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2521  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Crypto lender Celsius mulls possible restructuring amid financial woes on: June 21, 2022, 01:38:01 AM
There always be the rich and powerful everywhere who tries to manipulate and takes advantage everything for profit. This is the reality of capitalism. Whether the name is Justin Sun, Changpeng Zhao, Sam Bankman Fried, Michael Saylor or Elon Musk, everyone like them is out there for profit.

It is not disputed that they are all in the crypto game because their ultimate goal is profit, but the way they will achieve it is important. I would not put Saylor on the same level as Musk, because the former has his own business philosophy and sticks to what he says from the first day he invested in Bitcoin, while the latter did a lot of damage with his tweets by pumping that altcoin, and even greater damage is made by his decision to withdraw Bitcoin as a payment option in one of his companies.

In any case, it is speculated that Zhu Su moved 3 Arrow Capital to Dubai from Singapore to avoid extradition to America for financial crime. This will again be very bad for the image of the cryptospace.

I read an article in which the SEC investigates Kwon, but they already admit that it will be difficult for them to prove that he intended to do something bad - even though he was extracting large amounts of money months before the collapse. I think that in this particular case it would be difficult to prove something, but if you have money and you are not completely stupid, you can at least temporarily evade justice.

I honestly would like to see Saylor's investment in bitcoin to be an inspiring success story, however, I cannot stop myself from being skeptical. I speculate him to be more dangerous than Elon Musk, very much similar to those politicians who always make themselves appear good in front of the public or similar to those scammers who want themselves to appear honest.
2522  Economy / Gambling / Re: I can beat bet365, but cant find good seller. Increese your acc 50/50 profit!!! on: June 20, 2022, 05:22:31 AM
when i read your post i immediately ran to google to find out if in your country they accept gambling or not and i found out that in your country they do not accept gambling. So far this is something very problematic, however you can search for someone casino that is not banning people from your country to play and who accept using VPN. you don't just need to be using this risky method that you are proposing here on the forum, look for other casinos that are suitable for your situation and that you won't break their TOS.

However, when it was me reading his post, I immediately became skeptical hehehe. What if he is only pretending to be living in a country that does not allow gambling? What if he really wants to use an account under your name to deposit dirty money in, gamble through the account then withdraw the laundered money. Also, does Bet365 allow money transfers between accounts?



5 arrested for money laundering via online betting

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) have arrested five members of an online betting racket, involved in money laundering abroad through virtual currency and e-transactions -- earned from various gambling websites such as Bet365, and 9 Wickets.


Source https://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/crime-justice/news/5-arrested-money-laundering-online-betting-2974841
2523  Economy / Speculation / Re: Terra cofounder Do Kwon is the one who is pumping Bitcoin on: June 20, 2022, 04:18:31 AM
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Anyway he's just as guilty as Bernie Madoff for projecting false profits and blowing up.

I also think that this is so, especially since according to the investigation conducted by Uppsala Security, the wallet that caused the collapse of UST belonged to Terraform Labs, so investors suffered losses due to the actions of Terra.

https://sentinel-protocol.medium.com/part-1-debunking-the-lunatic-conspiracy-what-you-didnt-know-about-the-activities-behind-the-57227b75d5a6

I do not know where to find Binance's analysis, however, it appears that CZ is telling everyone that Uppsala Security's assumption that the address or some of those addresses mentioned in their analysis is wrong and they do not belong to Terraform Labs.



Based on our analysis, this report is wrong. Not defending Terra, I have criticized them heavily. Just pointing out a mistake. Cunningham's law. The address in the article does not seem to belong to Terra.

Source https://mobile.twitter.com/cz_binance/status/1537930945981841415?s=12&t=swxOClSHPwlqYmhE99_e1w


Also, according to this article, Luna's whistleblower has also mentioned that the address is Kucoin's hot wallet.



The report caused further panic in the Terra community after it went viral. Interestingly, popular Terra whistleblower FatMan slammed the report as false on the grounds that the address does not belong to Terra developers, as claimed by Coindesk and Uppsala Security.

FatMan said the address belongs to a KuCoin hot wallet as opposed to being owned by the TFL team.

“I am disappointed that an outlet as prestigious as CoinDesk Korea would publish this without running basic checks,” FatMan said.
 

