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521  Other / Meta / Re: censoring foul words. on: September 06, 2023, 01:56:06 PM
How about if the admin filter some keywords(foul words), such that when you use them, you will be handed ban. Such as 7days ban, few days signature ban, read only mode etc. This will promote peaceful co-existence and curtail to the barest minimum any form of bullying, unfriendliness, acrimony or as the case may be.
There is unofficial rule against trolling.
3. No trolling.
But it does not lead to instant ban on a forum user after a trolling post. You can report trolling posts and help to erase them in the forum but to hope that the user will get a ban which is either temporary or permanent, is not easily reaching target.

Usually ban hammer is very softly used for trolling violations.
522  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Bitcoin and get rich quick syndrome on: September 06, 2023, 09:29:26 AM
Anyone who believes that you can get rich quickly with Bitcoin should look around and see rich and successful people everywhere.
What they see even are not real stories and not from people who got rich with Bitcoin.

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If it were that easy, think about it, wouldn't people do it? It is on the basis of these misconceptions that we meet people who sell their valuables in a hurry and buy Bitcoin, completely unaware of all the pitfalls that can be expected along the way.
Selling all assets they have, bet all money they get to Bitcoin is very dangerous. I am not saying this because Bitcoin is not a good investment asset but nobody knows about future. Even Bitcoin has risk if you invest in it. In addition to this, if a person is newbie, it takes time to learn and use Bitcoin wallet safely to store bitcoins. If betting all money in Bitcoin but don't know how to store it safely, what will happen with their life if all their bitcoins are hacked.

Will they continue to live well or will they suicide?

I am against easily get rich story and bet all assets, money in Bitcoin.
523  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: HALVING IS GOING TO CAUSE A GENERAL EFFECT ON ALL IN THE ECOSYSTEM. on: September 06, 2023, 08:41:56 AM
How will the BTC mining difficulty level affect validators (btc miners) due to 1/2 reduction in reward after the next halving and possible backlash on general ecosystem?

Please as simple as you can I'd love to get your explanation on this.
Bitcoin halving needs months to have effects on price because halving is only an event that has noise to help Bitcoin reaching to more people with halving noise effects. Very general, Bitcoin halving event will help Bitcoin expands its communities, bigger.

For Bitcoin miners, if they are short term miners who don't plan to hold their bitcoins a long time, but only mine and sell bitcoins after each week or month, they can feel shocks from halving. Fortunately after a few Bitcoin difficulty retargets, they will feel better with block rewards and if price rises because of halving, their mining ROI won't be affected too much.

If they are long term miners, with holding plans, they will feel very little pressure from Bitcoin halving.
524  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: UEFA Champions League 2023/24 Season on: September 06, 2023, 08:27:03 AM
Qualifying from the group phase to play in 16 rounds is enough for Leipzig, they don't need to struggle to beat Manchester City because City is indeed the strongest team at the moment and hard to beat, as long as they can beat the other two teams both home and away then they have enough points to be in second place and with Manchester City playing in Top 16.
Leipzig lost Gvardiol in this summer and with his importance for their defense, they will have weaker defense in this season. It has bigger impact in Champions League where they have to face with strong clubs in Europe like Manchester City than in Bundesliga where except Bayern Munich, Leipzig are not weaker than other clubs too much.

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Manchester City is lucky with this draw because, throughout the group phase, they can focus more on continuing to win many matches in the English Premier League, or at least they can rotate players well.
As defending champions Manchester City will fight to reach the final, but when the draw for round 16 will also be quite decisive in my opinion, if they get another easy draw it will really help them, and favorite teams like Manchester City often get this convenience.
It is a lucky draw for Manchester City as it can help them to save a little energy for knock out phase as well as avoid injuries and suspensions on important players because of card quota. However, to defend their title, they have to play well in knock out phase and even with best players they have, without suspension, it's still a very challenging task for them.

