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641  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Is The Gambling Industry Part Of The Domino Effect That Happens In The Market on: January 02, 2023, 06:15:41 PM
Not only unsafe, but it is also so lame as an idea. Gambling sites that are to be trusted with our money are not many, and the regulations of the industry are still weak as far as I am concerned, except for some that are in advanced countries. Regardless, it is safe to keep our coin in our trusted wallets, not with the gambling site that could do and undo it.

So gambling sites are even involved in some shady deals like money laundering and others, such will not have a conscience in stealing your money too. Aside from that, what if the government overseeing their domain now shot it down, then your money is gone just like that.
It is lame if you will use it like a wallet when there is already a crypto wallet but not really lame when you do it for a purpose like you are earning some dividends but I salute those who have a balance inside the gambling site that is unused for a very long time.

This only means that these people can defy the temptation caused by gambling. If only regulations are strong in crypto gambling then scam gambling sites will get lessened but I think this is being worked out now. Have you noticed that KYC's are now being implemented left and right? But maybe after this, many people will be confident to store their money thinking they are now safe.
642  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: Tutored or you learned how to trade? on: January 02, 2023, 03:33:01 PM
I'm a self thought trader and I used the little information we have before on the internet since at that time when I studied trading, There aren't that much video tutorials about it especially in crypto. Being tutored is way better than being learning it yourself knowing that you have someone to rely if you have questions unlike self learning that you need to do research for your own question.
If only you discovered this forum early, then your trading knowledge won't be limited because the forum had a lot of great members even before although trading isn't only limited in cryptos but there are also stocks, forex and others. You still can learn from other traders. Maybe it's true that being tutored is better than manual but the only catch is that they aren't usually free.

You need to pay them for teaching you because they also went through a lot of hardships by the time when they are still a newbie and maybe they also paid for a tutor. We are now on the era where cryptos and trading are widespread. There are now lot's of free information on the web, not only on this forum so I think people will try to learn on their own.
643  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Turkish Super League 2022/23 Season on: January 01, 2023, 09:51:52 PM
The important thing is to get 3 points in the matches that you didn't play well. Galatasaray does this well, but Beşiktaş generally cannot. In fact, Beşiktaş generally loses points in the matches they play well, and this creates a great morale upset. I don't think the problem will be solved with Ghezzal alone. It's not clear when Ghezzal will return anyway, but the problem is bigger than him. In general, there is a problem of entering and evaluating the position. They can't get Weghorst to hit the ball in the right place. Wings don't contribute goals. Midfielders can't direct the game, so attacks are constantly being made from the flanks. There has been no goal from a free kick for a long time, with Masuaku scoring for the first time since 2019 last week. Beşiktaş should create bigger threats in set pieces and find a solution against the steady defense.
I think it is a bit about culture as well. Galatasaray is the club with the most Turkish league titles, they are the one with most domestic cup titles, they are the one with most domestic super cup titles, and only team with any continental cup ever (which was over 2 decades ago but still) and have pretty good European results in its history.

Besiktas is a great team, third biggest team of the nation by far and beyond without question, but they are used to not getting the title so much that when things don't get their way they may give up easier, whereas Galatasaray club as organization sees being low as "this will pass, look at winning the next game" and not look at the past and that is why they started 8th or something but leaders now. Cultural differences inside a club makes a big difference on results as well.
644  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ⚽ Football Transfers Speculation, Odds and Predictions on: January 01, 2023, 09:21:02 PM
Nobody is saying that Ronaldo shouldn't have accepted the huge offer, that is of course not the case and ANY player that accepts such offer should be happy to take it. I mean who makes that much money? I didn't even know it was 100 million, I thought it was 200 million a year, if it is 100 million its still okay but if it is 200 million a year like reported then it is unreal.

