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3881  Economy / Speculation / Re: Will BTC reach 45k before this year ends. on: September 07, 2022, 12:45:00 PM
My prediction for BTC reaching 45k before this end is yes, it will hit at least 40k if not 45k.
I do not believe Bitcoin can reach $45k by the end of 2022, I actually believe that Bitcoin will fall below $15k by the end of 2022, indeed there are various speculations popping up on the internet today regarding Bitcoin predictions in 2022 & 2023.

For me, my Bitcoin price is sticking to the experience after and before the Bitcoin halving, once every four years from 2017 & 2020, that's an example I see, but all of us have different beliefs and principles regarding current and future Bitcoin speculation, basically.

It's really hard to see the way the price is moving currently, the price goes down hard in it's support of $20k. Most likely we might hit another lower lows if we broken $18k this week because obviously, $17k is on the horizon and it's hard to see where it is going to settle or at least when the bleeding stops. I want to think that we can still hit $40k at the end of the year but chances are very slim at this point.
3882  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Macau's Casino Operation Continues Despite The Latest Outbreak on: September 07, 2022, 12:08:31 PM
I don't know why the Chinese authorities are shutting down entire cities for just a handful of positive cases. Now a strict lowdown is being implemented in the city of Chengdu, which is home to 21 million people. And this is despite dozens of individuals dying from a recent earthquake. How is it even possible to impose a lockdown, when the residents are reeling from a natural catastrophe? And in Macau, casinos are losing business to other destinations such as Singapore, due to the lockdown measures. Bloomberg reported this yesterday:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-05/macau-casinos-lose-as-covid-pushes-business-gamblers-to-philippines-singapore

It's probably the mindset of the Chinese government, they are somewhat paranoid of the Covid-19 cases that they don't want to have their name or at least the country that they have control to be in the headlines again, so that's why they have to shut it down again.

I guess whales have other options like the Philippines wherein gambling industry is thriving as it is already open and I've seen a lot of foreigners playing again, mostly Chinese, Japanese and Koreans.
3883  Economy / Speculation / Re: Stressful crypto market on: September 07, 2022, 11:50:23 AM
Previously, many people could not buy BTC for the reason that it was expensive and the amount was small. Is this already on the verge of Dropping Deadline???

This is because human nature is to like round numbers.  People think since they can't afford 1 BTC, why even try...

And they will not buy and tell that they can't afford it without even trying it. And that's why that kind of mentality will not make everyone rich because they are almost negative about it.

 However, this is why shitcoins are able to fleece investors so easily by putting out a trillion coins for a fraction of a penny.  If round numbers are important to you, stack satoshis.  I see the same thing in the stock market.  People judge how much something costs by the share price, which is absolutely idiotic as the price of a share is the least important piece of information about a company.  In fact, it's completely useless information if you don't know how many shares are out there.  Market Cap and investment size is all that matters for an entity's size, not how many units of account of said investment you have.

And so if we can compare it to stocks, bitcoin is blue chips while altcoins is for penny and then they think they can hold millions but the in terms of fiat, still nothing compare to bitcoin. I'm generalizing it, there are some altcoins that are really good, but the majority is to good to be true kinda assets.
3884  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: [Boxing] Fernando Martinez vs Jerwin Ancajas rematch - Oct.8 on: September 07, 2022, 11:15:46 AM
He needs to win here, but if he losses, there's no other way but to move up in weight, though it will not hype him but IMO, that's the right thing to do for him to be comfortable in maintaining his weight. He will have to start his journey in a new division and hopefully we will continue to support him.

Let's say Jerwin Ancajas will lose here, does it really a good decision to just left that division and moved up?

How can he even get good fights at Super Bantamweight if he is struggling with some of the best fighters in Junior Bantamweight?

If he loses, moving up for me is not a good decision. Start from scratch and have a goal to become a champion again at Junior Bantamweight which is his comfort zone at most points of his career. He dominates that division for several years and I'm sure he can repeat it.

But of course, that was just speculation as I believed he will win here in this rematch against Martinez and then finally move up.

If the problem is weight then definitely he will have to move up because his body can't adapt to this lower weight anymore. And just like what Teo Lopez did, cherry pick a fighter, a boxer that has a good record, but he can easily beat in the fight because he has far more superior skills. It's up to his manager and promotions MP and Sean Gibbons to find him that target in the next weight and work his way up, put up a good string of wins and maybe he will have a crack at the belt again. Jerwin is young so the future is still bright for this kid.

