Retirement is what I deal with on a daily basis.  Many advisors suggest you try and save around 15% of your current income (of course it all depends on your current age).  Also, the goal should be to try and replace roughly 70-90% of your current annual salary.  If you're towards the end of your career, that is, so that you may continue to live the same current level of lifestyle.

IF ANY of you actually give a shit about this topic, and truly what to better your financial situations, here's a fantastic link with some really good helpful financial tools.  TRUST ME when I say this is worth anyone's time!  Number 1, do you run a monthly budget at least once a year? If not, you NEED to be ( it's the first calculator on the page)- https://www.empower.com/learning_center/calculators/index.shtml#/

This is great to see. I love whenever someone whom owns a business on here comes forward ands shows how they are starting to accept bitcoin as payment.  I was able to help /convince my dog groomer to do the same thing.  It's so much easier I feel like than a lot of them ( business owners) ever realized.  I am all for using bitcoin as a means of payment, using it for it's initial / traditional reason.  Keep up the good work OP!

I mean no one should be investing in heavily speculative and volatile assets/investments/commodities unless they have the money to do so.  Everyone should be trying to invest in their future, but for the vast majority of those people, doing so means doing so responsibly until one builds up enough assets that sets them on track for retirement but has additional money they could be investing, then investing in alternative assets such as bitcoin could make sense.

This being the main factor in deciding a match insane.  I don't think anyone with a properly functioning brain would really thing this way.  I mean there's no question that it's a large deciding factor when it comes to picking the outcome of a game, and sometimes can be the "deciding factor" but that doesn't make it the largest factor. 

I have a feeling that if your buddy thinks this, he's not winning that many games huh? lol

That's pretty cool, I appreciate you sharing that info.  I am trying to think of some way to get rid of my YouTube TV.  It's damn near $90 a month and I really just have a basic package.  I feel like when I first signed up just maybe 3 years ago, it was something like $60.  No surprise coming google.

Man I lost HBO when I moved recently.  Even though it was really not that far away, my internet speed dropped big time so had to get something else and lost HBO.  I had watched all but maybe 4-5 episodes of final curb.  I'm just being cheap right now and will prob sign up for HBO stand alone soon.  



They've got as good a chance as any team.

I'll give you a shout.  I'm definitely interested in that #98. 



Oh wow, you've got some pretty cool comics here!  I'll take a closer look and shoot you a message.  Definitely a few that I'd like to own here.


Don't even get me started on leaving shit at your parents house.  I have saved damn near everything from my childhood, and some of the coolest things I owned were lost my by my parents when I went off to college.  My parents moved so damn much shit would get lost in the shuffle.  Ticks me off just thinking about it.

This is great news!  I also prefer to hold/own/buy bitcoin directly, but there's a lot of people who've got money in retirement plans, like IRA's here in the United States that can't access the funds prior to the age of 59.5, so investing it a bitcoin ETF allows direct exposure as well as limits tax liability (potentially) or is simply the only source of money that they have that is able to be invested in bitcoin.

I wonder if in AU, or other countries across the glove if your stock market allows for US ETFs through ADR's, or a similar type product (ADRs= American Depository Receipts.. a way to own a stock that is not listed in the US)

Your headline is a bit misleading, are you assuming your brother-in-law has passed away? I would sure hope not.

Just because your brother in law was reckless with his money, doesn't mean that anyone else who's gambling will be to. It's one of those things that can carry negative consequences, but that doesn't mean it's going to.  Just because one person dies form taking some experimental medicine, that doesn't necessarily mean everyone who takes it is going to suffer the same consequences. 

If this is a real story, I certainly hope for the best for your family.

I mean technically there are people whom can make a living selling farts in a jar ( this is literally something that some people do), so yeah sure, anyone can make a living from relatively anything, but that of course does not guarantee any level of success, or you being able to make that living.  There are absolutely professional gamble whom make their living my gambling.  However, most people don't have what it takes and even professional gambler can really struggle at times.

I don't think most people are cut out for it.

Lol.  I mean there's a reason for teams or bets having low odds..that means that the chances of you having success, are, low.  I don't think this strategy makes any sense.  I would never place a sports bets solely based on the odds alone.  You've got to factor everything else in to the equation.  I agree that if you believe in a team, and that they are going to be able to overcome the odds, than that's a totally different situation.

