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That is unfortunate that he has an ankle niggle, he or anyone really needs to turn up
with an A Game to Djokovic. If it starts troubling him more today he should pull out so
even betting on Alcaraz with a handicap is risky, as Trofo its best to skip this one.
Second semi final, Tsitsipas v Zverev, thats a tough one to call too eventhough Tsitsipas
is the favourite, maybe a conservative handicap bet on Zverev +4.5 @1.36...
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OMG what a win, an absolute trouncing by the Broncos. I'm glad I didnt bet, I was thinking
as probably everyone else was that the Rabbitohs were going to win.
I've heard people were getting five to one an hour before kick-off in favour of the Broncos (and putting hefty wagers on them to win too) 5 to 1 aint bad, I'm not sure that would have influenced me to bet on the Broncos though.
Big win by the Eels today against the form team the Panthers, I dont get it though, the Eels are beaten by teams they themselves should be beating and then they go and beat the top team and as visitors, anyway not a great start to R9 I have to re-consider the betting strategy, I cant afford to lose any wagers really given the odds and the amounts wagered. |
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Both had 3 setter matches and were given tough enough ones at that. The favourite is
Alcaraz...but we can never underestimate Nadal's ability to "find a way" which of course
wont last forever.
Odds on Rollbit are Nadal 1.97 - Alcaraz 1.81
I think I will go with Alcaraz, his drop shot plays for example could make the
difference?
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I think the Broncos have been holding back this season as evidenced by their emphatic win over the Rabbitohs who just kept fumbling the ball.  Rugby in the Olympics its about time, they already have the 7's game. I couldn't find
anything on Dr.Google about it. I only heard a snippet of the news article - I'll have a look in the local media sites. OMG what a win, an absolute trouncing by the Broncos. I'm glad I didnt bet, I was thinking as probably everyone else was that the Rabbitohs were going to win. |
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The Broncos are going to be down a couple of players and like last week they will be playing at Lang Park here in Brisbane, so they might just pull a rabbit out of their collective asses.
I briefly heard PNG who are in the Qld Cup are considering bidding to be the 18th team in the National NRL. If I can find an article online I'll post a link here.
In other news, Rugby will be played in Brisbane when we host the Olympics in 2032. Details are almost nonexistant, however they should be good games with teams we here in Australia are unfamiliar with.
Thats a tough ask then for the Broncos if they are down some players, how good are the replacements?
Rugby in the Olympics its about time, they already have the 7's game. I couldnt find anything on Dr.Google about it.
Rugby Union Quarter Finals weekend coming up in the European Champions Cup Competition and as expected all 8 teams are realy top class.  I have two very sal bets on Rollbit both Irish teams, Munster to win ay home to Stade Toulousain @2.95, not sure why they are not favourites . . . and Leinster to win away from home to Leicester Tigers which I think will be a tough game. Leinster are favourites @1.44. Leinster are in line to possible win both the United Rugby Championship and this European Rugby Championship which is the pinnacle of the club game here in the Northern hemisphere. |
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FYI- the silver commemorative litecoin in package for sale is a sold out 2018 version. Those are only there because someone sold those back to JM. Theres only 10 available. Those are more rare than anything new their selling. I have several and they sell on secondary for $150-200 if you can find them. Grab one, they will go quick. https://www.jmbullion.com/1-oz-antique-crypto-commemorative-litecoin-silver-round/Thanks for the heads up Cryptogreatdane, I will go for one of these, hopefuly there will be some left at the time of purchase. aoluain 1 - https://www.jmbullion.com/1-oz-antique-crypto-commemorative-litecoin-silver-round/ - $45.71 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Payment sent - b1bac6a236a8b448de4dc053ca87be815e62485b9c13619387c8a43751897991 |
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Even though the price may not go overboard immediately after the halving there is a high chance of the price making a tremendous increase on a positive note,
I mean, in previous halvings the price didn't immediately go up so this really isn't anything new. with the way the Bitcoin hash rate has been a constantly increasing with the recent all-time harsh rate happening today it shows that the Bitcoin network is building strong resistance level and also making foundation for an uptrend movement. With the next Bitcoin halving, I guess we will have a highly positive notion about Bitcoin just like we have seen with previous Bitcoin halving and its resultant effect on the Bitcoin price.
