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501  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: btc payments and processors on: January 29, 2024, 08:34:04 PM
I suppose op could be talking about the simple merchant feature in electrum, see: https://electrum.readthedocs.io/en/latest/merchant.html

But it's pretty limited and there are many better options out there so I'm pretty sure it's not one of the popular choices for merchants. As a consumer, I've never seen it either.
Maybe he asked about it, though probably not many knows that Electrum have this feature. Personally, I haven't saw any merchant using Electrum as proccessor.
I suggest OP to look at decentralised service BTCPayServer. Centralised services is an option too. Except BitPay - just stay away from it.
502  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ⚽ Sportsbet.io ⚽ Spanish La Liga ⚽ Football Pool Discussion Thread 2023/2024 on: January 29, 2024, 08:20:45 PM
Xavi joins Sven and Klopp in announcing retirements and stepping down.

Sven gets applause, plaudits, tributes because he has less than a year to live. Klopp gets it all because he says goodbye and is well loved anyway. But poor Xavi, announcing his and instead of asking him aboutall the details of why, he gets ridiculed and shat on.

Guys dragged you out of misery, made you win and improved El Clasico stats. And still he is too shit.

Fk football man.
Xavi arrived to Barca when club was in deep shit. Under Koeman club reached bottom and future looked so dark with all financial problems. Xavi stabilised everything, gave hope and even won La Liga. We have great new generation from La Masia, I hope that club won't turn into comedy like MU.
This season isn't going as planned, seems that Xavi failed to handle pressure and probably some changes is needed. But I hope that one day he will return to club.
503  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ⭐⚽⭐ Sportsbet's Bitcointalk Sports Fanatics League (BSFL) – 10000$ rewards ⭐⚽⭐ on: January 29, 2024, 08:08:53 PM
Congratulation LTU_btc, I thought this was gonna be high BTTS game but Fiorentina didn't score so you get the win. I can even lose in a friendly, how nice for my team lol

Entering my picks tomorrow, I really need the research if I want to have small hope of playoff for relegation  Cry
Thanks, mate. Maybe therre weren't much quality in our game, but it was interesting fight. Really didn't expected that Denmark will lose handball final.
Upcoming round questions, NFL will be wild guess for me, as I have no clue about it. NHL question is tough too because it's not even regular games, but all star game.
Congratulations to imarios and Hhampuz with promotion!
504  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ⚽ Sportsbet.io ⚽ Bundesliga ⚽ Football Pool Discussion Thread 2023/2024 on: January 28, 2024, 08:18:45 PM
Ulven is currently leading this matchday with 11 points. there are still two games left today and i strongly suspect that Ulven is predicting a 1-1 in each of them as well Grin Cool


And it really happened - he went with 1:1 in all games this round. After all, it didn't helped him much as he dropped by 1 place. It would be interesting to hear something about from @Ulven himself, what his plan was. If I would go with same pick in all games, I doubt that I would go with 1:1 score.
Congrats to @casperBGD with yellow cap!
505  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 23/24 European basketball discussion: Euroleague/BBL/ACB/LegaA/LNB/TBL.. on: January 28, 2024, 03:20:25 PM
Many other nice games yesterday as well. In Germany 3rd place and German champion Ratiopharm Ulm (13:4) lost at home by 21 points against 16th place Tübingen (4:13) . How these results can happen is beyond my understanding.
And Real got destroyed by Gran Canaria today 77:00. Yeah, they have excuse of missing many players because of injuries, but still, result is huge. Seems that trip to Las Palmas is one of toughest in Europe (not surprising when you see where this island is located) and Gran Canaria losses at home is very rare thing.
But this is why I love leagues like ACB or German BBL There is so many good level teams that every week you can get upsets. I think it says a lot about level of league that Baskonia is out of playoff zone in ACB.
Today there is Belgrade derby between Crvena Zvezda and Partizan in Adriatic league, too bad that this league isn't shown on TV in my country.
506  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Portuguese League - Liga Portugal 2023/24 on: January 27, 2024, 10:18:16 PM
Damn, what a heartbreak for Estoril, they wasted historical chance to lift trophy. And not that they didn't didn't had chance against Braga - they actually were so close in penalty shootout. Bothteams were perfect in shootout, until Araujo, only left foot player in shootout who missed 5th penalty for Estoril.
For Braga this win is big thing, they don't have chance to lift trophies very often. It's their 3rd ever League Cup.

