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661  Economy / Speculation / Re: Warming warning of the BTC, ETH & the LTC Cryptos upcoming halving on: December 05, 2023, 09:31:43 PM
There is absolutely no recovery of lost instead another chance is given to attain either similar heights.
Majority of Bitcoin investors has solemnly blamed itself for ignoring Bitcoin in the first place, a lot has blamed itself for accumulating Bitcoin before the bull-runs and yet fails to keep eyes up to the balls at when kicks to rolling.

Then that is not a Bitcoin investor in the first place, because if you are a truly Bitcoiner, you will know that the right time to accumulate it is during bear market cycle, i.e last year when we have it's lowest low at $15,500.

Let's keep eyes up and take advantageous chances by accumulating, hodling over the halving of the expected cryptos on a warming warning  because the running flexible to the ETH to approval.
Certain crytos expected on the next expectant halving are >>>
* The BTC-USD
* ETH-USD
* LTC-USD

As others have said, LTC has it's halving already, and if you look at the price, there's no movement at all as it is Bitcoin's small brother. And if I'm not mistaken, even in the last bull run, it didn't crossed new all time high?

Not sure about ETH, I don't hold bags of it.
662  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: [Boxing] Tyson Fury vs Oleksandr Usyk - February 2024 in Saudi Arabia on: December 05, 2023, 09:11:11 PM
Former Heavyweight Champion, Deontay Wilder recently shared his thoughts on this fight -

https://www.dazn.com/en-GB/news/boxing/tyson-fury-vs-oleksandr-usyk-deontay-wilder-makes-fight-prediction/a85k15wb80rp1odd2jhlbkkp7

“It's a 50-50 fight, anything can happen. People look at Fury's size as a major advantage but that doesn't necessarily mean nothing because Usyk can stay low to the ground and because Fury's so tall it's going to be difficult to reach down”

Of course, it's 50-50 fight, anything can happen, but the odds maker think otherwise, current odds, ML Fury at 1.61, Usyk 2.22. And it's obvious that Fury will take that into consideration when training, he will look for sparring partner that is similar height with Usyk so he can gauge the distance.

“If Usyk can get in and out real fast, I feel speed could be a major factor. For me it's 50-50 and I'm glad it's finally happening so we get all the belts in one place”

I think the speed factor goes to Usyk, but Fury as well has some good movement, so it's not like a stationary target for Usyk here. He will really needs to really fast to caught Tyson flush. Yes, definitely we will see a undisputed champion in the HW division, it's hard to do it in this division and so if ever Wilder will get his chance to fight the winner, then it will be for all the belts, so it really favors him.
663  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Sympathetic gamblers looses itself on: December 05, 2023, 08:31:06 PM
I have seen some facial expression gamblers that I am emotionally touched about and feels they have loosed more than they can handle and feels they deserves an condolence winning. While I empathic with him his amount of lost, I am then to consoling myself that someone on here has lost more than I do.

Of course, who wouldn't be sympathetic seeing gamblers loosing big money and you can see and fee their reactions when they are almost close on winning. But suddenly their luck made a U-tun. I even know someone, a family member who did the walk of shame and then cry in front of me because he has lost all the money that should be used for important things. I wouldn't remember that scenario, it was close to 30 years ago.

I guess we should learn lessons from that kind of experience, although I still gamble up to this day and at one time being addicted to gambling, I still try to control everything and not fall for that again in my life.
664  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Are you feeling FOMO like I am? on: December 05, 2023, 08:13:30 PM
Nah, I think being in the market for so long, this could be just a normal day for crypto investors. But for those newbies who might join the market early this year or even last year when the price goes down hard because of the FTX collapse, and seeing the price right now, this could be FOMO for them.

However, we will get into the excitement area when the price goes into another all time high.

$100k or more will be huge for us in the next bull run. So let's see how it goes after the block halving next year.
665  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Is this the End for BC.GAME? on: December 04, 2023, 02:17:23 PM
BC.GAME is quite good, but I am not there very often so I dont know what developments there are, but we'll see what efforts the casino will make to improve its own reputation.

They have a dedicated thread about solving the many issues
You can check it Introducing BC.Game Support Team: Building Trust and Transparency The thread is already locked but you can see that they have resolved a lot of issues and those issues that are not yet resolved are because they can not get into terms with the accuser and BC.Game, right now they've launched their signature campaign, in the hope that the gambling community will trust them again.

