Barca is getting just one shot to correct their poor performance this year and if it misses the effects will be felt next year as well. In fact it may be too late to correct at all the current year. Too little, too late... not the best move, not the best financial situation. All this is not proper for a team like Barca as they should have enough managerial talent to better understand the situation and use the resources more wisely. This is making La Liga a bit boring as Spain mostly depends on having Real and Barca in good shape and then the rest.

Seems interesting this Puerto Rico situation. There are a few caveats on regards to moving there for the wealthy. It has strong relationships with the United States which is well known to keep an eye on assets and any day may decide to impose sanctions or freeze accounts on citizens of country XYZ because of political issues and I do not imagine Puerto Rico opposing such decisions.

Also, all American countries have a marked economic class difference, some people feel comfortable with it, some others don't.

I would not say that most US citizens and Americans in general overestimate the social mobility. There are some very powerful economics behind the idea of the "American Dream" - the idea that there is no limit to what you can achieve if you work hard enough and have talent.

This idea was never true an now is less than ever. The success stories are widely promoted by the wealthy to make sure the nation has a can-do attitude and everyone works hard... mostly for them in the end. If you look at the success stories of capitalism and ignore all the bad ones, it looks great of course - you can probably even find these in Turkey, Venezuela or Iran if you look hard enough.

Notice that the conservatives in US are interested in NOT promoting social mobility, so the battle is already half lost if there was ever one.

Business as usual in the USA plutocracy. Once an industry, sector or company becomes significant enough, the need to create competitive advantages, fooling the public, spreading biased arguments (weapons, tobacco, pharma, sugar,... you name it) becomes a necessity and lobbying is just another cost of doing business. I guess this is yet another sign of maturity in crypto, growing pains if you will. It must not be that easy to create a full new asset class in which to throw the rich and no that rich investors wealth.

I am a co-owner of many banks already. Firstly of many commercial banks due to index investing - I do not even know which banks I own bits of at this moment! And, as a fiscal resident of a certain jurisdiction I do have a stake in all international organizations in which this country participates, thus, you can argue that I have some degree of control.

Now, if you think this argument is silly, so it is owning a part of a World Bank when you do not actually have significant assets, which, for this case, would only make sense if they are in the billions. Else, you have a stake on something that some else manages for his own benefit.

Lo mas facil es clonar ("hacer un fork") de cualquiera de las miles de mierdacoins que hay por ahi. Mira, habia una moneda que se llamaba electroneum que no era mas que un fork con practicamente cero modificacion de Monero y recaudo cosa de 40 millones creo recordar. Antes de irse a la porra claro. Pero por favor, a menos de que estes haciendo esto para aprender o hablar de ello con tus amigos, planteate si el mundo necesita consumir mas energia, tiempo y esfuerzo en crear otra mierdamoneda mas que genere mas confusion y desgaste del que ya existe. Debes ser tu mejor critico antes de acometer esto.

A mi la division por genero siempre me ha parecido bastante artificial. Es cierto que muchas mujeres no se sienten atraidas por algunas tematicas que si resultan interesantes para los hombres y que tradicionalmente y en particular en algunos paises, los derechos de la mujer estan limitados o no se respetan. En las sociedades Europeas y creo que en buena parte de USA aunque hay diferencias de roles, hay mucha mas diferencia cuando se trata de niveles culturales que cuando se trata de genero.

En fin, a lo que quiero ir es que me gustaria ver ese grafico por paises a ver si coincide con sociedades mas machistas o si es q simplemente no les interesa porque es aburrido para ellas.

Creo que aparte de la entrada del capital tradicional en el mercado de las criptos como hecho positivo y que refuerza el ecosistema, hay un efecto lateral de vinculacion entre el precio del bitcoin, la politica monetaria de Europa y USA y la valoracion de los activos financieros tradicionales y, ya para liarla del todo, con el trading retail fuertemente apalancado que se mueve a velocidad de vertigo cuando hay una caida.

En fin, que bitcoin ya no protege tanto de los vaivenes del merc ado... es el precio a pagar por el nuevo exito.

The problem with China is that information is never clear, so big problems may not really be that big and big successes are most of the time difficult to believe. The centrally issued currencies are absolutely terrible for privacy. The control of the issuing entities over who does what and when is nearly absolute. That, in Europe or US, may be a concern, but in China is simply a terrible problem as the CCP as clearly shown intent of controlling the individual micro-behaviour of individuals even by means of a "social credit" systems that require citizens to be "good and loyal".

it is curious that not all economies are actually going the same way. While Japanese grads tend to be offered more non-permanent jobs, many students in USA are now being well received on STEM requiring jobs as the market seems to be seriously overheating. It is a confusing situation in my view, because there are, at the same time, fears of the market suffering an "stagflaction" which traditionally kills employment. At least is going to be interesting to see how this plays out next year.

