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301  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin Is The Father After All on: September 22, 2023, 11:38:03 PM
2024 halving had created big expectation over the rise in the price of bitcoin. How effective this gonna happen is completely unknown. According to me the rise gets initiated once after the scheduled time period. Till then we can expect the market to have the same pattern of market movements as now. Bitcoin without doubt is the king of cryptocurrencies, because none disagree it. Based on its movement will be the rest of the cryptocurrencies.

Till date through the days of halving new ath have been registered and the same is being expected this year. How good the price gonna peak can be understood during the closer days of halving. Sometimes this could be disappointing, and lets wait for it.
302  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin Gives the poor an Opportunity. on: September 22, 2023, 11:30:13 PM
The poor do not think about buying BTC, neither can they wait for the long term, they are concerned with their basic needs only; i don't know why you think BTC gives the poor some kind of special opportunity to make money. Anyone who can buy some Sats, can also afford to buy a few other assets as well, it is not as if you cannot invest little in other assets if you want to.
Agreed, it is possible to buy other assets and investments based on the ability of the user to hold. When the invested amount is smlall it takes lots of time to profit good out of it. Very few get lucky to make big money out of the small capital. If not they need to be early investors of bitcoin. The best thing that can be expected by a common man from bitcoin is a better profit on the investment than other opportunities based on the time one holds it. Whether it is a rich person or poor one, spending regularly little amount will assure with the profit in the long run. This could be life changing money.
303  Economy / Economics / Re: India Expands G20 Membership to G21 During Its Presidency. on: September 21, 2023, 11:58:20 PM
The main thing is not how many countries are in a particular association, but how effective the association is and how equal the countries are. In my opinion, when a large alliance is dominated by a few countries and the rest do their bidding, it is a certain deadlock. Sooner or later the other countries will seek to create new alliances that will compete with this big union.
The ruling government of India wants to make its citizens have a big finding with the G-20. For this India had spent much higher amount than other countries spend on this meet. The government have allocated a budget close to $120 million and what it had spent is really heart breaking. The government have spend a whopping amount close to $495 million. Whats the need for it, and the government tries to hype things and convert these summit as a big success to get votes as the election is scheduled for the year 2024. The previous G-20 summit took place in Indonesia and what they've spent is just around $44 million. What a difference and these are all the money of the common people.
304  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: George Residence becomes first hotel to accept Bitcoin in Nigeria on: September 21, 2023, 11:44:43 PM
It is always nice to see innovation like this, but if there are not people supporting this, then it is all for nothing. I saw many businesses starting to accept Bitcoin as a payment option and then after a few months, the same business only accept Fiat currencies again.

The reason for this is that people are seeing Bitcoin as a commodity and they rather want to use it an investment option and they do not want to spend it.  Tongue
Agreed, many firms have begun to accept bitcoin into their business. Soon this used to get stopped as they don't find much people using the service. Most people find this to be an investment rather than a currency/transaction source. The reason for which Satoshi innovated bitcoin is different, but here something good had happened in the form of investment.

People of Nigeria are much used to cryptocurrency. It is possible to see bitcoin usage on different parts of the country. Already several firms from Nigeria accepting bitcoin into business were posted on our forum, and I remember one particular fuel station accepting bitcoin. The same is being done by the employees interest through his employer.
305  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 on: September 21, 2023, 05:44:18 PM
Yes, it's true, Neymar is not fully fit. This can be seen in the two matches played, he has not fully given his best for Al Hilal, he has not been fully able to adapt. In these two matches, Neymar lacked stamina and energy, he made many loose ball mistakes, but sometimes he had good key passes to create opportunities. Al Hilal must give him many opportunities to prove himself, they must also utilize Neymar's abilities in every match so that they can compete to win the ACL and SPL trophies this season.

