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301  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: December 24, 2023, 08:11:09 PM
Merry Christmas, gentlemen! I wish next year your coins will be worth at least x2 of what they're worth now!  Cool
302  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: SERVERIA.COM anonymous hosting and servers in Latvia. We accept BTC since 2011! on: December 24, 2023, 08:44:01 AM
ok thank you for your reply, I was just asking because I have ordered a dedicated server, I paid it and then I got nothing.
I sent an email to the support address but I haven't received any answer

Please open a ticket as some addresses are unmonitored or checked only once in a while. While communicating with a web hosting company, opening a ticket is your best bet. If you'll still be experiencing issues then, please send me the ticket number in PM, I will try to escalate to a person in charge.
303  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: December 23, 2023, 04:14:45 PM
Good morning Bitcoinland.

Still going sideways near $44k. Calm before the storm?

Meanwhile, we're running out of time to post gay Xmas cards. Anyone still remember Ellen D?



Yeah, brethren, very little support this year, we need to try harder! Where's Bawb?  Shocked
304  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Which one is fun, watching with bet or without a bet? on: December 23, 2023, 02:38:07 PM
Just trying to get the communities opinion based on their experience about the topic.

Personally, a a bettor, I find it very stressful when watching the game you are betting especially if it will end up a losing bet.

If we have the same experience, how do you cope up with that problem, after all, gambling should be fun but why we have this kind of feeling that we feel disappointed when our bet loses?

For me it's definitely more fun to watch when I bet. I only bet for fun so it brings no stress but rather only positive emotions. It sort of amplifies the fun. But yeah, I presume that if you're betting big and you're going all in then it's a different story, it would be much more stressful to watch.
305  Economy / Economics / Re: Energy crisis? What energy crisis? Oil dips to 3 months low despite OPEC cuts! on: December 23, 2023, 02:16:15 PM
Angola turned out to be the smartest and made a logical decision - it is illogical to participate in manipulations for the sake of satisfying the morbid fantasies of some participants, to the detriment of its economy !

"Angola quits OPEC
Angola does not agree with its oil production quotas and leaves OPEC
Such a decision the authorities of the country explained the "lack of results" from participation in the organization and disagreement with the quotas for oil production.
Angola is leaving the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) starting from January 1 next year. The country's authorities have already sent a document to the organization, which formalizes its voluntary withdrawal from this economic bloc. This was reported by Angop on Friday, December 22.

It is noted that the sending of this message to OPEC took place a few hours after the Minister of Mineral Resources, Oil and Gas Diamantino Azevedo publicly announced the withdrawal.

He attributed this decision to the "lack of results" from participation in the organization and disagreement with oil production quotas.

"Until now, quotas have not affected us, but if we had stayed in OPEC, we would have suffered the consequences of the decision to honor production quotas," Azevedo told TPA TV. Angola would then have been forced to cut production, he added.

"We want to participate in organizations not to enter quietly and leave silently, but to be active and contribute. When we see that our contribution does not produce any tangible results, it means we are not doing anything in that organization," the minister said.""

PS And a little negative, but as it is - given that this clearly affects Russia's desires to destabilize the oil market, terrorist attacks and other classic Kremlin staging like "military coup" are possible in Angola in the near future....

No big deal - Angola is an insignificant oil producer with around 1 million barrels. To compare, the remaining OPEC 12 members produce about 27 million barrels. For Angola, oil and other fossils revenue make up to 90% of countries entire export so yeah, after the country's economy got hit by covid consequences the only solution for them is to produce more oil. OPEC refused to assign them more quotas so they decided to leave. Move on, there's nothing to see here.  Cool

“Oil reserves in Angola reach 7 billion barrels. Angola’s oil is light and low-sulfur, considered one of the best in the world, since its processing requires minimal costs”

Are you retarded? Where did I mention oil reserves? I was talking about OIL PRODUCTION not oil reserves. Russia's oil reserves are:

Quote
Russia's proved oil reserves were 80 billion barrels as of January 1, 2023.

Source: https://www.eia.gov/international/analysis/country/RUS

So what?

Quote from: DrBeer
The main thing is to start the process - as they say, “water wears away stones” Smiley OPEC participants are simply beginning to understand that all this fuss started by Russia will give the participants NOTHING except lost profits and a sullied reputation. So we are watching the situation develop.

Read any article from reputable source like Reuters (unless you want to look like a complete clown) it has all the info you need. In short, the oil industry experts don't think any other country will leave OPEC in the nearest future. I tend to believe industry experts not some random borderline retarded troll on an internet forum.  Grin

It's a good thing you only have not more than a year to continue your trolling. Guess why?  Grin
306  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: SERVERIA.COM anonymous hosting and servers in Latvia. We accept BTC since 2011! on: December 23, 2023, 01:55:46 PM
Is this website a scam? BTC deposit address is the same for all accounts.

