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2601  Economy / Economics / Re: Another Boom for the crypto market. on: January 19, 2023, 04:34:54 PM
Hooray!

Yet with caution, hate to be the wet blanket, but holding these licences won't mean much if regulators don't like what you're doing, and if the lessons of NEXO, Genesis and Gemini over the past year are anything to learn from, it's that these FI licences allow for very specific activities. What got all those three in trouble (litigation ongoing) is that they also provided interest-bearing accounts.

Binance does the same (Savings) and actually a lot, lot more... those licences won't save them if someone anti-crypto sits up and takes notice.

2602  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Sportsbet.io's English Premier League Football Pool Discussion Thread on: January 19, 2023, 03:11:05 PM
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United's hitting a rich vein of form, how I wish they'd kept Ronaldo and Rangnick or Ole longer haha...

Do you think it would help Liverpool?  Wink

By the way, if United now holds the winning score with Crystal Palace, then they (albeit formally) will come out on a clean second place and will be higher than City. Who would have believed this at the start of the season?
If this victory takes place, then I think that at least 50% is the merit of De Gea, today he saves.

Oh, no of course not. But it always helps my mood to see United in pain and misery.

De Gea has actually held United up for a very long time, even accounting for when his form was poor. I actually wish he'd just kept the clean sheet though, I had bets riding both on and against United. Draws always take me out of everything.

I really miss Ole and Ronaldo, and I wish they had never picked this bald coach. pain Undecided

Right? Liverpool can make me either really happy or really down, but United's pain is a special kind of joy I miss.

Man United probably didn't do well enough to earned the win imo, so the result seems rather very fair to me, I had Man United to win 2-1, but at least I would have gotten 1.5 points if they kept the lead.

Didn't watch but Palace had 5 shots on goal to United's 3... seems like United forgot that they win games with less possession!

Let’s have them put back in their box where they belong Wink

Yes, please!
2603  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Paper wallet for BTC used to be the best on: January 19, 2023, 02:22:35 PM
Don't need to add much more to what's already been said, except to agree with the summary that paper wallet, used improperly, can be really bad. Used with all the additional knowledge we now know, it's still the best, but hardly for everyone. Hardware wallet should still be the best mix of ease and security.

I also have electrum desktop wallet that I use for fast payments and holding smaller amounts of btc (below 0.1). I feel that it's safe enough for such small amounts.

Even at today's price, still a bit too rich for me to keep 0.1 on a hot wallet though! I definitely did see it in BTC units, but with price for the past 18 months or so, I tend to convert in my head and readjust -- about $1000 is mine now, same as my regular debit card.
2604  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Tennis League All Thread on: January 19, 2023, 12:19:05 PM
Couacaud took a set off of Đoković - did not expect that to be honest, but at least it gave me a decent handicap betting opportunity.

It's going well so far, shame I did not have more money on my account. Would have gone all in with serious cash but I'm stuck at work and could not have transferred it on time.

Yeah, 3:1 and 3:2 seem like good value every time that guy plays, though seems like he carried some pain after.

Some terrible outings for me trying to play live on Fritz and Ruud after going behind did NOT go well, though, those two I was pretty sure would make it one more round, would have lost even more money on Zverev, tbh but good thing I ran out of time.
2605  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Sportsbet.io's English Premier League Football Pool Discussion Thread on: January 18, 2023, 09:31:17 PM
Right now, Leicester and Everton are struggling, but no one is paying attention to them because everyone is focused on Liverpool and Chelsea's recent performances.

In any case, when the big boys struggle, it gives the smaller teams a chance to compete for the league, as it did in 2015 when Leicester won the league. Right now, Arsenal is at the top of the league not because they are great, but rather because other teams are having difficulties due to injuries and other factors. Having more teams than what we currently have will make the league look unprofessional and boring.


Yeah, credit due to Arsenal (and Leicester) for what they're doing and where they are now but I definitely agree that the similarities of this season and Foxes's one is that the other contenders are all struggling for consistency.

Everton and Leicester, even Villa, West Ham, Saints, Wolves, I'd say have all lost their way in varying degrees, but because they're never expected to challenge, their woes going under the radar.

United's hitting a rich vein of form, how I wish they'd kept Ronaldo and Rangnick or Ole longer haha...
2606  Economy / Economics / Re: We are not out of the woods yet on: January 18, 2023, 06:18:10 PM
To me it seems we are at the point what would need an unseen devastating blow to make markets suffer more then they already have. And at this point only crash of the Binance, fatal flaw in ETH code, or rebirth of Satoshi could do it.

It's very telling that market crash after FTX wasn't anything compared to mayhem that UST crash caused. It was just chosen to be the scapegoat for the whole bear market. It didn't seem to matter that when it happened we were already near the bottom.

I'm expecting one as well, but as with all the past "super crashes", it will be deep, it will be severe... but it will also be swiftly followed by a rebound that sets the floor and foundation for recovery into the next post-halving rally.

