As far as I can remember this is the gambling subforum. Also, if the sportsbooks did not list the odds for the Oscar awards, no person would be in awe and make them laugh.
Well, this is my first time seeing such betting, so it is. I knew such bets occurs even the simplest competition, or going to happen is capable of being gambled or having bets. Anyway, by such kind of gambling, this is not like a common in gambling where the victor totally depends on score in the fight or a fair play, judges has lots of influence for the outcome, so this may sound like a fixed match, it could happen or happened before, but who knows. similar to what occurs to any sport like boxing or basketball games where referees, coaches or referees can be paid to influence the winners and losers of a game? In any case, an argument can be made that match fixing in boxing or games similar to football and basketball are much easier than fixing the Oscars because the winners are determined by votes of the Academy of motion picture arts and sciences members. This will be similar to match fix an election because someone made a bet hehehe. You thought the winners are determined only by judges? |
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I am not certain on what might happen with this war, however, on the bad news is good news storyline that was working for traders before might not work anymore with credit tightening everywhere to fight inflation and this war that has only begun today in Ukraine. Bad news will certainly be bad news and this bull market might be over.
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There was a thread arguing why we should not invest in NFTs. I agree that similar to the ICOs of 2017, there will be scams and this is a good reason to avoid them. However, similar to ICOs as a democratic method to fund a project, NFT is becoming a cultural submovement that also earns income for the artists and the collectors of the artists’ work.
Also, those digital art pieces might also develop into something important in the cryptospace similar to how a Van Gogh or a Picasso are important in the physical world. This is art, this is culture and because we are humans, much of us have an inborn ability to create art and treasure art of different forms.
I speculate similar to ICOs and Defi, NFTs will be here for many years.
NFT market is purely created to help the scammers and money laundering activities. It's a great method to turn your black money into white. There is no art in the entire NFT world. If you visit opensea platform and browse the collections, you will see ape pictures are being sold for millions and real pieces of art is staying unsold. There are multiple examples you can see during your visit. NFT market doesn't value art, it values the hype! Once this hype is gone, NFT market will go down to drain as well. I agree that the market for NFTs is being used for moneylaundering, hiding illegal wealth and many of these are pump and dump scams. However, telling everyone that the NFTspace was only created for scammers, by scammers to scam everyone is very much incorrect. Also, agreed. There will always be hype, however, there will always be culture. We should witness the development of this new platform for artists without bias. |
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Tweets from the CEOs of Coinbase and Kraken that advocated self-custody of digital assets are being looked at the by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for violating sanctions put in place to curb the trucker protests in the country, according to a report from The Logic.
The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) sent the tweets to the police because it believed that the crypto executives were offering advice on how to evade the sanctions on funds, according to the report.
That's just cheap talk to scare off some unknowing people. Bitcoiners are preaching the "not your keys, not your coins" for too long, with no relation with the truckers. So whatever they would like to do, they cannot build a solid case against these. And I expect those CEOs have their lawyers too. On the other hand, this can also lead to lawsuits against Canadian institutions or politicians for intimidation/harassment. (There may be better words for this.) So it may be popcorn time. Agreed, however the government and financial regulators of Canada might attack this through business licenses and registrations. I am quite certain they will make the applications and registrations very hard for Kraken and Coinbase. We can argue that this is an abuse of their position, their power and it will be the correct argument, however, this is also reality. This type of abuse is everywhere. |
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I know this is not MMA news but seems EAGLE FC is eying a GSB vs Khabib grappling match. That seems interesting. As for Green vs Makachev, this isn't the best decision Makachev and his team could have made. Yeah, on paper Makachev get's a fairly easy win, but, what if he doesn't? It's still MMA and anything can happen so what if he doesn't? Then he falls so deep back into the division it will make the Kola Superdeep Borehole look like a mole hole.
Who is GSB? Did you mean to type GSP? Yes this will certainly help Eagle FC in marketing and promotion of the organization and also help them increase their fans. However, if Khabib wants to grow his business much more quickly he should offer Conor to be a shareholder in his company as payment to be a fighter for Eagle FC hehehe. This is will be a master level business move by Khabib if Conor agrees. |
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It appears that that these protestors should be given step by step instructions on what software they should be using and be guided on what other cryptocoins are available to perform safer and more anonymous transactions. They are only being a danger to themselves and they will only waste those donations. In any case, if a protestor came in bitcointalk to ask everyone how to be more anonymous and how to avoid KYC, would you teach him?  The situation shows the limitations of a government’s ability to thwart transactions on decentralized systems – but also the limitations of those systems to circumvent such sanctions.
