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3061  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: The UFC Info and Prediction Thread on: June 02, 2020, 08:56:08 PM
^  Jones being a hero in his neighborhood right now tho:  https://twitter.com/mmafullmount/status/1267335353050030085?s=21

Edit:  I heard Chuck Liddel is helping protect his neighorhood during the riots too.  
After getting into twitter wars with many fighters including Dana White now Jon Jones has gone to the streets to save guard his community from vandalism Cheesy. I have seen the video clip and it looks like Jon Jones is carrying a media crew to capture his bravery but he was really intimidating and they were really scared to engage with Jon Jones and i hope he will not get into any legal troubles with the situation in America and with his spiraling mentality my bet is he will get into trouble again with the law.

i expected he would walk away citing low wages but when he said about vacating his title, it went too far.
As per Jon Jones he is earning $5 million per fight and he wanted a bump in his pay to move to the heavyweight division. I do not think he will relinquish the title and Jon Jones and Dana White are not in good terms after the UFC 151 cancellation because Jones was not willing to fight Chael Sonnen
on short notice.
3062  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin should never become fully anonymous- don't fool yourself on: June 01, 2020, 09:17:03 PM
One thing I often hear is how bitcoin should become a fully anonymous cryptocurrency.  No, it shouldn't.  If people want bitcoin to truly become mainstream then making bitcoin fully anonymous would destroy that goal.  I believe in these types of currencies, such as with Monero whom I support fully.
BTCitcoin is not designed by Satoshi to be anonymous, if you are able to get the database of every UTXO then you are not truly anonymous unless you tweak some things. I do accept the fact that government will not allow any anonymous currency to thrive and i always wonder how these anonymous currencies will survive when the regulations becomes strict for every exchange.

Think of it this way.  How many countries still don't allow for women to vote or even show their face in public, how many countries don't allow for freedom of speech, how many countries still don't allow freedom of press...and you think they'l be okay with a massive global currency they can't control what so ever?  Not a chance.
The countries you are referring to might be living before a century than you and i are living, i do understand the countries you are referring to and i have visited Saudi where they had restrictions but now they are trying to liberate women rights because the new king wants to give liberation for women and they allowed woman to get driving license as well as open movie theater which is a big deal and  the main land Iran where i have seen restrictions for woman even though you can enjoy but it is not legal but they have Kish Island where woman enjoy the most without any restrictions.

What i am trying to tell is, it is possible to have a liberal currency with BTCitcoin as we will have some countries accepting BTCitcoin.

3063  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Vietnam bursts an illegal casino who used to handle bets worth $3 billions on: May 31, 2020, 07:30:02 PM
Vietnam authorities are claiming to burst an online casino that used to handle bets worth $3 billion, and what’s surprising is despite getting such huge volumes the casino owner never felt the need to get his casino registered and operate legally.
A billion dollar bust and that too in a single illegal betting house, how many illegal casino are running around the world and looking at the figures at a single illegal casino, it might be the biggest market in the world.

Further he had deployed a very clever strategy where he had hired people to lure gamblers out, and then he used to pay those people fixed commissions for every deposits the gambler made through them.

Lastly I would request you’ll to wager only on reputed casinos, and check their history before you wager otherwise you may end up loosing your funds to fraudulent online casinos.
The reason they got busted is clear from the article, they used to give credit by taking their properties as collateral and that is done through their hired workers and if you are doing these kind of large scale illegal activities and on top of that take collateral then you will end up getting busted.
3064  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod] on: May 31, 2020, 06:08:05 PM
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I guess you meant you have problem with the process of implementation but not the ideas? If you are criticizing how they implemented the demonetization and lock down without any homework then i am with you in this regards, Otherwise i don't agree with you. I would say that they might have good intention or not (depends where you stand on ideology) but they sucks real bad when implementing any policy.  
A government should be responsible for the policies they implement, they come out with some policies and burn everything you made till that time and then say sorry while your hard work and time invested is gone to dust, do you think that is a responsible governance. You can hang on to the moral grounds theory when they have not done any study on implementing policies that could affect a billion population, it is not a video game to reset everything with a click. They showed time and again that they are not a responsible government.

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It was more like cult following type stunt, which i don't appreciate in general. On the other hand i felt good vibes when i saw Italians were doing the similar thingy in respect of Doctors. Hypocrite us, right?
Exactly the reason i wanted to respond, when you said you should not take the open letter seriously. Come on you clearly know a cult following who is willing to do anything and you think these kind of comedic representation which has nothing to do with reality. I would have been happy if the government did everything properly for the poor who live their life on daily wages and then go for the theatrics.


