It really wasn't as easy as everyone made it out to be. Yes Italy still won, but first of all if you played a game with draw and said Italy you all lost, and at the same time everyone was saying Spain wasn't good enough anymore and they barely lost in the penalties, so they did all they could and that is a good thing.

However one thing is for sure, we are talking about something that is very very close and the finals will be the same way as well, do not put any team clearly ahead of any other team, this tournament is poster child for that, Switzerland literally beat France, that should have told us that there are no more favorites in any game anymore. It was a fun game to watch as a fan, I wagered on Italy to win total (incl. overtime and penalties) and that allowed me to make some profit, and hopefully we will get England to win as well, that would make me break even and even profit a bit finally.

Indicators are what make you a good trader in the long term if you know how to use them but you are right you have to work on yourself as well. So, I would say that combine those two things together and you got yourself a good deal. Learn about both the trading world and how indicators work and how everything works, when you become very good at that then you can start to actually work on yourself and what type of trader you think you are.

After you got both of them down and learn them very well, you can start to combine those things and use what type of trader you are into the indicators you know and create something good. Not all indicators work for all people, some of them are good for certain people and some of them are bad for them, it is all depending on what type of person you are. This way everyone can create their own unique experience.

I think the Ramos one was a known thing for a while inside, and they just didn't want to pay that much money for a veteran player who is out of the door anyway because of his age, but I doubt that Varane thing was something they planned, certainly not with Ramos leaving at the same season, they would have kept Ramos one more season if they knew that Varane would leave, however dude just wanted to get out.

I still think that it is Real Madrid and they have a ton of money and they could end up using that money to get defenders, they already got one and they are looking for another.

Instead of making a big spending and get another superstar like they always do each season, for example instead of getting Mbappe or something like that, they could just instead split that money and buy two amazing defenders all they have to do is convince those players to come join them.

It has been a news for a few days now I think. Spurs is getting Wolves manager shows that Spurs is not after a championship or a high level at all they are just going to fight for a place in European league at the very best, or hope for the last champions league spot but all of it will be very difficult. Why? Because there is City, which I think could still win the league yet again, there is Liverpool which will be better I hope because they used to be so great but had a bad stretch last season, there is United who bought Sancho to add to last year's amazing team that finished second, and then there is Chelsea that won the champions league last year.

So when you have those 4, that leaves the 5th position open. I am not saying that Spurs will be able to get that neither because we have few other teams fighting for that spot as well but that is the best I think they could do.

I doubt that it is about being deported or even physical harm, it is obvious that these people are now rich and UK wants to take a piece of that money. Think about it, wouldn't you want two people with over 3 billion dollars in their pockets to come to your nation, live there, spend there, when they spend their money others in your nation earn money, and they pay taxes as well so basically all around as long as they live there that 3+ billion dollars will slowly go into UK economy.

So I think it is not about white collar crime, it is not about deportation, it is not about keeping someone safe from physical harm, UK doesn't care about any of that, they only care about money that they could make from these two. I still can't believe they managed to steal this much money, it is a shock to me that they were even capable of doing something this large so easily.

Honestly let bitcoin price do whatever it wants because being too overly excited about the price will not help you in any way. We are talking about something that is going to end up not being moved just because we want to (well it could if we had billions of dollars to spend on it) so there is no need to worry about it. Go on and do whatever you want, you think it will go up? Then buy more and wait for it to go up, surely it does look like it could go up from here if we keep repeating the same thing we did for the past two months.

If you think it will go on and crash? Then just don't buy it and if you have any then sell your coins as well. There is nothing wrong with making a mistake in trading, you learn by making mistakes and the more mistakes you make the more you learn and you become a better trader eventually thanks to all the mistakes you did previously.

Lol, I am sure I am not the first one . I just worded it differently than others. If you ask people "do you want stake to earn a lot of money from gamblers losing their bets?" they would all say no, because we all want to make profit that's for sure. However if you ask people "do you care if stake goes bankrupt and closes its doors?" then they would say that they do care and they hope stake would continue forever.

Well, that money is not coming down from heaven, you have to make money from us losing money, hence why I do care if you are making money or not because I do not want you to bankrupt and close the doors. Just make your money from other people and not me All jokes aside if you have all those streams, all those sponsorships, and now all these millions of dollars given away, and still do make a profit then it must mean that you guys are doing awesome for sure.