I got the point but isn't it a bad decision to just moved up a weight after losing a match instead of moving up weight coming from a win?

It will be hard for Ancajas to pick a fight in the new division if he came from a loss as promoters might not be bothered to arrange fights involving him.

He is still a former champion, and he could get a favorable rankings from the organizations that he previously held the belt. He still a good name even if he moves to the next division.

So it's bad to stay in a weight division wherein you can't really make weight, another example is Casimero. he wanted to fight Inoue so he stayed in that division and in the first scheduled fight against Butler, he fell ill. And in the second one, he was caught with the Sauna thingy.
3885  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 2023 NBA Season on: September 07, 2022, 10:53:50 AM
Better not to assume for him to come back this upcoming season, forcing him to play might harm his injury

and instead of bringing quality years to the league the chance for him to get a much more serious injury, or it might complicate
him moving comfortably while playing.

Enough rest and proper conditioning, he still young and with updated medical treatment with his injury for sure he can
recover and be back with a better preparation for the upcoming next season.
Yeah, he should have to need not to be quick thinking he's that able and besides NBA is a different league for his physique to be perfectly honest. I think this injury of his started when he was invited in the pro league with Lebron and Jayson Tatum, it was shown there how he barely runs after a hit from LBJ if I can remember that clip correctly.

I think Chet should focus on his injury and how to improve his body, he needs to be buffed until the time he's healed or once he's ready to play again. Now there's no Giddy - Holgrem tandem we may see in Oklahoma basketball but this is just for a while, I just love these kids to play in the court and I think they're special.

I think OKC already has a plan on Chet on how to buffed him up in preparation for this season.  But his freak accident is something that no one see, the kid just want to play basketball before the actual NBA season but it happens. So a big lesson for him, but again, no one is to blame. So we should wait for the Griddy - Holgrem tandem. As obviously it will be delayed until next season.
3886  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: chance to win, so you keep holding on? on: September 07, 2022, 10:34:40 AM
I guess nothing has changed, bearish or bullish market, gambler will continue to play their favorite slot games, roulettes, sport betting and other forms of gambling entertainment.

So again, same deposits, maybe others have shifted to other crypto besides bitcoin, but still it won't stop them from playing. Of course in bear market, crypto is much cheaper so most likely gamblers will play that much often and who knows, they will keep their winnings and hold on it.
3887  Local / Pamilihan / Re: NBA discussion, betting and etc. on: September 07, 2022, 09:47:11 AM
Professional naman si WB kaya dapat syang umatend dun, tsaka magandang chance yun para ipakita sa kanila na dapat pa syang maging Lakers.

Interesante din na malaman natin kung saan matrade si kabayan Jordan Clarkson, pwede naman sya kahit saang team. Maganda pa naman performance nya at kahit sinong team eh siguradong matutuwa na i add sya. Kung balik sya Lakers mas maganda.
3888  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: [ BOXING POLL ADDED ] The Heavyweight Battle of Britain - FURY vs JOSHUA on: September 06, 2022, 11:56:31 AM
Right, Fury said that he has retired, and then he will come out of retirement for 500 million and will fight Usyk. But since Usyk wanted it at a later time, he now goes with his domestic rival who just lost. Just really hard to piece everything together. And if AJ take the bait, he is not mentally ready. Anyhow, if the money is right then I guess they can go and fight this December.
3889  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: Terra Luna Classic pumping - can it last? on: September 06, 2022, 11:34:07 AM
I am fairly new to crypto and in July I took a gamble on terra luna classic when it was 0.00009 and it is now pumping. Can someone explain why this is and what the chances of it lasting are?

1. Obvious pump and dump scheme by some groups.
2. Maybe the people behind the project is pumping it.
3. There is hype surrounding Terra Luna classic.

I have been following it more closely over the last week as it has began getting more and more attention and apparently a lot is happening over the next few weeks which is driving the price up currently but not sure what it all means?

How realistic are the chances of it reaching $0.01 or $0.10 and how long will this take? Months or years?

Just remember that we are still in the bear market, so it make take months or even years to see that price.

I am not selling just yet but this is seeing the best returns I have had in crypto so far so may take out my investment soon and let the profit ride.