This forms part of the pack of threats currently being considered by US and NATO due to the massive concentration of troops on the Ukraine border as you say. The geopolitical problem here is complex. Rusia is quite used to consider Ukraine as a possession and a critical one if you consider food supply. Europe is as usual trying to increase its influence on this country as a measure to contain Rusia and prefereably keep it away from sensible European borders.

The problem is that Rusia may just be too big for these type of sanctions - they only work well on small economies... or perhaps never work well.

The concept of advice for the season should not even be asked when it regards to crypto. You know what you have to do if you even bother to look at the bitcoin cash to flow models or have a hint of what happened in the past. The problem is that people want to trade and increase their positions but they do not really understand that they key here is to be patient, promote the bitcoin project and others perhaps and let the magic of deflation and limited supply to work in your favour. It does not take a season, it takes at least a few years, but is as certain as rain.

That is not really exclusive of the NFTs, although you can actually insert a contract limiting the amount of digital goods that can be inserted, so that would be advantageous for the investors. It also happens with card games such as Magic the Gathering. You have black moxes, double lands and the like selling for a fortune that only depends on the will of the Intellectual Property owner of not producing more at any time. How can you be sure that they would not eventually create, even if by mistake a card that is just too good and eats up the value of others?

I think that the odds favour Carlsen, but not as much as to give the advantage that some of the bookies are giving. Nepomniachtchi (heck... let's call him Nepo) is particularly good at beating Carlsen, while only being the number 4 officially, he is the one that can actually cause trouble to the all powerful guy Magnus (has anyone noticed that the name means "overly great" in Latin. Well, the show seems to be over now with so much advantage from Magnus, but that is perhaps when the best may be more interesting and rewarding.

Oh my god, Di Caprio again in there. Please, tell me he is not going to win again. I am not surprised about the movies odds - for example who was the guy that woke up one morning and decided that the world needed just another version of Dune? Really? Is like waking up in New York and thinking that the world just needs another Italian restaurant. Regarding actresses, I dislike most of them and I really do not see how Lady Gaga fits at all even in a nomination.

Should I place a bet... best movie Belfast.

It is an interesting question. So far as the thread on the Spanish League (La Liga) is concerned, everyone out there seems to be an expert as long as they say Real Madrid is going to win  Now seriously, Sterbens seems to make constructive comments, borovichok seems to follow the main teams and also contribute, but there does not seem to be anyone that has the type of information that would class them as experts. I guess this is soccer - no experts and difficult to predict.

La Liga is getting a bit boring to be honest. Seville is far behind Real Madrid and the rest are nowhere to be seen. Perhaps is becoming more fun to watch the games of the teams in the middle table rather than watching Madrid grinding everything on its path. I would have never thought at the beginning of La Liga that it would play out this way: Barca was very well caught off-balance and everyone knew so, but the dominance of Madrid in my view was not something that could be expected since they were also impacted by the loss of Ronaldo and nobody could predict how the rest of team just step up easily and do great.

When betting in general on sports that actually depend on information to improve your odds over those of the house, you have to ask yourself the same as if you would be investing in stocks that are well known and followed. The key question is What is your advantage? For example, there are a million funds and people out there investing in Google. If you intend to compete with them, you should have better information or otherwise you will be the shrimp in the ocean ready to be eaten. Betting is similar, you need to find your advantage when betting for profit or expecting to have it.

The guy is just unable to set a simple message, I think is probably using multiple accounts as well. On regards to the content itself mixing metaverse and investment, I just struggle to make any sense of it.

Anyone can invest, it is not limited with people with lot of money and I would say that it may be even better if you do not start with much. It will not change your life in the short term, but you will be able to build progressively, just as you say. Compounding works well if you are patient and have a long term view on the results you expect. But you have to do a little everyday and try to avoid stuff that is simply too risky.

Need? You only need air, water, shelter and food. All the rest is optional. Now rephrasing, why would a decentralised "monetary system" be useful?  The answer my friend is blowing in the net and is called bitcoin. You can already see how many people and even some countries are taking advantage of this system and many individuals are using it for, for example, low fee transfers to countries in which the usual middlemen charge a high fee.

So, I think your question answers itself and the rest... well, you really need to learn to synthesize your opinion.


You are confusing an exchange rate with having a value determined in fiats.

What I would first ask is what short of advantage are your trying to achieve by the multilevel DAO and what realistic use cases are there. Most of the projects out there fail to have any advantage over traditional system or over what is already out there. Second, I fail to see the alignment of incentives.