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541  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ⚽UEFA Champions League Discussion Thread -- 2021/22 Round of 16! on: February 23, 2022, 03:31:39 PM
What do you think today about the Atletico - United game? Atletico is a slight favorite according to the bookies, but neither team is really performing well this season.

United might be in a slightly better form at the moment but Atletico still knows how to play on the result - whereas United does not.

United is undefeated in their last 5 CL games but they won only 1 out of their 7 knockout games in Spain. Atletico however has 4 defeats in a row against English teams.
I believe that United has the momentum and that is why they may end up winning. I believe that they are actually quite close teams in level but the fact that they are doing better these weeks could be a reason for them to actually end up winning.

The smallest difference between the teams could be destroyed by just having "it was their day" type of situation. Sometimes some teams have a great day and end up getting a great result. Even worse teams could beat better teams overall, that way ended up getting higher and higher. This doesn't mean that they will win, but at the end of the day they have a better momentum and that is why I will wager on them.
542  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ODI cricket and general cricketing discussion [self - mod] on: February 22, 2022, 08:18:10 PM
The Afghanistan vs Bangladesh ODI series will start on the 23rd Feb at Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong.. I think Afghanistan will want to win at least one match out of three in this series.

However, I think Bangladesh will easily win this series 3-0. Because there is no doubt that Bangladesh is playing very well at home. Yes, I am also excited to introduce new young players to Bangladesh in this series. Among them, Munim Shahriar's performance is outstanding, Let the newcomers perform well.
Right now I am not favouring your this statement that Bangladesh can win this series easily with the score of 3 - 0 because these both teams have very interesting facts in last 8 matches Bangladesh won 5 and Afghanistan won 3 with in last 5 matches against different sides Bangladesh won 4 out 5 and Afghanistan won 5 out of 5, so this is going to be very tough series for both teams both having services of few very talented and skilled players now Bangladesh done some good job as they bring few new faces with most experienced players because this is very important time for bringing youths in front of old and experienced players for better performance in future.

With new Head Coach Stuart Law and having good experience against West Indies and Sri Lanka, surely they will be in upper hand, but Afghanistan is also not an easy side to be beaten.
543  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Cricket match prediction discussions on: February 22, 2022, 05:58:24 PM
I think all boards have accepted the dominance of big 3 specially India. No board is not willing to lose his IPL share thats why no one is speaking against BCCI policies.
IPL aside, I do agree with you that all boards less big 3 must unite together to make icc powerful entity to safe guard there rights otherwise today Pakistani players are not in IPL, tomorrow BBL may ban WI players or so on. Only in presence of strong ICC, rights of small entities will be protected.
No, it's not ICC's duty to check in these leagues and try interference, it's all about every country and board's own decision who is coming and who is not coming. Right now if ICC can do then they need to settle things for better adoption and marketing which is very important and most chances in next few years we are going to have completely changed set up in this game of cricket.

I guess this is going to work like soccer just very few events under ICC and all other enjoying their own leagues which is very good and fair for all because this will bring some better and strong system which helps these countries for having good funds for their domestic setup but sadly too many countries will be out of this all, and they will lose their all domestic system because they can't afford these leagues.
544  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: Kraken CEO give a heads up to carefully use CEX on: February 22, 2022, 04:14:07 PM
I think unless you donated funds or received funds for the truckers convoy then you shouldn’t worry. There was some Bitcoin addresses where they were accepting donations. I think one guy donated like 5BTC and the address was public and everything. They got tainted and now flagged.

So if it’s sent to an exchange like Kraken they can freeze the person who received it. In Canada they are not treating this as a protest but instead terrorism. It’s gotten pretty bad lately. Even news crews don’t feel safe.
Yeah, you may be right, but I think mainly what the op is trying to point out here is the risk of making use of CEX. You know that CEX are controlled by the government. So in the future, if any such event should take place, which would require the government to seize crypto assets that belongs to citizens that are involved in such activity, then you know their target is definitely through CEX and not p2p exchanges as they wouldn’t be able to have access to seizing coins through p2p.

