It is a big celebration for AC Milan, as at last season they got kicked out in the group stage after finishing fourth in group C with only one game won. This season they got so much improvement having played against RB Salzburg , Chelsea and Domino Zagreb and their worst performances was against Chelsea both home and away. Giroud made soo much contribution in seeing the proceed to the next stage. He made the biggest contributions equating his goals to his assists. But unfortunately Milan is a non-seeded team that will most likely face other top teams in the last 16. Milan's journey in the last 16 may be very difficult considering the current seeded team looks very strong like Manchester City, Bayern Munich or Real Madrid. I wouldn't be surprised if Milan's journey had to stop in the last 16 this season if Real Madrid, Bayern Munich or Manchester City were the opponents. But if it's Porto, Tottenham or Benfica then I think Milan have a chance to qualify for the next round. I must say that in the 1/16 finals there are actually no "weak" teams. Yes, there are Rangers teams with a score of minus 20 in goals scored, but all the teams that made it to the 1/16 are either champions of their leagues or silver medalists. Benfica generally bypassed PSG in the group, although the possibilities of the latter are much higher. Tottenham also went through a strong group and only in the last match left the group. So whoever is Milan's opponent, it will be an extremely strong team, but there are no invincible teams, so let's wish Milan good luck. |
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What makes Litecoin valuable is the fact that people want to use it. People hoard their Litecoins because they believe they can be worth much more in the future. And if enough people think that way, then Litecoin's value will go up. It's all about perception only.
I personally think that Litecoin should not be forgotten. For some reason, there are some people who are still interested in Litecoin, and have even been mining this cryptocurrency. I don't know how long people will continue to mine it, but so far it seems they are still using it in trading and other transactions.
Well, on the market there are not many big coins of the top 50 that use the POW algorithm and that can be mined - from the major ones are BTC, LTC, BCH. All others like ADA, BNB, SOL and others on POS algorithm. For those who already bought ASICs, they have to do something with them, don't they? Not to throw them to garbage I guess. That's partly why LTC hashrate is growing so fast even at price $60 for LTC. In the past, at this hash rate, the price of LTC was $200-300. |
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...Now the deal with Tesla bitcoin is seen differently, initially I thought that it was all for the sake of hype and profit, so he probabbly really had plans for bitcoin after all. It will be interesting to find out later what went wrong.
Although apparently in reserve 25% of the initial purchase Tesla left on the balance sheet.
Now Tesla had a good opportunity to buy bitcoin at a reduced price and thus reduce the average purchase price. And if such a purchase has really been made, then we will be able to find out about it only after the publication of the quarterly report, that is, at the beginning of 2023. Now it’s clear why bitcoin began its growth at the beginning of 2020, before the reporting, apparently someone knew in advance about the purchase of bitcoins by Tesla even then, and the second wave of growth was just at the publication of Tesla’s reporting at the beginning of 2020. Quite possibly this year will also be, the purchase price is lower than Tesla sold BTC in 2022. It is not clear why then Musk initially chose DOGE for his promotion? Partly apparently due to the low transaction prices, but then he could choose instead of DOGE, for example, LTC. |
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AC Milan won with a big score last night they were able to make the whole stadium happy with the goals they scored. I praise Olivier Giroud performance last night by successfully becoming man of the match in that match, Giroud was able to score an early goal which made the atmosphere of the match better controlled by AC Milan. By successfully contributing 2 goals and 2 assists, Olivier Giroud seemed to have rediscovered his sharpness because before he seemed to have difficulty scoring goals in the domestic league. With this result AC Milan was able to secure 1 ticket for the round of 16 along with Chelsea who were able to win the group.
I join to congratulating to Milan and Giroud. Milan seems to be out of the group for the first time since the 2013/2014 season. Milan, I think, will decorate the group round with their game, the team plays very interesting and open football. Olivier Giroud seemed to have a second youth. 2 goals and 2 assists is a great result. It seemed that after so many transitions, Giroud would quietly get lost somewhere and disappear in the 2th squad, but no, he was still able to find his game. |
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What do you think about LTC? Will it die soon? Or will it last? Do you think it'll go sky-high sometime in the future? If not, why? Your input will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.  ASICs are used to mine Litecoin. And it would be nice to change the mining algorithm to a more ASIC-resistant one and adapt the coin for miners on video cards. Then perhaps most miners will be interested in this coin. The hashrate of litecoin is already growing without any problems. Some day ago hashrate seems to have updated its record and amounted to 558 TH/s. So there are no problems with new miners in LTC. What is the point of changing something in a working mechanism? GPUs are all unprofitable now and until the market finds a profitable coin, like ETH before, it will continue and LTC can't help with that only bull market can. |
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Congratulations to Tottenham and Eintracht Frankfurt for winning their matches and qualifying for the next round in the UEFA Champions League. Both teams were losing 0-1, but they managed to score 2 goals and win. Tottenham's goal at the last minute of the added time.