Terra and FTX were scapegoats, for sure, and almost none of my circle (albeit small and not personal, I see as significant) was affected.

When we've got forum friends and people we know impacted by an event, that'll be it.
2607  Economy / Gambling / Re: 🚀-Sportsbet.io-🚀 - Main sponsor of Southampton FC 👋👋 on: January 18, 2023, 04:15:40 PM
Steve, nice promo. I booked myself on one of the specials... but gave a wide berth to the Ronaldo hattrick. I know it's possible, but PSG won't want the embarrassment, they'd rather hack his legs for red cards!

Liverpool expected to make changes tonight due to the build up of fixtures. Could be a good thing playing the younger, lesser known players. Regardless though, I think it makes sense to bet on Wolves to win tonight.

I would have agreed with you last night, and I actually did not bet a single satoshi on this. Didn't even put it on any future acca, though with hindsight, it was really great to see we still dominated the game and deserved to win with half the team either second-choice players or unproven ones. Klopp did warn that he was hauling off players who didn't perform, though, so I definitely expected him to play a different team.

This wasn't even him saving his team, he was just fixing the awful form of those who lose the Brighton game ha -- we still have to play them again so we do have an opp for revenge.

Was it strange I didn't even feel happy we won? Some relief for sure but I felt almost no satisfaction.

Crystal Palace vs Man Utd tonight in the Premier League. If Man Utd want to get taken seriously in the title race they need to take 3 points tonight. A win would put them level on points with Man City.

Arsenal play Man Utd at the weekend, it’s good for the Gunners that Man Utd play tonight. Hopefully United have a tough game & suffer from fatigue at the weekend.

Palace to beat United, then Arsenal to follow it up. That's my acca Wink
2608  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Discord Nitro with Bitcoin on: January 18, 2023, 02:54:42 PM
I can get you Nitro for the regular price (i.e Basic for ~€ 3,60), btw. Wink

I accept BTC, ETH, any stablecoin, or even altcoins if supported by major exchanges.

Sent you a PM for reg Nitro -- was holding off for a while now but would rather buy from a forum peep. I have a mental checklist of new things I've bought with BTC, so this will be a personal highlight of the week for me Wink
2609  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Tennis League All Thread on: January 18, 2023, 01:12:12 PM
Boom Raducanu out. And Norrie might be the next big scalp today... 1:1 and Lestienne, whom I'd never heard of (I know, I know, I don't pay much attention) looks the much better player, made a couple of errors in first and now almost flawless, keeps breaking Norrie.

Not actually a surprise, I was talking against Nadal even before AO started. Granted even more in some other topics related to Sportsbet specials. This was most likely scenario from the start of the tournament. Not sure exactly when injury happened but it was much sooner than 3rd set, he was already injured in second set for sure, had big problems with movements and tried to shorten the points as much as possible.

Yeah I remember the ridiculousness of him being posted as top seed and odds at one point were 7/1... as if his injury and age were something he could keep at the back of the pocket.

Read about the injury, it was during 2nd set. Still think it was his first set that did it all because he tried to chase... apparently opponent was still nervous.

Even if Rafa won, no way he continued.
2610  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Sportsbet.io Betting discussion thread rev on: January 18, 2023, 12:57:51 PM
Never good to hear about people pulling out, first Nick, now Rafa. Murray's the success story so far (didn't even realise he had a synthetic hip!!) so it's gotta be the feel good story of the year if he goes through to at least QF.

One freebet from Nadal at least, still wish things turned out different, but I did say the odds were realistically stacked way too high.

Don't forget to Opt in on EPL promo... Arsenal and Southampton give out freebets ($10 for $50) for every match regardless of outcome. Missed a string of matches just because I didn't even opt in!

https://sportsbet.io/promotions/return-of-the-epl-casino-offers
2611  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: [NEWS] - $9 BILLION EUROPEAN DIGITAL BANK N26 ENABLES BITCOIN TRADING on: January 18, 2023, 10:24:56 AM
A bit misleading to say they don't offer custodial wallets, so customers can't move off Bitcoin.

More accurate to say they're not offering exchanging actual Bitcoin. Not a single satoshi sits with them -- I would wager you can't even deposit Bitcoin on that platform.

If I'm wrong, then I'm curious to know how it works here where I live where N26 is a licenced back (with exact same deposit guarantee protections) and if Bitcoin deposits would enjoy the same insurance.
2612  Economy / Speculation / Re: How was your belief formed? on: January 17, 2023, 05:57:15 PM
Maybe not so much investment for me as a means of money. Working in a new country every year or couple of years for most of my adult life. And coming from a non-Western country, the ease of digital payments is taken for granted by most people. Myself included.

Bitcoin solved a lot of banking and money issues for me. Also started saving in Bitcoin, more of an experiment than anything but grew more convinced by its security and failsafes (it could never be taken from me).

The evidence for that, even the understanding of, came later.

