I am not a fan of Valve as well but I agree that cheaters should be banned right away. No excuses for them. It will send a stern warning to DOTA 2 professionals that one single cheating in the system can destroy their careers and denies their dreams of playing on the biggest stage.

I already forgot the exact new DPC system this season but a single replacement will cost a team higher points than the last season. Eastern Europe is a challenging region where Virtus.pro is trying to return back to its former glory days. Yet they will be sacrificing points this early.

The NBA nowadays is becoming more and more competitive and I love it. Underdogs nowadays like the Utah Jazz are not that easy to beat as they are still fighting for a top 8 spot. Upsets are normal though, especially in these regular games and it is still early season. The real games will be in the playoffs where defense is more serious and there is no relaxing until someone has a clear blowout lead.   

As for my betting, it was the right decision to stay lie-low. Next year it will be interesting to track the top teams that are still out of the top 8 as they will play more seriously in order to proceed into the playoffs. Dallas Mavericks, for instance, I don't think they won't be able to play in the playoffs.

People should not straight-forward just write their seed phrases on a piece of paper or something. That's just too easy to figure out in case of unexpected incidents. Bitcoin is becoming more popular each day and more people have hints about what is a seed phrase already. What happened in the news is unlikely to repeat but there are too many possible scenarios in that other people might be able to see those seed phrases. Better to make it something of a puzzle so that nobody will think they are seed phrases.

I agree. 20% is not really feasible for a normal deposit interest rate. Even bonds that go beyond 10% are already risky. Banks are also very conservative with their deposit interest rates, probably the highest they can give is 5% and it's their time deposits that have locked-in periods.

UST kinds of scams are the easiest to market since people thought that their rates are realistic and not HYIP. And they also last longer than the over-the-moon HYIPs.

I honestly do not understand why there are too many newbies lecturing and posting advice about bitcoin, crypto, investing, and trading. We have plenty of it already. I think you guys can earn better merits if you stay true to yourself. Some newbies are even given merits by asking questions, especially on the technical side which is actually cool and more informative to other newbies since good standing and experienced people here will be the ones giving answers.

That is why I gave up trading daily. Your indicators may work until they stopped working later on. More and more indicators are developed and some others are not available on tradingview and other popular live chart providers including exchanges. But big news like the bankruptcy of FTX is probably the best and most reliable indicator. I opted to invest long-term and do a DCA rather than stress myself in the market. Maybe I will be back into day trading when the market is back, which I expect in the year of the halving and its following year which are the trend in bitcoin over the years.

65 - inthelongrun

Thank you, cygan.

$14 an hour and your daily salary is like a week of work here in my country. But yeah, you have a low-paying job if you're in the United States. Keep in contact and be updated on your investment since there is a possibility that FTX US investors will be refunded although highly unlikely at 100% and it might take some time.

As for your career, you seem to have a lot of options since you have confidence in your programming skill. You can give it a go and look for high-paying jobs. But if you're too happy with your current job then why not ask for a wage increase? If you continue to explore crypto projects, you might be able to land a job too.

For the newbies, in order to not get scammed just think about this, if the promises of x5 or even higher or lower are legit and true, then they won't be asking for your hard-earned money since the big investors and financial institutions will be the ones pouring millions to billions of dollars. One of my current requirements in order to DYOR furthermore on new projects is if they are getting investments from Binane Labs, Kucoin, and other top crypto investors.

Some of these newbies already have an idea of these scams but they are blinded by the hope of becoming rich quickly and easily. In my country, I can see teachers, engineers, and other professionals still becoming a victim of these scams.

IMO it was a bad decision to cancel his tune-up fight with Mercito Gesta. It could be that the proposed fight schedule with Tank isn't giving Kingry enough time to recover if ever the Gesta fight turns difficult. But Kingry could've easily moved his fight with Tank by a month or 2. Kingry will be nearly a year inactive when he faces Tank. He cannot overtrain either so the focus thing is just bs. He is just lazy and is only looking for the big money, he seems ready to cash out in boxing. His former coach Eddie Reynoso and former stablemate Canelo Alvarez were right, he is slacking and is losing his motivation and dedication to establish his own legacy. His fight with Tank Davis is not even a championship fight.

I am so happy that Argentina won the World Cup and even more that Lionel Messi made it including scoring 2 goals in the finals and winning the Golden Ball which solidifies his GOAT status. In terms of betting, I was not lucky with Argentina though as I went 0-3. I actually made it perfect on the opposite, my bets were the only games that Argentina lost and had draws. How unlucky I am. And I stayed late at night in order to watch them play.

Maybe it is the first time that a winner will be given to a person who only uses a pseudonym and remains anonymous. But is the Nobel award still prestigious these days? Maybe the other categories like science? I think the Nobel is now influenced by politics. Sweden a neutral in the previous 2 world wards is joining NATO. Not saying it is a bad decision for them.