Just be careful though, sometimes the dump will happen when you sleeps so chances are you are going to miss the profits. So if you have made profits already, there's no need to be greedy, just saying, as you might learn a very expensive lessons here in crypto specially that you are new.
3890  Local / Pamilihan / Re: PBA Prediction Tournament [7.5k php in BTC prize pool] on: September 06, 2022, 11:05:58 AM


Congratulations sa lahat ng nanalo at matiyagang sumasali sa prediction contest natin. Medyo marami pang loopholes pero understandable naman siguro ito dahil first ko pang humawak ng ganitong patimpalak, di pala biro to kasi kailangan paglaanan talaga ng oras kaya kodus kay inthelongrun for the NBA prediction contest that started it all.

DM nyo lang sa akin yong mga Gcash numbers nyo pero kung gusto nyo ng USDT or BTC pwede na rin.

To the rest of the participants na hindi nanalo, kung gusto nyo ng pang-kape ay may 250Php worth of Gcash kayong matatanggap kung mag-DM kayo sa inyong mga Gcash numbers.

Nakaka-miss din itong hulalysis natin ahh, sana sa susunod marami na ang sumali at sana malaki-laki na rin yong pa-premyo natin.

Daghang salamat and see you next time.

Ok na ako, hindi naman ako  deserving at hindi naman ako masyado tumaya hehehe at hindi naman yun ang strategy ko rin,  Grin para maka 3rd place. Sa next na palaro ulit magiging active na ako sa paghula.

Pero congrats sa mga nanalo at sayo rin personally, swerte ka rin dun sa isang laro na lagi nating tinatayaan.
3891  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: [Boxing]: Shakur Stevenson vs Robson Conceicao - Sept 23 on: September 05, 2022, 11:59:23 PM
^^ Everyone is after the money, no more legacy or pride or try to be called the best in boxing. And of course there are styles as well, styles that make people buy tickets and wanted to see the fighters live to see how good they are like Tank Davis. But then again, boxing politics will stand in our for us fans to see if this fight is going to be made or not. But it's better for Shakur to just take one step at at a time, beat Robson in a dominant fashion like he did against Oscar Valdez and as I have said, go and unify the belts, we've seen Josh Taylor did it this year and Canelo has done that in 168 lbs. He should chase history first, before pursuing money fights.

If he will win against Robson in their upcoming fight, then its not only history that he will chase but also lots of money will be in his possessions. However, it’s always good to see a good boxer taking one step at a time because that will also give him enough time to master his own boxing skills and enhance what needs to be more develop. As for Shakur, it won’t be hard for him as he has already titles that prove his worth in the ring.

For sure, he is being trained by his grand father Wali Moses, so he is as old school as other trainer as you can get. Meaning, he would rather have his prize pupil to chase history first and not go for the money. Making a name at 130 lbs and having all the belts will be the best thing that Shakur could accomplished. So at least before he goes to the next weight class, he will be respected as he had the 4 belts including the lineal. And then he can go and fight Davis and whoever the champions at 135 lbs.

That will be much better for Stevenson, he should sought meaningful fights first to get his name carved in the industry because money will always follow wherever you will go if you will be a successful boxer in your division. He already have 2 belts in his possession and he should go for another title fight to add more belts after this title defense. I have no doubts as well that he'll have such hard time because Robson is not a KO artist, so this fight should go smoothly in Shakur's favor.

Yes, and everything is on Shakur's favour, and his power is under rated, but it has enough to bring someone down, or at least they can felt his power. And the other 2 belt holder in this division, Shakur has also the advantage over them. So we shouldn't be surprised if he gets all the 4 belts easy next year and then goes up but not vacant the belt because he has to test the water first at 135 lbs. So he has options to go down again and defend the belt at 130. Although it might be difficult to defend all the belts because of organizations different rankings and other factors, he might have to relinquish some of them just like what Josh Taylor did after unifying all the belts in 140 lbs division.
3892  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Boxing Speculation, Odds and Predictions on: September 05, 2022, 11:38:42 PM
^^ Regarding the Flores vs Mares fight. I had Flores winning, by a slim margin in my unofficial scorecard. Just to note though that Mares comes from a 4 year lay-off and the fight is in his hometown and he is a Al Haymon fighter if I can remember it correctly. So there is some biased in terms of the judges, at least that's how I saw it.

