I don't care what anyone says, I am certain in the belief that Satoshi knew form day one exactly what he was going to do and how he was going to do it in terms of creating/setting up that wallet and then never moving coins out of it.  So I don't think theres any chance that we ever see him come back again.  It would be great of course as bitcoin needs help IMO. 

I don't get why you don't use cryptocurrency sites to do your gambling/placing sports bets.  For me that was the huge game changer once Bovada started allowing bitcoin.  I personally am not a big fan of the regulated sites here in the US.  It just makes everything more complicated and difficult in my opinion. 

That said I've been hearing they are improving, so maybe they'll eventually start accepting crypto.

It doesn't matter what they stole, how they stole it, what they used it for and even if they stole money to gamble and made  millions, I would feel the same way regardless..very upset.  If they stole money and won a bunch, sure that's great but it would certainly be a teaching lesson and they would be grounded for a very long time if it were me.

Some fun games this past weekend to say the least! I think I got most of my bets correct except for the Niners Packers game, I really thought they would beat them by more.  Man, it's scary as a Bears fan seeing how much better Love has been getting.

I Ravens Chiefs is going to be one hell of a game I think.  I think the Niners will wax the Lions but hey, any given sunday right. 

Do you guys who live outside the US get the Fox games in "4k"?   Here Fox is the only station that has 4k, though it's actually not true 4k, it looks really nice though.  I wish both games were on Fox.

Probably belongs here most- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=261.0

But once in a blue moon some threads should be on multiple boards and this is one of those times. I think it’s kinda frowned upon unless it truly fits in both sections, which this does.

Edit : Sale is now pending and no longer accepting offers.


Looking to sell - 2013 S3 Casascius Fine Silver .5BTC coin (funded).  Slabbed and graded 67 by ANACS.

https://casascius.uberbills.com/?address=1AgdKrAhD9sh1GAjfk66kkNDFTBJ1Nc6A9







(Note: the slab is a bit scratched in a few places. I will try and clean it and post more photos soon)

Opening up to offers atm. I would prefer to fly and meet the buyer anywhere agreed upon in the US. I’ve got flier miles I’m wanting to burn and for a coin of this value I’d just prefer to not mail it if possible. Depending whether I know you or not, your trust score, how long you’ve been on the forum etc, some sort of escrow will likely be required for both our safety.

Some semi recent sales of similar coins :

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5468069.0

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5437215.0 (Series 2 ..so more rare/valuable)

Will look for more sales soon/check the auction houses.


Lastly - I will not discuss sale outside this forum.  If we converse via DMs, make sure it’s me /my account you’re conversing with. Thanks to scammers who are constantly reading all these threads we have to be careful.

There’s def something to that for sure. Tho Favre and Rodgers are two of the best ever, so they’d likely still have been great regardless but preparing before being thrown in certainly helps a lot. I understand throwing in say Cam Newton (imo best college player ever), andrew Luck, and others who were clearly NFL ready from the start. Not that sitting behind someone for a year wouldn’t still have been very helpful.

Praying Caleb Williams is truly a once in a decade prospect like he’s been touted and doesn’t get ruined by A going in too soon and B Da Bears.  Unless they keep Fields which ..no thanks.

I’m on my cell and too lazy to copy paste from your last post lol, but agree Jerry is his own worst enemy quite often. That said Lamb is elite, top 3-5..Cooks is pretty darn solid, and Gallup isn’t horrible for a #4. Their number #2 receiver is their 2nd year TE Ferguson who’s a baller with a very bright future, so it’s not a terrible receiving core by any means really. Even if they had salary cap space this last year, wasn’t much WR help available at all. Not too many guys got traded. Hopkins woulda been a great fit but his contract that carried over was very sizable. But just like Bill B , Jerry playing GM/coach etc doesn’t help anything. Btw Pollard still had 1k yards rushing and avgd 4ypc , so he wasn’t horrible, but you’re right he declined in play as he looks to be best suited for a split role. All that said, losing to GB was pretty sad. Tho of freaking course Love looks to be a rising star. My god, GB has some sort of QB drafting cheat code.