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Not sure why you felt the need of sharing these charts, as i already mentioned this in my previous reply along with the recovery percentage. on testing i agree with you India is doing only 2.62 tests per 1000 (30th JUNE data), which is very low.
The data graph was simply to show the reality of the situation, when your prime minister says we conquered the virus, who you are fooling and in what aspect he came to that conclusion. Even if we forget these data, I clearly know certain hospitals are not even accepting patients for the past two months, there are many patients who are in critical situation and when i see an entire failure in a system, do you think i expect all these data that are coming out are exact representation of the situation.  

I would love to but have to pass your offer respectfully because...
I am at center, sometimes leans on liberal and sometimes conservative, depends on the merits and we are living in polarized world where no one wants to discuss ideas objectively anyway. So i find majority of political -Geo Politics debates unproductive especially in Interweb Grin.
I understand that, we cannot make any changes debating in a forum but atleast i have a platform to share my frustration about a system that will not deliver anything for the common citizen but boast stupid ideas.

It would be great if there is a minimum qualification to become a politician  Cheesy.


There have been a huge jump in the number of cases, and those regions which remained mostly unaffected earlier (such as Kerala, Goa and North-east) are witnessing a huge jump in the number of new cases.
The reason for the huge jump in the number of new cases is because many people from other state and countries started travelling back to their home state and once they are tested majority of them are positive cases and there is a political battle going on, the center is allocating trains without informing the destination state.
3065  Economy / Economics / Re: More Evidence of Coronavirus as Financial Reset on: May 31, 2020, 04:29:18 PM
If HCQ is indeed an unfairly maligned, highly promising treatment, it does look as if the entire US establishment, not just the anti-Trump politicians and media, and not just big pharma (who stand to profit from much more expensive future vaccines and treatments, whereas HCQ is a generic) is against HCQ, and are desperate to make sure patients don't get cured.  This would be consistent with my theory that the Coronavirus was released in order to effect a controlled, gradual reset of the financial system.
This is a flawed theory in many levels, when the virus hit you do not have enough data to come to a conclusion that whether one treatment was better than the other and to test that out it needs time. Initial it was like an experiment trying out different drug and everyone's body does not respond the same to different medication.

Even during these experimentation the main objective was to prevent the virus from entering the cells and then to prevent it from multiplying and for that they were experimenting with different drugs that are existing and used for other viruses.

So the idea about the virus is released as part of an agenda to reset the financial system is absurd, conspiracy theories does not require any proof so it was fun reading your theory  Wink Cheesy.
3066  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: #BitcoinAndBlackAmerica sign on: May 31, 2020, 08:56:16 AM
I found this image showing a woman bearing a sign of this hashtag.
There are a lot of snapshots containing Bitcoin in recent demonstrations, share it here.

Please quote the text, I can’t post images.
Done

It is unfortunate to see these protest to open the eyes of the authorities and hope this is regarding the recent death of George Floyd. I saw the video posted by some UFC fighters and it was brutal, to knee an unarmed man on his neck and continue to do so with multiple request from others.
I am hearing news that the protest are turning violent and the police brutality against unarmed people are on the rise not only in the US but globally.

The war model of policing should be stopped globally and the legal power to silence people with brutality even during protest which happened in Delhi India recently against students and many people were killed during those struggles and what they protested was to safe guard the democracy and the authorities stomping everyone with violence. Cannot silence everyone for a long period of time and people will wake up and revolt against these and that is what we are seeing.

I just have one song in mind seeing all these. Straight Outta Compton NWA song Fuck the police.

Regarding the image, it looks like a slick advertisement for the book but it is a good book and a good read for everyone.
3067  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod] on: May 31, 2020, 06:39:07 AM
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You might be referring to his open letter. I feel that you didn't understand this stunt and taking it wrong approach, its politically motivated and quite common for every gov as its related to his 1st year of second term and not specifically addressing Covid-19 per se. Its all about goody good stuff, Chest thumping with sliding bad things under the rug. i would suggest not to take this letter seriously as it has no significance whatsoever.
I am viewing his stunts for a very long time, the theatrics he loves ignoring the poorest of the people, banning of currency it only affected the daily waging workers or the poor or middle class people who had business and it was a great theatrics and when he recently lock downed the entire nation by giving them 4 hours window at night, it was another theatrics. Considering how the poor people suffered and how many died trying to reach home on foot, how can someone thump their chest. I saw how people trying to be a puppet to his tunes when he asked to bang metal pots and curse the virus and his next task of lighting the candle and how many building got fire, it is not a secret and these mishaps were headline news and considering how stupid some people are i consider this is significant and you cannot downplay these mishaps and say it was political.

