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3041  Other / Meta / Re: Features of a Member rank on: July 05, 2020, 06:19:55 AM
You need to reach at least a Full Member status to wear an avatar, but being a member now, the signature will look better compared when you are just a jr. member. If you are into signature campaign, better try to rank up first though I will tell it's not easy if you don't have a lot of contribution in the forum as you need more merits to rank up.

Anyway, good luck.  Smiley
3042  Economy / Economics / Re: Rise in US unemployment. Thoughts? on: July 05, 2020, 05:55:05 AM
Unemployment in the U.S. is on the rise, usually due to an outbreak of the virus Many companies are laying off workers because of the virus and cannot pay enough In that case the unemployment rate is increasing a lot. However, it will take a long time to recover Due to the disruption of the country's economy business and trade are closed so the owners of big companies are suffering from depression For this reason recruitment has been stopped for the time being.

That's the reality, but the question now is how can we survive with this crisis and how our economy will recover.
I know every country has different struggle now as it's an global pandemic and unfortunately no one assures that the vaccine will be available soon or this year.

We didn't expect this time would come as our economy was doing better before the virus, but whoever created it if it's really a man made virus, he/she succeeded on disrupting a global economy, hopefully it's not the end yet and we will continue to fight this challenge.
3043  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 2020 NBA Season on: July 05, 2020, 05:34:15 AM
They really need to find a replacement for Avery Bradley, but I don't know if JR Smith will take the first five position though. We will see, but definitely, he is good or even better compare to Avery (no disrespect to Avery fans).
I think they need a better one to handle the ball well and I don't see JR Smith on that especially on passing ability, it's more like they'll rely on Rondo on that more like a reserve Smith on that or they can select Cook if he's playing.
Why are you even concern on who handles the ball, we have Lebron James who handle the ball for the starters and we have Rondo as a reserve, with that format they have been successful so I don't think they will change that.

JR Smith is important as he is a good 3 point shooter but he needs to maintain consistency if he wants to help the team especially in crucial times.


Right, no need for him to dwell in that JR mistakes, time to him to focus on getting another ring not just for him but for the Lakers franchise, thus cemented him as of the greatest ever, winning 3 rings with 3 different teams.
I think LeBron will still be fit on the league even by 40 just looking at his physique he can still handle that as long as he remains healthy.
Lebron is smart and discipline so he will last in the NBA, with his current position now, he can focus on the assists and just contribute a bit in the points, that would not be a burden to him unlike his old role which he needs to be physical going in the right just to score.
3044  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Service Discussion (Altcoins) / Re: Success of IEO is all on the exchange on: July 04, 2020, 10:56:21 AM
You have a point because investors when trying to invest are now looking on what exchange the project will be listed.
If it has an IEO in a non reputable exchange, then it's expected that the project would likely fail.

Thing is, only few exchange now holds a good trading volume, and we know liquidity matters a lot in order for the project to gain investors.
So if you'll ask me, I would not take chances investing in small exchange, I'd go and try my luck to invest in Binance exchange and some other big exchanges that handles IEO.
3045  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: You want the best for your new project? on: July 04, 2020, 10:14:34 AM
I wish these exchanges can just disappeared from the face of crypto space forever, developers smarten up and go for better exchanges unless you are a scammer yourself because these exchanges are now scammers den.
That would not happen, there's still a lot of exchanges that will replace their position or do what they are doing.

Exchanges are always categorized between good and bad and that is only based on the individual perception, I believe for us to be successful in investing, we need to have good knowledge about IEO and which exchanges are reputable that could give us a great chance to be profitable.

At the moment, it's really not for altcoins yet, that's the reason why majority of the ICOs and IEOs failed this time, but still it should not stop from investing as there are still IEOs that are successful especially in short term, so if we complain about the reputation of the exchanges listed, maybe we should just disregard them in our list and look for the better one.
3046  Economy / Economics / Re: Can we rely on Bitcoin and cryptocurrency? on: July 04, 2020, 08:00:17 AM
Crypto will just stay, you see what's happening to the market now, we are even better compared to some countries economy or to stocks which we can easily compare.

Just be optimistic that crypto will survive and grow and do your best with your job so you'll be able to enjoy earning online receiving crypto as your salary.