Again in Champions League history, only Real Madrid succeeded to defend their Champions League crown.
525  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Italian League Prediction Thread (Serie A) on: September 05, 2023, 10:46:45 AM
Roma took the Conference League title and last year they reached the final of the Europa League - a very big achievement for a club that is not top in Italy. It's hard for them to fight for the top 4 as someone "outsider" gets there only when the big four (Napoli, Milan, Inter, Juventus) have unexpected problems. Under normal circumstances, the big four dominate (their financial capabilities are incomparably greater than those of other clubs).
Roma still belong to big clubs in Italy and Serie A. A few seasons ago, they even went to semi final in Champions League and were beaten by Liverpool. After that successful season, they fell down until Mourinho came and brought some success in last two seasons in Conference League and Europa League.

Unfortunately, in Serie A with a league format, they don't have enough quality players as well as enough squad depth to compete with other big clubs. AS Roma are similar to Lazio, they can not consistently compete with big four in many seasons. Lazio played well in the past season but in this season, they together with Roma, got very poor results so far. Lazio only bounced to beat Napoli but general they are still poor in performance and Roma are simply poorer with worse performances.
526  Economy / Exchanges / Re: Bitfinex holds bitcoin on its balance sheet on: September 05, 2023, 10:42:17 AM
But we don't know if these Bitcoins are really theirs because they have exchanges and they have customers. Maybe it is owned by their customers.
We can not know but my assumption is these bitcoins include Bitfinex exchange asset and some from their customers. It makes sense for all exchanges to move their customers' deposited bitcoin from hot wallets to cold wallets for better security and safety. They can store it in a same cold wallet or in different cold wallets.

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I am really curious why these cryptocurrency exchanges don't have any transparency like other public listed companies like MicroStrategy who are transparent and need to disclose their total holdings of Bitcoin. Maybe it's because they are not public listed companies?
It is not only about transparency but also about safety for customers' funds. The rapid collapse of FTX because of misuse of customers' funds raised a lot of pressure and demand on centralized exchanges to publicly release report about their treasuries and fund managements, trusted credits. Binance is the one that went first with credits but so far, no big change in centralized cryptocurrency exchanges.

We have to wait for more regulations on centralized exchanges to have that. Even banks with more regulations, requirements on fund management, still have bankruptcies.
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528  Economy / Exchanges / Re: Bitfinex holds bitcoin on its balance sheet on: September 05, 2023, 12:31:46 AM
According to Bitinfocharts.com for top 100 richest Bitcoin addresses, Bitfinex has two wallet addresses in the list. One at the second position and another one at 50th position.

Two wallet addresses
https://bitinfocharts.com/bitcoin/address/bc1qgdjqv0av3q56jvd82tkdjpy7gdp9ut8tlqmgrpmv24sq90ecnvqqjwvw97
https://bitinfocharts.com/bitcoin/address/3JZq4atUahhuA9rLhXLMhhTo133J9rF97j

Walletexplorer.com does not have clear figure for Bitfinex balance.
https://www.walletexplorer.com/wallet/Bitfinex.com
529  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1) on: September 04, 2023, 04:15:18 AM
PSG went berserk, beating Lyon in the first half with a score of 0-4. Playing away doesn't make PSG weak, because in reality Lyon can't do much to stop PSG movement. It's really unfortunate, because basically Lyon is also in a bad performance at this moment because they have played three matches but Lyon didn't get a win at all. Therefore, it would not be strange if PSG were able to beat Lyon in this match, because basically PSG is the one who has improved their performance in every match, and then against Lyon which is in a slump. So of course, PSG can take advantage of the bad conditions experienced by Lyon to win big in this away match.
They beat Lyon after a first half with two goals from Mbappe including a very early goal to open the match. Lyon only managed to get one goal in the second half that is not enough for them to come back and get a point from PSG.

This big win again shows the importance of Mbappe with PSG and how PSG depends on Mbappe to find goals. Asensio scored one goal for PSG too and he will be a promising player for them in this season by his readiness to cooperate very well with other team-mates as well as don't refuse to play proactively defensive when required by a coach.

