Hopefully cAIN doesnt get injured before this fight. Hes been out 1.5 years so dont know his shape. https://twitter.com/MMAFighting/status/1095460882983743488Remember when Dana White compared Francis Ngannou's punching power to being hit by a Ford Escort? @cainmma wasn't impressed… "Ford Escorts suck. They're weak." |
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Do people really think this tweet will start the next bull run?
Its been a positive week so far so maybe there is a correlation between the tweet and bull run we are in.
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https://www.coindesk.com/barclays-ripple-back-1-7-million-round-for-remittance-firm-using-xrpBarclays, Ripple Back $1.7 Million Round for Remittance Firm Using XRPRipple, Barclays and other investors have backed a $1.7 million round for SendFriend, a new remittance startup that will use the XRP cryptocurrency to move funds internationally. Announcing the news on Monday, the New York-based firm said the Mastercard Foundation, MIT Media Lab, Techstars, Mahindra Finance, 2020 Ventures and 8 Decimal Capital also participated in the round. Barclays took part via its “Barclays powered by TechStars” accelerator program, into which SendFriend was accepted last September. The money raised will go toward hiring staff, as well as focusing on community engagement and marketing, said SendFriend’s co-founder and chief executive officer David Lighton. SendFriend, which said it was founded at MIT, aims to serve overseas workers from the Philippines, using XRP and Ripple’s xRapid product for cross-border settlements. The firm explained how it will work, saying: “XRP is used as a liquidity vehicle for cross-border payments, enabling SendFriend to circumvent the corresponding banking system and convert USD to XRP to PHP [Philippine peso] in a matter of seconds.” Not yet live, SendFriend said it plans to launch in New Jersey soon, but will also be available in other U.S. states via desktop and mobile apps. Ripple confirmed that SendFriend will leverage the XRP token in a release last week. Lighton said at the time: “The existing correspondent banking system is slow, inefficient and costly.” In its funding announcement, SendFriend claimed that it will offer 65 percent lower fees compared to the industry average for international money transfers, as blockchain “replaces the frictions and fees of the banking system.” Last week, the Philippines’ House of Representatives reportedly approved a bill that seeks to grant overseas Filipino workers a 10–50 percent remittance fee discount depending on the amount being remitted. The Philippines is one of the largest Asian markets for remittances. Last year, the country’s diaspora sent back home $34 billion, according to a World Bank report from December.
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We really dont know if the GOVs will forbid cryptocurrency.
There are so many GOVs that are ok with crypto that its not safe to assume that GOVs will eventually not be ok with them.
If my GOV was to forbid crypto, I would just use a vpn service to get around their orders.
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Well first of all congrads to the founder of Tweeter to give BTC a endorsement like this.
I am not sure how honest this man is since I do not know him personally but maybe he is just a BTC shill.
How do we know he does not have other coins? I thought it is that if you have a lot of money you own more then just BTC.
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Israel did not look like anything special in this match - showing a lot of respect for Hall of Famer Anderson Silva.
If he is to fight Whittaker next, it will probably be a 25 minute punch and run match.
Hope this will happen this year if Whittaker can get healthy.
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@eaLiTy. Chris Weidman was never a top fighter, I reckon. He won 2 fights from Anderson, 1 by knockout because Anderson was stupid and the other broke Anderson's leg by accident. Chris would never win if was fighting the best version of Anderson.
Agree with you dude. Weidman had his moment to shine holding his belt until December 2015. Remember though "THE ALL-AMERICAN" ended his career record 1-4 and lost all those 4 by KO. Anyone else think the 29 year old young man puts a hurting on the legendary Anderson Silva? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xDtK_t-IA8I see it coming and in ugly fashion even though people forget Silva did TKO Nick Diaz - although overturned for dope |
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Bad ideas for kid could joined and participated at bitcoin or altcoin investment, how ever they need some thing specially at their time playing with their friend and focus for learning at their school, maybe we can learn them after pass senior high school.
