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8ombard Username: Jating
Number: 6722
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Isn't it ironic though that Bitcoin is being tested again and again?
2020 Bitcoin halving - we have the pandemic, worst than war, every country is in a lockdown but we survived, pushing for a all time high
2024 Bitcoin halving - geo-political tensions, we did reach all time high pre-halving, but still, with the looming war, how will Bitcoin react?
And I don't think that whatever is in the background or noises or going around the world, we will never reach that maturity. There are still investors who are going to panic sells and pushes the sell button. As there are people entering and exiting, so it's going to be a vicious cycle of newcomers getting rattled, going out and then replace by a new set of noobs who will do that same thing over and over again.
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But Brandon Ingram is back. He played last night although they lost against the Lakers. I bet he is just warming up but he will definitely explode once the play-in tournament starts. Pelicans was a team that was hard to beat when he was around and only the injury stopped that. Still, Zion managed to be a star when he was needed the most and gave the Pelicans this position. I doubt they will lose easily to the Lakers. It will be a tough game, almost like a playoff vibe.
Lakers won by 16 points on the home court of the Pelicans, it's not even close. I know Pelicans are good but honestly, I don't expect much from them especially against the Lakers who are already in playoff mode. When Lebron and AD are leading the team in scoring, the Lakers will be hard to beat. Lebron 28 points, 11 rebounds, and 17 assists, (that's insane),.. AD 30 points and 11 rebounds. These two are just eating the Pelicans alive. Who are you going to bet for guys? Kings or Warriors?
We have seen last year how Steph Curry night-night the Kings and say they ain't ready yet. Will we see the same thing happening or this time the Kings will be the one saying night-night to Steph? I am excited to watch how that rivalry will end up this season.
I'm betting on the Warriors, I don't want to explain a lot as I just felt that it's just the right bet, They are experienced and that will be the disadvantage of the Sacramento Kings. Warriors can defeat them, they just have to minimize the output of Fox. Same here, I will be going on the Warriors here against the Sacramento King. They have the rivalry, but not even close as the Warriors have their numbers and obviously, they have the championship DNA. Although the Kings have improved from last season, it seems that they are inconsistent this year. They started hot, then after the break, it was a different performance from them that's why they lose their position. But still very good play-in, and if we look at the odds, the Warriors as we thought is the slight favorite as per ML. |
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8ombard Username: Jating
Number: 6799
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It's supposedly Frank Martin vs Shakur Stevenson but it was called off. I think Martin is not ducking Shakur, but incentive wise, it was reported that he is going to make at least $1 million and could not be satisfied of that amount.
So for sure there are a lot of upside for him to go and fight a even more dangerous boxer in Tank Davis. They have history as said, sparring sessions that goes and there are reports that Martin hold his ground and give Tank Davis all he can eat. But for me, Martin is more of a volume puncher and he doesn't carry power to knock down Tank Davis and on the other hand, he could taste his first defeat here.
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Regarding Inoue's debate if he should go to the US and fight https://twitter.com/ProBox_TV/status/1778842444185948200This is Porter Jr, point, but just like the rest of you, we could agree on what Porter says here. Inoue needs to get out and be uncomfortable and see how he respond. He has been contented fighting in Japan. So you listen here and share your thoughts. |
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Basically, if the Lakers win the game against the Pelicans, they will be facing each other again in the play-in for the 7th seed. So they will be facing each other twice (if the Lakers win the last game of the season).
Pelicans will do everything to secure their spot for the second round knowing that whoever will be there for the play-in is a competitive team that can really upset anyone, taking the 6 spot might give them secure position for the 2nd round and will be able to play for the playoff series, though same with what you mentioned, if ever Lakers pull an upset they might be facing against each other in the play-in, eveyrthing still possible and positioning still important for both teams as they needed to win their last remaining game. And with the way they are playing in their last couple of games, they are going to look to beat the Lakers in their game. And it will be good to see Zion as healthy as before and being dominant. Break out season also for Trey Murphy, since BI is out, he step up his game and become the next offensive weapon for the team. Alvarado is also taking it up a notch, not just distributing the ball, but he also a scoring threat now specially in the 3 point area. |
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I'm sure majority of us are into AI, at least for me I have been trying to learn a lot of tools, like Mid Journey, Capcut, In-video, Leonardo AI, Elevenlabs, Runway and others. So when I say this reports, I was taken aback as how cyber criminals is also leveraging AI tools now to steal our crypto credentiasl as most of them are info stealer.
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I know others will say that we should go and look for the official page and check everything before downloading. But with the recent AI resurgence, including myself joining the picture and taking advantage of it for whatever purpose it may served to me, still there are dangers lurking in the dark specially for us crypto enthusiast and those trying to learn AI.
