This is the type of act that causes everyone outside of this community to judge that everything in the cryptospace is a scam. This is very embarassing because it was reported by a mainstream website and a very deceiving act from a for privacy browser.


Brendan Eich, founder of Brave

Brave, the open-source browser designed to prioritize privacy by blocking third-party ads and trackers, is facing criticism from users for redirecting URLs from cryptocurrency companies to affiliate links that Brave profits from, Decrypt reported.

A Twitter user spotted the redirect when he typed “binance.us” into the Brave search bar, and the browser autocompleted it to “binance.us/en?ref=35089877.” Both URLs go to the same page, but the affiliate link at the end can be used to track users and generate income. Many websites, including Vox Media and The Verge, use affiliate links, but most are transparent about doing so.

Read in full https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/8/21283769/brave-browser-affiliate-links-crypto-privacy-ceo-apology

The entire comment thread looks fake, and the article is pure lofty, unspecific speech.

Generally, a 3rd party has an effect calculated to move an advantage to one of the two large percentage parties, one of which will win.

Most third party candidates have a lot of the big words talking about how they're going to unify us as one nation and all of this. They talk about how bad the two party system is and how it has led us down this path and pitted Americans up against their fellow Americans.

But most of them are only proposing like one or two issues that they want changed and there really isn't even ever a shot of them even passing those ideas. Think of someone like Andrew Yang (who I still consider as 3rd party) who pushed for UBI and at the time it had no real chance of passing.

Third party candidates really need to have that state level / national level infrastructure to truly be able to push for their ideas. There's no chance a 3rd party President is going to win -- not enough people would know about them (unless their personal persona was big enough for that) -- but there is a chance that a 3rd party could win in other races. Governor, Senate, State Legislatures, Congress, etc.

This kind of info is certainly very telling and I'm glad to see such an increase.  I personally feel the tech with bitcoin has been too slow in terms of advancement /user friendliness/speed/pricing etc.. so it's amazing that this number is up, atm's are being added in droves and being placed in very prominent businesses, and the relative stability of late, even though it wont last for good of course, it's a positive sign it's possible down the road.

Man United 5-2 and still counting? Expected United to win +2 goals and so far everything is fine  
Leicester scored also 1-0 till now 67'

Against what I normally do but I put United as the first leg of a small parlay today, so was a little facepalmed when they went down.

Then Fernandes got them back on track as usual. United are the form team now really, as well as Wolves though. Let's see.

I also didn't considering Callum Wilson still out for Bournemouth but anyway it's Man Utd. defence so can't say anything. Really a good win for Man Utd and a good comeback in first half. What a game Bruno Fernandes is having since he moved to Utd. Today's game - 2assists and one free-kick goal. He is on another level.  

The Torino derby is tonight. Buffon is expected to start in goal. If he plays, he will becomes the player with most played matches in the history of the Italian Serie A. He is currently sharing the 1st spot with Paolo Maldini.

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Some recent transfer rumors hint that Juventus and Barcelona might be working on a new player swap. Griezman would move to Juventus and Douglas Costa and Raboit would head for Spain. Not sure what to think about that. Costa is replaceable, but selling Rabiot would require additional reinforcements in the midfield. Question is who? 

The leaderboards has been reset already and it's the first time that I've seen the guy s3rd4r to be on the top or maybe I missed him before.

This is absolutely amazing, I see a picture of sane playing perfect in Bayern Munich alongside with other players as his considered to be a free flow player. Bayern Munich would be a really good start for him and I'm sure his gone experience a good increase in his career.

Its for sure a very good thing for Sane and his Career to be at Bayern Munich.
And the reason for the long 5 years contract from Bayern is that he is a young and very good player and bayern wants to hold him.
If he will keep playing as he has done in past we will see more from Sane in Bayern and also in the National Team too with Gnabry on his side.
Guess we will see more from both in the future.

He can take position in Sri Lankan Board and ICC but I am feeling Sri Lankan board is one of most corrupt boards in ICC members as they have history or many problems and personal likes and dislikes so they need to check this all and Sanga and Jayawardnai both can change things if authorties in Sri Lanka allowed them they have good market and good talent just system is bringing them down very badly and its all just because of Politics which is not good they must think about this all.

Lol

That was quick, everything is over with in 2 days. Poor Mahindananda Aluthgamage must be hiding his face now for being a dick.

Ah i forget he's politician so no guilt or anything.. lol
Sri Lanka police call-off 2011 World Cup final match-fixing probe over lack of evidence

As Mahela mentioned it is plain simple politics and I am sure nothing further will happen. This investigation will only tarnish the reputation of legendary players. These how you get the attention of the whole nation only for your political ambition.

