We have passed it, if we consider covid-19 run and it's subsequent effect to the world economy resulting to what we now see, inflation + recession, and then the geo political event in the background, the war in Europe.

So I think if we have passed the pandemic, then there's nothing stopping us from bouncing this year, although we are still in the middle of the bear market, at least the market is going to recover before the block halving in 2024 and maybe by that time every economy around the world is doing good already.

@Cryptmuster I just saw the Barcelona squad and it looks like they have called their best player’s for this match, and it’s pertinent to note that Lewandowski is eligible to play in this fixture hence I expect him to score at least one goal.
Lastly with Barcelona playing with such a strong squad I just can’t see them lost this fixture, and personally I always wish to see more Real Madrid vs Barcelona game’s as they’re full of entertainment so let’s hope that we get to see another El Clásico soon.

Well.. we need to look at the positives. As far as I can see, all of the senior Bangladeshi players are taking part in the BPL. No one has opted for the other leagues, such as the SA20, BBL and ILT20. BPL is being broadcasted around the world, including the main market of India (Fancode is livestreaming the matches). According to various sources, BPL has provided profits of $23 million since 2012. This is not a small amount and given the scope for future growth, there is a good chance that BCB can shrug off its dependence on the ICC, if they are able to further develop this league.

I think Benzema is going to sign a contract extension with Real Madrid, he has always been a brilliant player for them, but the last 18 months or so has prolly been his best in a Madrid jersey, which has culminated in him winning the Ballon d'or award for the first time in his career. The French international has aged like fine wine, thus i don't see any reason why the Bernabeu club wouldn't extend his contract.
Having said that, even if they extend his contract, i am pretty sure they would still want to sign a striker that they would slowly integrate into the team, because in a few years Benzema might eventually leave, but such a striker would prolly have to be young, someone for the future, Kane is already 29, and it is a headache trying to bargain with Spurs for him, chances are high that you'd be left frustrated, thus i think Real Madrid are going to look elsewhere, i think they would rather be interested in the Nigerian striker Victor Osimhen who currently plays for Napoli.

I guess the price of Bitcoin will reach $25k before the end of January because, the price has moved to $17k few days ago which are the signs people what to see to be strong in holding this new year. Since, the price of Bitcoin has moved from $16k to $17k show, that before the end of this January many people will start experiencing opportunity from their investment because the bear is about to leave the market for the bull to remain stable.

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For those of you still trying to build out a Bitcoin stash you can be happy with, including those of you trying to get up to being a whole-coiner, this will likely be the last year you can make significant progress on that as it'll start getting real hard to accumulate tenths of a bitcoin when the price is mid five figures, high five figures, and in the six figures.

Who is accumulating and how much are you hoping to add to your stash this year?

India VS Srilanka
The second ODI between these two teams will be played today. The match will be played on Eden Gardens. The last time these two teams played on Eden Gardens, Rohit Sharma score 200+ runs. I am hoping a simpler kind of performance by this time too. I am expecting both Ishan Kishan and SKY to be part of the playing 11. The problem with Srilanka is lack of experience bowlers. I do not think Dilshan Madushanka will be part of the Srilankan playing 11 as he had dislocated his shoulder in the previous ODI. Their batters are in good form and I expecting a good & exciting game of cricket today.

Sanctions mainly concern 2 key areas:
1. reduce the flow of currency from the sale of oil and gas, to stop "sponsoring" Russian terrorism
2. leave the economy and the military-industrial complex without high-tech components and technologies, because Russia is a technologically backward country, and cannot independently produce all the necessary components even for its military-industrial complex and industry

On the first point, there is progress, the demand for Russian hydrocarbons has fallen, for example, Germany, on 01/01/2023, completely abandoned oil, gas and coal from the country of the terrorist, and almost the entire EU. complete failure - during 2023. now, because of the sanctions and the embargo, Russia is suffering huge budget losses: The price ceiling for Russian oil is costing the Kremlin minus $172 million a day from planned revenues. Lost profits will rise to $280 million a day when the restriction is extended to petroleum products from February 5.

on the second point - there is also an effect. Russia is not able to provide its army with effective means for waging a terrorist war, and as you know, it begs rogue countries like Iran, North Korea for drones, shells and other weapons, the stocks of which are running out and production cannot produce them in sufficient quantities.