Last time i looked up some statistics data analysis and watched few expert opinions on India about Covid-19 in Feb-March-April.
I still do not understand the metrics used by these experts, just like the speculation they make with BTCitcoin.





The above are the real data and not speculative and what do you seen in those. The number of cases are increasing and community spread is out of control and we have no data about the total figures as the testing is not that great either.  

Now i feel like i am derailing the thread so restricting myself right here otherwise its going to be very long post.
The situation has everything to do with how things open up in India and if we expect cricket and other sport to resume these are important, if you want we can continue in local board Wink.


PS: graph is taken from worldometers which provides real data and not my own representation.

To boost the economic situation government needs to run the industry and give jobs to the people.  
When the government is selling all the public sector companies to private and in the medical sector they already sold IDPL, RDPL, HAL and BCPL and the number of other privatization done by the esteemed government in the past several years and you think they will run the industry now.
How, will they purchase the sold PSU companies at a higher rate  Tongue.  

The common man will have to pay from his pocket to watch the match live in stadium. Sad
For the common man there is Atmanirbhar  Cheesy.

still IPL is talk of town really strange situation if this will go like this then surely we will have IPL under current government in next few months.
The authorities are smart and they know how to influence people. The government might approve IPL under strict supervision to divert the situation at hands as they know India is a cricket loving country and they need to entertain them to divert their attention and hence i wont be surprised if we see that happen.
3068  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Service Discussion (Altcoins) / Re: CZ and Coinmarketcap on: May 30, 2020, 09:07:13 PM
I knew this day will come, finally CZ changes the rules on coinmarketcap, now all projects are ranked with Liquidity, good bye to fake volume, have anyone else noticed this already?
Good to see that fake volumes are gone but major changes were expected after Binance took over the site and i expect them to use it to promote their site.

Here are the threads that are created earlier regarding CMC and the expected changes.

Now Binance owns CMC! A Red alert for all the shit Exchanges

What the shit is happening in CMC?

CMC Misleading new projects

This is like doing something ethical and still not getting the attention it deserves.
If you are following CZ who thought about a rollback when their exchange got hacked, so ethics should not be related with him.

3069  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod] on: May 30, 2020, 06:37:53 PM
^Yeah this schedule is really confusing. Looking at the schedule, all the previous assumptions about IPL seems to be wrong. If BCCI is planning to host IPL in Mid Aug to Sep, I don't think it would go well as planned considering the current scenario in India.
I find everything strange here. IPL can't be held in just 3 months from now when the covid 19 situation is still unclear.
Also ICC should have focused on T20 world cup, instead they are more willing to have India Australia series in that time period.
Welcome to the bubble we are living, today there was a comedic representation by the Indian prime minister about the corona situation.

Many feared that India will become a problem for the world when corona hits India. But today, you have transformed the way the world looks at us.

The prime minister is not aware of the situation and the increasing number of patients and right now it is kind of hot bed for the past one week and if you are having leaders like these i would not be surprised if the IPL is conducted Cheesy.

3070  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Tyson vs Holyfield Charity Fight on: May 29, 2020, 11:59:28 PM
I don't believed that 3 rounds is just enough for these great fighter who were hungry for knock out punches.
For the sake of humanity they are over 50 years old and going for a 3 round fight is a huge thing and they are not doing it to make money for themselves but to donate some to the charity.

Their defense is very tight and safe for each of them, and I don't think that shorter rounds can beat that eagerness. Hopefully that money raised for the fight will be enough to help to those in need of charity money, to help the affected individuals with covid cases.
Not just the defense both are the most talented fighters of their generation and i doubt apart from Tyson Fury none of the boxers in the present generation would stand a chance when these fighters were reigning as champions.

I still remember the Tyson vs Holyfield fights and they were horrific to see the second fight but the funny aspect at that time i thought Tyson was talking in the ears of Holyfield but at a later time we found that Tyson bit his ears and the total commotion which was scary.
3071  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ODI cricket and general cricketing discussion [self - mod] on: May 29, 2020, 03:41:16 PM
Afridi VS Gambhir
Kapil-Gavaskar VS Akhtar
Afridi was taking a dig at Gambhir while promoting his book and they started battling out in social media. In the situation with Akhtar he is having a youtube channel and he suggested a India Pakistan series and Kapil and Gavaskar jumped on it and he now has more contents to release in his channel Cheesy.