Unfortunately people didn't check who the owners are, it has been said before that people do not look at the owners of the exchanges they use, it is a shame but it is also the reality. I do wonder how this will unfold, 200 million dollars is not a small amount of money, hell even 5 million dollars is not a small amount of money but 3.5 billion dollars is a staggering amount of money and I do wonder what is going to happen.

If they were 100% innocent and had absolutely nothing wrong then why did they ran away to UK? That is the correct question to ask, if they had so much money just stolen and everything else is fine and they can come back and make the business continue without a problem then they should have done that to begin with. The only reason they went to UK is basically to hide their money there and that's it, now they can come back and claim that they are hacked just like everyone else and they are victims as well.

It does not impact those who are in upper middle class, it only impacts the very wealthy, and if you really think that republicans are against it all because it doesn't impact the billionaires then you haven't paid attention to who donates to republicans and how republicans vote. Just to give a very very simple example, when trump gave people 1200 dollars to help with stimulus package all the democrats voted for it and people got it right away, when Biden did it all the republicans said it is bad for the economy.

If the republicans care about poverty so much, the minimum wage offer was 15 bucks, which is not even enough yet it was still declined by republicans. Same republicans went ahead with 2+ trillion dollar tax break to very wealthy companies that declined 15 bucks minimum wage. This WILL impact the billionaires believe it or not, republicans saying it won't is a big lie, let's do it and you will see how much it will impact, but nooo republicans can't do anything that will upset their donations.

Are you serious? I mean this guy tweets about something and it changes the price all by himself. He may or may not have the same power anymore because his influence over crypto world is getting lower and lower but that doesn't change the fact that he can still tweet about it as the most influential and wealthy person in the crypto world. He talked about doge and look what he turned it into.

Doge was about $0.005 when he first started talking about it, it broke over 0.70 at the peak eventually, someone who can make a coin that high could definitely create his coin and people will buy it for sure. Hell he joked about "marscoin" once and apparently there was one and that coin skyrocket like hell, a coin that had 100-200 dollars volume daily had 200k+ dollars volume in a day just because he tweeted about a potential of a mars coin in the future not even THAT coin.

That "game" thing really turned NFT into something much bigger. Back in the day it was just some pictures being sold and even then it worth a lot of money and nobody really made any sense in that. There was one NFT that went for nearly 70 million dollars if I am not wrong. I can guarantee you that if that guy wanted to sell it right now, he can't get half of that amount these days, don't care whose paintings it was and why it was that much but I know it won't worth that much these days.

However games made sense, because in the gaming world you could make NFT and then you could turn around and do something much bigger with it, play with it, win with it, earn with it basically you can use your NFT for something in return of buying it. This way on contrary to what it was just few months ago when you just bought pictures, nowadays you buy some utility with it.

It is not easy to be a fully supportive of crypto when you have a currency that is getting less and less valuable and a nation that has worse and worse economy. However Germany has none of those, they have a currency that is doing better, and they have a nation with probably the best finances in all of the world, they gave zero deficits ffs (before pandemic) that is enough.

So long story short Germany is not afraid of bitcoin because they know that it wasn't created to hurt nations and governments like theirs, it was created against nations like USA where rich get richer thanks to politicians and poor get poorer because of the same government, with crypto there is a good amount of freedom given to the citizens to fight against the wall streets of the world so that equality could be reached a bit more easily. Germany is already good in that regard, they do not need to fear crypto at all.

Bitcoin survived for more than 10 years as of now hence I will not suspect about the survival of next 10 years.
Next 10 years for bitcoins might be more interesting than what we had experienced in last 5 to 7 years. I remember there were topics on this forum like "what will you do if bitcoin got stuck at current levels forever" (when bitcoin was trading below $500 levels) but I guess we may not see such topic anymore. But, we will see topics like "will bitcoin test $500k/$800k this month?"

More countries will follow El Salvador in next few years and more number of celebrities might start talking about their success stories on how their enjoying big profits due to bitcoin.

In my speculation, I guess by 2030 bitcoin might have set ATH above $10M levels as I am expecting one million to be tested by the times of 2025 itself.

It is NORMAL for most of us to miss when available and then regretting later on. I am the one had missed bitcoins to grab for less than $30 (not $30k) by the early times of bitcoins; due to lack of awareness about the future of bitcoin, I remained as a fool and then regretting right now almost every day.

