I am not sure which game you are referring to. You write of a programmer/producer that owns the game and let's players play the game. That sounds like a normal crypto casinos operating online. They provide the platform and games for the gamblers. Its not decentralised, the games are all operated by the casino because they usually take the opposite site of the games.
A game were the player owns the game I haven't heard before. It there are exact rules for it than there might be a game theory approach to it. Two individuals playing should be fair odds between them.

Maybe move this in the gambling discussion section

The rising fuel prices really make me worry. It was to be expected that a new major conflict is going to make the energy prices soar, but at the rate we are seeing right now is alarming. The gas stations seem to change their prices two times a day. What is very surprising right now is that Diesel prices are even more expensive than normal fuel. Diesel was usually cheaper than other fuel types, but since Russia is a big exporter for Diesel that doesn't hold true anymore.
The big issue with rising fuel prices is that we already have high inflation rates last year. Food prices are rising, construction materials are at an all time high, and now fuel and energy prices are following. If this continues than we could face a inflation spiral that will increase all other prices too. Once all the consumer prices reach new all time highs, wages have to rise also. I wonder how the politicians are going to solve that dilemma.

I agree that bitcoins are not the most practical crypto currencies for fast every day shopping. While long queues are one thing in the supermarket, in my country the self check out became very popular. To quickly scan and leave will probably not be possible. There might some alternatives however. One would be that there are scanners now in the supermarket, so you can walk around and scan the items when putting them into your basket. Paying directly in the middle of the supermarket and then there could be a confirmation until you walk to your car and leave. Another thing could be that a mobile wallet works together with the supermarket chain and the wallet operator would guarantee the payment as long as there is enough coins on the wallet. Its like with credit cards. The supermarket doesn't directly get the money either when using a card. It takes some time for the actual money to be transfered. Only on paper they are instantly credited.

You are right that Putin will very likely not accept athletes to compete for other teams. Atleast he waited for the Olympics to be over with the invasion. I wonder how long will these sanctions be in place. So far the war is going on for a week and maybe they can negotiate a peace treaty quickly, but even then will the world go back to normality quickly? From the short video clips out of Ukraine it looks like there is a lot of destruction happening. And I imagine that the world will not abandon the sanctions until there is some form of compensation. The conflict could carry on for years and the athletes will have to sit out on international competitions. I expect the list of Russian sport teams to get sanctions to grow each week.

I am fully against the war in Ukraine, it's a terrible thing and needs to stop. Even though Ukraine is fighting alone against Russia, I find it good that the international community is standing strong behind Ukraine, supporting them through supply and armament shipments, while issuing sanctions against Russia. Trying to make the economically cost as high as possible for Putin is the best strategy for Western countries, and the world seems almost united here. That is why cancelling sponsor deals in sports is a good idea, or not having competitions or tournaments in Russia. It's also good to see that Roman Abramovich decided to sell Chelsea and will donate his profits to help Ukraine.
Hurting the team and companies behind is alright in my opinion, but hurting the individual athlete is not. They spent thousands of hours training to become a professional athlete and there only mistake is to be born in the wrong country. Excluding them from competitions now is not fair I think. It would be better to let them compete under a different team, without the Russian flag.

Ja ich meinte den neuen Nano S Plus, der soll glaube ich blad rauskommen. Wenn ich mir jetzt ein Hardware Wallet zulegen würde, dann würde ich gleich auf das neuste Produkt gehen, solange es was taugt. Verfällt der Gutschein irgendwann? Ich würde noch auf die Reviews abwarten und dann am liebsten den ganz neuen kaufen. Auf der website steht leider nur "coming soon" und dass auch schon seit einiger Zeit. Also falls der Gutschein dann noch da ist hätte ich Interesse.

So far I haven't paid money for a subscription on betting tips yet. In the past I tried out some free trial periods to take a look at their predictions, but felt like the bets where too far out of my comfort zone. I prefer to know atleast the basics of where I put my money. The only really money I paid for betting tips was back in university, I had a good friend who was following the second Bundesliga a lot and had good insights into their teams. So me and 3 other friends pooled some money together and let our friend bet all the money for one season. He made us a decent profit and in he go 25% from the profits. In the end we used all our profits to make a one week camping trip.



