I see you got the Spain line-up correct, but if your only hope is on Ronaldo, you're officially out unless the old man steals another of his teammate's goals, and I'm sure he'll struggle against those young blooded defenders.
Yeah, and thanks to Morocco's incredible win, I'm now level on points with Woodie, with just Ronaldo left to decide our tie (Woodie, you worried yet, haha). I can't ever in my life remember ever even betting on Ronaldo to score, but when I made the pick I hadn't even read the news, didn't realise he'd managed to make even more drama with Portugal. Hope that fires him up to get some assist at least, as that's all I need. Come on, Santos, sub Ronaldo in fast, and Fernandes, let Ronnie steal your goal. Or let him take a penalty haha (Bruno's Portugal's pen taker, is he?). Alternatively, 0-0 also lets me win as I picked 21 goals max. had good chances, but Spain attack is without Morata, and now I need Morocco to pass through or I am set for another decider, where I need Portugal ans Swiss to be silent for 42 minutes
Looks like you and me both survive until the final game on Morocco and 0-0, and both don't mind another 0-0 pen shootout. I'll probably only return here to gloat/congratulate tomorrow. |
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Whoa, Morocco keeper has just dislodged Croatian keeper as most valuable player. Cool as a cucumber, and kept his goal intact (though should say he should also thank his goalposts for saving him so many times).
Spanish born player to knock out Spain and ensure Morocco progress to their first-ever quarterfinals.
Didn't get points, and 5 of you picked draws (not bad, respect) but no one predicted 0-0.
Wow.
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OK, we will see. I hope my analysis turns out to be correct, because I do not just believe in Spain, but made a bet on them. And I would not call the Spanish national team inexperienced, there are many young players but also dinosaurs like Busquets. Perhaps this is the optimal combination for success. In general, I think that even if Spain has problems with defense, they can compensate for them with their line of attack, which looks very dangerous.
Well, what can I say? Morocco are doing what everyone expected them to do, and Spain are labouring more than I expected them to. Didn't actually take a bet as I thought odds were too poor, so a draw is what the Africans would have loved, even if both sides could have won it at the death. Now we got 30 more minutes of extra time, expect this to be incredibly dull or incredibly exciting. Now the World Cup is feeling a lot more familiar haha. |
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Man, that's a lot of customers in such a short time -- they come and ask because of your Bitcoin sign or you talk to them about it? Because that's some amazing numbers, no other way to describe it, considering you're not advertising digitally for a digital payment method.
Curious to know where, if you can share? -- because reading about delays in bank confirmations and needing to wait for SMS to confirm settlement, feels like it's a bit behind in fintech.
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@igehhh @Harkorede yeah, I'm about to join you. Only Morocco knocking Spain out will save me, but even then I need Ronaldo to score AND my Spain lineup to be correct, I have faith still, but I might have run out of luck. Definitely joining you guys to banter anyway, maybe we should take sidebets on the QFlists heh. who is this slissy guy; man how did you qualify to the R16? hahaha  you are the South Korea of our time Sportsbet Clubtalk regular, he bets like he picks, it seems like, more like France maybe? Ha |
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Count me in as another Saka on the bench (first MD I subbed him out, dumb, now he's left on the bench, what a waste of points!). Mbappe took me my haul but only because I used Boost (otherwise would have captained Messi). Also, Pickford on my sub and Alisson conceded. I don't know what I'm doing... Japan! and Ritsu Doan... why do it differently against Croatia... in fact he ended up taking him out in the second half, well! anyway, a great coach without a doubt and he is the architect of this great World Cup in Japan...