PSG players began to adapt to the philosophy used by Luis Enrique, they began to play short passes and control the game by dominating possession of the ball. Lyon is not a difficult opponent to beat, especially with a big score when viewed from the results achieved since the new season started. PSG development began to be seen in this match than in the previous match, players began to understand each other and this was very good for PSG development under the management of Luis Enrique.
It is a big win for PSG and impressive actually but Lyon in 2023 is no longer a giant in Ligue 1 like years ago, before they lost their domination in Ligue 1 and has never came closely to get that domination back.

Luis Enrique gradually shows his impact in PSG that surely gives hope for PSG board members and fans that he will help PSG playing better in Champions League in this transitional season. Some biggest star players left the club but they got an experienced coach and some new players to change their club philosophy from transfer market to tactic operations.
530  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Honestly, Bitcoin fits in this gap more than others. on: September 04, 2023, 03:07:18 AM
Are banks integrating altcoins into their service, or are they try to use those blockchain solutions for their infrastructure? And is there really any activity, or are those just public statements and plans? And how many banks are involved? Because I personally never encountered a bank that is in any way partnered with a crypto project.
They will use blockchain technology to build their CBDCs with completely centralization. Their CBDCs will never be open source or decentralized.

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The bank that I use recently replied to questions if they would add BTC. They said no because they don't want problems with the central banks, and because Bitcoin is unstable which might negatively reflect on their business.
Banks have to follow regulations for their governments and central banks so that they have to take into account many factors before adding Bitcoin or alternate cryptocurrencies into their services for customers. Even if they add those cryptocurrencies to their bank services, it is very vulnerable to be removed later by requests from governments and central banks.
531  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2023/24 on: September 04, 2023, 02:59:56 AM
Can Barcelona defend its title this season?
Yes, we are witnessing the hard struggle of the La Liga champions. Barcelona could only win all 3 points against home team Osasuna thanks to a penalty. I wonder how they can play poorly when they have a perfect squad in every position. But no matter what, Xavi and his team won 3 points to continue chasing their great rival Real Madrid on the La Liga rankings this season.
It is a hard question and Barcelona will have bigger challenge from Real Madrid than in the past season. Real Madrid bought some players in the summer and most noticeable Jude Bellingham who has been performing so outstanding for them. Scoring five goals so far for Real Madrid is a very impressive stats from the English midfielder and it looks more similar to a stat for a striker.

Barcelona are not in their best form and their striker Lewandowski still have troubles in early matches. He has yet warmed up enough but we must know that in this season, Lewandowski is one more year older than the past one. Barcelona and Xavi will have to prepare for decreasing performance of Lewandowski in this season or next one or two seasons.
532  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Premier League Prediction Thread 2023/2024 on: September 04, 2023, 02:43:46 AM
Arsenal extraordinary display defied expectations and thrillingly changed the course of the game. Rice and Jesus scored late goals to give the home team a victory they earned degaard responded quickly. Arsenal managed to win an incredible ten points in four games under Mikel Arteta despite a slight slip in focus.
In last twenty minutes of the match, both teams had chances to find a winning goal but only Arsenal scored goals and they did it twice. I think the match is balancing and it's fairer for Manchester United get one point from this match but with two stunning points at the end, Arsenal actually deserved to get three points.