Yes, they have a signature campaign open, and I do agree that it's a way to maybe get their reputation from the community. And they are trying their best to answer all the scams against them with that thread so let's see how it goes.

So maybe there will be former users here who might go back to that crypto casino and continue where they left off. Or maybe newbies testing what they can offer. So it's not the end as the title might have suggested.
666  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Subriel Matias vs. S. Ergashev (IBF jr. welterweight title) Nov. 4: Las Vegas on: December 04, 2023, 12:54:53 PM


I do agree, Prograis, Romero and Lopez will be a good matchup for him. His style is definitely makes the fights very difficult for this fighter. But let's see if they are willing to fight a pressure fighter like Matias.

I admire Matias and I became an instant fan he is a pressure fighter he knows his opponent, Ergashev will move a lot because of his good lateral movements but he gambles by moving forward and preparing to get hit so he can get a hit, Ergashev may be surprised how Matias stood his best punches, between the two Ergashev is the power puncher, based on the statement of a fighter whom they both beat.
I don't think Ergashev's excuse of having a leg cramp was true, he just couldn't take Matias's punches it was very obvious in his reaction whenever he was hit by Matias's punches.
Romero and Lopez will have a hard time, fighting Matias, his style is very different and hard to deal with.

Yes, majority of us we haven't heard his name before this fight, became a instant fans because of what he had shown. He was in trouble and yet he uses it to fuel his comeback and score a knockout.

And as you have said we haven't seen that style before, everything is very technical now or you will need to have power in both hands. And now that Ryan Garcia has entered the picture of this weight class, Matias being a champion makes it more interesting on how he will go or who is gong to be his next opponent.
667  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: I could have won bigger. on: December 04, 2023, 11:44:56 AM
Same here, I could have won if just someone has bring or repay me back that $20.00 that he borrowed from me. It's not that big of a win for me, just 1.94x odds, but at least a win is a win and I wasn't able to bet on the matches that I really wanted.

In any case yours have a good odds and obviously you could have won bigger money.

So it's up to you whether you will still him as a friend still because you could have double what you supposed to get with that parlay and that odds is really incredible to begin with all 2.x and above.
668  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: [Boxing] Inoue vs Tapales for Unified Super Bantamweight Title - December 26 on: December 04, 2023, 10:53:07 AM
We can hear lots of positive remarks from both camps, but we know the real battle is on the ring, and it's been Inoue that has proven many times that he doesn't struggle, instead he looks so superior, so I'm hoping it will not be the case against Tapales.

That's the truth, even with the positive news were heared from the camp of Tapales, bookies doesn't care at all as Tapales still remains as the huge underdog despite he's all a champion. Judging on the betting odds, this looks like Tapales is just a mandatory opponent (challenger) and Inoue's been consistently protecting his belt.

All we can do is just hope that the unexpected thing will happen, as that's the only way Tapales could win.

No offense to the fans.....

Yes, definitely sport bookies or at least odd makers are not concern about the news of the certain boxers training very hard and what his motivation for it or he could pull an upset. They make this odds based on what they see, what the numbers are, their previous opponents, knockout percentage and any other factors that they look at before listing the odds and then sports bookies gonna get it to be uniform across sports bookies (usually it will come to odd makers in Las Vegas).

But as sports bettors, it's up to us where our money will go. If we see that there is a possibility that Tapales, due to his training and mentality can win and then as fan, then our money goes to him.

@carlisle1 - both have 2 belts, Inoue owns the WBO and WBC super bantamweight belts, while Marlon has the WBA and IBF champion.
669  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: First Bitcoin Bar in Sofia, Bulgaria looks Interesting on: December 04, 2023, 10:32:37 AM
If I'm not mistaken, this is not the first time what we hear a Bitcoin bar, I think we might heard similar bars around Europe already. The good thing about this kind of setup is that it can be a good place to held meetings and maybe we can follow it up from here, in our community as to who's who in Bulgaria as far as crypto and bitcoin goes.

But as others have said, just be careful of those criminals and just look back when you are about to go out and get into your car as someone might follow you at home and physically attack you.
670  Economy / Speculation / Re: BTC Sentiment Poll for December on: December 03, 2023, 10:00:35 PM
The numbers are out, there are more members seeing that the price will still continue to go up and so, majority are bullish.

