For Napoli this season is not about winning the Serie A title anymore. They have realized by now that there are two teams that are out of reach for them. Juventus and Inter are not stoppable this season, at least not for Napoli.

But considering the other teams fighting for the Champions League qualification, Napoli is only three points away from the 4th position in the table. It looks really bad, but this is still absolutely possible for them. There will be a lot of interesting games for the 1st position in the table and then there is AC Milan, but after them there are so many teams that have a chance to claim 4th position.

Napoli can get started right away if they beat Lazio, but they are in good form with four consecutive wins.

I like the term secret leader because that is how I see it, too. Juventus is on par with them as per the table standings, but Inter Milan is still the one in the driving seat in Serie A. But this doesn't mean Inter Milan can drop their performance by only 1%. I didn't expect Juventus Turin to become so consistent and I think Inter and Juventus themselves didn't expect that. But now they are delivering week after week and they continue winning their games. It puts Inter in an uncomfortable position because despite their impressive performance, there is not a considerable lead for them in terms of points.

But the "be better" part of the post is an important when we are talking about investment strategies and long-term approaches to mastering a market. My first lesson was to refrain from trying to catch certain price points and to time the market. As soon as people engage in this day trading, they either have all the time in the world to analyze the market 24/7 or they will often times lose out eventually. Trading your holdings back and forth hoping that you can either maximize your total BTC holdings or the total USD value never really worked for me. There were some good decisions I made and some bad decisions and it isn't actually worth it in my opinion.

Definitely it is not too much money for the big clubs, but it would be a waste if Osimhen decided to go to Saudi Arabia at this stage of his career. I think some here overestimate his quality, but he is still an amazing striker. Though should he cost more than 120 mil? I think that is because we got spoiled with these outrageous transfer fees that recently became the standard due to the Saudi Professional League clubs offering so much for literally any player.

I know that at the end of the day my opinion doesn't matter, but hopefully these price structures adjust themselves because a lot of what's going on is quite ridiculous. But now that Napoli is having several problems at once, I think Osimhen will decide to leave the club after this season.

That is why I think that the Premier League title is the most honest title a team can win in Europe. Whatever team is the one leading the table after 38 games, it is truly deserved to be up there then. In many of the other leagues you have severe imbalances in the budgets and the quality of the teams or in other competitions like the Champions League it can't be denied that sometimes luck is involved, but after 38 games it is safe to say that the strongest team across all those games will finish the season with the trophy in their hands.

I think that Osimhen may start regretting his decision to stay longer at Napoli if they fail to qualify for the Champions League. But I also think that this would be a critical phase for Napoli as they have nothing to convince Osimhen to stay with them except for the contract obviously. But my guess is that Osimhen would be transferred and that could mean the beginning of bad times for Napoli if they start losing some of their most important players while also failing to qualify for the Champions League. That could escalate quickly for them.

But it shows how difficult the market can be for investors. You never really know the perfect timing for buying or selling. I didn't anticipate that Bitcoin would drop in price again now and I thought it would keep the positive momentum and rather head towards $50k than towards $40k, but again it came to be different than what I expected.

That is why DCA is a good approach for everyone who wants to be in the market and not be too concerned about single buying decisions. It's the best approach I guess unless someone has a lot of money and wants to get in with a lot of money.

It is impressive to see how the three top teams are doing right now. It's all about winning for them and Inter Milan is still one game behind, so I think the positions will be switched very soon again. But Juventus is stepping up their game and at first I thought that Inter Milan would be without serious competition, but seeing how Juventus is now performing and even AC Milan is doing well, Inter knows that they have to win their games. Juventus Turin isn't giving them an easy time. What a tough race it is for now. I hope it stays like that until the end of the season.

I don't think it was really that impressive. This was their job and if they allowed the game to be much closer than that, well then it would actually be a weak performance. They are still only ranked 9th in the Premier League and this League Cup isn't all that important. I am not sure what to think about this performance, but what really counts are their results in the Premier League. But I doubt that they will be able to keep the momentum for a long period of time. So far they were able to win three games in a row, but I don't think it will be enough for them to make it into the Europa League in the end.

