Wake up, boys and girl. Europa Conference starts again. I might actually get to see a couple of games just to re-familiarise myself with teams again. My eye is on Cluj, who are 10/1 to beat Roma at home. Probably not the best bet to take on paper, but Mou's team has had a stuttering 2023, winning only once in the last four games, while Cluj themselves have been losing the last two games.

Something has to give and I think it's a Romanian upset.

I know everyone's all eyes on Champions League, and all for good reason but there's a special game I'm putting money on and that's Barca-United... in a world where City and Liverpool, before them Real, Bayern etc, have all set straight wins records across all competitions (I can't count teams like Ajax, can I?) Xavi will be aiming to create a new record with 12 straight wins.

And his team is better, works harder, and hungrier. Anyone else watching the next ties?

I recall that same period too. The excitement of zip drives (I invested pretty heavily in that dealing with clients and showing them graphics and stuff on the move), the deals I thought were crazy in those days to buy new drives. The memory disks for Playstation that we thought were amazing... this was back when we were doing our best to keep file sizes low, compressing images on websites. Even had all kinds of golden rules for uploading things so people don't die on dialup waiting to load our sites.

Now we're uploading things to the best resolution possible, and my kids are eating up hundreds of gbs of data on their phones daily.

So yeah, I don't think we're at the edge, or that edge is getting farther out than is possible for most.

Big deal 500gb =D

My (probably incredibly biased) view: we were good. Fabinho played his best game in a long time (not that he was great, he was just doing his job and only 1 silly tackle), Bajcetic was superb, Robbo was to me the best player on the field, you never leave him out of a derby. Nunez was his usual threat, and usually not converting but I insist he is being unlucky.

Everton weren't poor, but clearly they were unable to produce the same levels Dyche is demanding, but on that performance they could have beaten most teams in the league.

Jota and Bobby came on to play a bit and I liked what I saw generally. 7 attempts on goal vs Everton's 1 was a fair summary.

And yes, of course I am happy to make back some money, I missed out on 17/10 but I think 16/10 against relegation strugglers was very fair value. At no point in the match did we look like we'd lose.

So proud of you @CLS63. I went far simpler than that, just betting simple ML at almost 10 mins live with every satoshi SB would allow me heh. This wasn't even coins I was supposed to have but you know how it goes (one last time). We'll both breathe easier if we get another goal or two but it's a proper derby so far!

The Salah-Nunez-Salah goal... that was so reminiscent of old Liverpool that it almost cut me to see it. Credit to Nunez, Diaz and Mane wouldn't have matched that speed. Extra painful joy was that it was a counter from an Everton header that hit the post...


Speaking of, I didn't expect to see even one of them but Jota, Bobby, even VVD were all on the bench today!

It definitely is what it is. Even Toney was a gift to me, he was offside and I got free points.

I can't really pinpoint where my main mistakes were, perhaps to use my wild card badly? I'm activating Bench Boost also for next one, just because. Oh and yeah, I finally have Almiron out. You know, because they meet Liverpool next and will probably win...


This was Liverpool written all over it... moneyball stats style. Except, Klopp probably only had the data but didn't know what to do with it (the main brains behind the analysis are either gone or about to leave). We're hiring a replacement supposedly who's already almost at the club but I can't feel too confident, cause we had the best, and now they're all gone to our rivals...

That'll never happen, at least, not for too long but yeah of course, I completely buy into the theory of temporary seller exhaustion. Call it what you want, weak hands all gone, I call it purging of the speculators.

That said, if all we have left are bagholders who aren't using or spending, it's also not good for Bitcoin's long-term health. So in that sense, every seller creates a transaction, so I kind of see them as vital for transactional "health" haha.

Cool if you put sentiment out and forum regs chime in. I want to know if it's a good idea to sell some BTC now to buy back in at a... 25% dip? I never done it and don't play the game but I wonder if, instead of doing that, freeze my DCA for a while to wait for the dip and lump in all in? Don't ask me why I'm suddenly feeling like this heh.

Ahhh LIVERPOOL come on! Picks, everyone, please don't forget. I put my $30 freebet on Liverpool, BVB, Napoli. Easy right?


@leea-1334 please claim your missing bets! And put in your picks, in case you forgot UCL is back (I almost did for sure) and also, enter your prediction for the Ledger giveaway! https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5438244

BTW guys, we are 1,400 blocks away, so there's plenty of time to put in your picks =)

Right on Slissy, and thanks again Cro2 for organising this. LTU_btc, have mercy.

I went ahead and put my answers with gut instead of research, let's see how that works out on "opening day" haha. NBA points question at the end: I always thought a normal game has all players score something!

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That infrastructure improves is a given, but all those improvements won't mean much if we don't also maintain trajectory for utility (and that's to me without custodial services) as well as fundamentals securing the network (hashrate for sure, but probably also node numbers and diversity). Of course it has to be more complex than that but I tend to see these as more important.

