The state of mempool is really one factor why we really need to postponed our transactions because the fees are very high. However, there could be some members who are into a emergency or even who rely on his bitcoin to survived and so he has not choice, despite the high fees to withdraw unless he can just borrowed money from someone else and then pay later when the mempool is back to normal and so he can withdraw.

But definitely, holding is one of the best strategy for us. And I think for my case, the pandemic really make me HODL, and help me understand what accumulating is. So I just continue doing that in this bear market, buy save to in my wallet and sell it in small percentage when we are in a bull run.

I do agree, however, I just read that he says that he need at least 10 days to fully acclimatized himself with the Clippers system and the players. So most likely this is just an excuse for him though, to at least justify that he is not the reason why the Clippers are missing.

But if we have followed NBA for a long time, we know that he has this history of requesting trade if he knows that his current team is not doing good or least himself is not the leader or the Alpha. So same here with the Clippers, Kawhi is the franchise player and not Harden. So maybe sooner or later after a disastrous season for the Clippers we might hear him asking for a trade again.

At least if the top is the all time high, so if you buy on that price, you really have to wait for a long time to make some profits. But if you buy at some point in time and then we went on a bull run and all time high, and during that time you think that it is already expensive but you still bought because you look for long term, then why not? you can still squeeze some profits.


It starts on October, from $28k-$32k, now this November we have reach like $39k and now back to test the support line of $37k.


Yeah, but the next coming month or at least the end of the year will be very interesting, yeah it's holiday season and there could be some selling their stash to have some cash. But I'm seeing that the price will continue to grow, so it's going to be a dilemma if we are going to sell or just continue to hold and still enjoy the holiday seasons.

This is the classic example of a FOMO. I mean if the OP is really a investor then it doesn't matter if there is news about BlackRock intention for a Ethereum Spot ETF. However, when he hears the news then immediately he wants to join the bandwagon by starting to ask for financial advise here. The best thing to do, with or without this news is to simply accumulate if you think that Ethereum will continue to rise in the future.

All things pointing out to a imminent bull run in 2024-2025. Block halving will start around April and that is the catalyst for a massive bull run. So just think of Ethereum as a solid coin that will give you a huge profit in the future. So yeah why not just buy it and hold for long term?

If the BlackRock application is approved, then good, if not then you can still make some profits by HODLing.

Floyd and Adrien used to be very tight though, they have been seen in the public many times together. If I'm not mistaken, Floyd take Broner under his wing, similar to how he did to Tank Davis. But I think Broner is really out of control that time, in his prime and he try to be the next Floyd Mayweather. But after that lost to Marcos Maidana everything falls apart and so he was forgotten. Although he got lucky that he got to fight Manny for a good paycheck even if he is already on his downward spiral.


Yeah, he can still fight for the money. And maybe he can still be a champion, like interim belt, but at 140 lbs, it is very difficult as those from the 135 lbs are going up in this division like Ryan and they show intention to fight him next. And it could be Ryan's stepping stone and big test next.

Depends on what games you played, for poker players, it's more of their skills on how to read their opponents and bluff. For sports betting, you need to analyse the game itself and see what are the strengths and weaknesses of the teams that are playing against each other and see how it's going to be in the end. So there is somewhat a analytical skills involved.

But for games like slots, dice, roulette, doesn't need skills there, all you need is money and some luck and then you roll that dice or push the button for slots machine and hope that it will land on the bets that you have on them.

We can also say that to the Bucks, they've lost Holiday and pick up Lillard, but so far the marriage is somewhat off, and they don't have a good record at the start of the season and obviously the chemistry has been disrupted since there are a lot of new players in Bucks roster.

And we have been discussing it even before Harden goes to the Clippers, they already have like 3 stars already having a problem as well. And then adding Harden in the equation? It's going to be very hard to the coach on how to balance their superstars. Although the Clippers organization might think that they have won the trade since they didn't give up most of it's players, but there is still the question on how Harden is going to fit and so far, he is not doing any good.

Right, the thing is that this is not the first time that they have been hack so obviously they didn't learn anything from the past and maybe they are just relaxed thinking that they could not be a target anymore. But there are a lot of groups even state sponsored hackers plying in the ecosystem. And one they case you, it will be just a matter of time before they hack the exchange in whichever means possible.

Not sure though what is the impact in the market situation. We didn't see any major downside on any top tier coins right now. So perhaps this is just a non factor and only Poloniex and it's customers and Justin are being affected. Hopefully the funds are SAFU so that those who lost their money can get it back at least.

It's already more than 100% profit for us if we have invested at the lowest price last year of $15,500. So that is the good thing about bitcoin investment, in just short amount of time you can really make a huge profit without doing anything in your part but just to buy and then hold. But the bigger picture is still the bull run that we wanted to see next year. So buying at $35,000 could still be a good idea.

And this price seems to be very expensive, yeah, for some it is, but just look at how the price moves to $37k-$40k. There is still profits to be made short term. But as I have said, it's better to look long term so that when you buy today and if you think it's expensive, then just wait till we enter the bull run.

Lol, but it's true we have to give credit for Tapales, for having the "conjones" to face the number 2 p4p. But I guess he knows that he is on the collision course with Inoue specially when he upset Akhmadaliev and took his belt. As per the odds, no doubt that Inoue will be the outstanding favorite in this fight and it's like that he is a sure winner already. But he shouldn't underestimate the Filipino because he knows what he can do in the ring and it will create a lot of ripple if Inoue loses this one.

So we should give credit for Marlon, and from all the reports that we are seeing, he is sacrificing a lot on his end like training very hard not just in US but also in Baguio the Philippines and facing a lot of good Filipino fighters to get himself feeling the power.

