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481  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion on: March 16, 2023, 07:02:06 PM
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 And so it was completely unexpected that they would lose today's match against Gujarat. The Gujarat team played well. They still have the potential to finish third or second in the table.
Delhi had a really strong team but they lost wickets playing unnecessary shots, two run outs and Jemimah Rodrigues getting out trying to improvise a shot to the third man instead going to the keeper and then even when they lost 8 wickets Arundhati Reddy gave some hopes but with just around 12 runs with run a ball situation she chipped one in the air rather than rotating the strike and keeping the strike.
482  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Pakistan Super League #PSL Discussion Thread on: March 16, 2023, 05:57:48 PM
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 I thought Babar should be in final because if he loose that will be very bad to his career
Finally he is in final now.
Babar Azam was in great form throughout this tournament even though his team was not doing that great in some matches but when it came down to knockout match Peshawar Zalmi was able to defeat Islamabad United when even the odds makers were not giving not much chance for Peshawar to win the match but they bowled really well in the final 6 overs and picked up crucial wickets at crucial times.
483  Other / Meta / Re: Should the forum stop advertising mixers? on: March 15, 2023, 07:39:42 PM
Many mixers were seized but it is a first time I read documents mentioned Bitcointalk directly like this by Chipmixer seize.
Mixers provide security to users who wants privacy and these mixers themselves did not commit any illegal activity, they provided a platform for users to have privacy for their transaction and governments around the world do not like the idea of having privacy and if some propaganda machine says that BTCitcoin or any mixers is used only for illegal activities then that is not a fact.

You are wrong, this is not the first time Bitcointalk is mentioned in a legal case, to refresh your memory it was mentioned in the silkroad case because Ross William Ulbricht pitched the idea here and this wont be the last time it will be mentioned as long as the cryptocurrency market is alive.
484  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: UEFA Champions League 2022/23 Season on: March 14, 2023, 09:26:48 PM
What a guy this Haaland is, making an hat-trick effortlessly in one half in a CL R16 game. He has more than 1 goal ratio now in all competitions this season.
Unluckily we have Porto game in national TV coverage. I had to watch City game online. The game is going to 7+, it's already 5-0 now.
Erling Haaland finally got tired of scoring goals after completing his 5th goal and looks like he went and asked the coach to sub him, if not he would have scored another couple of goals and broke another record . Before the match started i was expecting to see 3.5 goals and both teams to score but Erling Haaland sealed the day and lets see whether Leipzig can score a consolation goal  Grin.
485  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod] on: March 14, 2023, 08:35:18 PM
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Well.. Shashi Tharoor has reasons to support him. Elections are due in 12 months from now, and Sanju Samson is a resident of the parliamentary constituency that he represents. Despite being given so many chances, neither Samson nor his fans are happy. They keep asking for even more chances, despite not performing up to the mark.
Shashi Tharoor is a Cricket fan and he does not need to do any gimmick to win an election as the voters does not see him as a professional politician but is skillful enough to carry on the duties if he is given the opportunity.

Fans in Kerala, be it the cricket fans or the football fans, behave in a boorish way when things don't go in their favor. Booing the Indian captain during an international match is a strict no.
Yuvraj's house were attacked for not performing and even Sachin Tendulkar was booed in Mumbai when he was going through a lean patch, MSD was booed and his house were attacked by the so called fans, India team faced the same issue of house attacks by hooligans in the past when they fail to perform in World Cups in 2007 and before that and booing for stupid team selection is a big no  Cheesy.

Since you touched Football, if the ISL incident is what you were referring, then the referee was stupid to allow that goal during crucial time according to any standard and the decision by the coach to walk out is appreciated and was given a warm welcome when the team landed in airport Wink .
486  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion on: March 12, 2023, 07:47:30 PM
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Surprise surprise!
Bangladesh won the T20 series against defending T20 champion. Impressive. I was surprised to see Shamto's consistency in this series. Sarcastic part- Shanto has been kicked out of the Bangladesh Lord Association  Cheesy
That is definitely a huge win for Bangladesh as they were a heavy underdog coming into the series and wonder what they odds were before the series began as Bangladesh were able to defeat them twice in consecutive T20 matches is a huge accomplishment and their third consecutive win as they won the third ODI and now it is interesting to see whether Bangladesh will white wash England and create history.
487  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod] on: March 12, 2023, 05:26:44 PM
What a come back by Virat Kohli! After November of 2019 today he scored his 28th test century. At one point I was hoping for him to get his double but 183 is still a good score. This pitch was meant for batters like Shubhman Gill, Virat Kohli and Axar Patel.
Virat Kohli could have scored his double century if there is someone able to build a partnership and Shreyas Iyer did not come out to bat as he was injured and he should be replaced as well.