However, we should also realize that while Ronaldo is by far one of the best players to ever play this game, Messi won the world cup the same year Ronaldo went to Saudi Arabian league... that should tell you something and yes there is an age difference so we will have to wait and see, if Messi is the same by that age then we could open the discussion again, but so far it looks like, at least to me, the rivalry is officially over.
645  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin and proof of stake on: January 01, 2023, 09:10:06 PM
Bitcoin is not the only project using POW so far, but the only thing the government is targeting is bitcoin, it shows that they know they can't control it, and they don't want to see it grow to threaten their power, not because POW is a waste of energy and a major cause of global warming.
Indeed, we cannot know the future of bitcoin if the government really wants to get rid of POW completely to secure their power, but let's hope it can last and will not be changed.
I still can't understand how they say that Bitcoin with its POW causes global warming because the device for mining it uses fossil energy to run, even though bitcoin mining only impacts 0.1% of world pollution and air pollution caused by coal-fired electricity generation is much bigger compared to Bitcoins. It seems they turned a blind eye to the facts before their eyes and let it go. They're just afraid that the adoption of Bitcoin is getting massive and they can't control it any further, so they raise issues like this and make a lot of people think that Bitcoin is one of the main culprits of air pollution, even though it's not.
So you are saying that the mining device are the ones that must be blamed here and not bitcoin directly? But, these devices are still mining Bitcoin so BTC is involved here. There are still miners who are now using a clean energy for mining like solar, hydro and others and there's also big companies like shell who want's to push these clean mining.

This must be our hope to make the name of Bitcoin clean again and maybe after it, a lot of countries or people are now going to adopt it. If the problem isn't about mining but if it's about bitcoin being decentralized then I am afraid that the bans and discrediting towards Bitcoin are still going to remain. It's not possible anymore for BTC to become centralized.
646  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: Holding could be better on: January 01, 2023, 07:06:30 PM
Holding still requires a plan until when you will hold your assets because of you know how to make an execution of your assets; you can now make an entry and exit quickly with a profit or less loss of your holdings. People get FOMO in the market because they think they are late, but there's a chance of getting down more because of their fear they bought that still market is going down. Always make a trading plan decide a cut off of your losses and not pretending you are not lossing and still hoping to get back.
Yeah, so many people think hodling is easy but hodling actually looked like this > I bet those who think it was easy have fail to HODL their coins for too long but they already sold it early for some reasons like they are too scared when they saw the price is crashing or they got too greedy when they saw that the price pumping, however there are two scenarios about this. One is already given there and the second one would be they will over HODL and miss the bull run completely.

There are indication that we can use to possibly tell if the coin is already at it's bottom or not. We can learn that. There's also threads here about price speculation, if we don't know how to do it. This should avoid us to FOMO.
647  Economy / Economics / Re: Legal methods of acquiring free assets on: January 01, 2023, 05:01:52 PM
One thing for sure, crypto mining was not free and it will never be considering the increasing cost of electricity. Let’s not forget the god damn mining equipment’s are so costly they take years to cross the ROI. I’m pretty sure it’s not free.

By the way, those abandoned vehicles seems to be good bait but the question is why haven’t they taken in custody by the locals nearby yet? Might be some other issues, like bringing it from there might cost too much etc.

The only free stuff legally can be acquired is real estates which are under unwanted acquisitions and are for auctions etc. Though it will cost little auction money but it will be next to free stuff.
Depends on the coin that you are going to mine. If we are talking about BTC then yes because the difficulty have increased through the roof but back in time, they say that we can mine a BTC even using only a simple computer and even a USB miner. I think even a powerful smartphone can also handle it. Imagine that? We can also disregard mining but faucets alone can already give us a good number of BTC on the same date where BTC is still not popular but now the faucet rates are reduced dramatically. About the abandoned vehicles.

I think these will depend on the locations. If you are on well developed countries then you can easily get these for free but it will be hard to hunt one in a poorer country.
648  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ⚽ Football Transfers Speculation, Odds and Predictions on: December 31, 2022, 09:18:03 PM
Nevertheless I think Ronaldo is happy with his recent move and that's all that matters.
I wouldn't say Ronaldo is happy moving to Al Nassr, i am pretty sure the Portuguese superstar still believes he can perform at the top/elite level in Europe, and tbh i think he can, but no elite club seems to be interested in him anymore, and also age might have just caught up with him. Ronaldo had once said he would love to finish his career at the top level, but i guess in life we don't always get our wish, but nonetheless he is obviously one of the greatest of all times, and most players were done when they were 33/34/35, but he went on until 37, and his turbulent time at United was the beginning of the end. Al Nassr have a nice project and Ronaldo would help them grow it, he would also earn so much, both in money and other benefits, he deserves it and i wish him all the best.
Surely age factor was the biggest issue as no elite club were ready to take him with finances was also issue because we all now he was one of highest salary taker in UEFA and just because of this few months back few clubs already fail to have him in their club like Napoli, Atlético Madrid and Roma those were ready to accept him but as they have talked about salary then talks every time ended without any further notice so with this all we can say finances was also very important for him, so now he has done good deal for himself which will give him tag of world's most paid soccer player and things could be on his way drastically.
 