No it's not a scam, it's just Bitcoin payment processing built that way. No 3rd party payment processing is being used, so there's a single wallet address for all customers and payments.
307  Economy / Economics / Re: Energy crisis? What energy crisis? Oil dips to 3 months low despite OPEC cuts! on: December 23, 2023, 01:47:33 PM
Angola turned out to be the smartest and made a logical decision - it is illogical to participate in manipulations for the sake of satisfying the morbid fantasies of some participants, to the detriment of its economy !

"Angola quits OPEC
Angola does not agree with its oil production quotas and leaves OPEC
Such a decision the authorities of the country explained the "lack of results" from participation in the organization and disagreement with the quotas for oil production.
Angola is leaving the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) starting from January 1 next year. The country's authorities have already sent a document to the organization, which formalizes its voluntary withdrawal from this economic bloc. This was reported by Angop on Friday, December 22.

It is noted that the sending of this message to OPEC took place a few hours after the Minister of Mineral Resources, Oil and Gas Diamantino Azevedo publicly announced the withdrawal.

He attributed this decision to the "lack of results" from participation in the organization and disagreement with oil production quotas.

"Until now, quotas have not affected us, but if we had stayed in OPEC, we would have suffered the consequences of the decision to honor production quotas," Azevedo told TPA TV. Angola would then have been forced to cut production, he added.

"We want to participate in organizations not to enter quietly and leave silently, but to be active and contribute. When we see that our contribution does not produce any tangible results, it means we are not doing anything in that organization," the minister said.""

PS And a little negative, but as it is - given that this clearly affects Russia's desires to destabilize the oil market, terrorist attacks and other classic Kremlin staging like "military coup" are possible in Angola in the near future....

No big deal - Angola is an insignificant oil producer with around 1 million barrels. To compare, the remaining OPEC 12 members produce about 27 million barrels. For Angola, oil and other fossils revenue make up to 90% of countries entire export so yeah, after the country's economy got hit by covid consequences the only solution for them is to produce more oil. OPEC refused to assign them more quotas so they decided to leave. Move on, there's nothing to see here.  Cool
308  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Tennis League All Thread on: December 23, 2023, 10:29:44 AM
I would say he is probably the only player who feels that way or has that approach.

Over say the last 2 years for example I would have the impression that he doesnt overall
enjoy his tennis. I'm basing this purely on his on court antics and general "bad behaviour",
or is it that he gets a kick out of acting like that and "going against the grain" to make a point
that tennis doesnt have to be so serious all the time or something like that?

I think he's a great actor and loves putting on a show. Despite this, 2022 was the best year in his career until now. He managed to reach Wimbledon final, won a title in Washington and, if I'm not mistaken, they also won AO doubles with Kokkinakis.

Anyways, if anyone here following World Tennis League, yesterday was a pleasure to watch this doubles match between a Russian duo Mirra Andreeva/Andrei Rublev vs the Polish pair Swiatek/Hurkacz. Swiatek/Hurkacz of team Hawks defeated Andreeva/Rublev of team Eagles : 6-2

So many big names playing there, nice way to watch quality tennis while anticipating AO!

309  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: December 23, 2023, 08:53:57 AM
OMG, great to be back to my beloved thread.  Cheesy I see some old farts are still alive and kicking? Christmas time is coming so it's time to share dem gay Christmas cards?  Grin  I hope you remember they drive BTC price upwards like crazy?  

Yes great memories:



Merry Xmas @boblawblaw

Merry Christmas, Bawb:



310  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: December 22, 2023, 11:01:59 PM
OMG, great to be back to my beloved thread.  Cheesy I see some old farts are still alive and kicking? Christmas time is coming so it's time to share dem gay Christmas cards?  Grin  I hope you remember they drive BTC price upwards like crazy?   
311  Economy / Economics / Re: Energy crisis? What energy crisis? Oil dips to 3 months low despite OPEC cuts! on: December 22, 2023, 09:54:22 PM
Taken in another context, isn't it more concerning that the price of Crude Oil is still low despite the supply cuts? Because that illustrates that demand is low, and if the demand is low, then that could indicate that a worldwide recession is coming.

