Alongside the tean that will be champions, the team that will finish fourth is also yet to be decided, Arsenal are in the most favorite position to end fourth at the moment, but Spurs and United are still close to Arsenal, and even though i don't think anything dramatic will happen that will take either of them above the gunners, it still doesn't rule out the possibility of it happening.

Having said that, as far as the title is concerned, City remains my favorite team to win it, credit to Liverpool for fighting back so hard and making the end part of the season very interesting, but i expect City to just edge them by the finest of margins.

It will be quite an exodus if all of those players leave the team all at once, and personally i doubt they will all leave at the same time, i have not seen any speculation linking donnarumma out of the team of late, i think he is happy at PSG, he is getting good playing time even though he has a strong competition for his position in the person of Keylor Navas, but he still gets the nod to stay between the sticks more often than not, so i think he will stay.

Having said that, the situation with Mbappe looks all but settled as i believe he will leave the team at the end of the season, it looks like Madrid would be the ones acquiring his signature. As for Messi and Neymar, they looked happy many weeks back, but a lot has changed in the past couple of weeks, after the humilating exit from the CL, and receiving boos in their sebsequent league match, that can tell on their mentality, they could prolly feel the fans aren't on their side, and that could result in an exit, but nothing is certain yet.

Xavi isn't the sort of manager to underestimate teams and allow complacency to set it, so i absolutely do not see him doing that, Barcelona are still in their resurgence stage thus every team is a competitor to them as they try their best to always make a statement whenever they step out on the pitch of play. I expect Barcelona to win this and progress to the next round, they have shown quite a lot of quality of late to tell that they will be too strong for their opponents.

Having said that, i know based on Barcelona's level in world football, they ordinarily would not be happy winning the Europa league, but in this present circumstances, and with what the club has been through in the past year, i believe they will take this one with smiles if they win it, and start competing for titles such as the laliga and the CL with the big teams again next season, just as has always been the case.

That is not an issue or a problem, here is the reason why it seems your activity is stuck:
So all you basically have to do is just wait and continue contributing on the forum as normal, when your next period is complete, your activity will be updated, if you want to know all about activity, check this thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2766177.0

Merits is a very subjective issue, so if you are looking for a general criterion for giving them out, then i am afraid you would not find any, every user has their own personal criteria and you prolly should have yours, and that will help you to give out merits effectively when you see posts that meet your criteria.

But mind you that merit sources for example would prolly have a more lenient criteria for giving out merits since they get replenished every 30 days, and source merits not used up within that time get decayed, so they definitely would give out more merits that a user who isn't a MS. I said that so as you fix your criteria you understand that you might always run out of smerits, thus you make sure you give them out to a post you really like.

Having said that, the forum really doesn't care what you do with your smerits, just do not sell them, and do not give them to your alt accounts.

If that be the case, then make good use of the search button, you should know its use and importance by now, and as for 'finding your way through', things on the forum aren't as complicated as you are making it seem, just garner sufficient Bitcoin/forum knowledge, and you use it to communicate here.
You do not have to go as far as youtube to get knowledge about the forum, again, just use the search button.
No user is obliged to be nice to the other, just do not break the forum rules and that's that, you might want to wear a thicker skin so you do not have to worry too much; and NO, you did not break any rule.

And they did just that, they did not just get one, but two goals, Aubameyang and Araujo have given Barcelona a two goal lead as they are now in the dying stages of the first half, a very excellent display from Barcelona in this first half, they have clearly been the better team and they deserve to go into the break with this lead. Like i said before today, this is Barcelona's first real test after their resurgence, and they are absolutely bossing it, an awful amount of credit must go the way of Xavi and his boys for not giving up on this season, i hope they see this one through in the second half and take home all three points.

I second all of that, i mean Arsenal deserve that fourth position for how they have played this season, they started the season slow, but once they picked up form, there was no looking back from them and that is why they are where they are at the moment. Manchester United have had an 'up and down' season, they are very erratic, and they stand no chance to finish fourth this season, and when that happens it will sum up the sort of bad season they had, with no CL football for them next season, they could prolly lose one or two quality players and will struggle to allure quality players to their team in the next transfer window.

It was very well needed, many weeks ago i actually thought Juventus would not be able to qualify for the CL next season, but they have fought well and are now in a position that will take them to the CL next season, they just have to maintain it, i know they would love to be 1st position but the seria A is not like it used to be some seasons ago when Juve just runs away with the title, last season Inter did the magic, and this season is even more competitive with Ac Milan, Napoli, Inter and even Juve all seemingly gunning for the title, this is actually what we want to see every season, except you're prolly a Juve fan.

Yes, though i am not so sure, but i think the number of people who use completely/solely decentralized means are in the minority, i know everyone tends to go for that which suits them and is more convenient, but from my years in the network i think people need to sacrifice convenience for safety, security, anonymity and privacy, if it will take you some stress to protect yourself and your funds, then i think one should do it, the most convenient means most times in this network is usually the least secure; like for example, when people choose to use weak passwords so it be convenient for them to remember, not knowing it is a very wrong/bad thing to do.