With this move now Al-Nasser and Gulf Region soccer will also have some positive development because they will have double or may be bigger fan base in just few weeks and with these sponsorships deals and other things could be also having their own impact on this region's sports which is already on high note after the successful end of soccer world cup recently.
649  Economy / Gambling / Re: Stake.com - The Leading Crypto Casino - 🦉 Drake, UFC, Everton Main Partner ⚽ 🥊 on: December 31, 2022, 08:54:11 PM
Thank you for all being a part of this record-breaking year in 2022 🏆


Holy mother of everything sweet, that is 65 BILLION? I mean not million, it's BILLION with a b? That means there was 65 billion bets in a single year here? I remember the times when we had a few billion bets TOTAL here and celebrated that, like I remember the very first billionth bet and the rewards given out because of that here, now you guys are doing 65 billion in a single year? That means you guys get more than one billion bet per week, and that's just insane, I wouldn't think that any casino would have such a huge amount of betting in a single year ever.

This sounds like the highest ever recorded in history, I don't have data to back that up, but does feel like that for sure.
650  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ODI cricket and general cricketing discussion [self - mod] on: December 31, 2022, 08:23:54 PM
Finance or no finance.

I believe Pakistani White ball cricket is in safe hands. They have an abundance of resources in fast bowling so no matter what, they will bring any random kid and he'll do wonders in the white ball, after a couple of years someone else will replace him and this cycle will go on due to the vast raw fast bowling pool.

The problem will come in Test cricket only.
Here I completely agreed with you because now white ball game is very fast and this never need skills and quality like we need in test format which is surely helpful for these wonder kids which arrived at screen for the short time and then suddenly disappear after giving their best in few years which is good cycle for the Pakistan and their system but in red ball most chances they have no chance like this in long run right now we have Pakistani, and Afghani players mostly involved in franchise leagues with Afghani can go in any event and Pakistanis are not allowed in IPL, so things are good for few players as they perform good for few years and then have their skills into few leagues which give them good money for having average life in any country or if they want to live in Pakistan.
651  Economy / Economics / Re: The fight over electric car batteries on: December 31, 2022, 07:43:11 PM
They should be fighting for oil because EV's definitely are not the future. Even Elon is dumping his Tesla shares because he realized that EV's are a dead end. The world's biggest car manufacturer Toyota has recently made a statement and said that the silent majority don't like EV's and still favoring ICE cars. As you know Toyota is not making EV's at the moment (and not planning to do so in the future) because they don't believe in it. They make hybrid cars but they still run on oil mostly.

I think I will buy a full ICE Toyota as my next car. Camry looks badass.
Huh? I think it was the opposite. People are trying to be more friendly now when it comes to the environment so they avoid anything which can harm to it like using oils in cars, this is why there are now electric cars like tesla who are slowly gaining a momentum. This was only expensive at the moment but I believe that other car manufacturers are going to join this trend and make a budget friendly versions of these cars.

It's reported that Elon sold some of his tesla shares but I think there are different reasons for that and not that this project is a failure and he wants to abandon it later on. Maybe it's just a strategy once again by Elon because you know, this guy is a master manipulator.
652  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: withdrawing bitcoin - newbie - advice welcome on: December 31, 2022, 04:02:52 PM
Just wanted to add for OP, never use banks on withdrawing your Bitcoin or even big fiat that you've earned via Bitcoin, they will just question it or they will instantly froze your account. Only use local exchanger, I bet there's one in your country, or if you don't have it, look for some alternative, like the P2P in Binance, maybe if it works on you.
Yes, because we know that there are a lot of banks who are not Bitcoin friendly but if we know that the banks that we are using are not one of it and we already use it before for withdrawing/depositing our BTC then why not? And I think they will only question you if you withdraw your funds in a casino or a site where they think illegal from their jurisdiction but if it's only about a crypto exchange or a crypto wallet then I think it's totally fine.

Withdrawing money in a local exchanger can be an alternative if we are doubting on using a bank. This is one of the methods I use before when I was a newbie in crypto but the only downside of them is that their fees are high and then there is a delay when claiming the money.
653  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Twitch To Ban Gambling Streaming By October 18th. on: December 30, 2022, 08:58:38 PM
The idea is to just disrupt the market by getting what is not allowed in other places. I mean we had erotic cam websites for a long time and they streamed and that caused a little bit of difference. But, when onlyfans started people acted as if that's normal, which I think it's normal but to imagine onlyfans as normal yet some stream websites as not normal? That's weird.

