I feel the same way, I feel a bit guilty being a fan.  The truth is it's just so bad for you to play, and if I ever had kids who had the opportunity to play, I'm not letting them.  This is why I think it needs to be shifted to flag football or some variation of that until they reach college.  I don't know how this will work, but I just don't think there will be any other choice.  There's a local kid here where I live who got hurt playing football, same thing cardiac arrest and had to be on life support for some time.

Yeah word is the game will not be made up.  Weird way for a lot of fantasy seasons to end (not that that matters).

Damn I'm sorry to hear this.  There's been a whole lot of crazy weather around the world of late it sure seems. Here in the United States we've had some horrible cold snaps and some horrific winter snow storms ( I know 25+ people died in Buffalo New York just recently due to horrible storms).  I hope you and your family are safe and the damage done is minimal to your town. 

You do bring up a great point though, one must always be ready economically if such and event were to occur!

This topic probably should be placed (moved, which you can do yourself OP) in hardware wallets just FYI...but if I were choosing between hardware wallets Ledger would not be in the conversation.  The two wallets that most of the "professionals" tend to recommend are Trezor but the other is Cold Card's.  Cold Cards aren't open source, which I know is one downfall, but include a lot of other stuff that makes them an exceptional wallet.

Here's a ColdCard review- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5405919.msg60552395#msg60552395

I'm currently on vacation and getting caught up on all the latest and greatest movies that have gone on this past year.  Tomorrow I've got a ticket for a $7 entry to Wakanda Forever (the nice lazy boy seats) and plan on going to see Avatar the day after or the following.  Plan on watching The Whale really soon as well.  Certainly will have to put the Spielberg movie on my watch list as well.  Will report back for my picks!

I certainly bet the majority of the time on Sports, and a little bit on Casino games but it all depends on where I'm at and what I'm doing.  If I'm just chilling at home, I'll be betting on sports but if I'm on vacation in say Lake Tahoe or Vegas, than I'd be betting an even amount between sports and games like Poker ( Texas Hold'em and Roulette ). 

Then again it depends on what sports are going on when I'm in a place to do live gambling.

This is some scary crazy stuff...I've never seen a game suspended like this before I don't think  

 "Buffalo Bills defensive back Damar Hamlin suffered a serious injury during the first quarter of the team's Week 17 Monday Night Football showdown with the Cincinnati Bengals.

Hamlin fell to the field after trying to get up from a collision with Bengals receiver Tee Higgins. Medical personnel worked on Hamlin for several minutes. ESPN reported that CPR was administered.

Hamlin was removed by ambulance. The game was temporarily suspended.

Hamlin, 24, is in his second NFL season with the Bills. He played college football at Pitt.

"How do you as a member of the Buffalo Bills or the Cincinnati Bengals continue on ... to play this game?" ESPN play-by-play announcer Joe Buck said during the broadcast".  https://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/nfl/bengals/2023/01/03/damar-hamlin-suffers-serious-injury-during-buffalo-cincinnati-game/69771881007/

One of my biggest obstacles was simply trying to find a job in a city/state that had that sort of equal weight of being a good job but being an affordable place to live.  I finally took a leap of faith and took a job and moved to a city I was a bit unsure of.  I knew my job was potentially to be the best I've ever had, but I was leaving a good job in a big city with other jobs to fall back on if the new job didn't work out.  I couldn't be happier with my new role as well as the city I live in, which isn't a large city that costs a ridiculous amount to live in, so now I've found that happy medium between a good job and an affordable city...so my advice, take risks!

One of the first rules of bitcoin that was taught to me by Andreas Antonopoulos is to never tell anyone that you own bitcoin.  I know that I've broken that rule here on bitcointalk before, but I've never divulged in to how much I actually own nor would I ever nor should anyone ever!  It's no one else's business how much bitcoin you own, whether they admit they own 1 or 10, so leave that information to yourself.

This guy is a complete and utter moron and I can't believe that so many were willing to do business around him let along work in the upper ranks of his company without spilling the beans, which would have been the proper thing to do.  This is coming from the same guy who said reading books is stupid, so the fact that he tried to gamble his way back in to the black, is not shocking what so ever.  This guy better rot in a jail cell for a very long time.

I was going to add the Money Line bet but it looks like someone else already did.  This I'd say is a nice solid start for those whom are new to sports gambling and are looking to get in to sports gambling, but I would also add that the most important thing is knowing what you're doing as in knowing the game.  If you're just throwing up random bets, not knowing the game or the players, your liklihood of winning these bets is not very good. So a word of caution when it comes to just throwing up uneducated bets, it's likely to not end up in your favor.

Another crazy week of fantasy football.  I was not in any championship games today but did playin a 3rd place and a 5th place game so I paid slight attention to fantasy stuff going on and what a wild week. I feel like I can't remember this many players being hurt or under performing when it comes down to semi-finals and championship week games.

