I'm ok with either Danes suggestion of smoothie picking the winner or with an open
voting system.

I would like to offer one of the remaining Bitcoin Colouring Books to the prize pot >
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5406385.0

What happens in the highly unlikely event that I win? maybe I pass the book to my
personal pick?

They are interesting stats, it seems like he has reached a kind of limit and cannot progress
towards to top 10, or maybe that other players are doing more than him and have overtaken him
like Tiafoe who leapfrogged him into 19 position, this does seem like if he has the talent he needs
to work harder and possibly develop other aspects of the game to rise with other players.

It's altogether very interesting and really comes down to finer details like the mental side
of the game.

The thing is, I have heard some people on the past saying if they could go back in time
to 2010, 2011 and 2012 they would have sold everything and bought Bitcoin.

Let's face it, we all know Bitcoin is only going up in the medium to long term so
what is the problem with doing NOW what many people will be regretting they
did when Bitcoin hits $160k and more?

It obviously harder to get from 24 to 10 than it is to get into the top 50 for example
and harder still to make it into the top 10. The talent gets better and better the higher
you climb.

Which players being De Minaur will likely enter the top 20 in 2023?

One that stands out for me is Tommy Paul, he had a really strong finish to the season.

and I think we need to reserve a spot on at least the top 20 for Dominic Thiem !

It's been a while but finally the two missing prints are making their way "again" to the
recipients.

So far I have received images from:
PeakDK
Bitbollo
Hookzup1

Shout out to:
@rhomelmabini and @haloxon as a gentle reminder!

Yea good point by Dane, I think Theymos was also involved in getting the Pumpkin
contest onto the News banner on the home page.

I will be certainly be entering this one, thank you smoothie for hosting this, great idea,
I think it will be just as big as the Pumpkin carving contest!

↓ - yes got that invite - thank you smoothie.

De Minaur is indeed a talented player, he is still young at 23 and is ranked 24. Is he a top
10 player? there is a lot of quality players he needs to leap frog, from where he is there is
a very talented top 20 players like Tiafoe, Berrettini, Sinner, Norrie and Rune before getting
into the top 10.

I think the OP's question will be asked many times in the future especially when Bitcoins
value rises.

The thinking is "it's better to own 1 thing than a fraction of another, it's a psychological
thing but it doesn't make sense.

Anyone who has been in this space will know that altcoins come and go and many people
have gotten burned by them. Take almost all of the "Top 10" altcoins on coinmarketcap,
in about 12 months they will be replaced by new "flavours of the month" it's all speculation.

1 carat diamond or a 20kg bag of coal?

Yes the Canadians were solid in the final today, I thought Shapovalov might have been the
weak link today but he performed well to get the win. Felix AA has had a super run at the
end of the season, definitely a player to watch next year, he has definitely improved over
the course of 2022.

I didn't make a bet on today's final, I was half looking at Australia purely on the better
odds but it was hard to ignore Canada.

Before this thread I wouldn't have thought of Bingo as gambling, but of course it is a form
although I would say that most elderly people treat it as a social gathering and an activity.

It actually makes sense that when it was first invested it was a form of "Lottery", the players
are picking numbers which are randomly drawn.

^
My two point spreads yielded a 50% return:

Stormers beat Scarlets 36 to 19, so that bet paid out but Ulster only had a winning margin of
16 over Zebre.

I also had a bet on Munster to beat Connacht, Munster had a strong starting team out
while Connacht had a weakened one.

And the final 2 games of the Autumn Internationals were played yesterday, the first: Wales v Australia
was an epic encounter. Before the game I took Australia at +3.5 figuring they have been within a point or
two in their previous games but boy were they value for money to come back from....


https://www.rugby.com.au/news/wallabies-wales-mark-nawaqanitawase-offers-wallabies-xfactor-20221127

The second game between England v South Africa was a frustrating one for England losing
13 - 27.

Yes, unfortunately it was a doubles decider.

Shapovalov was beaten in his singles match by Sonego and Felix AA beat Musetti to
take it to the decider. I believe Shapo was replaced with Felix and that was a good call.
I believe if Shapo was not replaced Italy would have a better chance.

Final today, Canada v Australia.
Hmm I'm not sure which way to go with this....Maybe Australia? Canada are favourites.

Nice one Mopar!

Can I take #11?

I have some of these errors along with the full chip set, really nice addition to any collection.

^^
Ah it's easy to be brave with bets less than $5!
I'm normally reluctant to bet against the favourite but I saw Australia at least on par
with Croatia and the same for Italy.

^
It was the impromptu doubles pairing of Thompson and Purcell who beat the formidable
Mektic and Pavic which was the stand out match.

I would say for today I Italy don't win the first 2 matches and it goes to the doubles
decider Canada would be stronger. Anyway my bet is on Italy.

Damn, I totally overlooked the Davis Cup, can't believe herself hasn't been on top of it either,
even for the replays.


It's semi finals already today:
Australia v Croatia - favourites are Croatia

and tomorrow:
Italy v Canada - Canada being favourites

Funny, I would pick Australia and Italy and favourites without knowing the odds,
actually I'm going to take a punt on both to win against the odds.

Australia @ 3.15
Italy @ 3.00

^
I have gone for a couple of point spreads for the two games tonight, it's not something
I have done in the past but the two home teams, Stormers and Ulster are big favourites with
very low odds, the only question is by how many points will they win?

Stormers -11.5 @ 1.63
Ulster -26.5 @ 1.72

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Other tournaments on the Rugby Union side are back up and running too, The English
Premiership and the French Top14. I'm following them currently though.

I guess Thanksgiving like Christmas here it can be both an expensive and pressurising time.
The pressure of keeping up a tradition and the expense of buying into that tradition. These
celebrations have become highly commercialised and they can be kept as simple as you
want .... or as complicated as you make them.

I think it generally takes something like 18 months for the effects of raising interest rates
to take full effect in the goal of reducing inflation.

It's the boom to bust tactics which works for increasing and reducing inflation. Central
banks are raising interest rates in various increments, when the they cripple a lot of
people and recession takes hold and inflation drops they will start reducing interest rates
to stimulate growth and the cycle starts again.

So no central banks will not fail.

I would also be interested!

Can't wait for the day when they cop on to all this nonsense, maybe when the house of cards
really starts to fall will they realise their errors in backing CSW's very thin claims centering around
being Satoshi. It's just a matter of time.


Yes but it's up to the Kraken team to make sure the "legal system" are educated. Look at
the Hodlonaut trial, his team did a great job of discrediting CSW's arguments.