He had a good first 3-4 rounds, as he caught Flores several times. But Flores fought back up to the 10th round. And he has won the last 2 rounds for me and that should be enough for him to secure this victory by at least split decision.
3893  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 2023 NBA Season on: September 05, 2022, 11:10:30 PM
Guys, today I was visiting some sports/news sites and I read a news article about Chet Holmgren's injury (to be more specific an update on his injury) and it said that he could return to the NBA maybe at the end of the season regular or early playoffs.

As incredible as it may seem, I tried to access this site again to view it more calmly, but it seems that the content was taken down... To be more specific, this news I had read was on the ESPN website.

Has anyone seen any news similar to this about Holmgren's injury!!?

The last news that I read is that the surgery was very successful on Chet. But not sure if OKC wanted to risk him playing at the end of the season or early playoffs. I mean if they won't it to the playoff then obviously then don't need to have him play. So its better to really take care of this kid and not force him to play this season. And in the meantime, while he is on the recovery, he can build his body for one whole season. So that when he comes back, he will be stronger and might not get injury prone as OKC is building their team around this kid.
3894  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: A bitcoin whale is ready to sell 5000 Bitcoins or already sold. on: September 05, 2022, 10:55:59 PM
Nice FUD there, and I think this the problem right now, everyone is looking for this old and big holding of bitcoins and monitoring it to the max and see where and when it will move. And then created this thread and show it publicly, Lol, very lame attempt.

For sure majority of us here knows what the narrative behind this, but the good thing is that nobody cares this 2022. We're getting tired of this rinse and repeat kinda of thread in the last couple of months. "This and that whale move xxxxxx amount of bitcoin". Whatever!!!.
3895  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Which crypto has the highest potential?? on: September 05, 2022, 10:37:56 PM
Good choice of solid altcoins that has the potential of a good return. You can never go wrong with Ethereum. If went below $100 during the bear market in 2018 and look at how it goes up in the bull run in 2020-2021. Same with Cardano as well, it was just worth a cent that time and then suddenly exploded to more than $2.00.

So I won't argue with your coins of crypto to hold and buy in this bear market. And I think that's about it, 10 solid coins and no more. Because it you added some, it might complicate things for you. Hopefully you also have BTC in your portfolio, as majority of us here hold mostly like 60% of it and then the rest was spread across solid altcoins that in your list.
3896  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: [Boxing] Canelo vs Golovkin 3 - September 17 on: September 05, 2022, 10:21:16 PM
GGG does not have to mind the trash-talk, he needs to focus on this fight and prove to the world that he can beat Canelo. Imagine if GGG will win here, that would give Canelo 2 losses in a row and will result in reducing his popularity. People will also remember that GGG is the better fighter between the two, so I understand why GGG is silent, it only says he will do the talking in the ring.
Yep, a good result is sweeter than a good words, if GGG can beat Canelo in this fight, I think many fans already stop to follow him since he can't prove if he's better than GGG. Not to mention how many bettors already lose when he fight Bivol before, they will be disappointed.

Maybe it's either Inoue, Crawford or Spence will become the best pound for pound boxer.

Light heavyweight also isn't a place where Canelo can easily beat the champion, it's a big challenge for him.

True, and I think because of the language barrier, GGG doesn't mind those trash talk, his seen better days when boxers trying to intimidate him by trash talking but in the end, he closes those big ass mount by either a TKO or KO victory.

There could still be bettors who are going to back up Canelo no matter what, just like the die hard fans of other boxers during their prime like Manny or Floyd.

This fight does not need trash talk to hype it, it was the fans who requested to see it and here it is, so I can say that it's going to be a sold-out fight and the fans will be entertained watching this. Canelo is the winner in the previous match but anything can happen here, GGG could win here and maybe retire to give Canelo a lesson that trash talking is bad.

Yes, we demand this fight, but as you can see it take years before it can actually made because Canelo doesn't want the 3rd fight anymore. But he sign a new contract and so he can't go hide about the potential trilogy so here it is right now.

So this is one of the most anticipated fight for this year, and maybe a little trash talk will not hurt this fight. As far as I can remember, GGG try to trash talk and used the meat contamination issue against Canelo. Obviously, Alvarez doesn't like it and try to defend himself in public.
3897  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 2020 Philippine Basketball Association betting discussion on: September 05, 2022, 10:06:40 PM
Congrats to SMB, to coach Leo and to all of the staff and as well as the fans who have bet for SMB to be the champ on this conference.
Well, that's just like a massacre to the TNT. When I was watching the 3rd and 4th quarter, well, I thought that the lead will be able to reach and covered back by the TNT but they didn't. On the last quarter, those three attempts weren't that great whilst the opposite on the SMB, almost all of the threes were like back to back ins.
TNT still manage to chase the lead in 3rd quarter but in the half part of 4th quarter, it looks like they stop doing good plays and that’s why SMB was able to take a huge lead. Kudos to the whole staff and players of both team for a great championship series, the better team prevails and that is SMB. Lucky to the fans who are also placed a bet, time for a celebration!