So, it’s best to make use of p2p than using CEX, if you want to make sure that you’re fully in control of your money and your address can’t be freezes in case of anything in the future.
545  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion on: February 21, 2022, 12:48:10 PM
It is obvious now that Multan, Lahore, Islamabad, and Peshawar have qualified for the playoffs for this year PSL. There is one match left between Lahore and Peshawar which will be played today. The result of this match can only change the position but the top 4 teams will remain unchanged. After this match, I will share the final points table and also will share the play-off schedules so no one misses these finals matches of the best league PSL.  
It's a great time for PCB and Pakistan as first phase of this PSL7 is going to end with huge success and after coming in Lahore they have full stadium and very good atmosphere now just Faulkner saga having some concern, but it's not going to have any negative impact in over all.

Today, we have last match between Lahore Qalanders vs Peshawar Zalmi even both teams already in play-offs, so this match is not going to have any impact on league table because Qalanders are having very healthy NRR which is going to help them for staying at second spot and Zalmi will be at 3rd position. But I have no idea who is going to face each other in play-offs, but hopefully we will have some good and entertaining cricket in coming days of this event and better teams will qualify for Grand Final.

But I am from my heart Qalander, so I am feeling they will be champion of this season their performance were also very good with Fakhar is in great touch with having 500+ runs is great achievement for this guy.
546  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Cricket match prediction discussions on: February 21, 2022, 07:48:30 AM
How can we blame ICC because they are not getting popular among nations that are not even taking the sport seriously. If you need to attract the best talents, you need to have the incentives to play the game, if not good athletes will find a sport that will give the financial freedom. With T20 leagues getting popular we might see talents from countries that are not popular with the game and for the game to get more attention it should be included in the Olympics, if so we can see a major change.
ICC is supreme authority in Cricket, and they need to do some work for bringing more nations into this community with the help of other countries, but sadly right now they are involved in politics more than game, so it's a big concern right now for this all.

As currently short format is developing with many non cricket playing nations they need to do some marketing which bring better progress now recently we have some positive announcement about cricket in Olympics but still it's not easy and will take some good time because many countries have no facilities for game which is a problem and now recently Indian Board announces they will not send their cricket team in Asian games which is also another issue many countries never take this serious due to their own politics.
547  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Germany League - Bundesliga Prediction Thread on: February 21, 2022, 07:23:00 AM
Bayern Munich again recorded a victory after overthrowing his guest Greuther Fruth with a score of 4-0. It seems that Greuther Fruth has had to give up their hopes of remaining in the German top league. Because the points they collect are still too far to catch up or get out of the red zone. The 10 points they had to accumulate if they were to be safe, but it was difficult because of the defeat after defeat they received in every game.
Correct your record in this match Greuther Fruth take lead in first half, but Bayern ruined them in second half and won this match by big margin 4 - 1 right now Greuther Fruth is doing some better performance but sadly with early poor performance now they have no chance for surviving and most chances they will drop out from Bundesliga even their current form is good.

Yesterday was amazing for all top teams as we have too many goals in just three matches with results here showing Bayern thrashed opponents 4 - 1 Dortmund won their match against struggling Gladbach 6 - 0 and in last match Leipzig after conceding early goal from Hertha Berlin won their away match with the margin of 1 - 6 mean just three match and 18 goals this is real beauty of German League too many goals from top teams real time entertainment for fans around the globe.
548  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Too much of new crypto projects? on: February 21, 2022, 05:36:59 AM
Is it a problem to have many crypto projects? I don't see it as a big problem. Instead, it indicates this crypto industry becomes bigger and bigger. Although we have small numbers of crypto projects, there is no guarantee that all of them are good. We must be happy having many crypto projects, it makes us have many alternatives in investment or trading. I cannot imagine if we only have a few coins/tokens, it will be quite boring to trade them.
Crypto have bigger but the scams have also got bigger. Scams can still be there even if the number of projects are low but at least they are only small and it is easy to identify the better one's this way. More scam can affect the reputation of the cryptos and new people are going to hesitate to enter.

