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281  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Will Bitcoin exit forever? on: June 29, 2024, 11:47:53 PM
Well according to little idea of my Bitcoin has been designed to be a decentralized and persistent store of value , it's the future is not guaranteed.
1. Regulatory changes or bans in various countries.

Future? It's already in the present and yet Bitcoin continue to exists with all the regulations from countries to countries and financial watchdog like AML.

2. Competition from other cryptocurrency or alternative technologies.

Common, what altcoins do you think will challenge Bitcoin? I'm sure you don't know about the so called Flippening (ETH) and Rippening (Ripple) before. Those where school of thoughts that during 2017-2018 era who says that either of the two will dethrone Bitcoin but it didn't happenned.

3. Security threats or 51% attacks on the network.

Not worth it, will cost millions upon millions for a entity to do this. So I don't think that they will attempt this. Perhaps before it can be done, but with todays' so many players in the mining industry, they will not even think of it.

4. Loss of public interest or confidence.

Give us example of what events that you see that people will lose their trust or confidence on Bitcoin.
282  Economy / Speculation / Re: Could 72K USD be the peak for this bull run? on: June 29, 2024, 11:50:44 AM
This is a good question. Back in April 2021 I kept saying 70k in may.

Well it did not happen and we need to go to march of 2024 to 70k

So my words we close to a three year jinx on the price reaching 70k .

So I will not predict 80k or 90k or over 100k. As I do not want to jinx us.

I will hope we pass 80 90 100k this year not predict it. 🆗

Lol, but everyone has some jinx in the market, we made our predictions and then it was a missed. So this could be just coincidence as the market is very hard to predict but if we look at past historical logs, June is one of the worst as it is after a halving and maybe investors don't find the hype anymore in the market.

But then again, this is just June though, we still have 5+ more months to go and there could be a lot of things that can influence the investors to put their money in the market. And with that, personally I don't see $72k as the peak, it could just be the start as we might reach $80k or $90k or even $100k at the end of 2024.
283  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Devin Haney - Sandor Martin Ordered By WBC For The Light Welterweight Title on: June 29, 2024, 11:18:14 AM
It all messed up now for Haney, he is not training anymore for this fight he is busier suing Ryan Garcia and trying to fix his lost reputation and wounded ego, he requested DAZN to remove his fight against Haney which DAZN declined and now he is pushing and requesting YouTube to take out which I doubt will comply.
He doesn't need to get involved with that as he has an upcoming fight to prepare for. He can sue because he has the right, but the longer this issue is talked about by the fans, the more it will only result in decreasing the value of Haney. Worst of all, if he does not seriously train and ends up losing, then there would be no point in what he did to keep his undefeated record by suing Ryan Garcia. This fight will test if he is still mentally tough despite what happened, and for those who believe that Haney was really affected, I think it's worth the risk to bet against him.

I guess he will need Agent J's Laser of Men In Black for people to forget what happened between him and Ryan  Cheesy
It can only happen in the movie but not in real life, people will never forget as it's already written in the books.

He doesn't have any upcoming fight to prepared for, he already requested WBC already that he will not fight and so they declared him as champion in recess and Sandor Martin and Puello will duel it out for the interim belt.

And as Eddie Hearn said in one interview, it seems that there are two opposing side on Haney right now, those people that really are concern of him and then those who might destroy him and probably advising him to sue Ryan and requested that his losses be removed by social media which we all think is not going to happen.
284  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 2024 NBA Season on: June 29, 2024, 09:39:05 AM
Bam Adebayo signed a 3-year, $166 million max contract with the Miami Heat.
This is good for Bam, he's been doing well for the Miami heat so he deserves that.
Yes, and he deserves it. It will be hard to find a big man as agile as him and he is growing. He may not be the best in defense but his offense is surely something to look forward to.
The Miami Heat doesn't lack good players, they are just with different injured players and I think Coach Spo should think about maximizing the usage of Duncan Robinson. He played really well when he was given good minutes.

