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2081  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: [Boxing] Jake Paul vs Tommy Fury - February 26 in Saudi Arabia on: February 18, 2023, 06:10:21 PM

Well, anyone does have their own comments about the upcoming fight between Tommy Furry and Jake Paul, and people will always find a way to make such comments. But, let's think of it, surely it's their own choice if they will set the price higher because they are also not forcing anyone to see their fight. They are just making the hype and marketing it as that's what organizers and boxers do, the fact is, they are just getting advantage of the situation because their fight has been criticized by many and that makes it more famous. The more haters, the more money. We are also the only ones who are feeding these nonsense so-called boxers to make a nonsense fight.

After all, it's just a business, there is much less sport here. Mauricio Suleiman announced that if he wins, Jake Paul will be placed in the official WBC world heavyweight rating (up to 90.7 kg). For Jake, this can be an additional motivation if he has such a goal, and if this does happen, then canceling fights in professional boxing will not work so easily. ) Fury continues to claim that he is a professional boxer and will knock out Jake in this fight.

All these news and hype with the recent statement of WBC's president, then suddenly Tommy Fury will back out that will result to a cancellation of the fight. I wonder what would Jake Paul feel as his ambitions are shattered with Fury's selfish move Grin But seriously tho, I hope this fight will happen so that it will end much sooner because bouts like these are more like a circus rather than a real boxing entertainment.

Even if Jake Paul will receive his rankings after he defeat Tommy Fury, I doubt if there's any boxer out there in the upper rank that will give him a chance. Anyway, let's see about that in the upcoming months.

Jake Paul decides where his fate goes, he picks his opponents that he could possibly win over. I any upper rank picks a fight with him, he will just pause a bit and look at it closely and decide. He is calculated and he knows to himself he can defeat Tommy. He is always the one that will initiate and right now he had already chosen different fighters lining up for his cash cow promotion.

2082  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Boxing Speculation, Odds and Predictions on: February 18, 2023, 05:56:06 PM
Another exciting match will come this weekend. The clash between Luis Nery against Azat Hovhannisyan at 122.

They just made their official weigh-in but Azat lacks only a few after weighing 121.6. Should not be a big deal though.

The winner of this match will be the mandatory challenger of who will win against Stephen Fulton and Naoya Inoue.
Big fight indeed if that's the case.
Here are the odds for the fight which will happen later in Fox Theater Pomona.


Luis Nery is younger at age 28. 33 wins, 25 KOs, and 1 loss.
Azat Hovhannisyan is 34 years old. 21 wins, 17 KOs, and 3 losses.
Nery had more bouts experience even at his young age. Will definitely bet for him on this fight. He is also the favorite to win. I just wish he learned that mistake from the fight against Figueroa where he was defeated with a body shot. Strengthening his body will be a big plus for him from now on.

I am not really familiar with the names but I'm trusting those records anyway.
A younger fighter with more experience I guess this is a solid upside so we'll see. I'm just trying to get more wins right now betting on each possible winner with just a few dollars to throw every fight. Hopefully, accumulate some wins based on the odds and tips from here.  Grin

Wood Leigh vs Lara Mauricio. About this match, which do you choose?
2083  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Do you think Satoshi every created some sort of back door to alter BTC? on: February 17, 2023, 11:12:08 PM
If there is a backdoor, it would have been discovered already.
What could be a backdoor is if one day a government just gets thier hands on Satoshi's private key and claim it while the world sees BTC as the reserve just as some influencers are saying that BTC will be the currency reserve. It would be crazy if they knew the PK all along since the beginning of BTC.  Cheesy  It was all planned. The existence of BTC was planned right after the 2008 crisis.


2084  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 🥊 The UFC Info and Prediction Thread on: February 17, 2023, 04:46:54 PM
That Volks vs Islam fight really stir the folks, now we are seeing videos claiming Islam cheated. Dana will really need to put them again in the Octagon as soon as possible. The difference this time is that they are more aware of what to do.

I'm not as confident as tokeweed on Andrade since Erin Blanchfield is actually a pretty good fighter. She has very good technique, crisp striking, and very technical when it hits the ground. I mean, she dismantled the fan favourite in Molly Mccann, and I mean dismantled her. Andrade on short notice though? That's a real tough fight, and she has some decent takedown defense of her own, and I'd favour Andrade on the feet. If Erin wins it'll be a massive statement, but I can see why Andrade is slightly edging the odds.

I'm wondering whether I be a bit cheeky, and go for a Andrade win by decision. Since, she'll be very wary of that takedown, and it might mean she's a little more shy in the striking, and thus won't get the finish. 7.00 odds if I recall correctly, that's some pretty damn good odds.