Though I don't say that the price wouldn't go any higher after this point, I strongly feel that there is going to be a correction, and if the price manages to go over $40k first, then it will most likely correct itself back somewhere below $35k before the end of the year, and then we might see it recovering again after the new year starts. I didn't do any analysis and none of what I've said is based on any research or anything, it's just a sentiment and a gut feeling that I have based on how the market has been doing recently.

If my gut feeling turns out to be wrong and Bitcoin, instead of correcting itself, has another green month to end the year, I believe it won't stop before reaching $50k within the first month of the new year then, because the first couple of months are generally good when it comes to price recoveries of cryptocurrency market.

I really thought that the correction would happen sooner, $38,000 could be the resistance and then we go back to $32,000. Unfortunately, my prediction didn't happen, and we continue to go and shoot up to $39,000++ and so if we touch that round number of $40,000, I don't know, it's a mental barrier to break, but if we are successful, for me, there will be no correction in the horizon as everyone is very bullish this December.
671  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Are You Keeping Numbers Or You Allow The Machine To Pick Your Numbers To Bet on: December 03, 2023, 09:30:33 PM
The lottery is very popular here in our country you can find lotto outlets in almost every corner of our city, and there's always a long line whenever the top prize balloons I frequently bet in a lottery but every time I bet I just mark the LP sign in a lotto form which means Lucky Pick that is the machine will be the one to pick the numbers for you.

My reason is I don't want to have attachments on numbers that I'm going to bet because it will make me a lotto betting addict, some bettors keep their favorite numbers to bet and they make sure that they bet on it daily in fear that it will come out when they failed to make a bet.

In your country do you have this LP lucky pick feature in the lotto form and do you choose LP to make a bet for you or are you keeping numbers to bet, what are your reasons, and what's your success rate?

Will always go and pick my own numbers, and I think most of us are doing that as well. there's nothing wrong with Lucky Pick, however, it's better for us gamblers to have our own numbers ready for lotto.

And as we have seen from those lotto winners, they pick their own numbers that is relatable to them, like their birthdays or any other numbers that is close to them or at least some meaning. So I doubt that the machine can pick that up for you.

I don't think that you can be a addict though, I mean picking up a couple of numbers will be fine.
672  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Boxing: Regis Prograis vs Devin Haney (9th of December) on: December 03, 2023, 09:09:29 PM
I'm not surprised by Haney's move to vacate the belt at 135 lbs. His body has matured already, it's not that he doesn't want to defend it, but I'm seeing that it's more of his body not going to make it or it will be more difficult more his body to squeeze in that weight class.

So even if he doesn't want to, then he has no choice but to go to 140 lbs. And just think about it, if he beats Prograis here, then he will have a belt to defend in the future. So it will not be that easy for him to go back to 135 lbs, and as we have seen, he become undisputed already so nothing to proved there. He should just wait for Shakur or Tank Davis to move up and make that money fight.
673  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Boxing Speculation, Odds and Predictions on: December 03, 2023, 08:46:27 PM
^^ Garcia has been doing that kind of defense though, but he was not as slick as a black boxer. However, when he moves to train under James, it was evident that maybe he teaches him that defense, the Philly shell, but Garcia has a lot to train with that, as he over exaggerate it.

And it's good to see another familiar name there, Shane Mosley Jr., obviously the son of Shane Sr. We all know that Shane Sr is a good boxer as well during his prime, defeated Oscar Dela Hoya and almost knock down Floyd Mayweather.

As for Ryan, he wants a belt at 140 lbs so he is calling Rolly Romero as his next fight. Duarte though trying to get back in this fight, unfortunately he was waived as he got up at the 9 count and still has wobbly legs.
674  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: [Boxing] Ryan Garcia vs Oscar Duarte (December 2) on: December 03, 2023, 08:26:07 PM
Ryan gets the win by KO. There was nothing too remarkable about his performance but he was able to execute his game plan effectively. Duarte was at a disadvantage because of the 143 lb catchweight. His style was very basic and Ryan had no problems landing shots. After this tuneup it seems like Rolly Romero might be next for Ryan. Both fighters are at a similar level so it should be an intriguing matchup where we will see if either of them is ready to step up to the elite level once again.