One thing now I am sure KL Rahul will miss playing test cricket as the new test opener with Rohit will be Shubman Gill. I was expecting a decent lead of 150+ runs by the Indian side. 91 runs lead is just a cake walk for Australian batters. Now everything depends on the Indian bowlers.
KL Rahul got his opportunity to make an impact but he failed to do so in several innings and it is time Shubman Gill takes his place and there are other talented youngers in the dressing room waiting to get an opportunity and the BCCI should give them the preference rather than giving opportunities to out of form players.
488  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 🥊 The UFC Info and Prediction Thread on: March 12, 2023, 01:27:54 PM
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I do not think Jon Jones is the best fighter in the ufc any more but he was considered the best but he is not as good as he was before. I know he beat Gane without getting punched but I think it was the easiest way for him to win because Gane does not know how to wrestle. If he was against some one else I think he would have been tested more. I want to see Jon Jones against a wrestler to judge his boxing skills.
He is considered the best ever to do MMA and you think he is not the best fighter now, tell me one fighter that has the skill set to defeat Jon Jones in any division in the fight world, not just the UFC and then we can have a debate on that.

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 I was just starting with engaging with the topic about it so Jon Jones was really not relevant to me until he vacated that belt on the Light Heavyweight so Jan Błachowicz was the only Light Heavyweight I really have known, that is why I am not a Jon Jones fan until I have seen his highlights, but still not a huge fan, but much appreciated in what you are telling me right now, so thanks about it,
When Jon Jones was stripped or vacated the title,  Daniel Cormier became the Champion, then Jan Błachowicz and after that Glover Teixeira, Jiří Procházka and now the title is held by Jamahal Hill. So 5 Champions just because Jon Jones vacated the title.

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Dana White is definitely not in it for the fighters. You have to respect what he built and the UFC is a money printing machine so he’s been quite successful. However, if his goal was to be the best boss and have the happiest fighters, I’m sure he would be paying them 10 times what he is and I don’t think it would have that much effect on the UFC’s bottom line. Their investors have made billions and their fighters have made tens of thousands. Seems unbalanced.
Unlike boxing, UFC is reinvesting in building performance institute where fighters can train and will have all the benefits including health care and coaching staffs and we have 3 Mexican champions as they built one in Mexico and they are building these performance institutes around the globe in developing new fighters. All the main event fighters are earning millions of dollars per fight and if you compare the boxing model the prelim fighters are earning much more in the UFC than in Boxing.

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These type of stupid judging against Russian fighters has to stop as it is messing up with our bets and real money is lost. Have to go for round bets if Russian fighters are involved rather than moneyline to be on the safe side.
Judging is a real issue and a blatant robbery as Said Nurmagomedov won the fight and this has to change.
489  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion on: March 11, 2023, 10:51:32 PM
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In today game Indian Maharajas have good start but sadly no batsmen were able to have better stand with Gautam Gambhir and at the end they lost this match by 2 runs due to good bowling from Brett Lee and Ricardo Powell.
Have you watched the match, how is the pace from Brett Lee at this age, was not aware that the legends tournament is going on as there is too much Cricket going on now a days, WIPL, PSL, Test matches and i did not see any odds in sportsbook as well or may be i missed them, have to find some highlights to see how they are playing at this age for the nostalgia. Glad that Pakistan legends are able to play in this tournament.
490  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Keeping BTC in sovereign hands. Tales from the LA Fitness Sauna on: March 11, 2023, 09:16:42 PM
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He told me " Its my job to usher in the next payment system into the world". After talking to him more and more about it, it turned out that this guy was traveling country to country making huge deals in BTC with high ranking government officials. He kept saying that its his job to keep BTC in "Sovereign hands" I found this all very interesting.
What a novel idea to make huge deals in BTC only with high ranking government officials who knows jack shit about the cryptocurrency market  Cheesy. Wise idea would be to empower the bank less rather than bribing the political class for no apparent cause.
Trying saying the same story to a stranger in a bar and see their reaction  Cheesy.

