the low prices of 2022 hehehehehee. Also, agreed! We should not trust what announcements the banks have their friends in mainstream media publish. They are much of the time very similar to forum cave trolls. They hype when they are holding the coin or fud when they are not holding the coin. |
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its SBF mother, father brother and one other person acting as bail guarantor. so ofcourse the origins of their wealth guaranteeing his bail are to be questioned
if lets say SBF absconds and its found out the fine for absconding was paid for using SBF theft fund. then it makes a hypocrisy of the entire bail system.. by crime funding crime funding freedom from crime
I cannot stop myself from speculating if the community thinks until now if Sam Bankrupt-Fried is a real exchange CEO and if FTX is a real start up in the cryptospace. I reckon if the community does not speculate anything strange about Sam's operation, we should be using our brains more hehe. It is becoming a possible storyline that Sam might have backers from politics and FTX might have been created for purpose of a global moneylaundering operation. Can anyone today, after witnessing what has occured, tell me that this is a very absurd idea? |
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All Quiet on the Western Front is nominated in 9 categories. I am shocked because every critic was quiet about this movie until BAFTA nominations were announced. The skeptical me thinks that the members of the Academy of motion picture arts and sciences have an agenda to help stop the war in Ukraine hehe. They will vote for this movie to win as much oscars as possible to bring the winners on the stage to deliver their antiwar speeches hehehe.
Despite being nominated in many categories, I don't expect this one to actually win many Oscars as there is some tough competition in each one of those. After all, their are the favorites in only the Best International Feature category, and even there they are not the 100% locked. I plan to watch it this weekend to finally see how good it is compared to that 1930 masterpiece. Did you watch All Quiet on the Western Front already? It might win for the best cinematography hehe. The sportsbooks already have this as the favorite, however. I thought some comments in this thread that said it had odds of 5.00 was true. I was not very happy to see the odds was only 1.50. But it might have a better chance than expected in the best adapted screenplay category. This is where they can tell the speech and spread the academy's antiwar agenda hehehehe. |
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I think both these semi finals are the closest games there could have been, Eagles and 49ers had the best record this season and i cant decide who to take  KC as always is in contention to go to another super bowl , its hard to bet on KC defense but with the odds being how they are surely better play is to take the underdog in both the games and pray ?? I think regardless who wins, i cant personally wait for another superbowl !  The Eagles might have the best record of this season, however, the 49ers have the fewest points allowed of this season. The experts appear to be looking at Purdy and they say that the pressure will be too much for him, however, no one has considered that Jalen Hurts was also not very much pressured by another team's secondary this season. I am not quite certain if it will the the 49er's secondary but I speculate that there is more chance of this than expected. |
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I also like AJ Brown's matchup against the 49ers' secondary, which i believe is their weakest link. Metcalf played well on the outside in the wild-card game.
Agreed, but do you not think or speculate that Kyle Shanahan has created a plan for AJ Brown already? Shanahan can be argued as being the best game planners of all the head coaches presently active in the NFL. |
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It appears that Oscar dela Hoya is showing his real agenda for this fight. It is not money, he wants a trilogy of fights between Tank and King Ry to collect the most money hehehe. This is something similar to Dan Larimer's ICO for EOS where the ICO was collecting money from the community for 1 year and became the largest ICO to have a token sale with $4 billion collected hehehehe. “This is the best fighting the best, and I strongly feel that when you have a performance where you shine, where you look good, and you fight with passion, fight hard, there is no loser, there’s no loss.
“I see this fight as an even fight. Obviously, my boy Ryan Garcia is going to win, but I can see a trilogy taking place. It’s that type of fight because both guys are undefeated, both guys are young, and both guys are passionate about what they do. Both guys have a huge fan base. This is a trilogy.Source https://www.boxingnews24.com/2023/01/de-la-hoya-gives-update-on-gervonta-davis-vs-ryan-garcia-contract-issues/I guess it's no secret though that he is after for the money with his current cash cow and that's why he is hurt when Canelo separate with him. And he even says that he wanted to fight Canelo, for what? yeah, it's all for the money. Let's see though if a trilogy is needed, the fight should be close in the first one before we says that a rematch should take place. Otherwise it might not sit well with boxing fans if they will just have a rematch, also what is the story line in the rematch? With the quality of fighters they are, I think it's alright to give them a trilogy, but that would not happen if one boxer beat the other 2 times in a row. Anyway, if this will be a close fight and no knock down, it would be easy to manipulate the result to give them a 1-1 to make that trilogy happen. However, there are only 2 ways for this to be made possible. The first one is Ryan Garcia should get a victory on Tank Davis and the second one is if Ryan Garcia can make the fight very competitive even if he will lose and where he can make it end with a decision. But if the fight ends with a knockout and we witness King Ry being carried on a stretcher out of the ring, we can be quite certain that there will be no immediate rematch hehehehe. |
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News update. Whoever is behind Sam Bankrupt-Fried might be ready to terminate him if he begins to show that he will talk and tell the truth behind the real purpose of the creation of FTX. I have said this months before. If something happens, Sam did not kill himself.In a recent court filing, lawyers demanded the kith and kin of Bankman-Fried to answer questions and furnish financial documents about their personal wealth. In addition, lawyers have also asked for other documentation that may reveal any sort of FTX money transfer.
