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Big win by Queensland!
That was totally against the odds but by what I've read it was a high tempo game
and NSW didnt have the answers to Queensland's questions. Super defense
by Queensland at the end to preserve their lead, 16-4 with 8 minutes to play and pressure
piling on by the Blues to try and get extra time.
Great start to the series for them and Timelord, not so much for myself.
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Bitcoin Pizza Day is becoming even more popular, with a record 50 pizzas in this year's contest.
Everyone that participated and had the pleasure to eat pizza to celebrate Bitcoin Pizza Day is a winner!
Congratulations Fillippone for winning this year's Bitcoin Pizza Day bake off contest!
Thank you, everyone for participating and for the people just tuning in, this is the third edition of this contest and while the rules were mostly unchanged, I'm thinking of spicing things up next year!
Thank you Cyrus, for the great fun of this contest. I tip my hat to my fellow contender for the beautiful creations. Also, of course, thank you to everyone who voted for me! I have already started training for the news year competition, as I know the contest will be more challenging than ever. Long live the pizza! Long live bitcointalk! Long live Laszlo! Very well done sir! A worthy win by a worthy contender because as GazetaBitcoin posted, an Italian winning the competition seems kind of right. I love the Pizza badge you are wearing, thats actually quite prestigious! 👍 .....:::edit:::..... I was thinking about this since my post, It funny and brilliant at the same time that on this forum dealing with a digital entity such as Bitcoin that even a baking competition is covered. Its brilliant ! |
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You can always use Rollbit!
Yea you mentioned before the NRL being NSW-centric. It is definitely heavily subscribed
with NSW teams. Looking at past results in State of Origin seasons, Queensland really has
won the majority even though you would think NSW would have by far a massive advantage
with the pool of players available to them.
I have been trying to educate myself on the divisions between Queensland and NSW
in the NRL competition.
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There should be some of these coins still for sale, Here is a bump with some "studio" shots of my coin resulting is a more "natural" representation of the finish. Really nice coins which are customisable and very limited !   |
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Very colourful works AGNFAB, Here they are posted below. Best of luck with the sale! If you are interested you can pay a small fee and become a copper member on the forum so that you can post images as a newbie! > https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2385104  |
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So yea, Game 1 of 3 State of Origin competition is on tomorrow Wednesday 8th
with Queensland the underdogs. On the + side the Cowboys and Broncos are currently
goung quite well in the Telstra Premiership but I'm going with NSW.
$2 @ 1.54 on Rollbit I know, I know - another life changing amount at stake!
I will make a few picks on the NRL premiership later but I'm eying up Cowboys, Panthers,
Broncos and Eels ATM
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Wow! Thanks for taking such a great shot of the coins!  👍 I'll be doing another coin this evening.... |
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Both Reddit and Twitter are speculating that it's indeed because of the CME gap, with some anticipating some bad announcement concerning New York's push to ban PoW mining. Idk, it's anyone's guess, really.
Realistically how much of an impact will NY's ban on PoW mining be? There will always be those who will lose their life over such decisions, same with the CME gap which hasnt been mentioned a lot since the halving IMO. OP, you have a legendary member account. Why do you react as a some kind of newbie, who freaks out every time the BTC price drops by 1%? Price volatility is a normal thing for Bitcoin, Why there are people, who still get surprised when the price moves up or down 5-10%? Are you a day trader or something?  I expect the Bitcoin price to stay in the 20-30K USD range for more than a year. The only thing, that could possibly create a huge bull run towards new ATH is the end of the war in Ukraine, which isn't going to happen in 2022 for sure. There's no point paying attention to the BTC price every day, if it goes up-the pump would most likely be very small and temporary, if it does down- just HODL and buy more BTC. Day traders would only be too happy with these types of swings, there are definitely Satoshi's to be made in movements like this and we have seen bigger moves than what we say at the weekend. |
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The Designs:
I originally came up with both of these ideas early-mid 2020 while being locked away from the rest of the world (as most of you, I assume), and this was before the great bull run we are STILL in.
One coin depicts "Hope" in the form of a boy floating up to the skies thanks to BTC, away from the world that is burning under his feet while finally breacking the shackles of FIAT holding him down.
The other coin depicts "Despair", with a lack of a better word I'll call the people on this one "FIAT Maxis" - looking for ways to save themselves using traditional currencies but shackled to the ground by the new reality - BTC.
I'll let the images do most of the talking for these.