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Garnacho goal was controversially disallowed and Manchester United defensive error following Rice score appeared to be the final straw. Even though United may be disappointed with the outcome the players gave it their best even when their efficacy flagged during important situations.
Without VAR, it is a goal for Manchester United but football nowadays is different than a few years ago, VAR can engage to change a referee decision with very slim offside. Rashford should make better decisions in the match, between shooting and passing. Sometimes he hesitates to make decisions and decisions he made is not too good as well as too late and let opponents have enough time to close the space. Then opportunities can be wasted after about 10 to 20 seconds of Rashford's hesitation.
533  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: How to join best bounty and earn money? on: September 03, 2023, 11:09:45 PM
They are using attractive/promising words in order to encourage viewers to invest in their promoted project. Indeed, that was their job but of course, it was your part to do research in order to validate if that was true or fake promotion.
Advertisements, promotions are always attractive because they use buzzwords, attractive graphics, promising roadmaps. It's not easy for newbies to differentiate scam projects after looking at those documents. With bounty hunters, they even don't mind about it because they can use bots to do tasks in bounties. At the end, it's fair enough if they don't receive much from bounties, or their works get rejected by bounty managers.

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If could just think about the current situation, there are plenty of bounties in the market, and sad to say only a few of them are worth investing in while the majority are scams and useless projects. And if you are lazy enough not to do research or just simply follow these influencers, do not wonder why you fall into scam projects.
Token projects require less resources to build than ecosystem projects like Ethereum, BNB, Harmony and so on. It's easy to create a token, then a next task for their team is focusing on a current trend that can be DeFi 2.0, GameFi, Metaverse, NFT and write some promising whitepaper, roadmap, launch graphics and nearly complete their works to attract investors and bounty hunters.
534  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Italian League Prediction Thread (Serie A) on: September 03, 2023, 11:00:39 PM
Thuram, who is the transfer of Inter's striker problem last season, seems to solve this problem, but he missed a lot of positions in the match, but he creates all kinds of danger, he also has a teammate like Martinez. They did a great job today and Inter provided a lot of pressure as a team against Fiorentina. There was a difference of 4 goals in the match, but they had so many positions Inter's goals were very close, the opportunities were gone. It doesn't matter, but the match could have ended much differently.
Fiorentina is not a weak team so this winning is very impressive from Inter Milan. Marcus Thuram is continuing success of his father, Lillian Thuram, in Italy years ago. His dad succeeded as a central defender but he is a striker, plays at a very different position than his dad.

Thuram does not have good finishing skills but he can create a lot of space and opportunities for Lautaro Martinez. They can combine each other well and help to maximize strength of each player.

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It looks like there will be a strong rivalry between Inter and Milan this year. The signals of this rivalry are already coming.
The season begins a few match days and it's too soon to say about dual rivalry race between two Milan clubs for Scudetto. We can not strike out Napoli in this race because the team are very strong so far and they are ready to protect their title.
535  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: How to use Cup and Handle Pattern on: September 03, 2023, 02:23:31 AM
Most of patterns fail so don't trust patterns.

Together with Cup and Handle pattern, we also have Inverse Cup & Handle pattern. They are sibling patterns and must be mentioned together.

@TechCharts had some videos about chart patterns including Cup & Handle pattern. If you have time to scroll down his tweet history, you will find some insightful educational videos.
536  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2023/24 on: September 03, 2023, 02:13:18 AM
Bellingham is a savior for Real Madrid but they can't rely on him whole season long. At some time they'll fall down. They didn't get Mbappe or Osimhen and they'll pay for this gamble. They were lucky their fixture started with weaker teams. They are trying to get through this period with the least damage. They will play with Barca in 2 months. Injured players may return then. I believe they'll lose points in next two games after international break. The real test for Real Madrid will be against Real Sociedad and Atletico Madrid.
Jude Bellingham is a big surprise in La Liga so far. He has scored 5 goals for Real Madrid which account for 62.5% of total goals of Real Madrid in the league. The transfer to Real Madrid is a great success for Jude and his career already reaches to a new higher level.

The challenge for himself is to keep his minds calm and avoid distractions from social media and unhealthy parties in life but so far in his career, he has never shown he is a guy of party. Clubs in La Liga will explore more about Jude and try to find ways to stop him scoring goals so coming matches will be big test for the English midfielder. He must adapt to bigger challenges very well to become one of biggest star in La Liga.