Fantasy aside- It's looking like the Chicago Bears will either have the #2 pick or quite possibly even the #3 pick in this coming NFL draft.  Already having a QB, it's exciting to think of the prospects of what they could either land that high or perhaps trade a few picks back for to load up on some extra picks and a super high end player.  One exciting thing when you're team sucks as bad as the bears do lol.

I found bitcoin sometime back in 2013 or 2014.  I first bought bitcoin some time in early 2015, I believe in January. I think that bitcoin was something like $200 when I first bought some.  I studied bitcoin for about a year plus before ever actually buying any.  This is something I really regret.  It's always wise to fully understand something before you invest in it, of course, but I waited way to long to pull the trigger and doing so when it comes to bitcoin.

Why isn't Steve Nash considered a respected coach ?  I don't really know how he is viewed / perceived by the league overall, but lets say he's not a respected coach, then I'd certainly agree with you that they need to hire someone whom is.  However, hiring a coach who will stay silent and just let the superstars play and do whatever they want, I don't think that is the right way to go about getting this team closer to a championship.  If they don't respect the coach, then that will ruin the entire teams chemistry.

Well I don't think that anyone gambles and expects to lose their money.  "Gambling for fun" means the same thing to myself as it does for you.  I typically gamble on sports games ( I will play games like roulette and poker, but I prefer to main only do so in person) which gives me a little "action" for the game.  It adds extra excitement and a reason to pay closer attention to a game I might not otherwise care to do so.  But, whatever amount I gamble/risk, I am always going in with the hopes of winning but the expectation that that money is now gone.  I won't be enough that will allow myself to get mad at myself.  That's where I set my limits.

Yeah this is pretty interesting and one thing that I absolutely agree with you on is the fact that this will hurt the governments bottom line of being able to collect tax revenue from gambling proceeds.  I'm sure in some ways it will help solve some problems, obviously using cash is largely anonymous and what not, and can allow illegal use of funds to be used for gambling, but on the other hand I'm with you..fuck the government, this shouldn't be allowed.

Yeah it's a really interesting little device.  I am sure there's some potential to hack in to some very poorly established bitcoin wallets that utilize very poorly established security, but I'm not tech savvy enough to know of any examples.  

Yeah this think certainly poses a threat to many other things in our lives, like you said I could see this messing with Tesla cars, safes, credit cards, building security passes etc.  The "Kia Boys" are doing a good (also sad and disgusting) job of showing us just how vulnerable many of our things are, including our cars - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbTrLyqL_nw



That's exactly what I was thinking from the get go.  The fact that many wallets require you to confirm physically and what not, would make this much more difficult to use as a hacking tool for bitcoins.  

I have also always wondered the same..I guarantee a lot of those credit card skimmers are placed on by employees and owners of the shops.





I'm getting ready to look in to all this, as I'm now even more curious how Teslas tech compares to say Kia's, as a buddy just told me about these scumbags who found the vulnerability with Kia cars and now well known as the "Kia Boys"- https://www.motorbiscuit.com/who-are-the-kia-boys-showing-tiktok-users-how-to-steal-your-car/

The crazy thing is that when you ask people why we study history, many can't give you a great answer.  The study of history is all about making sure that we learn from the past so that we don't make the same mistakes in the future.  That's literally what studying history is all about.

Tony Stark/Iron Man is a good movie to watch about learning from your mistakes.  Each new movie he kept updating his suit and fixing issues that came up in the old suites. He's a genius ( fictional of course) but being a genius you can really learn from their ways and his was all about never making a mistake twice..hence why he was always so successful.

Man this is really cool and I wish that I had a lot more merit so that I could give you some (anyone with some merit, this is the exact type of thread that really deserves it, please consider doing so).

This is the exact type of thing that is going to help bitcoin and to help bitcoins ecosystem grow.  Plus as you said most people don't know what it is or how it works, this gives you a perfect opportunity to be able to educate others.  Bravo well done!

Yeah as other have said they allow teams to keep playing so that theres then a final ranking at the end of playoffs/championship game.  Unfortunately I will remain in dead last place since 9th and 10th don't get to play in the playoffs at all.






Well there problem for you was having that issue where the draft wasnt starting properly and then your screen didn't update or whatever when the draft actually did start running live. 

But yeah, I thought I had a really good squad in this league, which I kinda did, but the lack of a top tier RB and TE really killed me.

It's nice to see my Chicago Bulls actually starting to play a little bit better.  I'm curious what people think about the Bulls and why there's such a big difference between their start last year and this year.  I know that Ball started with the team last year, but when he was out they were still very good, so who's to blame for their slow start to the year, the coach or the players?

Good news is Ball is making some progress.