While our economy struggles, that would result to a high unemployment rate, so whatever you enjoy now, you should be thankful as you are one of the lucky person who still have a job despite of the crisis we are all facing.
3047  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Service Discussion (Altcoins) / Re: Bounty managers can do better on: July 03, 2020, 01:48:20 PM
You wished everyone would do that, but that's not the reality, there's a lot of bounty managers in the forum and we can categorized them from bad, good to better. As a bounty hunter, I think it's our job to be more careful in joining a certain bounty campaign, we don't need to require them to comply with anything as that would not happen, the market is decentralized so we have to deal with that as that could also be the nature of job here.

If you are looking for a better result on the campaign, just look for reputable campaign managers and only joined on the campaign they manage even if the reward is not that attractive.

Nowadays, project with good potential are not paying big bounty reward, you can also check on that.

I think this thread (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5228629.0) would help you.
3048  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Some college students in Alabama bet money to see who gets COVID19 first on: July 03, 2020, 01:13:28 PM
This is should be considered as a serious matter that should be sanction legally.
It's intentional and though I don't know exactly what's the law in the Alabama on their approach on the pandemic but this move was certain an opposite of preventing from people getting infected with covid-19.

It's like they are already desperate and they want everyone who will be infected and more of this cases will lead to bigger problems the government has to face and solve, I don't know what's running into their mind but I guess the government has to impose bigger sanction on this kind of offense.

This is certainly a violation of the law, in some country, not follow the social distancing is already an offense.
3049  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Las Vegas Casinos are open - end of the Pandemic era. on: June 30, 2020, 10:05:23 PM
What you shared is a big figure, "$14.4 million a day" is a huge amount of money, we can just imagine also how much is the government are losing in a daily basis since that amount also has a tax due.

nevada was losing $2 million a day year over year in taxes during the lockdown. at 50% capacity, i assume they are still losing close to half that. local governments are expecting a 20-40% drop in tax revenue as well.

people are at least visiting the city and gambling, but it's hard to be that optimistic about this situation. even at 50% capacity---where i'm sure the city and state are still struggling financially---the coronavirus is spreading faster in nevada than any other state in the counrtry: https://www.rgj.com/story/news/2020/06/29/coronavirus-nevada-covid-19-updates/3278534001/

i can't help but think this situation is temporary and more restrictions/closures are coming.

Does it also mean that they have reduce their manpower to 50%?  

Casinos not making their expectation anymore, it should result to reducing employees otherwise they'll operate at a loss, so if it's happening then probably a lot of jobless people in that state due to this, and though we can say some are thankful that the casino resume operation but others are also affected since it cannot employ its usual numbers and these unemployed people could be a burden to the government as government has to provide support to them.  
3050  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Service Discussion (Altcoins) / Re: Is This True or Scam? on: June 30, 2020, 09:33:22 PM
I can clearly say that it's a scam, that's a classic one, it never gets old as long as there are still people who are not educating themselves about the kind of scams. You'll send ETH to get ETH, please don't expect you'll get any as they would just disappear and again create a new name doing the same kind of scam. if you ever read good feedback about them, don't get fooled, it's part of the trick to entice greedy investors.

SCAM WARNING!

If it’s too good to be true, then it's probably a scam.
3051  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: UK rules will hit loot boxes games hard - as they’re turning kids into gamblers. on: June 30, 2020, 08:40:38 PM
I don't think this is a good one, as a kid, you really need to avoid such kind of action to pursue your dreams or else you ended up losing all of your allowance for mere entertainment. They need to re-think this new rule because this is not an easy thing to eliminate once it has been approved for many years now. The kids will not be recovered from addiction in a day. they want to gather as much money as they can but the risk is higher than to earn. Kids shouldn't be thinking where he needs to get money to play more instead he needs to have some free mind and to have some problem-free life.

I really can't understand how can they expose kids to such risk. They can't think clearly and rationaly and will not be able to resist temptation. That is big potential social problem but obviously authorities didn't think that way. That can only push forward completely wrong at these children who will play such games. When problems ocur I guess it will be too late.
In our society now, it's really hard to control the developers in developing different kind of games as they will try to provide an exciting games to attract gamers and that is regardless of their hidden intentions. If we care for our children, I think we should be the one monitoring our children's activity online to avoid all online temptations.