And how many of such 'new tech' have we seen in the past, and where did they end up, do you remember when ICO and the rest were just as popular as DeFi and others nowadays, but what happened, we found out quickly that most of all these 'new techs', new projects and all are just being moved by hype, and when the hype slows down, that is more or less the end. When talking about actual utility, you are basically talking Bitcoin, it does not have to be receptive to all of these new stuffs coming into the market, cause it is already useful enough in itself to be used all around the world, most especially as a currency, what i mean is: a payment method.

How many of these new coins you are fascinated about is being used as a currency? Mind you, i am not questioning your love for new projects and their likes, but they are nothing compared to Bitcoin.

Quite a lot of users overlook the search button, if it definitely wasn't useful, then it wouldn't have been there in the first place, if forum users use the search button more frequently, then many threads will not be repeated.

Good topic, but i do not know if it will be useful in the long run when this thread leaves the first 3 or so pages, users would still repeat such threads again, so what is most important is that users should make use of the search button first before starting a thread, only then will they find already existing threads on the topics/suggestion they want to make, and compilations of already existing threads like the OP.

I think a lot of such misconceptions and assumptions stems from a lack of proper research, quite a lot of people get their understanding of Bitcoin from the media or from individuals who do not tell them the most important aspects of it, of course we all know the media is famous for highlighting Bitcoin as being negative, and also, more often than not people only tell others about how much they can make from Bitcoin, thus through such means, many individuals get the wrong perception about the network that prolly would not get corrected.

Having said that, for as many people that do their research about Bitcoin, they would want to be 'associated' with this network, if they can at least grasp a thing or two from their research, they will understand its pros and cons and know how well to handle them, and specifically understand that the network is not a get rich quick scheme as quite a lot of people assume it is.

It is no longer news how the numerous sanctions imposed is heavily affecting the Russian economy and its people, there are now quite a lot of difficulties in getting things that were ordinarily easy to get in the past as many establishments have fled the country, i read this article sometime ago, which somewhat depicts what the situation on ground looks like, of course i am not in Russia so i can't attest to its veracity, but still here is the news: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60647543

Having said that, i would not be surprised if prostitutes have changed their mode of payment for the meantime in order to still continue working, earning and retaining the value of what they earn, the government might not worry too much about it, but on the other hand if such people have never used crypto before then they will have some learning to do, which generally isn't bad if they get to learn about the network.

Of course, no one is disputing the fact that Fiat is the currency that is mostly used, but gradually we can all see that Bitcoin adoption is growing pretty fast, and many businesses now want to integrate it into their business as a payment method, it is also a legal tender in a few places, it definitely isn't going to be a 'mandatory' payment method, if there is even anything such as that, but the thing is, as time goes on more people will willingly adopt Bitcoin into whatever business or service they are offering, that will be the time of mass adoption, when a great number of people will hold bitcoin and will also want to spend it like an 'everyday currency', thus in order to sufficiently cut across all customers, Bitcoin payment method will be very popular.

Manchester City v Athletico Madrid is definitely a game to look forward to, i think this should be the first time this two sides meet, and they both play entirely different brands of football, while City is a side solely concerned with attack and never sitting back, Athletico are the antithesis of Manchester City as they always prefer to sit back, soak up pressure, and try to score a goal or two on the counter. I expect City to dominate this game in terms of ball possession and controlling the game, but we still have to be very weary of Athletico madrid on the break cause they have quality players that can cause a lot of problems, we saw them do it to Liverpool some seasons ago, though i am pretty sure that would not repeat itself in this scenario.

I am not happy with Inter's current situation, i have supported them from the beginning of this season, i have been rooting for them to win their title back to back, but it might not be possible, todays draw with Fiorentina was really a disappointing one and honestly it could prove to be too costly in the end. Having said that, Inter are very well still within touching distance of the league leaders, so nothing is decided just yet, they must stop dropping points though to have a chance of retaining their title and i really hope they do.

Yes, but if we are to be honest, quite a large number of crypto users use centralized exchanges cause of it is somewhat more convenient to use, so i think the best advice to users would be to make sure they do not store consequential/large funds in exchange wallets, after using the exchange for whatever reason it is they should do well to move funds to wallets they own private keys/seed phrase to, cause if it is not your keys, you know it definitely isn't your coins.

Do you really believe the above, what is the use case of the coins you mentioned above? And do you honestly believe this new coins have a better network that Bitcoin? Absolutely not. I could understand the point that has to do with get rich quick investors trying their luck with new projects and their pump and dump coins, but Bitcoin has a lot to do with being patient as it is a long term investment, it definitely isn't a pump and dump coin and it has an actual utility that will see it last for as long as possible and continually appreciate in price. As you look for x100 with new projects, do not forget the grave risk involved, many of this projects disappear quite easily; do your research into the Bitcoin network and other networks for proper understanding.

Peace? Honestly i don't want anything but just peace, so things can go back to normal. But are there actually plans in motion to make peace? I have not seen or heard much about that, from what i can gather, the war is still going on in its full force, to make peace will mean one side will have to surrender, do you think Ukraine are going to do that? I honestly do not know what is going to happen, but i just want a stop to all of this wreckage.
Printing more money eh? Well that could be the only option, but i am pretty sure we all know what the negative effect of that is, as inflation/hyperinflation is being felt almost worldwide right now after there was so much money-printing to fight the covid pandemic. Well Ukraine would not be thinking of that at all right now, they will just want all of this to end, so the rebuilding process can begin, in whichever way possible.