^^^I also have that "complaint", that I get freebets and wonder what they're for... and at least on one occasion they double sent me freebets, which I begrudgingly informed of, but they let me have them anyway heh. I'm happy to keep on complaining about this, it's a very nice problem to have.

Something I should mention today, as some of you may remember I've been searching far and wide for English commentary football... Amazon Prime starts tonight with live football coverage of EPL. So yeah, I signed up of course for a trial, with some difficulty as you need UK addresses and billing etc, but I'll find a way to extend if it works out. I think OP mentioned that people have been fighting to break the Sky monopoly and it seems it's finally happened.

Already tried the preview videos and they all work -- I'll know from the Newcastle match if it's worth 8 pounds a month (I'd pay double that if I could access it properly without the inconveniences of workarounds!). I doubt it'll be of Sky quality, but just having English commentary would be a huge improvement (and that's not an insult to my current options, it's just that I don't speak or understand much of it).

Nice going on the predictions challenge update man. I saw 3/4 early picks as soon as it went up, it does seem like people have it on alert now haha.


Sassuolo were featured heavily in early season accas for me but I've actually started to wind down on betting them. They were never really good for me anyway and then after internationals, I found I've not rediscovered my appetite, favourites in all leagues have been pretty much on point but I could be tempted to think heavy rotations in December adds some flavour and spice to results.

But too early for that to happen so I'm actually Napoli in for about 18/10 in my picks for the week!

Sassuolo - Napoli
1. Match line - Away
2. Both to score - Yes
3. Number of corners - 12 and over

Lazio - Udinese
1. Match line - Home
2. Both to score - Yes
3. Number of corners -  and under

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Damn I can't believe I forgot about that Jesus.

Can't remember exactly where it was I first saw/heard of Saylor but it was during a live interview, some time right after the MicroStrategy Bitcoin buy move. He seemed to me remarkably less evangelist than I'd taken him for, and to be fair, all the Jesus labeling on him has really not been of his own making. His buying now merely keeps him in line with the strategy he's set on for his company, though I don't follow him or anyone enough to know if he's helping it along.

Brain knew that, at least it thought it was saying it

^ Unless OP's thinking of using a gift card debit card, or a preloaded card, or even one not belonging to them.

At least in 2019, I know some LBC traders were offering a physical service to buy Bitcoin using cards with a high fees. They owned shops/merchants accounts. You'd be sent a link to buy a service or digital product, pay that, with a high premium, and they release Bitcoin. AML's cracking down hard on that kind of thing now though.

As pooya87 said above.

Average block time is 10 minutes. This is the design.

And to cope with hashrate increase/decrease, difficulty adjustments roughly every 2016 blocks. This is the design.

Miners have, at various periods in time, been demotivated or disincentivised to leave, and that's fine, as well as expected. And the network adjusts difficulty to accommodate or compensate. But there is always new motivation and new incentive for different people to mine. Increasing hashrate over time proves this.

This design has worked for over 10 years. You might say it's a proven design.

Besides, largely thanks to upgrades and increased adoption, TPS on Bitcoin has been trending up across its years of operation. Not down.

Yeah I don't know much about it myself but I'm sure it's going to end up as BitGo being their licensed, insured custodian. There really isn't anyone else as good or as insured. This doesn't really mean much for them though, it only gives them the best of what's available.

My guess: Fintonia wants to be the Southeast Asian NEXO. Do OTC trading for up and coming whales, while deriving physical BTC from lenders, and paying them interest from the fees they'll charge to the buyers.

Note that NEXO, via Bitgo and insurers, already have ~$350 million insurance coverage but that doesn't even cover 1% of total assets under management.

You won't believe how happy I am to be approaching this season. Work wise a bit difficult to manage but football always salves the pain!

Could be the last we see of United before they finally dip their toes into the gegenpress Ralf's acolyte made famous with us

I know they think they can also now play attractive football but they're so used to buying superstars to win titles for them, not sure it's in their psyche to actually build a winning team with foundational talent.

We'll see if the Glazers have the stomach for it.

Ah that must have changed then since I last checked. They were in top 5 pre-season, but were 6th favourite when I looked mid-way. It's not just group finishing I think, PSG should go far but I think they just can't see them even reaching a final. Maybe odds have shifted once more now, and that's perhaps because of post-international club performance.

Again, bookies odds correspond to pundit analyses but okay, even 5th place seems too low for a team with a chockful of talents... and Ramos fit again yeah?

Thanks for the timely update as usual. 32 more days and just 2 more peeps left to knock off before we hit our (more or less) consensus-agreed target of 30!