I kinda believe what toke said that Andrade is too good. She seems to take her fights seriously and is confident enough to accept the fight on such short notice. It's 1.75 vs 2.1. Seem close and there could be a chance for Blanchfield to win. I think put my bet too early since the odds had changed.
2085  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: On Ordinals: Where do you stand? on: February 17, 2023, 04:25:00 PM

Yeah i dived right into a new pool here from Twitter and Reddit where people are cheering over this as the next great thing in the universe. And it seams mostly fueled by hope of selling overpriced jpg's to other fools who hope to do the same thing. And nobody seams to be thinking any further than that.
Exactly. But this has been a plague that has infected the cryptocurrency scene mainly from 2017 when the ICO scams started becoming very popular and we had a mania for a while. Ever since then a certain part of the community is convinced that creating useless tokens is a real "utility" that helps adoption!

So i am not 100 on how this all works, but do i also have to be watching out for what's on Sats that i receive?
As i have understood it, had it explained to me: An Ordinal is all extra data on each Sat?
I tried to simplify it here, maybe that helps.
In short there is nothing attached to the "satoshis" you receive, they are inside the witness of the transaction the sender creates and shouldn't concern you in any way. It also has nothing to do with the amount (or satoshis) regardless of what the advertisers say (eg. "rare and exotic sats"), it is just an arbitrary data pushed to the witness stack.

By sender, you mean the guys running Bitcoin nodes. From what I've read they are the ones who can only create ordinals?

Community is divided I guess about this Ordinals. While the other half find Ordinals as another use case the other half I guess find Ordinals unnecessary as it increases network fees and is a waste of block space.


2086  Economy / Economics / Re: They still think crypto is easy to manipulate? - CEO Crunchbase on: February 17, 2023, 03:40:54 PM

Was it part of FED's plan to keep raising interest rates because they want to manipulate crypto?

It was successful in 2022 though. It's been the reason more people are waiting for Jerome's statement and what the market will do every time he says on the press con. Raising interest rates, however, doesn't just affect crypto but also the stock market. I think its different this time because of the looming debt default which investors are concerned about hedging from inflation because Quantitative easing may happen again in the coming months and the option is crypto apart from gold.
2087  Economy / Economics / Re: I have a raspberry, I buy the raspberry from myself, how much money do I make? on: February 17, 2023, 03:21:33 PM

Do you think the dev teams who own a huge percentage of the tokens in the tokenomics of thier altcoins also play the house?
There were several altcoins that have been held for a long period of time and I see prices growing but they also plunge deeper during the bear market. One would wonder why it goes that low when the devs are very trusted.

It's really a waste of time holding and waiting for the pump again when they are also waiting for holders to sell since they are the ones also who decides who'll win.

2088  Economy / Investor-based games / Re: Looking for Investors for my Upcoming PvP crypto Casino on: February 16, 2023, 05:52:20 PM

PvP crypto Casino is cool. But your damn right it's sketchy, especially to the users in the forum who encounter scams all the time. You are not even sure if you could get an investor here even if you be transparent like telling which 2 new game modes and the link to your casino. But who knows.

It's one cold welcome message but you are still 18 though, I bet you have tons of teen friends who can chip in. This way you all literally know together, maybe even neighbors for a long time.

2089  Economy / Exchanges / Re: Binance to Airdrop $100 to Turkey Earthquake region affected users on: February 16, 2023, 05:37:02 PM
This is still a big help for someone who is in a situation where they only depend on the food and water given but the authorities of Turkey. While Binance take this as an opportunity to promote in the country, the people who are also in Turkey I think will be grateful for this.

They could withdraw if they want. To be honest, this is way better than sending it to a donation address that we don't know if it goes to the earthquake victims.
2090  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Sports betting fraud in Brazil 😦 on: February 16, 2023, 04:28:32 PM
I think of a scenario where the players themselves also bet on personal or team results, having inside information.
This is another question that deserves to be investigated.

It will be very hard to investigate on this conspiracy since everyone involved is benefiting for the inside information they can get. The only way to bust them is find someone inside that will betray address and leaked information to the authorities about what they are doing in the fixed match because it’s nonsense to conduct an investigation if there’s no lead on the case itself.

I believe this is the reason why case like matched fixing is very rare to caught because all accusation is just an speculation if there will be no evidence supporting the claim. Only a whistleblower can help authorities to established a case against this kind of organization.

The information got out though, there must be a snitch among them and some players didn't comply with the supposed act. Probably the one who receives less than $28K. According to the article bribing every player including the referee and coaches are the common way to fix a match. This is really proof that there is a fixed match in sports.