Today Neymar played his 3rd match with Al-Hilal the results are the same without any significant contribution and what is more surprising Al-Hilal failed to get 3 points today, they only drew 1-1 against Damac, even though Damac is not a strong team, they are at the bottom of the standings lol. The battle for the title is increasingly open with 6 other clubs only 2-4 points difference from competitors. In the next hour, Al-Ittihad will play their 7th match then they will take over the standings with a total of 18 points then tomorrow's big match between Al-Nassr vs Al-Ahli one of them will lose a point or only get 1 point.
Al-Hilal was predicted to win the match, but the result is different. Damac have scored a goal at the 68th minute to level the goal. Further Al-Hilal wasn't able to make any goals and the match ended in a draw. Even in this match Neymar hadn't contributed anything big. Al-Ittihad winning the match against Al Fateh will take Al-Ittihad move to the top position. Lets see what happens in the upcoming matches, because the points being changes the position of teams on the points table after every match.
306  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: What is the drive that makes women go into gambling? on: September 21, 2023, 04:54:36 PM
Women who grew up in a place where people gamble and, in a family, where the other members have no problem with gambling may end up becoming gamblers. A woman who is easily influenced and enters a serious relationship with a man who is gambler can start trying out gambling out of influence, same can happen when a woman has friends who gamble. We are not easily influenced as most men are, but we can still be influenced and even become serious addicts. Women are not supposed to be addicted to gambling.
You got a point, based on what I have said before many of the women in our place has a parent who gambles as well and sometimes their friend influences them. Without influencing them they will not play because they are afraid to be judge by other people but if there's someone who will influence them I am sure they will have the confidence to play without worrying with their image.
This happens and in some cases it used to be the winning of a person that drives them towards gambling. Here they never realise that gambling won't bring success to everyone. Just because a person next to us got lucky we shouldn't fall for it. We should learn and understand well about the consequences and then go for it. This is where most of the gamblers go wrong. Women won't get addicted, because they always try to stick to limits if things weren't favouring them.
307  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Never gamble in front of your kids. on: September 21, 2023, 03:15:06 PM
One should not gamble infront of the kids. Whenever we watch something in the mobile, kids used to come sit next to us and try to watch the mobile. What can be done, we need to stop watching it rather than saying the kid to go away and play. Same happens when we gamble using mobile or through any of the electronic devices. I used to gamble and sometimes my kid used to come closer to me. During those time I used to gamble faster few rolls and end up the session. At times this used to end with profit and most of the time it used to be losing. In such situation the urge continues, and I used to hide myself and try to recover the losses which is not the right way to gamble.
308  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Can i have multiple accounts at the same casino? on: September 20, 2023, 09:34:15 PM
Based on the terms of the gambling sites, users can have multiple accounts. As said casinos providing bonus doesn't allow it, as the multiple accounts will receive bonus. This is an additional spending for the gambling platform. Most of the time to get the welcome bonus people used to create multiple accounts without knowing that those funds can't be withdrawn without fulfilling the wagering requirements and other deposit conditions.
309  Economy / Speculation / Re: The time has finally come...??? on: September 20, 2023, 09:24:51 PM
The halving had increased the expectation on the price. With bitcoin more we expect more will be the disappointment. It is always good to go with market and for sure the price will reach peak value that one have never expected. This had happened earlier, during the 2016 halving. By that time price was expected to reach around $5000 and it reached $8000 and surprisingly $20k. This is something completely unexpected and none predicted the price to reach high by that time. From that point the expectation had gone high and things got fulfilled in the 2020 halving and now once again big expectation. Lets see how far the price will move over those days. As of now the market is getting stabilized and gaining good resistance for a bigger push.
310  Economy / Economics / Re: Our future with renewable energy. on: September 20, 2023, 09:18:09 PM
This can be possible in limited countries, throughout the world it is really impossible. Different countries have got different weather conditions and we can't expect nature to favour us all the time. With the advanced technology it is possible to keep track of things, however on need we might not be able to get the required energy. Every form of energy can't be effective all the time. More countries rely on oil for their economy, and for those countries renewable energy seems to be an expensive way than using oil source for their needs. Future will be on renewable energy, but it doesn't assure with complete replacement.
311  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: What Do you think Satoshi Would Think About Today's Bitcoin? on: September 20, 2023, 09:05:35 PM
Satoshi had a vision, but the development didn't spread the role as he expected. To have his vision conveyed through the innovation is really hard thing, because everyone doesn't have the same thought process as him. Apart based the knowledge possessed by individuals they take it in their own way. This is how bitcoin got importance as investment, as people saw the growth in it better than its unique features. Even after decades it is going to be tough to make the vision of Satoshi come effective through bitcoin.

