It was Bron's influence that brought Westbrook into LA right? Anyways, he did bring a ring already. Heading to the next season, the Lakers are becoming a better team IMO so they are pretty sure in the playoffs again if AD is healthy. Although I still doubt they will reach the conference finals. The west is getting more competitive with the Phoenix Suns adding a 4th big star in Bradley Beal and of course, Denver after the championship experience will have more confidence than ever.
The Lakers look better on paper, and I also expect them to make at least the playoffs next season. However, as you said, they will rely a lot on LeBron and Davis' health anyway, and that's a problem because both players have missed a lot of games due to injuries over the last few seasons. It will be good if LeBron can play at least 60 games and Davis at least 50 games next season. You hit the nail on the head with the injuries, but are you really expecting Davis, a man in his prime, to play less games than a nearly 40 year old LeBron James? That in itself shows the dire situation the Lakers are faced with. They need to get rid of Anthony Davis for the good of the team. I get that can't happen now because you have to cross your fingers and hope you'll get a healthy LeBron James and Anthony Davis going into the playoffs, but what do you think the odds of that are? It makes you think maybe Kawhi Leonard is on to something. How long until other teams just don't play their stars until the playoffs? |
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Merit is both totally lame and kind of cool at the same time. It gives people a goal to work towards, which is always nice. However, it also makes people a little crazy. I get that the main purpose is to be able to join a signature campaign (which is lame) but if there are any people out there who genuinely enjoy ranking up like this is a video game, that's cool. I honestly don't like the system because it's somewhat of a circle jerk among some of the members here who seem to use it to gauge their value, but without it this place would probably be a ghost town of only members who actually care about Bitcoin, of which there are not too many of us left here.
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I just saw the new Phoenix Suns jerseys and I have to wonder out loud why the NBA changes jerseys so much. I liked it better when teams only changed their jerseys every 20 years or something. Now it’s like the Jersey designs have gotten so bad that people are happy when they have throwback jersey nights. I’m not a huge fan of their new designs…
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5 BTC to never gamble again sounds like the greatest offer I’ve ever been given. I’d even take 4 BTC to never gamble again without thinking twice about it. I’m pretty sure everyone would, right? That’s probably more money than I’ve gambled in my entire life. Definitely significantly more than I’ve ever made gambling. I’m thinking for $100K I could find a better source of entertainment.
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Oh fuck everything about this $28k action. Bah.
Shenanigans.
Seems a little like things are starting to break down. Usually that’s a buy the dip moment. I guess we’ll see… |
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The Dallas Mavericks are a mess. Now they’re targeting Clint Capela to be their center… I’m not sure what Mark Cuban is doing over there. It seems like maybe he’s lost touch with his team with all the other stuff he’s doing. The one good thing they had was Luka, and I think the Kyrie trade not only decimated their team’s roster but it may have also destroyed Luka’s career.
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I reckon that we might be witnessing bitcoin's mainstream acceptance as a collectible.
Yeah, why not, its the same thing, as long it is securely keep, i mean the safely backup its all good. Then redeem it later on after 5-10 years, just like any other investments. I don’t know if I’d say he bought it as a collectible for his kids. I’d consider it more like starting a retirement account for your kids. While buying a collectible may be considered an investment, I think purchasing Bitcoin is more of a pure investment. I wonder if he’s holding onto them or what the custody situation is. |
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I think if someone were asking me about staking I would ask them where the interest comes from. In 99% of the coins out there, they run a scheme where they inflate the price, then put in staking to get people to buy their coins at a high price in order to chase yield. In most cases though, the yield is a trap and your investment is the actual yield as original buyers cash out with huge gains.
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I really don’t think Bitcoin hitting $1000 is a realistic possibility. So many funds and companies as well as wealthy individuals have such a large financial stake in Bitcoin now, it’s basically gotten too big to fail. I think as we are seeing now, when the price gets low enough banks are scooping up all that they can. Eventually they’ll limit the supply so much that price increases are inevitable. It’s in everyone’s best interests for Bitcoin to rise in price now, so I don’t think anyone will be able to stop it. Even compromised leadership and incompetent decision making can’t stop this train.
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This is the way the world works now. Liberal politicians will do any corrupt thing they can to gain influence and power. Of course they weren’t going to prosecute someone for paying their bribery fees. In fact, this in itself shows you exactly what he was paying for with those donations. Corruption right out in the open and even though he stole billions from people, they’ll still deny the facts and think this is fair. Had he donated a dollar to Trump I promise you he’d be in a gulag right now.
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If you have faith in Bitcoin, there is never a wrong time to buy because you will surely make profit if you do not panic and sell... the when is what no one know.