And note - it's only been 6 months since the sanctions began to take effect

Even if the government pushes for higher salaries for everybody, there are companies that can't follow it because they've got a standard profit and they're not as big as the corporations. So, the ones that will be hurt by this law are those small enterprises. It's either they'll remove their staff and work their assess there as the owners or the employee will just have to accept that no increase will happen upon explanation by the owner. But I know that despite that, there are too many small scale business owners that are also generous.

They are looking for the back door for sure. Now the situation is even worst than before so it’s undeniably sure that they would want to have the bitcoin on board and see which countries are open to trade with them. Considering various sanctions they have lost the battle of trades in international market and must be struggling with the financial burden. It’s clear because they are not really receiving funds but loosing it all in one war. Now no country would ever expose their financials on paper, so as to Russia. It must be making them hardened over various situations now which might have made them to come to this conclusion.

The breakthrough made by Barcelona in the transfer market at the start of the season indicates that they really want to give competition to Real Madrid in the La Liga title race. Barcelona has grown into a team that is able to restore confidence after going through a bad period since Messi left. The arrival of several top names in the Barcelona squad has made many changes to his appearance, Xavi has managed to make the Barcelona squad better since he replaced Ronald Koeman as Barcelona coach.

Having a three point lead over Real Madrid has not made Barcelona position safe, anything can still happen because the season is still long. Xavi must be able to maintain Barcelona performance to maintain the advantage of Real Madrid, Ancelotti will not give up before the season ends, he will continue to lead Real Madrid to shift Barcelona from the top of the standings. Only a win will keep Barcelona at the top of the table, Xavi must do so to claim his first title as coach.

Agree, because BCB is completely failed to attract investors as they have not good marketing tactics about this all even right now Bangladesh is also having good in growth, and they are doing good development in all fields with this all they also need to attract investors for sports activities with Government of Bangladesh is also needed to have some better things which will help them for having good facilities and improvement in quality as well because now this is also the biggest industry around the world and Bangladesh is surely having nearly 200 Million population which can help them for having better viewership and other things.

In BPL, we can say third graded players are coming with now SA20 is also starting which clearly attracted better players and this is just because of all money which is invested in this league in early years BPL was doing better things, but recently they are fail to attract big players and better things in this event.

If only they could make that choice, they will indeed choose to get defeated rather than losing one of their efficient player that will make their situation much harder in the next few games without him. But, nobody anticipated that to happen and nobody wanted that to happen, it's just that Durant had to be in that wrong place at the wrong time.
But yes, they can still win some games even without him although it will be much harder now. Kyrie and Simmons will still do everything they can and will step up while Durant is still recovering from the suspected MCL injury. Just a couple of weeks won't hurt and they can still come back much stronger.

my hope is that it will exceed the previous years in 2017/2021, and even in the coming 2024 bitcoin will be even more valuable throughout the world..

I don't think bad ideas when selling motorbikes and use it for investing in Bitcoin, maybe OP earn few profit if sure have sold his motorbike when this topic made and Bitcoin right now has increase little higher price. Last three days Bitcoin still drop around $16,000 and current Bitcoin price have reached above $17,000 and earn almost few percent profit.

I don't know how decision from OP become long term holding with bitcoin, after investing forget it and back three or four years later and looking how increasing up. Possibility become short term trading, up few percent OP earn profit and sell it before buy back later when Bitcoin going dump, I think between decision with short or long term trading are worth adopt by OP after he has fund by selling motorbike.

It is not that scammers are smart, it is that people are too dumb and fall for this scammers trick.  I bet the scammer has several people confirming the first transactions paying.  Then those naive investors believe the testaments of these so-called early participants, the hacker probably pays some strangers participating in the system making  readers and viewers believe that he is really paying, then when the scammer thinks he got enough, he will then run with the money.

It is the greediness of people that makes them lose more on this kind of scam.

You also have the governments and companies not working together to increase wages as the price of goods and services increases. It will lead to a lot of ruin in the economy short-term and if there isn't anything that the governments and huge companies do to fix the situation, it will eventually lead to even worse inflation that is no longer signifying growth of the economy.

Yesterday, I realize that I fear my wife would be mad at me if I took too much risk, but also I would be pretty upset if we lived a poor life because of my mistake as well. If I trusted myself, even if my wife was mad at me for doing it, I would simply just buy whatever or trade or whatever I should do and then I would tell my wife to be calm.

Because no matter how mad she could be, if I make a huge profit and achieve our financial freedom together, then she would forgive me and be super supportive and happy. The problem is within me, I am afraid that if I make a decision and then lose all our money then I would be sad to see her live a worse life than she deserves because of my mistake.