Cannot say that the number of cyptos we have before are too small but it is already enough for a person that like to diversify his funds and it doesn't make sense if he has a lot of choice to diversify his funds if in the end he will still loss it all because of scam. It is not boring to earn a profit in a few coins but what is boring is when you don't have money anymore to trade.
549  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Cricket match prediction discussions on: February 20, 2022, 07:02:08 PM
Cricket is very different then Football. There are 100 strong football teams worldwide while in cricket we hardly have 10 teams that are capable of playing test. ICC has done its part in elimination of cricket from countries like Zim and Kenya who once have decent cricket teams.
Its board who give recognition to players by including them in national squad and from there they are picked by league's. IPL always picks players from national teams of different countries they never pick domestic players of foreign countries. Boards have the right to allow or not for IPL or anyother league.
Surely cricket is completely different from soccer, and we have not market like soccer but still I will blame ICC for this all because they completely fail even now they have very good chance with short formats that they can spread this and have very good results but sadly due to internal issues they are not working about this even now we are losing teams from these 10 teams as well.

Few crises in South Africa and Zimbabwe with West Indies is already out of cricket with their domestic issues and very few teams are capable for providing good quality game because mostly others have no good structure for this. Cricket is currently having some better future in Asian Sub-continent and Australia New Zealand regions, all others are on verge of losing their grip.
550  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion on: February 20, 2022, 05:52:09 PM
In PSL today, Islamabad United today made 105/7 in 20 overs. Just when they needed good NRR to qualify for semis they made this small total. It will be interesting to see what there NRR will be after the game as Islamabad and Quetta both have same points. Liam Dawson is the only man performing well from Islamabad side he was second top scorer with bat and also took wickets but his hard work will be in vain as Multan need 18 runs on 26 balls.
Suddenly due to some injuries and now many foreign players are going back due to their national selections few teams suffering very badly and Islamabad United is also one of them their regular captain Shadab Khan is also out with injury and Alex Hales and few more players already gone back, so they are facing some serious troubles but still most chances they will qualify for next round because Quetta is also having same issue, and now they are already lost early match just because of this they are at 5th with very bad NRR.

Four teams Multan, Lahore, Peshawar and Islamabad done for next round which is going to be very exciting with all four teams capable of having very good tempo and some inform players but here I favored Lahore Qalanders because they are special team and can win this year's title.
551  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Russia's approval of BTC on: February 20, 2022, 01:56:36 PM
Russia approved bitcoin as a form of money in order to hedge against the Russian ruble's depreciation and the Biden sanctions. What are your thoughts?

Putin is in favor of establishing bitcoin as a kind of money since he is threatening war and Biden's economic penalties will harm the ruble. He might still use bitcoin to transact in the global economy. I'd want to hear everyone's thoughts on this. Thanks for your response in advance Smiley
I do not think they have really decided on this. Yes, I did see the news earlier this February when it was said that the Russian government and the Bank of Russia reached an agreement on how they would regulate Bitcoin and has accepted it to be a form of currency, but some sources said that they haven’t really come to any agreement.

As of recent I started seeing another news, I think that was two days ago , that the Bank of Russia has started to push for crypto ban again. They have chosen to go for digital ruble, which I believe would be their CBDC (central bank digital currency). With that said, their neighboring country which is Ukraine has as of recent declared Bitcoin a legal asset in their country.
552  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: I have concluded that all governments together can't stop bitcoin on: February 20, 2022, 06:12:09 AM
I get to be thinking what about all the government of the world unite and decide to stop bitcoin and cryptocurrency ?  Grin

I have wondered if this is possible to happen despite bitcoin being decentralized. Within me, I don't think that is no more possible because bitcoin is now unstoppable. Just like water is to the fish, bitcoin is the light of the earth.

What do you say yourself ?
One way to stop bitcoin is that if government shutdown the internet, or if they started another war against each other. Anyhow, don't overthink it mate, it won't happen, government will not and can't stop bitcoin. They won't collude with each other just because they don't like this so called digital currency dominating the world.
The chance of every government or countries uniting with each other is slim therefore the chance of them uniting to stop bitcoin is also slim. It is a crazy move to stop the internet because almost everyone is depending on it. Internet is very useful nowadays and many business now rely's with it.