That is the thing though with this hype rookies, the expectations are very high. And the last time that we have this kind of hype is Lebron James when he come on the league. And he did good during his first year. I know it's going to be tough following that footsteps because we have seen it already and up to know James is still playing so it's a hard to replicate that.


Of course, anything about 15 ppg is already a big numbers for a rookie. And fans are going to Spurs game to watch him. And so he has a lot things to look at in the next 5 years. But the good thing is that the kid is carrying himself up to this point and hopefully his body can go and withstand 82 games.

Yeah, so as far as rankings, it will be Fury, Usyk, and then AJ and Wilder.

And as much as AJ and Wilder wanted to say that they are the best in HW, they don't have any belts to boot. The only thing they have is that they are just in those tier and that's why we wanted to see them facing each other, Fury vs AJ for all British, or AJ vs Wilder as this fight has been touted for many years before they got beaten.

Francis though is the odd man out right now, he needs to beat at least one of them before his name could be inserted in the discussions.

And probably the next question is, what if we indeed reach $45k at the end of the year? Will everyone now goes to AI and ask and them believed what it will tell us? Next year obviously it will be a big run for us as we will have the halving and then the eventual bull run that we all have been waiting. There are predictions that we can hit $100k at a minimum. So maybe another question that we could post to this AI is that what will be the prediction for 2024-2025? Will it match what most of the speculators here are predicting or will it be a different prediction that we have some qualms about it and think that we should ignore AI in cryptocurrency trading or prediction? So I guess there's more questions that answer if we tap AI at it's infancy, just saying.

Yep, it seems that the Rockets has finally found the missing pieces in Fred VanFleet, they took a huge gamble by offering him one of the biggest contract this season, but it's paying off. Remember that they are also considering James Harden as per report. And it's good that they have choose VanFleet and not Harden. Jalen Green is coming to his age right now and so is Sengun, very simply player but very effective.

And then they have the muscle in Dillon Brooks if they needed a player to stop the opposing team's main weapon. He even guarded Steph Curry during their games. But here it was his old nemesis in Lebron James. But it doesn't matter if Brooks is with a different team not, all he wanted is to play defense whoever is in front of him. They also have a lot of good role and young players coming off the bench to give their starters a good rest and then they just continue their momentum in this game and not allowing the Lakers to make a comeback just like what they do on their previous games, catching up and then stealing one. But it's not going to happen at Houston's homecourt.

Thanks, it was a hard fought game and the spread, ouch, I got greedy and thinking that they can cover it. Sure, I will try to bounce back as there are a lot of games later.

I'll go with the Bucks against the Pacers, could be another close game here, but let's see if Giannis can take one at the road against the Pacers. The Bucks slight favorite @1.77 ML. I think there's value on that bet.

I also like to go ML with the Mavericks @1.81 against the Clippers, gonna be exciting, but I think LA might still struggle and Doncic putting MVP numbers.

It looks like you are going with the Warriors here against the Nuggets.

But I'm going with the Nuggets at -3.5 @1.88. There are reports that Draymond might not going to play in this game. Even so, the Nuggets have Jokic, and then they are blending very well.

Knicks though has a huge lead against Wemby and the Spurs.

^^ Yeah, familiar with Berto and I will say that his he was like Broner, minus the trash talking. He had a good skills back then and if I remember correctly, he is supposedly to fight Mosley then, after Mosley beat Margarito. But a big earth quake hits Haiti (where Andre's family came from), so he has to go there and raise money for the country.

And after that, he goes back fighting but it seems that he has lost his hype already. He was one of Floyd's hit list and so they fought. But we all know that nobody beats Mayweather and so Berto looks very amateurish in that fight.

Obviously this is for the money and not for the revenge against another old fighter in Guererro. I don't know how this old boxers can still get a fight in a very good match like this one.

Yeah, I think maybe sport bookies are underestimating Regis Prograis, or they think that Haney can overcome him with his skills. The scary part is that Regis has power to knockout anyone at 140 lbs and this is the first time that Haney in this weight. So we don't know how good he is, and his chin is also questionable. I mean if by chance Regis hit him with power punches he might go down.


He is fighting Duarte, it's obvious that this is just a stepping stone or a comeback fight for Ryan. He is big though, an for sure he will not have a problem making 140 lbs. And Prograis is a champion here and Haney trying to make his name at this division same with him. So don't be surprise if he is going to call both of this fighters. Even Teo Lopez as well is in the radar of Ryan Garcia. So let's see first if he can get over Duarte and it will not be an easy fight for him.

I haven't try that strategy though, but obviously I will see a lot of bets along the way and you will be just in awe on such big bets or those gamblers who are betting on a parlay with a huge odds and sometimes I'm tempted to copy them. However, those games that the gamblers are betting are not familiar to me, so most of the times I have qualms about it and so I don't do this strategy. But why not though, I mean if you are losing then it might call for desperate measures, just saying.

In any case, there is a video circulating about a man who is in prison, calling someone and telling them to bet for him a parlay,

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7P48TLNBzsI

And it said that he won, and uses that money he won for a bail, not sure if this is real or not, but crazy story.

Lol, I thought that OP will have a analysis on what's going to happen pre-halving. However, just like the rest of us, we have our own wild and educated guess. And I think the best scenario that everyone is hoping is that we want to see the price going into the positive direction, i.e. price around the $40k-$50k that time.

Not really sure what you mean by inflation and depreciation, yeah, terms could have the same meaning here, but in crypto we seldom used that term. But in any case, if the majority is looking for a increased at the start of next year, then obviously, we want to make profits short term and in order to do that, we should continue to accumulate at this price and hopefully our prediction will hit to squeeze some profits in January it you are that kind of a trader/speculator.