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4321  Local / Pilipinas / Re: mga definition ng terms na maaring makatulong sa mga nagsisimula pa lang on: July 16, 2022, 11:33:31 PM
Siguro kung nagsisimula ka pa lang, hindi kapa magiging curious sa mga terms katulad ng PoW/PoS.

Siguro maganda idagdag yung meaning ng bear at bull market, yan nakapa importante yan kung magsisimula ka at pag hindi mo nagets yan baka mahirapan ka magka pera sa crypto o kahit saang traditional financial markets hehehe.

At heto rin pala gawa ng kababayan natin na nasayang, Cryptocurrency Lingo/Slang .
4322  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 2020 Philippine Basketball Association betting discussion on: July 16, 2022, 11:05:08 PM
Does anyone have an idea of where Matthew Wright plays?

I have read on my social media newsfeed where coach Topex announced right after their blowout win against Converge that it was Wright's final game in the PBA.

If indeed this was true then it could be that Wright will be playing in Japan B-League where rumors came out last year.

He won't be playing somewhere else. I stumbled upon that news literally just now on my Facebook newsfeed and the caption was, Matthew Wright will leave the country for the long-postponed plan of his wedding on the 24th in the United States.

Since I was curious, I searched for some links to share here. I think the news was already spread out in PH local sports news.

Wright plays Phoenix farewell game ahead of long-postponed US wedding

Good, I thought that his departure will mean that we might play on the other big leagues around Asia.

Yeah, it might be difficult for coach Topex to re-adjust but for sure he has plans already with Wright's absence. I think the team is still solid and who knows maybe they can found a new gem within the team that will elevate his game even more to cover what they are going to lost in terms of point production in the absence of Wright.
4323  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Personal interest Over National Interest on Bitcoin By Countries on: July 16, 2022, 10:14:07 AM
I guess some of those government as authoritarian by nature.

So what do you expect? the central power lies in the government and not into the people. So obviously they wont' allow the people to have control when they go and be in crypto, whether investment or hedge or store of value. So all the reasons you mentioned that this government are not going to allow boils down to one thing: greater control of their population.
4324  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: [Boxing]: Ryan Garcia vs Javier Fortuna - July 16 on: July 16, 2022, 09:22:47 AM
So here is the official weigh-in,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-0UQTA-Ifc

As expected, both making the weight, although others might find it surprising that this fight is not on 135 lbs, but 140 lbs.

Against Tagoe, there is a catch weight at 138 lbs if my memory serves me right. But this time its a full 140 lbs now for Ryan.
4325  Local / Pamilihan / Re: NBA discussion, betting and etc. on: July 16, 2022, 08:36:34 AM
Heto talaga ang resulta ng nanalo na naman ang Warriors hhehehe, all out sila na mapigilan ang pang domina nila. Nung nang champion ang Bucks parang walang malaking movement na nangyari, pero nitong Warriors ang nanalo, halos lahat ng team ng rebuild, haka haka ko lang naman to. Baka talaga natapat na maraming contract na nag expire this year o may mga players talagang gusto ng umalis sa team nila katulad ni Ayton na mukang pakakawalan na ng Suns.
Nagkataon lang din siguro na halos sabay sabay ang expiration ng mga contracts. Pero tama ka sa feeling mo kasi nga pag nagdominate na GSW, parang magkakaroon pa ng back to back ulit yan. Kaya halos karamihan sa mga teams ngayon, kanya kanyang upgrade at yung tingin nilang mkaka-beat sa roster ng GSW. Isa rin talaga to sa exciting part kapag pasimula na ulit ang season. Sa trade kay KD, may nabasa ako na walang pumasa sa offer ng Nets kaya parang iki-keep nalang niya siya.

And bigat din kasi ng hinihingi ng Nets na kapalit kung saka sakali kay KD kaya parang ang hirap patulan ng ibang team kasi nga mga superstars din nila ang mawawala pag nagkataon. At wala rin kasiguraduhan kay KD ngayon, I mean baka ma injury or magkaroon ng chemistry issue na katulad sa Nets na naman. Maugong ang Suns, pero yun nga sino bibigay nila? Si Ayton at dawalang players o future pick? Mahirap din kung si Booker.
4326  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: [Boxing]: Teofimo Lopez vs Pedro Campa - Aug 13 on: July 16, 2022, 08:11:11 AM
@Baofeng. If Teofimo Lopez vs. Pedro Campa is the main event, can you also include the other fights in the list for this whole event? Brandon Figueroa vs. Carlos Castro was a fight last week that we did not discuss because we did not know it was part of Vargas vs. Magsayo hehehe.