Duarte could have gone up but he chose to get up when the count is over, there's a lot of boos going on because Ryan is running to much I think that's the improvement in Ryan's game, a good defensive stance to run too often and not very eager to engage, a deviation from what he did against Gervonta, not a great performance but a win is still a win I guess The Golden Boy will finally get him a title shot after this win.
I'm waiting for the press conference so we'll know where Garcia is heading now after this win, in his interview in the ring he wants Rolly so lets see if he will get Rolly.

I also don't understand why Duarte didn't get up on time, maybe his legs was not still there so he didn't bother to beat the referee's count.

Yeah, many people inside the arena seem to not like the new style of Ryan Garcia, for me he seems afraid on brawl type of fight, had he not connected that left hook, that booing would have continued until the 12th round.

Garcia did the job but for me that wasn't impressive, he was caught with that left hook of Duarte a couple of times, luckily it was not so lethal that he still stood despite all of that.

It seems that Duarte took a dive in this fight, or maybe he was really hit so hard that he felt dizzy and cant' get up. We can see though that his legs was not there once Ryan touches him with those barrage of punches. So we must say that he still has that power, although there's a lot of loopholes on him.

He has the feet already, but ne needs more, still looks very flat footed to me. In any case, still a win for Ryan, so the hype continues for this kid and Golden Boy should get him another good fighter in his next fight to boost his confidence. Yes a Rolly Romero will be a great test for him, and I think he can beat Rolly. He just need to be smart and cover his chin and again uses more feet and movement.
675  Economy / Speculation / Re: What happens if bitcoin price hits 6 figures and up? on: December 02, 2023, 11:18:34 AM
Yes the thing is the amount of people who own btc and buy or sell it is very low.  However, if there becomes too many millionaires out there... like with btc going to 7 figures... how would this affect inflation?  How would this affect people who don't own crypto?
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This question makes some broad assumptions.  The economy is complicated.  Prices going up and down happens for all kinds of reasons - how much money governments print, supply chains getting interrupted, wars... stuff like that.  Just because some new folks strike it rich with Bitcoin doesn't automatically mean your grocery bill doubles next week.  Its not as direct as that and  things can influence inflation sure, but it's complex how it all trickles down.  

Bitcoin's been around a while now, and even with the huge price spikes we've seen, there still aren't too many millionaires from people buying and hodling.  Thats because there's a limited amount of bitcoin out there - in order for one person to buy, someone else has to sell.  So even if we see bitcoin hit that $1 million+ price target someday (wild I know!), we still probably won't have like a crazy number of new crypto millionaires.  There will be some, sure, but there's gotta be sellers to match the buyers.  The supply is finite.

And most likely bitcoin holders that were able to buy and hold around < 2017 could really be the real winner. I mean,  they are early adopters and investors and maybe some of them are still investors buy this time and know the secret of it, buy low sell high.

But with the inflation and geo-politics going around, maybe there are still that % who's going to be millionaires in the next bull run. And most likely those services around it, exchanges, gambling platforms and any others could be the one that is going to be benefited again in the next all time high of 6 figures.
676  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Risking 1% in Gambling on: December 02, 2023, 09:47:32 AM

You must have heard 1% strategy in trading, the same can be applied in gambling too and believe me, you will feel a lot more comfortable using this 1% of your money in every game.
This also gives you a lot of games to play before you end up on your money as on every bet you will use 1% of your money. In case you lose all bets, you will be playing 100 games because your money is exhausted.


I have heard about the 1% rule before, but for me this seems way to low. It's a good idea to have fixed gambling limits to protect our overall bankroll from going broke. We all need to decide for ourselves how much money we are willing to spend each month on gambling. With only 1% of our monthly income, it's seems quite low to play a lot of games. In your example with 58 USD this would be less than 15 USD, which doesn't seem a lot to gamble multiple nights per week with it. For most games there are minimum betting sizes of 0.5 or 1 USD, which would mean we could lose all our money for the week after a few games. In trading it's the same, 1% might be low enough for us to not feel bad about losing some of it. But we won't be able to accumulate a lot of money with it longterm. In my case I try to save and invest 10%of my money and probably use more around the 5% level for gambling.

And that's why it's not really applicable to most gamblers are it it way to low for us. And it one deposit or even one dice roll or one one sports bet, it could be that we will lose everything. So again, as per my experience, there's should be no fixed amount or percentage.