The experience I had from the free trials I used is that the service was not a scam, the tips seems to have merit and are not just random predictions. The problem for me was that on some of the matches where money was bet on, I knew nothing about and it felt a little wrong to bet money and trust someone without doing my own research. Even if I am not as profitable mysef, I want to inform myself and make some own predictions. This is probably why I mostly bet on esports game. I watch the games for fun and it's some excitment for me to make some bets on the side. It's similar to managing your money, you can trust a fund manager to do it for you, or you take your own bets and risks. Atleast like that you can't blame anyone else than yourself if things go wrong.

Thanks for this, I wasn't aware that the Russian online casinos are being owned by billionaires. You are right that probably most of the Russian oligarch have strong connections to the governments. As such boycotting the casinos will be another pressure point for the billionaires of losing money. That is also why many of the oligarchs are included personally in the sanctions against Russia. Increasing the pressure on their personal wealth is the strategy, so that they in return crease pressure on Putin to end the war. We shouldn't forget however, that there are normal people working on these casinos and boycotting them could lead to bankruptcy of the casinos. I am sure the average citizen in Russia doesn't want the war and for them losing their jobs is also a bad thing on top of economic downturn.

So far it hasn't even been a week of conflict and things are already so out of control. Inflation is rising while the Ruble is dropping sharply. It is crazy to believe that Putin factored in all these Western sanctions and negative economic effects on the Russian economy when he planned the war with Ukraine.  It is very hard to get any independent news from the frontlines, there are a lot of Ukrainian videos that showing abandoned or destroyed Russian equipment, while the Russian TV shows they take Ukrainian soldiers that are captivity and large columns of tanks and equipment heading for Kiev. The question I ask myself is how long can Ukraine withstand that Russian pressure? Putin must have factor a time period for Russia to withstand that economic cost of war, it might be 4 weeks, or 8 weeks, or even longer. But eventually Russia needs to find a way to reconcile things with the world and try to get access to western markets again. It also remains to be seen how far is China willing to go to support Russia.

There is no certainty with predictions in todays world. A prediction by "experts" is their own best guess how the future could look like with all information available at that time in the past. The crypo and also stocks crash at the end of last year came due to the new covid variant Omicron. Nobody really knew that we would get such a new variant that is spreading faster than Delta. In the end it turned out that Omicron is not as deadly as Delta and even with more covid cases things weren't as bad a year before. So maybe without the covid variant we could have reached 100k USD by christmas last year, who knows. As for El Salvador, I don't remember any prediction that said El Salvador has a huge impact on BTC price. It's a very small country with a weak economy, there is not a lot of demand from it.
Crypto prices recovered this year just to be hit by the Ukraine-Russia war. At the first day of the conflict I remember the news that WW3 is starting at the world is doomed, but since then it was public that no western countries will join the war and it will remain a conflict between Russia and Ukraine, and not Russia and Nato. Cryptos are a global project and many countries are not so much affected yet by the war. My advice is to not trust blindly predictions from experts, better to make up your own mind.

No the world is not running out bitcoins. Everybody knew from the start that there is only a limited amount of Bitcoins to be mined. That is also what makes bitcoins so valuable. If we could just create new bitcoins out of thin air the price would never be as high as it is today. Being independent from governments that create the money supply is what makes cryptos so attractive to most investors. The maximum limit of Bitcoins is a great thing and we don't need to worry about it. The higher the price will be, the smaller the denominations we trade in. 1 BTC could be worth 1 million USD and we would still use it.

I don't think that there is any risk for the big Russian banks to collapse. As far as I understood it it's only the European subsidiaries that will likely collapse. The banking system relys heavily of short term refinancing, and if you take away that chance to refinance by removing the market access the banks will fail. It's also not very likely for the main banks from Russia to step in and save them. The falling ruble price is also adding to insolvency pressure. As for the flagships in Russia I don't see them failing. Russia has full control over them and could always start printing more ruble. Another issue is that Russia could just freeze on deposits and don't allow withdrawals anymore.

How does this work exactly? We need to bet the exact same slips as you do for 7 days, if there is a loss we get the loss back from you? That is a very generous offer from you. So far it seems that you are very profitable with your betting. I saw that you are winning always much more than you are losing, so for every 1 or 2 days of small losses, you have one big payout day. That is awesome, I might give it a try starting this weekend. Always good to consider new betting areas as long as they are profitable. But instead of betting $25 for game, I would probably start with just $5, so dividing all your bets by 5 to make it a bit cheaper on my bankroll.