Cannot imagine what the world will be without it. Wars are also impossible because the topic is about being united. They need to unite to stop btc and they are not going to kill each other because that was not their main objective. BTC is not dominating the world or the currency world, they need to stop over thinking because it is bad for their mental health.
553  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod] on: February 19, 2022, 08:55:50 PM
^^ Point taken but hardly a early stage because points distribution system is based on match percentage, not series and also if we look at fixtures then Pakistan and SL are playing (5) majority of their series in subcontinent, which is favorable condition to them so one would expect them to perform well in subcontinent in comparison to SENA countries.
As far as Pakistan is concerned they are trying to play series in Pakistan as not many countries are willing to travel to Pakistan. I don't think they have played much cricket in subcontinent as they never play with India and NZ along with ECB cancelled tour to Pakistan. 
Most chances Pakistan is not going to play at the UAE because currently they are doing very good in PSL, and recently they have some better work out by PCB which is helping them for playing all series at home without any concern you guys are still licking these old things that New Zealand and England cancel their tours now this all is settled and these are going to play in Pakistan as currently 24 players from England are involved in PSL.

It means now they change their minds, and they are feeling sorry about their decision so in future we are going to have all home series in Pakistan just few crap mind peoples still having doubt about these tours but most chances these all will be clear in next few days.
554  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: How I convinced a Stock Trader to Invest in Bitcoin on: February 19, 2022, 06:42:22 PM
Nice to see your uncle got convinced into coming into our crypto abode  Grin I wonder though, it's really very hard to actually explain crypto to people who heavily invest in traditional assets like stocks or mutual funds because in those, there are tangible businesses and news of markets can be decrypted easily to translate into what the outcome of a company's stock will be, which is very hard to predict in cryptocurrency (hence the volatility?). I would recommend that he keep investing in stocks and mutual funds as well and not do more than 50% into crypto, because the volatility if goes in the negative side can give someone nightmares enough to run away from trading Tongue Cheesy
Because, those people have already invested in other types of investments and for them they already made a right choice and wont consider other things for now but maybe later they would change their mind for some reasons like what happen to the op's uncle where he sees a decline on his investment but after op explaining btc to his uncle that btc is independent and can still rise no matter what happens in the traditional market he then agrees with it.

It is also depend on the people. Not all people are open minded and they will think they are more better than you so they wont believe on what you are saying maybe not until you show a solid proof because that could make them convinced too.
555  Economy / Economics / Re: Nice job Justin! on: February 19, 2022, 03:25:01 PM
Using banks is way too convenient for people to abandon them. It's like boycotting cars or the Internet or smartphones at this point. And there's really no alternative to them now, not even our beloved crypto, because of fees, transaction times, price volatility, lack of merchant support, weakness to malware and so on. So I can totally see how people who boycott the banks today will return to them in a few weeks once this all blows over.
There are people that depends too much on bank's but there are also people that can still live peacefully without a bank. Cryptos have that disadvantage you mentioned about but let's not forget that cryptos do also have an advantage and most importantly they are not tied to banks so no bank restriction that's going to happen.

This main functionality of crypto is very much needed now in the on going issue with banks and governments in Canada. I cannot believe how the issue in that country grows and spread like a wildfire because we thought it is just a simple issue that can be resolve immediately but I guess no. Let see how far this things go.
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557  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ODI cricket and general cricketing discussion [self - mod] on: February 09, 2022, 08:11:43 PM
Although India have a great win against the West Indies, they still have the weakness of their top order. Rohit Sharma has scored only 5 runs. Rishab Pant and Kohli collected 18 run each. India won this match only because of the good performance of their bowlers. I want to give full credit to the bowlers for winning the match. Every bowler has bowled well enough. However, Prashidh Krishna's performance was outstanding. He took 4 wickets with only for 12 runs.