I have been watching many people were sharing stories like me and some people were praying for big collapse of bitcoin market so that they will enter at cheaper price levels yet in big volume. They are somehow right but definitely not up to their dreamy levels. Yeah, bitcoin is known for getting us second chances always still we can get only 70% or 80% cheaper and not 200% cheaper.

^^Did this million dollar thing actually made you guys profit or something? I mean it is a million dollars, it is a ton of money, I do not remember any place to give away a million dollars before and now we are talking about the same thing once again which will make it two million dollars in few months. That is really an awesome thing and I really did not see it coming at all.

I do believe that it is definitely a great thing but I am worried that it is not going to help stake in the long run, I know a gambler worrying about the finances of a casino doesn't really make sense to many people because we should all be wanting to profit here by gambling and earning which means stake losing, that is the "goal" of gamblers, BUT at the same time I want to see stake be around forever and with millions of dollars given to gamblers could mean something bad for stake if they do not earn enough.

It is a tale as old as history itself. If you have a nation that is very bad in financial situation then you have to do something as government to make it go better. These taxes are not there to help politicians, it is there to help the people back, if you keep paying taxes but nothing is improving then why are you paying a tax to begin with?

Most nations in the developed worlds gets taxes and makes their corporate buddies richer with it, in others taxes goes to pockets of the politicians, there is rarely ever a good nation where taxes actually work.

I know it is boring to say this but looking at north European nations you see that they are doing good, why? Because, they are inherently better than rest of the world? Of course not, they are boring same old nation equal to everyone else, only reason why they are doing good is high taxes exists but goes back to population and not in the pockets of someone else. Do that and big companies should be paying even MORE taxes, as long as those taxes actually do help people.

I feel like we should not have just one thing that is full of everything perfect. I understand that ETH has an ecosystem, I can see Binance having their own, even tron has their own system as well and they are all fine. We should not look to have just one single thing that is better than everything else in every category, that is not really a good thing because it is eliminating competition.

We should have ecosystems where X is good and ecosystems where Y is good and that way we would have best in different places, and they will fight for your business and they will try to get investors by improving constantly, it is a non-stop thing, you improve one part and then you improve the next without stop. However the most important part of any ecosystem is to have many projects, if there is no interest towards it, it will become like tron where the ecosystem is not used at all, but if there is interest then it becomes like eth and bnb.

Why would they? I mean I understand this is just a hypothetical question so there is no wrong answer, you could say it will ruin bitcoin or you could say it will increase bitcoin, well in fact it will just simply ruin bitcoin because every ban hurts bitcoin, look at what happened after china. However the question in itself is wrong, why would they ban it?

Right now, USA is making a killing on crypto profit taxes and they are allowing people to accept crypto as payment and that allows people to make profit from people who live in other nations, so crypto is getting bigger and bigger meaning giving USA more and more power. They even made Coinbase a legal company years years ago but also got its IPO recently which means regular people could actually own a piece of coinbase if they want to, would USA government allow something like that if they were thinking about banning crypto? No way they would ever do that.

That is the hard part to balance that very well. There is this fine line between those two and when you have that you become a great trader but if you fail that then you become a very bad trader. If you are too confident and arrogant then you are going to end up losing money by making bad decisions trusting yourself way too much with every move you make, that is a bad thing and you should not have that much confidence in yourself and should question every move.

However if you do not have any confidence at all then you will fail to make moves, you will think about making moves but since you have no confidence in yourself either you will make zero trades out of fear, or you will follow others because you do not trust yourself. This is why you should not trust yourself completely but not fear what you may do neither, you should find that balance between them.

If you have people in your nation that understands crypto very well then the government should be taking some of them as advisors so that they could help their governments understand what crypto is all about.

If the government thinks that it is some sort of MLM type of deal then they do not know what crypto is and they are making a decision based on something they are not even sure about. That is the reason why nations like Nigeria cannot take the 100% benefit of crypto when they would be the ones that could make the most profit out of it as well.

Think about it, if someone explained to Nigerian government that people could use crypto to earn money from other nations, work for crypto cheaper than other nations, earn a ton of money, help the poverty ridden nation to grow bigger, and all those people paying taxes to help the nation as well, this is beneficial for the whole freaking nation. But government do not see that unfortunately.