My exact thoughts seeing him start the game... why start a guy who knows how to blaze down tired wings? Still, if he hadn't started, Japan might not have played as bravely as they did. I actually still thought my ticket had a great chance but once they took him out it was clear penalties were on everyone's mind. Brazil looks dangerous as hell, will be a though game against them but odds should be good. @buwaytress I expect some money on Croatia at least from you  But not regular time, after penalties, Croatian way. You can count on it, immediately after Croatia went through, p2p markets on my p2p book gave 65/10 odds on Croatia (full game outcome) but some guy matched the entire market (only 0.1 BTC haha) immediately so odds wiped out to 56/10, which is still pretty good, so I already took it with winnings from Brazil last night. Of course, FT result of 94/10 which is on Sportsbet now is my normal bet, but knowing the Vatreni way, I'm avoiding that haha. |
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Man today specials seems really good, but i have one problem, a little one, i want to make a multibet of specials, and that cant be.
So i have to let them go.
Asides of this im not having really good profit in this WC, really bad for me until now. But i think im not the only one with this performance.
Think I used to be able to do specials paired with regular markets, but I never tried more than 2 legs. Haven't been able to do that (otherwise would definitely go for some BTTS specials like today as they had really good boosts) but knowing myself, I'd have bumped up a big special with losing games. WC definitely not good for me, but that's my fault for overcommitting too early in the group stages. Should have stuck with my underdog strategy on singles. Not against Brasil later though heh. |
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Breathe easy, Cro2. Took a scare and penalty disappointments from Japan to get you through but you live another day. Was very hopeful my 2:1 would get ticked but by the time the game entered late, seems like both teams were happy to go to penalties. Quite a few 1:1 picks in the pool, well done there. Want to pick S Korea but need Neymar and gang to progress. Now on to Brasil!
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Cyberpunks and Cryptography
First and foremost important part of the internet is privacy and freedom which gave birth to cryptography. It all started with Cyberpunks "Freedom is non-negotiable, it tops everything, freedom is our struggle".
Nice find, I don't mind DW half the time, it's like BBC, gotta know what to watch and what not to! You might mean Cypherpunks though (don't worry, common confusion, also happened to me when I first came across the term). Unfortunate they get mixed up a lot with cyberpunk... which probably explains quite a lot of mainstream media Bitcoin mixups haha. Definitely in parts of Europe privacy is sacrosanct, but also in some parts, interest and significance is waning. |
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New specials out, there's a bunch to choose from! https://sportsbet.io/sports/sportsbet-specials/daily-specials/fifa-world-cup/matchesRitsu Doan's been my main guy for Japan and he's got a special on today (first or last goal for 9/1) but he's a supersub usually, so can't really see him sandwiching goals. The VAR cancelled goal is extremely tempting, as we've had none so far in 4 games... and Brazil the likely winner here... Thoughts for today? |
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I'm definitely losing this one, I think, Woodie got a fantastic headstart, and I looked very quickly, need to get the goal count right and Ronaldo to score to get back on level terms but if he gets Spain lineup right, I'm out. He went for a full European progress too -- and I need 2 to crash out, and I thought England would be one. Japan and Morocco have to save me (yeah right).
Doesn't matter, of course, I got some heavy hitting bets lined up so am more concerned with that. No specials, and I can't watch this game, good luck Cro2... you'll be happy to know my money's on Japan, so it should mean I lose.
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Hard to convince people who can't see the proof in the poisoned pudding. Greed dampens the small voice in the back of their heads telling them it's a game they're eventually going to lose.
High returns with no effort. Lock in periods. Referral fees. Guarantees of profit (even SBF in his pitches used phrases like "risk free" and "zero risk"). Classic ponzi schemes.
Years ago I read research about triad gangs in Southeast Asia, same circle of people running relatively low value ponzis like this. HYIP rings and money doublers. I saw them myself in the late 1990s, mid-2000s. They don't end up taking much but they just run multiple sites, rinse and repeat, so stay below the Madoff radar.
Used to be cash in mail, internet and PayPal was next, then digital payments like e-gold, not Bitcoin.
