Bitcoin Forum
May 24, 2024, 10:45:32 PM *
News: Latest Bitcoin Core release: 27.0 [Torrent]
 
  Home Help Search Login Register More  
  Show Posts
Pages: « 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 [16] 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 ... 343 »
301  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Cricket Asia Cup 2023! Which team will WIN? on: September 08, 2023, 05:30:50 AM
✂✂✂✂
Bangladesh will play the second match of Super Four against Sri Lanka today. Sri Lanka are high on confidence after winning two matches in the group stage. Sri Lanka will definitely be ahead in the equation of the Asia Cup matches against Bangladesh. Bangladesh has done extremely badly in two of the last three matches. Full points will go to those who do well in today's match.

First of all, there is no guarantee that we will get an outcome from today's match. Heavy rains are predicted and there is a 77% chance of thunderstorms. And even if Sri Lanka wins the match today, there is no guarantee that they will qualify for the final. In order to do that, they need to defeat either India or Pakistan in the upcoming matches. Now coming to Bangladesh, there is almost zero chance that they would qualify for the final. They need to defeat both India and Pakistan in order to do that. And given their current form, it is very unlikely.
According to the schedule the match between Sri Lanka and Bangladesh is tomorrow. When matches gets interrupted, the interest watching those matches completely fades away. If Afghanistan had qualified for the Super four, rest of the matches could've been interesting. Afghanistan missed by a very small margin and they weren't aware of the calculations. The Afghanistan team is just told about the winning to be made with 77 balls remaining. Based on various other calculations there were chances to qualify with 71 balls remaining and they should've scored 297 runs.
302  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Cricket Asia Cup 2023! Which team will WIN? on: September 07, 2023, 01:56:48 PM
In this year's Asia Cup, both India and Pakistan are likely to play in the final match. Sri Lanka and Bangladesh are likely to be eliminated from the Super Four. If, India vs Pakistan final match is held. As we saw in India vs Pakistan group stage match, India's batting did not perform well against Pakistani bowling. India will face Pakistan again in the Super Four match. Depending on that match, it can be said which team will be the champion. But I like Pakistan more.

I am almost sure about Pakistan, but not that much about India. Their performance was shaky against Nepal. The bowlers struggled against lower order Nepal batsmen. And the batsmen also looked not very confident against Pakistan during the previous match. The top-4 batsmen (Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli and Shreyas Iyer) made a combined 39 runs during the group match against Pakistan. There is always a chance of India getting beaten by either Sri Lanka or Bangladesh and thereby failing to qualify for the final.
What has been said at the end could happen. India isn't playing good in recent matches. The pitch and weather conditions were similar to the home ground, but Indian players aren't good away from home. Very few players does well away from home, losing those wickets earlier would end up high runs scoring/chasing. The bowling is good, but not the best when compared with the Pakistan pacers. Based on all these factors this season's Asia Cup final is completely unpredictable, which team play the final other than Pakistan.
303  Economy / Speculation / Re: Will ETFs pump BTC to $100k soon? on: September 07, 2023, 01:38:21 PM
Even without the approval we can expect good rise in the price of bitcoin during the days of halving. The bitcoin spot ETF approval will be an added element to the rise in the price of bitcoin. On approval of bitcoin spot ETF good number of investors/traders who hadn't tried cryptocurrency will have their participation. This will surely have a huge inflow causing demand and the reflection can be experienced on the price. So, approval of bitcoin spot ETF will surely have positive impact on the price increase. To what extent the rise happens is unpredictable.
304  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: A person who won 600k$ in lottery on: September 07, 2023, 01:08:53 PM
The incident mentioned by OP can be considered for two reasons, one for the mismanagement of money, Next thing is the kindness. Here we saw what the vegetable vendor had been agonizing, how he experienced luck and success, and finally how he turned to be a victim of being kind hearted.