This is sort of the trick. If you have faith in Bitcoin and a long enough time preference, it’s very likely that a Bitcoin investment would be extremely beneficial for you. However, if you’re investing money you can’t afford to lose with a low time preference, it is highly likely you will panic sell and lose a bunch of money. This is how Bitcoin rewards it’s faithful and decimates the finances of the get rich quick types. |
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How similar was Justin Gaethje kick to Leon Edwards' kick. It was an awesome finish. He was in the same hall when Edwards kicked us, by the way, this cage has magical results every time. The hit and fall were almost the same. Justin got the BMF belt, he finished fiziev before, now it's Dustin Porier's walk to a very solid summit. The finish was pretty flashy, I think it might be the best finish of his career. Next will be a bigger test for Justin. Charles and Islam are getting pretty hot again in the lightweight to match the cauldron of the match. Wow, that's a pretty good card. Head kick City Hell.
Was it Justin Gaethje that Conor McGregor was talking about with his tweet promising he’d be able to knock him out with one shot? It seemed a bit like this was the fight to decide who gets to face off against McGregor at the end of the year. I expected Gaethje to lose if I’m being honest, but now it seems like a Gaethje vs McGregor bout is likely what will happen next. Right? |
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1. Base-layer bitcoin is slow and can be expensive at times, hence why we have layer-2 solutions being developed — which are networks/channels designed to have cheaper and faster transactions.
2. You obviously can't use bitcoin to pay for everything today because not everyone accepts BTC as payment. A bandaid solution though are bitcoin debit cards — which are quite useful if you're heavy on BTC and if you're fine with AML/KYC.
While you obviously can’t pay for everything online using Bitcoin, and to be honest the amount of things you can buy online with Bitcoin has declined severely over the last decade, you can be sure that there are even less things you can buy with the garbage layer 2 “solution” that is pretty much only used in third world countries that have been bamboozled into thinking it’s a good idea. |
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Looks like the highlights of the night were Lewis doing another “my balls was hot” moment and Poirier getting knocked out with a head kick. That was vicious and I didn’t expect it at all. He was laying on the canvas looking like he got starched. Eminem being there for a walkout was pretty cool too. Seems like these UFC events are starting to get pretty massive.
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I just watched the Stephen Curry documentary on AppleTV. I found it to be a little on the boring side if I’m being honest but it was interesting to see his journey. It just wasn’t a very exciting journey. However, I did think it was interesting how his decision to stay at Davidson paid off and how his college coach believing in him seemingly made the difference between him quitting basketball or not. I think most people never find that person in their life that believes in them and gives them an opportunity.
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For the incident happen to Bronny provably many teams will avoid to take him since cardiac arrest is serious health case which teams can't risk to give him a contract sue to health issues. And it seems that we can't really see the most awaited father and son duo in Nba, maybe for this incident where Bronny is in serious troubles maybe we can see Lebron retires as his plan didn't come up and he don't have anything to prove anymore. Just want to see some miracle comes and there's still a chance for son of Lebron to have a good comeback and can still able to play good basketball together with his father or if not still land on Nba.
Let's not make it a big deal; instead, let's be positive. Let's trust the process the team will follow because he will not be included in the NBA draft if he doesn't pass the physical exam. What if what happened isn't that serious, or there's a cure for it? Bronny has been anticipated to play in the NBA, although he isn't as good as his father. But with LeBron's influence, there's surely a team that will draft him. However, with what happened recently, some fans may be doubting his chance to make it to the NBA. Yeah, it's a mix reaction for now, others are relieved to hear that he is out of danger and kudos to the staff who tend to him. On the other hand, I read some news that it might be the end of his career. However, I'm taking it with a grain of salt, perhaps just like crypto, it's full of FUD and negative news for click bait article. In any case he is still capable of playing in the NBA, and if I'm not mistaken he has shown intention for a draft, so he might be in the next draft class and for sure there will be teams that are going to pick because afterall, he is still the of Lebron and they want to make history in the next couple of years, as the first father and son in the NBA. Yes, these articles released about Bronny James's situation are not really helping at all because instead of bringing a positive and real news, they instead bring some doubts to the public about his future in the NBA just to gather some attentions from the crowd. A click bait article to be exact. I do agree, and hopefully the family of Lebron will just simply ignored this news and let Bronny heal and continue with his career. That's how media is, specially with the James family. And for sure they have been followed multiple times already and Bronny will be in the limelight when he started to go back and play basketball again. And with Lebron's money, they might have to spend some to just take care of Bronny and make him healthy again. Furthermore, it is still too soon to have a conclusion towards his future in the NBA because almost everything are still unknown at this point, let's just be thankful first that he is now discharged from the hospital and is now resting towards his recovery. I guess it is safe to say that his future is still bright as the sun.