Satoshi innovated with a vision, but its usage kept rising for some other reason. Atleast there is some good reason for which it had got wide spread. If not this could've never been this good in terms of adoption as well as in multiple usage as investment, currency, store of value, currency, etc
312  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Can Gambling affect your relationship? on: September 20, 2023, 04:53:51 AM
A gambler shouldn't be trusted with any public funds or hands over public offices as he may compromised the office. Usually a gambler is someone who is mentally unstable and unhealthy also unlikely to think wisely rather than profits making in every single bets that they places which is another problems we are all facing today. Whom ever that can control their gambling exercise can actually be reasonable although do not quotes me wrongly as their are responsible and educated gamblers who gambles either ones in a blue moon.

I don't know if some would disagree but I actually agree with you, gambler when they have the money on their hands, they have the mindset of using it in gambling which is really unhealthy, all of the money on them, there isn't a time that they would not to bet it in gambling. They really focused on winning and doesn't care if they lose everything on their hands like properties, relationships, family, unhealthy lifestyle and etc. Even if they won they would just come back for more which still results to losses. Gambler who managed and control themselves is really reasonable as they are not willingly to sacrifice everything they have just to bet it at gambling.
This is true, when a person is into extreme gambling he/she never think about the money in hand. Whether it is theirs or others money is secondary. They just spend it and further on losing once again borrow or lend to compensate the fund to be settled to the person. I've experienced it, once I received fund from my friend who stays abroad and requested me to withdraw and give it to his family. What happened, I thought of gambling with it and make little money. My calculations went wrong and finally I borrowed from other friends to settle it. If not this could surely be leading to some problem between me and my friend. This is the hard reality and we should have self control and focus on our job to earn keeping aside gambling just for fun.
313  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Ads for online gambling should be banned. on: September 18, 2023, 05:25:17 PM
Australia has become the world's biggest woke-shithole lately. First they banned smoking and now they are banning gambling ads. What next, banning gambling completely? How about banning alcohol too while you are at it? What about weed? Oh right, weed will get a pass because most woketurds smoke it I guess. No guns too. If you are living in this old brit prison, you are at the mercy of this stupidly woke government. Leave this shithole while you still can. It is not going to get better before it gets worse there.

Actually ban of smoking is not the easy one,Many people was consume the smoking in their home.Did the government had not keep the smoking sensor in the entire country,So we can’t say it’s possible to ban of smoking.
This is wrong understanding. When the production and importing of cigars were stopped, automatically smoking can be stopped throughout the country. Maybe there'll be illegal production units and those too can be found if the cops and the investigation networks work on it. Same as that ban of gambling ads can be done. Governments openly state about the ban, but they provide known loopholes to keep things functioning which is the wrong governance.
314  Economy / Speculation / Re: Bitcoin will reach all-time-high before halving. - BitQuant on: September 18, 2023, 05:20:33 PM
What does bitquant does. They keep speculating about the bitcoin market in relation to incidents happening around. For now there isn't no big thing. The upcoming halving is the biggest one. Just as that, they could've put forth some statements as prediction. Just because they've come up with a prediction of price to reach high, it doesn't mean that the price will reach the mentioned price. They are market makers and their responsibility is to make people accept bitcoin and buy as much possible taking account of the upcoming halving.
315  Economy / Economics / Re: Food Crisis - Improved, Worsen or still the same in your country (No Change)? on: September 18, 2023, 05:14:40 PM
Here in our country, 3 months from now is Christmas. For sure, when the month of December enters, the prices will increase even more. Instead of getting excited about the citizens of our country, we are getting more and more headaches about how we are going to budget here. Even now, our pocket is hurting so much; how can it be in the month of December?