I was doing a bit of work with the studio lights today and thought I would do a quick shoot of this duo coin set. I made up a themed backdrop symbolising one of the main design aspects, The chains of FIAT and being either shackled by them or breaking free of them with Bitcoin. I'm guessing there are still sets of these available so this will act as a bump.  |
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i saw the odds of Nadal to win it at 4.44 but i didn't bet on him and i regret it
It was just the uncertainty over his fitness really that made him a comparative outsider. If he'd come into the tournament 100% fit, he'd have likely been the favourite - a fully-fit Nadal on clay, and especially at RG, is as close to a certainty as you can get in tennis. But we all saw how he was in Rome the week before, and it seemed unlikely that he'd be able to win seven best-of-five-set matches in a fortnight to win RG again... nevertheless, that's what he did. He was clearly not fully fit, and the injections to remove all feeling from his foot sound quite alarming, but it turns out even a half-fit Nadal can beat everyone in Paris! Wow 4.44 for Nadal to win would have been great bet but yea nobody expected him to do what he did. His injury is clearly well managed with those pain killing/numbing injections. He would have to practice with those too to get used to that sensation, or lack of sensation. Honestly, Zverev was completely equal in those 2 sets he played against Nadal and that he didn't get injured, who knows how that match would end.
Nadal was very lucky in that match and I think that Cilic would be a much harder opponent in the final.
Yes, perhaps it was pure luck on his side, Zverev beat Alcaraz, unfortunately he injured himself against Nadal and forced to surrender. And most of us says that Djokovic vs Nadal is the finals and that's what we witnessed when they fought. After that, it was easy final match for Nadal, 3 sets win against Ruud to win his 14th title here and becoming the older winner at 36. There is no doubt Zverev was on top against Alcaraz and he was giving a very tough fight against Nadal but sadly his injury force him to surrender and a good opportunity for Nadal for another title which was not sure with his fitness and uncertainty as he is also struggling in last few months but as we all know he is the king of clay and in this even he plays like king especially against Djokovic because this was surely best match of this tournament where Djokovic was completely outclass and have no answer off Nadal's powerful shots and RG rule. But, surely now in near future we will have some good upsets as the big three-time is going to end and new players are going to join big events Federer is already down and out with Djokovic is also struggling and Nadal is having some fitness issues if new generation players able to give their best then surely they can replace very quickly. Zverev was probably one of the few the only one who could trouble Nadal at RG if he hadnt had that terrible injury. |
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This story is about two things which is mentioned in the line:
US energy company opens crypto mining facility in Middle East to use stranded natural gas
Energy companies turning to Bitcoin mining - will this mean they out compete other
miners for the fact their energy costs will be potentially lower?
Stranded Natural Gas - using gas which would otherwise be flared off has to be welcomed,
it means more efficiency and
that has to be welcomed
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They have sold 10k and 10k two different collections, which means that they collected possibly over 2+ million dollars easily.
Its actually alot more than that V1 Rollbots presale price was $500 for 2000 pieces and public sale price was $1000 for 8000 pieces. So thats a total of $9 million V2 Sportsbot public and presale price was $1000 for 10,000 pieces so thats a total of $10 million Considering that Rollbit gave away decent amount of prizes through all those competitions in discord as well as the marketing expense, they probably pocketed atleast $15 million from those two sales Thats an amazing amount of revenue to generate from their market leading Rollbot NFT sales. I doubt they will stay static for too long, what other ideas do they have planned for 2022 and beyond I wonder? |
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If you think that the worst is over, the worst is coming and strong, inflation reaching about 10% in advanced economies, and supply chain problems will increase the suffering of the middle class, as the cost of living will rise and thus less surplus money to invest, then the gap will increase dramatically as most of the income will go to cover the basics.
Therefore, I do not think that the epidemic is the cause, but rather how we deal with it, many countries did not have any plans to confront epidemics and were not actually prepared to know what they would do, and the health systems in many of those countries are collapsing, and therefore, after the Covid pandemic, we did not see much change, but the continuation of those Countries have the same approach in investing in energy, tourism, armies, and not in the health field.
I am not surprised because this is caused by corruption which had cause a lots of death during the covid period. Mostly in the third class countries, bad governments had made live harder for the masses where the leaders had no plans for the health sector which should be one of the strong sectors the government have to concentrate more on. The gap between the richest and the poorest will continue increase because of inflation many countries are battling with now. This might not stop now but will continues as inflation increases. hughblack has described exactly what is happening in my western european country, inflation is running at about 10.8%, its the middle class which is bearing the brunt of rising costs, all of which are being passed to the consumer lower and middle classBusiness owners generally the wealthier class are in the position to raise costs and pass all of them to the people who have to payThe wealthier classes are in a position also to offset rising costs by being able to reinvest while the poorer classes disposable income is being spent on the same items with higher costs. |
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Regarding the final today - is it possible that Nadal and Ruud never played against each other? Looks like a bizarre statistic and I went to ATP site to look - no history at all.
Nadal is a huge favorite ofc - Ruud's game should suit him.