He elaborated some more saying that the CIA was the group that really created BTC.
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No, CIA nor the NSA did not create the BTC network but there are several projects they are running concurrently under the direct supervision of these agencies and not only them but multiple agencies around the world are running them as well and there are multiple honeypots deployed as well and these are not huge surprises.
491  Economy / Gambling / Re: Stake.com - The Leading Crypto Casino - 🦉 Drake, UFC, Everton Main Partner ⚽ 🥊 on: March 11, 2023, 07:54:13 PM
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There are some old loyal members who don't want KYC rules for bunos claims and they will switch to another casino if the bunos claim requires completing the KYC stages, so the perception of KYC is very sensitive for some members for privacy reasons but they might only complete level 1 KYC if The casino does not ask for proof of ID or other documents to be uploaded
If the users are not claiming the bonus then there is nothing to worry, most of the time they wanted to make sure that the giveaways are not abused by multiple accounts and there are not much trusted casinos in this space to switch them every week as majority of the regulated ones will be asking to verify yourself before playing especially the fiat ones.
492  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod] on: March 11, 2023, 06:20:07 PM
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If Sri Lanka gives a target of less than 300 then New Zealand will dominate the match and win. But being able to collect more than 300 will make the match competitive.
If not for the innings of Daryl Mitchell and the lower order battle by Matt Henry New Zealand would not be reaching this score instead concede a lead to Sri Lanka, considering that it would be a hard battle to chase anything around 300 runs in the final days of the match with the way the New Zealand batsman are struggling with the bat. The match depends upon how the Sri Lankan batsman are going to score runs tomorrow.

Finally a half century from Virat Kohli in Test and hopefully he will convert that to a century and so does the tail end and with the way the match is going it will end in a draw and finally some batsman were able to rectify their batting average with the pitch they got in the final Test  Cheesy.
493  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 🥊 The UFC Info and Prediction Thread on: March 10, 2023, 08:48:57 PM
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All this UFC rankings doesn't make any sense.
Jon Jones was not fighting for years, now he won in one fight and he jumped on first place  Sad
Jon Jones is considered as the greatest fighter ever to compete in MMA and now he actively moved to a higher weight division and won the belt and he is now the pound for pound best, when he left and vacated the title, he was the pound for pound best for years and now he is back and he just reclaimed his position.

Many people are saying that he used drugs in his previous fights and I am sure he used steroids in last few years to get more muscle mass.
Jones is a good fighter despite all this, but he cheated before and I am just waiting for someone to accuse him again.
It is not a surprise that Jon Jones is a cocaine user and parties heavily even during training camps and the spikes found during testing are now cleared by the testing authority as it gives no added benefit and since Jon Jones had the money and lawyers he fought in court and hence USADA is forced to change the testing rules which will benefit every sports personals that are tested. If you look throughout his fighting career, he is not a muscular person, he is called Bones for a reason Cheesy.

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These two probably think that the UFC has scammed them, they have done a lot to surely get to the ranking that they deserve and that was with hard work but Jon Jones with just 1 fight now become the P4P number one even though Ciryl Gane isn't near the top, and eventually, Jon Jones beating Gane suddenly taken the pound-4-pound throne, I think many were pretty much confused about how UFC is ranking this even though they are a fan of Jon Jones or not it really shocking after the Islam Makhachev VS Alexander Volkonovski fight Makhachev also thought that he was in the number 1 spot but all of a sudden a 3 years absent inside the Octagon Jon Jones got a title fight and become the number 1 I think the UFC needs to explained this it is pretty much confusing actually
To clear your confusion, pound for pound list is not made by the UFC. There is a voting panel which includes media personals and they create the fighter rankings and pound for pound list and the list is created through voting by couple of dozen MMA media outlets and UFC is not unanimously involved in that and to refresh your memory Jon Jones was the pound for pound king for years until he vacated the belt, 15 title fights and undefeated for a decade as he is in the UFC from 2008, now with the win in Heavyweight he is considered the best ever to do MMA and you think including him in the pound for pound rankings is not fair to other fighters  Shocked.