Yeah, for sure mate, so far from what I gather there is a also a co-feature event.

rising Puerto Rican star Xander Zayas vs Elias “Latin Kid” Espadas.

And in the undercard:

Andres “Savage” Cortes vs Abraham Montoya
Duke Ragan vs D’Angelo Fuentes
Troy Isley vs Victor Toney
Jose Enrique Vivas vs Edy Valencia

Maybe the undercard will be updated if there is some addition.
4327  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 2023 NBA Season on: July 16, 2022, 07:48:18 AM
Russell Westbrook just fired his longtime agent who wanted him to stay in LA and finish his contract. This is leading to speculation that Westbrook might be open to a buyout and a new contract, which would obviously mean his agent taking less money. I’m sure Westbrook feels like his situation in LA is toxic and he’s willing to do whatever to get away, including giving up money. I guess him and his agent couldn’t agree on that strategy. His agent released a good statement about it. Worth reading…

Ouch, anyway, it is what it is, so I guess we can say that we won't see Westbrook in Lakers uniform. Probably the same toxic environment as what Kyrie's situation in the Nets right now.

And even though there is an assurance from their new coach that he will be in the starting lineup, Russ still wanted out of the Lakers. So, is he going to Rich Paul?  Wink
4328  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Kazuto Ioka vs Donnie Nietes II on: July 15, 2022, 05:08:23 PM
Before the OP lock the thread:

Donnie Nietes To Continue Forward, Reacts To Loss in Ioka Rematch.

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“I lost the fight on points, and I felt that Ioka did not want to try and deliver a knockout win for his fans and was just happy to win the fight on the scorecards,” Nietes told Probellum.com

“I was not able to put as much pressure on Ioka as I would have liked.  I was waiting for Ioka to move in and throw his shots, so that I could hit him with my big counters, but it didn’t happen often enough.

"I was defeated but, without question, I can still fight for word titles again.”

So it seems that Nietes is looking forward to continue his boxing career. I don't know if this is a good idea, but only him can answer that. As far as his performance, it seems that Father time has really catch up with the former champion though.
4329  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Gamers want to use crypto in the Metaverse? on: July 15, 2022, 04:21:07 PM
According to Globant, 34% of gamers are interested in conducting crypto transactions in the Metaverse, while 16% have purchased NFTs in the past.
Fake.
Anyone who spends at least 10 minutes in any popular gaming forum or discord server knows very well that every gamer (probably 9 out 10) in the hates cryptos, especially pc gamers cos they blame miners for the GPU shortage and the massive price increase in gpus (because the demand is so high)
i do believe the NFT part, a lot of companies in the gaming industry took advantage of the NFT hype with tons of marketing and made bank

This is also the first thing that comes to my mind, I mean how can we verify the result of the survey itself? And why would the gamers be interested on crypto or metaverse.

And the same reasoning as yours, since the bull run of 2017 and then followed by the problems with AMD and other makers of GPU having shortage because of crypto enthusiast buying them in bunch for rigs and to mine crypto, there seems to be a hate relationship between this two industries.
4330  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Gambling and Fengshui on: July 15, 2022, 02:52:53 PM
Most gamblers that I know is very superstitions, so yeah maybe FengShui and Gambling works hand in hand. And Feng Shui has spread out, so it's not just a Chinese thing anymore, even the West practice it because it can bring good luck because you are trying to attract positivity through those arrangement to have balance and harmony. And of course keep faith that we will be lucky once we enter those casinos.
4331  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: [Boxing]: Ryan Garcia vs Javier Fortuna - July 16 on: July 15, 2022, 11:11:54 AM

This could be good to see if Fortuna will pursue and man his words, surely a toe-to-toe fight is what the people wanted to see and we will see if Ryan have some improvement this time.