With the increase in Bitcoin hash rate, it shows that there are more miners' activities and new blocks are being mined at regular intervals, thos show an increase in mining activities.
The rise in hashrate is definitely a good sign, but let's not forget what actually pumps bitcoin's price — market demand; not hashrate, not lines on charts, not even necessarily halvings because halvings only affect the supply side. With all the knowledge we have now regarding previous halvings will there be more pre-emptave buying ahead of the event? historically the market pumps a few months after the halving and with that knowledge why wouldnt gou sell everything to buy Bitcoin? |
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Even more adoption, added to yet another halving of newly mined coins really should send us to the moon in 2025 (big effect on price always seems to happen a little while AFTER the halving).
I think we had a diluted bull run in 2021, possibly due to the fall out from COVID & what it did to the world economy. We have a lot of catching up to do so I predict upwards of $250,000 in 2025 per bitcoin.
Now is definitely a good time to buy, you might even get cheaper opportunities before 2024.
Yeah, I do believe its longer than the 150 time period given in the images, I might be wrong in that I'm not a chart watcher. Although, I must say its nice to see someone putting a time period on it, since I find that a lot of people just say "its gone up ten fold!" without specifying how long that took, and therefore new investors tend to get the wrong idea. Honestly, I think we'll be sitting around this figure for the remaining of the year, probably with some minor fluctuations. Although, I do doubt the 250k figure, I'll be quite honest if you're right about that, I'm not going to be mad if you're right  . I think we all join you Welsh in not being mad at the OP if the 250k number is correct. Its nice to see firstly a date approximately and nice to see a very interesting pie chart too. Its kind of unbelievable to think we are half way there. I agree that the $ price of Bitcoin will probably hover around where we are now, there will always be unexpected movements and the unexpected events for better or worse as LFC_Bitcoin posted. |
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The match is seat for early today, I would have thought this would be close to the
if not the top game for today?
The cynic in me thinks Djokovic got the match started early because its known that
Andy likes later games because he feels better. That would actuly be a Djokovic stunt!
If that is the case, he fears what Andy could do.
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Cryptocurrency is gathering momentum every now and then. Organisations and institutions are seeing the need to start accepting the new way to easy life. Now that Bentley University has accepted cryptocurrencies for tuition payment, as one of the first universities in the US to do so, what can we expect?
Bitcoin is slowly getting momentum for sure! Not just corporates or educational institutions, but even countries are joining the bandwagon. Recently Brazil and Mexico has shown interest in legalizing bitcoin. So we are slowly getting there. It's a chain reaction really. Such kind of mass adoption takes time and that's what is happening with bitcoin as well. That's what we can expect, what else! I am figuring that the OP is asking directly what to expect from this news specifically, and yes its the chain reaction of each little bit of news like this builds awareness and adoption but from this news of Bentley university accepting crypto it will largely go unnoticed, its just another positive news story for Bitcoin, so yea as avikz states, they happen every day. |
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snip it will be and old rivalry next, Murray vs Djokovic. Novak looks great in his last game and so is Murray. But I don't think that Murray will have the body to beat Djokovic in their game. I'm expecting a two set win by Djokovic.
I like the quote from Murray regarding the next match: "He's the world number one, and I've got a metal hip" Difficult to believe, but the last time these two played, Murray was world number one and Djokovic number two. Thats class and just goes to show Andy is a realist and still has the wit! He will be looking forward to this though, its a kind of benchmark for him to be able to measure up against the #1 and like always what he lacks in mobility he still retains the skills to create some difficulty for Djokovic but its hard to see him winning this one as Djokovic is ramping up his levels now in preparation for RG. Intresting reading about the match up of these two players. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djokovic%E2%80%93Murray_rivalryBetween May and August 2013 and between May 2016 and June 2017, they were the world No. 1 and 2 in ATP rankings;
Djokovic held the top spot throughout the entire first period and the second period until November 2016, when Murray claimed it.