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No doubt that Jones cement his place in UFC history, but hard to say he is currently best fighter in UFC. Not every fighters, that is in UFC hall of fame was on p4p first place. For example Ronda Rousey, that probably introduced the world women MMA or at least was the first chick that brought women mma to a next level, is a member of UFC hall of fame, but never was in women p4p. There were even no p4p rating for women during her prime Smiley
Who in the UFC will defeat Jon Jones in any weight class right now in your opinion, he vacated the Light Heavweight belt he was holding from 2011 and how many champions emerged in that division in a short period of time after he vacated the belt, before he became champion the belt used to change hands often and i am following MMA from PRIDE days Cheesy and that was his dominance inside the cage. If Jon Jones did not mess outside the cage, Daniel Cormier would not be a double champion nor would we see any other champions unless he vacates and his name is Jon Jones Wink.


 
494  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Pakistan Super League #PSL Discussion Thread on: March 10, 2023, 06:22:47 PM
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The team was defeated with a target of more than 240 runs for the second time in a row in this PSL season. Against Quetta Gladiators with a target of over 240 runs with 10 balls to spare, Quetta Gladiators secured victory today as Peshwara Zalmi scored 242 runs but lost by 4 wickets. In today's match, Peshawar Zalmi batted first and collected 242 runs and Multan Sultan lost 6 wickets and collected 244 runs. Multan Sultans have already confirmed their play-offs.
It is hard to predict the match and hence not placing any bet as the score above 240 is also not safe to place a bet. Rilee Rossouw took Multan Sultans to victory and it was a one man show as he was striking the ball clean and i was expecting him to get out once he reached his century but he kept on going and that put the nail in the coffin on the hopes of Peshawar Zalmi.
495  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: MMA Info and Predictions - Bellator, KSW, PFL, ONE... on: March 10, 2023, 05:43:42 PM
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It was said that Jones was asking $30M in fighting against Ngannou. There wouldn't be a big margin difference if the fight happens, Ngaannou might also ask that high too. There would be a big hype before they can even agree verbally but because Ngannou is not much of a big talker to attempt trash talk, it may not be easy for Dana to give him how much he wants.
Not sure about the amount Jon Jones was asking but the disclosed amount Jon Jones took home after UFC 285 is over $10 million and Francis Ngannou was offered a much bigger purse and still he rejected it, one thing about UFC payday is that the published amount will be much smaller than the original awarded amount. For example, for UFC 148 the published amount Chael Sonnen got is $50,000 but recently Chael Sonnen claimed that his original payday for that rematch with Anderson Silva was over $8 million and that was in 2012.


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Surprisingly, this is a Lightweight Championship. By the looks of it, this is going to be a wrestling match. Henderson did manage to win two Decisions before this coming fight. It will be a waste of a Dagestan fighter and a satisfying win for Henderson at least before this guy retires.
Benson Henderson was my favorite fighter but it is time for him to hang the glove as he has been to many wars and he is a heavy underdog coming into this fight because he is taking on Usman Nurmagomedov who is way ahead in terms of talent and much younger and there is no way it is going to be an upset as Usman Nurmagomedov is really good in his feet and great on the ground.