Actually not only games but there's a lot of things, if they can get any information how to gamble, they can also try it as children are always curious on things they will discover online, the discipline should start from us,  if we don't tolerate our children, government does not have to take this kind of actions that would hinder the success of the games developers.
3052  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: CORONAVIRUS IMPACT ON SPORTS GAMBLING on: June 30, 2020, 08:19:48 PM
If the bookmakers did not have such a right that protects them from dishonest matches, then all legal bookmakers would go bankrupt for a long time. There is a lot of situations where fraud (in sports) is obvious, but it is unrealistic to prove collusion. These rules help bookmakers protect their business.

But what to do if the result of the match exceeded all expectations and the bookmaker suffered losses. However, the game was fair. In this case, the bookmaker can declare the match as a contract and refuse to pay the bets.

How can those who placed bets get their winnings?

In reputable bookmakers, this does not happen. Firstly, there is a limit on the maximum amount of winnings and the office controls that at any outcome of the match this amount should not be exceeded. Secondly, the mathematics of this business is such that for any outcome, the office is always in profit (on average).

It's the limit that is their key to be profitable, gamblers don't literally bet against the house here, sportsbook are different from other kind of games, bettors are betting against bettors, sportsbook are just facilitating the bets will get the juice or commission. Maybe at some point they would also take the bet if they are too confident but most of the time they'll try to balance out so they would also end up profitable on a daily basis. I also think they can at any time forward our bet to other sportsbook just for the sake of matching the bets on opposing sidies since it's bad for a sportsbook with a very low limit, that wouldn't attract bettors a lot.
3053  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: GAMBLING SITE INVESTMENT on: June 30, 2020, 01:07:14 PM
Yeah, It's like in the bank and same with cryptocurrency when you are staking for example on binance, You can stake stake your money/crypto there! There's an option when you are going to stake crypto or USDT which is a USD representative in crypto there.
I'm not going to choose bank for saving with the purpose of letting your money earn an interest, for me it's not worth it, better invest somewhere and I thin  Binance staking is a good idea, anyway thanks for giving me an idea, I'll do check on that..

For me, using bank when you save money for safekeeping, and use other platforms for investing.


Yes, the gain is unstable yet, not that risky.

Great, but always look also at the negative possibility, not that risky does not mean it's risk free.
Anything called investment is always risky, if not then that is considered a scam.
3054  Economy / Economics / Re: How in the world we going to restart the world economy ? on: June 30, 2020, 12:13:00 PM
The COVID-19 crisis plunges the global economy into a recession with historic levels of unemployment and poverty. economists should offer the government new approaches for the development of the economy, and not think with old patterns when the main task was to earn super-profits without thinking about social policies.
This impact is almost in all countries for those affected by the Covid-19 epidemic with a bad economy, of course the government will implement policies to stabilize the economy so that we do not feel poverty and unemployment, therefore the evaluation is definitely done but we are left to conditions how to run the government when This has been a lot of evaluation in dealing in various ways and therefore will see economic development after applying the new normal now.

After this epidemic, I think the world will go on different ways to do business, communicate, or socialize. The economy in almost all countries will also restart because, in every industry, they will use some protocols in accepting the employee, and maybe the employee needs to have a letter that explains they are healthy. But for sure, the world economy will grow every day because people want to have money to fills their daily needs.
The pandemic will only end if we have the cure for the virus and the vaccine, then the old normal will be back.

We are  in a new normal, things are different now but slowly we are adopting with it, this is temporarily only, hopefully people will understand that and they will continue to be optimistic that soon the vaccine will eventually be release.

I believe the situation now is very serious, some does not see its effect on the economy as they are only looking at the health matters but there is a reason government can't stop business to prevent the spread of virus, and that is bigger than the pandemic which could result to an economic collapse.
3055  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: One good turn deserves another 👈 Scammers way on: June 30, 2020, 11:39:55 AM
Even scammers who previously failed to take investors' money, they will back in a better way until they manage to bring a lot of money. all we do is be careful and don't fall into the same hole
There's a reason for them to come back as they don't invest anything, and with no investment they can scam even millions of dollars from investors. I think there are two kinds of people who should be blame here, (1) scammer and (2) investors with no knowledge or greedy investors who want quick return of their investment as they would not consider the risk since they are blinded with the high reward.
3056  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: GAMBLING SITE INVESTMENT on: June 30, 2020, 09:17:47 AM
If you look at Week 5 you had made till then total profit of 164$ and at the end of week 10 you still at 154$ which is even less than week 5 . So overall you dint gained anything as such in last 5 weeks and are on the slightly negative side .
That's because of the bitcoin value in the market, and investing does not also mean that you'll be consistently profitable in a monthly basis.
I'm only looking at the BTC profit for now, thus far for 11 weeks, OP's profit is only BTC0.0026.