Source https://cryptonews.net/news/altcoins/8418303/
2524  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Crypto lender Celsius mulls possible restructuring amid financial woes on: June 20, 2022, 03:41:35 AM
@logfiles. I predict that Justin Sun will come out of this cryptospace game richer and he will be a more important character than before. I am not telling everyone that he is the hero, however, he his a survivor.

We can call him by any name, but the fact that people like him have very little (or not at all) scruples and sell their ideas very successfully (however pointless they may be). They all prosper and cooperate in a world where profit is the common denominator, where all boundaries and disagreements disappear. It’s easy to be a survivor when you always have enough money to live like a king, no matter what happens to the projects and companies you have.



As for these crypto-landers, in my opinion, they should never have existed, much less they should have been trusted. Many have said it was a bad idea in the past, and now we know they were right - and I wouldn't care that they fail, but their failure hurts us all. Will people learn anything from all this? I honestly don’t hope too much given the short-term memory that the average cryptocurrency investor shows.


There always be the rich and powerful everywhere who tries to manipulate and takes advantage everything for profit. This is the reality of capitalism. Whether the name is Justin Sun, Changpeng Zhao, Sam Bankman Fried, Michael Saylor or Elon Musk, everyone like them is out there for profit.

In any case, it is speculated that Zhu Su moved 3 Arrow Capital to Dubai from Singapore to avoid extradition to America for financial crime. This will again be very bad for the image of the cryptospace.
2525  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin has no future as a payments network, says FTX chief on: June 20, 2022, 02:05:15 AM
@LFC_Bitcoin. Agreed. I thought he would be one of the ethical founders in the cryptospace. However, he said this from an interview for a mainstream website. I am not certain what it implies, however, does he have an intention to bail out some of the cryptofunds and services in the cryptospace? He did this before when he helped save Sushiswap from failure on 2020.

If FTX and Alameda issues a public announcement of a bail out, this might cause a pump on much of the market hehehe.



"I do feel like we have a responsibility to seriously consider stepping in, even if it is at a loss to ourselves, to stem contagion," he said. "Even if we weren't the ones who caused it, or weren't involved in it. I think that's what's healthy for the ecosystem..."

Source https://mobile.twitter.com/sbf_ftx/status/1538518138685464577?s=12&t=iH_StnEokfjakkNbe0Tk3A
2526  Economy / Speculation / Re: Terra cofounder Do Kwon is the one who is pumping Bitcoin on: June 19, 2022, 05:28:03 AM
@buwaytress. Agreed. I speculate that each of their company's' performance during the bear market, a coming economic crisis, Ukraine invasion and there is the risk of China's invasion of Taiwan might not be very good. There is also China's defense ministry. He has already warned that America and their allies should avoid the Taiwan Strait or there will be war.

I predict Saylor liquidation fud to begin if bitcoin dumps under $20k and cause more panic.

Except that now he seems to have backtracked somewhat and said that the danger is really not as significant as -- think 3 days ago, I saw the full transcript on phone and he said a lot of things that didn't seem to add up

Takeaways: plenty of assets left to collateralise, margin call wouldn't happen below 21k, and he's leveraged 1.04, so would need 95% drop of purchase price (so that's $2000) to get in trouble.

But I don't know, was a rough interview and vague as hell.

What he said is true. They have the assets to add more to their leveraged position if bitcoin dumps further, however, assuming that the asset is also bitcoin or stocks of Microstrategy would this really be the best decision as an investor? Everyone else is beginning to deleverage and Saylor will add more leverage? This is head shaking.

I expect crypto, like stocks to retract. But for some reason i hope Saylor will survive this bear market.
We've had so many idiots associated with crypto; Mcafee, Musk, Garza, Da Kown, it's good to have a normal person, a business person, being associated with crypto right?

I also hope Saylor survives this bear market. If he was liquidated this will certainly cause a dump lower than $5000 if some articles from mainstream news media are correct in their reports that his liquidation price is around $3000. This will also be very bad for business in the cryptospace.
2527  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 🥊 The UFC Info and Prediction Thread on: June 18, 2022, 07:05:49 AM
Emmet is the popular badass and has been cheered by the crowd and that one jab from Josh Emmet has put down Mirsad Bektic on the ground that was 1 huge jab that stun Mirsad Bektic, that was one absolute win from Josh Emmet, and I really feel that Calvin Kattar will surely have a hard time and he surely admits it aswell that Josh Emmet is one tough opponent to crack, and he was right, Mirsad Bektic was knocked out on the 1st round, Sheesh! thanks for sharing this I am now seeing the big picture on how powerful Josh Emmet is,

Yup for his size he def hits hard.  And look at the way he's built.  Lol.  But I still have Kattar and he's still at my top ticket even after weigh ins.  So yeah, nothing has changed except Yanez go up one notch and Ramos goes down one notch aa Kelley missed weight..  I'm a tad more confident in Yanez now.