As long as the money is all good, and that if we lose it, we will not worry the next day. The thing is sometimes that 1% is a big risk for the gamblers. So they continue to bet and if they lost, then that's where the problem will arise for them the next day. So if you can't afford to gamble, then it's simply, stop playing and don't play even 1% of your budget.
677  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: [Boxing] Ryan Garcia vs Oscar Duarte (December 2) on: December 02, 2023, 09:03:59 AM
Ryan Garcia talking about wanting to become a world champion yet here is another issue with him not making the 140 limit. Luckily this is not a title fight and he is cherry-picking a 135 fighter. Duarte looked bigger than Ryan but let's not get misled that this guy is not used to fighting in this weight. So Duarte might be slower and at the same time not used to getting hit by opponents at this weight. No wonder the odds are nearing x4 already on Duarte. I'm just hoping Duarte can take Ryan's power punches so he can go near and unleash his power punches.

I'm thinking that both of this 2 fighters doesn't have the intention to make that 140 lbs weight limit. I do agree that Duarte is somewhat the bigger fighter based on their physical body as he looks more dense that Ryan Garcia.

I was surprised that the bookmakers put Duarte at 4:1 underdog against Ryan. For sure they know something after the weight-in. So obviously, this is a cherry pick for Ryan just to be comfortable at 140 lbs. But still very interesting how Ryan chin will react. As I think that Duarte will go head hunting from the very first round to really put pressure on Ryan and test if he is ready from those power bombs.
678  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: CryptoSteel - for Seed Phrase and Password Storage on: December 02, 2023, 08:08:10 AM
If I'm not mistaken, we have their ANN thread here, Cryptosteel: The Ultimate Cold Wallet Private Key Storage System.

But yeah, we understand the point of OP, specially that there have been issues lately about hacks and what not, it's better to be safe than sorry.

And security your private key, mnemonic phrase through their product might be a good idea. Or better yet, by @fillippone Securing Your Seed Phrase with Washers
679  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: [Boxing] Inoue vs Tapales for Unified Super Bantamweight Title - December 26 on: December 02, 2023, 07:41:24 AM
One month before the fight, here is the official poster,



However, I don't the video promotion though, there's no highlight for Tapales, he was just shown briefly when he steps on the ring after Inoue defeated Fulton.

Top Rank should have done better than this, https://twitter.com/trboxing/status/1729289372305084627

I cannot believe this fight has less than 1 month of waiting! Does anyone have news updates, articles of boxing analysts and promotional videos? Also, are there videos of their training sessions? I reckon Marlon might be training more for stamina and he might have a style that will take him to a decision very much similar to Nonito Donaire hehe. I am a fan of Inoue, however, I want to watch a thrilling fight between these 2 champions. Also if anyone has observed from my posts, I also like underdogs hehehehe.

Unfortunately, not much of a video coming from Tapales camp, in any case, here is one,

https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/11/30/23/boxing-marlon-tapales-on-the-verge-of-making-history

It's from a local tv station from the Philippines. Yeah, for sure, who wouldn't love the underdogs? we've seen great live underdogs in the past and betting on them is a huge risk, but for guys like you, it's going to be worth taking that risk, hehehe.

I am not yet sure if I will bet on Marlon Tapales because Inoue's boxing dominance is clearly only beginning hehe. However, I reckon within 10 years if Inoue still active and a young and hungry fighter moves up in the sport of boxing, this might be the right time to start betting against him. A storyline that will be something similar to Barrera vs. Pacman hehehe.

That's still a long way to go though, 10 years of pure dominance, I don't know if there will be such fighter to do that. Only fighter we have seen is Manny, although he has lost along the way but dominated boxing in different era.

But obviously, it's a cycle, when the great are already in a decline, sooner or later there will be young fighters that are going to move up and beat them. Just like what Manny did to Barrera and so other many great fighters, as if passing the torch to them.
680  Economy / Reputation / Re: Merit spamming [report] on: December 01, 2023, 11:29:29 PM
Good eye, OP but I don't know if you noticed but mods, DT members, and others don't really take any action against merit abusers and haven't for a while now.  Theymos basically doesn't want much tagging for that sort of thing, even though members are still free to do so.

Why oh why did that troll come back?
Probably got bored and came back to troll for some laughs.

Yeah, one reason though is because we have seen the Bitcoin mempool's clogged and users complaining about the fees. Enter this account, claiming to be the fastest and biggest block size and low fees.

And that's why we have the "ignore user options".
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