Sorry for not replying to this earlier, you made some excellent observations which should be kept in mind when thinking about BTCPay Server or any other crypto payment system. You are absolutely right, software providing similar services can be found elsewhere and for business most probably the desire to at some stage to exchange crypto to fiat - there is no doubting that but businesses do evolve so in the future hopefully more online businesses will accept crypto and not feel the need to rush in to exchanging it for fiat.

For some new and existing businesses it might seem for them to make more sense of not paying $8.80 per month on Lunanode or even more money elsewhere and instead pay the commission to 3rd party payment processors in order to minimise outlay at least until the commission begins to exceed the outlay.

Having said that, the biggest obstacle I see standing before those wanting to test or implement a service such as BTCPay Server are the technical requirements. Many business service providers and retailers do not possess the technical know-how to install software using command line. They might be brilliant at selling and marketing but that does not mean they can use BTCPay Server. To be fair to them, it is so much easier for the uninitiated to use a plugin on their ecommerce cart.

Has anybody ever really predicted which way the market will sway in 'x' month from now? The situation with the Ethereum price is not bad at all because as of writing it trades at over $3115 each. It is not at the $4891 all time high but it could have been a lot worse too. Those who might have purchased at $4000 will have very little impact influencing the price because they cannot be counted as whales and at the same time those you refer to as manipulators will also not be able to do anything to influence decisions by newbies to buy or sell.

I just do not accept the theory about influencers applies to Ethereum. In the past we have seen Bitcoin whales move funds from wallet to wallet or to cash some in which has impacted the market but I cannot recall of a single incident that has done the same for Ethereum. In my opinion, if the price of Ethereum goes up then the market will not be affected if newbies cash in because the ratio of newbie investors to serial investors is too small.

Here are the results from the most recent games including today. Some have already ended and some will kick-off later therefore I have added the fixture list below the image:




DR Congo vs Morocco   

Cameroon vs Algeria   

Mali vs Tunisia   

Egypt vs Senegal   

Ghana vs Nigeria   

Argentina vs Venezuela

I would expect Cameroon vs Algeria to be an entertaining game but without say the Egypt vs Senegal game will be viewed as another opportunity for Egypt to exact revenge on Senegal for losing in the AFCON 2022 final. For me these are the two games to look out for but I hope you have fun watching the Ghana vs Nigeria match 

I will try to post another time with the remaining results when the games have ended.

For your information, you misunderstood my post, I was not offended, not at all. And though he is a boxing legend Klitschko was not one of my favourite boxers but he dominated heavyweight boxing for a very long time and that means he should be respected. And yes you are right, Klitschko sent a lot of boxer to the canvas and without doubt he was great for huge durations of his long career.

Before losing to Fury and then Joshua he had a won:64 losses:3 record, therefore you saying he cried like a baby (when Joshua defeated him) was disrespectful to Klitschko as a man and as a professional boxer.

Klitschko was 41 years old and out of the ring for nearly 17 months but he almost won that fight against a 27 year old Joshua. Whichever way the fight is seen it is clear Klitschko did not cry like a baby when he fought Joshua.

I do not know about others but I did not report that post to a moderator before therefore I added the link from FatFork for reference showing the plagiarism and reported the original post from "samputin". Let us give it a couple of days, maybe he will receive a temporary or permanent ban, maybe nothing will happen. If others also report the user for plagiarism then the chances of him getting a ban will hopefully increase.

Why call me a policeman or ask if I have ambitions of becoming a policeman? Is that your way of expressing sarcasm or throwing an insult in my direction? These are the comments you make just because I gave you appropriate negative trust?

If you feel fine and happy and can sleep well at night by promoting the 1xbit scammers then that is a matter for you but other members (there are 8 forum members including myself that gave you negative trust for issues ranging from you using a sold or hacked account to promoting a scam) have decided it would be better to highlight to others about your conduct and ethics. Is that really so difficult for you to understand?

The 1xbit website has too many scam allegations against it and it is being promoted via signature campaigns by some of the most questionable characters with multiple negative tags and by those who have the lowest quality posts and spams - that includes you. That speaks volumes about the situation.

Thank you for correcting me you are not optimistic about Chelsea catching the top two teams. Like you I also see this simply as a two horse race between Manchester City and Liverpool but full credit to Liverpool for winning their games in hand and forcing Manchester City to panic after they closed the gap to just 1 point.

