We need to understand that Djokovic has played only a few matches this year and that he is not completely ready yet.
Due to the vaccination situation, Covid Đoković could not play in many tournaments, and therefore he is not at the right level yet.
Probably everything that happened in Australia psychologically affected him as well.
I expect his level of play to rise slowly and he will be fully ready for the GS in Paris.

Understandable. They probably do not have the technology yet to fully implement this.

To be honest, I didn't know that such country exists in Africa (no offense to those who live there). Upon looking it up, it seems they do not have their own local currency just like El Salvador and also a country trying hard to recover economically. Bitcoin won't solve all their issues but it might attract some foreign investors and tourists.

The Central African Republic is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Chad to the north, Sudan to the northeast, South Sudan to the southeast, the DR Congo to the south, the Republic of the Congo to the southwest, and Cameroon to the west. Source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_African_Republic

They do have their own local Fiat currency ==> Central African CFA franc (XAF), Bitcoin (XBT) and they have +/- 4.83 million (2020) people living in that country.

Let's hope this spreads to the rest of Africa and that it will replace digital currencies like MPesa in Africa.... if all of this is true.  

https://cryptotips.eu/en/knowledge-base/what-is-the-abbreviation-xbt/  <=== Explains XBT

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LOT 2

...the Raiders then went to the pub to watch the game...

Before anyone even starts thinking of it, here is an article from the South China Morning Post, the arm of the English language propaganda of the CCP
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3172028/russian-gas-sales-china-will-not-make-loss-european-markets

Short story:

Russia can only sell 10% of the gas it sells to Europe to China, there are not enough pipelines, and even the ones in construction expected to be finished 4 years from now will only have 1/3 of the capacity.
As for selling gas to India, good luck, there is no such thing even in construction.

As for oil, it doesn't even matter, all that Europe has to do is outbid others, let's see who can afford gas at 3 euros, the EU or Africa or South Asia.

The government approach is not excellent at all, or maybe of how I see CBDCs, my country created one already and I see no good need for it than to use our fiat, the CBDC created by the government in my country has its own digital wallet but not on multicoin crypto wallet, it was said that it was not even a cryptocurrency, it can not be used on exchanges ornbenstored using keys generated on crypto wallets. Government suppose to create a kind of CBDCs that can compete with USDT and other stable coins on crypto exchanges which is what the governments should do, not CBDCs that are not cryptocurrencies that have no way to compete with stable coins. Assuming the governments have their own stable coin that are cryptocurrencies, people will prefer to use it compared to using USDT and others that are just created by private companies. As USDT dominates stable coins, it can even still be freezed on noncustododial wallet. The government are taking a wrong approach in my opinion as CBDCs are just totally fiat and nothing specially added.

Okay - Now that the Wests Tigers Vs Rabbitohs  game has begun (with a fumbled kick off no less) I can revel my Parlay is West Tigers to win last week (they did @ 10+) and to win again tonight (at almost 5+) total payout 50:1 3.02 mBTC


90+ MINUTES AND WE'LL KNOW IF IT PAYS OUT.

A Luke Brooks field goal secured back-to-back wins for Wests Tigers after defeating
South Sydney 23-22 in a thrilling clash at CommBank Stadium.

Yes, I will be skipping it. Swiatek is the overwhelming favourite, but I think the betting odds are not overwhelming enough in her favour... it is pretty pointless betting on Swiatek. I do think 6-0 6-0 is a genuine possibility, but whilst it could happen, I agree it's not the most likely result, so won't be betting on it.

Last night's game between the Broncos and Bull Dogs was entertaining enough - by the twenty minute mark the Bull Dogs were winning 10 - 0 and at half time, the Bull Dogs were still leading 10 - 6.

After the break, the Broncos ploughed on the points.  With ten minutes to go I was thinking to myself the Broncos need to score again just to rub it in - and they did with five minutes on the clock, they won the game 34 - 14

Rugby Union - URC

Here are my few bets on this weekends Round 16 of the United Rugby Championship

Nitrogen Sports

DHL Stormers⁵ v Glasgow Warriors³ - ML DHL Stormers @1.34 - Take Amount: 0.06mBTC - Possible Payout: 0.08mBTC

Ulster² v Munster⁴ - ML Ulster @1.32 - Taken Amount: 0.06mBTC - Possible Payout: 0.08mBTC

First time I see a rugby post here, I see that you two are the ones that keep it active, I went in to see if it said something about my country (Argentina) that came out champion of seven.

I know a lot about rugby but only from my country, from abroad I don't know anything so you won't see me betting.

I'm guessing, move out of the nation? But to what other nation?

Like looking on the blockchain and seeing so many btc millionaires hardly doing much with their btc. Like, they got it long long ago but haven't sold but might owe taxes (trades, buying, etc. ) wonder how many people in general dont pay taxes? I heard it's a lot in the US for crypto holders.

I've put a parlay on early yesterday - I won't say what it is, but fingers crossed for next week ...

the second set played by the Spanish was disastrous from all points of view, indeed unwatchable.
Anyone who has bet an "easy" 2-0 win was really surprised to see him play ...

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https://www.news.com.au/sport/tennis/tennis-in-meltdown-after-wimbledon-breaks-rules-to-ban-russia/news-story/3823c84f7202efcaf2afc1f24b6fda08

Politics continues to create divisions even in sport.
As already discussed yesterday, there was a ban on Russian and Belarusian players in Wimbledon Tournament.

Today's news is Djokovic's that doesn't agree with this ban.
Another "contrary" opinion come from australian player Millmann
(who suggested donating the Wimbledon prize pool to the Ukrainian cause rather than banning the participation of players based on their nationality).

I don't know about you, but excluding someone regardless of their actions is always a kind of defeat for everyone

feel free to grace this thread with bitcoin facts you know

In 2014, a 4chan user spent 216 BTC and bought a Lamborghini Gallardo for $210,000
at Lamborghini Newport Beach using a third-party service that verifies bitcoin. The legend goes that
the user leaked the buy on Reddit, and news of the purchase went viral. The dealership that sold the
car proclaimed it was the first exotic car dealer to accept Bitcoin as a payment method.

Wrong.
Only if you own shitcoins that you want to sell in the next few hours to days it makes sense to store them on the exchange so that you can act quickly considering how shitcoins pump and dump very quickly.
Otherwise if you own bitcoin and you want to keep it for years it makes no sense to store it on exchanges, they may not even exist in a couple of months let alone be around in years!