I hope so because that is the only way for this to be an entertaining fight. Ryan Garcia is surely the heavy favorite, but who knows, upset could happen in boxing anytime, so it's not a guaranteed win by Garcia if Fortuna will show that he can match the skills of Garcia.

Upset is very slim on this fight because if indeed it would happen then it will be over for Ryan Garcia's career, I mean he would start from scratch as he doesn't have the ace to call out the champions of his division. I do think that he will be careful in the first few rounds and see if Fortuna's power would hurt and if not then he would go all out in the second half but i do hope that Fortuna would survive the onslaught as i'm leaning towards a Garcia win via decision @3.25  Cool.

Or over 7.5 rounds will be a good bet to begin with, hehehe.

So if by chance the fights goes into the full 12 rounds because of Fortuna on his bicycle, then you will hit both of your bets.  Grin

I still haven't put mine yet though, nevertheless, I might tail you on this one.
4332  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: [Boxing] Crawford vs Spence on: July 15, 2022, 10:28:53 AM

I believe PPV sharing is probably the main reason why they haven't come up with a deal yet. Spence's previous PPV buys are a little better than Crawford's. Spence also has more belts to offer in the division but Crawford is the only ATG of the two.   


There's no other reasons, Crawford here has to agree with a small share because Spence will not agree with a 50/50 share.
he has more belts and he has a better PPV record in the past compared to Crawford.

We get it, Crawford is also a champion but Spence have proven enough based on the numbers he have.

However, Spence versus Crawford might be the biggest payperview revenue in the history of boxing. It might be more than the payperview numbers of Mayweather versus Pacman. It would be very stupid for Terence Crawford's team to not demand a share equal to Spence's share.

I'm not sure about this, Mayweather vs Pacman did 4.6M buys, that is hard to crack. Although that Mike Tyson vs RJJ did a decent numbers in the pandemic reaching around 1.65M.

So I'm guessing maybe around that numbers or maybe it will be as high as 2.0M but nowhere close to even Conor vs Floyd or Floyd vs Oscar Dela Hoya.
4333  Economy / Speculation / Re: Buy the DIP, and HODL! on: July 15, 2022, 10:06:06 AM
So currently the price is $20,880 as per preev. Just want to put it here just a place holder so that we can go back here when we hit the next bull run. Maybe that time we will be in the 6 digits and finally the S2F model will be vindicated, hehehe. Very cheap price and we can get a hold of it and then what the title says, HODL. There is no secret sauce here, just the old and traditional way of investing and have a lot of patience.
4334  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: [Discussion] Should Online Gambling be Banned? on: July 15, 2022, 09:22:02 AM
The pandemic really brought out the best of online games whether fiat or crypto base and it really balloon to a billion dollar business even in the pandemic. Other traditional land base casino's too have to go to online because no one can go to their casino's obviously.

And yeah, there are pros/cons and this debate can go over and over again. So it's up to the government, whether they want to shut down online gambling for good, but it will take a lot of effort from them. As for us, obviously we already made a choice, we love to gamble, whether online or offline, whether we have to be entertain or have some fun or target to win big.
4335  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 2023 NBA Season on: July 15, 2022, 09:00:12 AM

Yeah, and I don't think that the Suns are willing to offer him that contract, it was obvious last year. And if they can't get Durant, then they will have to suffer the consequences of allowing Ayton to leave. Or Booker might be leverage now, so it's really up to them if they are willing or else forget about the Durant sweepstakes. And good for Ayton, but there will be more burden on his shoulder as he needs to proved himself that he is all worth of that max contract that the Pacers are going to offer.

Nothing to worry in Ayton part, he already sign his dream contract and it's secure or else pacers need to

look for another option after this season, but most players are up to the money. Sorry to say, but it's no longer the same league as
before where pride is really important, it's more on the money side and how they will earn the max that they always dream after
impressing the league from their previous performances.

The younger generations though learn from the 80'-90's era. There is no security in their basketball career so they really need to get a good contract while they are still very young, sort of maximized their profits with their skills. But that is one part of the equation, they should know how to take care of their money because after basketball there will be no income for them.

So good for Ayton then, for sure he feels relieved now as he is going to the Pacers.