That's why it's really hard to give a team a good lead and then chase after it, because you might not have the legs needed in the fourth quarter. And I think this is what happen to TNT, they allow SMB to established a good lead, and then try to cut it out in the 3rd which they did. But SMB has the fresh legs in the 4th quarter and then make another run in which TNT can't respond anymore because they are all spent in the first 3 quarters chasing SMB.
3898  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: [Boxing]: Vasiliy Lomachenko vs Jamaine Ortiz - October 29 on: September 05, 2022, 09:51:55 PM

As for Haney and Kambosos, the result is not determined yet but as for speculation, yes we might see a trilogy soon but Kambosos's chances is somehow lower compared to Haney. Kambosos will the same trouble piercing through the latter's defenses and he is not a KO artist, that makes the fight more harder.

Both Lomachenko and Haney are expected to win on their respective fights, that happened, we will see a big fight between them. Though I must say that Kambasos vs Haney is a big fight, but we cannot deny that people believe this fight is non sense as obviously Haney will still dominate again.

upset happens all the time, but with kambosos vs haney, i don't know if there will be upset this time. but anything can happen in the world of boxing. anyway, with the match between loma and ortiz, i am positive that loma will emerge as winner here. anyway, after knowing the results of their respective fights, that's when we can really speculate good, right?

I do agree that upsets do happen in every fight like in the Lopez vs Kambosos or Him vs Lopez, but for Loma if might be a different case as he is coming from his war torn country and he wanted to show everything that he is back and that he will get back all his belts. He is also inspired by the win of his countryman, also trained by his father, Usyk. So I don't see him being careless or underestimate him, unless he is injured or something.
3899  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: What are people doing except holding Bitcoin? on: September 05, 2022, 11:25:02 AM
Others might have to re-invest their bitcoin profits elsewhere like stocks or real state, sort of diversify your portfolio. WO thread as one of it's kind in this community, maybe some of them are rich already and just continue to accumulate bitcoin overcome. Someone mentioned gambling, yeah, a lot of crypto based online gambling are popping because they know it's a multi billion dollar business and regardless of the market sentiments, crypto gamblers will continue to gamble.
3900  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: RUIZ VS ORTIZ SUN, SEP 04, 2022 10PM ET EASTERN TIME/ on: September 05, 2022, 10:16:39 AM
Its was an old boxing match, reminiscent of the 90's boxing, outslugging each outslugging each other thru the 12 round bouts. It was the youth of Ruiz that prevail in the end as he win in a decision, Judges Zachary Young (114-111). Eddie Hernandez (114-111) and Fernando Villareal (113-112). He knock down Ortiz twice in round 2 and again in round 7. And that it enough to win because as you can see on the score the fight can go either way if not for that knock down. Congrats to those who back up Andy Ruiz in this fight.

The guy is finally back with that kind of fight he is ready for another championship opportunity if given because this kind of weight class is rare to reach up to the last rounds. With some improvement in his jabs and power punches, he will likely be in boxing for a long time. I thought the other guy will go down easily but he fought until the last round too but not enough to take down Ruiz as he already prepared to go up to the last round as well and win the fight.

That's two good wins in a row by Ruiz he is ready for another championship fight, he is more serious now Ortiz is not an easy match, he'll now have to wait for the winner of the Usyk- Fury match, if the match will push through or if not he is a contender right away against Usyk, its a better match considering that they have the same height both fighters are technical and with fast hands compared to Fury, who will just impose height against him, you can't underestimate Ruiz when he is at his best and Ortiz comes to fight it could have been close those knock downs made a big difference.

Technically, he should be the next in line for WBC belt held by Tyson Fury. But boxing politics and business, so he had to wait for the Usyk vs Fury outcome and for sure he will have a crack at it.

However, Ruiz said in one interview that he want to have a rematch with Joshua, So let's see how it goes, Joshua is nursing from the defeat he had against Usyk but he said he want to have a comeback. So gonna be great to see if this fight happens.
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