The filing went on to disclose that Sam Bankman-Fried’s brother, Gabriel Bankman-Fried, founded an organization that lobbied members of the US Congress. It was reportedly based out of a property situated near the US Capitol.Source https://watcher.guru/news/sbfs-brother-founded-an-organization-to-lobby-congress-members |
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Coindesk has an update on this. Binance is demanding that WazirX should retract all of their statements telling everyone that they are owned by Binance or have their service agreement terminated. The problem is however, WazirX will not retract their statement or erase any mentions of Binance in their terms of service. It appears that the regulators will begin looking closely more into this. I reckon CZ and WazirX should have done this argument more privately. But, this week, CoinDesk got WazirX’s proof as the disagreement was privately coming to a head.
In the early hours of Jan. 25 – in India, a national holiday – Binance sent WazirX a letter requiring the Indian exchange to meet two demands by the end of this month, or risk Binance terminating its service agreement with WazirX by Feb. 3.
First, Binance told WazirX to publish a pre-written “clarificatory statement” retracting WazirX co-founder Nischal Shetty’s previous statements that Binance owned WazirX. It also required WazirX to erase all mentions of Binance in its terms of service.
On Friday, Zanmai, WazirX’s official name, responded to Binance’s demands in a letter obtained by CoinDesk. It fought back, claiming that the demand letter was “unethical” and attempted to use “media pressure and threats to force Zanmai into issuing false and misleading statements as ‘clarifications.’”Source https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/01/27/wazirx-says-binance-lied-about-ownership-as-dispute-about-indias-largest-exchange-escalates/ |
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It appears that Oscar dela Hoya is showing his real agenda for this fight. It is not money, he wants a trilogy of fights between Tank and King Ry to collect the most money hehehe. This is something similar to Dan Larimer's ICO for EOS where the ICO was collecting money from the community for 1 year and became the largest ICO to have a token sale with $4 billion collected hehehehe. “This is the best fighting the best, and I strongly feel that when you have a performance where you shine, where you look good, and you fight with passion, fight hard, there is no loser, there’s no loss.
“I see this fight as an even fight. Obviously, my boy Ryan Garcia is going to win, but I can see a trilogy taking place. It’s that type of fight because both guys are undefeated, both guys are young, and both guys are passionate about what they do. Both guys have a huge fan base. This is a trilogy.Source https://www.boxingnews24.com/2023/01/de-la-hoya-gives-update-on-gervonta-davis-vs-ryan-garcia-contract-issues/ |
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Yeah it should be a pretty good game. Both games this weekend are pretty damn exciting and all four teams in the games really deserve being there. As much as I believe in the 49r's, it's not going to be easy for a rookie QB to be able to take down a team as complete as Philly is. If I had to put money on the game, I think I'm siding with Philly. Just because of the rookie QB situation and coming in just 7 games or so ago.
Regardless, can't wait to watch the games.
If 49ers win I guarantee it will be because Kittle has a huge day. It will be more because they have one of the best defensive teams in the NFL this season. I social media, I am not quite certain why everyone appears to be cheering for Jalen Hurts to be the next football star because he has not been tested in this post season. Does everyone remember the game he had vs. the Buccaneers on last season's wild card games? The Buccaneers tested Jalen Hurts, he will be tested again by San Francisco's defense, I reckon. Also, the spread is only 2.5. The sportsbooks know this will not be easy for the Eagles. Are you regurgitating some espn retards talking points? You obviously have not watched the Eagles play this year. I am listening to Skip Bayless. He is a genius hehehe. Seriously speaking, it is true, the Eagles have been playing like they will be the winners of the superbowl for this season, however, it is my own opinion that they have not been tested. Will it be 49ers' defense that might test them? I am not certain, however, what we know is San Francisco allowed the fewest points against them per game this season. Also, if Eagles win, it might not beat -2.5 spread. This is not regurgitating. I do not know what those people from ESPN are saying, they might be hyping the Eagles for their performances on the regular season and against the Giants. |
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Yeah it should be a pretty good game. Both games this weekend are pretty damn exciting and all four teams in the games really deserve being there. As much as I believe in the 49r's, it's not going to be easy for a rookie QB to be able to take down a team as complete as Philly is. If I had to put money on the game, I think I'm siding with Philly. Just because of the rookie QB situation and coming in just 7 games or so ago.
Regardless, can't wait to watch the games.
If 49ers win I guarantee it will be because Kittle has a huge day. It will be more because they have one of the best defensive teams in the NFL this season. I social media, I am not quite certain why everyone appears to be cheering for Jalen Hurts to be the next football star because he has not been tested in this post season. Does everyone remember the game he had vs. the Buccaneers on last season's wild card games? The Buccaneers tested Jalen Hurts, he will be tested again by San Francisco's defense, I reckon. Also, the spread is only 2.5. The sportsbooks know this will not be easy for the Eagles. |
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