Yeah, a lot of would-be strikers not even in the selection as you point out (Mitrovic will be desperate to continue his fine form but I doubt coach will take a risk). Tried to look for players who faced WC disappointment, so Spurs is plenty to choose from haha, but Che Adams did well in friendlies so I stuck with him in the Saints game.

Ronaldo? Asian Federation Champions League maybe as early as February actually if one of Al-Nassr's rivals make a silly bid for him But that's just my funny, no-money-in-it prediction.

Anyway, just to mention again that there's a raffle coming for participants of this pool to get their hands on a nice Ledger Nano X, a special edition too with Betnomi customisation. Plenty of time til the February restart, but I'll organise something simple for this raffle!

So that's at least 4 of us, I'll flex a bit and try to make it not so easy for you guys. Will really need to take a look tomorrow though, have a feeling there's a lot of unavailable people I'm not aware of (I expect none of the Argentinians will even be back in England, for example).

Everyone trying to have a Christmas today? I went through an entire 12 hours of domestic chores and not even done...

Does he still charge 0.5 mbtc for withdrawals? That's a heck lot of money, and a missed opportunity, I'd say. He processed something like 6B in 3 days? Why not just encourage everyone to prove that his exchange is liquid and he can honour every withdrawal? And keep encouraging people to keep their BTC on their own wallets after trading?

He earns with each withdrawal, so it benefits him more to get people to keep withdrawing after every trade.

Why's he so afraid to make money? Surely not because Binance is... not overcollateralised as promised? Shock!

Ah, nowhere I've lived/worked then... though have to say in East Africa, even mobile payment systems (the famous mPesa I keep talking about for example) have been around for over a decade and work great. Just surprised fiat systems there are as slow and complicated as you said when fintech advancements usually show up there even earlier than in so-called developed economies.

I usually don't like to speak too confidently in either direction, still a full week ahead left to December, and Bitcoin generally needs half a day to make serious double-digit percentage moves, so I wouldn't put $20k beyond reach.

Wouldn't bet on it -- just too little to suggest a wild change of fortunes. Of course, show me a place giving 100/1 odds or more and my money's happily there

Trust me (well, don't, haha) but I'd be willing to bet anyone that Brazil (or Brazilians, really) are probably a lot farther ahead with Bitcoin adoption than El Salvador.

Sure, the latter's made the news with headlines from its dictator president (nothing personal) but I've seen a lot more evidence of Bitcoin utility in Brazil than in El Salvador.

So don't worry about whether your president or government will get between the covers. You don't need them.

I don't even remember that poker tournament really well, but I definitely remember not being able to play any round properly because of time.

Love poker, had some good times with it, in another life when I could sit for 6 hours with friends with no need to wake up early or to put minions to bed or feed them haha.

So yeah, don't see how I can ever do another poker session. 2 hours of football is the best I can do, while cooking/looking after someone.

Should do a poker tourney where we bet on the players

Promo codes man, if you haven't figured it out yet haha. Also, think their social media suggests there have been vouchers given for those who guessed the "puzzles" right, so we're obviously not as smart as some players heh.

Noticed their Discord is no longer active (or I need to do something to reactivate) so perhaps they're moving their focus to Twitter and other socials now (judging from recent competitions that require sharing).

@Trofo: Yeah, especially seeing how many people drop off from the pool (which is, in worst scenario, easy to fill in picks for weeks ahead of schedule), I'm really surprised that everyone opted to commit to leagues. But that's really cool to know, and am sure you guys will come up with something cool. Let me know if you need any help or something, who knows? e.g. stuff like free hosting, if needed.

@darxiaomi: Ideal entry fee is probably as accurate as possible. I'd say a lot of it depends on location and cost of living and income, and I guess we really are a varied bunch. Personally, for me a season long fee is actually incredible value for entertainment (I see it almost as an outright bet on myself).

Hey guys!

I didn't really have much time to read, but if you need support, count me in, 2mbtc is what I probably waste on Liverpool on a single ill-advised live bet, and I have multiple ill-advised bets during a game if I'm lucky enough to watch, so of course!

I will give a warning that I might likely drop out again, for some reason life finds a way to have no time for things like FPL.

PM Trofo in a little while latest tmrw (I just remembered I even totally forgot about FPL World Cup haha).

Almost similar experience when I visited a self-styled Bitcoin City in a place I now reside. 3 hours away by train/bus and while I wasn't entirely disappointed, couple of first places I went into with a Bitcoin logo outside turned out couldn't accept BTC payments.

It wasn't even an ad deal like in your story, it was literally a logo to signify BTC payments accepted.

In their case, staff weren't properly trained or didn't know at all how to accept BTC.