Anyways, I think the real Satoshi Nakamoto is already dead. Hopefully, I am wrong and the person is living a good life and will remain anonymous forever or at least for a hundred years.

As a new tradition, Japan will always have a title fight prior to the new year. This time it is Kazuto Ioka who will unify his WBO belt against WBA champion Joshua Franco. Kazuto Ioka is fresh from his revenge over former champion Donnie Nietes. I already have my bet on Ioka since last week. He is the first Japanese 4-division world champion and IIRC, his Japanese record of winning a world title in the fewest fights was broken by Naoya Inoue. Now Inoue is also wanting to tie Ioka's 4 division titles.

On January 6 prior to the Tank Davis fight, a double-header happens in Japan. IBF champion Daniel Valladares of Mexico travels to Japan to defend his belt against local hero Ginjiro Shigeoka. In the other title fight, the Japanese champion WBO Masataka Taniguchi will defend his belt against the Filipino Melvin Jerusalem. Hopefully, upsets happen. The Philippines do not have a world boxing champion right now which is unusual.

Source: https://box.live/upcoming-fights-schedule/

I will never agree on borrowing money to invest in bitcoin. Even if the amount you borrowed is still within your reach to pay I am still not in favor of it. You only got lucky that BTC at that time was bullish. It's gambling already when you risk money on something you have zero to little knowledge about. Investing money can affect our emotions and borrowing money for investment will only make our emotions higher which can affect our next decisions. It's the same scenario last 2018 when I signed a contract to construct my house and at that time over 90% of my assets are in crypto, especially BTC. We all knew the lowest BTC price since the 2017 bull run happened in late 2018. I cannot sleep well for many days until I just decided to sell all my crypto assets at the cheapest price. Emotions will fuck up our logic. The higher the stake, the more our emotions can affect our minds. And just like playing in a casino, luck cannot be always on our side.

Nah! I don't think these huge withdrawals can bring Binance down. Ever since its decision to cancel the purchase of FTX and made it open to the public, CZ already knows possible attacks of any sort. I believe Binance can weather the storm, it's too prepared for this.

About the market, it is down already. Of course, it is affected since Binance is the biggest crypto exchange. Many are scared and didn't just withdraw their coins but sold them into fiat. For me, this is just FUD. My BTC buy order of $17.5k was hit. Now I need to cash in some funds so I won't miss this opportunity to buy at a lower price. The same scenario with ETH and BNB.

Interesting because dormancy is the least I cared about when reading casinos ToC. Although I can remember when I failed to re-open some of my old unused accounts from various casinos including when I tried the lost password option. I didn't try chatting with the support for reactivation though as mostly I can just open a new account when the old one was closed already. I don't leave balances behind when become inactive in a casino.

Most of you probably disagree with the closure of accounts but I think it is fair enough as long as you are receiving their notice thru emails. 3 months though or even 180 days of inactivity are too early to consider an account dormant since there are many seasonal bettors. But in the end, so long as we are receiving notice from the casino then we have to take action so we will not lose our funds. Seasonal bettors can look for another casino too. 

It's a good win by the Lakers against the 3rd best team in the west. Aside from Lebron, the rest of the team really step up when needed most. But of course, this is just 1 regular game and they need AD. Maybe tomorrow there will be results already on AD's injury, I am not a Laker fan but of course, we want all these athletes to stay healthy to make the league more competitive.

On the other hand, my Miami Heat, at last, entered the top 8. Although it is still tied with the Atlanta Hawks and Indiana Pacers. Miami has also a cute 3-game-win streak against mediocre teams.

Reading your comments here raised my eyebrows. So this fight is not yet signed? I thought everything is 100% official. I don't like both fighters but earlier I was leaning towards Plant because of the incident that happened years ago where Jose Benavidez tried to harass Plant while training. I honestly believe Plant could've easily knocked the guy out pretty easily but Jose was accompanied by some people including his brother David, so Plant was put in an odd situation. But I hate Plant for demanding the brand of gloves and even wanting to be announced last when he is actually the challenger since David is the interim champ. I can understand though that Plant wanted a bigger ring size.

63 - inthelongrun

Thank you and happy weekend!

I always love to see boxing events that involve multiple championship fights or at the very least 50/50 fights. So this event is like a double-header already since we have 2 championship fights. Artur Beterbiev may be a huge favorite but he is in hostile territory and Yarde may take advantage of his youth in order to survive. I seemed to forget Dalakian already after he beat the former champion, Brian Viloria. I actually thought that he lost his belt already. Now Dalakian is facing an undefeated foe which makes it interesting to see.