KCP seems to be targeted by the Dallas Mavericks. This will be phenomenal if they can acquire him. He has a higher defensive rate against guards and they badly need that considering how they were lacking in defense and it surfaced in the series against the Boston Celtics.
But I bet he will be pricy and the Mavs might let go some of their bench.

Yeah, we will be sort of their replacement for Hardaway Jr if they can acquired the veteran and experienced of KCP, but it will cost them a lot and money too as for sure it will not be very cheap. But let's see who will be the next one to go.

For Duncan Robinson, I also observed that his playing time has suffered, and if not for most of their players getting injured last season, he might not see some playing time. Before him and Hero combination are deadly, specially that both can shoot from the outside although Hero has evolved so much now. He is no longer that catch and shoot player but he can play defense and penetrate the basket. So Duncan should learn from Hero to not just rely on his outside shooting.
285  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Bank teller stole $28,000 from customers to feed her gambling addiction on: June 29, 2024, 09:13:52 AM
It is quite strange that such crimes are considered justifications for gambling addiction. This woman is a criminal, with an understanding of her impunity and indifference to the victims. Even murderers sometimes do not raise their hands against children and the elderly because they understand the latter's defenselessness. But as long as the laws of those countries where justifications of addiction justify such scumbags and give them light punishments, scammers will exist with even more sophisticated deception schemes.

I don't think that this crimes are considered justifications, it's that the gamblers in this case the teller thought that she can get away with it buy targeting the vulnerable elder people because she knows by experience that they are not going to report and they will not find it out. And it's really hard to compare them to murderers or even drug addicts, gambling addiction is very different.

But as per as our experience, we really don't need to go down to this kind of path, than is one of the worst thing to do, to steal to feed your gambling addiction. Yes, it's hard to regain footing from our addiction unless it's too late, just like this lady who will go to jail and most likely he will have to pay back the money that she has stolen by any means.
286  Economy / Gambling / Re: 🐺Spinarium.com🐺 - iGaming casino with 400% welcome bonus + 200 free spins 🎮. on: June 29, 2024, 08:05:59 AM
There is this fast tournament right now,



So less than hour to go, it will be interesting how this tournament will go and hopefully someone from this community will somewhat win. Every 2 hours we will see a new one. I remember this kind of tournament though years ago in a traditional based casino that I played and watch players live and it's very exciting.
287  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Devin Haney - Sandor Martin Ordered By WBC For The Light Welterweight Title on: June 28, 2024, 12:22:32 PM
And here is what Eddie Hearn says about him not bidding on this supposedly fight that made Devin Haney furious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onNmdz9WuFY

Go to 4:20, and the interviewer has a good question, to simply put, Haney didn't ask Hearn if his company is going to bid in that fight. And he also confirms that Haney doesn't have a longer contract with him. And with that, he is not willing to put big money on that fight as they are not align according to him.

This interview is prior to Haney requesting WBC to be champion in recess if I'm not mistaken.
288  Economy / Speculation / Re: Is June a Downturn for the Crypto Market? on: June 28, 2024, 10:58:50 AM
June has been red so far but don't let that fool you. It is a misconception thinking that just because we are in a certain month the market should act in a certain way (up or down) every year. We keep seeing this every year where people say this month it dumps and that month it pumps.

What happened in June is not related to the month itself.
The situation with recession hasn't changed so sell pressure will continue to exist; and considering how price failed to break $70k and most importantly failed to stay above it, naturally the price comes down like this until the crash ends and price recovers and goes back up to try $70k+ once more.

Yeah, that's another nature of this market, it's cyclical but then very unpredictable at the same time. I attribute this to the growing number of Bitcoin investors, whales, average Joe's who's in the market right now. Some rules might have change, and there will be month like this one that we will see the price going in a average -5%.