Agree completely with this and I don't see how Ruud can seriously trouble Nadal. That being said it still though to find a market to bet on that has some value in this match. I went with Nadal to win 3:0 @2.1 but it is risky bet since anybody can loose one set in BO5 match. Other option was 6.5 handicap on Nadal but that is even more risky for me. Just had to play something to make it even more interesting to watch. That was a fairly good call of the 3-0 @ 2.1 Trofo, It probably only looked risky in the first half of the second set, but well done. I played safe with a handicap bet on Nadal, all good. Yea thats 14 Roland Garros wins for him and 22 Grand Slams, King of Clay alright and a record maker! |
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I was two from four this shortened week - the Manly Sea Eagles also won their match. The Canberra Raiders have now won their last five games in a row whilst the Auckland Warriors have now lost five matches in a row (something I hadn't checked beforehand)
Don't forget this week is game one of the State of Origin Series - Queensland Vs New South Wales. Always a grudge match and well worth watching. (I'm a one eyed Qlder, so my monies on them even though I imagine NSW will probably take the first game convincingly)
Yea I remember the State of Origin from last year. I know a small bit about the NRL, but way less of the State of Origin series or cannot remember what I researched from last year, I will have to do a little homework to catch up on it this year again! I cannot even remember if I was betting on it last year? |
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I think there’s more down to come, if we are following the previously seen 4 year cycles. I don’t think we will close a day below $20,000 again though. I am going to wait for lower before I buy more again but that doesn’t mean buying now is a bad idea. DCA’ing here is still a good idea.
Absolutely! there are good discounted prices now and there may be a "stock clearance sale" happening also. Historically we havent closed lower than previous ATH's and the last was ~$20k. The OP is stating something apart from the institutional thing which is so true, a lot of people half interested in Bitcoin will wait until they see positive signals before getting involved. Others non-traders hadnt the belief or willpower to HODL and more had probably over extended themselves at $40k, $50k and above. Its a pity because the people who are hesitant could probably do with availing of these discounted Bitcoin prices. |
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...:::Edit:::...
I put two bets on this morning before the Panthers beat the Bulldogs 30-18 and I have
the Roosters to beat the Raiders
Rugby Union
the Stormers to beat Edinburgh
The Raiders upset the party for both of us Timelord! you could have had a clean sweep this weekend only for them beating the Roosters, and I'm 1 from 2. I'm thinking of narrowing my bets even more and concentrating on the top 5, the rest have become too unpredictable and we are half way through the season before the finals already. 
In the URC my bet on the Stormers materialised. Leinster had a MASSIVE day out against the Glasgow Warriors 76 - 14! The semi finals have two Irish teams against 2 South African teams: Leinster v Vodacom Bulls DHL Stormers v Ulster I will probably go with the two home teams for the semi's, Definitely on Leinster though! |
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Regarding the final today - is it possible that Nadal and Ruud never played against each other? Looks like a bizarre statistic and I went to ATP site to look - no history at all.
Nadal is a huge favorite ofc - Ruud's game should suit him.
Agree completely with this and I don't see how Ruud can seriously trouble Nadal. That being said it still though to find a market to bet on that has some value in this match. I went with Nadal to win 3:0 @2.1 but it is risky bet since anybody can loose one set in BO5 match. Other option was 6.5 handicap on Nadal but that is even more risky for me. Just had to play something to make it even more interesting to watch. The thing with betting on such a final with Nadal v Ruud is finding a bit of value in a bet without it becoming too risky. I will probably go with a handicap on Nadal -4.5 or something like that. He is 1.17, I wonder would anyone be willing to go "all in" on him given the fact that he is going to win this?
The same applies to Swiatak, the only way to bet on her is to take a handicap, otherwise the odds are poor. |
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Anyone watched the WTA final on Rolan Garros?
Swiatek won 6-1 6-3 against Gauff and it was just too easy. Swiatek continues to dominate and this is her 35th win in a row and 6th straight title in a row. She is so close to break a couple of records and if she continues to play like this i dont see anyone getting close to beating her
she is managing to conduct a very good series of sensational results. perhaps (maybe?) this is due to the lack of noteworthy opponents ...  now there is criticism that women's tennis is less interesting than men's tennis https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/tennis/amelie-mauresmo-mens-womens-tennis-27126187this year in RG it has been clearly at a second level respect the man tournament.... I didnt watch it TBH, Her win was a foregone conclusion really. There isnt anyone who can challenge her and she has the chance of winning every tournament this year, if she stays injury free. From the result today it looks like Gauff didnt create much of a challenge. I dont think the womens tennis is less interesting, the matches which Swiatek is not playing are interesting. There are plenty of good players there who are able to beat each other which makes for interesting matches. |
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