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741  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: "How best do I secure my investment on bitcoin as a newbie" on: June 25, 2023, 11:47:45 AM
How best do I secure my investment on bitcoin as a newbie?
Make sure you actually spend your money to invest in Bitcoin, not in any Bitcoin forks, stocks, and not invest into any Ponzi.

Reminder: do not keep your money in online accounts. Be your own bank with private keys of your wallets, because "Not your private keys, not your bitcoins"

Use Non Custodial wallets and hold your bitcoins.

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742  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: 1.7 billion people are still Unbanked; chances for bitcoin on: June 25, 2023, 11:42:56 AM
The chances of these 1.7 billion creating a Bitcoin wallet and buying Bitcoin is 0.01% as they don't have enough resources to atleast open a Bank account in their respective country. The requirements to open a Bitcoin account is a mobile with Internet service and then you also need adequate knowledge and experience to operate with Cryptocurrency which is a far high ceiling as compared to a normal Bank account. Impossible to get this audience.
There are physically challenges for those 1.7 billion unbanked people but I disagree with you that it is impossible for them to access Bitcoin.

I see that Bitcoin will give them more convenience than with banks and bank accounts. With bank accounts, they will have to go to bank offices and open their bank accounts, with some required documents like ID card, selfie ... and because it is related to transportation, it will be barrier for many people.

With Bitcoin, they will have more convenience. They can download a wallet software, install it on their phone or computer and get their wallet and addresses to use. It's easy and more convenient than with banks and bank accounts. They don't have to go too far to any office like with bank accounts. No ID card submission too.
743  Bitcoin / Legal / Re: IMF calls for the regulation of cryptocurrency on: June 24, 2023, 02:14:53 PM
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) after standing firm on it's position all this while on the need for countries to ban cryptocurrency makes a u-turn. This is coming as a result of the widespread usage of digital assets and CBDCs in latin America and the Caribbean. IMF is coming to terms with reality of the benefits of digital assets and feels cryptocurrency should not be outrightly banned but should be regulated.
Is it new or not predictable?

No. Because IMF with pressure from big nations, will not allow totally freedom in finance and cryptocurrency if they see threats. They did not touch on this market years ago when it was like infant and very small. When this market becomes big enough, governments, IMF will pay more attention on it and do more regulations. It is very predictable.

Is it coincidence that after hype news with Bitcoin ETF, we have bad news from IMF?
744  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2022/23 on: June 23, 2023, 03:47:11 AM
you are right that Man City might allow Gündogan to leave City because he is indeed quite old. so that Man City has the goal of releasing Gündogan and trying to find young players who have better talent to be able to bring Man City to the defending champion in the champions league.
I know maybe Guardiola has another new dream to keep winning the treble again in the new season so he sells several players who are not performing well to welcome next summer.
They have a policy to free their players who no longer want to play for them and Gundogan is their captain with lot of contributions for their club success in the last 6 years. It is fair enough and is like of recognition and respect of Manchester City for Gundogan to allow the player moving to Barcelona. It is a happy ending for the player and is helpful for the club reputation on how they treat their legendary players too.

Gundogan has good part of his career in Manchester City because he had little injuries during the time in Eithad. It is different than his last seasons in Dortmund with some injuries and he missed many matches with Dortmund.

The three names chosen by Perez are highly qualified to replace Ancelotti, Zidane and Mourinho are great coaches and have won various titles. Meanwhile, Xavi Alonso played a great role in boosting Leverkusen performance in the 2022-2023 season. Coincidentally, Alonso contract with Bayer Leverkusen also expires at the end of the 2023-2024 season, so Real Madrid can bring in Alonso for free.
Xabi Alonso still needs more time and in the Europa League semi finals against AS Roma, he shown that he lacked of ability to use alternative players to change tactics and change the match conditions. He needs more time to sharpen his tactics philosophy and flexibility to win titles. He is not a good coach for Real Madrid at the moment.

Zidane did not show any interest to manage a club after he left Real Madrid some seasons ago. He only aimed at France national coach position that is hold by his ex-team-mate Deschamps. He will not take the coach position in Real Madrid.

