Can we talk about Demarcus Cousins’ stat line last night with a few minutes… He put up 31 points and 9 rebounds on 71% shooting with also 4 assists and 3 steals. He did all this with only 23 minutes of playing time. Looking like the old Sacramento Boogie. If he can stay healthy and continue getting back to his old self, he’ll be one of the biggest steals in the NBA. Denver better lock him up with a good contract now. Staying healthy and playing well is likely to increase his value 10x if he can keep it up. Even for trade bait he’s worth the contract risk.

With the amount of coins that Bill Miller owns, I suspect anything he comes across is good for Bitcoin. He’s in the business of making money and right now he needs Bitcoin to go up to make money. He’s a great ally for the price go up crowd though. You can bet he’s talking with other billionaires and cornering the market. It’s investors like him that make me think Bitcoin could still go up quite a bit. With deep pockets and connections like Bill Miller has, it seems like Bitcoin has too much support behind it financially to fail.

I think the administration probably didn’t want to waste any more time with ban appeals. I’m surprised to read that bans aren’t happening anymore. I’m sure it was a constant headache having to deal with people complaining about being banned. They can just get around it with a new account anyway, so it’s questionable how effective it is as a strategy. I’ve seen established members over the last few years directly disobey direct requests in the face of empty threats, so I think it’s probably the result of not wanting to deal with this stuff disguised as free speech.

Warriors vs Lakers on ABC tonight. I think the way they Warriors and Lakers have both been playing it seems like the Warriors should be able to easily take this one. You can never count LeBron out when he’s playing against Steph, but I feel like the Lakers have some in house issues that are keeping them from winning games. That clubhouse must be a pretty stressful place to be right now. You can expect both teams to bring their best though for this nationally televised game.

Not just that, but a lot of Russian people do not support this war.  They are facing the consequences of actions they don't want to be happening.  Their stock market is wrecked, their currency is fading fast...  It isn't their fault.  Many of them are probably seeing Bitcoin as a lifeline to protect their life savings.  It would be wrong to lock these people out of the system just because of a government disagreement.  There is KYC in place to make sure that Putin isn't using Binance to avoid sanctions.  I think a lot of people just want to cause Russia the most harm possible, without thinking about the fact that there are real people suffering on both sides of this war, and I'm sure a vast majority of them wish it had never happened.

This is always the question.  I have a 0.5 BTC Casascius Brass that I may be willing to sell for the right price.  It's ungraded.  Drop me a PM with a ballpark figure and I'll let you know if we're close to a deal.

Good luck with your search!

We’re terribly close to $40K to have people saying it won’t fall below that level. We seem stuck in a trading range between $33-43K. We’ll need a move well above $43K and to hold it before I’d count out heading back to $33K. We’ll see how things play out. A lot of uncertainty hanging above the market right now with the gox and finex funds set to possibly hit the market in a few months. It’s starting to feel like the moonshot to $200K won’t be happening for a few more years. It is great to see short sellers getting liquidated instead of longs though.

It seemed like a good match because Westbrook would be able to tire out defenses and give LeBron a break but it hasn’t worked out at all. Instead of the best of both worlds they’re getting the worst. Tonight was a good example. They’re taking turns getting easy rebounds and throwing up shots to get numbers. They aren’t anywhere near the efficiency level they need to be to win games. Carmelo Anthony has been the only consistent shooter all season. I’m not even sure if they’re going to get a shot at a play in game at this point.

I saw that and thought it was a pretty typical answer from someone overseas. Still funny though. No doubt the United States military has been in other countries but tend to view the world only from their/our position. I’m glad people are taking that stance though. Surely if all of us United States citizens were cutoff from services because of the bad choices of our government it would seem unfair to us. So I think he makes a good point, even if it’s a shot at my own countrymen.

The Metaverse seems like an obvious next move for gambling outfits.  Possibly even issuing betting slips as NFTs.  That would be sort of cool.  Imagine gambling in the metaverse and watching the sporting event on a metaverse tv alongside other bettors.  It would be a pretty cool way to watch a game.  Maybe people would even throw their losing NFT gambling slips on the ground when they lose.  LOL

Virtual reality and the metaverse seems like the obvious next step for many industries, but as with most new things I would expect that gambling and porn lead the way.  Considering this is crypto and gambling and crypto go hand and hand, I think legitimate metaverse casinos will be popping up sooner than anyone expects.

Agreed.  It has been obvious since Tyson himself said that no fight between him and Logan Paul was ever even in the works.  As I've stated before, there was a short talk about Jake Paul fighting Tyson, but Tyson saw that it was just an attempt to make money off of his name and he wasn't interested.  The fact is that Mike is too old to be fighting.  Sure, he could still kick nearly everyone's ass, but the risk of injury or permanent health issues is too much for someone in his position to risk.

For that reason, I think this thread should be locked.  It's been slapped around far too much for something that was nothing more than a publicity stunt by promoters who were hoping they could get this fight going.

