And just yesterday I read that Porto FC (Portuguese serial winners and Champions League alumni) will get Binance on their jersey next month. But yeah, an actual stadium named after an exchange is pretty big a deal, even if I've never heard of that stadium before. Welcome Crypto.com even if I don't use (or really like) them.


A lot of fans hated it when their beloved stadiums were named Emirates (England) or Allianz (Germany). I'd definitely be against Anfield being called some company instead. Sgn of the times.

Big fan of MAs but 200, though have to say am even bigger "fan" of volume so yeah, the numbers behind the dip is of some concern to me. Thought that the weekend and Monday was going to turn this thing on its head but then we're seeing a lot of weakness spill out from Bitcoin into the stronger alts as well (ETH especially) so I won't be surprised if the selling appetite grows this week.

As long as we spend more days above 60 than below til Sunday, we should be all right. Until next week anyway.

Hah! I knew Norway Netherlands would be dull, I watched the first half and then half of the second (which is a shame as 2 goals came in last 10 minutes)... one corner the whole first half and absolutely no pace on the ball. Stadium was empty too thanks to new lockdown measures in Netherlands so it was quiet, dull, and bleh.

Good temporary riddance to internationals, seriously =p

Jesus rdbase. If I win that, I'm going on a bitcointalk tipping spree. Spend at least $50k just making all my forum friends happy. And then another $50k cash out, the rest put that all into Bitcoin and then scale down on work for a year and work on a personal project.

Oh and yeah, never stop talking about it of course!

I have to say though, I don't see Black Friday or anything of the drops on Promo page... sad if not eligible heh.

@ralle: I've made my peace playing Blackjack. There's always always always 1/2 players splitting everything, hitting hard 20, etc. Degens or bots, I'll never know.

Still not decided myself which games to watch tonight. No bets except specials all the way, but yeah, I'm thinking Netherlands-Norway will fail to live up to its billing (like Italy's game last night) so it could be one of the Balkans games I watch; Belgium-Wales otherwise without group results as is would have been my pick -- I know Wales need a draw at least to secure playoffs but no Bale and Origi instead to lead against a team who doesn't need any points.

Choices, choices.

A slight yikes moment for me waking up early today actually as I'm making a sell this morning, and it's been a pretty decent while since I've had to grit down on a 5%+ loss overnight. Price of being in Bitcoin, no matter.

Not sure what to make out of the (lack of) bounce from 60,500 support though. Thought even if we did threaten that, we'd get some long-earned inertia pushing it back up but Asian trading time doesn't seem willing to fuel a recovery.

Coinbase, as others have said, appears to be the safest to use, if indeed you don't mind hefty fees -- they're also easy to do tax with apparently, according to a colleague who's lived there for 3/4 years and trying various exchanges.

I've used Bitpanda for about the same number of years for SEPA and they seem to have retained withdrawals for GBP. No commissions/fees for withdrawals or sells, and a buy/sell rate that's rather much better than Coinbase -- of all the licensed and regulated exchanges that work in EU and UK, this is the only one I use (and "trust").

@examplens @Slow death Yeah, I did some affiliate stuff even back in the late 1990s and early 2000s and you could see the trend begin. Almost equal rates for traffic and leads everywhere when it all started, and then you'd get $2 leads for US emails, $1 for Europe and then rest of the world mere cents for PAID leads. It was understandable then but the bulk of online spending today isn't from US and Europe anymore... it just simply isn't captured by Visa/MC/Amex as fintech and local solutions have stopped waiting for them to catch up.

Nah, nothing to be ashamed of. It's not really important if you're just a casual gambler looking to have fun. I know some slots, for example, have very high house edge but people like them more for the big Jackpots. Same as some roulette tables, higher house edge than others but maybe people prefer the energy.

What's more important is to self-verify Provably Fair games (where possible) and RNG certifications for providers who don't have Provably Fair mechanisms you can self verify. Almost a duty to see for yourself they are as fair as they claim.

And yeah, we're both playing at the same places with almost the same providers -- for games I always prefer Provably Fair dice (or equivalent) and for sports, I just go for best value and entertainment =)

I think in the context of the discussions earlier, it's pretty clear it's not so much about what's reality, but what's actual for the consumer/user.

We can talk all day about what's backing the nothingness in bank accounts, and what other things back Bitcoin -- some prefer the other, I personally prefer to back both -- but at the end of the day, it's hard to argue that having sole access to Bitcoin private keys is the only objectively provable actual ownership to money.

Money in the bank? Depending on the money, the bank, and the state governing the bank, you will have varying levels of probability, hence, varying levels of how real that money was, is, and will be for the consumer.

Woah. Thanks for sharing. I don't have much money but I just calculated if I get 5% a day (let's just say I do this signal thing part time cause I'm not greedy and I like sleeping and living away from computer), with only a modest $100 outlay, I could get about $430 after a month... effectively quadrupling my bankroll every month.

Over $2 million in TEN months.

See you losers in September when I've bought my yacht, I'll come in forums with a new account and sell this strategy guaranteeing half the profits.

Rare night for me as I actually kept track of both international games. Precious few goals and as 78th minute came up, both were at 14 points (though at HT, Scotland was at 12, and Italy at 7, to the latter had a slow start but caught up quickly so looked the more likely to go to 21).

By 83rd min, they were both on track at points per minute, with 16 for the push and Scotland seemed content to hang on for the slim win, giving 2 quick corners to Denmark.