Surprisingly, all I thought these happen often in boxing where tough mafia guys are from South America
But corruption in sports cases in 11 countries based on Loughborough University research (2010-2018)
1 France
2 United Kingdom
3 Bulgaria
2091  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Why Digital Currencies Should Be Adopted Globally on: February 16, 2023, 03:45:53 PM

Digital currencies will be adopted everywhere, it's a gradual process and it doesn't even need a government's permission because it's borderless. 5 to 10 years maybe the people who have not heard of Bitcoin yet will also be learning about it.

Even countries with very strict rules about crypto like China was considering lifting the ban. They might be forced to lift the ban when all other countries are going to be using digital currencies after all they plan Hongkong to be a crypto hub.
2092  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: What would happen in a deflationary hoarding scenario? on: February 16, 2023, 03:09:56 PM
The buyers will have to raise thier price in order for their order to be filled. There will always be someone willing to sell thier BTC for the right price. If no one will sell because everyone really is HODLING, I guess the next altcoin will move the crypto market.

But it's a sure thing to happen when the market gets overbought in the bull season, tarders normally sell because they expect the dump to happen.
2093  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Bitcoin gambling problem on: February 15, 2023, 05:22:55 PM
Threat titled "Bitcoin gambling problem". Maybe it's really just worse when a person has gambling problems related to Bitcoin than the ones who use cash. Is it?  Maybe here we are talking addiction while our signatures are casinos.  Grin

Anyway, there are really gambling problems in crypto. I have doubted myself why I bet on a game that isn't actually interesting to me but because there aren't any other matches to bet. But I get my finances in order.
2094  Economy / Economics / Re: SEC's wildest move on Staking business | Go Non Custodial Staking for security on: February 15, 2023, 05:01:01 PM
Going noncustodial is the best option for us who stakes not just ETH but some other altcoins.
It's a bit surprising actually why Kraken just fold their card against SEC on this and agreed to pay $30M. I wonder why they are not asking Coinbase to help them win the case as coinbase promised to fight against SEC if they are targetted.

I think the crypto exchanges should unite to fight against SEC otherwise it's a loss of one may cause panic just as it did last week.

I can't help thinking centralized exchanges are in cahoots with SEC's crackdown and operation chokepoint as they just give up that quickly. Imagine a business paying $30M all for that? Where do you think will he get that money?  

Are the ETH staking rewards to be handed over to SEC or are they just split 50% for SEC and 50% for Kraken?

2095  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Choosing between your relationship and gambling. on: February 15, 2023, 04:49:41 PM

Tell your cousin to stay away from that girl. 
They are not married yet but she acts like she lost everything. If she had not discovered those emails, she wouldn't be overreacting though.

However, she already wants your cousin to choose which. It gets worse if she could successfully makes your cousin choose her. This is capitalizing on your cousin's feeling over her. It's not gonna be surprising one day you might not be able to hang out with your cousin anymore because she says so.
2096  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: [Boxing] Jake Paul vs Tommy Fury - February 25 in Saudi Arabia on: February 15, 2023, 03:42:48 PM
I just check Tommy Fury's record as I am not really that familiar to him and previous opponents most of them are on a lose streak or new professional boxers with an exemption of Daniel Bocianski with 10 wins and 1 lose when they fight though he win that via points. Even Jake Paul's matches were exhibition matches, his opponents were not some usual mediocore most of them are MMA fighters with an actual combat experience though that was not their specialty and might have a training that last a couple of months I really think Jake Paul would dominate this fight with a knock out in the end.

Between the two Jake Paul's opponents are more battle-tested than Tommy Fury's opponents they may be old and almost wash up, but do check out their names they are once considered elite and top fighters in the UFC, and check both Fury's and Jake's knockouts how they deliver it, Jake's delivers great knockouts and he faced opponents who can punch and receives punches compared to Tommy's.
The hate between the two is real so I'm 100% sure that it will end in knockout and probably Tommy will get knocked out here, but of I doubt if the Fury family will disown Tommy because they also know that Tommy is no match against Jake, and they did it to motivate Tommy, he needs all the motivation that he can get, it's only more than a week before the biggest fight of their respective careers.

Jake is also the one who keeps pushing for this fight which kind of really speaks how confident he is with his boxing already. Jake is bigger and also influential to the boxing promoters. He fought several fighters who are stronger in thier prime which is sort of training for him.

Disowning a family member because he lost in a boxing match is adding insult to injury. Thats not cool. I don't think that would be the case. But it will encourage Tommy to win.
2097  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: UAE central bank to issue CBDC, promote digital asset growth on: February 14, 2023, 05:07:09 PM
Reminds me about the CBDC and SEC fight where they are trying to control the crypto currencies and want them to be under their watch. It does not matter you trade cetrally or decentralized one. The FAST FACT is, if they go world wide then they will have plot to destroy the whole crypto based projects, exchangers, assets based on them and what not.