Personally, I'm not fascinated by nor have I ever used any AI tool and I'm glad to be completely out of it. I understand that people have the need to use such tools in order to be more efficient and save time, but most technology has its negative sides and all those who support all these AI innovations must face the fact that sooner or later a lot of negative things will surface, which this technology produced. Good for you, but you can't deny the fact that AI is the new revolution, every technology that we have seen throughout mankind's history has it's cons and pros, even the most widely used internet. And most likely AI is not for everyone. The fact is that we are just at the verge of AI advancement and subsequently better AI models and types will flood the technological space as time goes on. Therefore as a tech person you should try as much as possible to get updated on malwares and hacks like these to help us level up our security consciousness from time to time.
Yes, if there are people on the bad sides, (scammers/cyber criminals) there are also people on the other side like those who really find this criminals and exposed them. So it's a battle between bad and good guys and hopefully we will not be another statistics or would be victims. |
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Would a data showing the users statistics in graph and chart form, comparing ones gambling habit over a duration, help to curb gambling addiction or enforce strict control?
If graphs, charts and diagrams could help a company or startup to project and know the progress the company or business has made annually or periodically, with concise economic details and investment as well as returns, then don't you think gambling and betting sites should have such user statistics presented in chart form and readily available upon just a click, to the user, so that it helps them know if they have become addicted knowingly or unknowingly and as such, gain control over their gambling or betting habits?
What do you think?
Nah, I don't think that gamblers will be interested on that kind of graphs and whatnot. What gamblers are basically interested is if they are going to win or not or how much they are going to get. So it won't curb the addiction of individuals. For a gambling site to present this complicated numbers to the gambler? I don't think that they are going to bat an eyelash, just saying. The closest data that they can give us is the Win/Loss record, that's it. |
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Just because a coin is cheap and has liquidity because it is listed in an exchange doesn't mean it is a good investment option. You can find countless such tokens and coins in the market that have liquidity and a low price as well but they are barely traded by people in the market and because of this, they are nothing less than dead coins.
Yes, and it's like a guessing game as what coins will be successful just because they are listed and it's cheap. I remember way back 2018 after the bull run and everyone is still very happy at that time and many coins are listed and it really very profitable. But after that initial success, comes reality think as we are in the bear market around March-April and most of them have died a natural death. So one shouldn't just see that a cryptocurrency has a low price or a low market cap and also has enough liquidity and think they should invest in it. It is essential to do thorough research about a project before making any investments in it just to be safe from losses. Most of such projects are never going to give any returns but your money will get stuck just like that.
It's not the only one that we can used as indicator, certainly, it's could be one of the factor, but having low market cap could also means that the project is having a hard time getting investors on board and it might not give us a good returns even if we believed on it. |
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As bookies are clearly having Inoue as the heavy favourite, if you do want to bet, find another betting line like what round will it end and how rather than bet on Inoue with 1.07 odds. Even the betting line of will the fight go the distance is just 1.14 at stake and so with others, so bookies are not expecting this fight to last.
There's a very slim chance that a boxer which Inoue would fight will last in the ring. Last time I saw Inoue had some trouble but was able to make an adjustment was with Donaire, but the rematch was too easy for him as Donaire got knocked out. Inoue just got better and better in every fight, so I think if Nery will remain aggressive, he would also suffer a devastating KO from Inoue, that body shot though. Any odds below 1.50 is not attractive to me, so I would just wait until the fight is very close so all the markets will be available, maybe Inoue winning by KO in just 1-3 rounds, it's sure gonna have a very attractive odds. It's already out, The over/under round is 6.5, I think that is a good round to begin with, they've at least given Nery 6 rounds to convince us if he will last or not against the power of Inoue. And the odds is 1.85, that is good enough and very appealing already. But for more risk taker out there, and I know a lot here might go with this, Nery, Luis By Decision 15.00. Huge odds if Nery can survived. Tapales almost did it as he gets into 10 rounds. So just a matter how strong Nery and if he can go full 12 rounds against the Monster. |
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8ombard Username: Jating
Number: 6711
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What do you think of this method?
Is there anyone among you who does it?
Give us one of your winning strategies, of course if that is possible.