No, not concerning at all.
Because of two reasons:
- first is that OPEC cuts, the US pump records:
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/12/19/business/us-production-oil-reserves-crude/index.html
- two the major loss in demand is because of China
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/biz/2023/12/602_364682.html

So yeah, unless the person looking at this is on the morons side that was laughing and cheering at Europe freezing and driving donkey carts:

LOL.. so you are saying that Europe will find replacement in the next couple of years. What will they do until then? Maybe they will travel in donkey carts and heat their homes by burning firewood? And there is no guarantee that they will find replacement in the next 24 months. It is very simple. There is not enough supply of oil and natural gas in the world, to replace the supply from Russia. It is Europe that is going to crumble, not Russia.

No reason for concern!

Yeah, that's definitely so. No reason for concern. Europe is buying expensive oil and LNG from Norway and USA. So yeah, Europeans are not going to freeze to death but they're going to go bust by buying expensive energy. It's called war tax. The EU people are sponsoring Ukraine but nobody asked them if they would like to do it. Democracy at it's best.   Grin
312  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin losing its P2P efficiency!! on: December 22, 2023, 08:51:53 PM
One or the Most significant reasons for the creation of Bitcoin was,to create a currency easy and suitable to be used for peer-to-peer transactions.
During the first eight to nine years of its launch, Bitcoin actually achieved this goal, With fees considerably low as just a few cents. However things began to change at about early 2016 when fees began to increase noticably, and during late 2017 when the mempool started having congestions, which influenced transaction fees directly.

Of course, One can say the reason for the very low fees during its earliest stages was a result of low adoption and a less congested mempool. We can also confirm that due to the problems of competition for block spaces which led to high fees, Bitcoin's block size was increased on August 24, 2017 by the application of the SEGWIT protocol upgrade known as "Segregated witness" in full. This definitely helped in malleability of transactions by separating the signature data (withness data) from the transaction data to free up block space.

Other solutions like the layer 2 that became popular during 2018,also helped reduce congestions and fees by conducting majority of transactions off the Blockchain making transactions more scalable and faster.

However, upon these upgrades and solutions, as Bitcoin grew the congestion problem has  become more and more prominent especially due to the effects of ordinals in recent times.These congestion and fee problems are gradually exempting the need to make simple day to day transactions with Bitcoin thereby bring the need for people to make small transactions with other stable altcoins like Tron and Doge.

Take for example this post made by Hhampuz who is one of the most reputable campaign managers on Bitcoin talk.
In that post Hhampuz made mention of spending roughly $200 /week on fees for each campaign. Now assuming Hhampuz managess 5 campaigns for 15 weeks, taking the math he would have spent an enormous amount of about $15,000 (~0.34BTC) on fees only. Considering these enormous fees P2P transactions would become  uneconomical.

Yes, you're right, it's happening unfortunately because of ordinals and similar token spam. Some signature campaign managers are migrating to LTC or USDT because the network has now stalled completely. 100+sat/byte transactions are sitting in mempool for days. I simply can't believe it. Bitcoin has become unusable.
313  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Can loneliness make one addicted to gambling on: December 22, 2023, 08:28:20 PM
I'm confused and looking for answers

If you are lonely, can you have interest in gambling simply because of your loneliness?

How would you judge someone who says they don't gamble because it's fun, is that a sign of a gambling addiction?

If you are making $600 a day, that's $20000 in a month, and because you are only you start having interest to gamble, what do you think this is?

All these questions is been asked because someone close said all these and I think he are losing money and losing himself too, of all the discussions we had, these are the points I held unto.

Later he open up to have been using $500 for gambling per day, he said all these started when his wife left him, that he isn't into gambling at all, but I can't ask why his wife left him in the first place, but does loneliness make people become addicted to gambling or it's something else.

To tell you the truth, there are people whom I know who are gambling addicts or are very close to it. Some of them are married and have families and  some of them live alone. So, in my experience, there is no direct correlation between gambling addiction and loneliness. It depends on the type of person more. Just my 2c.
314  Economy / Economics / Re: Economic Implications of War on Individuals on: December 22, 2023, 07:36:57 PM
Ukraine will be able to defend its freedom and independence, and Russia will face a sad end.
You are completely delusional. Perhaps you don't realize it yet but Ukraine has already lost the war. As a retired colonel you should understand that. Well, unless you were lying of course (I bet you were).  Grin 

I appreciate your sentiments, but the truth can never be denied. Both countries have adopted their own policies, but I don't think that Ukraine can defeat Russia.

Everyone is resisting, but the weak is always helpless in front of the strong.
Exactly, every sane person with above the room temperature IQ understands that. Well, except for trolls that is.
315  Economy / Economics / Re: Economic Implications of War on Individuals on: December 21, 2023, 09:06:32 PM

Yes, the last (to this day) legitimate president of Ukraine Yanukovych killed no one. Pro-American junta leader Zelensky killed or mutilated over 1 million people. Can you feel the difference?