They will just start controlling it and if they get such global access then we are done! Anyways, every nation already has that government based authority which can make this happen. But CBDC getting involved is like having interpol right at your door step watching every move that we make. 

@Pooya87, you made a good point by saying that CBDC will be the death of stable coins but what about decentralized stable coins like DAI? Can SEC hunt them down too?
If there is any truly decentralized cryptocurrency including stablecoins, they shouldn't be affected by anything centralized (ie. CBDC). But the problem with stablecoins is that they always have some degree of centralization, DAI is not an exclusion even if that degree is low for it.


Ah, boys I dont think we are understanding the facts clearly here. If they become prominent everywhere then crypto would be treated as illegal stuff. It would be similar to smuggling drugs and exchanging the crypto's. I think having stablecoins or decentralized stuff would not matter if they ordered the shut down of same.

What do you call something which is decentralized but having a watch over by the government authority? Makes sense isnt it?

I don't think they can prevent the adoption of BTC or any other crypto when all other merchants starts accepting cryptocurreny, only two parties are involve. No government nor middle man is involve in the transaction. Are they going to make the whole country of El Salvador criminal?

Its CBDC who will adopt BTC. Thats what I see. The digital govcoins will be on exchanges and on the government app along with BTC.
2098  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Is there an effective way to stop a gambling-addicted person? on: February 14, 2023, 04:22:11 PM

This works with my cousin when he got addicted to drugs. It may be different from gambling addiction but same as they still could go to jail.
Sometimes a person needs a real hard lesson in life to widely open his eyes. Let him rot in jail for just a week and he'll realize how bad it could be if it takes longer. Him in prison is another kind of world.

My cousin Mikael got addicted to drugs in high school, eventually tangled with a wrong crowd and start selling meth to pay his debt to his dealer. When he got caught his brothers didn't bail him. After 2 years he got out, he seem to have realize it. Turned his life around. Now with a regular job and got 3 kids after it.
2099  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 🥊 The UFC Info and Prediction Thread on: February 14, 2023, 04:09:53 PM
It seems many are still lingering with the UFC 284 and its result but certainly we are having another event and it is

UFC Fight Night: Andrade vs. Blanchfield
So many unknown fighters in this fight and I don't see any underdog is worth to bet except the main card. Andrade is experienced but she's always lost when she fight with fighter who stronger than her, while Blanchfield she have a good record and this is her first test to fight with a high rank fighter. I see a possibility Blanchfield will pull an upset, she have a tough chin and I believe Andrade wouldn't easily make her fall.

Don't think so.  Lol.  Andrade is a couple of levels higher than Blanchfield and the only reason why the line is a bit close is because Andrade took the match on short notice as the original opponent got injured.

But as far as underdogs go, at first glance I like OSP, Josh Parisian and Jordan Wright.  Themba Gorimbo could be a good one too just cos I want to fade Fletcher.  Lol.

Something to watch...

UFC Free Fight:  Blanchfield vs McCann
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmLyrVsLh2c

Feels like both can also submit each other if opportunity comes. I'm not sure who to bet though but there is no other fights this Saturday. I can see you are rooting for Blanchfield? She seem new, young and wants to prove something. While Jordan Wright was already fucked 3 in a row, whoever he is fighting will likely to win. Pauga it is.

This card sort of a filler episode in UFC but its still fun to watch still.
2100  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Do You trust Tether (USDT) Stablecoin? on: February 14, 2023, 09:36:14 AM
I still trust USDT but I don’t hold it, I still prefer to hold Bitcoin and only use stablecoins for my trading activities, also don’t hold on any exchanges because it not safe.
Thats better I guess. Usdt are good for trading purposes due to the volume on exchanges but once you are the onr using it always trade it for fiat via p2p or choose a major coin like btc and eth to hold your asset. We dont know when usdt could gone wrong or become same like what happened to ust. Since some events in the past shows the history of usdt that has some frozen asset which clearly says that decentralized couldnt use on their tokens.

Imagine they could freese asset of whoever they wanted too.

I guess that this only applies if there is a problem with the exchange, and they only hold/freeze the account if there is an anomaly on it against the AML.

USDT is safe as long as there is no de-pegging that will happen and hoping it will not since a lot of holders/traders will get affected by it.

Freezing the amount of USDT you have is the only threat to it unlike what BUSD threat have.

Now that we know USDT and USDC are untouchable by SEC for they are issued by US companies, I guess there is more to trust these stablecoin than any stablecoin issued by anyone. Therefore, USDT is safer at least that's what it appears to be.
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