Opportunity missed is missed forever. Very few get it again. When the luck knocks our door we need to be careful and have the best planning for our future. Similar incident happened in my nearby state where a tuk tuk driver got lucky to win big. He's in complete debt and was planning to travel abroad for job. By that time he got lucky and won jackpot. It was happy, but it didn't last long as he was mentally pressured by surroundings requesting for money. All of the sudden he was away and the next day he's missing which is the news on every local media. If he was kind hearted he might've experienced what the vegetable vendor experienced.
305  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ODI cricket and general cricketing discussion [self - mod] on: September 07, 2023, 12:52:48 PM
South Africa VS Australia
I am also excited to see today's match between South Africa and Australia. This match already started a few minutes ago and Australia won the toss and decided to bowl first. I see that the performance of South Africa in this match is also not as good as in previous matches. South Africa scored 73 runs in 19.3 overs and lost 3 wickets. T. Bavuma played well and scored 33 runs in 55 balls and the other players disappointed the SA team and this can be the reason for South Africa's defeat today. Other hand performance of the Australian team was great and let's see this performance maintained in the batting lineup.
Scoring rate of South Africa is less than 4 rpo which is not enough to set good target. At the end of 25 overs South Africa have scored 97 runs losing 4 wickets. Bavuma alone trying his best to stand wicket. Marcus Stoinis had bowled well and took two wickets and made a run out. Miller have come to the crease. Strong partnership is required, if not the scoring will not cross 200 runs.
306  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Tennis League All Thread on: September 07, 2023, 12:46:48 PM
Tonight great showdown of the upper, arguably more "deadly" part of the draw. Two great matches each of them could have easily been a final:

Alcaraz v Zverev

My bet is on Alcaraz, Sascha doesn't look like he's ready for the semifinal of the Grand Slam just yet.

Medvedev v Rublev

This one is trickier. Rublev is in great form, Medvedev is a well-known hard court specialist and a US Open champion. Still my bet will be on Daniil in this Russian derby.



Alcarez really gave no chance to Zverev eh ? I mean , he really wants to "punish" Djokovic and beat him in the finals but I have a feeling that Djoko will beat Alcaraz again if they meet next round.

Medvedev game was kinda the same , with a quick 3-0 and really no chance for Rublev to actually play with tennis.
Two young players Alcaraz and Ben Shelton have qualified for the semifinals. Djokovic is experienced. Medvedev is good through this year winning ATP Rotterdam, Qatar Open, Dubai Tennis Championships, Miami Open, Italian Open. The semifinal matches gonna be very interesting as players are at their best.
307  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Minimum Age to gamble on: September 06, 2023, 11:59:22 PM
It's true that sometimes we find underage children playing slots. It's easy to do this because online gambling platforms do not impose conditions that are quite strict in the first registration session, making it easier for minors to provide documents that are completely inaccurate when creating an account that they do. Because they only need to give tick one if they are 18 years old.

Maybe this should not be blamed on a gambling platform because minors are still under the supervision of their parents. So parents are the ones to blame for their negligence in educating their children. In today's modern era the growth rate of gambling is increasing in some countries, another thing is because they are heavily influenced by the many gambling sites they find on social media platforms.
As parents, we really have to supervise our children who are still "underage" but sometimes there are some difficulties that every parent faces, namely outside influences or the environment that cannot be controlled by parents.
Yes, you are right, in this all-modern and all-digital era access to online gambling is increasingly easy for anyone to access even childs underage. As parents, we should be able to keep abreast of existing developments so that we can control the limitations that our children do before they reach a mature age.
For this reason, many parenting or parental control applications have been created to monitor and limit negative activities on each of our children's gadgets or smartphones, so it's best that every parent should be able to take advantage of these parenting control applications.
To some extent we can keep things under control, beyond that we won't be able to keep things in order. When kids grow the way they look things vary and this makes them more cunning than us. This is where we lose against them in controlling their activities.

We've got more parenting applications and tricks to keep the digital contents under limits. However the kids are good enough in handling those devices better than us, and find loop holes as we won't look for the different possibilities. We just use the features available.
308  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Cricket Asia Cup 2023! Which team will WIN? on: September 06, 2023, 11:36:54 PM
~
And the total that Bangladesh put on, was never going to be enough for them to actually defend. Pakistan had a very easy target in front of them and they did not fail to chase. By the way, is there any chance for Bangladesh to actually reach the next stage after this? They should be out, right?
Pakistan bowlers are bowling really well and Haris Rauf was their best bowler tonight as the Bangladesh batsman were struggling to face his pace and it is a cakewalk total for Pakistan to chase. Bangladesh is still having matches against Sri Lanka and India, but the most interesting match that is coming up is India and Pakistan and hopefully rain will not affect that match like the first one.
The bowling line-up from Pakistan is exceptional and it is known to the world. In today's match it was Harish Rauf (4/19) and Naseem Shah(3/34) who took the majority of the wickets. Bangladesh had a good partnership from the loss of early wickets 47/4 and a hundred runs partnership for the fifth wicket. When they've got more overs to go, Shakib Al Hasan could've played slowly than going for big shots. This is where the team once again started to loss wickets and ended the innings in less than 40 overs.
309  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Tennis League All Thread on: September 06, 2023, 11:32:06 PM

I missed this match and judging by the score, Fritz was only able to provide resistance in certain areas but Djokovic controlled the entire match.

