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2001  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2020/21 on: April 04, 2022, 06:09:14 AM

Xavi really became Barcelona's savior. After being mired in the middle of the standings, Barcelona managed to rank 2 after beating Sevilla at Camp Nou. Barcelona must win every game in its path to put pressure on Real Madrid who are at the top of the table, losing point Real Madrid is an advantage for Barcelona. Real Madrid must be wary of the warnings given by Barcelona, ​​because if Real Madrid slips, Barcelona will take advantage.

Real Madrid would never slip,because the referees are here to help. Angry
All three penalties for Real Madrid against Celta Vigo were hilarious.That's why I've never liked Real Madrid that much.
They have all the money and all the great players in the world,and yet they still have to rely on support from the referees in order to win multiple matches.
The referees were supporting Real Madrid in the Zidane era as well.I remember many games,where the referees gave ridiculous penalties for Real.
Xavi has the potential to become the next Pep Guardiola for Barcelona,but they need better players in defensive positions.
2002  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Blockchain.com Wallet KYC on: April 04, 2022, 05:45:03 AM
Back in 2012-2013, I had a few Blockchain.com wallets, back then, no details were asked, there wasn't even an option to login via email. Recently, I received an email from them about a promotion. They were offering $5 in BTC, if you completed the KYC process, by providing your personal details, such as residence, uploading your driver's license, or other form of identification.

On top of that, they've now added a section about taxation of cryptocurrencies, providing you with the ability to export tax statements.

What are your thoughts about this? Do you think more and more services will adopt similar techniques?

A lot of things have changed in the cryptocurrency industry since 2012-2013.
Were you sleeping under a rock in the last 10 years. Grin
Yes,more and more services will "adopt similar techniques",because they are required by the laws and regulations.
It's weird that Blockchain.com is offering a financial incentive,in order to force it's users to ID verify themselves.
Most crypto exchanges would just say that ID verification is mandatory and won't offer 5 dollars.
Perhaps Blockchain.com wants to treat it's customers in a better way,despite the fact that I've heard many horror stories about people being scammed by this company.
2003  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: Which rookie candidate will make a better trader and quickly too? on: April 03, 2022, 11:31:20 AM
I would say none of the above options,but both options can be helpful along the way.
The best way to learn is by practice and by trial/error.
That doesn't exclude the two options you mentioned,but it depends of the "teacher" and the quality of the tutorials.If the mentor is really good,that would be a great supplement for the rookie traders,who are his students.
If the mentor is a fake "trading guru",then everything would be a waste of time and money.
The same thing applies to the online courses and tutorials.There are some good online tutorials and there are multiple shitty/mediocre online tutorials as well.
2004  Economy / Speculation / Re: Billionaire Says Bitcoin May Significantly Exceed Its Previous 2022 Goals on: April 03, 2022, 11:02:26 AM
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Billionaire Says Bitcoin May Significantly Exceed Its Previous 2022 Goals

Bitcoin has no goals. Bitcoin is a tool. A person wielding a tool may have a goal, but the tool itself has no goal.

I agree,but this is just a clickbait title.We shouldn't take it so seriously.
Many people view Bitcoin as investment tool and many Bitcoiners think that the Bitcoin price moving up is the most important thing in the world.
Mike Novogratz is a well known Bitcoin bull for years.Of course that he's going to be extremely bullish about Bitcoin.What he says is a bunch of gibberish.He's using BS to justify his bullish predictions.
The Bitcoin price will increase severely because of the war Ukraine?
There's a war in the last 38 days and the BTC price is still pretty volatile and going up and down.
I don't see a FOMO wave and a clear bull run in the Bitcoin market.
The Bitcoin price will increase because of the Metaverse and Web3?This is pure BS.
2005  Economy / Economics / Re: Russia as the cornerstone of the world economy on: April 03, 2022, 06:50:50 AM
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So ... Once again, "Russia as the cornerstone of the world economy" ? Are you seriously Huh? Why not Spain? Or like Italy?
Do you know why I laugh? Because in the WORLD economy, the share of Russia is 1.99%, and Italy is 2.44% !!! What is the impact of Russia on the world economy? 2%? The Italian economy is POWERFUL!