On Sunday we return to league action with 5 games, though, there is no big matchups. From big clubs only Porto is playing, they will face Farense away.
507  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 23/24 European basketball discussion: Euroleague/BBL/ACB/LegaA/LNB/TBL.. on: January 27, 2024, 09:24:53 PM
Is there anyone who has seen Georgios Papagiannis' three-pointer in the last second? As a person who has been watching basketball for a long time Papagiannis managed to carry the game to overtime in a moment that I thought the match ended and Fenerbahçe won the match. I can't even imagine the disappointment Bahçeşehir players had.

https://x.com/Eurohoopsnet/status/1751325290435850265
Wanted to post it, but you have done it before me. Crazy moment, even coach Jasikevicius already accepted loss and already walked to shake hands with Bahçeşehir coach. Such moments is ver rare in basketball and it instantly gave me flashbacks of similar Zoran Planinic buzzer beater:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K83bSLQIHsY Klemen Prepelic also have done something similar when he played for Joventut:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uTyWm6PKYE

https://i.postimg.cc/3R6yC7k2/efes-monaco.jpg

I was at Sinan Erdem Sports Hall today to watch Efes' game against Monaco. Efes were decent in the first half. However their performance in Q3 was a big disappointment. Their choices in offense organizations weren't good enough. Ending up with turnovers in really critical times also had a big affect on Efes to lose this game by 78-80.

Beaubois could have nearly extended the game to overtime but it turned out not to be a 3-pointer.  Sad  The coach Erdem Can targeted to keep the same level they had in the Barcelona game but there wasn't such performance this time.
Damn, Efes lost so many close games... They don't get defeated by 20 points, almost all their losses is just few points margin. Watched game and wanted to see overtime, but yeah, Beaubois really crossed on the line.
508  Economy / Micro Earnings / Re: Do you think faucets are dying? on: January 27, 2024, 08:30:03 PM
I'm pretty sure the witch hunt started in 2016 and by 2017 there wasn't any faucet else displaying Google ads anymore. Faucets exist until nowadays, but like walking deads, zombies. Without Google ads, faucets owners were forced to find alternatives to keep operating somehow, so they appealed to the worst kinds of ads disponible on the internet, such as pop-ups, malicious links, pornography and endless sequences of short-links. All of them low paying ads which turned the faucets into completely useless websites for extra earnings.

Without Google ads, the industry died in less than 1 year. At least, if faucets were clean to claim, like in the old days, I think we could still consider them an alternative, especially for newbies, because they could profit by claiming in quantity, instead of relying on the quality of the faucets. But it's just insanity to spend 2-3 minutes in a website to earn 20 satoshis per claim on the best of scenarios...

About Google's decision, well it's up to them as a private company to decide to which kind of website they want to relate their ads, but fraud and poor traffic quality remains even without faucets. At least through faucets they were helping the miserables of the world to start their crypto journeys from zero.
Yeah, without Google Adsense quality of faucets started to drop eventually. All kind of ads become very aggressive - pop-ups, shortlinks, porn, we also forgot another thing - miner script in background which triggered antivirus. Shortly, claiming become too much time consuming and reward was simply not worth efforts. I remember golden times of faucets when I opened random faucet rotator and everything was as simple as captcha → reward → next. In short time it was possible to claim from so many faucets.
Another aspect which was important probably is rising value of Bitcoin. It made faucet rewards to something like 2-5 Satoshi. It's same value as 50 Satoshi few years back, but with such low rewards you had to make crazy number of claims to reach payment treshold. Not many had motivation and time for it.
And if I would place of Google, I also wouldn't allow to use Adsense on faucets.
509  Other / Politics & Society / Re: What do you think about the freedom of speech in the USA? on: January 27, 2024, 08:05:53 PM
You are wrong. Such choices finally lead to the domination of the propaganda of other side.
If there is a channel which spreads lies, you should not block it, but create 3 more channels which expose these lies.
Usually the propaganda is based not on fake news but on hiding some facts and favoring the other ones:





You have good point, but unfortunately these things doesn't work in reality. You can create as many channels as you want where lies is exposed and debunked, but people just don't care. Majority don't watch or don't read such articles. Nowadays it's enough clickbait title or photoshoped image to spread fakes. This is why we have so many people believing in all kinds of conspiracy theories.
And your image is perfect example how easy to manipulate people.
510  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ⚽ Sportsbet.io ⚽ Spanish La Liga ⚽ Football Pool Discussion Thread 2023/2024 on: January 27, 2024, 07:50:23 PM
What a match between Barca and Villarreal, First half was a bit slow but then it really opened after Villarreal scored second goal early in second half. Poised at 3:3 at the moment I am writing this and deep into extra time but I wouldn't be surprised if we see some more drama and another goal here.
Barca conceding 5 goals against Villarreal at Camp Nou Estadi de Montjuïc, in what reality we are living... Seems that Barca started to play when they were down 0:2 and their asses were already burning. But c'mon, making such comeback and still losing game, I don't even know what to say. 4th of Villarreal is best summary of Barca defense this season - lack of communication between players, lack of confidence, bad decisions and everything just in few seconds.
Not sure about Xavi future. But it's not ok when manager more talks about referees in Real game than focusing on problems in his own team.
511  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Motosport General discussion tread --- Formula1, MotoGP, WTCC, ETCC, DTM..... on: January 26, 2024, 06:41:47 PM
Adding Madrid is not really a problem, they are trying to make it go a lot harder and bigger, so that is an important thing. However, adding more and more tracks, which is their goal, to reach that 30 race season thing, is all about money and I am not sure if teams will be capable of doing that. Remember, adding more tracks means more income in the future, but it also means more expense, and while there are some teams like Mercedes and red bull which can sustain themselves and do this, there are teams like haas and williams which can't.

There needs to be some financial assistance to the teams that does poorly, I mean something bigger, punishing teams for being bad, makes them only worse and they eventually bankrupt and sell the team to someone else, who will later bankrupt as well.
Madrid isn't going be additional GP. They're going to replace Barcelona track. Personally for me, Barcelona is one of the most boring old school tracks, but I don't want to see it replaced by another soulless street circuit. It looks that one day we're going to reach point when in F1 calendar there will be more street circuits than old-school tracks. From business perspective it's logical, rich cities have more to offer for F1 than these tracks. But as old F1 fan, it makes me sad that such great tracks like Istanbul, Sepang, Mugello or Portimao don't get spot in calendar and getting replaced by city circuits or boring tracks in Middle East
512  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Everything is so logical the russia is the bad guy on: January 26, 2024, 06:21:49 PM
Sir you have no proof,you're just repeating mainstream media propaganda,the west equipped Ukraine and effectively built 3 armies that have been destroyed,their planning and tactics are so great yet the counteroffensive was defeated without achieving anything other than the loss of hundreds of thousands of troops,since then Russia has taken marinka,many villages around bakhmut,avdivka has almost fallen,same goes for all the villages bordering kupiansk and liman,or talk about the rabotino axis which was where Ukraine sacrificed most of their troops,go check out what's happening there
And I'm not being pro anything just do your research instead of repeating propaganda talking points, check maps of the battlefield pro-ukrainian maps and see for urself eg u can checkout deepsate map or any other of ur liking
PS Russia never at any point used t55,the fact that a t90 was destroyed is testament to how modern their equipments are,the Bradleys and tanks supplied to Ukraine are all a couple decades old,the f-16s especially from Netherland are over 50years old a complete clown show