Speaking of the curse, it looks like Andrey Rublev is the player who will try to break his poor results in the Grand Slam quarterfinals, This is the 9th quarterfinal for him, and failed 8 times to advance further to the semifinals, against Medvedev his compatriot certainly won't be easy for him because Medvedev is in Hard courts are tough players to beat, but it will hurt a lot if Andrey Rublev lose for the ninth time in a Grand Slam quarterfinal.

Frances Tiafoe vs Ben Shelton, an interesting match and very likely to be a long match of up to five sets, Shelton used his fast serve to get a lot of points, but Tiafoe managed to come back after the first set and in the third set he had the opportunity to take it so he would lead 2-1

Novak Djokovic again get into the semi final by beating the Taylor Fritz by the sets 6-1,6-4,6-4.Many people thought Fritz going to beat the Djokovic in this quater final,but with the unexpected way Djokovic made the history today.If Djokovic made the sets like this in the upcoming semifinal,no doubt he will be the title winner.By this Djokovic had break the record of Roger Federer by 47 Grand Slam semifinal.

The match of Andrey Rublev also unexpected one,he never had his luck in the quarter final and not able to get into the semifinal in the series of years.The reason behind this match was totally the opponent Medvedev today.Rublev not had luck for the ninth time was the hard for his fan.The fans of Rublev will break his record of continuous loss.But again his bad luck play the major role.

Djokovic knows how to play against Fritz,before the us open he defeated him easily and again now he destroyed him again and is just for him an easy opponent. Djokovic has an easy way to the final and i think he will probobly win the us open as how good he is playing.
Djokovic is very technical. He used to make game interesting give way for the opponent to play the first few sets and make a comeback. This time he hadn't done it against Fritz. Won the match in an easier way and it is already known and Fritz once again doesn't able to win a match against Djokovic.

Quarter finals between Alcaraz and Zverev is going to be interesting. In the past encounters between the two, Zverev leads winning three matches out of the five played and this time Alcaraz could level it with a win  Smiley
310  Economy / Economics / Re: CBDCs are created for unemployment purpose on: September 06, 2023, 11:25:01 PM
At any point banks never gets displaced or something takes over it. Maybe the system followed might change. As CBDC is getting popular, we might see the usage in banking. Banks were the backbone to every country's economy development. We can see the country's economy going down with countries where more banks have gone into bankruptcy. Even now banks were slowly getting into all sort of businesses. This will widen the service availed through banks creating more opportunities. We should also understand CBDC were just a hype given to the traditional fiat so to stop people falling for the goodness of bitcoin.
311  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ODI cricket and general cricketing discussion [self - mod] on: September 05, 2023, 05:03:04 PM
Afghanistan was very hyped for Nabi but suddenly Nabi was caught out. now Jannat entered the field instead of Nabi. Afghanistan are still ahead in the run rate but they are under a lot of pressure with Nabi out. Afghanistan now need just 84 runs in 22 overs.  Which is very easy to collect for every good teams. Now let's see if Afghanistan can win the match or not. As they still have 5 wickets to play and enough overs, they still have a chance to win.

This match is not all about winning for Afghanistan. There are a lot of maths in this match. Afghanistan has to win this match with 77 balls in hand which is 12 Overs and five balls. Afghanistan are already seven down and they still need 54 runs from 31 balls. It could have been easy if they had top-order batter on the crease. Sri Lanka have to bowl tight at this moment.

