Bitcoin investment will hedge you against inflation and give you some return on investment, but will not "turn your life around" or get you rich. If you have a source of income, converting your spare cash to bitcoin will help you protect it from inflation, if you do not, bitcoin cannot help with that.

Bitcoin is not built on hype, but it is a consequence of its features. Decentralization and security is enough to get anyone excited.

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1. I think usage of banks is not directly or strongly correlated to the economic status. Not considering the unbanked I will assume both high, low and middle income countries use banks to the same extent.

2. I can flip that to show that those is low/middle income countries do not engage in international transactions often and if they do. they find themselves on the receiving end of the transaction where they do not worry about the remittance cost.

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They surely will not. He is a versatile player who can replace Halland a center forward, and can also replace Debruyne in the middle of the pitch and take to both positions like a duck to water. He is creative and young meaning he will cost so much for any team that wants to sign him and City will only consider a deal if the player is willing to leave.

Guardiola is not a coach that holds on to players who want to leave, but he will do his bit to keep you content with the team especially if you are a mainstay in the club.

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Perspective plays a huge role in this. Online and offline versions of platforms are one and the same, with the same values and mode of operation, what changes is the customers and how they perceive the platform.

- Physical players will attribute majority of any issue they face to the short comings of the staff they meet at the outlet and less to the general company itself, but in the online version it is all targeted to the business.

- Also, it is difficult to carry out routine scams like defaulting on payment in a physical outlet, cause the customer is there in person, but online is more complicated. The team can block them out and ask customer care to keep repeating the same generic text to them till they get tired.

- Lastly, this forum is not the standard for online perception. 1xbet and 1xBit has a bad rep here, but the rest of the internet does not really care for what they do.

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This is exactly what happens when you make a face to face trade. A media (could be a decentralized or centralized exchange) connects a random buyer to a seller. They do their basic checks, but this does not accommodate the intent of any of the parties.
This creates an avenue where one can be jacked; $5 wrench attack, or tracked back to their home.

Going along with a friend is a good idea and can help to some extent, but much better to go with a more assured alternative.

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The user was last active four months ago and posted last almost 8 months ago, a tag will not draw their attention.

Alternatively, someone can re create such useful threads and fix the broken links.

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The PGMOL has announced that they will be releasing the audio recording of the controversial goal that handed Arsenal their first defeat against Newcastle.

I am not really excited to hear what led the refs to arrive at the decision that caused them to stick to the on field decision, it is probably them explaining and rationalizing the decision. It is not a clear and obvious error like the offside against Liverpool and is open to interpretation based on how you view the incidence.

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With the suspension of Sandro Tonali. Newcastle will most likely go all in on on the transfer since they have lost one holding midfielder already. Arsenal may not bring as much to the deal as Newcastle will, and it might all go down to the players final decision.

He will be a very good fit into the style of play of the goonerz.

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I do not use it for cross border transactions cause those I regularly transact with are not exactly excited about the prospects of bitcoin and refuse to use it, even for the singular purpose of receiving.
On a more general perspective, Bitcoin is cheaper and faster than other cross border channels for money transfer. For everyday expenses the transaction fee can be a burden ads it is now, but for larger transactions to farther distances it is the ideal option to use, showing that bitcoin can be scalable depending on how it is used.

This feature is not limited to low and middle income countries. Anyone who engages in international transactions will appreciate using bitcoin as the channel.

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Do not worry too much, Arsenal will make it up to you later in the evening 

Good on Manchester United to give me an exact score result, I do not mind much for their performance but just expected they will squeeze out a victory.

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This is where you mixed it up;
You mentioned different years, but was talking about the exact same year.

The rest of your argument is just you sharing your personal opinion and trolling, so no need pursuing the argument with someone who is not objective.

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You are confusing the exact same year, 2010. Your entire focus seems to be on the world cup so I assume that is the year you are talking about.
Stop mixing reality up to suit your agenda.
Then explain what you mean by "stronger"? I have already mentioned that reality is not what you think but what it is. So you do not simply say team A is better than B and that becomes it.

Also, did those corrupt officials score the goals and create the assists he made?
Did they break the records he broke and create the magic he did on the ball?

Totally different National team sides. Your points are really showing you to have a poor perspective of football.
Spain had a complete team at the time and had a great manager. Argentina on the other hand simply had lots of good attackers but not a complete team.
Messi is not a national team, neither was Xavi or Iniesta, and as good as any player was they need a system to function.

You are the one repetitively comparing Xavi and Iniesta to Messi and linking the glory days of Spain. If I wanted to indulge your ridiculous argument, I will say Xavi and Iniesta failed at 2014 world cup, while Messi got to the final and won the golden ball. But it still balls down to the team, Spain at that time had reached an epoch and could not go beyond it till they had a change in system.

Monstrously is a heavy word, does not fit anywhere in this conversation really.

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Answer one question honestly, Do you think personal achievements are determined more by "personal" performance or team performance?

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So did Sergio Busquets, so did Pedro, so did Pique, so did Puyol, so did David Villa (after he joined).
You are yet to explain how Xavi and Iniesta are personally better players than Messi. Football is not based on your perception, but on reality.

Messi has won 3 balon d'ors without Xavi and Iniesta and 2 without Barcelona.

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He would have thrived in Liverpool, but I feel Real Madrid is a much better team for his development and ambition as a player. Madrid is a team with a ruthless winning mentality and he is growing to feel the skin he has found himself in.

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I forgot it was EFL cup week and placed my bets ahead of time, rather than wait for the outcome of today's matches. I barely change ky picks cause I want to trust my first instinct, so whatever happens tonight I will go with my original picks.

I am hoping there will be no upsets.