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^Yeah my brain said it's an England no-brainer but I went for the upset in the pool... all favourites through in the end. They grind out a win, or overpower with many trying to counter from Senegal mistakes, or take it to penalties, all routes showed English superiority and it ended up to be so. Hope England play like this against France, no older enemy than them to get motivated! Bellingham's game, first half at least. A lot of them are doing this now and they should prohibit it. It's cheating really. They wait to see which way the keeper is going then put it in the opposite side. Penalty takers obviously don't have much confidence when they do this. If players stop in their run up then that should be it and they either forfeit it or have to do the run up again.
I don't like it too, and since they made the keeper moving off his line a bigger deal in recent years, feel like penalties more than ever put the taker on the advantage (as, I guess, it should be). I suppose some people playing in different cultures wouldn't mind it (and I'd never have guessed Lewie does it), but yeah I feel like you got to put a limit on it, some moves border on unsportsmanlike conduct. |
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@boltz ouch! Senegal could've had a soft penalty and did cause some problems but it wasn't to be. Was (and still is) a lively night on Clubhouse TV, English guys happy with the results so far? Hendo opened scoring clinically, and Kane finally got his goal, so I took home my first WC special (too bad I wasn't daring enough with the stake ha). Oi thanks, just saw I have 21 points, missed some of the picks but so far, correct teams have progressed anyway but that I also have Morocco to progress vs Germany, who's actually now going to be Spain heh. Also saw you mention a bet on Senegal lead at 30' mark, guess you and me both will not get our faith in Senegal rewarded. |
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First Bitcoin I ever got was only exciting in the sense I could play around with it. Wasn't worth much then and still isn't today ($1.70) but it was pretty cool seeing the input and how you could manipulate it and magically conjure it back into another wallet when restoring, and seeing the same value reflected on a blockchain. Different feeling getting a significant amount as payment for work. Nervous too, making sure no mistakes made sending it to Localbitcoins to sell. P.S. You mentioned she got it into her account. Might want to ask her to move it into a proper wallet so she does, in fact, own it  |
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Gotta feel bad for Lewa. You can't even call Poland a one-man army cos even he can just dissapear out of the game.
France 2-0 already. England later on, should b 3-0. Easy games
Can't say I've seen him take penalties, actually, is that his usual style, to trick the goalie? Worked, for sure, and gave me the exact score I need to make up lost ground. I went with another 3-1 for England, it'll be really cool to get 3 points for that too, seems that clean sheets are a rare commodity in these rounds now hm? |
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To sum up my point here, everyone hates bitcoin and crypto right now and I don't see it changing. I've never seen more negativity and FTX made everything a lot worse.
"everyone hates bitcoin and crypto" -- I'm almost willing to bet that most of these haters: - actually got burned by using crypto in the very same way they've been using legacy finance (centralised lending and interest bearing services, speculating on assets with no underlying value, not interacting with decentralised networks). - never actually used bitcoin. Actual Bitcoin users have always been slowly, steadily, using and growing and improving. Sure, they're upbeat and as cheerful as everyone else in a rally, and muted in a bear market, some are even enjoying bargain prices. |
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I saw the video, he was using Maguire as a case study to what is going on in the country, I was shocked the majority of the Reps had no idea who Maguire was from the reaction on their faces when he started the story but burst into heavy laughter when he finally told how unfortunate they guy is. The African team has performed better than I expected; they have made significant contributions thus far, and based on current trends, we may have an African semi-finalist.
BTW Senegal Poland @ 7.80 and 10.50 respectively is a huge one.... might dip into one tomorrow.
Yeah the video cracked me up, the guy was so eloquent, and everyone else laughed too. One day that Ghanaian Maguire will become a meme. As promised yesterday, here is my Senegal bet. At great odds, too, I agree! I think England should still scrape through, but the Senegalese are super pumped, they want to do this for Aliou and Sadio! Poland I also took for a similar amount, and at the great odds you quoted (now still possible to get 11/1 if you use a Sportsbet special). |
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