Oh I missed that it's a monthly subscription. Makes sense since you make so much money out of it. May I ask how much time you spend researching your bets every month?

I also want to support Ukraine, the war is a terrible thing and should be ended as soon as possible. It is always the most vulnerable people that are hurting the most. Donating money is one option, another one is giving food and clothes for the refugees in Ukraine, Poland and Romania. Sanctions against the country Russia is a good thing to put pressure on Putin to engage in negotiations with Ukraine and end the war.  Boycotting all things from Russia will hurt ordinary people a lot more that it will the government. It is normal people like us who just happen to live in Russia. I have a few Russian friends and all of them are against the war, nobody supports it. Unfortunately there is a big difference in Russia being against something and protesting openly against it. You are not only at fear to be put in jail, but also to maybe lose your job or benefits from the state. Hurting the big state owned companies through sanctions is the right approach, boycotting everything from Russia is not I think. It's not like the Russian casinos are run by Putin himself.

Watching the match was a rollercoaster, such a strong comeback from Faze in the first map and then the lenghty overtime in the second match. It was a 3-0 win but not an easy won for sure, very well played by both teams. Was a great athmosphere to watch it live. I felt like there was so much ingame betting during the final than I barely see from CSGO matches. After the first 5-6 round wins for G2 the odds came down to 1.25 for a win of G2, just to see them switch to Faze in the second half of the match. Broky is a great player, he deserved to be the MVP of Katowice 2022, I just felt that Ropz played a little better. His strong performance carried them through the finals. His ACE in the first game was so sick. Looking forward to the Major in two months.

It's very hard to quantify the losses Russia faces due to the Ukrainian war. The stock market collapsed, Rubble is going down, international trade stopped, many new sanctions are coming up. On top of that is all the military equipment being lost in less than a week. Every jet, tank or helicopter that goes down cost several million. All these costs together need to have some form of profit that Putin hopes to gain Ukraine. One Profit is that he hopes to get access to the natural resources, like natural gas. If he changes the government and installs a pro Russian prime minister he could also control the large companies in Ukraine.

Bitcoin is a good alternative to traditional fiat money. Especially if people want to support Ukraine from abroad, then bitcoins is a quick way to pool money from all around the world to send to Ukraine. There are two issues which could be a problem. First, Russia might target the Internet infrastructure and tries to jam the access from abroad. Without working Internet it's hard to deal with bitcoins, and you always need to convert it to fiat money. That is probably why so many countries send goods and weapons directly, like medical supplies and fuel. With large amounts of money it might be hard for Ukraine to purchase things. The second issue is that there are fake donation requests to help in Ukraine. With bitcoins there is only a small chance to recover funds that have been send to a scammer.

Yeah I agree, G2 looked like the stronger team during the playoffs. Beating NAVI in the Semifinals came as a big surprise to me, especially winning confidently 2-0 with no overtime. Usually my NAVI pick pays off better   Just not sure if I should place a last minute bet now on G2, with 1.5 G2 seems like the strong favourite of the game. Maybe a small bet at these odds on Faze is better payout.


Ropz is also one of my favourite players. I enjoyed watching him play since his early days at mousesports. He really came far. Would be awesome if he could pull of the Player of the Match.

I don't think China will follow b.) remain neutral and just observe. Russia is an ally of China, and China has been in a currency war with USA for years now. So if they have the chance to weaken the west they will do so. First of all I would expect China to block any major resolutions against Russia in the UN. Another step for China could be to directly support Russian. Russian banks will be blocked from Swift and they have no more access to western refinancing markets. China could use this opportunity to give out loans to Russia at high interest rates. In the end China will follow the path that strengthen their own position and not what is best for humanity. This is also why USA doesn't want to get involved to deeply in Ukraine, because their main concern these days is China and not Russia anymore.

In my opinion it's a good time to buy bitcoins. The current price compared to the last 12 months is cheap. I do believe in the longterm upwards trend of Bitcoins. This is of course my own opinion and no guarantee that prices will actually rise soon again. It could be that the Ukraine crisis intensifies and BTC will drop even further. That would only be short-term. Over the next 12 months I expect a higher price than today. So if you don't own any BTC at all I would buy some now.