So, I guess there will eventually one website where it is allowed to do ANYTHING as long as it's fine by law, like not "watch me steal money live!" type of deal of course lol, but anything legal will be allowed and it will grow to be much much bigger than twitch one day, I am 100% sure of it.
Onlyfans is normal because we even have erotic websites and pornsites but it may be prohibited to post links like this in general sites which can be access by underage people. Twitch is mainly built for streaming video games in the first place and not totally for gambling so they have the rights to ban gambling streams on their platform but there must be a streaming site out there that is specifically built for gambling streams.

One example would be dlive because stake casino has been using this streaming platform for a long time now. I am only not sure if there is such site like you said where everything is allowed. If there is then I think it will be too crowded or laggy to use. I am not wishing it for now when we still have some alternatives.
654  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ODI cricket and general cricketing discussion [self - mod] on: December 29, 2022, 08:26:11 PM
Pakistan has always been a country that produced a really good amount of fast bowlers. So, I wanna say one thing that they should always do is be careful about all the actions of the bowlers. Pakistan has a good amount of money for cricket allotted. They should not have these types of problems. But the thing is the situation in Pakistan is not as good as it seems from the outside. They have a lot of problems on the inside. Improving as a cricketing country, they started facing political problems. And now the personnel of the Pakistan Cricket Board has changed. So now it is hard to see how the new authority is going to do.

Bringing in the latest technology is not going to do anything if the cricket board is not interested in improvement at all.
Pakistan is naturally rich in fast bowlers, but they have few bowlers those able to complete their career respectfully because most of the time they have on and off the field issues which hurt them badly in every era specially now you can check we have only three bowlers those completed 300+ test wickets and South Africa which joined cricket again in 1992 now have nearly 5 and now two or three more are going on good run because they have strong system and giving good support and facilities to their bowling squad which is important.

In Pakistan things never been ideal for the game and players which is a big cause for many players are mostly settled in England, and few other countries for their better future even many are completely out of this game due to their financial issues because they are not able to have better income as well here in Pakistan.
655  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2022/23 on: December 28, 2022, 09:20:30 PM
In the game between Barcelona and Espanyol, bookmakers give the following odds:

1,26 - 6,60 - 11,00

And I would say that even with Lewandowski out of the picture, the bet for Barcelona to win looks obvious (although I don't like small odds).
With Valladolid and Real Madrid, everything is less obvious, but I also prefer to bet on the favorite:

6,20 - 4,80 - 1,49
After break now we are heading for the next half of this season which is surely going to be tough for these two teams because both are strong contender for the title with have quality players and first matches are going to play against weaker sides specially Barcelona is having derby match with mostly these are never been easy but as odds are given by Bookmakers things looking easy for the both teams Xavi and Ancelotti both are preparing their teams and players with most chances things could be not challenging in early matches because after long rest most of the players will be fresh, and they are ready for giving their best which will increase their teams chances for the title race in this season.
656  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Premier League Prediction Thread 2022/2023 on: December 28, 2022, 08:15:36 AM
Tottenham is in big trouble, they will have to step down from the top four if Manchester United win their next game against Wolves.  Tottenham has played 16 matches, they have won 9, had 3 draws and 4 losses while united has played 15 matches with 9 wins, 2 draws and 4 losses. If United defeats wolves, which is so much possible, Tottenham will have to move to fifth position and Liverpool will be patiently waiting to see if they flop further so they can also replace them.

Tottenham are fun of playing under pressure. They concede goals in the first half then try to get a comeback in the second half, and sometimes they get lucky to win the game. Conte has to wise up because Big teams are coming with a different force and the table is going to take a different shape which is already happening, currently Newcastle is Second on the table.
Surely now few troubles are waiting for them in coming days because they are not having results which were expecting from them with having few good changes and most chances things could be more troubled if they fail have their end of this season out of the top four because Harry Kane will extend his contract if Conte will stay here and Italian want to be in top four which is looking not easy with the current form of all top rank teams like Manchester United, Liverpool and Newcastle United which are also fighting hard for the top places and investing as much which will increase their strength and quality as well.