Mourinho looks to be a best candidate for Real Madrid. He has good successful career and in the past two seasons, he got good achievements in AS Roma with limited resources and so far in this summer, he has yet stated about his future.
745  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin is the best career for women on: June 23, 2023, 03:37:30 AM
Our world has become equal, not only with bitcoin but with any field, any job, and any career is open to everyone. As long as everyone has the ability, they have the right to participate, whether male or female.
The world is no completely fair for everyone, for all genders but it is better than years ago. We are continuing to fight for better fairness for everyone.

With Bitcoin we already have a transaction system which does not need to know gender of a user and does not censor a transaction because it is broadcasted by a man or woman. It's a neutral transaction system for everyone.

We don't need to KYC, reveal our identity including our gender to use bitcoins.

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Many people still misunderstand and have a distorted view of bitcoin. In addition to those looking at bitcoin investment as a main career to guide the future. Many people are still seeing it as a solution that can help alleviate poverty and reduce unemployment…that's an exaggeration or serious misunderstanding of bitcoin. Bitcoin is a currency...how can it help reduce unemployment?
We have to accept imperfection and deal with it. I agree with you about inaccuracy of such exaggerations which don't help Bitcoin adoption. Exaggerations sound like words from scammers and only be harmful for Bitcoin adoption.

If we want to attract new people, we must honestly talk to them about both advantages and disadvantages of Bitcoin and its Peer to Peer transaction system.
746  Economy / Gambling / Re: BK8 - Biggest and Most Trusted Brand. Asia's #1 Crypto online casino BTC & USDT on: June 23, 2023, 03:28:19 AM
Congratulation finally BK8 brand will appear in the Premier League after waiting for several years, not too surprised because BK8 almost did it with other teams in the past but was canceled because it was rejected by supporters and now BK8 gets that opportunity. Unfortunately this collaboration is not for a long time because the Premier League authority will forbid all clubs to use gambling brands on their jersey, this regulation will be valid for the next 2 years in the 2025/2026 season.
Exactly my thinking too when I see the post. BK8 team did seriously tried to boost the process and complete their partnership deal with Aston Villa. Even it won't last longer than 2 more seasons because Premier League authority will prohibit advertisement for gambling brands in future.

Do you know reasons why they will stop it? England is a Western country and gambling is not prohibited in most of Western nations. Is it related to cryptocurrency regulations on those casinos or is it applied to all casinos?

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By the way, this news must be celebrated, we are waiting for something from admin  Cheesy
BK8 will host some events to celebrate the partnership, stay tuned!  Grin
747  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2022/23 on: June 22, 2023, 02:06:34 AM
With Manchester city signing Kovacic from Chelsea; i do not think they expect Gundogan to stay. Its been over a year dragging contract terms and they have been unable to reach an agreement.
Kovacic and Gundogan are different midfielders. Kovacic is more similar to Kante and Gundogan is more similar to Kroos or Modric. I mean Kovacic is a defensive midfielder and Gundogan is an attacking midfielder so sure they have different styles.

Manchester City has their policy to allow players to leave their clubs if those players submit a request and show that they are no longer want to contribute for the club. Gundogan is not an exception and his age is another factor to help him leaving from Manchester City.

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I hope Barcelona are able to manage Gundogan injury crisis just like Manchester city did or it would be a wrong transfer for the club.

Right profile for barcelona? yes of course. Would he fit into the barcelona team? time will tell
Gundogan since his time in Dortmund and after many seasons with Pep Guardiola in Manchester City, absorbed tiki-taka and ball possession philosophy very well. He will adapt well to Barcelona tactics.
748  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1) on: June 22, 2023, 02:00:48 AM
Since zidane was not even giving single sentences regarding his future club and i think that's actually useless to talk about him. He has been rejecting any clubs that linked to him.
He is smart and disciplined. He knows what he want, a France national team's coach position. He does not need money from rich clubs and he can wait a few more years to take over his national team coach position. I guess Zidane knows that France currently have a very good squad with many talented players and many of them are young and can grow up more. If he takes over that position, he will have good chance to win big titles with France like World Cup and Euro and even can repeat success of Spain, winning three big titles during 6 years (1 World Cup, 2 Euros).

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PSG is now having more important mission to rebuild the club as so many players have been leaving the club including one of most important player. PSG will be playing without mbappe next year. That means if PSG will be also losing another potential talent again from the club.
We don't know about future of Mbappe, lot of things can happen in future, this summer or next summer.