Credit also goes to weak West Indies batting line up who fail to chase such a small target. There bowling did a great job to restrict india at 237 in 50 overs. India still have fine batting side. Apart from Brooks and Hosein there is nobody who did any contribution in batting. WI only aim now is to avoid whitewash.
Now day by day West Indian cricket is going more down, and they are losing ground because of internal issues and lack of better planning which was need to do some long ago, but they never think about this all, and now they are worst team in cricket from one of best cricketing nation. Even they still have some good talent but wired things happening as Cricket Board completely fail to settle things with players, and now they are happy with their franchise career instead of having some better relationship with board and country.

Recently defeat from Ireland is one off dark day for them as most chances now they will drop out from top 10 and most chances we will have this team just in papers or in media in next few years. In today match Indian batting line-up was also not good but still this was very big target for them.
558  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion on: February 09, 2022, 06:00:06 PM
I can see that Multan has remained unbeaten so far. And nice to see Islamabad at no.2. Paul Stirling is playing for them and therefore I want them to remain on top. For Multan, everything worked out so far in this season. In the batting department Shan Masood and Mohammad Rizwan were exceptional. And the spin bowling combination of Imran Tahir and Khushdil Shah (along with pacer David Willey) made the difference in the bowling department. They are the defending champions, and looks all set to retain the trophy this time.
Shan masood and Muhammad Rizwan are having ideal PSL both are at at no 2 and 3 in PSL In terms of runs scoring. Shan masood scored 275 while Rizwan 215 runs. In bowling Multan Sultan Imran Tahir and Khushdil are at no 2 and 3 in terms of getting most wickets. Imran has taken 10 wickets while khushdil has taken 9 wickets. Odds are very much in favour of MS.
In this early phase of PSL we have some good number of surprises because no one was expecting Karachi will be down and out very early even having some good and experienced players in their franchise. Multan Sultans unbeaten run is also very big shock for all PSL fans specially Multan fans are very excited about these results and current form of Mohammd Rizwan and Shan Masood both are doing great job with Imran Tahir and Khushdil Shah is also surprise package for them, he takes wickets on crucial stages of matches and give great expertise for his team.

Now, Islamabad United and Lahore will fight hard for their better end of this season because for me Karachi and Peshawar both are going down and out from play-offs even it's some early but with current form and position most chances this is going to happen.
559  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Kazakhstan proposes power price hikes and taxes targeting crypto miners on: February 09, 2022, 10:48:40 AM
What can this caused to miners in Kazakhstan, it is like some miners will have no option but to shutdown if this crypto mining taxes become effective. It is possible some miners will be able to still make profit because they are established miners already but what about new miners, this can cause new miners not to be able to make any profit and shutdown, therefore discouraging people to join crypto mining business in the country.
I think the ones that would be mostly affected are the new miners in the market. But the ones who are well established and are already making a huge profit from mining cryptocurrency wouldn’t really be that much affected, although it is also going to affect them a little. And if they should see a better location to move to than Kazakhstan, I believe that majority of them would start moving to that other country where things would be better for them and they wouldn’t have to be paying too much of taxes which would consume the level of profit that they are making in a month from mining cryptocurrency.
560  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Service Discussion (Altcoins) / Re: I sent cardano and didnt give the giveaway on: February 09, 2022, 09:39:03 AM
I used this site today: myada.net

i bought 1500 ada and dont receive yet. do you know when i get my ada?

Charles Hoskinson and Cardano believes that Ethereum will hit $15,000 by the end of 2021. To speed up the process of cryptocurrency mass adoption, we've decided to run a 100 000 000 ADA giveaway.
I don't know if I'm going believe this story since this scenery is so obvious and chances that this is a build up story just to get sympathy from people out here. And this kind of schemes already been posted for so many times and I'm sure that many are aware that this is scam so I guess I will not buy this story knowing that this one is simple case which is avoidable since information about this type of scams are all over the net posted to warn people.
One look on the message and I know that it was a scam because I have already seen a similar to this  on telegram and on twitter. Normally, you were ask to send cryptos to the address that they posted and then they will promise to double it up after a few hours but who on their right minds will believe on that? That is too obvious that it was a scam. They use famous personalities in their subject, personalities like Elon Musk and they are using different cryptos sometimes.

We do not know if the op is a victim of this or he is one of those people that spreads this made up story so that they can scam more people. Stay vigilant guys.
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