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Ah I was wondering why there were 2 very late games this round.
I know of ANZAC day but would know the exact details of it. I do know the brutality and
seemingly senseless and massive loss of life in the great war overall, wouldnt you think
it would have served as an example how not to resolve differences?
As an aside I used to watch "The Sullivans" growing up. (set around WWII)
For tuesdays games I'm thinking Roosters and Storm but I'm not sure I'll make those
bets...bith are favourites but have had mixed results so far.
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Djokovic missing Madrid is big news. Its amazing how a simple incident which causes
an injury can compound on top of other things within a season, he missed Indian Wells
because of visa rows and now an injury, his season so far has been disrupted.
I wonder if this is a worrying thing for Djokovic and his career, is this the start of
his final years?
As regards Madrid, the threat of Djokovic has been removed so I'm sure the other
top seeds will fancy their chances even more!
Alcaraz has to be big favourite
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Firstly drop in the price of Bitcoin helps strengthen the Bitcoin ecosystem by making impatient holders sell their Bitcoin hodlings to others who understands Bitcoin better
I agree on this. This is always whatI’m thinking whenever the price of Bitcoin drop significantly. It’s a normal correction since we reach 30K from below 15K last year. I think having a 100% growth within a year is already a good achievement for us to less worried on simple price drop like this. ...and when the markets start rising again past the point at which they sold their Bitcoin it teaches them that they either should have bought back at a lower price or never sold in the first place! Firstly drop in the price of Bitcoin helps strengthen the Bitcoin ecosystem by making impatient holders sell their Bitcoin hodlings to others who understands Bitcoin better
It will help those that have long wanted to join the Bitcoin ecosystem quite encouraged to purchase Bitcoin
It will help capable hodlers reduce Bitcoin spending to in turn help increase demand and value
First, I have to point out that this isn't a "drop", "fall", "decline" etc. This is merely a correction, a tiny one. Anyone, who has been in Bitcoin long enough will tell you that. There's no "bearish sentiment", in fact, we're climbing back up already. So keep calm and have some patience - you will be rewarded for that! ...and this "correction" was due like the rise which will follow this fall. Its funny how the Bitcoin price always have to "correct" to a lower price and never in the opposite direction! |
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My take on Defi is that it there will be a third party, someone or institution who creates
whatever service is designed. This obviously goes against everything Bitcoin was invested for.
The potential for corruption and scams is there once a third party is involved, also being a
third party allows them to act the same as any FIAT based institution.
Look what happened to Celsius for example.
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A brief overview of today's finals: Lajovic v Rublev 6:3, 4:6, 6:4 Rune v v.d.Zandschulp 6:4, 1:6, 7:6 Alcaraz v Tsitsipas 6:3, 6:4 Alcaraz v Tsitsipas was the shortest and least interesting final. Carlitos was simply too good, Tsitsipas didn't stand a chance. I think he won several games just with dropshot winners!  Lajovic v Rublev is a bit unexpected, but Lajovic beating Nole was quite unexpected too and I guess Lajovic deserved it. Lajovic beating Rublev was the biggest news of finals day! Its actually nice to see a player back up their win from top seeded players and go as far as he did. All too often we see a lower ranked player beating a top seed and in the following match to get beaten, maybe thats the mentality side of Tennis, the belief! Rune to beat van de Zandschulp was to be expected as was Alcaraz to beat Tsitsipas. |
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I hope that Alcaraz stays healthy now for a very long time. I wish we can have another superstar on the rise. That is what makes sports so interesting to watch. In Formula 1 it once was Michael Schumacher who made the sport interesting to me because I always wanted to know whether now there is somebody who can stop him. Injuries destroy the competition when it happens to younger players with amazing talent. I am not so much talking about the older generation because that is normal, although I would love to see a Djokovic in perfect shape against an Alcaraz in perfect shape at all four GS tournaments within one year. Those two players against each other at their peak, but I doubt that we will really get the possibility to observe such a head to head anymore.