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As you can see that the future of neymar is still remain uncertain.
He wants back to the barcelona while barcelona is now focusing to rebuild the club with so many young talented players. I think that the possible thing if neymar will be staying even longer in PSG.

He will not go to the another club in summer. Neymar's contract is still remain a bit long at this moment. I think that neymar gonna be staying in PSG.
If Barcelona did not bring Messi back to their club, they will not bring Neymar back to Nou Camp. Neymar is younger than Messi but he will require high salary that will not be paid by Barcelona with their not too good finance recent years. He is sensitive with injuries and Barcelona will not pay expensive cost for such players.

Neymar might leave PSG but his destination will not be Barcelona.
749  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Question from a newbie - raising $100 in BTC for charity on: June 22, 2023, 01:52:42 AM
I am trying to see if it is possible to raise $100 of Bitcoin by just doing advertising or promotional work for people.

I recently came across a website which said that they would pay up to $20 for writing a few paragraphs worth of positive reviews and promotions, but having contacted them they've not (as yet) replied - therefore I'm also trying to work out which sites are legitimate and will pay out and which ones are fake.
You must have good CV to be hired. The competitiveness is not low because many free lancers, content writers are ready to do a same job like you.

If you want to find jobs in cryptocurrency, spend your time to look around.
[Information] Online Job Websites about Crypto and that pays in Crypto
https://beincrypto.com/jobs/

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I will donate the $100 to charity as well - I don't intend keeping it and I'll convert the Bitcoin to USD $
You don't have to announce that you will donate your salary for charity or anything else. Announce it now is like you are fishing merit.

Good luck to you to find a cryptocurrency freelance job.
750  Economy / Gambling / Re: vbetFTN.com | Leading Online Gambling Operator | 🎰 on: June 21, 2023, 02:13:22 AM
Why are Nigerians not allowed on your site? We have the biggest gambling community

One of the biggest in Africa, I don't know how these datas are collected but Nigeria has one of the biggest gambling community on Twitter.
It is a good confirmation that Nigeria is one of biggest gambling communities in Africa and it is not a biggest gambling community in Africa. Hence it is not a biggest gambling community in the world.

I don't know about method of data collection from the report but I guess their report is not wrong by not saying Nigeria has a biggest gambling community, annual gambling revenue.

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Poker is one of most favorite games in gambling communities. vbetFTN provides P2P Poker which is cool and increases experience for Poker players a lot. They will be able to play with many pokers in Peer to Peer mode.

Impressive product building from vbetFTN with Cash games, Spin-and-Go modes, tournaments for their Poker games.
751  Economy / Gambling / Re: Stake.com - The Leading Crypto Casino - Drake, UFC, Everton, Alfa Romeo F1 Team on: June 21, 2023, 02:06:22 AM
LOL last week I won again giveaway this is my 2nd luck I mean I won 2 times a month  Cheesy even though we have 3580 participants and 18 winners
Don't think that I am an exclusive user, I am just a normal user who might be lucky.


Is $58 come from your total giveaway winning or is it from only one give away won time? $58 is a big amount from giveaway, tips from community.

Lucky you. Winning twice in 3 weeks is impressive.
Is $58 from two winnings within 3 weeks on Stake from their community giveaway?

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Do you use some picture in your post as well? I also always post a picture with name and lucky colour to get the attention of the hosts.
But my page almost never gets picked so there is no chance in the first place.
If it is true, it will be a trick to gain more attention and increase your chance to be picked as one of winners. If you know, others will know if they see this discussion and that trick will have less impacts in future.

It takes 30 seconds to participate. Just post your name and lucky colour (no need to watch the stream for that, just watch which colour other people post) and you are in.
Sounds like very easy to participate but it is not easy to be winner.
752  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Saudi Professional League 2022/2023 on: June 21, 2023, 02:01:58 AM
When someone is offering 2-3 times the current salary, you can't retain the players with only claims that the European leagues are having much higher quality when compared to the other leagues.
If I read news about those offers correctly, those clubs from Saudi gave like 10-times salary offers than what those players currently receive from their clubs. Those contract offers are super good because they come when those players are old and at very last seasons in their careers.