Lol

That was quick, everything is over with in 2 days. Poor Mahindananda Aluthgamage must be hiding his face now for being a dick.

Ah i forget he's politician so no guilt or anything.. lol
Sri Lanka police call-off 2011 World Cup final match-fixing probe over lack of evidence

I would disagree with the second sentence. It is not the investigation, but unsubstantiated rumors which are going to tarnish the reputation of the players. An investigation, if conducted properly can undo any damage which was brought as a result of these rumors. And this is what happened now. The police department has clarified that there is no evidence to substantiate any of the wild allegations.

That said, I am afraid that the damage is already done. Kumar Sangakkara was being talked about as one of the potential candidates to replace Shashank Manohar. But now, I don't think that he'll jump in to the fray.

Speculation related to the future of Barcelona superstar, Lionel Messi is still a hot talk in recent months, his contract which will end in 2021 makes the Argentine continues to be linked to the club's exit.

It was rumored to have started opening negotiations at an early stage with the Barca president, Josep Maria Bartomeu and will sign a contract until 2023, now La Pulga is said to have changed its decision.  reported by AS English, he has stopped discussing new contracts and wants to immediately leave Camp Nou at the end of the 2020/21 season.

Maybe he was not too old to play in La Liga, Serie-A, EPL or other major Europe League, even he was left with Free Transfer, clubs will be hard to pay his salary. I think he must allow clubs to pay him lower than in Barcelona. Or maybe he can play in MLS with high salaries.But, for  football players with 33+yo, mostly will be out from Europe and came to America 😬

I can see the arguing in this thread about things, though I think it's very important to note that the only way we're going to figure out information is if Congressional oversight steps in and calls people in to speak. They need to request all of the info from the executive and subpoena as many people as possible to see if there is any merit.

There's nothing we're going to figure out by just infighting in the media and online regarding this. No one knows what is the truth and we're all just slinging mud about this.

We're going to have to sit around and wait for new info, that's all we can do.

That is something I only have seen in movies,horror movies.It is incredible people are doing sick things like these to organize a party and to transmit one of the worst virus in history to other people.It is great that they are denounced to the authorities and I think they need to stay in jail for quite some time.

No wonder what is the defense of their parents regarding this resort?

I don't know what comes to people nowadays,and these students seems not to know what is the consequences of their actions,yeah Young people with Good physical condition mostly survives this virus but what about their family members and friends?

Look at their stats,the recovery is too little compared to the infected it has not even meet a 1/4 survival to the active cases.

I cannot imagine that there are people, especially young ones, that would do this. I mean, for what? For money or for fun? Gosh! Covid-19 is something very serious. It's the lives of people that are at stake here.

It would be better if they just placed their bets on a game, either online or offline, or anything that would not put other's lives and theirs in so much risk. I bet the pot money wouldn't be enough to pay for the hospital bills of the "winner" when he tests positive on the virus. Thus, he's not a winner at all. This is so not worth it!

This is very alarming these people should be charged they should know that this pandemic is not a joke so many people already dying this is a suicide, these people are ignorant and they might infect innocent people, this is one of the reasons why the United States has not flatten the curve and the infection will continue rising because so many people there are irresponsible.

Yes I think there is going to be a lot more attention on tennis tournaments now after what just happened and maybe they will enforce tougher rules on players when it comes to social distancing. I do hope we see the US Open go ahead but I must be honest and say I don't really think he should as the cases in the US are still rising by the day and the question is if its safe to go there and play a tennis tournament. I think the French Open has a more realistic chance at being played this year.

The French Open will allow up to 20,000 people to attend each day of this year's tournament despite the coronavirus pandemic, organisers announced on Thursday.

Schumacher suffered irreparable damage to the brain is what I gather from what I've read and its a long term case of treatment rather then this recent news.  I have a neighbour who is qualified in this subject and the only thing I know is there's only a couple surgeons who are that highly specialised in the whole country and the whole subject is not a branch of medicine where they can do a massive amount to reverse damage such as Schumacher has suffered.   If he cannot recover in some way himself they can only help to try keep him comfortable and stable rather then being able to fix it as such.   Thats just my take going on the little I know, unfortunately not every part of medicine can do much to right damage we might suffer in life.
  

Thank you, at Motorsport.com also a article about the first impression behind the locked down grand prix.

First impressions inside F1’s locked down grand prix



And here the media center

The firm tested nine different wallets including Ledger Live, Trust wallet, Exodus, Edge, Bread, Coinbase, Blockstream Green, Blockchain and Atomic Wallet. Of those tested, three were found to be vulnerable to the theoretical exploit.