Every sport has his stars and maybe every decade there is absolute superstar that really dominates the field and that people will still talk about even if it is years ago. Tennis has had the luck that they 3 absolute superstars at the same time who stayed in good condition throughout the years. Alcaraz is one of the young stars in tennis right now, but only the future will tell if he can become a legend. and Alcaraz v Tsitsipas should be a very interesting matchup, cant believe Tsitsipas has made it to the final. and Rublev v Lajovic is looking like a 3 setter, would love to see Rublev winning again but I imagine the odds on Lajovic had great odds. |
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Cowboys v Knights - that looks to have been an epic battle of sorts with the Cowboys coming
out on top 18-16 and scoring the last points of the game in the 66th minute - with the remaining
14 attack/defend by both!
Union URC
Re: Vodacom Bulls v Leinster - The bookies had their odds correct, the Bulls were indeed worth
their favourite status winning by a whopping 62 - 7.
Cant understand who that Leinster team can beat the Lions last week and not show up yesterday.
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I have a $ on the Knights @ 2.37, Can the Cowboys pick up their season or are they in
real trouble... we will see shortly!
Currently it is looking like the Sharks are likely winners, its only 22" gone and its 8-16.
Union - URC
Just looking at the odds for todays games in the final round of the URC and Leinster
are a massive 5.0 away to 7th placed Vodacom Bulls in South Africa. They have been
there last week and beat the Lions by 3 points. Its a kind of second tier Leinster team
which is there, meaning there are no experienced current internationals in the squad,
Its a great opportunity for a $ bet on the team which is unbeaten in both the URC and
Heineken Cup this season...
I've also gone another $ on a +11.5 handicap on them @2.11
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Meh, missed it (sleeping is bad for auction success). If anyone wants a quick flip on one of the sheet-packs (ot 3 - 9) shoot me a quick dm. Cograts to the winners and tweety for catching the original.  Dammit - looked in on this at about 7pm forum time and meant to come back in closer to finish time....sleep again being the enemy of auctions. Anyway I would also second K's offer, send me a DM too. Congrats to the winners! |
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Thats an amazing win by the Rabbitohs over the Panthers, In all Rugby codes place kicking
is unbelievably important, I've said it before that I have seen it before where games have
been won solely by the penalty points kicked by the Fly-Half No.10 Rugby Union
And an even bigger win IMO by the Broncos over the Eels and as the away team. The Broncos
have proven to be a serious outfit. Great win over the Eels 16-26
Two good picks Timelord!
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Back over in Barcelona its Quarter final time and the first match is a replay of the Monte Carlo
Quarter Final between Musetti and Sinner, Sinner is favourite there and will meet the winner
of de Minaur v Tsitsipas.
Tsitsipas is big favourite but hasnt been playing well as others have mentioned, so either
way Sinner should beat de Minaur or Tsitsipas to set up a final with Alcaraz who has an easier
route to the final.
So yea I fancy de Minaur's chances against Tsitsipas @ 4.1
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Mt Gox and FTX aren't both company should be blamed, but the whole centralized exchanges should be blamed especially if they're included in this list [1] It's not surprising regulation will keep coming because hacker is always clever and better rather than the current security, this is why everyone should avoid to use centralized exchange. If people are move all from centralized exchange to decentralized exchange, there's will no regulation coming due to security excuse, they only want to control everyone activity.
[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5090869.0While we talk about blame, I think especially in the case of FTX it has become apparant that as long as everybody involved (from the huge fish at FTX headquaters down to all the youtubers and other shills promoting FTX) makes good money, nobody even tries to take a look at all the red flags. So my personal stance on the matter is, money speaks, the responsibility for the FTX mess may be mostly within SBF and associates but goes a long way down to thousands of people involved that allowed the corrupt system to keep running for so long. 100% and I would add a big percentage of people trying to make a profit from $hitcoins dont realise that they are feeding that system, I didnt realise it when I was trading $hitcoins. Like wise the youtubers and ordinary people following and promoting FTX werent aware of the corruption. Stuff like this also gives the likes of the FED and ECB more excuses and reason to lump Bitcoin in along with $hitcoins under the general term of Crypto. |
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Iam curious to see how Djokovic will play against Van Assche tokay. The 2021 French Open junior winner has just entered the top 100 and will certainly play with youthful naivety. That can be an interesting match. Especially since he won against Wawrinka who was actually the better player for most oh the time in that match. It really was not easy for Djokovic. Van Assche played really well. He won the first set and in set 3 he even made a break right at the beginning. But Djokovic continued to play with concentration and won with two breaks in the end. Djokovic said, however, that the court was quite slow and that he had never experienced anything like it before. Tomorrow he will play against Lajovic. Yea, I never get players particularly top professionals complaining about playing conditions, the conditions are the same for both opponents. Interesting to see Van Assche take a set from Djokovic. So Djokovic goes into the quarter final against Lajovic. Rublev plays today against Varillas today, He should win that and hopefully he can carry his form to get to the final at least. Hopefully he has learned a lot of lessons from his win at Monte Carlo? |
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There are many reasons why the Bitcoin market is falling a bit, davis196 makes a great point
there above and its so simple.