Gayle VS Sarwan
Gayle has nothing to complain he is more successful than Sarwan but he also need to be in the news to earn money when he is not playing.
I thought it was unwarranted to publicly come out rather than settling inside closed doors if they had an issue with each other.

Cricket is no more a gentleman's game.
To be frank cricket was never a gentleman's game and i have seen many claiming this here and hence thought of responding now. Historically it was played by the rich and it has a feudalistic history, the same with golf as you need huge property to play the game and when international cricket started it was always a battle for supremacy for centuries and now it is the battle of economics.

The word gentleman game has its roots here List of Gentlemen v Players matches ironically gentleman won the first two matches and the term might have stuck after that.

I really do not understand why everyone is crying about gentleman's game, every sport is supposed to be played according to the rule book and what is special about these phrase Roll Eyes.
As i mentioned above it is nothing but history. Hope this clears everything.

 A brief history of cricket by cricinfo. So all the debates about a gentleman's game will end here.


Fun fact: First international match was played between USA and Canada and now they are the minnows in the cricketing world  Cheesy.
3072  Economy / Reputation / Re: Shasan and suchmoon negative reputation and judgment on: May 29, 2020, 12:20:56 PM
edit - suchmoon just also gave me negative trust, as a core user and not so much legendary with MUCH posts, I demand all my negative rep by both users to be removed.
Demand to a not so much legendary  Cheesy. You made me laugh .

Cause you were quite disrespectful, I just didn't want to deal with you anymore even if you were willing to lend.
That is a really bold statement  Cheesy.

I will let bitcointalk admins take care of this situtation, a coppermember like you against a core user like me is funny to watch. popcorn


Bitcointalk rules go far beyond a post stating rules. This forum is guided by common-sense and values.
A bit surprised that you knew this.

I've account back to 2011, now measure yours attitude and wording for not so much legendary...( yes these were minors) user.
Now i understand your burning feel by your statements but you still have no idea about how the forum works Tongue.

I only accept money from people I like
Opposite what the bank says but i like the catchphrase and the confidence Cheesy.

PS: popcorn image belongs to qwk which i borrowed from a 2014 post.

@OP you made me laugh and hence thought of responding, good luck with your battle Wink.
3073  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: I am shocked. I cannot believe this. There is now way I will ever Bitaddress.org on: May 29, 2020, 11:28:40 AM
I redeem myself for my surprising ignorance. I'm sorry. You seem to be right:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4br5ip/bitaddressorg_all_private_keys_starts_with_k_or_l/

No need to say more, I guess.
Sometimes a simple google search will kill that wow moment . You just learned about compressed private keys Wink.

i am more shocked that an account created in 2012 is claiming to be shocked about something like this!
This statement will give the OP a shock  Cheesy . Ignorance is not a punishable offence but he could have searched before crying out to God during COVID  Grin.

@OP you can lock the topic.
3074  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ODI cricket and general cricketing discussion [self - mod] on: May 28, 2020, 11:55:14 PM
About Misbah, I've hated him all my life. As a captain, he brought the sense of took-took in the whole team. As a coach, he's unable to bring the much-needed aggressiveness in the performance of the team. It was his extremely good luck that he (and the team) performed good in the last couple of test series that he played as the captain.
I enjoyed the way Misbah ul Haq played, he used to start really slow and then explode in the end and i still remember the way in which he took Pakistan till the final in the inaugural T20 World Cup in 2007 and he fought till the end and it was a display of heart and courage when there was no support from the rest of the team members and during his reign as captain the entire team was struggling and he was the sole player staying till the end.
3075  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: The UFC Info and Prediction Thread on: May 28, 2020, 10:13:35 PM
Dana White just announced that bantamweight title fight will probably be Petr Yan vs Jose Aldo for the vacant UFC.
If Jose Aldo can cut the weight properly i expect him to win the vacant belt as Petr Yan just have a aged Urijah Faber in his profile to get a push for the title and i doubt whether he is ready for the belt.

Also, this news. Mike Tyson and Wanderlei Silva in a bareknuckle fight. Someone might die hehehe.
The offer is $20 millions for a bare knuckle fight, do they pull those numbers to shell out that kind of money. I have seen some bare knuckle fights and it is really brutal as the face looks like pulp after the fight and it is really like watching a horror movie.