This the spirit and the ability to never give up and fight until the end. This is what differentiates the strong teams among the mediocre ones.
I don't see any interesting games today. Maybe Juventus would try to win against PSG, in order to guarantee it's third place in the group and a place in the Europa League.
We can say that Tottenham was saved at the last moment. Marseille missed a lot. Especially in the last minutes, they could not evaluate the middle of Cengiz. They could have finished the game there. But that's the beauty of football. Tottenham did not give up and managed to win. Tottenham managed to win the match from the group where nothing is certain. Eintracht Frankfurt won the game from behind, it was a very good moment. Congratulations to both teams. It was not clear which team would emerge from the group until the last game. That's why we love football so much. Yes, by the way, I forgot all about the moment Cengiz, when he could just score with his head into an empty net and remove all questions about the match winner, along with this Marseille for some reason with the entire team rushed forward to attack and left one defender and coach who could signal that the match is over, but the judge let finish the moment and Marseille went into oblivion. Very thoughtless ending from Marseille |
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It seems to me that this is a really serious mystery why a litecoin with such a good basis (stable operation for many years, universality, inexpensive transactions, reliability, convenience, POW algorithm with an ever-increasing hash rate) cannot not only update their ATH, but also in this cycle where Bitcoin took 60 thousand, and ETH got 4 thousand, LTC should have taken at least one thousand. Nevertheless, the project is developing and is quite active in social networks, for example, here is one of the latest quotes "$LTC Is consistently one of the most active blockchains in the world. Depending how you look at it, by transaction volume, active addresses, payments and community activity, #Litecoin is always in the top 2-4. And, Litecoin activity is GROWING!!" https://coinmarketcap.com/community/profile/litecoin |
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It changes a lot, because press wrote that Musk was selling bitcoin "quietly" almost on ATH, while he himself seemed to be shilling cue ball and dogs at that moment and so it turns out that there was not only profit, but there were losses. Now the deal with Tesla bitcoin is seen differently, initially I thought that it was all for the sake of hype and profit, so he probabbly really had plans for bitcoin after all. It will be interesting to find out later what went wrong. Although apparently in reserve 25% of the initial purchase Tesla left on the balance sheet. |
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Yeah, this should be a great match, both teams have been playing poorly lately, but Tottenham are probably playing a little better.
Both teams regularly both score and concede(5 games in a row), so there should be many goals in this game, but the one who plays better in defense should win.
I think that it will still be Tottenham.
The competition in Group D is indeed very tight, all teams from this group still have the chance to qualify for the round of 16. Tottenham are currently at the top of the standings with 8 points, while Marseille are at the bottom. Marseille is only two points adrift of Tottenham, if they can win against Tottenham, Marseille will secure a ticket to the last 16. Tottenham only need a draw to qualify for the last 16, but if they want to finish as group winners Tottenham must beat Marseille or hope the Sporting vs Frankfurt match ends in a draw. It was a great group. Tottenham and Marseille as I wrote both score and concede, but Tottenham was a little bit lucky. If Marseille played a little better in a difference in the end of the match it would not have been eliminated from all European competitions. A team like Marseille has no right to play defense at the end of the match like that. |
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That’s mainly because people are not aware of the fact that Elon already bashed dogecoin and doesn't like it anymore. They have seen him praise it, but they have not seen that he dislikes it now. That lack of information is the reason why they do not really have a problem with it anymore... Elon Musk has never lost interest in dogecoin before, and now that he has bought Twitter, he has a real chance to make his early dreams come true. And his post today can be a confirmation of this: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1587297730631696384 Therefore, it is not surprising that the price of Doge increases on such news.  To be honest this is a very strange behavior. Still it is not very clear whether he really wants to implement Doge in Twitter for payment or it is just a PR and it will turn out as with Bitcoin, when on Tesla report bitcoin rose at first to 20 and then to 60 thousand and after some time Tesla quietly sold Bitcoin for 40-60 thousands, when everybody was buying. |
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The remote working is a very good idea - COVID gifted to the world.