There is no discussion surounding the question whether they can be or will be the best team in Europe. I still think that they are the best team and with the return of Kevin De Bruyne, if they reach the former level that made them the Premier League and also the Champions League winners, I mean, are there any questions left that they should be considered one of the favorites for any title? No.

Manchester City is the team that must be defeated to win the Champions League. I think in the Premier League we are going to see an interesting duel between them and Liverpool. All the teams at the top are top, not surprising.

I think we are going to see lots of interesting matches in the coming weeks. But I think Man City will win the whole thing.

But you can see that the teams from the bottom of the table aren't as weak in most of the games as the table would suggest. It is not like upper third vs. lower third = win for the team from the upper third of the table. It is just now that Sheffield United could beat West Ham United as they are in the driving seat. Of course you are not wrong that this game should be a win for Liverpool, but drawing conclusions early went wrong a couple of times for me this season.

It just came to my mind that Liverpool had this game against Luton Town when they were only able to get 1 point from it and that was only possible because Diaz scored a goal in minute 5 of extra time. But I admit that in early November they were not as good in shape as they are now, but then again Salah is missing.

Something you feed into the blockchain can never be changed afterwards, but the real problem is that you can't ever guarantee that what is fed into the blockchain is bullet-proof in the first place. But the blockchain isn't to be blamed for that. For as long as you can interfere with either the bridge (a centralized server or digital box as you said) between a person casting a vote and the blockchain, the data might be tampered with.

But there are other examples that the blockchain can't solve. How do you make sure that a voter truthfully casts a vote for something that the person believes in or - without any external manipulation - deems to be the right vote? If the idea is to get the most correct elections possible, there is a ton of things that need to be solved.

• Disinformation
• Bribery
• Coercion
• etc...

So even if you solve the problem of fake ID's submitting a vote or wrong counting or multiple submissions by the same ID or removed/destroyed/lost submissions, you can never guarantee that all as per the blockchain valid submissions come from a person that has not been bribed, not been manipulated or coerced, or anything else that comes to your mind which could interfere with that person's free will and opinion. Some problems can be solved with the blockchain in election processes, but by now I more and more get the feeling that the real problems like AI manipulation and disinformation aren't among those solvable problems.

But when you look back and consider the last negotiations, everyone was thinking that PSG would have no chance and that the deal between Real Madrid and Mbappe had already been made. But then out of a sudden PSG offered him a monster deal with all kinds of extras and a record breaking contract in European football that would bring him several $100 million for just a few years.

It was PSG themselves that set a new standard for their negotiations with the best players in the world. Now do you think that the club bosses will let Mbappe go without taking it one huge step further this time? I don't think so. I am not saying that they will convince Mbappe, but I am saying that they will try it one more time. That try is probably breaking all records again. Do you think he will decline the offer no matter what it is?

Competing with Gold is definitely hard, but I think the question is rather what you mean when you say hard. It won't happen within no time. If no other technology is about to pop up that thwarts Bitcoin's future plans, in my opinion it is a question of time.

We often say that we live in a digital world, but that doesn't apply equally to everyone. Certainly, the kids and youth from the richer countries do. If I look around in my family circle, the young are fully digital. Some of them know what Bitcoin is, but not how it works for obvious reasons. But the elderly are not yet fully digital and they may never be. But this transformation from an analog to the digital world is not only dependent on hardware and software, but also on the people interacting with it - the human agents so to say. We are seeing a whole new trend with all the digital agents now stepping into our lives. So far most of them have been instructed as to what to do and what not to do, but who knows, maybe soon AI will really be smarter and at least as intuitive as we are.

If this whole transformation keeps accelerating and the network of people that trusts technology like Bitcoin keeps expanding, I think the demand for Gold could decrease whereas the demand for a fully digital alternative would increase. So there is something like a natural process involved because older people who store a large part of their wealth in precious metals probably will keep it there until they die. It is understandable as for them this Bitcoin thing is way more mysterious and incomprehensible than Gold and silver. But the younger generations already tend to invest more of their total accumulated wealth in something like Bitcoin.

But Gold will be around and it will remain valuable for as long as there is no chemical process that allows for it to synthetically be produced and for as long as there is no other chemical molecule that can fulfill the functions gold fulfills in our society industrial sectors.