This is just straight up horrible advice, with really poor grammar.  There is never a such thing as guaranteeing that you will make money "while you sleep", especially not with shitcoins like you've mentioned here.

What you're proposing here is highly risky investing with highly volatile "investments".  I would hope that people would not follow your advice here as it is misguided entirely.

I don't believe that bitcoin will every replace that dollar, despite how much I would like it to.  I think bitcoin will continue to play a role in finances much the way it already is, just on a bigger/wider scale.  It's a store of value, essentially digital property.

I also think whenever someone figures out the two party escrow system that Satoshi proposed, that it will be a huge breakthrough in finance and do a lot for bitcoin.

I think betting against your own team is often some of the best or most intelligent bets that can be made.  Why?  One typically knows their own team better than any other team, so if you're in a position to bet against your team, knowing that you know them as well as you do, and if you think they're going to lose and you can make money off of it, than why not?

When it comes to sports betting, I always say bet with you head, not your heart. I often have to remind myself of this when betting on Sundays (NFL football) or playing fantasy football.

I mean I imagine that I would just try to call the and explain the situation to them.  If calling is not an option, thank shooting them an email.  If you truly didn't do anything wrong, then hopefully the truth "shall set you free".

I'm curious though, how could one cheat online?  Also , what does having two accounts do, I don't see how either of these things are even possible.

I got kicked out of a casino for doing cocaine right at the craps table.  I didn't think it was really that big of a deal.  Took our my little baggie, chalked up a line and went to town!  I'm just kidding.  I've never been kicked out of a casino before but I've definitely have a few friends who have been.

What I find interesting when people get kicked out for winning too much or being too good at certain games.  It's kind of wild how a casino will ban people for doing too well.  Typically these bans are lifetime deals.

Anyone interested?
I recently found my stack of comics from childhood (yes like many of you I’ve been cursed w the collectors disease for a very long time) and in anticipation of the Deadpool & Wolverine movie, I unearthed my collection and have caught the comic bug once again.

Wanting to trade things like Satori’s, for example, for certain comics. Looking for stuff like the Wolverine #88 where Deadpool is on the cover with swords in Wolverine, the first appearance of Wolverine, the amazing Spiderman featuring Eminem, and just cool, older Marvel and DC comics.  Left some pic examples below.





Just curious ..Does anyone by chance have Marvel/ DC /Ninja Turtle trading cards from back in the 90s ? Spent around 5-6 hours this weekend going through my sports card boxes and found a few marvel and dc cards, but expected to find much more. Same with ninja Turtle cards, didn’t have a single one.  Still some digging left , but also open to trading for rare cards in this realm.

Also, I have this comic, but wanted to share for those that may be unaware of it (Eminem & Snoop Bored Apes NFT themed comic / song )


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Cheers

Personally I try and use OTC (Over the counter) as much as possible, and avoid exchanges at all costs.  It's not always possible, but there are thankfully plenty of times where it is.

I watched a Fortune Magazine YouTube video of "the most trustworthy" exchanges the other day...anyone want to guess who they had listed as number one?  LULZ...Conbase..I mean Coinbase.  What a fn joke.  They are as corrupt as they get.  OTC FTW.

Well if you ask anyone who says bitcoin is a scam, how bitcoin works, they have absolutely no response because they have absolutely no clue how it actually works.  I remember when people use to say this to me all the time back in the 2015/16/17 days.  My first question to them would always be "Okay, do you know what the blockchain is, or can you explain how it works"..never once was any single one of these persons able to do so.  So, there's really just a lot of noise out there.

Yeah sure why not?  I think a lot of small countries are unlikely to do so.  I guess it all depends on who really runs that small country, if they are a truly sovereign nation, or if they are sort of the underlings of a larger nation, perhaps ones who's currency they already are using instead of having their own. 

Bitcoin means freedom and I love that El Salvador was willing to go above and beyond to be the first to do it.  Let's hope there's more.

Ah good to know thanks.  I would like to see the CFL combine with the UFL.  I think for there to be any way for any of these leagues to be remotely entertaining, they all need to join forces.  I watched some of the UFL game that was on ESPN yesterday when a buddy of mine stopped by.  We kinda wanted to watch something "neutral" sports related, and that was our only optoin..it got turned off after about a half hour.