Disagree dude some kids are very advanced and already learning about things like investments and the future. I dont have children but I would give them something that will hopefully become worth more then just some candy like my family gave me. |
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Here we go again... (hoping for another run to start a streak).  I'm a little late to the party but I still took the line -5.5 but the odds is only 1.80, losing value on this one. Thats a good wager there dude. After Indiana looked the other day versus Lakers, I think they do the same tonight against the other LA team. Pacers looking straight invincible of late. |
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https://www.21cryptos.com/red-bull-announce-sponsorship-with-futurocoin/Red Bull Announce Sponsorship With FuturoCoinAston Martin Red Bull Racing have announced a new partnership with cryptocurrency FuturoCoin. The partnership represents the first time a cryptocurrency has sponsored a team in Formula One.The multi-year sponsorship deal will see the FuturoCoin logo appear on the Red Bull RB15, which will be launched next week. It will be seen on the overalls of drivers Max Verstappen and Pierre Gasly and on the team’s transporters. “The rise of blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies has been truly remarkable, and we’re delighted to be the first Formula One team to embrace this through our partnership with FuturoCoin,” said Christian Horner, Team Principal of the Red Bull Racing F1 team. “Secure digital currencies are on the leading edge of technological development and we are very excited to be part of this revolution.” FuturoCoin Founder’s Passion For Motorsport Fuelled SponsorshipThe deal was driven by FuturoCoin founder, Roman Ziemian’s passion for motorsport. “Cryptocurrencies and Formula One are very similar and their values are much alike; speed, technology and being ahead of their time,” he said. “I’m a huge fan of motorsport and F1 has always intrigued me. The sponsorship is an exciting new chapter for our company and will be a global platform for us to drive awareness of FuturoCoin.” Paulina Woźniak, CEO of FuturoCoin’s management company, said: “We are very proud that FuturoCoin will be the first cryptocurrency in the world to appear on a Formula One car. In addition, we are looking forward to working alongside Aston Martin Red Bull Racing, a prestigious brand that is recognised across the world”. Red Bull isn’t the only one attracting sponsorship from a cryptocurrency. Haas driver Romain Grosjean has attracted backing from SoccerCoin, whose logos will apparently appear on his helmet this year. Aston Martin Red Bull Racing won the F1 Constructors and Driver’s world championships in four consecutive years between 2010 and 2013. Its 59 total Grand Prix wins is the sixth most of any constructor in F1’s history.
The 2019 Formula One season begins with the Australian Grand Prix on March 14-17.
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https://www.coindesk.com/crypto-broker-led-by-uber-and-etrade-alums-is-going-publicVoyager, a cryptocurrency brokerage startup founded by veterans of Uber and E*Trade, is going public on Canada’s TSX Venture Exchange through a reverse merger valued at $60 million.A reverse merger occurs when a privately held company acquires the majority of shares in a publicly traded one and the two firms are combined. In this case, New York-based Voyager Digital Holdings acquired UC Resources Ltd., the shell of a mineral exploration company that ceased operations in 2015, in an all-stock deal finalized earlier this week. Announced Thursday, the merged entity, renamed Voyager Digital (Canada) Ltd., will begin trading on Feb. 11 on the TSX, a subsidiary of TMX Group, the parent of the Toronto Stock Exchange. Stephen Ehrlich, co-founder and CEO of Voyager, told CoinDesk that the ability to issue publicly traded shares will give his company a currency (in the figurative sense) with which to make acquisitions to build its nascent business. “We’re actively looking for parts of the crypto ecosystem that fit with us, that fit with our mission and our culture,” said Ehrlich, who oversaw eight acquisitions as CEO of the online stock brokerage Lightspeed Financial and earlier ran the professional trading business of E*Trade. “Having cash plus a public currency will make us more efficient and give us more opportunities.” Voyager, which first revealed its plan to enable zero-commission crypto trading for U.S. retail investors last summer, quietly raised about $7 million from undisclosed investors in a series of private rounds beginning in May, said chief marketing officer Steve Capone. The last round valued the company at $60 million (in U.S. dollars), according to Ehrlich, so that is the cost of the stock it paid for the shell company. Aside from securities veteran Ehrlich, the company’s founders include Oscar Salazar, the founding architect and CTO of Uber. Beyond dry powder for M&A, Ehrlich said being a listed company will help Voyager build trust with clients since it will have to make quarterly and annual disclosures of its financials and answer to Canadian securities regulators. He added: “That brings a lot of credibility and transparency to the customer that they can trust us.” It won’t be the first crypto firm to go public through a reverse merger on the TSX, however. Most prominently, Galaxy Digital Holdings, the crypto fund started by Michael Novogratz, did so last year through the takeover of a listed pharmaceutical company. Launching this monthThe idea behind Voyager is to allow retail and institutional investors to buy and sell crypto across multiple exchanges using a single account on a mobile app, with a smart order routing system ensuring they get the best prices available. Instead of charging commissions for this service, Voyager will make a spread, but only when it executes orders at levels “better than quoted at time of order submission, resulting in price improvement for the customer and revenue for Voyager” said Capone. “Price improvement is not a customer guarantee, but zero-commission is.” Currently, the platform is in beta testing with “more than a handful” of users, and a public launch slated for later this month, Ehrlich said (slightly behind schedule, as the original plan was to go live in Q4). The number of people on the waiting list is in “the six figures,” he said. To entice retail customers, Voyager is offering $15 worth of bitcoin to those who sign up early. It will be competing for this business with consumer-facing platforms such as Robinhood and Circle (neither of which charge commissions), as well as industry juggernaut Coinbase. Meanwhile, about half a dozen institutional broker-dealers and trading platforms have signed up to use Voyager’s APIs to “deliver crypto trading to their customer base,” according to Ehrlich. In August the company hired Glenn Barber, a veteran of Deutsche Bank and Barclays, to expand this part of the business. On the other side of the proverbial table, Voyager has signed up 10 exchanges and market makers for the platform and is in conversations with twice that number, executives said. The company has obtained money transmission licenses in 10 U.S. states, with applications pending in another 30 or so.