Then there is news from us that the manufacturers of food in cans and non-food are also planning to raise prices, so almost everything that people need is already expensive. The fuel was added even more because the effect of what is happening in Russia is also different; that's why.
Almost every year the prices of food and other raw materials always increase, especially during the holidays. And this doesn't only happen at Christmas, but at Eid al-Fitr there are also often very significant price increases.
And in the problem of price increases, many factors are the cause, including hoarding of goods. Approaching major holidays, hoarding of goods occurs very often so that there are very few on the market, while demand for these goods increases, which in turn can cause a significant increase in prices.
The involvement of the corporate network into farming have increased alot. This will soon help with the large scale production and for now the corporate are highly profited whereas the farmers remains same as they're years back. The governments have got the responsibility and depending on the weather change and other natural calamities affecting the production governments need to provide subsidy and other means of support to make their living better. Food price increase can be felt everywhere, but the rise in value doesn't gets distributed to the farmers whereas the middleman benefits it.
316  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Two years ago today, El Salvador adopted Bitcoin as legal tender on: September 18, 2023, 05:08:15 PM
Bitcoin adoption from El Salvador have made big change in the way bitcoin is seen by the rest of the world countries. Today Taiwan authorities have discussed with El Salvador authorities on having virtual assets bureau to have things function properly without issues. Through this regulations money laundering, grey area, illegal operations and other frauds related with cryptocurrency can be reduced.

El Salvador have made a big move and the same is being watched by the world. Following the progress we can expect more countries follow it. However the credit mainly goes to President Nayib Bukele, he took a bold decision and worked on it and the same brought big growth in different sectors.
317  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bank vs Crypto: Are they opposites? on: September 18, 2023, 09:20:42 AM
Crypto and banks weren't opposite. Both does similar functionality, but on a different process. With banks third parties does the work of recording the transactions and have complete control of the user accounts. With cryptocurrency thing is different, everything happens in an orderly manner based on the framework developed. Banks have control over the user funds and the banks were under the control of governments whereas cryptocurrency is completely different and functions recording each and every activity through the cryptographic operation.
318  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 on: September 18, 2023, 06:58:52 AM
Al Nassr had bad start in the season but this season is long enough for them to cover those early mistakes. They had great recent matches and if they can maintain this form, they will have chances to improve their rankings as other clubs sooner or later will lose points.
a bad start to the season does not mean a bad future and we not think too much because we have to think positively for Al Nassr even though there will always be changes in every match and injuries will always be a frightening mystery for all teams in the SPL. I mean we always see Al Nassr perfect performance in every season and we can see it from the final results of the last few seasons Al Nassr always gets the best position and this will not make us have bad thoughts about this team. we all know defeat is always considered bad but from that defeat the team is able to learn problem to improve and remember there are always surprises in every season and we will never know how the end of this season will happen and at least long as Al Nassr can perform consistently there will be no doubt if you at least become runner up or better if you get the title at the top of the SPL standing.
Al-Nassr used to be on the top position on the points table. Going through the previous season of Saudi Arabia Pro League it is evident that Al-Nassr is among the top 3. Once after the contract by Ronaldo with Al-Nassr, the expectation have increased and wants it to be topping the table. The start wasn't good, but the team had made a good comeback and the goal counts were big compared to the other teams.

Earlier the league isn't that popular and now the world have started to watch the league. More popular faces have got added to the different teams. It is common to see people getting emotionally connected with players. When Ronaldo didn't perform, critics got rolled against Al-Nassr player Ronaldo and once again support trend have begun. Hope the competence will be similar as the previous season.
319  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Cryptocurrency beats having faits at every point on: September 18, 2023, 06:22:41 AM
Whether it is cryptocurrency or fiat, it always have its importance and the advantage over the other. When we make use of it, we should make use of the good part than the bad which in reality is a difficult thing. It is really impossible to end the usage of fiat all around the world. The fiat system serves to be the backing, whereas cryptocurrency is developed as an alternate to fulfill what is being missed by the fiat system.

Different people have got different reasons for holding cryptocurrency. Tax evasion shouldn't be considered a reason. In the past people benefitted out of it, but things have changed over time. This is one of the reason why governments fear of legalizing cryptocurrency. Surely technical progress will be made by government to tax on cryptocurrency profit. As mentioned having control over own funds can be considered the best, along with the limited supply that assure with the growth on the investment.
320  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Experience for new and old gambler? on: September 17, 2023, 11:59:31 PM
Big changes had taken place. When the gambling happens on the street people used to bet all their belongings when they go out of cash. With the existence of online platforms this has been controlled and people never intend to bet with their belongings. I don't know about the truth behind the street gambling, but I've seen on movies that people betting themselves at some situation and move as slaves. Lot have changed between the old/new gamblers and gambling methods.
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