Personally it's really hard to reject such offers because you only need to leave Europe, play in Saudi 2 or 3 years and earn more money than what you got from your 15 or 20 previous years in your career. I don't consider it is kind of sacrifice from old players. With only 2 or 3 years in their career, they will not achieve big things in Europe and they even lose their positions in their clubs. So moving to Saudi and enjoy money, get a better finance as preparation for future after their retirement, is good.

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In case of SPL, the quality and popularity is on the rise. At this point it may not be able to match the standards of European leagues, but within the next 2-3 years I can foresee SPL giving the European leagues a run for their money. And given the fact that many of the European economies are in recession, I would say that this trend will accelerate in the coming months.
Its noise is increasing but is the league quality on the rise too? I am not sure, it is too soon to say quality of a whole league is on the rise because one or few star players from Europe join them. They need more than that to increase the league quality generally.
753  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: BlackRock and Fidelity both apply for bitcoin ETFs on: June 20, 2023, 02:05:25 PM
Gary Gensler will no longer be able to arbitrarily approve or reject those applications.

Mr. Patrick McHenry and many USA. Congressmen and women are observing Gary Gensler and SEC. They can not interpret same legislation in different ways for different applications. They could do that in the past two years but will have more challenge from the Congress to do the same in future.

More companies are leaving the USA. because of such arbitrary regulations and it's bad in eyes of the Congress.
754  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Premier League Prediction Thread 2022/2023 on: June 20, 2023, 01:57:12 PM
It's not that easy to win Champions League so I am not sure about Liverpool running favourites but given how Liverpool plays one would have hope for them to qualify for CL at least. This season didn't went according to plans and I feel like there were lot of factors behind it.
They got affected by two seasons ago when they tried to have a treble or four titles in that season. Probably their players got tired in the past season as some of effects from two seasons ago, hence they got more injuries and played worse. It can be coincidence or can be real reason for Liverpool performance in the past season.

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I think for upcoming season they would hope for top 4 finish at least. About Europa, it does seems Liverpool, Brighton and Roma would be the favourites but transfer window is still open and we could see lot of crucial players move out still. Let's see how the squad shapes up after the summer transfer window.
They can play better but they will have more challenge from Newcastle United. Premier League now are more tough with rising clubs like Arsenal and Newcastle United. Manchester United and Chelsea are other clubs will compete for top four with Liverpool, together with Manchester City. Together we will have 6 clubs compete for 4 positions and if we count Tottenham Hotspur, it will be 7 clubs.
755  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Saudi Professional League 2022/2023 on: June 20, 2023, 01:50:40 PM
Clubs in the Saudi Professional League look set to land more stars from Europe this season. In fact, I heard that there are players from a club from the Italian league who will also join the SPL. The bottom line is that in the coming season I think the SPL league will really put out a much better game than usual.
They only join Saudi Professional League if they receive more money from those local clubs than European clubs. It is what is happening and it will stop when Saudi Arabian clubs stop their policies to give very high salary for players from Europe. I don't believe the policy will continue forever even Saudi Arabia is a very rich country with income from oil.

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In fact, what makes me most curious is the Al-Nassr vs Al-ittihad match, which of course will bring together Cristiano Ronaldo and Benzema as an opponent. The competition from the former two best strikers from Real Madrid will be very interesting to watch.
They are smartly using their money by signing with those players and make matches between those clubs more exciting. I believe if possible, each club will try to sign with a big star player rather than signing with some star players for a single club. It will make the league more exciting and attract more television, communication companies in Europe to broadcast the Saudi Professional League matches.
756  Other / Archival / Re: No panic while holding my Bitcoin on: June 19, 2023, 02:23:57 AM
Bitcoin is not the safest and best investment. Bitcoin is the most potential investment, but there is no guarantee that we will make a big profit in this market. Don't forget that the higher the return, the higher the risk.
Most potential investment option contains big risk too. You can not know what will happen globally next ten years or longer. You only can read the Whitepaper, check history of Bitcoin since 2009 and gain your belief for investment decision but risk always exists. You can not control risk as you are not decision maker, policy maker from governments which can change the world and regulation on Bitcoin.