It was mentioned in the news about the UK government making some changes to their rules which will now allow Chelsea to sell tickets for home and away games in the Champions League but they will not be allowed to use the funds generated until their ownership situation is resolved. If things move along swiftly and Chelsea is sold by the UK government (and they keep all the money for themselves) before the start of next season then Chelsea can concentrate fully on playing football in Premier League and Champions League. Rumours circulating are that Tuchel might resign and some even suggest he might move to Old Trafford 

I have not been active enough in this thread, I guess I would have been more inclined to update it with fixtures and tables and scores during the European teams playing. I missed updating a lot of games from the other regions such as Middle East, Far East and the Americas therefore thank you for the fixtures update and table.

I will try to update the rest of the tables and fixtures with a list of teams that have qualified.

What you wrote about Wladimir Klitschko is extremely disrespectful because he was 41 years old when he faced a 27 year old Joshua yet it took a momentous effort by Joshua which was barely enough to him to win. You are wrong, Wladimir Klitschko was not beaten like a baby by Joshua, he got caught with a single punch that knocked him down (and that could happen to any fighter) but if you take Joshua at 30 years old in his prime and he was to fight a 30 year old Klitschko I have no doubt Joshua would be beaten.

As for Whyte, sure he has the hope of getting the one punch on an unguarded Fury but the most likely scenario is Fury will demolish Whyte.

There problem for many big clubs in European competitions is that there are only so many teams that can get to a final (two teams), or semi-final (four teams), or quarter-final (eight teams) therefore some will ultimately fail to progress. This is the European competition all the clubs want to participate in and try to win. Even Guardiola with all the money backed by the UAE state has not won the Champions League.

When you have two big clubs, financially powerful and dominant in their leagues such as when Real Madrid played PSG in round 2 of the competition - one of them has to get knocked out - Real beat PSG over two legs. Barcelona were eliminated at the group stage and Manchester United was knocked out by a much smaller club in Atletico, things like that have to happen but it is a shock to see giants fall early in the competition.

I do not see Ronaldo playing for Manchester United next season unless they finish 4th in the Premier League because he will want Champions League football, that is simple, anything less than that would be (as you said) embarrassing. Messi will be there at PSG for another season at least and he is almost guaranteed Champions League next season with PSG,

Here are the next set of games taking place in the Champions League - they are the quarter-final fixtures:

Still defending the 1xbit scammers.... here is another account I had to temporarily remove from my ignore list because I was curious whether a reply was given to a victim and to see how the sock-puppets were defending the 1xbit scammers.

In short, if the security team do not even bother to reply to the victim because he has been selectively scammed then there is not much else he can do apart from visit this forum to complain. The last reply the 1xbit scammers made to the victim in the dedicated thread was on 18th March 2022 therefore asking in that thread after 6 days for a reply showed patience by the victim: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5266815.msg59594304#msg59594304

https://talksport.com/sport/boxing/1071056/oleksandr-usyk-leaves-ukraine-anthony-joshua-rematch/

Usyk has joined the Kyiv Territorial Defence but has now left Ukraine to prepare training for his September 2022 fight against Joshua:






As far as in boxing terms, yes you are right it is positive news that he has been given permission to defend his heavyweight titles against Joshua after the Sports Minister authorised it but who knows how Usyk is feeling mentally? What is his frame of mind?

Thankfully I have never been in that sort of situation but Usyk must be mentally as weak or as strong as any other human being would be in his situation. He most probably is having some sort of guilt feeling because of him leaving military service during this period but at the same time can you imagine the euphoria and boost Ukrainians (both inside the country and in the international diaspora) would receive if the fight went ahead in London and Usyk was victorious again?

I had to temporarily remove you from my ignore list in order to post. Look, the tactic of causing delays by semi-acknowledging an allegation of any complaint (to then ignoring or addressing any follow-up) is something you have been doing for a very long time. What exactly is your role within the 1xbit scam?

Are you just a forum user that created an account to manage the 1xbit signature campaign and to handle their public posting or are you someone that was employed by the 1xbit scammers and then moved on to this forum as their representative? If you were employed beforehand you should be in a much stronger position to relay messages to victims when they post their complaints.

If on the other hand you are effectively a nobody within the 1xbit scam and you just get paid to post messages in order to delay dealing with victims claims then at least let them know so they can keep that in mind when they try to get their stolen funds returned to them.

The above user claimed to have been scammed out of $500 in crypto. What exactly are you as an individual and 1xbit as a website going to do about it?

For the sake of clarity, are you operating both forum accounts?

1xbit_official
Manager1xBit

The OP has been updated. There are now 120 forum members with a ~tilde next to their names. They are promoting the 1xbit scammers via their signature campaign or have applied to join but were unsuccessful, or they have in some way managed to spread propaganda to support the 1xbit scammers by trying to defend the accusations against them.