However, nobody yet knows what Bitcoin has cooking for it. We are still scratching the surface of the use cases that Bitcoin either directly or indirectly enables or initiates.

I have gone through it all... I sold some too early, I had to sell some too early and I lost some or got some stolen many years ago. It wasn't that big of a deal, but still very painful. However, if I look back now it probably cost me an invaluable fortune down the road. When some of my BTC got stolen back at the time, I was so frustrated that I turned my back on Bitcoin (and this forum more or less) for quite some time. I also was offered a new job, quite well paid and I thought it would be safer to take the opportunity, stick with the job and save that way. In retrospect, I sold some of my BTC too early. Some of them because I made a bad decision and some of them because I needed some liquidity.

But there is nothing you can do about the past. The hack was stupid as I am IT literate enough to set up the required security measures, but it was negligence on my part. The sale of some BTC, I sometimes think about that but I guess I am one of countless of people who would now say they sold way too early. It is also a question of the overall exposure and where someone is coming from.

If you are filthy rich, then you are probably less likely to run the risk of selling early. There is no need to take those 200% or even 500% ROI when there is enough of a monthly income stream to live a great life. But for someone else, like me, I couldn't ignore these ROIs. I couldn't ignore it because from some other minor investments I had, I was used to making some % here and there and I wasn't a penny stock trader or something like that.

So yes, I sometimes do regret it, but I am not in a bad life situation. I can't complain. I think there are people who feel worse sometimes, especially when they face some financial obstacles that they would otherwise not be facing today.

Mbappe would never, never ever leave PSG this January. It would make absolutely no sense if PSG decided to let him go before the next round of the Champions League even starts. I would bet everything I have that he will be a PSG player at least until the end of this season. Anything else would be ridiculous.

The main goal PSG has is the Champions League title and now that they are in the round of 16, there is nothing more they can ask for as of now. Their focus is on those games and there are rumors all the time about Mbappe. Now there are new rumors talking about PSG going for a last resort offer for Mbappe to extend his contract, but as long as no officials confirm this, I doubt anything can be relied upon.

To me it seems that they are having continuous trouble with swallowing some bitter pills during the season. Once they lose a game or they concede a stupid late goal and instead of a win finish the game with a draw, it seems that this negative experience kind of transfers to the next game as well. If a team is performing at their best and Arsenal has a good team, it is highly unlikely that they stay without a win for three games in a row. They did not win against Fulham and West Ham and they could not win any of the top games against Aston Villa and Liverpool. I think the situation is quite clear here and this means they simply don't deserve the title if they play like this.

I was only saying that I hope for Juventus Turin to stay in range of Inter Milan so we have to look forward to more games that are real highlights. There is nothing more boring than a league that is decided after 70% of the games have been played, which is what essentially happened when Napoli gave this outlandish performance last season. It was incredible how Napoli was playing while all other clubs were fighting their own problems and I can't remember what gameday it was when they were pretty much the Scudetto winners, but I think everyone was thinking the same that the season was over when only half of it was played!

I absolutely hope they do keep winning from now on because that is the only way we are guaranteed a nice Serie A final at the end of the season. Inter Milan won't undergo severely weak times in my opinion. Nobody can tell whether they will lose a game, but I would be certain enough to say that they won't drop a whole lot of points out of a sudden. If Juventus doesn't keep up with Inter Milan from now on, this season will be over in a few weeks from now when Inter can extend their lead by several points. Now it all looks exciting to me, esepecially because they still play their match in a few weeks from now.

A miracle might not be the right word because last season we saw how much the drawings can do for teams that are not playing that well, but they are lucky enough to play against some of the "weaker" opponents in the Champions League.

I completely agree that it would be unexpected if Barcelona shows up in the semifinals of the Champions League. However, Barcelona could get lucky, win the game game against Napoli (or the aggregate of the two games) and then get Dortmund/Eindhoven or PSG/Sociedad or Porto/Arsenal. I think against these teams they would at least have a chance to win the quarterfinals, which then would make them reach the semifinals. It would still not be a miracle, but it would definitely be one if they face Manchester City/Real Madrid/Bayern Munich.