Furthermore,you're pointing to Russian losses as if they're fighting themselves,just in this suicidal counteroffensive, Ukraine lost thousands of tanks and military equipments,Russia has effectively destroyed their air defences and are practically hitting everything in all parts of Ukraine,the uaf are effectively out of artillery shells and guns(heck the whole world is out of 155mm artillery shells) and yet somehow you still pushing the narrative that Ukraine and the west are somehow winning
Russia has occupied and annexed 90% of the territories they wanted and in the process have demilitarised NATO as a whole and yet somehow you want to claim Russia is weak and obsolete
LOL, you're blaming me for repeating mainstream media propaganda, but whole your post is just cliches from Russian propaganda. Counteroffensive wasn't succesfful, there is several reasons behind this. First is time. Ukraine had wait for weapons from West for so long that it was enough time for Russia to built several defense lines in Tokmak direction. And still, they started counteroffensive without much support from air as they still yet to recive F-16. I know maps perfectly, maybe better than you, there is no need to teach what I should look.
I'm wondering from where you took these numbers of hundreds of thousands troops killed in counteroffensive? Only Russian officials are constantly repeating it. But yeah, it's not Western propaganda, they never lied, how you can't believe them (sarcasm).
Russia never used T-55, really? It took me few seconds to deny your statement. They didn't just used it, they got some tanks damaged or destroyed:
https://postlmg.cc/9ryL62n8
https://twitter.com/CalibreObscura/status/1670510694838546436
Bradleys or F-16 is old, so what? If it serves it's purpose, I don't see any issue about it. And after all, it's not so old as post-WWII tank Smiley.
Russia destroyed Ukrainian air defense, in what alternative rality you live? If it was destroyed, I'm wondering why so little % of missiles and drones reaches it targets. And meanwhile Ukraine effectively hitting targets in Russian territory and occupied regions with Patriot system, which is already destroyed long time ago according to Russia.
And against, that stupid cliche about pushing narrative that Ukraine is winning, I'm wondering from where you Russians took it? And how you managed to see in my post that I'm pushing this narrative. Probably you just see what you want to see.
And again ''Russia has occupied and annexed 90% of the territories they wanted'', putting some random numbers will make it look that you're telling facts. But I can ask you again, from what ass you're taking these numbers?
513  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 23/24 European basketball discussion: Euroleague/BBL/ACB/LegaA/LNB/TBL.. on: January 25, 2024, 09:19:09 PM
Didn't watched the game - what happened to Crvena Zvezda? They had no chance today against Alba. They burned my bet - odds weren't high, so, I had quite some money on this game.
Another upset is ASVEL win against Bayern. Nobody wants to be last.
Fenerbahche and Real got quite comfortablw wins, while Maccabi managed to win against Panathinaikos. PAO were on fire recently.
4 more games tomorrow, and all 4 is looking interesting.
514  Other / Politics & Society / Re: What do you think about the freedom of speech in the USA? on: January 25, 2024, 09:01:49 PM
So, you think that Youtube should allow these pro-Putin channels to continue spreading propaganda? After all, Google/Youtube is private company and they can decide what is better for their business. After all, it's not written in constitution that everyone has right to have Youtube channel.
Censorship isn't perfect solution, but I think it's better option than allowing to spread propaganda freely. Don't forget that these channels is targeted on Russians only. It's also made to brainwash people of Eastern Europe and former Soviet Union. They also actively maintain English language channels which are trying to look like opposition for mainstream media and targets Western people.
About blocking Youtube - if they haven't done it in 2 years of war, I doubt they're planning to block it anytime soon. Despite censorship, it remains important tool for their propaganda machine.
About freedom of speech in USA - I don't live there to respind, but looking from outside, things looksnot so bad. Maybe in most popular media you won't see many pro-Trump opinions. But as said above, there is channels which shows trumpism 24/7, Fox probably is most prominent example.
515  Economy / Digital goods / Re: WTB Aged Eth addresses/private keys on: January 25, 2024, 08:34:42 PM
I have experience selling my old ETH addresses and ended up being scammed. I'm not sure if some of you would consider this a scam, as I agreed on the price for selling my ETH addresses and received the payment. They just took advantage of me for not knowing that the address I owned had an unclaimed Airdrop. I just found out that there's an unclaimed Airdrop after transaction and checking the transactions linked to my Ethereum address.
I don't think that it can be called as scam. As you said, you both agreed price, you got money, he got ETH addresses. He wasn't obligated to tell you why he needs these addresses and haven't done anything illegal. He simply benefited from that you wasn't aware about airdrop.
OP saying that he need it not for airdrops, I'm wondering what other reasons can be.
516  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Portuguese League - Liga Portugal 2023/24 on: January 24, 2024, 08:25:13 PM
However, it should be mentioned that Sporting lost today to Braga, in the semi-final of the League Cup. The game ended 1-0 with Braga winning.