I wonder what arguments you have that Ukrainian President Zelensky killed one million people?
Meanwhile, Putin has indeed already killed even more than a million people, both Ukrainians and Russians, unleashing one of the most brutal wars in Ukraine. During the “direct line” on December 14, he admitted that the irretrievable losses of Russian troops in Ukraine amount to more than 300 thousand people. This is how you need to destroy your people for the sake of your imperial ambitions to forcibly recreate the new USSR. But after all, Putin’s efforts lead to the exact opposite result. It is likely that in a few years we will be able to observe how great Russia will disintegrate into separate independent republics, the central power of which was maintained only by the repression of the security forces.

This is the most blatant, shameless, retarded lie I've read on this forum this year. Could you provide the quote by Putin saying this with a source? I already know the answer and the answer is NO. Simply because he didn't say that. I already rebutted this lie in another thread but you keep posting this crap all around the forum?  Grin

Regarding Zelensky, he is guilty of killing so many innocent people and hundreds of thousands of AFU soldiers in this useless war. Ukraine can't win a war against Russia, it's a suicide. A president who cares about his country has to stop the war. Forget about Crimea and Donbas. They're lost for good. Just stop the war and save peoples lives ffs.

316  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Tennis League All Thread on: December 21, 2023, 08:15:13 PM
Yeah, Kyrgios is a weird one. I won't miss him, was never a fan of his theatrics.

A really good player when everything is going his way, but definitely not super talented like the media wanted us to believe.
In this lousy period of tennis, I think he never actually breached into top 10 overall.

It's his behavior that brought him most of his fame, his tennis was below par most of the time.

He has the talent, however, is out of the court behavior and theatrics really did a lot of damage on his career. If he has only the mentally of the great players he could really be in the top 5 during his prime years.

But he wasted it, and we all know that even if you have the talent, if you don't know how to bring the best of you and motivate yourself to be the best version of you, talent is not enough. And Nick is the classic example, and see he is should still be in the prime years at 28, but it seems that he will no longer play in the tournament as his body and mind is already giving up.

Actually is was shown pretty detailed in Netflix documentary "Break Point" how Kyrgios feels and why he can't perform better. He needs a very special approach with a limited number of training sessions (something like 3-4 times weekly). If he goes above this limit, he starts to feel depressed and can't enjoy tennis anymore. The same with tournaments - if he plays too frequently his quality of play falls drastically. So it's not that easy. 
317  Economy / Services / Re: [CFNP] wild.io | The Ultimate WEB3 Casino Experience | Signature Campaign ~ Sr.+ on: December 20, 2023, 09:53:59 PM
Thanks for accepting me! Avatar & sig updated.  Cool
318  Economy / Services / Any feedback on the new Binance's debit card provider? on: December 20, 2023, 09:08:01 PM
As you all probably know already Binance have closed their card program effective today. AFAIK Binance is now offering their new partner's debit card called Blackcatcard. Apparently this provider is located in Malta, they also offer a Maltese IBAN account as a part of their service.

Anyone ordered this card already? Any feedback? How fast did you get accepted? Perhaps any previous experience with this provider?
319  Economy / Services / Re: [OPEN] wild.io | The Ultimate WEB3 Casino Experience | Signature Campaign ~ Sr.+ on: December 20, 2023, 07:47:22 PM
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320  Economy / Economics / Re: Energy crisis? What energy crisis? Oil dips to 3 months low despite OPEC cuts! on: December 19, 2023, 08:19:12 AM
Hmm... by now the OPEC should have realized this. New technology has helped non-OPEC nations to increase their crude output. Oil production is no longer dominated by the GCC and CIS nations. For example, USA is the top crude oil producer in the world, and they replaced Saudi Arabia from this spot recently. Anyway, global crude oil consumption has peaked due to rising share of EVs. Here in India, almost 10% of the domestic vehicles in my area are EVs and the share is rising steeply with each passing year. If OPEC+ cuts down on their output, it will not have any impact on the global prices. Only result would be that they will lose their market share to other countries such as Guyana and Canada.

I'm not sure about new technologies, there is no proof that it's the game-changer. What is actually happening is the US have spent their oil reserves to push the prices down and now they have to replenish them. Until now, the US always tried to keep certain amount of oil reserves for strategic reasons. Like, when everybody will run out of oil, we'll still have our resources. However, due to current trends of migrating to EVs and solar and what not these resources might become unnecessary. But it's entirely possible that they will stop or cut production after the Russo-Ukrainian war ends.   
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