Comparing GDPs of different countries is pretty oversimplifying and kinda misleading.
Russia exports oil,natural gas and grain,which are essential for the global economy(especially for the European economy). Natural gas is being used in many industries and what would happen with the Italian economy,if Russia stops selling oil and gas to Italy?I assume that Italy might start buying oil and gas from somewhere else(at a higher price),which will eventually slowdown the growth of the Italian economy and lower the standard of living in Italy.
What if Russia stops exporting grain?This might create food shortage in Europe.
Anyway,this is an economic war between Russia and the western world,not between Russia and the entire world.Both Russia and the western world will suffer a lot from the sanctions.
2006  Other / Off-topic / Re: Jake Paul vs Conor McGregor on: April 03, 2022, 06:27:07 AM
The industry is what it is.
Nowadays,professional sports are a business.Everything is about money.
Such fights are more like entertainment,rather than actual sports.There's nothing wrong with that.
If you want to watch sports,there's no problem watching amateur boxing or something else.
Professional boxing and professional MMA fighting are all about making more money,getting the attention of the crowd,getting bigger and higher paying sponsors and all that BS.
The Paul brothers might be clowns(or should I say "entertainers"),but they are making money.At the end of the day,this is what matters the most for them and for the fighting sports industry.
2007  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: LTC for BTC...? on: April 03, 2022, 05:55:21 AM
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Could LTC be used in Metaverse projects

I don't think that any developer would pick LTC for his Metaverse project.
Why are you asking this?Do you think that Metaverse projects can pump the price of Litecoin?
There's nothing special about the Litecoin project and blockchain.Nothing bad,but nothing great as well.
Litecoin was created with the purpose of being Bitcoin's competitor,but it's basically identical to Bitcoin,which kinda makes it worthless.I have more respect for ethereum,because ETH was built with the purpose of being different than BTC and to offer something different.
You can stick with your LTC coins if you want to.I don't expect the LTC price to collapse severely in the future.
LTC is the oldest altcoin and it has it's own community of believers,but the lack of good developers is what might make the project to fade away.

2008  Local / Other languages/locations / Re: Български (Bulgarian) on: April 01, 2022, 12:28:04 PM

ЧУвам за някакви закони в ЕС за забрана на p2p портфейлите... та не знам дали няма да приключи криптото много рязко или всичко да се изроди в един вторичен интернет, където с крипто можеш да си купиш само онлайн неща, но не и неща от физическия свят.

Това са предложения за нови крипто регулации,а не влезли в сила закони.
Тези предложения може да бъдат отхвърлени.
Аз чувам слухове по скоро за задължителна ID верификация за собствениците на p2p портфейли,отколкото пълна забрана.Освен това се предлага задължително изпращане на инфо за всеки,който изпраща или получава крипто.
Не знам дали това е истина. 
2009  Economy / Economics / Re: Pay in rubles or have your gas shut off by April on: April 01, 2022, 05:46:09 AM
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Yeah right, the same bullsihit about freezing to death without Russian gas.
I wonder how did we manage before when the USSR was not selling one cubic meter of gas to the western world, oh wait, what happened afterward? One crumbled and the other was perfectly fine!

The USSR actually did sell oil and natural gas to western Europe.The decreasing oil prices during the 80s had a major negative impact on the soviet economy.
Anyway,the problem is where to buy rubles,in order to pay for the natural gas.The Russian central bank is under heavy sanctions,so the western banks cannot buy rubles from there.
I'm 99% sure that the EU will refuse to pay with rubles,but will the Russians stop the gas and get rid of their number one income source?It has been said,that Asian countries cannot fully replace European countries as natural gas buyers.
2010  Economy / Gambling / Re: FoggyStar Brand New Cryptocurrency Casino🔥🔥🔥Up to 1 BTC Welcome Bonus on: April 01, 2022, 05:25:04 AM
It's hilarious how every new crypto casino claims to be "the number one" new crypto casino. Grin
7000 games is an overwhelming number.I like casinos that have a decent number of good games.
I don't get the point of offering so many games,since most of them would have the same game mechanics and just different graphics.
Your website looks really professional and you have a gambling license,which is great.
You don't need an absurdly long forum thread here,my browser also failed to load this super long image.
Sometimes less is more.Sometimes over delivering and providing an outstanding amount of options to your customers can have the opposite effect.
Anyway,good luck with this casino,OP.