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Arsenal surprisingly are fielding a strong squad for tonight's fixture, what is more surprising is that majority of the players did not feature in the EPL weekend match, showing that they are building some strong squad depth with their recent acquisitions. Arteta will need to manage the squad well to keep the players happy and also introduce the new players into the team at a decent time.

Liverpool made more rotations cause they are playing a weaker team and have a better chance to win.

I predict the expected teams to win tonight, including Chelsea and Newcastle.

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I do not change my password often and have never been hacked.

I do not think people need to change their passwords at all if you chose a secure mix of characters. You just need to have a secure back up for it. The only upside to changing your password could be to log out any unauthorized access to your account. A hacker can get your email and password and be accessing your account with you without changing anything, if you change your password, they will be logged out.

You should not rely on memory to remember sensitive passwords and other information. Backing up different passwords at different times can also get confusing, other than that, it is a safe process and could provide more security.

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Messi without Barcelona did not exist so we cannot make any assumption on what he was or would have been. The closest we can use is his National team and Messi without Barcelona in this situation is a,
- World Cup winner,
- Copa America winner,
- Olympic gold medalist,
- 2× World cup Golden ball,
- Two times world cup finalist.

A very fine record if you ask me.

On what criteria are they better than Messi?
And what greatest achievement are you talking about, world cup? Yeah, he has achieved that.

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People who stake very high amounts do not usually go public with it. They are private with their finances and transactions which leads me to feel this post is something that never happened.

Even if the story checks out, it is not safe to talk about your financial transactions in a public forum like this. Scammers can use that to get a rough idea of your worth and make you a target for scam attempts.

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This is quite the take on arguably one of the greatest players that football has ever witnessed. Putting Messi at the level of Totti and Muller clearly shows that you do not watch the sport at all or you support a rival club/player which makes you blind to what goes on in it.

I am not even a fanboy, I just watch football neutrally and call what I see. It is debatable whether Messi won this Balon D'or just as the one that Modric one and some Ronaldo won as well. That is football, fans have their opinions and can go extreme with it, but saying he "could" have gone does as a great athlete... is ridiculous.

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[banned mixer] Mixer Review Program #2
Bitcointalk username: un_rank

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Finding [banned mixer]
This is my first review of the [banned mixer] website and its functionalities. Before I get to the actual review I tried the possibility of someone not from this forum discovering the website, I searched across different search engines:

- Google,
- Bing,
- Duckduckgo.

...and I used specific keywords on all of them "Bitcoin mixer", "Best bitcoin mixer", "safe bitcoin mixer", "Bitcoin tumbler".
None of my search results (1st page) showed the tumbler website or a ranking where it was mentioned, but I came across a couple of competing services.
I am not giving the team any sticks for this cause SEO rankings take time to grow organically and the team could already be working on it behind the scenes. This is just the perspective of a user trying to find the a mixer to use randomly.

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Website Functionality
First I am testing out the overall website functionality and how easy it is to navigate.
● My first impression is that it is a decent website which works great on different browsers on mobile or desktop.
● There is an image in the front page which gives the impression of a video with a play button but does not lead anywhere, that could be confusing to first timers.
● The "Last Articles" could be better written as "Latest Articles". The word last always has an undertone to it that does not encourage others to delve further.
● Overall, I feel the website could be designed better. The 4 Hallmarks could be better positioned for the reader to see that as the first or second thing on the page, no the read more section. Things like that gives confidence to the person visiting the site for the first time and should be difficult to miss.



I am using Firefox version 119.0 on desktop.
Security level - Premium
Service Fee - 3.99%
Amount sent - 0.0015BTC
2 receiving Addresses.
Delay time between the two addresses
~ 6 hours 45 minutes
~ 3 hours 5 minutes

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Pros
● Majority of the previous suggestions and complaints has been corrected already, which shows responsiveness.
● The site synced really well. In real time in recognized the incoming transaction and the confirmation was recorded almost immediately after it got the first confirmation.
● I manually calculated the fees paid along with the final payout and the fee calculator gave the correct figure.
● I monitored the first transaction, it was sent out instantaneously after the delay time elapsed which is a faster response time than some other mixers.
● The transaction was sent with a feerate of 11.4sat/vbyte, which got confirmed at a decent speed. Not too fast or slow for the current network status.
● Using two different explorers, it gave a high privacy rating.

Cons
● The service fee is competitively high. It could be one or two percent lower to attract more users.
● I think there should be an option to manually choose the exact feerate you want on the receiving transaction or to choose between, low, medium or high priority.



I am using microsoft edge version 109.0 on mobile
Security level - Standard
Service fee - 2.20%
Amount sent - 0.0011BTC
1 receiving address
Delay time - 0 hours 16 minutes.

Pros
● The website still worked seamlessly, did not give off the impression that the team was prioritizing the desktop version which I get on many websites, including yours truly.
● Cause there was no much difference all other pros from the first mix apply here.

Cons
● I noticed that the response time was slightly slower on mobile than desktop using the same internet speed (could be from my end, cause I did not clear cache to try again). But the sync time was still decent to record when the transaction was made and confirmed. The desktop view on the mobile phone also worked neatly, although it highlighted the large "play" video just sitting at the center of the screen which I talked about earlier.
● The standard privacy level gave very similar results to the premium which was used in the first mix.

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Suggestions;
The website is great and has improved a lot since it started this review campaign which shows the team is really motivated to work and improve the website, but here are some of my suggestions for how it can be better;


● The letter of guarantee should be highlighted more. It is very easy to miss after using the mixer a couple of times and will save users time if they are always reminded to download it in the event of an order issue.
● I will keep this open and add more suggestions as I mix tweaking the features more.

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