In La Liga's best scorer table, best strikers in the leauge have yet warmed up enough like Lewandowski only got one goal for Barcelona so far. The prolific goal scoring performance of Jude reminds me about another midfielder of Real Madrid, Valverde who has similar form in first half of last season.
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538  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Bitcoin, the only thing that stands on its lane. on: September 02, 2023, 11:51:28 AM
If we talk about DeFi, we must mention Cryptocurrency Bridges that are very vulnerable to exploitation. Many hacks on cryptocurrency bridges and value of stolen cryptocurrencies is very big.

Crypto bridge hacks: types and causes

Latest, the Multichain, one of most famous crypto bridge was exploited.
Multichain Protocol Experiences Mysterious Withdrawals, Suggesting Multi-Million Dollar Hack or Rug Pull
Multichain hacks and its consequences
539  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Italian League Prediction Thread (Serie A) on: September 02, 2023, 11:43:07 AM
Romelu Lukaku didn't help Roma much since he has just joined the team, he played for 20 minutes + extra time only. Well he missed a chance and got his first yellow card with Roma. He achieved something in his first match at least Tongue
He just came to Roma and played about 20 minutes for them, it's too soon to say he will succeed or fail in Roma. I see he missed one opportunity, then missed a ball and made a stupid foul after that. Hope that he will succeed in Roma and make the club stronger as well as Serie A more exciting and competitive among big clubs.

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When it comes to Chelsea, Lukaku couldn't add much because he didn't adapt with the team and because the level of EPL is high comparing to Serie A where he could be beneficial. We will see in the next games how much he could add.
Lukaku looks not fitted with Premier League as he played for some clubs there, Chelsea, West Brom, Everton, Manchester United and only succeed at two small clubs, West Brom and Everton. He failed at Chelsea and Manchester United then moved to Inter Milan, got great success there before returning back to Chelsea and failed. His return to Inter Milan in the last season is not a success and now let's see how he will improve his career in AS Roma.

AS Roma players were not good from the start of this game and AC Milan which is having impressive start of this season with now they are also shortlisted for the favorites to win title in this season done impressive performance Giroud early goals and then second half early goal was enough for them to take full three points even they were playing with ten men after 61st minute red card to Tomori.
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Roma defense is not too good but the penalty for AC Milan is very controversial and I don't see how the referee can award a penalty to AC Milan. Roma already dive at bottom of table with only one point so far. They must focus on a next match to get first winning, three points and temporarily exit this mini crisis.
540  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Saudi Professional League 2023/2024 on: August 31, 2023, 10:29:24 AM
I checked the transfer mark, yes they have 5 goalkeepers which is quite a lot in my opinion because usually a club will only have 3-4 goalkeepers, and Al Hilal has more players than other clubs such as Ittihad FC and Al Nassr which have around 30-31 players but Al Hilal has 34 players, which is like a waste because there will be many players who will only be on the bench.
It's a lot. Usually in a tournament like World Cup, Euro or Coppa America, teams only have three goalkeepers. In a long season, three goalkeepers are enough as mostly a club will use only one main goalkeeper and if he performs well as well as no injuries, very little chance for a second goalkeeper and almost no chance for a third goalkeeper.

In clubs, usually a third goalkeeper would be very young or old one because as said, they are very last resort of a club for that position and that player is comfortable with very limited chance to play.

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Al Ahli managed to maintain their performance by winning the fourth match, so they along with Ittihad FC were the ones who managed to win the 4 matches, but Ittihad FC was more productive in the number of goals and was the only team that so far had not conceded a goal, a quite impressive performance. Two new players, Al Ahli, Roberto Firmino, and Riyadh Mahrez, have been quite prolific in scoring goals for their club.
These clubs get perfect results so far and they are creating more pressure on Al Nassr. They are racing for Saudi Professional League title and Al Nassr just lost two first matches that make them 6 points away from Ittihad and Ahli on the table.

Al Ahli will be more dangerous when Neymar is ready to play for them. In Al Nassr, they are improving and ready to reduce gaps with top clubs in coming weeks.
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