They might win the match but it won't be easy for them to win it with 77 balls in hand. Rashid Khan is the last recognized batter from Afghanistan who is in the crease right now. He is the last hope Afghanistan have. Interesting!
Afghanistan have lost the match scoring 289 runs losing every wicket even though there was more 74 balls left. This is really close and Afghanistan missed the opportunity as well as lost the match. At the end Rashid Khan played really well and the tail end bowlers weren't able to be successful against the srilankan bowlers.
312  Economy / Economics / Re: Can CBDC users lose control of their money? on: September 05, 2023, 03:43:45 AM
CBDC users losing control of their money gets lowered than what we experience with the traditional banking system. Yesterday RBI(Reserve Bank of India) Governor have vouched for CBDC. He had stated the instant settlement and more secure cross border transactions as the key advantages. He had stated the high cost, low speed, lack of transparency as the challenges in the traditional banking system. With CBDC this will be made more effective and efficient. Over time people might get used to it and the usage of local currencies for cross border could help in shielding from global shocks.
313  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Women's Cricket Prediction & Discussion - T20 & ODI on: September 04, 2023, 05:53:24 PM
Today's 3rd T20 match of Pakistan Women vs South Africa Women team has already started. South Africa Women team won the toss and decided to bowl. Now Pakistan Women team came to bat. Scored 71 runs in 10 overs. Pakistan has lost 1 wicket so far.  Women team.Shawaal Zulfiqar was out for 18 runs off 19 balls.I hope Pakistan Women team will perform well in batting in today's match.We have to enjoy the game till the end to see which team will win this match.
Pakistan Women's team is in good form scoring 113/2 in 15 overs. Already Pakistan Women team have won the 3 match T20 series and South Africa is in hard try to win atleast the last T20 match. Previous two matches were close ones, in the first match Pakistan Women team reached the target of 150 runs in the last ball of the innings. In the second match also Pakistan chased the target, and this is the first match Pakistan batting first. Lets see if South Africa Women's team can chase the target from Pakistan Women team.
Unlucky South Africa team have lost the match by 6 runs. Pakistan have set a target of 150 runs. South Africa had a good start as Wolvaardt scored 72 runs in 54 balls and lost her wicket. Further the team players weren't able to score big. In the last over South Africa requires 13 runs and Pakistan Women team was able to score just 6 runs. As the T20 series have come to an end, South Africa Women team gonna play ODI series. Maybe in the ODI South Africa can give better performance.
314  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ODI cricket and general cricketing discussion [self - mod] on: September 04, 2023, 05:17:04 PM

India won the toss and decided to bowl first in pallekele international stadium Sirlinka. It is amazing to see Nepal batting against India in the first powerplay scoring 65 runs with 1 loss of Kushal Bhurtel at 38 runs in just 25 balls with 3 Fours and 2 sixs. From India Ravindra Jadeja bowling well picking 3 wickets by just 25 runs in 7 overs. Now current score of Nepal is 125 runs in a loss of 4 wickets in 28.3 overs. Aasif Sheikh played an amazing performance scoring half a century against the top bowling line in India and playing at 58 unbeaten. I know Nepal is a weak team but if they set a 250-plus target then have a chance to win and qualify for the Super Four.
Nepal Bestman are trying their best to give India a tough target ,but India is a very strong team compared to Nepal and they are taking wickets of Nepal with their good bowling performance.M.Siraj and Jadeja took five wickets for Nepal with their good bowling performances.I don't think Nepal will be able to give a hundred run target to India.
Even if the Nepal team scored 300 runs against India, it was not enough. Because everyone knows that to play with an experienced team, opposite team must also gain enough experience. Nepal comparatively new team in cricket. If they can defeat a team like India in this Asia Cup, then they have won something bigger than winning the Asia Cup. I would expect today a competitive match from the Nepalese team and nothing more. If they can put India under a little pressure then it will be nothing less for them as their earnings are very small. India needn't take pressure to play against 230 runs.

The match was delayed because of rain, and now the match has resumed again. Nepal was unable to put a big score on the board for India to chase. And because of the rain interruption, if the match is not going to be played for the whole 50 overs. The match is going to be played for only 23 overs. India will now need only 126 runs from 20 overs. This should be really easy for India considering the fact that they have all the 10 wickets available. There is no way India is going to lose this match. Nepal already did not have a good score. And now the match has been shortened. So it has become easier for India.
Match resumed and India continue the batting. Overs and the target were decreased. Overs were reduced to 23 overs with the target of 145 runs. Without losing wickets India have crossed 60 runs in 10 overs which looks like an easy winning for India. Nepal is trying the best with their spin bowling. Lets see if Nepal can make the match go closer. Rain is a big problem and when tournaments were planned why BCCI isn't thinking about the climate conditions of the ground.
315  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Tennis League All Thread on: September 04, 2023, 04:49:10 PM
Iga Swiatek have lost to Ostapenko 6-3 3-6 1-6. In recent tournaments she used to reach the finals and never wins at the end. This time it has happened at the round of 16. Soon we can see her stepping down from the No.1 place and the same could be taken by Aryna Sabalenka. During the period of time holding No.1 position she had won 10 tournaments which includes three major tournament wins.
316  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Half of the People in Turkey Now Own Crypto on: September 04, 2023, 04:25:42 PM
It makes sense now, it's just a research survey. I was actually confused that how can this number be the actual number of Crypto Investors as Turkey has a population of 85 million, that means according to them, approx 43 million people are using Crypto. This number can't be real at all. I mean what a way to sell their news and make it a clickbait, good job Decrypt team. I mean by this logic, there are more than 700 million people already using Crypto if follow this.