On Feb. 16, Canadian police ordered that all regulated financial firms stop facilitating transactions for 34 wallets associated with the protestors (30 were bitcoin wallets and the rest held other cryptocurrencies). The police sent a letter to a number of banks and crypto exchanges, Canada’s The Globe and Mail reported, but didn’t specify which ones received the warning.
That night, at least some of the funds were distributed among unidentified parties and later sent to centralized exchanges Coinbase and Crypto.com, blockchain data shows. An address connected to the Tallycoin fundraising address, which the truckers had used to accumulate funds, sent 14.28 BTC to 101 addresses in even fractions of 0.14 BTC each.
On Feb. 17, in a separate legal fight brought by locals affected by the protest, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice ordered that nine crypto platforms freeze accounts associated with 120 cryptocurrency addresses belonging to the movement. This means that if those platforms received funds from the listed addresses they should prevent any further movement of them. The list of addresses was provided via a Mareva injunction – a form of court-provided asset freezing.
The sending address for the Feb. 16 transaction was mentioned in the Mareva injunction, but not in the earlier list from the Canadian police.
On Feb. 17 and 18, four of the addresses on the Mareva injunction list sent 0.14 each BTC to Coinbase (1, 2) and Crypto.com (1, 2), either directly or via several intermediary addresses, according to data from the Crystal Blockchain analytics system. (Crystal confirmed CoinDesk’s findings.). It’s unclear whether users managed to sell the funds for fiat at these platforms.
Coinbase’s director of global policy communications, Ian Plunkett, said the firm has “nothing to share on specific transactions and accounts for obvious reasons,” and referred CoinDesk to a blog post by the exchange’s CEO, Brian Armstrong, on its rules for removing user accounts.Read in full https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/2022/02/22/frozen-bitcoin-tied-to-canadian-protests-lands-at-coinbase-cryptocom/ |
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This head shaking comedy show called the politicians behind the government of Canada appear to be in the mood to abuse their power. Jesse Powell and Brian Armstrong were free to tell everyone the function and purpose of a bitcoin wallet. However, it might also appear that everything will not be good for Kraken and Coinbase if Canada create’s a new regulatory framework after what was experienced during the protest. Tweets from the CEOs of Coinbase and Kraken that advocated self-custody of digital assets are being looked at the by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for violating sanctions put in place to curb the trucker protests in the country, according to a report from The Logic.
The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) sent the tweets to the police because it believed that the crypto executives were offering advice on how to evade the sanctions on funds, according to the report.
Late last week, the Ontario Provincial Police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police ordered all regulated financial institutions, including crypto exchanges, to cease trading and freeze the assets of “designated persons” involved in the trucker protests as well as 34 associated crypto wallets.Read in full https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/02/22/canadas-osc-warns-crypto-exchanges-not-to-promote-self-custodial-wallets-report/ |
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There was a thread arguing why we should not invest in NFTs. I agree that similar to the ICOs of 2017, there will be scams and this is a good reason to avoid them. However, similar to ICOs as a democratic method to fund a project, NFT is becoming a cultural submovement that also earns income for the artists and the collectors of the artists’ work.
Also, those digital art pieces might also develop into something important in the cryptospace similar to how a Van Gogh or a Picasso are important in the physical world. This is art, this is culture and because we are humans, much of us have an inborn ability to create art and treasure art of different forms.
I speculate similar to ICOs and Defi, NFTs will be here for many years.
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Yeah! In the 1990s, anti-piracy laws hit video stores hard, so many video stores were selling large quantities of pirated VHS tapes for very cheap. As a kid, the first pirated movie I got on VHS was Terminator 2: Judgment Day. I hadn't seen it in the cinema before, so I wanted to see what everyone was raving about.  Terminator 2 was epic movie for that time, it's still one of my all time favorites with Matrix, and I can still watch it for xxx times, excluding all the sequels. For anyone that is interested to know what little notebook computer John Connor used to ''hack'' atm machine in that movie, it was Atari Portfolio with DIP DOS operating system. I recently found this device locally in good condition, 128 KB of RAM and 256 KB of ROM, and still working for around 100 euros. There is even a PIN ID Program you can add to this device that looks the same like in T2 movie:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBr_ceLAsegHehehe the ATM machines in your area should presently be more secured from you. You can also buy the small dirt bike and get a matching best friend and hairstyle to complete the fantasy hehe. Unpopular opinion: When I was younger, I preferred T2 over T1 as it is more of a "blockbuster" type of movie with better effects, bigger budget etc but as I was growing up, I kinda started preferring T1 as it is much darker and imho superior movie. After all, in T2 is machine v machine, while in T1 its man vs machine which is even more tense.