The Nets are playing again today. Still no Ben Simmons in the lineup but Kevin Durant is returning from injury so that’s one piece falling into place. Hopefully Ben Simmons hits the floor soon as well. I can’t wait to see how he fits in with KD and Kyrie.

Another big game on TNT tonight is the Lakers vs Clippers. I think when the Clippers signed Kawhi and PG13 we all thought these LA matchups would be a bigger deal. With the Clippers crippled by injuries and the Lakers playing terrible basketball, this matchup is turning into a snooze fest.

Harden is suddenly playing like he was before this year. I guess the rule changes weren’t as responsible for his dips in numbers as was thought. It’s looking like him and Embiid are the pairing people had hoped they would be.

Congrats to the Phoenix Suns for getting their 50th win of the season. With 20 games left to go, they are on their way to having one of the best regular seasons in recent memory. They’re going to have a tougher postseason schedule I think this year, but it’s clear their sights are set on another trip to the finals.

The difference in this case would be the winner gets theirs for free and all the losers are the ones who pay for it. A bit different then one person paying. Mostly just more fun though.

I thought I had read that this wasn't a "might" situation and that they would begin rolling out Bitcoin support on the 10th of this month.  Was that just something I made up in my head?  It seems like there was a lot of publicity and news coverage if it was only a might accept Bitcoin scenario.  Considering PayPal already took this route of implementing some Bitcoin services, it doesn't seem like a stretch that eBay would follow suit.  The question is how their implementation will be on their payment network and if sellers will still be liable for potential chargebacks.  I sort of don't think eBay will implement this correctly because, well, eBay has struggled with payments and scams since the beginning.  It will be a tightrope walk to see if they make that problem better or worse with Bitcoin.

That would be bigtime.  I sort of like the idea of doing a lot of separate raffles to keep the fun going as long as possible though.  I have thought about doing one where there's 1 loser and everybody else wins, but that might be a bit expensive for the loser so I'm not sure how many people would be willing to participate.  It would be fun though. 

Another idea might be one where there's one winner and 15 losers.  That would make it possible to offer a much more expensive prize without any one person breaking the bank.  I sort of like that idea but it remains to be seen if there would be enough support.  I'll see if I can offer a few of these types of raffles and if people are having fun and want me to expand on the idea, I certainly will.  I love doing fun things like this and it seems like activity in this section of the forum is starting to heat up, so many some more fun crazy opportunities will come from me in the near future. 

There's definitely a lot of people here with decades of experience building PCs.  Some of us have even been around since the days of CPU mining and have built just about every type of mining rig there is.  Personally, I loved the early days of tweaking and building liquid cooled GPU rigs.  Nowadays as mining profitability depends mostly on power consumption there is less room for expensive and super cool rigs, but it's still a fun hobby.  I'm glad you were able to utilize this forum as a tool to get the information you needed to make the rig building process easier.  Don't hesitate to come back and post your story and we always love pictures of mining rigs.  Maybe soon you'll be advising others on how to best build their mining rigs. 

Yes, it is good to actually understand what the OP is saying.  I think judging them on a single transaction is a bit harsh.  I don't know how their system works, but I assume that they aren't calculating every fee separately for each transaction.  Likely they set an amount to pay for fees and adjust it if needed.  They also likely build in a little room for error so that if prices for transactions do shoot upwards, they aren't left holding a bag of fees for users.  

This complaint seems to be like saying that a shipping company charged your more for shipping than they paid the post office to ship the package.  What people should understand is that there are other costs involved as well.  Packaging materials, employees to box up goods, etc...  I think an extra dollar on withdrawals is not much and if that's what they need to do in order to keep withdrawal fees down (they recently lowered them a lot) then I'm fine with it...  Surely there are other costs involved besides just the tx fee for stake.

I saw him (CZ) being interviewed on television and the news anchors were giving him a hard time about not cutting off support for Russian users.  CZ was clear that no companies are cutting off services to Russian citizens (Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) so why would he?  I actually like that he was considering the situation that many Russian citizens find themselves in and was making it clear that he views Russian citizens and Russian politicians separately.  He also made it clear that nobody is anonymously trading on his platform (debatable) and that KYC is implemented for all users.  I don't think he intends to help Russia evade sanctions with his platform, but he does want to help citizens safeguard their wealth, which I think is admirable. 

If they have LeBron, they have a chance...  Obviously they're struggling right now, but they've been dealing with injuries all season.  They have the talent to go far in the post season, they just need to get Brody out of his slump, get AD healthy, get Dwight more playing time, and Kendrick Nunn still hasn't taken the floor for them this season.  Nunn was supposed to be one of their starters and a big piece for the team.  It isn't a shock they've been struggling without him.  Not saying he's the greatest, but he does seem to be a missing piece.  I hear he could return this month, and AD may return next month.  If all goes well we could see a healthy Lakers team enter the playoffs, which would be dangerous for any opponent.