It has made everyone open in working remotely but it's been there even before the covid pandemic outbreak has come. I'm sure that many of the people here have been working remotely and happily doing those years back then. Right now, those that have been used to working at home, don't have that feeling anymore of going back to the office. However, there's still that feeling of being social that you'll miss if you choose this space. Yes of course there were those who worked remotely before covid, but not on that scale. Probably no more than a couple of percent worked remotely, not dozens like they did under covid. And most importantly, covid has shown that people can avoid wasting time on the road to work and pointless meetings. Many have seen that they can work from home just as well if they arrange their place and have time left over for other things. |
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Both teams are sure to qualify. Napoli and Liverpool have been pretty good so far. but seeing the results in the first meeting of the two, of course, Napoli will be more favored. Napoli's 4-1 victory in the first meeting. Liverpool must work hard to be able to hold Napoli this time. otherwise, they could be beaten again in the cage. and it's not going to be good.
Napoli may not be too ambitious to win too big. Liverpool is also currently looking better than their previous game. Napoli will probably win by 1 or 2 goals.
Napoli would end up as the group leader regardless of the outcome of today's match except Liverpool wins the match by 8-0 which is very unlikely. Ajax and Ranger's poor performance made the group stage very easy for Liverpool and Napoli. I think both teams would just enjoy the game today and ensure that their key players are not injured. Some key player would be rested, while irregular players would be introduced. Players like Salah and Osimhen and other key players might be rested. But currently, Napoli have no match in Europe, if they continue with this form, they would grab the Champions League trophy. Group D matches would be the most interesting today because all the four teams have chances of qualifying for the next round. Tottenham Hotspur and Marseille match today would be a battlefield of survival. The match between Eintracht Frankfurt and Sporting Lisbon would also be difficult. All the teams in this group deserve to qualify because they have really fought hard for it. These matches would be difficult to predict because all of them seems to be playing at the same level currently. Napoli has really surprised this season, we can say that Napoli is the real discovery of this Champions League. To be honest I expected that Ajax gave a serious fight to Napoli and Ajax has more chances to go further, but now Ajax is fighting for the Europa League and that chance remains because Rangers play frankly bad. Group D and the composition was more or less equal and it's great that there are such groups where the intrigue continues to the end. |
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The only group that none of the teams has guaranteed qualifying for next round is Group D now. Even the last two teams can qualify for it together. However I'm believing in Tottenham the most about this.
I'm aware that Tottenham have shown an unreliable performance lately in not only the EPL but also the Champions League. Marseille are going to be a really challenging team to beat for them despite doing this before by 2-0 home. I expect Marseille to do their best and try to take advantage of playing in home stadium. Tottenham are favoured according to the odds maybe but I think it will be a very competitive match. Both teams to score seems to be the safest option @1.70 because both teams need point(s) here. Maybe betting on Tottenham or draw @1.40 is also a safe one as I don't think they would just give up that easy.
Both clubs, Tottenham and Marseille have been somewhat disappointing lately and are not playing up to expectations. It can be said that this game is actually the game of the year for both clubs because it will decide whether their season was successful or not. Marseille have had a great start to the season, but they are now 4 or 5 games without a win and another failure would probably mean the sacking of their coach Tudor, given the pressure from the fans and the impatience of the club's owners. Marseille will have an advantage in this match because of the fans and the home field, and Tottenham because of their experience, so the chances are equal for both clubs. Yeah, this should be a great match, both teams have been playing poorly lately, but Tottenham are probably playing a little better. Both teams regularly both score and concede(5 games in a row), so there should be many goals in this game, but the one who plays better in defense should win. I think that it will still be Tottenham. |
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It's no secret that governments (in this case, the US government) are always on the lookout for privacy coins. Even in my own nation, one of the largest exchanges decided to delist Tornado Cash, Monero, and Zcash on November 3rd. I believe it is not us who have not been prepared for ultimate openness, but rather our governments' fear of losing control of our people. These projects are failing to achieve their idealistic goals. I'm not sure when they'll be applied in real life because governments won't let them. We all know that knives have two sides, thus no matter how valuable privacy coins are, they can be exploited as tools by criminals. Let's see how things proceed.