Not just in crypto market, but recession is affecting every market, gold, silver, stocks and even oil. It's just how we react, like buying in the downturn, but I think majority is still afraid to the that because of the uncertainties. But if you are here for the bigger picture, regardless of the month that we see, you are going to accumulate Bitcoin as it is going to be more scarce and limited but demand are going to skyrocket in next year.
289  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Inoue vs Akhmadaliev ordered by the WBA no later than September 25 on: June 28, 2024, 10:06:09 AM
^^ I would say that those comparison for now are invalid, I mean Inoue is very much active and we still don't know that the fighters that he has beaten already might some day be in the Boxing Hall of Fame. For now, it's Nonito, and then we have to understand that Pacquiao resume of Hall of Famer that he beat is 130 lbs - 147 lbs. And Inoue hasn't move up that much to this weight class wherein there could be a lot of potential Hall of Famers as compare to 118 lbs to 122 lbs so it's to early to compare.

For Bob Arum's statement, it's very obvious that as promoter of Inoue, he had to show praises to his prize fighter and still bring the hype although we already know what Inoue is capable of. But Inoue has to continue to proved more, but then again, can he go up as high as what Manny did during his career?
290  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: GambleAware wants Sports Gambling Promotion and Sponsorship moderated or... on: June 28, 2024, 09:24:23 AM
I think it's pretty obvious that the proliferation of gambling in the last 4 years in really huge. I mean during the pandemic, almost everyone is on the lockdown and for some reasons, we might be playing online gambling. But now that the ban has been lifted and we are back to norm, the experience that this gambling platform could be very successful for them. And so they want to continue the revenues that they wanted and so they up the tempo by increasing their gambling promotions.

It can really harm the society with too much gambling, but it really depends on the individual itself on how they are going to tackle gambling. There could be that really fall for it and become gambling addicts, ruin their lives and that is the bad effect of this ad as they are somewhat entice to play and play even more.
291  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 2024 NBA Season on: June 28, 2024, 07:30:56 AM
If Paul George declines his player option for next season and signs with the Warriors, it would really weaken the Clippers. However, I think Leonard is unlikely to find a new team because of this situation, as he still has a huge contract and the Clippers obviously won't just let him go.

They will be playing at their new arena "The Wall", Intuit Dome and I think Steve Ballmer would want to be a blast so he might not let go of his star players but instead strengthen them more with newly acquired players even though he will pay the luxury tax. If he wants his tickets to be sold in their new arena then it better be filled with players that are entertaining to watch.
They don't really lack talent, they just lack chemistry and because of injuries they cannot complete their best production.

I am more curious about the recent rumor of the Wiggins trade as the Golden State Warriors are aggressive in exchanging him for a decent player. Wiggins is good as a defensive player, the Nuggets should try to look at this one. Wiggins with AG and KCP will be problematic for their opponents. Who they can trade? That I don't know.

Both teams are going to be weak in my opinion, if the Warriors acquire PG, they might have to lost, Kuminga, Wiggins and GPII along the way. Klay wanted out to that will also be a big factor for them. Same with the Clippers, losing PG and then they will have Kahwi as their franchise player although it seems that after they got him, it's not rewarding for the Clippers as well.

I do agree, Wiggins might performed poorly, but going to another contender team, it might be like a second wind for his career and could re-ignite him if he will be traded for former champion Nuggets and he might be a great fit for them.
292  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Bohachuk Vs Ortiz Jr WBC INTERIM SUPER WELTERWEIGHT TITLE AUG 10 2024 on: June 27, 2024, 11:43:56 AM
Nobody comes close to Vergil; he is just so dominating. Bohachuk could be the right guy who's up to the challenge to beat Ortiz.
It is time for Ortiz to step up the fight and challenge the best fighter in whatever division he is in; he is already a polished fighter, but injury and fighting low-level fighters have kept him from achieving a lot.

I guess this is because Oscar protected his record; Golden Boy's way of promoting his boxers is not suitable for many boxers. They fight boxers that they can easily beat, taking a lot of time for them to shine.