Ravens Texans will be interesting! Here’s the issue for Baltimore, no Marlon Humphrey who’s their stud CB who coulda helped big time w Nico Collins. The Texans offense is pretty ehhh outside Stroud and Nico without Dell and Noah Brown  (Schultz is solid but not special). It’s a big blow for Baltimore but prob not big enough to change the outcome IMO.

I find this number a bit amusing as it almost matches the amount of financial fraud violations JP Morgan Chase has had since the year 2000- https://violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org/parent/jpmorgan-chase .  As you can see, they've had nearly 40 BILLION dollars in fraud violations since just the year 2000.   I wish they did get hacked and got a taste of their own medicine.  Just two more reasons to hate the big banks.

Right now bitcoin is highly disappointing to me.  I have always held the belief (even though some or many disagree with) that in order for bitcoin to truly be adopted/utilized by the masses, than it needs to be able to be used as currency, even for micro transactions.  I really wish the Devs would fix the issues with the meme pool being clogged ( fn ordinals).

This is impossible to give any sort of advice or suggestions on as we don't know what game you're currently betting.  There are a number of factors that go in to making this decision, and we just can't see them so it's impossible to provide any sort of suggestion.  I man if your team is up big, and they're playing well, then maybe you ride it.  If it's a close game and your team has lost momentum, than maybe you cash out.  Hard to say with limited info.

I think you've got some good ideas here, but I think there should be some caveats for some of them.

First one I couldn't agree more.  Stop when winning big, ehhh..maybe set a portion aside (at least your money that you brought in).  Stopping when you're not winning at all...I mean this all depends on how much money you've spent and many other factors.

Last one, couldn't agree more.  1 and 4 are musts IMO.

Yeah ain't that the truth.  This season was a really good season, but sort of an odd one.  So many QBs going down with injury was a bummer.  Of course the number one guy I drafte (Chubb) was maybe the biggest injurty of the year, and in weeks 2 lol, I have the worst luck.

I like the Chiefs too.  Of course getting 2.5 pts is pretty nice.  I def feel the niners and ravens winning, but those spreads are so high.  Lions Bucs may be the best game in terms of having no clue who may win.

Unless I missed them I don’t see any other photos in your post history.  I would suggest taking several photos and doing so without the capsule. Really hard to see the quality of the coin and its hologram.

Cheers

Please be very careful in how you take "advice" from others.  As a long time financial advisor I can tell you that what most people are saying here is nonsense, and they have no idea what they're talking about. 

These three things you mentioned are COMPLETELY different assets.  Diversification is key (regardless of anyone saying otherwise) and how much you allocate to each part of your portfolio will entirely depend on how much money you have, your short and long term outlook, etc etc etc.

Comparing the three is a bit silly.

If you've been "around" bitcoin for long enough, I think everyone likely regrets selling bitcoin at some point in time.  I certainly regret selling the bitcoin that I had bought when the price of bitcoin was roughly $250.  Now that being said, nothing is ever guaranteed so at times I have the feeling that it sort of is what it is, I didn't know, no one knew when bitcoin was going to blast up to nearly 70k.

When it comes to paying attention to how other people bet, I absolutely pay attention.  I am of the belief that you can always improve upon your gambling skills and watching other bet can help you grow in this area.  It can also help teach you lessons on how NOT to bet/gamble.  I don't base my gambling specifically off others, but it does help me to grow and learn.

I personally could care less.  I've never been one to try and be anybody but myself.  If someone judges me for gambling, then I judge them for being judgmental (oh the irony lol).  My gambling doesn't negatively effect anyone on this planet.  I also don't have a gambling issue what so ever, so it's just not a huge deal if someone sees this as a negative for myself.

Starting to take a look at the games for this weekend to place my bets, and man, only 8 teams left is depressing.  I mean every season tends to go really fast, but especially this one for some reason.

I don't feel nearly as confident making picks for this week like I did last week.  The games just get so much more competitive now.

That said, here's my early picks..

Ravens > Texans -9.5
Niners > Packers -9.5
Lions > Bucs -6.5
Chiefs> Bills +2.5