Most probably some are alt-accounts created to support the 1xbit scammers whereas some are hacked/sold/stolen accounts. Others are from the same group of farmed accounts that were operated by the Adkinsbet puppeteer as was listed here and most of the names have been connected with the 1xbit scammers: Adkinsbet Shills & Sock-Puppets: "Slender/Slander" and "Donk"  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5313867.0

Either way any and all accounts that are connected with promoting a known scam will be tagged.

You sound optimistic about Chelsea catching Liverpool or Manchester City if they drop points. Though not impossible I would say it is a task too far because there are only 9 games remaining. Finishing 3rd would be a good season for Chelsea.

Think about it, if Chelsea did not have several injuries around Christmas period then would have had more points on the table. I think had they continued to be on the same level as before the injuries they would be challenging Manchester City and Liverpool for the Premier League title. Right now it is difficult to assess their success or failure because the season has not ended but let us say for argument sake Chelsea finish 3rd in the league and are in the finals of the Champions League (runners-up/losing finalists or winners) then it has to be classes a successful season considering the powerful display by Manchester City and Liverpool this season.

Manchester City and Liverpool as well as Manchester United, Tottenham and Arsenal had injury issues too but really they cannot be counted as justification or excuses for not performing well for most of the season.

The latest news in the media from the Usyk camp is that he has departed from Ukraine earlier today after being given permission to leave military service. It will be an emotional moment for him to leave his country while in a state of war but he is a professional boxer and an elite international sportsman, not a soldier.

For all those wondering whether the rematch with Joshua would be going ahead, it is. I also had some doubts about it but Usyk will fight Joshua at Tottenham Hotspur stadium in September 2022: https://www.the-star.co.ke/sports/boxing/2022-03-24-usyk-to-prepare-for-joshua-rematch-after-gaining-permission-to-leave-ukraine--espn/

Why would this be his last fight whether he wins or loses? However unlikely, if he loses against Whyte he will activate the rematch clause and probably be motivated enough to win it. If he wins against Whyte (as is almost universally expected) then his next fight will be a big money fight against the winner of the Usyk vs Joshua fight. Either way there is no reason for him to retire.

I agree that he is almost guaranteed to beat anybody, that is hard to disagree with because his biggest threat was from Wilder but Fury demolished him twice. Joshua will probably be defeated by Usyk if the rematch goes ahead in June 2022.

Whether Fury fights Usyk or Joshua for the unified heavyweight belts, as far as I am concerned he will win because he is too superior a fighter, he is on a completely different level of fighting and technicality to his opponents.

While we all wait for the next set of games to take place (which are on 2nd April 2022), here is the current Premier League table. I think it is clear Liverpool will not be giving up the chase on Manchester City after they had that emphatic win at Arsenal. For me, it was unexpected because I posted before the game I thought Arsenal would win the game.

Both have played 29 games but Liverpool are just 1 point behind leaders Manchester City now, that is a massive compliment to Klopp for keeping Liverpool in the correct mindset and never giving up.

Another thing to note is the chase for 3rd and 4th is not over yet either. Unless Chelsea suffer a series of draws and defeats they will end the season in 3rd place and play with Manchester City and Liverpool in the Champions League next season but the 4th place finish is something that Arsenal and Tottenham have made exciting.

Arsenal bounced back from the home defeat to Liverpool by winning away at Villa while Spurs won away at Brighton and then at home to West Ham. Manchester United have now have very little chance to catch Arsenal in 4th but it is not impossible. Well done to Arteta and Conte for challenging Manchester United for the 4th place finish.

At the foot of the table, Everton beat Newcastle to give themselves 3 points of breathing space above the relegation zone and they have the comfort of 2 games in hand over 18th placed Watford. It is still too close to say whether Everton and Leeds are out of reach but things will be clearer after the next set of games.

I have added you to my ignore list after leaving appropriate negative trust for you. Your account was deep red long before I added my negative trust so mine will not matter too much to you but if the best you can do to cause financial damage and harm to forum members is to promote the 1xbit scammers then you have to be ready and prepared to receive appropriate trust.

If you get selected on the scam campaign will your financial gain really be above the losses that victims will sustain? You should re-evaluate your contributions to this forum.

Votes in Poll: 32
Fury win: 29
Whyte win: 3
Draw: 0

Currently under 10% of the votes are for Whyte to win this fight. If he wins it will be a massive upset against Fury who is the odds on favourite to win. There are just 32 votes in the poll, I hope the number increases as we nearer the fight date.

I stand by my earlier views Fury will unify all the heavyweight belts and will make at least one successful defence before he retires as unbeaten champion.