Usman's next title fight is not going to be Conor McGregor. It's going to be one of the top contenders at 170 and list includes Masvidal, Woodley/Burns, Edwards, and Covington. He said he's not interested in the BMF title defense and would rather focus on the UFC title right now.
I want to see Usman and Masvidal next and i do not see the BMF coming back again unless McGregor wants that title.
3076  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ODI cricket and general cricketing discussion [self - mod] on: May 27, 2020, 11:31:01 PM
India lost that match intentionally to keep Pakistan out and play against the Kiwis in the semi-finals.
People are loosing their minds during this pandemic as they have nothing else to do and for that they create on interesting and sometimes controversial stories just to be on the headline and all these rumors are sports related as we are not hearing about the other rumors from media personalities but all the sports people are talking and creating all the buzz  Cheesy.

Shahid Afridi and Gautam Gambhir had some heated arguments

Kapil Dev and Gavaskar going against Shoaib Akhtar for proposing a friendly match

Chris Gayle going wild against Ramnaresh Sarwan.



3077  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: The UFC Info and Prediction Thread on: May 27, 2020, 07:23:01 PM
^  But really..  His recent 'boring performances' were vs Thompson and Maia, who the former is a counter striker like himself and the latter a BJJ specialist. 

I haven't watched enough replays of Burns yet to expect a boring match up.  Come to think of it, Burns could win if Woodley doesn't go full on aggro and push the pace himself.
It takes two to tango, there were many fights that we expected to be great never fulfilled, the recent examples are Derrick Lewis and Francis Ngannou who were heavy strikers and everyone expected a knockout but it turned out to be worst fights in history with the lowest punches thrown in history and then comes Israel Adesanya and Yoel Romero which i thought to be a war but turned out to be a boring fight, Woodley was involved in many boring fights and if Burns could stay away from the punches in the first two rounds then there is a real chance that Burns could win the fight.
3078  Local / Other languages/locations / Re: Pakistan on: May 27, 2020, 10:33:43 AM
What is the ethereum price for end of  2020
I hold 23 ethereum for the last two year tell me anyone
What is the best time for the sale time Huh
Since you had the patience to hold for a couple of years my advice is to hold for a couple more years and wait for the market to rally which is expected to happen around 2021, not sure what was your entry point and it is important to make an assessment. With ETH 2.0 expected to roll out this year and DeFi can be a positive aspect for ETH. If the market rallies i expect the price to reach around $600 - $800 and in the long term if everything aligns well for ETH then it might even cross the all time high valuation.
3079  Other / Meta / Re: Thanks theymos, Bruno has VIP status & a custom title on: May 26, 2020, 05:58:08 PM
All it requires is a submission of the obituary to Facebook. That's all take it takes to prove to normal people that someone has died.
If the relatives of Bruno or anyone close to him could provide the death certificate and wanted to lock his account then why not lock the account. Who ever is accessing the account does know how the forum works as they edited out his threads and locked it and as far as i know his death is confirmed by some websites and i know there are users here in the forum who met him personally and i have not read anyone confirming that Bruno was really posting from his account and he died on the specific date as mentioned in the websites.
3080  Other / Meta / Re: Theymos, may be a custom title please. on: May 26, 2020, 08:51:32 AM
Is it 100% confirmed that he died?
I feel stupid now. What is going on is a big shame and I will need to finish reading everything before having a clue. This is not real please.
Going through all the threads created around him it looked silly and in his defense he did not claim to be dead but others announced his demise  Cheesy

If Bruno comes back and says these, it is a bit silly for everyone who participated in all the fund raisers.


 
Bruno I think you should see this topic: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5239632.0
That isn't real... i can assure you I'm live in the flesh

I have recovered with the help of lovely staff at my local hospital, if you care to speak on telegram i can show paper and pictures Smiley phinnaeusgage

As hilariousandco earlier mentioned i was skeptical with all these situation even though nutildah informed about his death because of the pariapan situation where the coins were moved after the claimed death and archived everything in archive.is regarding all the topics created surrounding his health and demise.

I understand the purpose why TECSHARE and OgNasty created topics in Collectibles and a signature campaign by BitcoinGirl.Club and the VIP status once he reappeared claiming he is fine and healthy everything looks silly.

I vote that the Phinnaeus Gage account should be locked, just like the Hal Finney account when it was hacked, to prevent it from being abused. What do you guys think?
There is no point in locking the account as a family member has every right to use the account after the demise but in this case Bruno came forward and said he is fine and doing well.

The situation here is everyone was gullible to believe the story he was dead.

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