Yup, even though Josh Emmet has the power and Strength feat I think Calvin Kattar can manage that, I think Kattar has the advantage when it comes to striking, but Emmet has the strength in Wrestling so Kattar needs to watch out for those takedowns, pretty much I am very curious in what may happen for this fight, and because of that I am so much excited which might prevail Josh Emmet Strength on wrestling or Calvin Kattar's precise striking and technical distance,

Another fight that I am anticipating watching was Donald "Cowboy" Cerrone if he's able to win after his losses in his recent fights, or if Joe Lauzon can still make a worth from his 2 years not stepping inside the octagon, this is really interesting I think that with that experience and still active inside the ring can make an advantage against Lauzon,

Another thing is the fighting Kitty Gloria de Paula is worth mentioning and if that beauty can take on Maria Oliveira who now has 12 wins that are out of her 17 fights while de Paula only got 10 fights with 6 wins on it,



However, our sexy fighting kitten has very much improved. She was defeated by a good sexy kitty fighter called Cheyanne Vlismas but she has also won her next fight versus Diana Belbita who is another good sexy fighting kitty hehehe. I speculate that uncle Dana will be giving pretty Gloria de Paula these very easy next fights for her to secure a winning streak. They want to help her career because fans like her.


2528  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Former head of product for OpenSea indicted after insider trading scandal on: June 18, 2022, 05:41:17 AM
@NotATether. I agree that much of the pfp NFTs are not very beautiful enough to be called real masterpieces, however, you did not consider the part of what gives these ugly pfp their value. It is the culture, the people and because of these, the speculation for future profits.

Did you know that there are Defi protocols being created and developed to unlock the value behind these NFTs and for the owners to get some liquidity without selling them? I reckon it has only begun. When the bull market returns, protocols similar to FloorDAO, JPEG'd and BendDAO are the investments that might have 100x pumps.
2529  Economy / Speculation / Re: Terra cofounder Do Kwon is the one who is pumping Bitcoin on: June 18, 2022, 04:52:47 AM
@buwaytress. Agreed. I speculate that each of their company's' performance during the bear market, a coming economic crisis, Ukraine invasion and there is the risk of China's invasion of Taiwan might not be very good. There is also China's defense ministry. He has already warned that America and their allies should avoid the Taiwan Strait or there will be war.

I predict Saylor liquidation fud to begin if bitcoin dumps under $20k and cause more panic.

Except that now he seems to have backtracked somewhat and said that the danger is really not as significant as -- think 3 days ago, I saw the full transcript on phone and he said a lot of things that didn't seem to add up

Takeaways: plenty of assets left to collateralise, margin call wouldn't happen below 21k, and he's leveraged 1.04, so would need 95% drop of purchase price (so that's $2000) to get in trouble.

But I don't know, was a rough interview and vague as hell.

What he said is true. They have the assets to add more to their leveraged position if bitcoin dumps further, however, assuming that the asset is also bitcoin or stocks of Microstrategy would this really be the best decision as an investor? Everyone else is beginning to deleverage and Saylor will add more leverage? This is head shaking.
2530  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Crypto lender Celsius mulls possible restructuring amid financial woes on: June 18, 2022, 03:09:22 AM
@logfiles. I predict that Justin Sun will come out of this cryptospace game richer and he will be a more important character than before.

LOL! But, well, it could happen. But it now depends on whether people in the crypto space would get enlightened or not. Justin Sun is a scheming young man who will remain who he is. He does what he does best. He will continue with his money-making business. He is good in building up hype around his projects. It's just up to the people whether they've learned from history or not. Justin Sun will always prey upon the innocent. But I admit he is better than Do Kwon. CZ must be a good mentor.