The bottom line is the markets are ALWAYS being pulled down and pushed up, sometimes
the pullers are winning, sometimes the pushers are winning, but when you zoom out
enough its clear the pushers are winning.
If you are a proponent of the DCA system, this current fall wont trouble our sentiment...
we just buy more.
OP is just trolling, probably wants to buy at $15k
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Lot 2: 0.0007
Lot 3: 0.0005
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Union - URC
Round 18 - the final round before the finals, I think the final 8 has been decided. Position 8 and 9
are the crunch positions, Cell C Sharks in 8 are 5 points ahead of Benetton in 9th.
Benetton play the Stormers so they are not winning that and the Sharks at home play Munster,
that will be a close game.
...and for the overall winner, its hard to see any other team than Leinster winning.
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NRLTwo very interesting games in Round 8 of the NRL starting tomorrow, Rabbitos v Panthers. I fancy the Panthers but I also really dont know what to think of them, they have two big wins in two weeks and last week just scrape through with a marginal win and the Rabbitohs havent started great either. First game on Friday sees what could be described as top tier tear team before this season the Eels take on surprising ladder toppers the Broncos, this will be a great test for the broncos to test again where they are. I fancy both favourites 
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Also a lot of Normies/uneducated people would look at influencers and think they are
being educated!
Influencers speak the kind of language these people want to hear and the demand for them
is not going to dissipate because "cryptos" predominantly $hitcoins are constantly changing.
Followers will always be looking for the newest, bestest and fastest way to get rich quick.
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Sinner is playing Barcelona tomorrow as well as Tsitsipas who also plays tomorrow,
this should be another chance for a final appearance for Sinner and maybe take the
win from Alcaraz or Tsitsipas.
Tsitsipas is not in good form and I don't think he has it what it takes to get to the final. On the other hand Sinner is in the form of his life but clay was never his strongest surface. This one should be for Alcaraz to defend the title. What is strange for me is that Djoković decided to play a smaller tournament in Banja Luka and what is even more baffling, Monte Carlo winner Rublev joined him there. is Djokovic prioritising the GS's and not putting too much into focussing on the minor tournaments but using them for match fitness and if he wins its a bonus....just my 2 satoshi's. On which tournament to play, when do the players notify or accept they will play? I'm sure they all check out their potential opponents. Tomorrow Tsitsipas plays Cachin and Sinner plays Schwartzman and today Alcaraz beat Borges 6-3, 6-1. I agree as would many that its Alcaraz' tournament to win/lose |
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They ask you to become their banker? you need to play smart for creating a contract and ask them to accept it, if they don't want to accept it, don't be their banker. You can make a contract if you will get 10% profit commission if they want to sold their coins or anything that you will have an advantages.
It's not that easy for protect their holdings, you will take a risk to make sure you hold in a safest place, not lose the seeds phrase, etc.
The question is not so much whether to keep their funds or not. The question is how to really get them interested in bitcoin so that they learn to manage it themselves. No I don't want to take a commission, I am not a banker. It's not my job. I'd rather they learn what bitcoin is for. That is a good approach, one of the main things with Bitcoin is obviously self custody of that wealth/Bitcoin and not to trust/involve any third party. Its a tough one trying to teach people I have had mixed results, I find the ones who already have an appetite to discover an alternative to the FIAT system get interested in Bitcoin and those who dont care or who dont see a problem with it dont have a need to become involved with Bitcoin. Eventhough the vast majority of people are only interested in what is in it for themselves I try to educate potential Bitcoiners on the merits of Bitcoin other than the "Investing" topic, put X in and get Y in return, there is way way more to Bitcoin than that. |
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