 
2011  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Will Smith inu got me good on: March 31, 2022, 11:32:34 AM
Can those shitcoin creators use the name of Will Smith without his permission?
I really hope that Will Smith sues those shitcoin scammers for using his name without his written permission.
A big problem is that the "developers" of such shitcoins will remain anonymous.
250% price dump isn't that much.I was expecting more like a 10000% price pump. Grin
Almost nobody cares about Hollywood celebrities nowadays.Even the Will Smith vs.Chris Rock beef was kinda boring. Grin
2012  Economy / Economics / Re: china's harsh exploitation on crypto assets on: March 31, 2022, 11:09:11 AM
You are kinda late with your post.China banned Bitcoin/crypto months ago.
The reasons why China banned crypto have already been discussed.
1.To support the "digital yuan".
2.To reduce energy consumption by the cryptocurrency miners.
3.To reduce capital export outside of China.
4.Fighting money laundering and tax evasion.

All those reasons are questionable and we already know that there are multiple ways to export capital outside China without the help of Bitcoin.
Many people inside China will keep using cryptocurrencies despite the ban.I'm not sure about whether or not those people will use crypto in order to purchase assets outside China.This doesn't seem like a valid point to me.
It would be nice if China returns to the crypto world,but the crypto world is doing just fine without China.
2013  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Best Gambling Site on: March 31, 2022, 06:26:56 AM

The analog way of playing most of the games Has fade away for the new digital technological generation. Which means, the traditional way of playing most of the games is no longer existence. And most of the games are now playing online.
And crypto currency also introduced it currencies to be accepted in the gambling space.


Physical casinos still exist and they are doing quite well in some countries.Your statement is wrong.
Offline gambling will continue to exist forever.

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So in this regard, some of the gambling sites accept only crypto Currencies while some gambling sites accept both the fiat currencies and crypto currencies.


So what?Is this a problem?The casinos can accept both crypto and fiat payments.Accepting fiat payments comes with KYC verification,but there are players,who want to gamble with fiat money.

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So with this which of the gambling sites and sites which I have mentioned before is the best? Is it sports or casinos?

Comparing sports and casinos is like comparing apples and bananas.
They cannot be compared and they can both exist without competing against each other.
I don't understand the point of your forum thread,OP.
If you really want to find the best online casino on the planet just do your own research.

2014  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Opera integrates Bitcoin in there Browser on: March 31, 2022, 06:01:44 AM
This seems like a good idea,but:
1.I assume that all the security measures are taken and the security of this browser wallet is top-notch.
Anything below top-notch security is a big no.
2.I don't think that many users are going to use their Bitcoins for spending.They would just keep their BTC and HODL them.Perhaps integrating this browser with more altcoins than just the six coins mentioned in the article would be better.
3.Who cares about Dapps?I've completely lost my interest for Dapp projects a long time ago.There's might be good Dapp projects here and there,but I just don't care about them.

