Nice yellow caps, agreed. Not a bad return for 1 matchweek, problem for me was to not foresee the draws. Now we get a Copa event, wondering how Real will approach that. Looks the easiest opponent on paper.

About Lahoz, yup, can blame the ref all you want (I don't disagree he's crap in management) but Barca's fault for not winning earlier. Real almost had a similar situation but they had Benzema to knock in the pen in the end and cap off a great move from Camavinga, so moot point. That league really does need a proper review of refereeing though!

What do you guys think about Villa? Was my initial team to support for nostalgic reasons (and they weren't bad at all in earlier games) but after Gerrard got axed, they smacked Brentford and United, got smacked by Ncastle and United (in EFL).

New manager magic's gotta be wearing off, are we going to keep seeing see-saw Villa or Mr Hyde?

Asking cause already got money on Spurs on a long acca, not sure to hedge with Villa.

I believe there is no such thing as a good trader who only earns money consistently from making good calls or at least, it's indeed a tiny, silent minority.

I think the truth is, most traders who make that a living over the years make more profit from selling signals, selling education, or making commissions off those who sign up and/or trader under them, or make commissions trading on behalf of clients.

That's why they need the exposure, the followers, the hype.

What was the purpose of Micro Strategy doing that though?

I'm pretty sure it was to retain value over the long term, since I remember the comparisons (or the previous currency) was US dollar, which has hit decades-high inflation. 7% appreciation in USD price of Bitxoin feels to me just about equalises the inflation of the dollar.

Intent achieved.

Wait, come on, someone must have come out on top, no? Every damn Cointelegraph/Coindesk/CoinABC news article about predictions has some "influencer" or "well followed" trader coming out with all kinds of shorts.

I want to see a list of people who started with $1000 in March and is smelling a million in December. OP, make me happy.

Yeah, me too. Pretty chuffed for Arteta, and personally, really happy Saka's come through his difficult period and is enjoying his football. That lad's been my "secret envy" for a while now and he's firing Arsenal at the front even without Jesus.

City definitely shored up their leaks with Haaland but it's not enough (sort of remindful of United barely making it past the line with Ronaldo).

As you say too, the fact Gooners doing it not with a star-studded team but with just really good players who finally found their way as a unit.

Their main weakness for a long time to me has been discipline. Keep that at bay and they're in for a good, good season. Now they just need to let us win the return leg of course... but not before beating Newcastle next and Citeh in February. It's a massive gauntlet of games to 22 though... Toons, Spurs, Devils, Toffees, Bees, Citizens. If they even win half of that, it's an achievement.

So it was a random number then haha, if so, what should be the maximum amount before it becomes "risky" to reveal? And that was my point, 170 could be 5k, 10k (again, arbitrary), 10 could also be 10k or more in some very far future.

Trust me, there are people out there hunting for targets sure, but they're on the lookout for risky behaviour rather than scanning for arbitrary numbers.

It's not the amount, it's how easy a victim you might be, how low hanging a fruit you are.

Yobit probably folded several times (in terms of not having enough liquidity) but they're also a scam exchange running blatant ponzis with their investbox and dice... and their ICO services (pay X amount, get your shitcoin listed immediately as an investbox).

So they'll be around for as long as their owner(s) are happy with whatever they can scrounge =D

Don't ask me how I know so much about them, haha.

^Great odds, and one I took quickly when I saw it Newcastle and City should be a shoo-in, so I consider this a 5/1 bet on Palace (Zaha anyone to take them to 3-0?). Arsenal one, not sure, though, can't really feel super confident about Brighton getting 3 SOTs.

Hope you guys didn't forget to put in picks on the Bet-6-6... Free chance and your last one for the year to get the 100k USDT. I'd settle big time for the second prize on this one!

New Year will be nice if Arsenal win, and then Liverpool get their next one too as I had a really long acca with just those 2 games left.

Heh man, self prophecy is a terrible thing. I see Jordi managed to get himself sent off too. Seems like all I need to do to see red cards is tune in to last 20 minutes of La Liga and see them do their best to get their marching orders. I get red cards, but earning them for complaining and whining and gesturing is something I really don't get.

Anyway. Tough luck...

Last year, when the hype was building about algorithmic stablecoins and how they were way better than Bitcoin because they actually could expand/contract supply inside people's wallets (!!) to try and maintain value pegs, I found it to be a rare crypto joke that shitcoins thought they could do better than Bitcoin... by making themselves more like fiat!

You'd think the Terra/Luna/UST fiasco put that argument to bed but nope...

Come on Wolves! Submit United!


It's shades of 2020... when we had can't remember, 15? defensive pairings at CB?

This time we've been experimenting with new pairings higher up too... Elliott's first start with Thiago in the centre, Ox too a very rare start, and then when Keita comes on now it's almost as if we have new players. No excuse for our back four of course, who more or less is fixed now between 6 players.

Gakpo seems pretty hyped and while I agree he could do well, I'm never really convinced about Dutch league players moving up. Happy to be proven wrong.

I saw that! Some of them pretty late turnouts too, great opening GW for you and superb returns on draw predictions in La Liga (which I almost never make).

Didn't realise toma's inactive, yeah would be nice to check on people. I think this year a couple of people already have left the forum for personal reasons, be nice just to know if we could help do something for anyone.

Yeah, actually kind of not happy to get 4/7, feels like using up all the luck for nothing, much prefer getting 0/7 and then getting it all right.

Salah was actually pretty good, agree w Trofo. Just that Haaland is making us skew our observations. His strike such a shame Nunez still not that good at offside sniffing. And he got some sharp shots in (on target, which you need to be to put ball in net!). Nunez is coming close often but needs to be more precise.

Also got Toney in, and Almiron again, Saka's definitely back in my list for scorers, even though he doesn't look like he's getting himself in much for striking but Arteta seems to have given him license to roam and attempt. Chelsea again went for Havertz, so let's see.

Wow. Liverpool definitely let off the hook here at half time... 2 own goals by the same guy Faes. First one he could have done way better... second one he turned in a Nunez miss off the post but that was just unlucky. I'm not a manager but is that the guy I sub off at HT to let his recover if I see him broken... or let him play and redeem himself?

Probably in my foreseeable adult life spent watching Bitcoin anyway, by that time I'm hopefully no longer having as many dependents as I do now so will just want to focus on subsistence heh.

Even after 3 halvings, we'll get enough new coins to affect these market forces, so that's a good 13, 14 years of active speculation based on crude expectation of new supply.

Game 1:  21, 22'
Game 2:  21, 22'

A year down in the dumps isn't enough purging to me, but that's just my experience living through a multi-year down cycle. That said, more and more signs that cycles won't behave as they used to, I don't doubt Bitcoin could recover to that price level, before plunging down again running up to halving.

Who else remembers after 2017 ATH that 2018 hinted past 10k and then just slumped.

I never thought the day would come when my UFC browser (yeah I'm the kind of guy who runs about 10 instances of Chrome heh) opens up and all I see is Andrew Tate and Greta Thunberg on my feed.

Didn't even really know he was a UFC fighter (but that tells me it's been around longer than I was aware of).

Trash talking doesn't always pay off, huh?

Edit: So I've been informed my news feeds are at least slightly misguided, more of a former kickboxer.

Pay your tax, it's just your dues. You might even end up getting more benefits in some countries if you're doing business/entrepreneurship and are using new technology. You'd be surprised at how much you can get if you just ask.


Seems pretty clear OP's interested in evasion, not avoidance. Bitcoin then is really not the currency you want to use for this.