Price is nice to behold of course. But the confidence that it is always there, always available, always accessible, always safe. That is the belief that keeps me here.
2613  Economy / Games and rounds / Re: Sportsbet.io - UFC 283 - Multi Master Challenge - (Saturday) on: January 17, 2023, 04:32:07 PM
15. Jamahal Hill
14. Brandon Moreno
13. Gilbert Burns
12. Jessica Andrade
11. Johnny Walker
10. Ihor Potieria
9. Bruno Ferreira
8. Thiago Moisés
7. Shamil Abdurakhimov
6. Gabriel Bonfim
5. Cody Stamann
4. Ismael Bonfim
3. Warlley Alves
2. Josiane Nunes
1. Saimon Oliveira

Match 15 winner Total Strikes:  79
2614  Economy / Games and rounds / Re: Sportsbet.io 🥊 Eubank Jr vs. Smith 🥊 (Saturday) on: January 17, 2023, 04:19:48 PM
1.  Smith
2.  SD
3.  0
2615  Economy / Games and rounds / Re: Sportsbet.io ⚽ Southampton + Arsenal + SPFC ⚽ Prediction Contest (Th, Sat, Sun) on: January 17, 2023, 04:11:09 PM
Game 1: 43, 41'
Game 2: 43, 42'
Game 3: 43, 44'
Game 4: 43, 45'
2616  Economy / Speculation / Re: Did you sell off during the 21k price breach. on: January 17, 2023, 02:40:17 PM
We will have the catalyst for a crazy bull run next year, so it's better to prepare ourselves today and not just sell our precious bitcoin because someone is willing to scope that at a cheap price we are selling at $21k.

Catalyst yes. Halving will still be dependable for at least the next two milestones, but are we really still banking on crazy bull runs? The last one was (relative to the previous ones) pretty underwhelming and if we expect the ATH-to-ATH percentage to continue in its trend, then we're not even going to see 200% growth from last ATH. That's... as crazy as I'm expecting.
2617  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Poll: What percent of your portfolio is stored in Bitcoin/Crypto on: January 17, 2023, 12:59:58 PM
It's all Bitcoin, been that for at least just the year running up to ATH. Did some spring cleaning after 2017 ATH and was left with a handful of alts, ETH and even Doge and whatever else I wasted my life and time on. Liquidated everything I didn't want to keep or simply chucked out wallets (to my chagrin at least one proved to be of value later).

Fast forward to personal emergency circa 2020/21 and I had to really let go of a lot. That's when everything not Bitcoin went first.

Still have very little of multiple coins in my Ethereum wallet of course, but it's just for transactions and what not because most services I use tend to throw me a mix of this and that.

#honest
2618  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ⚽ Sportsbet.io ⚽ Italian Serie A ⚽ Football Pool Discussion Thread 2022/2023 on: January 17, 2023, 10:49:21 AM
same here, I was hedging Napoli (that I would like to win the title) with Juventus to win, and draw in the pool, so any outcome gives some good news Smiley

although, I am following more Serie B, where Cagliari is trying to catch that play-off spot, being down below some giants like Ternana and Sudtirol, but three wins from last four matches brought good vibe

Last season I spent some money on Segunda, never really tried Serie B, this season I haven't even found the time to really look at the main leagues -- definitely less Serie A awareness than last season or even 2 seasons ago. After promoted teams performance this season, might be interesting to keep an eye on the potential promotion teams too.

Napoli looked in such good shape I went ahead and added their next 2 games into my tickets, one tonight in Coppa and one in Serie A later.

Disclaimer is the odds are not good (tonight for example is home favorite against Cremonese) so I might be following bad instinct to use such games as multibet "top up" but I think this team is going to be like Arsenal, mostly dependable in small and big games.

Napoli? Without Osimhen, they're still able to win. With him, they're lethal af. Normally agree you shouldn't be using those small odds but I do that a lot with Liverpool to "boost" my accas so I get what you mean. Arsenal, Napoli, currently on hot streaks but I think their rides will be bumpy. Some teams aren't used to holding on to a lead. Both these teams I feel are those.
2619  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Discord Nitro with Bitcoin on: January 17, 2023, 08:53:20 AM
^ Oh man... thank you. Can't believe I actually forgot about checking Coingate till I came across this thread, I actually really hate paying for Discord but got a couple of requests before to buy upgrades on behalf of clients and hated that I couldn't easily buy it.

Only slight problem is their classic price has a high markup (3 vs 5.23 euros!) so you might want to shop around for Classic. Regular Nitro's great though -- just slightly marked up by about 1.5%.
2620  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Tennis League All Thread on: January 17, 2023, 06:52:03 AM
Actually woke up a bit early to see what I could catch and already see the heat in AO (I'm reading 30 degrees and wondering, wait, that's not that hot haha but I don't know Aussie heat!) has some havoc. Thiem bit the dust, while in women's local girl wildcard has knocked out Kanepi.

Murray and Berrettini were just fighting it out for breaker on 4th set now, was hoping the Brit would take this but this is now going all the way.
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