Seems the Suns have match the $133M offer sheet from the Pacers.
4336  Local / Pamilihan / Re: NBA discussion, betting and etc. on: July 15, 2022, 08:30:55 AM
Heto talaga ang resulta ng nanalo na naman ang Warriors hhehehe, all out sila na mapigilan ang pang domina nila. Nung nang champion ang Bucks parang walang malaking movement na nangyari, pero nitong Warriors ang nanalo, halos lahat ng team ng rebuild, haka haka ko lang naman to. Baka talaga natapat na maraming contract na nag expire this year o may mga players talagang gusto ng umalis sa team nila katulad ni Ayton na mukang pakakawalan na ng Suns.
4337  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Current Financial Market Condition on: July 14, 2022, 08:55:25 PM
If this is really happening then the best thing is to really invest on crypto simple as that. If we are expecting the worst and recovery might be years to come, then perhaps crypto like bitcoin will be a good investment. Why? It's because in the next two years, there will be the halving, and it's the catalyst for a bull run. So if you invest today, maybe you will get x amount of returns, instead of just let your fiat sit somewhere else like in a bank or any institutions that will not yield a good ROI like bitcoin, in my opinion.
4338  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Some Popular Themes for Online Slot on: July 14, 2022, 08:22:27 PM
I don't have any particular preference to be honest, let's say if I'm playing on a land base casino, the first slot that is free and came to my attention and I'm familiar with it, then I will go and play regardless of what theme it is. But it is new to me, then I will still try and play and get the experience. Also I look for the bet, specially the minimum bet, because there are machines that has big minimum bet for me, so I just stay away from that machine.
4339  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Kazuto Ioka vs Donnie Nietes II on: July 14, 2022, 12:04:14 PM
Nietes did his best but the Japanese is really superior and he did improved a lot during their last fight. And with that huge gap in the score, it was a total disaster for a come backing Nietes, he should have remain semi-retired. Anyhow, the future still looks bright for Filipino boxing, maybe there could be one that they will discover again and maybe be the next Manny, or Ahas or Filipino Flash that will carry the flag for them. The've been successful though in the Olympic boxing and winning medals so I guess it could be a consolidation for a disaster 2022.

IMO, Ioka is not that good in terms of skill, he won yesterday's fight because of Nietes' declined performance-wise.

Ioka is very beatable and if the rematch took place months after the first fight, the result could have been the same as the first fight.

In fairness to Ioka, he deserved that win because of his aggressiveness and being relentless in throwing anything he has last night  Grin.

Looking forward to the match between Ancajas and Ioka, this could be exciting because we all know how skillful Ancajas is and for sure he would bounce back from that unexpected defeat.

Casimero and Ancajas are now the bright prospects of bringing glory to the PH in the world of boxing.

How about Ioka vs Chocolatito? There is a good and interesting article by by Cliff Rold:

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Four years into his tenure in the division, Ioka hasn’t yet shared the ring with any of the hardcore four that drove the engine of the division for the last seven years: Carlos Cuadras, Srisaket Sor Rungvisai, Juan Francisco Estrada, and Roman Gonzalez. To his credit, Ioka’s win over Arroyo came on the heels of Arroyo beating Cuadras but Estrada and Gonzalez in particular stand out.

https://www.boxingscene.com/timing-right-chocolatito-ioka--167629

What do you guys think of this fight? Yeah, maybe two old warriors but I guess it's not too late to see this two in the ring? Or even those guys mentioned in the article?
4340  Economy / Speculation / Re: Has crypto capitulated? on: July 14, 2022, 11:33:36 AM
Just my take on the situation… If you have to ask whether or not crypto has capitulated then my thinking is that it hasn’t. My guess is that when capitulation does happen, it will be obvious and there will be nobody left wondering whether or not capitulation occurred. Very likely this event will happen in the next ~3 months. Be prepared.

Or it could happen next year, but the point being, we haven't reach capitulation yet, others might have to disagree, but if you look at the historical logs, capitulation happens a year after the start of the bear market. So for me, most likely it will be early next year and then recover some, but the market will continue to be a long and hard grind. Of course the only saving grace is the halving, but it will happen in 2024. So yeah, just be prepared for everything that the market will give us in the long bearish cycle.
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