You seemed very positive about Bitcoin, but I do say that you need to be prepared for what will happen on Bitcoin first. It isn't guaranteed that you will earn profit overtime as others are thinking because they tend to always think that if they invest in Bitcoin, they will earn profit immediately, but that is not true. You need to go through some rough things before achieving the profit.
Being positive about it is good if you understand how decentralized its network is. However, being careful is never bad and I would like to keep my capital into some parts and don't spend it all into Bitcoin. With me, fiat currency (cash), stable coin and Bitcoin, that's it and I believe with this diversification, I won't lose all money after one night.

If I store my capital in only one asset either Bitcoin, fiat currency or stable coin, I will have risk to lose all my capital after one night.
757  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Avalanche is NOT listed as a security (SEC) on: June 19, 2023, 02:03:32 AM
SEC. and Gary Gensler are doing their shitshow by arbitrarily picking winners and losers among thousands of alternative cryptocurrency projects. They don't apply a consistent definition and legislation on altcoins.

The USA. Congress shows that they don't want Gary to inconsistently make his decisions and kill cryptocurrency companies in the nation, contribute to drive those companies out of the USA.

If their main factor to decide a cryptocurrency is a security or not, is a centralization or decentalization, how Avalanche is different than other altcoins? It's another joke from SEC.
758  Economy / Gambling / Re: vbetFTN.com | Leading Online Gambling Operator | 🎰 on: June 19, 2023, 01:54:19 AM
Why are Nigerians not allowed on your site? We have the biggest gambling community
I did not know Nigeria is a biggest gambling community, one of biggest perhaps but biggest, I doubt it is.

Any report that Nigeria has a biggest gambling community?
World largest gambling nations

Why these countries are limited are not on the terms and conditions, which is why I had to ask it here, but it appears that the admin here is quite incompetent, given that he skipped two honest questions and just responded to only positive feedback  before leaving.
It is a very offensive word.

As a representative, you will have to answer official information and as human, you can not know all things on your platform. You will have to forward the question to your internal team and you only can give the answer publicly after you get confirmation from your internal team.

AFAIK, they already answered same question when @Beparanf asked this few weeks ago. They just give a generic answer which means that they have nothing to do on this matter right now.


Here’s their reply.

Thank you for reaching out to us. We understand that you have concerns regarding country restrictions on our platform. Some of our providers indeed have certain limitations based on geographical locations. At vbetFTN, we prioritize compliance with gambling licenses and regulations, which may impose restrictions on accessing our website from certain countries. However, we want to assure you that we are actively working on addressing this issue.


We are currently in the process of making a dedicated announcement to inform our community about the specific country restrictions that may apply. We aim to ensure that everyone is well-informed and aware of any limitations.

Cheers,

Also, I remember that they have the list of restricted countries before when they newly introduced their casino here. Probably they are just revising it that’s it’s not available on the website.
Thank you. I did not know the reply.
759  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: what is the solution to traffic congestion on the bitcoin network? on: June 18, 2023, 04:02:51 AM
Layer-2 Solutions in addition to the lightning network, other layer-2 solutions such as sidechains will help the Bitcoin network to scale.
The lightning network has already proven that it is what solution we have it is even proven to Ethereum layer 2 networks which a lot of people appreciated it. But on Bitcoin, what we need for sure is adoption, we want people to use it regularly and adapt it
The adoption of Lightning network is good enough but people still have barriers in their thinking when spending on-chain transaction fees for opening and closing Lightning network channels.

If they are regular users of Lightning network, they would have no issues with such fees because they barely repeating those steps, opening and closing channels.

If they only want to use Lightning network when Bitcoin mempools are overloaded, congested and transaction fees are expensive, they will not want to pay on-chain fees for opening a channel. They are also fearful for fee to close a channel later.

Anyway, the State of Bitcoin Lightning Network is good.
760  Economy / Gambling / Re: vbetFTN.com | Leading Online Gambling Operator | 🎰 on: June 18, 2023, 03:52:42 AM
Why are Nigerians not allowed on your site? We have the biggest gambling community and you decided to let us out? Tried to sign up and I can't find Nigeria. Why?

This is same issue with Philippines users. This is really odd to see country like us not allowed on the casino despite our country allowed online gambling.

vbetFTN team should have a list of restricted countries. The Terms and Conditions page does not have that list which is useful for users.
Terms and Conditions at point 11.1 but a full list of restricted countries, areas will provide more information for users.
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