My parlay picks for the event are Usman Nurmagomedov, Michael Page, Valentin Moldavsky, Theo Haig, Laird Anderson and Josh Hill.
496  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Is Solana failure resistant? on: March 09, 2023, 11:25:49 PM
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Nothing is failure resistant. Especially Solana. Why do you think the last network outage of solana happened? Neither do i. Neither does the team so how is it failure resistant when it last failed 1 WEEK ago. Or maybe you are trying to ask something else because network failures doesn't mean that anyone is losing money or anything like that. Just that system is down, which is one huge failure to me.
Mostly the Solana outrage is due to its crappy coding and the bugs is causing all the outrages. We have seen multiple outrages and still they were not able to fix them and i doubt they will be able to fix them at all, if so they would have already done that and then had a bot attack and i am curious how they are going to fix all these issues and when they can reclaim their trust.
497  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod] on: March 09, 2023, 08:14:07 PM
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The pitch is a very flat track to be honest. I am expecting this match to be a fair draw. If Australians are playing this good I expect even Indian batsmen to play this good on this track because ball is easily coming on the bat. But yes if spin comes into play after day 3 when pitch wears out then match can see an interesting turn. But yes all the batsmen must be happy after seeing this pitch finally in the 4th test. But it's too early to comment anything on the match so far.
The last Test match should be a lesson for the curators that even the Indian batsman were struggling to cope with the low bounce and spin and they might be forced to create a neutral wicket for the final Test. Still the pitch will wore out in the final two days and the match depends upon how the Indian batsman will score runs in their first innings, if not it will end up in a draw.
498  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 🥊 The UFC Info and Prediction Thread on: March 09, 2023, 06:02:42 PM
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 he also said in the press conference that he was angry with himself,
Gane might be angry that Jon Jones exposed him completely and the rest of the fighters will be following the same path to victory against him  Cheesy.

Lets wait for Jones to make his first heavyweight title defence and make a conclusion if he really is the greatest or not Cheesy So far it looked like it was an easy win for him. Stipe Miocic promised to smash Jones. Hope we wont have to wait years before Jones fights again. Who else we have among heavyweights ? Pavlovich ? Imho that is going to be copy/paste fight against Gane. Imho a wrestler is needed to win, a wrestler that will counter Jones wrestling, the one who will be able to throw bombs.
Jon Jones does not need to fight again to cement his place as the greatest fighter in history, just look at his fighting career and he basically took on undefeated fighters throughout his career and even Jon Jones promised to stop Stipe Miocic before the championship rounds and with Stipe at 40 years and not fighting for the past two years, it will be a challenge for him against Jon Jones.

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No offense for this, but does Jon Jones is deserved to become top 1 P4P in men's UFC? he was at 10th position and only fight once time with the best fighter in heavyweight, now he's beat Makhachev which previously have beat Volkanovski. From my personal opinion, Makhachev should be on top 1, Volkanovski top 2 and then followed with Jones to be in top 3.
Jon Jones is basically undefeated in the UFC for the past decade fighting against the best, 15 title fights and he is regarded as the best ever to do that and he is the epitome of pound of pound best.
499  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion on: March 09, 2023, 01:22:19 PM
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First time over England was great. But England went on the backfoot whenever Yash Buttler's wicket fell. Later, England could not come back. But not without praising Bangladesh's responsible batting.  Especially Nazmul Hossain Shanta, he was irresistible in today's match. And today's debutant Tawheed Hridoy was also excellent in today's match. But in the end, Shakib Al Hasan's responsible batting ensured Bangladesh won by 6 wickets. Undoubtedly, this victory is a great achievement for Bangladesh.
I was not aware of the history between Bangladesh and England in T20 but they chased down the total really well. Looking at the team, majority of their top order players were fairly new to me and once Bangladesh reached 100 in the 11th over i was convinced that they would chase the total and hence placed a bet on them as they had Shakib Al Hasan still to come out to bat and they had a couple of other players before him.
500  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Pakistan Super League #PSL Discussion Thread on: March 08, 2023, 09:08:07 PM
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Unbelievable Match No one will believe that Quetta Gladiator will win this match as Peshawar team set a huge target of 240 runs and this is also the second highest score in Pakistan Super League. It is true that Quetta performed brilliantly, especially with Jason Roy's incredible batting to win the unwinnable match۔ He scored 145 runs off 63 balls, one century and approx fifty that's it great performance.
The target was huge and under usual circumstance we would not expect the team to chase 240 in a T20 easily but the odds makers were not providing great odds and hence i had my doubts because yesterday Islamabad United chased down the total even after loosing wickets and was not expecting them to chase the total but they did in the end and i lost my bet and hence in this match waited till the 15th over and placed a bet on the chasing team as they barely lost 2 wickets and had a good momentum.
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