I have mark this fight I'm sure its going to be a slugfest but Ortiz will eventually take this fight and will fight Crawford for the title.

Correct, it's going to be a slugfest as we can see that the records of this two are impeccable and the knockout ratio is very high. And when we have this kind of boxers facing each other, chances are we are going to see a great fight and trying to hit each other head and score a knockout.

And I do agree that it's about time for Ortiz to step up the competition and his promoters have been protecting him for so many years. Although they've already created some hype on him, still though not much of a great fight throughout his career. So this could be his real big test and we will know how Ortiz will be challenge and react against a fighter that has that kind of knockout power like himself.
293  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Jake Paul to Fight Mike Tyson in Live Netflix Boxing Event - July 20 on: June 27, 2024, 10:31:34 AM
I just check my Netflix account and it is still a go,



So perhaps they are going to salvage the fight on November 15 and this is just for Jake Paul to practice want he has been doing in training and so we can see how sharp he could be in November against Mike Tyson. So all is not lost for Netflix, although there could be disappointment that they will have to wait for the next couple of months to see their ROI.

A stomach ulcer is not a simple disease, recovery will require strict diet and rest, perhaps half a year will be enough for Mike to return to duty, but preparation and such attention to the fight will be far from a state of rest, which may aggravate everything again. I think that this fight will have to happen because Mike wants to get his money, I’m sure that anyone in his place would want the same, so I have almost no doubt that this fight will take place, but I’m worried about what condition Tyson will be in...

And that is why the fight is going to be moved on November 20, so them enough time for Mike Tyson to heal and then train for Jake Paul and I think it will still be a go by Netflix as they might have used a lot of money in promotion and paid Tyson upfront or paying up front Jake Paul's company because they are partnered with them.

As for Mike Perry as replacement, just all for the money and we can't blame him for accepting it in a short notice. For Jake Paul being criticized for picking Mike Perry, again it's all business and everyone want's a piece of Jake Paul as he is loud mouth and this fighters might want to shut him up for good.
294  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Be careful about free streaming of UEFA EURO 2024 - Medusa Malware on: June 27, 2024, 09:40:23 AM
So for football fans out here in our community, just be very careful of looking for free streaming in the internet or in our mobile devices as we don't know if the streaming that we will access is dropping something in our device from the background and could steal our sensitive information including banking logins and our crypto wallets.
Anyone who wants to be safe online while streaming these games should do it from the official source. You can count on your security online because when you are stream using the official streaming services because they are regulated, and have a lot things put in place that protects their users from any cyber attack like malware and phishing attacks. Whenever I see anyone who tries to use free streaming services, I just call it a penny wise pound foolish because the money would have spent on paying for ESPN+, Sky Sports, paid subscription would be more than the one spent when you lose your data, funds, for software updates which was very avoidable.

That is so true, but for sure there could be limited stream sites that will give us free access even the official source. And so this cyber criminals find a way again to somewhat exploit a sporting event. Even during the height of pandemic, there are a lot of face websites news and vaccine and will ask you to download something in your system that contains malware.

So this is the same here, so at least we should be aware of this kind of modus from this criminals. And if you can't afford to pay those streaming services then it might be better to just wait for the highlights or news. But if you are willing to pay big bucks then go for legitimate sites.
295  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 2024 NBA Season on: June 27, 2024, 09:20:09 AM

And there goes one big now.

OG Anunoby[1] agreed to sign with still New York Knicks for a $212.5M deal for 5 years. This is a wise move for the Knicks and as well as OG.

As long as the price is right, they're going to make these deals very fair and easy.

[1] https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/og-anunoby-staying-with-knicks-star-defender-set-to-sign-five-year-212-5-million-contract-per-reports/

Wow, this deal is hilarious in my opinion.
A career 12 point per game player in his 8th season and he earns 40 million per season from now on, wtf is wrong in this NBA right now. Sure he is a good player but this salary is just WAY too much for his caliber. This super star salary, go to guy salary, he in none of that.
His other numbers are also not impressive, not even 5 rebounds or 2 assists per game in his career. I don't understand what desperation drove NY to offer this kind of money.