Great stuff, let us know how the education session goes

Don't want to discourage you but forget any kind of self-employment if you are not ready to do the work of reading and researching... Before coming up with a question.

Nothing wrong with asking people to help fill in gaps and clarify aspects.

Freelancing and self employment is hard work, and you usually pay someone else if you want tasks done for you, answers found for you.

It is not for you.

Don't take it personally. Same is for Bitcoin knowledge.

Or take it personally and prove yourself. Either way you win.

Yeah, can't remember just how many golden crosses and heads and shoulders and dead cat bounce calls etc were made and invalidated every step of the way in 2018-19... It was really until 2020 Black Monday crash and the recovery globally that Bitcoin price made serious rally moves.

Fundamentals in Bitcoin do keep getting stronger but while market fundamentals are ailing, with symptoms yet to clear, not really useful to look at these indicators, particularly at poor volumes.

Nice post, on the surface, but I can't see the usefulness...

For starters, you haven't even defined gambling distortion, though, so I'm really unclear on what's being demonstrated or proven here. Distortion suggests what we perceive is different to what actually happens. And what are stages 2 and 3?

I do keep pretty decent records for one of my "strategies" since it involves low frequency bets, high rewards. My gambling patterns, if timebound by season, aren't anything like that -- if using this strategy, it's many stages of continuous losing streaks and epic wins scattered around.

Casino gambling's probably also the same, far fewer wins than losses, because of my style and house edge preference.

I do enjoy these kinds of posts, but in a really trivial way -- problem is I'd enjoy them BEFORE a tournament where you might have brought it up before the World Cup, and every Argentina win (and eventual titles) could carry bets based entirely on the Time Traveller strategy

Nevertheless, this post is worth more than 90% of gambling posts on this forum. Would merit if I actually had any.

^ BoSox for me again then. Not as great odds as before. Might actually throw down money on these outsider outrights once a day, as before (2 seasons ago) and update here as they progress (or not).

37/1 on BoSox to kickstart it all: https://sportsbet.io/sharebetslip/841a9694-66ed-46e8-8302-73ed9a173db7

I know it's not a question to me but...

...as a non-native supporter, but I hope as a sincere supporter, I've never seen nationality as a prerequisite -- we've had plenty of spiritual Scousers over the years (even poor Benitez, who made the city his home and the attention of his life work). King Dalglish is another prime example, as is Klopp -- true Scousers the Kop hail as their own... never mind the "mini-Scousers" like even Tsimikas and Naby lad show it's never where you come from, but where you put your heart.

That's always applied to players, always applied to managers, and while no Liverpool supporter might ever bestow the same admiration for their owners, they might at least afford the same spirit of respect.

So there's a difference not in who the owners are but how the money comes and what motivations back it. Is the club going to be a play thing for champagne parties like Abramovich? Is it just a trophy wife to brag about at dinners like Venky's when they first bought Blackburn Rovers and aired their players eating fried chicken?

So that's oil money and franchise money from overseas. But do Englishmen fare better? Ask Newcastle about Mike Ashley, who treated talents like Keegan like crap and appointed his own mates to manage the club (not to mention all the tacky stuff he did for his actual business while allowing his club to get relegated, for example renaming St James Park to... Sports Direct Arena). Oil money bought Newcastle but they seem to be learning a lot of lessons... and it doesn't yet appear they're going to treat the club like a toy. Time will tell.

Yeah, if you know you're already going to get gifts, maybe Bitcoin itself is a nice gift? I sent to 2 couples, their first Bitcoin, just a small amount that they're free to spend if they want. Holding's nice but spending gives you return much later, and that's cool too -)

Delayed gratification is awesome!

Just wanted to add a comment here on DEXs -- I saw Edwarded already explained about AMM and orderbook DEXs (defi now is normally associated with AMMs so it's just a large common pool where anyone can contribute asset pairs to liquidity).

There were actually Bitcoin DEXs (the very first I used was Counterparty, still active, but barely so) and there's no earning incentive there, as they're simply orderbooks and suffered from liquidity problems (not enough demand, high slippage, etc.) and that's why AMMs have been successful (incentive in the form of commission from providing liquidity).

Just be aware, and I repeat mk4's point, that you should always assume worst-case scenario. Using AMMs to earn means locking in your assets on that network, and the protocols of DEXs like Uniswap (which, if I understand will no longer be open source).

The illusion of non-custodial might lead you to think it's safe, but there are other vulnerabilities like front-running or simply backdoor protocols that can steal your funds anyway from pools (and it's all happened before).

I think it's fairly safe to use open source orderbook DEXs on Bitcoin -- but because it's not popular I also wouldn't consider it battle-tested, therefore, not safe enough.