They call him His Excellency hehehe. How did he get to this position which is assumed to have legal immunity? This should be enough to tell everyone that Justin Sun might have a wealthy, powerful backer behind him. Is it CZ? No, I speculate CZ to be just one of the people of an exclusive group created to manipulate and the cryptospace. A crypto illuminati hehehehehe.
2531  Economy / Gambling / Re: 🦉 Owl.games 🦉 Web 3.0 Crypto Casino & Sportsbook - BTC-Metamask-Walletconnect on: June 17, 2022, 02:46:33 AM
I bought some owl tokens way back two months ago and am intending to keep holding for the long term, but with the bonuses, you announced with owl tokens I think it's will have to try out the site to see if I can get lucky with the bonuses system let me place some games to see how the casino function.

This might become the best investment for 2022 hehehe. It only has small volume, however, it has only been moving up slowly despite the beginning for the bear market. The lucky members of Owl's campaign should not sell.

@Piesel. Swap BNB or BUSD for Owl tokens on Pancakeswap. Do not be afraid, it is safe and also very fast and easy hehe.
2532  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 🏈🏈 The American Football Discussion Thread 🏈🏈 on: June 17, 2022, 01:58:35 AM
To be quite honest with everyone, I do not know what difference a PPR or a non-PPR league will be for a newbie like me. However, it appears some in group wants PPR. For solidarity within the group and as a compromise, I saw that in some leagues there is a half point PPR. Can we use this?

Also, remove me from the votes. I do not know and I do not have enough knowledge for this, I abstain. Similar to ChiBitCTy, I will do what everyone wants to do.
2533  Economy / Speculation / Re: Terra cofounder Do Kwon is the one who is pumping Bitcoin on: June 17, 2022, 01:22:45 AM
@buwaytress. Agreed. I speculate that each of their company's' performance during the bear market, a coming economic crisis, Ukraine invasion and there is the risk of China's invasion of Taiwan might not be very good. There is also China's defense ministry. He has already warned that America and their allies should avoid the Taiwan Strait or there will be war.

I predict Saylor liquidation fud to begin if bitcoin dumps under $20k and cause more panic.

2534  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Crypto lender Celsius mulls possible restructuring amid financial woes on: June 17, 2022, 12:35:07 AM
@logfiles. I predict that Justin Sun will come out of this cryptospace game richer and he will be a more important character than before. I am not telling everyone that he is the hero, however, he his a survivor. We have lost many characters. Mark Karpeles, Chris Larsen, Dan Larimer, Brad Garlinghouse and other old founders. Justin Sun might survive everything hehehehe. Did you know they presently call him his excellency? He is an ambassador of something now hehe. He might have legal immunity from any type of lawsuits.

In any case, it appears 3 Arrows Capital might have also become insolvent because of Celsius. They were speculated to have $18 billion under their management during the peak of the bull market. There are no news outlets presently reporting on this, however, there are already other founders in social media telling everyone what happened and what their business relationship was with 3 Arrows.



1) What happened between 3AC and us and what we know so far:
@zhusu @KyleLDavies


Source https://mobile.twitter.com/danny8bc/status/1537224378554806272



These are 3 Arrows Capital's investments in the cryptospace. They have many from Avalanche to Blockfi to Axie Infinity.

https://www.threearrowscap.com/select-investments/
2535  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Boxing Speculation, Odds and Predictions on: June 16, 2022, 07:12:26 AM
@Baofeng. Terence Crawford is higher than Errol Spence? The people who created that list might want Errol Spence to hurry and make it quick for his team to make a deal with Crawford's team hehehe. I agree with Naoya Inoue as the no.1 pound for pound for this present generation of boxers. I reckon that he should not wait for a unification in bantamweight and go up to super bantamweight and challege Stephen Fulton. There is also more money for him there hehehe.
2536  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Crypto lender Celsius mulls possible restructuring amid financial woes on: June 16, 2022, 06:35:06 AM
@mk4. I am very much in doubt if they were stupid. It might be some of them, however, there were also whales and major cryptofunds that had deposits of UST in Anchor. It is very clear that it was not stupidity that caused their failure. It was greed.
2537  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: El Salvador has become the first country to make #Bitcoin legal tender! on: June 16, 2022, 05:13:51 AM
I would not feel suprised if the FMI and the World bank started to issue some official declarations against the "unwise" investment made by the Salvador in Bitcoin, I would not feel surprised either if some protests started there under the narrative that the president is gambling the money of the people away, etc.