Perhaps they see value on OG though, and if he didn't get injured or playing 100% in the playoffs, he could be a big contribution to the team. So I don't think that the NYK is desperation, there could be decisions by organizations that might give them good returns in the future and so they are risking it and hopefully they can get value from the money that they are paying.

And teams really need players to be at least with them 3-5 years and see how it will fit into their system. And with OG still with there, who knows, they could be a contender team if Randle goes back healthy and Brunson and the Villanova Boys carrying NYK.
296  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Mempool confirmation: After 55 years on: June 26, 2024, 11:08:27 PM
I just noticed this sort of sarcasm from Mempool  Grin when I was looking at it because I want to check the latest payment from my signature campaign.



So what if there will be a time that our transaction is going to be confirmed in years though?

Damn, it's gonna be worth a life time to wait.  Grin
297  Economy / Services / Re: 👉 {CFNP} Spinarium Signature Campaign | Snr members+ | $50/week {Funds Escrow} on: June 26, 2024, 11:02:09 PM
Confirming that payment has been received...
298  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: For me, Bitcoin is just a financial Game. on: June 25, 2024, 09:49:02 PM
Firstly, despite Bitcoin's distinctiveness and its own complexity compared to other financial forms like fiat currency, gold, etc., its essence remains "money."
Secondly, the price volatility of Bitcoin is highly enticing; it constantly alters our psychology, which is why I refer to Bitcoin as a financial game.

You can treat it that way, money, speculative asset like stocks, hedge against financial crisis, Store of Value, there are a lot of definition of Bitcoin, it just depends on how we look at it our how we going to used it.

Be mindful: if it's a game, there are rules to follow, risks involved, and winners and losers. Before you engage, research investment strategies, media influence, key influencers, benefits, risks, etc. Take charge of the game; don't let it control you.

Just to let you know though, that everything is life is a game, so in order to survived, you have to play and be smart. So like in Bitcoin market, it's complex as you have said and volatile, but if you know how to play the game and be that smart, take advantage of every situation given to you, like if the market goes down, then buy and accumulate, and then wait for it to go up and sell and make profits. Sounds very simple, but it takes mental toughness to go with it and win in the end.
299  Economy / Speculation / Re: Is investing in cryptocurrency a risky game? 🚨 on: June 24, 2024, 11:34:25 PM
Every investment though is a risk, stocks, gold, oil, we don't know what's going to happen, it's the unknown that will mostly scares investors. But so be it, that is the risk that we should take if we really wanted to win big at the end. So yeah, Bitcoin and Altcoins are risky because it's so volatile, however, Bitcoin is more resilient to manipulations and pump and dump scheme. So most likely it will turn out big for you if you know how to time the market, when to buy, HODL and then when to sell.

As for the hackers and scammers, I would say that it's part of the market already, so you as a investors, should know how to live with it. Protect your wallet at all cost, practice safe hygiene like not clicking any links even if they didn't look suspicious. That's why we said it here, BYOB (Be Your Own Bank), so you have total control of everything. With that, I think it's worth the risk.
300  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Thailand to Legalize Gambling To combat Illegal gambling or.... on: June 24, 2024, 11:09:50 PM
"If you can't beat them, join them", attitude by the Thai government. I think it's good approach as compare to really trying to crack it down and then your efforts like money, manpower are futile because they are going to sprout like mushrooms. And if you capture one, for sure 10 more illegal dens are going to be established by this criminals. And then maybe some of them are really working together with some government officials and police for protection.

So maybe this way they can eliminate those things and let them pay tax, at least it's a win win situation. Let's see how they are going to cope though with the gambling addiction, it will obviously rise in numbers and the government should also established infrastructure for rehab facilities.
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