They were the 2015 and 2016 year-end top 2 players in the world. They subsequently did not play each other for over five years
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Rugby League - Australia
Ok so here are my picks for Round 9 of the NRL, I dont know whether to bet on
the opening game:
Rabbitohs v Broncos - both teams have been unpredictible in opposite ways,
both are on 4 from 8 4 wins & 4 losses. For the Rabbitohs thats poor,
for the Broncos its not bad so early in the season IMO.
Nitrogensports
Penrith Panthers v Parramatta Eels - ML Penrith Panthers @1.21 - Taken Amount 0.1mBTC - Possible Payout: 0.12mBTC
Manly Sea Eagles v Wests Tigers - ML Manly Sea Eagles @1.16 - Taken Amount 0.1mBTC- Possible Payout: 0.12mBTC
Cronulla Sharks v NewZealand Warriors - ML Cronulla Sharks @1.18 - Taken Amount: 0.1mBTC - Possible Payout: 0.12mBTC
Rollbit
North Queensland Cowboys v Newcastle Knights - ML North Queensland Cowboys @ 1.11 - Taken Amount $2 - Possible Payout $2.22
Sydney Roosters v Gold Coast Titans - mL Sydney Roosters @ 1.29 - Taken Amount $2 - Possible Payout: $2.58
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The "reducing transactions" was always going to happen because not everyone was going
to continue using their Chivo wallet after cashing out their $30. Expecting everyone to continue
using Chivo and Bitcoin day to day was very optimistic.
Bitcoin in El Salvador for many was like home computers becoming accessible back in the
early 80's or like mobile phones becoming popular in the 90's, it takes time before the
infrastructure and services are in place and accepted by the majority but I feel it will
happen, its still early and the majority still have to fully embrace it.
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^^ I don't know, not sure if we can compare though, the impact of the war though. Anyhow, I might agree that it's too hash to ban those players. I even read that Russians and Ukrainian women's players who used to be "friends" started to ignore each other in the Madrid Open. I guess everyone is really taking it hard, this war doesn't really bring out anything even in sports.
That seems crazy that Russian and Ukraine players are ignoring each other, I would expect that maybe some Russian players actually support what Russia is doing therefors creating tensions between players, there is nothing good coming from this war, nothing. ....
I recon if every player opposed to the ban were to boycott the decision by not attending
it would be overturned!
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In a world with true ideals and not driven by greed it could be something really possible, but unfortunately it is really unthinkable that it will happen because we are living in our individualistic reality driven by the incessant search for profit at the expense of ideals and mutual respect...
Raducanu just lost against Kalinina  by the way ...tomorrow there is a really interesting match "De Minaur vs Sinner" Good point, thats the reality.
Yes the Raducanu match I watched, she had shots which were just magical and others which were just the complete opposite, it was a close affair all the same.
DeMinaur v Sinner shouls be a cracker - De Minaur is on a roll ATM and Sinner pulled a win out out of the fire against Paul after looking like he was going to lose in 2 sets. |
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Both of these look super cool. I also like that you are playing around with lower cost material and low denomination. It adds an interesting twist to the norm.
Yes I'll second that, really love the POP of the Orange against the Black. Design wise I really like the first one, the combination of Bitcoin and CypherHodl combined is very nice. I also like the idea of using a very different material. krogoth - any more details and images on these? |
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There are high chances that people who would be interested in using these centralised
services will either be existing customers and/or not care about their privacy or at least care
about keeping their purchases private from others but not the authorities.
There does seem to be some sort of interest brewing from South American countries towards Bitcoin,
obviously El Salvador has kicked things off and we are hearing interest from Panama, Brazil and Argentina.