Never specifically referenced Alzheimer but it is certainly one of the things I would consider as sudden loss of access... Something that really does sit on the edge of my thoughts when I think of my bitcoin and inheritance.

Do not have much to make a difference now, but hopefully enough to have an impact in the future for whoever inherits.

But back to you. There was recent buzz about a new drug in some journals. Called lecanemab. Seems to be a big deal. Seems as if people are hopeful they're on to something. I only know because of a small local org I support. You heard of it?

Me, how do I deal with mental health, probably not much. I do worry at times. My last six years especially has not been healthy, socially. I physically have not met many people, owing to circumstance (I am a carer).

 Culturally, where I come from, we also don't talk about it. Just soldier on. But we are not living in the same society now. I do believe the mental stresses are different.

Good you talked about it. Now to continue seeking professional and relatable audiences -) Good luck, PG.

Hello! Yeah, F1 about to start again, had no idea. Count me in as usual. As jeremypwr points out, even signing up gets you half the fee back. Then you need one yellow cap (all I managed haha) to make it a positive return in value.

And that's me as an outsider with very little current knowledge. I do follow some of the races though (my kid's watching them all, more than football).

Indeed. I never really made any calculations but I've definitely won quite a few of those insurance freebets -- probably would be better if I took proper risks but I tend to see those freebets as a second chance and put them on something even more unlikely ha.

Saw that you tied the Monaco game with Barca, good luck, didn't believe in Marseille enough?

Yeah, I'm on more than 20 points, and that's because I forgot all about transferring out Almiron (10 points) and my insistence to hold on to Toney one last game (9 points) haha. Saka even got 6 points and there's still City to play, so who knows? So yes, my team is actually quite bad hah.

Rashford being Rashford, he's just himself a goal so that's a nice padding for the most dependable player in RPL at the moment. So we got hopes also for Haaland (already an assist). Shaw got an assist, oops (Botman on my bench actually!).

And yes, I'm one of the Ake fools...

104 from 115 in SB league, am I the most improved player? haha

United in second place haha. Bet they didn't see this coming (yeah, played 2 games more but let them have it, the bastards haha).

Anyway, just read that PGMOL have admitted VAR errors (think casperBGD or cryptofrka mentioned earlier about Toney's offside goal) already in 2 recent games... Arsenal dropped points in 2 games where VAR errors were admitted (yesterday and much earlier in the season when they had a disallowed goal against United before going on to lose 3-1).

If them Gooners lose this league by a game or two, it will be injustice. I do believe that everything evens out in the end, over the course of a season, but VAR is a beast that has caused too much unnecessary pain.


Well, you can't blame us for taking out the calculator and counting possible points but yeah, we have been here before not too long ago actually (I still remember that season we were playing with 15 different CB pairings waiting for VVD to come back from injury and then Salah/Mane hit top gear to take us home to UCL qualification.

We've always been strong finishers, so let's see. Game by game though and it starts tomorrow.

At this point, I don't care. Want to get out of drama, I'm hearing all sorts of rumours about the club and Klopp. What I'd give to see Bobby, Diaz, Jota, VVD, all back and playing our familiar brand of football again.

I'd definitely keep my picks on Blades and Burnley, but only if odds are closer to 2/1. They've got a bit of incentive to grow out of this punishing gauntlet of games in February until the 5th round of FA Cup distracts them again. Burnlet, especially, will not want to suffer the humiliation of another Fleetwood miracle then!

Also... Neil Warnock supposedly is coming out of retirement. These guys live forever haha.

Economic performance? Sure. If anything, Bitcoin of the last couple of years, at least 2022 anyway, shows a really strong correlation, particularly with stocks. I can go back all the way to the last true black swan of March 2020 -- Bitcoin's crash, which was nothing if not a direct impact of a global Black Thursday.


Yeah, the index hasn't been as important to me as tech stocks index, not that I trade, it's just to me now a better indicator of what to expect in Bitcoin at least until the global economy calms down.

Yeah, it was awful. This was one of those days I knew I was walking into a trap, and yet I stepped right into it anyway. I didn't think I'd ever say it but Nottingham Forest mercenaries seem to be far better at gelling together than Chelski bois.

I do think they and Liverpool will probably be the best performers of the last 10 games of the season though, one because they'll finally have spent enough time together, the other because they'll get back key players.

Not in my very short lifetime of memory of Eredivisie, for sure! Going to need to look that up in Dutch to find it I guess, but no, I'm sure their fans are enjoying this for a long time

Now if only Waalwijk can do everyone a favour and take some points of Ajax to keep the dream of them not winning alive just a little longer, that'd be great, ha.

^ I wouldn't say there's no risk to anything, product or service, if it's crypto. Regulations have a funny way of meeting the requirements of those who made them up in the first place. Sure, to protect the (regular) consumer, but generally to benefit their positions. That said, I know too many people who've been hurt by their carelessness so at the same time, I would have to say I support regulations... because people can't seem to protect themselves.

Bitcoin, if used properly, doesn't have to be a problem even with regulations.