The Brave browser project(and their BAT token) is going to die slowly.Most of the Brave users are using it only for the sake of getting tokens,not because Brave is a good browser(it actually is a good browser,I have tested it).
2015  Economy / Economics / Re: The World is Gradually Recognizing Crypto Currencies. on: March 30, 2022, 11:28:12 AM
The news about the Russian prime minister are fake.
OP,what you are talking about is just wishful thinking.
NO big and developed country in the world is going to make Bitcoin(or any altcoin) a legal tender.
El Salvador is not a big and developed country.Maybe other small and underdeveloped countries could accept BTC as a legal tender.Good for them,there's nothing wrong with that.
The big and developed countries will stick with fiat money and replace fiat with CBDCs.Period.
They might let the people use cryptocurrencies,but only under heavy regulations(like making the usage of custodial wallets/exchanges mandatory). Using non-custodial wallets and decentralized exchanges might become illegal in the future.
Comparing Bitcoin with the Russian ruble is nonsense.
2016  Economy / Economics / Re: Member Of The E.U. Parliament Says Crypto Transactions Shouldn’t Be Anonymous on: March 30, 2022, 10:51:33 AM
Should we keep paying attention to every politician/clerk,that makes such statements.
It's pretty clear that the politicians/clerks of the EU(and many other countries) want zero anonymity and full transparency of all financial transactions(both crypto and fiat),in order to maximize tax revenue and "to fight money laundering".
They clearly want to turn cryptocurrencies into fiat money,or even worse.You can be anonymous by paying with paper cash,but they want to break this 'last line of defense'.
They want the people and business owners to do the work for the lazy government officials,by declaring all their financial transactions.
When the bureaucrats are lazy,the businesses are going to suffer.
2017  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar - UEFA Qualifiers on: March 30, 2022, 05:40:14 AM
Congratulations to Portugal.They really deserved to qualify for the World Cup in Qatar.Their loss against Serbia was the only thing that would have stopped them,and they kinda had some luck against Turkey(a Turkish player missed a penalty),but there's no doubt that they were the better team in both games against Northern Macedonia and Turkey.
Also congrats to the Canadians,but I don't think that they are strong enough to achieve anything significant in the World Cup tournament.They will just lose three games in the group phase and leave the tournament.Their win against Jamaica was probably because of the cold weather in Canada(AFAIK,the match was in Toronto).
2018  Economy / Speculation / Re: Bitcoin reaches maximum, target $80K BTC on: March 30, 2022, 05:19:35 AM
"popular crypto trader Ed"

This guy is so popular that I've never heard him before.Does he have a last name,or he's so popular that the people know him only by his first name? Grin
It seems to me that this guy doesn't know anything about the Bitcoin market,he's just following the trend.
If the Bitcoin price does up "it's a good time to buy".If the Bitcoin price goes down,"it's a good time to sell"  Grin
Such amateurish advise is what makes me cringe so hard,when I see "crypto experts" on Youtube and social media.
Anyway,it looks like there's isn't enough momentum in this price pump for a FOMO phase to appear.
There's going to be a price correction,but there's nothing wrong with that.Many traders,who bought at prices below 40K would want to sell at 48K and take the profits.
2019  Economy / Speculation / Re: Terra cofounder Do Kwon is the one who is pumping Bitcoin on: March 29, 2022, 12:18:31 PM
Does it mean that UST would be backed by USD and BTC goes in addition or a stablecoin is only backed by crypto?
IMO it seems like a bad idea since with a BTC price change we may have gaps between its value and token emission. Collateral value would also go down quite fast during the bull run. Therefore we can easily get in situation where a part of stablecoin supply is backed with nothing.

The Bitcoin reserve will have to be way bigger than the token emission,but such stablecoin projects would never resist the temptation of doing fractional reserve banking(issuing 100M USD worth of tokens,which are backed by 10M USD worth of Bitcoins). That's the main problem with stablecoins-fractional reserves.
What would be the main purpose of Terra,since we already have Tether?Does anyone think that the crypto exchange platforms will suddenly dump Tether and replace it with Terra?What's the point of this?
Tether could easily beat Terra,just by replacing a part of their USD fiat reserve with Bitcoins(if they really have a big USD reserve).
Terra doesn't offer anything new in terms of innovation and convenience.Maybe it will turn into another pump&dump shitcoin.
2020  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: "Change the Code, Not the Climate" FUD campaign coming next month on: March 29, 2022, 11:56:11 AM
The idea of changing the code of Bitcoin,in order to make it "less power hungry" has been shared multiple times across the years,and yet nobody hasn't been proposing any working solution.
I have nothing against a hardfork/softfork that will split the BTC blockchain and create some kind of "EcoBitcoin" or "Bitcoin Green".
It's pretty easy to predict that the Bitcoin Core blockchain and the Bitcoin Core community will remain united and a small number of altcoin seekers and environmentalists will support this "Bitcoin Green" PoS shitcoin.
Let them have what they want.They will leave the BTC community and probably stop with their FUD against Bitcoin.
I've always thought,that the freedom to choose between multiple options is what makes the crypto industry so appealing,even though 99% of the altcoins are shitcoins. Sad
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