Well it's a good plan until the pattern will break, I mean there's no way that you can always win in gambling, sometimes you can implement this strategy in any games, slot machine and card games and it's effective. Until one day you lose all your capital, so what will be the strategy then, deposit more or quit? Maybe if you can control yourself you can say that you will stop. But what if you can't control your emotions and deposit for more money and chase your loses because you believed that this strategy is bullet proof? So really very hard for any gamblers to stay focus on this strategy in my opinion. It's only good when you are winning, but once you experience string of losses, you might ditch this plan for good. you’ve got a point there. It’s true that sticking to a rigid strategy like doubling your money and then stopping can work well—until it doesn’t. Gambling, by its nature, involves a lot of unpredictability, and even the best plans can face a sudden streak of losses. It’s essential to have a backup plan or an exit strategy that isn’t just about chasing losses with more deposits. The key really is self-control. It’s about knowing when to walk away, whether you’re up or down. And it's harder that it looks, as others have said, you really need to have self-control and every time you double your money or at least close to doubling then exit right away if you are playing online, or go home if you are in a land base casinos. The only thing I see when playing in land base casinos specially if you have just arrived and then won already is that maybe it's hard to head back to home because you are not yet enjoying. So just the same, when you don't know when to walk away or forget about this strategy of yours, then at the end you will lose. But maybe for some gamblers, this is going to be very effective method. But in the end, there could be some skeptical for every gamblers to try and test this one out. |
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I'm sure majority of us are into AI, at least for me I have been trying to learn a lot of tools, like Mid Journey, Capcut, In-video, Leonardo AI, Elevenlabs, Runway and others. So when I say this reports, I was taken aback as how cyber criminals is also leveraging AI tools now to steal our crypto credentiasl as most of them are info stealer. The way it works is that this threat actor will take over a Facebook account, hack it specially those who have a lot of followers and then turn it into face site similar to the original AI tools. - Cybercrooks have taken over Facebook profiles to run sponsored malvertising campaigns impersonating Midjourney, Sora AI, DALL-E 3, Evoto, ChatGPT 5 and many others
- The malicious pages on Facebook are meticulously designed to trick users into downloading purportedly official desktop versions of popular AI software. The cybercriminals behind these campaigns regularly change and adapt the malicious payloads in an attempt to avoid further detection from security software
- The links direct users to malicious webpages that download a variety of intrusive stealers to harvest sensitive information from compromised systems, including credentials, autocomplete data, credit card information, and even crypto wallet information.
- The analyzed campaigns employ malicious ads that contain links to executable files that serve Rilide, Vidar, IceRAT, Nova Stealers. The entire batch of malicious software is often offered as malware-as-a-service by threat actors on specialized forums and channels.
- The malvertising campaigns have tremendous reach through Meta’s sponsored ad system and have actively been targeting European users from Germany, Poland, Italy, France, Belgium, Spain, the Netherlands, Romania, Sweden, and elsewhere.
- The ads use convincing descriptions alongside generated AI videos and photos to lure potential users into accessing malicious payloads
- One particular Facebook page impersonating Midjourney with a whopping 1.2 million followers was active for nearly a year until it was shut down on March 8, 2024. Since then threat actors have continuously set up more fraudulent pages to deliver malicious ads to users.
- The Midjourney malvertising ad campaign was directed towards male Facebook users aged 25 to 55 and had an ad reach of approximately 500,000 individuals from Europe (demographics and reach of the campaign were obtained by tracking Meta’s Ad Library catalog)
The malware included here and most of them have been reported already in this community, Rilide Stealer by @The Cryptovator Vidar by @Lafu Nova StealerAnd one of the well-known AI tools right now, Mid-Journey, had 1.2 million followers and reach of over 500,000 individuals in Europe before being taken down on March 8, this year.  https://www.bitdefender.com/blog/labs/ai-meets-next-gen-info-stealers-in-social-media-malvertising-campaigns/
I know others will say that we should go and look for the official page and check everything before downloading. But with the recent AI resurgence, including myself joining the picture and taking advantage of it for whatever purpose it may served to me, still there are dangers lurking in the dark specially for us crypto enthusiast and those trying to learn AI. |
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We've said it before, it seems that Oscar is hell bend to have his revenge on Canelo for leaving him. And they are trying to make this as another storyline line for this fight. So that's how promoters, just like Top Rank Bob Arum's statement on his fighters and other boxers as well.
This is just for promotion.