After break their performance was good even the ended with a draw but still fight from them after going down by 2 - 0 with Son is still looking for better performance and Richarlison is also out with injury hopefully things could be better than now they are going to face a big challenge against Manchester City in coming weeks as well and for their chances into Champions League are also fair as AC Milan is also having good results in Italian league.
657  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ⚽ Football Transfers Speculation, Odds and Predictions on: December 28, 2022, 07:01:32 AM
Frenkie de Jong is a player Barcelona really needs right now, so I don't think Barcelona will be willing to sell him. In the last transfer market, it was also rumored that he would leave Barcelona and Manchester United were teams he was very close to, but Barcelona were not interested in letting him go. Especially if Barcelona sell him now, they don't have players who will be ready to replace him. So I think Frenkie de Jong will still be part of Barcelona for the next few seasons.
Frankie De Jong is surely one of the best player in Barcelona but due to their debit issues and having very high salary of de Jong they want to sell him in last season with two clubs like Manchester United and Bayern Munich both were ready to buy him, but he rejects this all because he wants Barcelona clears his errors in salary, but there was no deal between Barcelona and de Jong, so they ended this transfer now again things are looking into this way with both parties are ready as Barcelona is demanded, but again salary issue is having trouble which is surely not good for the reputation of club like Barcelona with most chances if Manchester United able to bring him this give them good strength and good boost as well in performance for the future in all competitions.
658  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2022/23 on: December 27, 2022, 09:48:01 PM
At Barca, there are young talented players like Gavi Pedri Rafinha Raphinha.  Which is capable of scoring goals in addition to NiwandeiskiLewandowski.  So it is expected that Barca will not lose points at home.
My advice you should try to memorize the player's name lol.
Even if there are several players you mentioned, losing Lewandowski is still a problem. Indeed, in this case Barcelona has many real opportunities but this is not a guarantee that they can win even though they are favorites because their opponent is in a bad condition because this could also be surprising in terms of results
There is no doubt we can face shocking results and any team can lost any match but now after having the best performance in first half of the season we are going to watch first match between Barcelona vs Espanyol at Camp Nou most chances they are not going to lose even I have feeling they will destroy them badly and won by nearly margin of two or three goals because this is important to keep their gape from second spotted team Real Madrid which is also having injuries issues looking for take back first spot.

Robert Lewandowski is currently a key player for them and his absence can hurt them badly, but this can happen against strong teams with they can handle these weaker sides without any problem.
659  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: UEFA Europa League 2022/23 Season on: December 27, 2022, 06:55:39 PM
Even when manchester united was not in a good shape and i think that manchester has a big chance to win the game. Manchester united is slowly moving up again. The perfomance is not yet reached its best performance but i think that if the current performance from MU was equal to the barcelona. I will not even try to underestimate manchester united for now caused by it can make barcelona going back anytime. that reminds me when people were picking barcelona over frankfurt and did you know that barcelona lose against frankfurt?
that's the story of last year but that's still worthy to take some lessons if any team in europa league was also very strong at this moment too.
Here I agreed with few points about Manchester United and Barcelona because both were on same level and have good development in their respective leagues with currently Barcelona is at the top and Manchester United is at the fifth spot but surely things looking impressive in Manchester United because new coach is doing good changes which will help them for having better results in coming weeks and right now in current situation Europa Cup win is very important for the Manchester United because this will bring positive development and big change for their future.

Barcelona which were also last year slipped and lost against Frankfurt currently looking for title into La Liga which will be surely going to be beneficial for the Manchester United because they are having good players those can perform better in this match against Barcelona.
660  Economy / Economics / Re: Are you ready to spend crypto when market is down on: December 27, 2022, 10:54:49 AM
Of course everyone are waiting for this moment when market price will be dump and all altcoins price also will be low and this is a great opportunity for everyone to choose best altcoins to invest and take profit in future.
He didn't say about buying coins during the bear but he is asking if we are willing to spend our cryptos to buy something. For me yes. It's not new for me to spend my cryptos to buy items online and when I do this, I don't bother checking the price of the cryptos first. Maybe if I did that, I will think twice if I am going to continue with my purchase or not.

As long as people uses their crypto for buying something, then these people considers their crypto as a currency but I know there are people who do both where they also kept some of their cryptos for the future to be able to grow its value. I don't find it wrong. That was their money anyway. They are free to do what they want with it and this does not affect crypto in anyway. In fact, this makes them stronger and more valuable.
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