Betting-wise hasn't been very good but I see that the Gazza special was voided, so I do get back some money I thought I'd lost already when Everton fell to Brentford (we have Burnley bad weather to thank for that I guess). Woohoo! Put my final November Clubhouse freebet on a 2-prong acca tonight with a super boost on poor Derby... I think they're relegated but they've been great value bets since getting all those points docked. Gotta feel for Rooney man.

Sort of like me trying to recover from old bad habits. Every time I think I'm round a corner I stagger back into a rut. I usually don't think there's much any more to new Covid strains but this particular one seems to be coming on at the same time other figures are coming out all over the world for Q3 economy. Inflation up, jobs down, bleak times and doom prophets getting bolder.

Much as Bitcoin could be one of several safe havens, it'd have to survive some battering first.

No rush. I'll remember to check back as always curious. I've been waiting over a year now for BATMs to return to my neighbourhood. They took them down around the time first round of Covid was coming, the speculation from me (and a little from shopowners I spoke to) was that they were going to update the machines to make them AMLD5 compliant. It's been 18 months or so since. Not sure if they've returned or are still in the major cities locations though I know even the one at the airport (a major hub in Europe too) hasn't returned.  

Your comment: Sounds like me every time I take a walk in a new area and find an interesting location, I put off actually writing the details down and try to return some days/weeks later... only to find my memory isn't as excellent as I believe. Cities are the worse for me, every big city with decent planning and structured streets seems identical to me.

Mmhmm. Saw there was even a bounce up above 58k as soon as Beijing/Tokyo markets opened for business (8am +8GMT) but it's since tapered off to retain almost exactly the same price this time Sunday. Not long more to Monday morning for Europe and then today, everyone's expecting the strongest retail numbers globally. Not that it's going to prop Bitcoin markets but can't hurt to have some confidence in regular markets on a Monday.

Another late PSG show, as it were. Still can't bring myself to look for a game to watch but I might tune in on a big game one of these days to see what the fuss is all about with this Mess-Mbappe-Neymar supposedly just not clicking.


There you go. He's already scored for them, and gets 3 winning assists en route to a complete comeback. So why are people still feeling the pain about him? I probably should go watch a game next week.

P.S. They're rated outside the top 5 teams to win UCL. How?

So United took points off Chelsea. Would have been a glorious win if not for the penalty gift. 15 corners and it was one-sided but Chelsea were actually toothless in the box.

Tough for Flamengo in the weekend final, btw. Caught a clip of a Palmeiras player writhing in agony after the ref tapped him on the back. Gotta love the Brasileiro huh. I've seen my share of embarrassing dives but this one takes some kind of cake.

Although this would also set the stage for a possible sub-20k dip and then we'd be witnessing history as Bitcoin's never gone down below an old ATH from a previous rally cycle after setting a new one. Not that it'd mean anything bad for the long term, just another point to make for those who believe the old Bitcoin cycles are actually over and that we could be entering a new, long, multi-year age of a slow burn bull without 85% drops (which, at current ATH would see a severe crash to 10k).

Trofo still on the top so far, but surprisingly Top 3 in this pool's leaderboard doing crap this round -- or is this no surprise since the favourites are dropping points like a kid dropping Halloween candy? -- 3 draws means 3 zeroes for me though Espanyol looks like they'll hold on for the win for another wrong prediction for me...


Actually, I used to think this was the case too. I've never bet against Liverpool or my local team. Just can't bring myself to do it, even when value bets present themselves (cup games usually I'd say for Liverpool or when they're huge favourites just based on form). But the last time I discussed this with some sports gamblers, apparently there are many who bet against their team just so that if they lose, they at least have some consolation prize money. Hedging bets, if you will. I see nothing wrong with that ha.

Hey DaveF. Could you return and ask to make a pic maybe? Curious actually. And the training you'd need to do for that sounds a bit more than regular. Seems ripe for someone to come and take advantage of a careless employee.

Maybe a bit off-topic, but just saw the new South Park special and people were all accepting only Bitcoin, though the insinuation was less than savoury (fly-by-night MLM ponzi, which of course, is ironic given the setting was 40 years into the future, making Bitcoin 50 years old and ill-fitting for the fly by night label heh).

Urgh Brentford. I knew they were the favs but Everton's been on a terrible losing streak without their Brazilian I thought for sure they would break it but at 64th min, it looks like bookies are on track.

No surprise Leicester and City are ahead too, but Watford seems to love scoring late. Spurs game postponed, heavy snow, wonder what that does to our special?


Not yet but yes (updated in my thread actually). There's a massive Super Boost on this one, and I was tempted to put a nice big fat ML on United, just for the heck of it but ended up just putting something a bit more regular than usual. They've got nothing else they need to motivate them for the win, and Chelsea I've been waiting for a long time for their guns to finally sputter -- wholly unsustainable xG rate.

United with Ronaldo, Fernandes, Sancho and everything else for 6.64? I don't know value if that's not it!