The profit in BTC is very low but if you are going to compare it into traditional passive investment it just have a 5-8% per year interest so for me it's all good since the risk is very low so the profit is very low also. Honestly, this whole gambling investment thing is still depends on the bitcoin price, If I am going to get a profit or loss money. But yet, still hoping I will get a decent amount of profit this following weeks.  Smiley

I'm not sure if there's a passive investment that would guarantee a 5-8% per year of return, are you referring to investing your money in the bank or saving it like a time deposit? I think I would rather choose investing in casino since inflation will definitely affect the value of our money even if let's say it will receive an interest yearly at that rate.

As what you have shown, in BTC value, you are in profit, and same with USD value, so you are in a profit at the moment although you are not gaining consistently in a weekly basis.
3057  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin is More Popular Than Traditional Banks on: June 30, 2020, 08:41:04 AM
Whoever made the survey, I think we need to verify if they are legit or not.

Seriously? I thought only few knows about bitcoin, so probably those people who are ask are crypto enthusiast like us and has given their bias opinion.
Also, the figure is very small compared to the number of popular in the world, that doesn't say anything IMO.

Traditonal banks are more popular as there's no massive adoption on bitcoin yet.
3058  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 2020 NBA Season on: June 30, 2020, 06:52:54 AM
On JR Smith signing with the Lakers, not sure if it's a good news, I'll leave that up to you guys to judge.

The Lakers has a big chance to reach in the WCF, then the Finals if they will be more successful, but they will not be facing the warriors anymore, lol.. so I think he will not messed up this time, and I also think he won't get the average minutes he is getting in Cleveland Cavaliers.


I think JR Smith will again play in the NBA with Lebron, they are friends in real life I guess so since Lebron can influence the management, he can get JR Smith. Let's give him a chance, what we see is just his mistake but he also has a lot of good contribution in the court, defensive and offensive requirement, this guy has.

So I would say in advance, welcome to LA JR Smith.

I think you are right, they are friends in real life, there's an article LBJ and Davis spotted with JR Smith in LA.

Watch: Lakers Fan Spots LeBron James, Anthony Davis & JR Smith Riding Bikes In L.A.



There's also a video that Lebron James was working out with JR Smith.

here you we can see - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utagUvOvVBI (video was uploaded last year and JR Smith that time was off contract with any team)
3059  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 2020 NBA Season on: June 29, 2020, 11:36:18 PM
Another bad news for the NBA, Spencer Dinwiddie is playing the best season of his NBA career and it's not good if they'll missed the season.
Their standing is good, but they still needs to win some games and they need a good PG, so hopefully Irving would play and think of helping his team as that's what he is paid to do.

his stats this season is pretty impressive :

https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/d/dinwisp01.html



It was really unfortunate, teams who are still fighting for a playoff spot really needs their star players.
Thanks for sharing that stats, we can see the big improvement of his stats, his numbers are ascending, so they need someone to provide that average PPG per game for their team, that's why I've mentioned in my other post that Irving is really needed when the season resume.




On JR Smith signing with the Lakers, not sure if it's a good news, I'll leave that up to you guys to judge.

The Lakers has a big chance to reach in the WCF, then the Finals if they will be more successful, but they will not be facing the warriors anymore, lol.. so I think he will not messed up this time, and I also think he won't get the average minutes he is getting in Cleveland Cavaliers.
3060  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 2020 NBA Season on: June 29, 2020, 11:00:50 PM
Unfortunately, another star player added in the list of players positive in covid-19.

Here's the story.

Nets' Spencer Dinwiddie Tested Positive for COVID-19; NBA Restart Status Unclear



I think Irving has to play now, the situation calls him as they might not qualify in the playoffs if he will not play.

And on the other news.

Lakers Rumors: JR Smith Contract Expected to Be Finalized Ahead of Deadline

Hopefully he will not messed up again.  Grin
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