It has always been about control. Governments are afraid decentralized privacy coins and mixers will give people true financial sovereignty, so they are acting in their best interests to help prevent Fiat from losing traction anytime soon. What matters is that privacy coins and mixers remain as decentralized and censorship-resistant as possible to help render governments' efforts worthless. Crypto is all about eliminating the middleman anyways. Regulations are designed to bring back the middleman with KYC and AML laws. Anything that goes against what was established in the first place will face heavy scrutiny from the government. At least, we can feel confident that Tornado Cash won't be going anywhere thanks to the way it was designed. Sanctions may have affected the mixer's website, but the smart contracts are still living on the ETH blockchain. Even Monero has been delisted from a couple of exchanges, but that hasn't stopped it from becoming bigger and stronger than ever. Who knows if governments will ultimately give up on their task to try to take down privacy for good? Just my thoughts  I would not say that Monero became "stronger" after the major exchanges delisted it. Everything is correct about control, and there are both arguments for and against complete anonymization, but the very fact that now exchanges with KYC will not list "anonymous" coins. Now "anonymous" coins have taken their niche among other cryptocurrency projects, but due to the fact that 90-95 percent prefer to trade on large exchanges with liquidity and KYC, I don't think that tornado and similar services will be able to gain great popularity in the future. On the contrary, after the transition of ether to POS and the censorship of transactions, the space for such projects will only decrease. |
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We here on the forum making arguments over Elon Musk and his terminations, meanwhile those guys got fired but were compensated with 100 million dollars. They be like what the hell, retirements came in real early. Who cares if they were fired or not I was able to tweet anyways. Twitter has no more function than that. That’s big cream layer up there and big thick base down there, better skip to the good part and keep tweeting. What is the reason to pay for these former top managers so much money? Did they lead the company to the pinnacle of financial success? The company ended 2021 with a loss of $220 million. It seemed to me that Twitter and before the Mask was going to fire people because of poor financial performance. Yes, now the price of Twitter's shares looks good against the background of Meta, but it's still not clear why top managers are paid so much money especially against the backdrop of the dismissal of ordinary workers who are unlikely to be paid such generous bonuses. |
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Talking about this topic of tradition and habits, I believe thebmost people already knew that several things could happen, because Qatar is a Muslim country, such as its customs related to religion.
I'm not criticizing the Muslim religion, but in fact they are extremely strict on several points.
I don't know if this will actually be the first and last world cup in Qatar, because they are extremely strict, especially in religion and beliefs
I do not understand your point. There are muslim countries like Saudia Arab and Iran which Play football. Even in other Muslim countries football is being played though they are unable to qualify for the world cup as we know every continent has some quota and only the top teams qualify for the world cup. I fail to understand the link between Football & religion and how Muslims are affected by it ? If you can explain a bit, it will be better to understand for everyone. I guess that @gagux123 probably meant due to the strict rules of conduct, drinking and general behavior of fans. Although Qatar has introduced some concessions on the sale of beer at stadiums, for example, it is generally clear that there will not be such freemen and a carnival as in Brazil. But Qatar is quite a safe country, which seems to have invested about 100 billion in the holding of this World Cup and not only in stadiums, but also in the general infrastructure(roads, metro station etc) so in this regard, the fans should not have problems. |
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Ethereum isn't have any use cases, the big part of Ethereum is many projects are using their chain because it's the biggest tokenization chain. It's centralized, nothing different with fiat, as sooner or later most projects are migrated to other network which cheaper than Ethereum, Ethereum will not able become top 2 position. Mixing service doesn't make Ethereum network end because not all users are using mixing service.
Apart from bitcoin, all other networks are equally centralized. ETH has dominated the 2nd place for the past many years, despite its high gas fees, no network has been able to beat it yet. After migrating to POS and other updates will be rolled out in 2023, once it completes all remaining updates then other networks will have a harder time in the race to be the top altcoin with eth. Over the years there have been many projects that tried to challenge the dominance of ethereum, and while at the beginning they had some success at the end they failed on their objective of trying to replace ethereum as the second best coin in the market, and even if I do not agree with this transition to POS it seems this could help ethereum over the long term and it could become even more competitive, which will make it more difficult for future projects to surpass it. It seems to me that it is the stability of the network and the reliability that the ETH had when it was based on the POW algorithm and contributed to its spread, and I think that now the owners of ASICs and GPU probably still remember the time when you could mine ETH as one of the best times in mining. Profitability seemed to be about of several billion dollars only from miners, not counting the sellers of video cards, ASICs. Switching to POS in the long term does not seem like such a good idea to me, because in the end, miners will be able to find an alternative to Ethereum and a lot of money will go into a new alternative to ETH. |
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We all know that Xavi can't work wonders in one season. However, I don't think Xavi needs 3 seasons to make FC Barcelona a formidable team. His poor team's selection has been key in affecting some results this season. He brought in players who apparently would suit what he intend doing yet most times, the team struggles. On FC Barcelona's glory days, Xavi would have been inexcusable for the team's performance but thanks to Koeman and the club's board for allowing the club dip so bad.
