But I greatly dislike the high fees and slow transaction throughput on the ETH blockchain. I have tested both TRON and EOS, and they're far superior than ETH in this sense. While they're not as decentralized as ETH, they certainly provide convenience to everyday gamblers like you and me.

hey I forgot I wanted to bring this up when the series started. In the future for the small final I would like to see us lower the threshold to participating in 3 or 4 qualifiers to qualify for it.

Personally there will just be some games I can't make which can be up to half of the qualifiers depending on my work schedule. This can already negatively affect my chances of qualifying for the main, and feels sort of like a double whammy. Curious what others think about this.

There could be a stipulation where at least one of the games needs to be the final 3 qualifiers if the worry is just about people joining early and stopping once they can't make the finale.

So they are doing a direct listing so current shareholders can sell their shares for maximum profit. Sounds very similar to when Coinbase listed a bunch of shitcoins their shareholders told them to so they could dump their coins...

The last thing Coinbase needs is yet another reason to ignore their customers. With a stock market listing, their primary aim will shift even more towards maximizing their profits so they can keep their shareholders happy.

Call me cynical/crazy, but maybe this is how Tether get out of the fact that they have printed millions of USDT out of thin air which aren't backed up by USD, or indeed, by any asset whatsoever. Permanently blacklisting an address like this effectively burns the coins and removes them circulation. Nice easy way for them to renege on some of their commitments.

Giving this a bump.

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/70850/centre-appears-to-have-blacklisted-an-address-holding-usdc-for-the-first-time

100,000 USD (C) frozen.

I wonder what the story is behind this.

Ironically this is likely to fortify Tether's position.

Submitted a ticket with Binance US - not them.

Next, submitted a ticket with binance... will keep you posted!

The statement makes it a bit unclear if it was user's error or an error on Binance's side though.

It seems like a logical continuation of their development, and the only thing they can do at the moment to achieve a fresh inflow of money.

The company's most recent funding round in 2018 valued the firm at more than $8 billion. The company is more interested in going public through a direct listing than a traditional initial public offering, sources familiar with the plans told Reuters. Direct listings allow firms to go public without raising capital in a stock sale. Shareholders are able to sell their equity without having their stakes watered down by a new issuance.

“He told me that they fundamentally undercounted the Trump vote; that the Trump voter is not a voter in every single election, that they come out for Trump, so they’re hard to count,” Slotkin said of Al Quinlan of GQR, a large Washington-based polling firm.

Surveys often count people they determine are “likely voters,” but Slotkin learned that a person who tells a pollster that they don’t have plans to vote but may ultimately do so “were fundamentally undercounted.”

“I believe that same thing is happening right now,” Slotkin said.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/506816-house-democrat-warns-about-inaccurate-polls-trump-voters-fundamentally

Also, I predict Biden might choose Susan Rice as his vice president.

Does anyone have fresh stats on the state by state breakdown of the Covid's spread across the US over the last couple of weeks?  From what I've seen of the nationwide upsurge of cases, it's quite likely Nevada will have no choice but to go back into lockdown.

Foma come and sit at 25/50, bad beat jackpot is 2,386,378 and rising! I know that you know that I am talking about SwC bad beat jackopt! Why do we care about all others!?

I went to a store today and they didn't let me in because I didn't have a mask, I said who f. you, I will go to another place! About what we talk here exactly?! I don't know, it looks like some people are scared, some people are not, but isn't that on us to decide what we want with our lives? Some are afraid of risk, some people risk every day?
We can't generalize things as you want, people should be free to make their own decision!

For me the possibility of no 2020 NFL season is next to zero. It would take very special circumstances to cancel it all together, there is just too much money involved and as we all know money makes the world go round Look at german football (soccer) Bundesliga. Lots of shops were still closed, gatherings of more than 3 persons were forbidden, masks mandatory in all indoor places, but football started again. And the Bundesliga isn't as powerful as the NFL is. Now you basically have all leagues in Europe playing again, that weren't cancelled; Basketball is played again too. All this with sophisticated hygiene concepts, no spectators and it worked; I didn't hear of any issues.

Under the plan developed by the NFL and NFLPA, there really wouldn't be any strict guidelines with the opt-out. Any player who has a pre-existing condition would be allowed to sit out. Players who have family members with pre-existing conditions would be allowed to sit out. Also, any player who has any concerns about playing during a pandemic would also be allowed to sit out, which would open the door for pretty much any player to sit out the season.