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Rafael Nadal has labelled the ban on Russian and Belarusian players from this year's Wimbledon over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine as unfair, saying they are not responsible for the war. The All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC) has barred the two countries' players from competing at this year's grasscourt major in response to what Russia calls a "special military operation" in Ukraine. Belarus has been a key staging area for the invasion. AELTC's decision has been condemned by both the men's and women's tours as well as several other players. There is more and more discussion on it. Will there be any changes in the upcoming weeks. Nadal says Wimbledon ban on Russian and Belarusian players unfairI have read before that Wimbledon banned German and Japanese players after WW2 so the move to ban Russian and Belarusian players must be in line with some rule they have IDK. Anyway I said before that everyone knows Tennis is an individual sport and players are not playing for their country. Its a non-sensical way of sanctioning both countries, there are many other ways to do that. I recon if every player opposed to the ban were to boycott the decision by not attending it would be overturned! |
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snip.
CBDC is and will always be 100% centralized and you can't and will never be able to have any kind of privacy using it. In a sense it is no different than using banks as you already do. The bill on the other hand is targeting centralized services which doesn't affect bitcoin or "all aspects of people's financial activity".
Bitcoin on the other hand will always be decentralized and nobody can control it or your transactions. All they can do is to control big centralized places like a payment processor that shouldn't even exist in bitcoin ecosystem, or exchanges and such. But for example they can never force a supermarket that accepts bitcoin to ask for KYC when someone pays for a bag of chips.
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Thats exactly it, I said before that governments can only affect the usage of Bitcoin through the entry and exit points - exchanges After yesterday's vote of the European Parliament committee, I have become very pessimistic: ... ... Everything is changing before our eyes in the digital currency industry. With bans on anonymous transactions well underway, the U.S. SEC circling the likes of Ripple and Tether, and Satoshi’s Bitcoin slowly being understood as an electronic cash system designed for small casual payments that works within the law and which is always subject to it, things are ever so slowly changing for the better. If the EU votes to pass the new rules, it will be another nail in the coffin for the false narrative plaguing the industry[/i]." And the problem with this is that it sets a precedent and entrenches a trend of increasing state control. What do you think about it? Are you as pessimistic as me or this article? Edit: go to page 2 for the key proposals of the draft. Also: PLEASE REALIZE THAT franky's ARGUMENTS ARE GARBAGE. As they are based on a former draft on a slightly different subject, that didn't pass, as I've shown on page 2. This was to be expected since governments often see crypto as a threat to the existence of Fiat. The EU decided to "up" their game as they believe crypto can be used by Russians to avoid sanctions. Other countries are tightening regulations for the same reason. Privacy in crypto/Blockchain land was relatively non-existent since centralized exchanges and transparent cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum have dominated the industry for long. There are only a few privacy-oriented solutions, but adoption is relatively low. What matters is that crypto stays decentralized so that it can stand the test of time. As long as there are defenders of privacy and decentralization, there should be nothing to worry about. Just my thoughts  If everyone who is serious about Bitcoin embraces more the idea if decentralisation and seeks out privacy orientated solutions we can bypass these crazy laws. As regards these new laws they have to have a negative effect on crypto development in the EU, I wonder will future bureaucrats vote to abolish these backwards looking laws when they realise that all the reasons why they are implimenting these laws still exist in the future. |
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Hey guys, if you wanto have a look at the final proposals of the actual draft, you can read them here.I will have a read of that later, there is a lot to digest.... From the coindesk article posted above I'm a bit confused about certain points like: National governments said in December they wanted to scrap the EUR 1,000
threshold for crypto, on the basis that digital payments can easily circumvent the limit,
and to include private wallets that aren’t operated by regulated crypto asset providers. What the Fock does that mean and if it mean what I think it means, how can it be implimented, Private wallets are......private. The bottom line for me is this: Under the new rules, Coinbase would have to report to the authorities any time a
customer received over EUR 1,000 of crypto from a self-hosted wallet, the exchange’s
CEO Brian Armstrong warned So a work around would be to make smaller payments/transfers. |
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Round 1 of Madrid Mens kicks off shortly, there are some interesting match ups but
the headliner is Andy Murray v Dominic Thiem, thats a very interesting match.
TBH I'm a bit surprised to see Thiem as favoirite, 2.3 - 1.6 on Rollbit. Does Murray have
injury issues coming into this tournament I wonder?
It will be interesting to see if De Minaur can carry his from from Estoril into his match
today against Martinez ... and beyond.
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