I doubt that Xavi will be given three seasons in Barcelona if he cannot win trophies during this time. I don’t know how seriously they will take the Europa League in Barcelona, because this is not the most prestigious tournament, but I think that the main focus will be on La Liga. So far in La Liga, Barcelona still have a good chance to compete with Real Madrid, I think Xavi will concentrate all his efforts on this. It is clear that after relegation from the Champions League, the position of Xavi is not the easiest. In the summer, Barca bought 7 newcomers including such masters as rafinha and Lewandowski and now Xavi has announced that they are already preparing for the winter transfer window, which means that he has the confidence of the club and Loparta. Therefore, now Xavi simply needs to win in La Liga and the first place in the championship will most likely allow him to forget about relegation from the Champions League. It would be very bad if Xavi didn't take the Europa League, meaning if Xavi only focused on La Liga and wasn't serious about the Europa League because it was less prestigious, it would still make Xavi's assessment still bad. Because after all, Xavi must continue to bring his team better in every existing tournament at least to win a title in one of the existing tournaments. Even though Barcelona were eliminated from the Champions League but that doesn't mean Barcelona should only focus on La Liga because of course, it would be better for Barcelona too to take a high focus on winning the Europa League title than nothing. Because to win the title is not as easy as imagined, if Xavi still fails to win the La Liga title at least Xavi has a good chance to win the Europa League title and of course it will be good for his career. I agree that if Barca will win the Europa League it would be very good for the club. The trophy still requires good money, which will be very important for Barcelona. Now in La Liga the lead over Real Madrid is only one point and I think that La Liga will be the main goal for Xavi. If Barca will win La Liga, then with a 90% chance Xavi will remain the coach for the next season. Winning only the Europa League, without first place in the championship decrease chances Xave to lead the team next year would be 50% or less. |
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This can be one of the reasons why Elon Musk buys Twitter. However, there should be more reasons. Elon Musk isn't a typical person who focuses on government politics. He prefers to be busy with business matters than taking part in government politics. I am pretty sure that buying Twitter will increase his popularity and it may have a big advantage in promoting his business in the future. It is probably about Tesla products or other things. Elon Musk is much focused on business than politics. Somehow he'll try to make use of the Twitter acquiring an opportunity to make some noise over the political game. In particular, on the very first day itself the Trump's Twitter account that have been banned was allowed, but Trump denied that the account isn't allowed for his usage. Politics and big business are inseparable and always stick together. Elon Musk is a great businessman, a visionary, a person who promotes progressive ideas, whether it is the Internet for everyone, space flights on return carriers or unmanned vehicles. But we must not lose sight of the fact that he received contracts for flights for Spacex from NASA (from the US goverment) for Starlink from the Pentagon. He is very strongly connected with the money of the goverment, and apparently Trump's unblocking is not just a coincidence. |
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We all know that Xavi can't work wonders in one season. However, I don't think Xavi needs 3 seasons to make FC Barcelona a formidable team. His poor team's selection has been key in affecting some results this season. He brought in players who apparently would suit what he intend doing yet most times, the team struggles. On FC Barcelona's glory days, Xavi would have been inexcusable for the team's performance but thanks to Koeman and the club's board for allowing the club dip so bad.
I doubt that Xavi will be given three seasons in Barcelona if he cannot win trophies during this time. I don’t know how seriously they will take the Europa League in Barcelona, because this is not the most prestigious tournament, but I think that the main focus will be on La Liga. So far in La Liga, Barcelona still have a good chance to compete with Real Madrid, I think Xavi will concentrate all his efforts on this. It is clear that after relegation from the Champions League, the position of Xavi is not the easiest. In the summer, Barca bought 7 newcomers including such masters as rafinha and Lewandowski and now Xavi has announced that they are already preparing for the winter transfer window, which means that he has the confidence of the club and Loparta. Therefore, now Xavi simply needs to win in La Liga and the first place in the championship will most likely allow him to forget about relegation from the Champions League. |
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