As it ended, however, 10+ minutes later, we have to be satisfied with the results. No long injury time favours from the ref or we might have banked 1. Thank god for corners as yellows are a rare commodity in internationals with relatively little to play for.

Soccer Blackjack #282: Northern Ireland v Italy
Corners: 15
Cards: 3
Goals: 0
TOTAL: 18 -- PUSH

Soccer Blackjack #283: Scotland v Denmark:
Corners: 16
Cards: 1
Goals: 2
TOTAL: 19 -- PUSH

Put a rare bet on Patriots actually @1.76 and was surprised the results were so one-sided. I don't follow American football much but surely that's a rare score? 45-7, wonder what the odds were for them to win every quarter or at such big spreads (if those markets even exist) but I guess dumb luck does follow me for the no-knowledge punts. Then again, Packers also blew Seahawks away 17-0 so maybe some teams just aren't cut out.

Got a bit too excited and placed the exact same amount on Watford (late game vs Leicester) in a completely unrelated sport.

Always a win-win for me either outcome. If we get big sells, presumably big dips, and another extension for those of us not lucky enough to get in earlier to stack them up. I won't lie, I do hope for a lot higher than 78k, but I'm pretty okay waiting another entire period of 3/4 years for the next wave. Then I'll be a lot better off when 100k arrives.

But why the gloom and doom? We're in a good place =)

Yeah, sorry, it is perhaps slightly off topic, but these games are actually FIFA-governed games for AFC (which Jordan and Iran are members of), which actually determine qualification into FIFA World Cup, albeit for the women's version of the tournament, for which there is, unfortunately, no correct sub-thread for me to add this comment into (or is there and I can't find it?).

The keeper has played for her whole life as a woman, of course, as I'm finding out now. Just funny that a team only challenges the decision AFTER they lose a game. Go Iran!

As a side comment, I have followed women's football recently and they have vastly, vastly improved over the past 5/10 years. Technically speaking, they're quite high quality in some countries, which wasn't the case 10 years ago, based on my admittedly limited observation.

There are people working tirelessly on their own ideas about crypto sustainability (not to make it sustainable environmentally but to become a system that is self-sustainable) but I personally think the vast majority of these are working only on Bitcoin itself. Take a look at the various BIPs out there on github and you'll see a healthy number of ideas proposing all sorts of improvements, upgrades, tweaks. If they're good enough, they get attention, consensus, and rigorous testing and development and they get implemented, just as Taproot eventually was just yesterday =)

Then there are also those on-the-ground people all doing their own part to encourage actual Bitcoin use on their own time and effort. Could be as radical as hacktivists believing Bitcoin can be weaponised for political change. Could be as docile as business users encouraging growth in Bitcoin City in the Netherlands. These guys are about anything but money heists =)

Just came across this fun piece of news in Asian Federation Cup women's competition (I actually follow men's AFC but this was worth reading). Jordan's national team lost to Iran and they're adamant the goalkeeper's actually a man. Their prince has demanded FIFA look into it.

I'm not going to judge until I watch the reel itself -- you can always tell when the goalie's a man =p No offence even if some people would take it; I'm sure it'll change over the years but right now, women's goalkeeping hasn't arrived at the acrobatic levels of men's!

https://middleeast.in-24.com/sport/News/117341.html

Cool, yeah that's the one I click on but the following screen doesn't load for me most of the time -- and when it does, it doesn't have anywhere for me to click. It doesn't take as much load time for me on other casinos (Evolution also) so I wonder if it's a UI thing.

I'd definitely recommend putting exclusive titles on featured pages, seems a bit weird you've to cycle through and search for these titles when they're your branded exclusives!


Exactly. Any game can experience a significant impact on house edge (and, therefore, RTP) with adjusted rules. Most players don't realise this, or don't even know the benchmark rules of blackjack, so when it's a Dealer stands at 16, 8 decks vs 1 deck, or different insurance payout, or win with 5 hands, stuff like that, huge difference to your edge.

The proof is watching Live or Actual RTP on Blackjack. It's far, far lower than expected RTP thanks to people who just insist on hitting on hard 20, for example.

There weren't any details but I was hoping (or assuming) it would be a odds exchange. It popped up but isn't anymore there, so I guess they're not ready yet. I know all the features we asked for above are more important, but I actually have asked for this feature as well, as I really like the idea of p2p betting -- and this solves (partially) the problem of a market not available from regular sportsbetting.

Not a dealbreaker for me but I know simply having a market or the ability to create one if not available, dealbreaker for a lot of gamblers.


If you've a freebet, the option to use it appears on your betslip, so it's impossible to forget. If you don't see it highlighted, then you don't have a freebet... so the only way they become wasted is if you forget to login and bet

I WOULD like an alert for a freebet that's about to expire though. Sometimes I stupidly collect all my Clubhouse freebets at once, or get them at the same time when winning prediction contests, and then have MANY that all expire on the same date. I've lost one or two freebets from forgetting they expire, thinking "OK lemme wait for a new special to throw them on" =)

Kinda meh night for me, even with F1 on the side. Croatians will be happy they got the full points, own goal or not. No surprises everywhere else, and can't find a good feed for the CAF games so I guess I'm crossing fingers for an exciting end to Sunday night -- Spain/Sweden disappointed last meet, so maybe they make up for it at home?

No more betting on Portugal goals for me either...