A standard way to transact Bitcoin could be vulnerable to double-spending, new research has found. Blockchain sleuths at ZenGo, a wallet startup, have found a vulnerability that affected at least three major crypto wallets – Ledger Live, Edge and Breadwallet (BRD) – and potentially more.

Those whales getting poorer in the title of this news article is only an exaggeration. The whales are only slightly poorer as mentioned hehe.

In any case, this might be the setting that everyone is waiting for before the big pump.



For the first time since 2016, the number of Bitcoin whales—large holders who own at least 1,000 Bitcoin (over $9 million worth of the cryptocurrency)—is increasing. (OK, so maybe just less rich than before is more appropriate.)

The report added that the amount of Bitcoin held by whales was on the decline for the past five years, dropping over 22% from 6.7 million to 5.2 million, but more whales have entered the market this year and therefore it has started to increase.

And the dominance whales have in the market is also seeing its largest sustained increase since 2011.

Read in full https://decrypt.co/34162/bitcoin-whales-multiplying-also-getting-poorer-report

there has never been any method to count how many whales there are and how much bitcoin they own ever. and this has not changed over the past decade. that is just how bitcoin works, all those who keep trying to measure whales size and count, like this article, prove how little they understand bitcoin!

bitcoin is not like a bank account where you could call the [centralized] bank and ask them how much money each "account" (that represents an individual) has. there are chain analyzers that are doing a pretty poor job trying to come up with estimates.
on top of that a whale who owns millions of dollars worth of bitcoin cares about their privacy a lot more than a regular users who has 20 bucks worth of bitcoin which makes all the estimations even less reliable.

Cricket enthusiasts will really bad for now because T20 world cup is something more attracted to new generation people but this year we are going to miss that entertainment and also they missed IPL as well.Its time for to save human kind from deadly virus so safe distance from everyone to save you as well as others.

The United States government began measures today to end its special status with Hong Kong, one month after Secretary of State Michael Pompeo told Congress that Hong Kong should no longer be considered autonomous from China. The new actions include suspending export license exceptions for sensitive U.S. technology and ending the export of defense equipment to Hong Kong. Both the Commerce and State Departments also said further restrictions are being evaluated.

Source:. https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/29/u-s-suspends-export-of-sensitive-tech-to-hong-kong-as-china-passes-new-national-security-law/

Just to preface: I know that you're totally contributing to P&S with all of these posts, though I would just like to say that I hope you do (in the future) begin to eleborate more in your posts about what you want to talk about with the members here. There's totally nothing wrong with what you're doing, it is just going to look a bit spammy if you continue to just post links to articles and not say that much regarding the article itself.

But on the topic:

Not sure why the US had been exporting defense equipment to HK for all of this time. I do understand the trade of semiconductors and things along those lines though. But all of this is going to change (rightfully) as China is on their quest to take control of HK one step at a time. They don't do it so fast to the point where everyone is freaking out, but just fast enough where they're able to get away with it.

Plus we're in the middle of COVID so people are focused on something else while China imposes its will on HK. Horrible to see, hope the US continues to do more to stop this.

I don't know why are you just saying like that. I am just sharing the news. And when I determine that this post should be shared then I take a part in this forum.

The European Union Air Safety Agency (EASA) has suspended the authorisation for the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) to operate in Europe for six months, the airline's spokesman said on Tuesday.

The move follows the grounding of 262 pilots whose licences the Aviation Minister Ghulam Sarwar Khan termed “dubious”.

“EASA has temporarily suspended PIA's authorisation to operate to the EU member states for a period of 6 months effective July 1, 2020, with the right to appeal against this decision,” a PIA statement said.

It added that PIA would discontinue all its flights to Europe temporarily.

Source: https://www.dawn.com/news/1566153

If this is covid related you light be beter off moving it to economics. I can see that they could do this in order to get the eruppean space agencies more flights to be able to keep running (just my speculation on it - the EU member states have given fairly large bailouts to airlines at least the UK have)...

Guess its related to fake pilot licensing..

Sometimes it's because they unsubscribed from all emails so we can't send it. In this instance, it was a simple case of him having 10 referrals all with the same fingerprint as himself each having over 900 free rolls each all from IP addresses in a datacentre hosting facility.

Exactly right,,, everyone should be able to dream, right? But you know if I also have 50 BTC which is almost half a million dollars, I would probably keep all of that to earn $55 a day. And still keep my job and work, but part time, and use the part time income to start a business and travel.

$55 a day is $1650 a month, enough to pay all my bills, house mortgage if I want to buy a house, even expenses and live well. Why not:)