It is ironic that Oscar holds so much resentment towards Canelo. When Oscar was a fighter, he had a falling out with his own promoter, Bob Arum, and had to take legal action to get out of his contract. When Richard Shaefer was running Golden Boy, Oscar also didn’t see a problem with fighters abandoning their promoters to pursue other opportunities. He was one of the biggest beneficiaries of the Mayweather vs. Top Rank feud, which resulted in Golden Boy promoting most of Mayweather’s fights at the end of his career. It wasn’t until Haymon took much of his stable and later when Canelo left, that Oscar felt what it was like to be betrayed by his own fighters. Lest you forget, what they did to one of their supposedly partners, because as far as I remember, they have also Shane Mosley together with Bernard Hopkins as business partner of Oscar Dela Hoya in the early stage of Golden Boy. But they ditch Shane, after his contract with Golden Boy and then just gave him 5% stake in the company. So in any case, Oscar is also a snake and it's just maybe payback for him when Canelo left him and sure does if Ryan Garcia will also do that as they have already a history of falling out and even Ryan has filed lawsuits against Golden Boy. |
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You have mentioned in the rules that edited posts will be disqualified, but you never mentioned if users can have more than 1 guess. Lots of users have 3+ guesses. None are correct, but 1 thing you gotta remember to do on this forum is explain everything otherwise people will try anything  This is what was said,
Sorry, but are we allowed to make just one guess ? Considering the range (10,000) I don't think that even someone will find it! What if each user get the right to make one guess per day or per week.. set the calendar at UTC time to keep the thing simple, for example each user allowed to place one guess per 24h.. between [00:00 and 23:59] ! But I do agree that it should be added to the original posts so that everyone will see it. |
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On the other hand, I don't see that this kind of game will happen in the playoffs though where everything is just pure physicality.
This is what I was wondering. Maybe what happened in the Bucks vs Celtics is just a practice for the refs and we'll see a shift in the way they officiate the playoff games. Some teams who thrives on a fast-paced game will love this. I’m a little bit surprised to see the Celtics lock up Jrue Holiday for the next 4 years for 135 million dollars. I’m not sure how old Jrue is, but that seems like sort of a long deal for an older guy on a team that’s already got 2 young max players. I think the genius management over in Boston might be starting to make mistakes as they struggle to get Taytum a chip.
Yes, it's a big surprise to me as well, and there are fans who says that he is overrated. And I guess they see Derrick White leaving in free agency that's why they lock him for good. But his age though, we really don't know what will happen to him in the next 4 years. He will be like 37 years after this contract, and probably will retire after that. . Just look at Draymond Green who also had a four-year contract with the Warriors. I think Jrue Holiday's signing is worth it for the Celtics if we're going to compare to Draymond. I don't think that we can compare Dray's contract to the Warriors with that of Jrue Holiday. I mean we all know that Dray is the heart and soul of the Warriors and so no surprised that he has been offered a good contract and he chooses to stay even at his age. But with Holiday, he just been inserted this year and we can say that his point average has gone down this year. It's obvious that he is not their superstar as compare with the Bucks wherein he could be the second option. With the Celtics, they have Tatum and Brown and then KP. So it's either the Celtics will make him their main point guard moving forward and then letting go of Derrick White or Payton Pritchard. |
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I will advise as many people as possible to always avoid the use of loan as an alternative means to make it in life or starting a business, such is a bad idea because many have been in debt at the cause and couldn't afford to repay back their loan, we have to learn the various means in which we can earn and save for for the future use, instead of taking loan, we may not be able to manage our debts if we are into it on a wrong approach.
Taking loan is never an option for me because I don't think I could use the fund well without being panic of how to pay for the fund. There are people that knows how to manage funds and they are very cool at that getting loan and using it to do business that would yield them more profits when used for investments purposes. Debt management is a very important one for anyone that would to monitor the way they spend and how they should track their spending which is going to give a full awareness on how to balance debt and expenses. If we know that we are not good at tracking our expenses then we need to try enough to follow the debt management. It's really hard if you dig yourself in loans and debt that you can't pay off. I guess one classic example is having multiple credit cards. And this is the worst as you can take advantage and pamper and think that it is the right way or you have justifications that you can buy anything you want and then pay later. However, when you max out even just 2 of them, most likely you will be in a huge pile of debt. And if you uses to pay just the minimum, then you have been trap by this banks. So as much as you can, closed everything out in a month or two. Hard lessons for me, as I'm on a debt reconstruction already and my goal is to pay them this year. |
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This idea gave me the impression that some people can be very dangerous as a result of lossing money while gambling And i aslo learnt My lessons today . However, i Dont know If you have actually experienced such things At the betting shops And If yes How do you feel or react At the situation? .
The situation you described is common especially when gamblers are playing among themselves behind closed doors, though I've never been in such ugly situation. Sometimes, it's could get as bad as one stabbing the other gambler or inflicting life threatening injury on him. This is the reason I don't like street betting or physical casino because there's always the tendency of violence breaking out. For me, online gambling is the best. Or they are playing illegal and hiding it from the public. And so there is no one to control this gamblers and anything and so a simple disagreement could lead into a bigger argument and then what followed is violence. I think once or twice in my career as I gambler that I experience this kind of violence, and that is playing in the streets. But that was years ago, when I was still a kid and think that I can play and side hustle. But when I grow up, I just gambled on physical casinos and never go back to playing in the streets. Up until now though, I will hear voices and arguments in our neighbourhood about disagreement on a gambling table. |
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