Do you also feel the same way with Ridley Scott’s Alien and James Cameron’s sequel Aliens? I reckon the feelings might be similar if you were younger hehehe. Also, agree! James Cameron movies had more action and they were also advancing the technology and methods in special effects. Titanic is proof of this hehehehehe. |
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It appears Morgan Stanley might has some speculative curiousity on the peddled Ethereum killers hehehe. I also had similar speculations before, however, they were all wrong. Ethereum might remain to be the king of dapps and smart contracts for longer than expected. All the best developers and the best projects are created in Ethereum. Also, all the biggest whales in the cryptospace hold ETH and have high certainty on their investment. It is also the whales who make the markets. An analyst from banking titan Morgan Stanley says that main altcoin Ethereum (ETH) might see its market share dwindle as buyers flip to cheaper and quicker opponents.
In a brand new report, funding strategist Denny Galindo particulars the bear case for the highest good contract platform, saying that it might face future rules, stiff competitors from the likes of its challengers, as well as to scalability points.
Prominent Ethereum alternate options embody Avalanche (AVAX), Solana (SOL), Cardano (ADA), Terra (LUNA), Polkadot (DOT), and Algorand (ALGO).
Galindo provides that the second largest crypto asset by market cap could have scalability points due to on-chain congestion and its excessive transaction charges. He says that ETH might ultimately outpace its personal assets if it doesn’t improve.Read in full https://zellanews.com/morgan-stanley-issues-ethereum-warning-says-eth-may-lose-market-share-to-faster-or-cheaper-challengers-zellanews/ |
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All this NFT is just hype, it will pass and it will only be useful for the game industry and collectables of those early projects that started everything.
I don't see the any other future than that.
Wasting time and money for imaginary gains is 99% way to bankruptcy.
I disagree. I reckon give we should give this more time before declaring something as only hype. NFT might be the beginning of something new culturally and it might also become the doorway that will encourage many people to enter and learn more about the cryptospace. However, I agree that the prices are based on hype and much of them will be dumped during the bubble pop. |
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News update. The skeptical me thinks that this executive order might really be the Biden administration’s way to quicken the implementation and release of the American government’s CBDC. What they will certainly also do is create an envronment where it would be very hard to use bitcoin and other cryptocoins legally and begin promoting CBDC. It might be by 2024, America might make the first CBDC issuance. U.S. President Joe Biden is expected to issue an executive order on cryptocurrency this week, an administration official familiar with the matter reportedly told Yahoo Finance. The news of the Biden administration preparing an executive order on crypto was first reported in January.
The executive order will direct a wide range of government agencies to study cryptocurrency and central bank digital currency (CBDC), and come up with a government-wide strategy to regulate crypto assets, the publication conveyed.Source https://news.bitcoin.com/us-president-biden-issue-executive-order-on-crypto/ |
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I have removed my application for now. Thank you.
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I just see this thread and it make me laugh and awe. That even an event like this can be put in for betting on sportsbooks.
Betting on this should have seen those movies to have better knowledge and analysis who can get the award and I guess this is harder to win than a common sports betting.
What about in sports betting? Would you place your bet on it if you don't know who are the players or the teams that are involved? Unless if you are just trying your luck and don't mind losing. I am not really into sports and I don't know if which last longer, is it the sports or the movie? I mean the duration of the movie and a sports match but i think it also depends on the game and on the movie but we can also used the internet as a reference to instantly know the player or the cast. That cuts time if your not really a fan of watching the whole movie or watching the sport. Oscar awards/betting is a serious event and there is nothing funny about it. Now, now, you seem a very serious person who get annoyed just because you saw someone's laugh without understanding whats behind it. Sports bet is very different and seems to easy to bet and choose, mostly sports only have 2 choices to bet. Unlike this oscars that has lots of entries which last 1 to 2 hours per movie. You cant bet yet and have full analysis not until you watch all of them. So think and decide what is longer to watch. Yes internet is everything, but you cant just decide that the movie is good just watching a single or two clips in the internet even reading reviews, you need to see it yourself. Oscars is serious event, but betting is fun. As far as I can remember this is the gambling subforum. Also, if the sportsbooks did not list the odds for the Oscar awards, no person would be in awe and make them laugh. I like movies and I like gambling. The combination of the 2 is good for me. You should wait for Eurovision season and be again in laughter and awe. Also, what does everyone predict the Oscar voters’ favorite political and social storyline might be for 2022? Will this be LGBTQ, religion and conflict, minorities and acceptance or children with disabilities awareness? It might be Elon and aliens hehehe. |
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@GreatArkansas. Are you saying only as mode of payment without holding bitcoin? I agree if they hold their wealth in something more stable. However, if also held in bitcoin, volatility would certainly be more concerning if someone uses bitcoin as a mode of payment. People holding it to use as a mode of payment would presently be spending more coins than when it was $60k.