Tomorrow Benfica plays Estoril, the other semi-final, to see who will face Braga in the final, next Saturday.

So far Estoril is leading 0:1 and I really would like to see upset of underdog. After all, League Cup isn't main tournament for big clubs, their priority is league and UEFA cups. But it will be very difficult for Estoril to keep a lead, now matter how many buses they will park. In whole 1stt half basicaly they had only 1 moment which they converted into goal.
517  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Motosport General discussion tread --- Formula1, MotoGP, WTCC, ETCC, DTM..... on: January 24, 2024, 08:15:55 PM
Keep also in mind that we have lost Alfa Romeo in F1 this year.

It will be Audi in the coming 2 years but for 2024 they will race with Kick Sauber as name in the 2024 F1 season.

They were rumored to use the "Adidas" but something went wrong I guess.
BTW, Alpha Tauri presented their new name today. They will be called Visa Cash App RB
https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.alphatauri-rebrand-confirmed-for-2024-season-as-new-team-name-revealed.4xAWHWI66d5L9mFELLGb6J.html
IMO, it's one of worst F1 teams name ever. I already thought that Stake F1 Team Kick Sauber is already bad, but this one beats them. I know it's all about sponsor's money, but I think it was possible to make name which sounds better and easier to remember.
518  Other / Meta / Re: Other Forum members are more civil than Legendary members, Why? on: January 23, 2024, 09:20:06 PM
I noticed such things, but I don't think it happens often. And I don't agree that it happens because they have superior knowledge. You know, in general newbies tend to ask same kind of questions. Older members see such questions all their long time here. Some maybe are just pissed off and tired answering same questions. How someone may not know it and why they're not using search when such question was answered so many times. I agree that sometimes people should be less harsh for newbies.
But I suggest you, don't react so sensitive to things what people are saying on internet.
519  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Everything is so logical the russia is the bad guy on: January 23, 2024, 09:09:14 PM
According to and admitted by western intelligence Russia is outproducing the entire west ie USA and all it's allies NATO inclusive in artillery,drones,missiles,tanks,aircrafts,ships,submarines,practically in everything Russia outproduces the west and in terms of troops,well simply put last year Russia added 500,000 plus troops well trained and equipped to the smo in Ukraine something none of the western countries is able to do

Yea, right... That's probably why they have to use ammo from North Korea and send their old T55s into battle, because they have so much modern equipment.
Let's also not forget that Russia, although it's producing a lot, is also losing a lot every day. Just a few days ago there was a video of their most advanced version of T90 being shot to pieces by a Bradley.
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If everything would be so good in Russia, then probably they wouldn't have to use weapons and missiles from North Korea. C'mon, asking for military help from North Korea looks quite desperate move.
Let's look at basic thing like artillery shells. If they're making about 100k shells month, that's enough just for a week (various reports tells that they use about 20k shells daily.
Let's go to more complex things like tanks. No way that they can enough tanks to cover losses in Ukraine. If you think that they can make more than 20 tanks daily, you're living in alternative reality. I'm not even talking about things like fighter jets, ships or planes like A-50.
Added well trained and equipped troops - yeah, we all saw how well they're trained and prepared.
520  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 🌍⚽Sportsbet.io AFCON 2024 prediction pool discussion thread on: January 23, 2024, 08:25:38 PM
Gambia - Cameroon game was crazy, there was more action than in whole previous edition of AFCON. In 2nd half things and emotions were changing like roller-coaster. Gambia taking lead on 85th minute and still lost the game. It already looked that they managed to make score 3:3 and eliminate Cameroon, but their goal was obvious handball.
Anyway, happy that Cameroon got qualified.
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