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Hamas is considered a terrorist organization by the US and other strong country, meaning that they should not be allowed to use Coinbase due to KYC and AML procedures. So the question is how they do this without any help of others.
This was my exact thoughts. There is such strict guidelines to use Coinbase- I am for some reason banned from the exchange. Seems like a case of paid off infiltrators and conspirators. Just thinking out loud how difficult it was for someone like me to work with Coinbase but terrorist organizations are having no problems. |
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https://www.coindesk.com/hamas-coinbase-bitcoinThe Palestinian military-political group Hamas, which the U.S. government deems a terrorist organization, may be using the Coinbase cryptocurrency exchange for fundraising. Earlier this week, the Israeli blockchain analytics firm Whitestream identified several bitcoin wallet addresses referred to on official Hamas digital media channels in public requests for donations. One such appeal for bitcoin donations to support “the resistance” was issued on January 31, via a Telegram channel run by Abu Obeida, a spokesman for Hamas’ military wing. As the Israeli newspaper Globes reported, those wallets included a Coinbase account. Although Coinbase declined to comment on the address in question, Whitestream told CoinDesk that the account continued to receive transactions even 48 hours after it was identified and reported in the media. “Based on shared inputs, we can tell that Hamas blockchain transactions were signed by addresses that are operating on Coinbase company wallets,” Itsik Levy, the firm’s founder and CEO, told CoinDesk. Adding this account’s sum to two other bitcoin addresses Whitestream also identified as recipients of the Hamas fundraising campaign, the Islamic organization appears to have garnered less than $4,000 in bitcoin. “[Hamas] is struggling with getting funds from the Israeli government and Qatar,” Levy continued. “We’ve heard of other Islamic extremist organizations doing the same thing over the past few years…now Hamas tries the same thing.” “It’s still an active campaign,” he added. “It just started.” Even if this is a case of terrorist financing solicited by the Hamas military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Coinbase is hardly the sole company involved with this week’s activity. Whitestream also reportedly identified this Hamas-operated Coinbase account potentially sending bitcoin to a Binance account and a CoinPayments account, the latter of which is a wallet provider legally incorporated in the Cayman Islands. Binance and CoinPayments did not immediately reply to requests for comment on these transactions. Fringe activitySeveral studies – including a 2018 report by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance – have asserted cryptocurrency usage among jihadists is still an extremely “fringe” activity. Whitestream co-founder Itsik Levy told Globes “only 2 percent” of the bitcoin transactions his firm analyzed were connected to “terrorist or criminal activity.” Furthermore, compared to a CoinDesk report from 2018, even the monthly volume of a single bitcoin dealer serving dozens of Gaza-based retail investors would dwarf the sum collected so far in these Hamas-affiliated accounts. The Hamas spokesperson has not posted in the Telegram group since the last request for bitcoin donations on February 2, CoinDesk found. On that same day, this bitcoin address was tweeted by the Brigades’ global outreach account. This may be inspired by the way the Islamic State’s Gaza wing, a fierce rival of Hamas, reportedly raised $8,000 worth of bitcoin donations by March 2018. However, there appears to be confusion among these supporters about the transparent nature of blockchain data. On January 30, Palestinian journalist Hussam Al-Dajany said during an interview on Hamas-owned Al-Aqsa TV that: “People who donate using this currency cannot be identified by any security agency.”
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Some impressive wins in this thread so I might have to start following along.
The Bucks are on fire and they are a good entry for a parlay on the money line.
Friday in Dallas and Saturday at home versus the Magic.
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This sucks, $30,000 lost because I bet on the rams. UGH
I know its not much but still sucks the rams offense is so shit, only scored 3 points, un fucking believable.
You may have a slight gambling addiction dude. Something that may require you to stop completely. Its not ok to look at the jokes and mock someone after they admit to losing such a huge amount of money. This is in fact what is called life changing money - some people dont even make that much in 1 year of hard labor. Its ok to make jokes but always remember someone is hurting deep down for him to post this story. |
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To have invested back in 2009 would have made you probably a millionaire by now but you would also be very intelligent.
Anyone who really invested 10 years ago is well off to the point that they arent spending their says posting on a message board about how they wish they invested many years ago.
My main reason for staying is because Im so in debted as is that to walk away now would not be too smart.
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There are no excuses for any 1st World Countries to ban BTC or make it illegal.
Only a matter of time before the world starts recognizing BTC as legal tender.
The countries than ban crypto are still living in the stone age and need to finally adopt to society and its norms.
Digital money is the future - doesnt matter what part of the world you live in.
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