All we can say is that he is still very young, so his chances of recovery is very high here. So personally, I think he will go back in playing basketball again and be a normal kid and then go and play with his father in the NBA in the next 2 years as if nothing had happen to Bronny. Yes, there is a big chance and it is indeed very likely that he can still recover from what he had been through because he is still young. He still have a lot of room for that. Anyway, sticking to the topic, it seems that he (Bronny) is quite okay now because the whole James family was recently spotted in downtown LA for an intimate family dinner after a scary health issue this week. So, I think that means that everything is going to be okay now. He looks like he’s doing pretty well. They released this video of him playing the piano. https://twitter.com/lakeshowyo/status/1685312664627707904It doesn’t say much because I have no idea if he was a skilled piano player before or not, but it does show his condition. He’s doing good hand movements and he can clearly stand and walk so it isn’t a dire situation. He appears well on the road to recovery. Hopefully it wasn’t so bad and he’s back at it soon. |
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Here I found a list of Top 10 Casino Slot Streamers which includes Corinna Kopf ,Tyler Faraz Niknamm, Flávio Fernandes and many others. Do you guys follow the casino streamers and are they fun to watch? Or do you think that playing casino slots yourself is more fun? While these streamers may earn a good amount of money through streaming, they sometimes may become inspirational to the gamblers which may lead the normal gamblers to gamble more or become addicted too in some cases. Thoughts  Their job is basically to get people to start using the casinos, but I wouldn’t go as far as to say they’re trying to get people addicted. They’re just wildly spending right now to capture market share and earn a first person movers advantage for whenever gambling becomes more widely accepted. That being said, I’d stream some gambling sessions is I were sponsored. Hit me up Stake! |
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Guys! There just may be a way to stick around for the final Bitcoin halving... https://www.businessinsider.nl/a-46000-year-old-worm-found-in-siberian-permafrost-was-brought-back-to-life-and-started-having-babies/" A 46,000-year-old worm found in Siberian permafrost was brought back to life, and started having babies
Scientists discovered a female microscopic roundworm
that has been stuck deep in Siberian permafrost for
46,000 years, the Washington Post reported. When
they revived it, the worm started having babies via a
process called parthenogenesis, which doesn't
require a mate..." I wouldn't recommend you immediately begin parthenogenesis when you're revived though... check the bitcoin price first. I prefer a working time machine or an Arabic genie who can fulfill my three wishes! In both cases, I will travel to the early days of Bitcoin and mine as many Bitcoin as I can. Mining the Bitcoin was never the hard part. The hard part was always not selling it for massive gains because you don’t care about the money and then watching it become more money than you need. The type of person who wants to go back in time to make easy money is the type of person who would still cash most of it in early to spend before it turns into something life changing. It isn’t opportunity people lack, it’s greed that puts a ceiling on how high they can go. |
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According to Shams the NBA has warned Damian Lillard and his agent that if they make any more comments about Damn only wanting to play for the Miami Heat then they would be, “subject to discipline.” I think this shows that Portland isn’t exactly set on sending Dame where he wants to go. Dame ending up unhappy on an obscure team might be the surprise of the offseason.
I guess they're just tired of seeing and reading those statements that they're too vulgar on where Dame wants to go together with his agents. Honestly, these trades should have just been kept private until it's done but anyway. These are also where these personalities are earning through the info that they release to the public. It seems that this trade hasn't happened yet. The league made Dame release a statement saying he would give any team he plays for his full effort. Know info Damian Lillard I’m sure that’s true. Still, it’s funny that he had to release a statement to avoid getting himself caught up in fines. I question whether the league will let him go to Miami. It has Chris Paul to the Lakers vibes. It gonna be a matter of time until we see some real updates about his transfer or if there will really be a transfer being allowed by the Blazers. This is taking so long honestly. So it's like that letting Dame give some statement and then later on, the league itself does want to fine him if he does continue to say on which team he wants to play. Regarding about Dame's trade talks that are still going on up until this point in time, I don't think that the NBA itself is actually serious about that warning they issued towards Dame and his agent instead they are just putting some pressure to make the trade happen because it's taking too long to be honest. Aside from that, it got me thinking that what if the Portland Trail Blazers doesn't want the trade? That they are just assuming that they are interested towards it, like this and that, but in the first place, they are just making an announcement that Dame wants it but it is the franchise who doesn't want to let go. Portland seemed ready to blow up the team. Dame isn’t getting and younger and his salary isn’t getting any lower. With CJ gone now, it’s time for them to say goodbye to Dame for business reasons. They really wanted to keep the narrative that they would do anything for him, but now that it’s time to delivered on that they’re putting pressure on Miami by trying to field other offers. |
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2023 1 BTC = 1 BTC
2024 1 BTC = 1 BTC
2025 1 BTC = 1 BTC
Holding onto the facts ;-)
We know all about that inspirational quote. I doubt if those who quote it will be able to stand to its reality in practice. If 1 BTC in 2009 is the same thing as 1 BTC in 2023, let someone repeat that feat of donating 50 BTC to the forum like some early adopters did 🤦. We're talking about value here, not a mere mathematical representation. ...
2025 = $150k+ this year, bitcoin is supposed to record another All time high so I guess it will more than double its price from the previous ATH
I flow with all you said here. Any projection that puts next Bitcoin ATH at less than double of its present ATH ($68k+) is simply being too modest. Nobody actually believes the 1 BTC = 1 BTC or uses it in real life. It’s clear to anyone who has done any sort of business in Bitcoin for any amount of time over a week. As an escrow agent and as a seller of goods here, I can tell you that the exchange rate is always foremost on people’s mind when trading BTC for anything. Anyone who says otherwise is delusional and speaking in principle what they don’t practice in real life. |
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