8-10 players won't be easy, not sure, if we even have 8-10 regular posters in this and the old thread But maybe the closer we get to regular season, the more people come out of their caves and with some advertisement, we could get a good number.

I am fine with any time for a live draft, can be in the middle of the night, no problem. And I am also fine with any of the established members holding the funds, it's not millions in the end and if anyone wants to scam ~0.02 BTC from a community game, well, then so be it.

Exactly, in most cases masks are useless, especialy when you see how people are wearing them and how often they are changed. This is more just psychological effect.

One take I saw for online games or esports is to show fans on webcam, its not really the same because they are separate not together mostly but it kinda works.

My club owner - He runs a club that I play with in another app (PPPoker if you've heard of it) told me that the players here are more fishy.

The reasoning is cause most of the players here are chinese recreational players, not those sharks that dominate all of the online poker scene elsewhere.

So, when crypto gambling became something, it took in a ton of people who wanted to play these games in a "provably fair" fashion which actually changed a lot of things, poker didn't though, because it is not provably fair even in crypto. So, people kept going to pokerstars and places like that.

We were discussing this with my drinking and crypto buddies when one of my colleagues started the discussion of free rolls on poker. He argued that a poker website or poker house cannot survive if they put free rolls and then players win real crypto or cash on an everyday basis. Well to be honest, we play poker and all but none of us there we not able to tell him how that works.

I would say Kamala Harris is going to do more harm than good to the Biden campaign. If he wants to sweep the swing states such as Ohio, Pennsylvania, Iowa.etc, then he should select someone who is a moderate and not an extreme-left candidate such as Harris. Tammy Duckworth is being talked a lot as the VP candidate nowadays, and I should say that she is much more beneficial to Biden than Harris.

They are among an emerging group of voters who disliked both major-party presidential nominees in 2016, but who are now so disillusioned with President Trump — and sufficiently comfortable with Mr. Biden — that they are increasingly willing to support the Democrat.

It’s a dynamic that could have significant implications in several of the most competitive battleground states, like Arizona and Wisconsin, where the third-party vote in 2016 was greater than the margin of difference between Mr. Trump and Mrs. Clinton. Recent polling also shows that Mr. Biden has an overwhelming advantage over Mr. Trump among voters who have unfavorable views of both candidates — a cohort that ultimately broke in Mr. Trump’s favor in 2016, exit polls showed.

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But in a year when swing voters are scarce, some of the voters who effectively stayed on the sidelines in 2016 are showing signs of political movement now — and there is evidence that Mr. Biden stands to benefit.

There appears to be far less interest in third-party candidates compared with the same point in 2016, pollsters say.

“Barring some unforeseen circumstance, there’s just not a lot of appetite for third party,” said Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute. “This is two-person for nearly all American voters.”

His polling from late June found that among voters who have unfavorable views of both candidates, Mr. Biden leads the president 55 percent to 21 percent. In 2016, Mr. Trump won the voters who disliked both candidates, according to exit polls.

And according to a recent poll of registered voters in six major battleground states by The New York Times and Siena College, people who say they did not vote in 2016 overwhelmingly favor Mr. Biden over Mr. Trump, 56 percent to 25 percent.

“My biggest risk is that we don’t win lawsuits,” Trump said. “We have many lawsuits going all over. And if we don’t win those lawsuits, I think — I think it puts the election at risk.”

You guys think sportsbet.io is big enough to actually make their first acquisition (well first that I know of) with another casino?

When I talk to my friends in America, they also say that ordinary voters are tired of traditional politicians and no longer trust them.
Trump won the last presidential election because he did not run as a traditional politician but as someone who wants to change politics and return power to the people.

Being not as strong as in 2016 doesn't necessarily imply that he will lose this election, because he has another opponent this year (whom I still consider weaker than Hillary all things considered).

I noticed jet cash mentioned copyright infringement a while ago and I didn't pay any notice to it but the name itself comes from the Latin for the pound ^ref probably protected by royal copyright which means either (1) Facebook gets taken to court by the UK for using the term or (2 a lot more likely) a bunch of scams start to appear using the libra name or an attack of some sort on it's name in wider Europe...