Inflation in America is 7% causing someone who holds the dollar lose 7% purchasing power. Bitcoin is -45% from the all time high price of November also causing -45% in purchasing power and I am quite certain there are people who bought bitcoin during November.
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You may want to add actual source link here, before someone reports you for plagiarism  This is crazy times to live in Canada, I could never imagine that co-founder of centralized exchange would ever suggest their customers to stop using exchange, withdraw coins from his exchange and cash out. Nobody can protect them from crazy government, so it's time for people to mass switch to Bisq and other decentralized exchanges. I have talked to the plagiarism police already and they have approved my request for an extension to find the source hehehehe. In any case, it might not only be in Canada. The Biden administration has also declared that the will create an executive order to give the treasury department more authority to control and regulate the cryptospace. I speculate that if they do not find anything, they will invent something. Wait for news about the cryptospace and terrorist funding hehehe. |
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@buwaytress. Your reply has made me think of the clearest, most possible, most practical and most realistic reason why Binance wants to buy Forbes! It might be for tax deductions and moneylaundering hehehe. For what other reasons would CZ buy a stake in an old magazine company? There are many other investments in the cryptospace that would need less investment, more yield.
With all due respect and without meaning to sound like a guy who likes stereotypes (plus I'm Asian so I can say this with some candour), the Chinese always make business decisions, and long-term ones. They're not very experimental, but conservative yet proven business plans focused on soft expansion and monopoly have worked very well for them (so far). I am also sorry if I sounded like I have stereotyped Changpeng Zhao for being a wise businessman because he is Chinese. Your post only made me remember that there was a news report about CZ’s networth is $96 billion. It is also speculated that he might be worth more than this because it did not account for his personal bitcoin wallets. I predict CZ’s next project is a charity organization or a foundation. These are very much similar to what billionaires do to create corporate identities that they can use for holding and moving money and also be exempted in some forms of taxation hehehe. |
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@buwaytress. Your reply has made me think of the clearest, most possible, most practical and most realistic reason why Binance wants to buy Forbes! It might be for tax deductions and moneylaundering hehehe. For what other reasons would CZ buy a stake in an old magazine company? There are many other investments in the cryptospace that would need less investment, more yield.
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This is the 2022 version of Kraken CEO, Jesse Powell on what exchanges might do if they are forced to comply by regulators. It appears between choosing the business or the security and privacy of their customers and their customer’s coins, they will not think twice to comply without a fight. The 2017 version of Jesse Powell was different because he was fighting for the users. I speculate that this might be because the situation is changing. The government might have collected enough knowledge and legal tools to take down noncompliant exchanges and imprison or impose fines on their owners. In a follow-up tweet, Powell warned that Kraken and other centralized crypto exchanges would be forced to comply with law enforcement if asked to freeze deposits from certain crypto addresses. In response to user @degderat asking if Kraken would be put in a position where it is told to freeze assets by the police without judicial consent, Powell responded:
“100% yes it has/will happen and 100% yes, we will be forced to comply. If you’re worried about it, don’t keep your funds with any centralized/regulated custodian. We cannot protect you. Get your coins/cash out and only trade p2p [peer-to-peer].”Source https://cryptobriefing.com/kraken-ceo-warns-users-to-get-your-coins-out-of-centralized-exchanges/ |
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Any idea what could have triggered this? I remember there were some platforms on BSC increased their liquidity because of the high APR or APY they offered for stable coin pairs. It's probably the same scenario for Avalanche don't you think? TVLs would likely decrease if they started reducing the rates just like what happened in other chains.
I am not as experienced on blockchain games, however, do those games also lock in tokens for liquidity providing and farming? I saw someone in social media mention that Avalanche is becoming the gaming chain because it appears there are many blockchain gaming developers that are making it their platform of choice to release their projects. Also, much of the projects in Binance are very low quality and there are many scamcoins. |
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