We all know Bitcoin has powerful enemies and during this bear market they weill show up again, wielding as well the Terra-Luna and Celsius cases as extra ammo to seed the FUD around the community and the people of Salvador.
It would only be matter of time, what would be said as an unwise decision made by countries that legalize bitcoin as a legal tender would be later changed to a brave decision that later favoured. Bitcoin price decreases and unfavoured period like this present bear market has been in history, not only in 2022 but back then in 2014 and 2018. These should not be a surprise but a possible indication that next long period bull market is coming and should probably be in less than 2 or 3 years from now. It can be far, but the months of bulls that will lead to all-time-high will become tomorrow soon. You are saying the truth, the world has been full of lies since the beginning of human advancement.

We should also not forget that El Salvador is a poor country, their president bought a risky investment near the all time high and he used taxpayers money to buy this risky investment. What would this make him appear in front of his constituents presently that bitcoin has dumped?
Can you see what I quote in bold now when I first brought the topic, you can read it below:

I think El Salvador government prepared before they accepted bitcoin as a legal tender, see what Alejandro Zelaya, the minister of finance of El Salvador said about buying bitcoin.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/el-salvador-has-not-had-any-losses-due-to-bitcoin-price-dive-finance-minister-says

Quote
“There is a clear criticism of Bitcoin as such, not of El Salvador's strategy. El Salvador is what interests them the least, they [the media outlet] are not interested in what happens to our economy, they are not interested in what happens with our people, what happens with inflation.”

Quote
“I have said it repeatedly: A supposed loss of 40 million dollars has not occurred because we have not sold the coins.”

I hope you can get the meaning of that bolded quote, that is just how the world is, there are bitcoin critics and people prefer to take up the unimportant part that is not having significant effect on economy compared to the main ones they should talk about. Bitcoin adoption is not the problem of El Salvador, even El Salvador is not as rich as many other countries when it comes to citizens holding and buying bitcoin. People just failed to understand that countries that do not make bitcoin a legal tender but their citizens buy are also having such effect just like El Salvador, but people are not talking about that but focus on what is not.

I support the inspiration of uniting South America under bitcoin, however, it appears reality has come again to kill the dream. But what has just occured is they have become bagholders. If someone told you a country and a multibillion electric car company would become bagholders of bitcoin, no one would believe you hehehehe.
There is not dream that reality kill, bitcoin adoption continues as a result of what has happened in the past. I hope you are not the type that will change your mind during bull and again change your mind during bear and change your mind again during bull. Bitcoin is a safe haven but in long term, not short term.

I scratch my head when you question someone if their mind changes if it is a bull or bear market hehe. My argument is similar to yours. El Salvador's bitcoin investment and how it appears to world will be continued to be questioned not only by the critics. It will be questioned by their own people because it is their money that is being used in what might appear for them to be a gamble made by Bukele.
2538  Bitcoin / Press / Re: [2022-06-14] Tesla could take a big loss on its Bitcoin bets on: June 16, 2022, 04:09:49 AM
@NeuroticFish. It will certainly look very bad. We should wait for the report on their conference call on earnings for the 2nd quarter. This will be on July 25. If bitcoin and the whole cryptospace continues to dump and if there will be an economic recession, I speculate Tesla might be forced to question their bitcoin investment. What assets would they sell first if they need more liquidity for their cashflow? Their bitcoin investment might begin to look very shiny hehe.
2539  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: [Boxing] Canelo vs Golovkin 3 (September 17) on: June 15, 2022, 04:52:20 AM
I have not read much of the discussions of this thread and this is my first reply. Forgive me if this question has been asked before, however, does anyone speculate that Canelo might be accepting this fight very early after his loss vs. Bivol? GGG should not be very underestimated for this because it also appears that Bivol gave him the tactic to defeat Canelo. GGG also does not look like an old man in the ring with the wins after the loss to Canelo hehe.
2540  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 🏈🏈 The American Football Discussion Thread 🏈🏈 on: June 15, 2022, 04:20:36 AM
I would like to play in league where the fantasy football is simulated as very close as possible to the NFL games we watch every weekend. I vote the standard format. It would not matter much for me, however hehehe. But I like more points opportunties for rushers like Ekeler, Henry and Chubb.

@DireWolfM14. Why not points for first downs?

In any case, when should we start and who wil be the commissioner of our league?
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