surely the title is just a clickbait because currently Turkey's population is 82 million people and half of them are 41 million, I even looked for clarity on the news on this topic and I found several articles that said crypto adoption in Turkey was up 50% from the previous year all of that because inflation. this will definitely become a trend, I will definitely convert my fiat currency if high inflation attacks my country's economy, inflation is a very bad thing because your purchasing power for some goods increases by several percent.
Inflation in Turkey is at its peak and it have jumped to 59% and the same could've moved a big number of people into bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. The job layoffs were at its peak and interest rates were hiked regularly. All around the world inflation is happening bad, most of the governments have failed to keep things under control. Now the choice of the people is to move their savings/funds into something worthy and for that reason bitcoin is preferred. However this doesn't constitute to half the population of Turkey.
317  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ODI cricket and general cricketing discussion [self - mod] on: September 04, 2023, 11:26:43 AM
Nepal started good, but they weren't able to keep up its form continue longer time. Openers alone have contributed good runs, particularly Aasif have reached his half century and continuing whereas the rest have fallen for single digit runs. Jadeja have took three wickets, with good bowling economy. Nepal played really bad against Pakistan in its previous match, and this time the performance is really good. The middle order have collapsed against the spin bowling. However one of the player supporting Aasif we can expect 200+ runs from Nepal team. Nepal had good runrate at the beginning and it keeps going down as overs pass.
318  Economy / Economics / Re: Is market manipulation a common occurrence everywhere? on: September 03, 2023, 11:49:48 PM
Market manipulation is very common and this can be seen everywhere. Particularly this happens with billionaires who keep on manipulating to increase the networth. In my country we had a billionaire who was placed around the 300th place and now he had reached the top 5 position. Several allegations have come against him as the Prime Minister have favoured him and some shell companies have been operated to show fake investment over the company shares. These have made him grow, and the government have supported him. A research institute brought everything to the light and the opposition have requested investigation, but the ruling government always wants to save him and these kind of manipulation is happening in all sectors which eats people's money.
319  Economy / Speculation / Re: Bitcoin is not going to $12k. on: September 03, 2023, 03:08:25 PM
Bitcoin has often shown surprises, both bad and good. For example, this happened in 2018, in 2020. In 2022, nobody expected the price to fall to 15k either. It turns out that in every two years there was a dump. I wouldn't be surprised if in 2024, for example before halving, the price drops a lot again. It would be a pattern.
It is very difficult to predict the market correctly, the market often reacts in a way that surprises the majority of traders. Before every bull market starts, there is a shakeout that forces weak sellers to sell their bitcoins, so it is important to watch how the market reacts before the next halving and prepare for extreme levels of volatility in the market. To keep yourself under control. Now if bitcoin goes to $12k again it will be very unexpected, again for many investors this will be an opportunity to strengthen their positions, so there is huge liquidity at this level.
Precise prediction is really tough with bitcoin. Unexpected incidents happening with bitcoin is the reason for the market upward and downward movement. Before big rise in the price there used to be fluctuation in the market. What we experience seems like regular market pattern. We don't know how far the price will go high or low, but in the upcoming days we can expect price reach around $20k and not lower.
320  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: No Electric Supply to Bitcoin Mining Operations in Laos on: September 03, 2023, 02:04:12 PM
When there is no sufficient amount of electricity for the common people, and the government stopping the supply for mining operations is right decision. As Laos is a small nation and the contribution through its mining to the network is really small. For this reason bitcoin market isn't affected.

If these countries had got big mining operations, price might've varied big. Whenever something similar (like ban of mining) happens, the mining operation in those countries used to get shifted to the nearby country. This time such move haven't taken place.
Pages: « 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 [16] 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 ... 343 »
Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP Powered by SMF 1.1.19 | SMF © 2006-2009, Simple Machines Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!