By all means increase regulations. That is, after all, the compromise governments must make to legitimize Bitcoin. I'd love to see what solutions they can come up with to crackdown on crypto as ransom payment instead of cracking down on poor computer security. Somali pirates be hoping they don't start cracking down on US dollars.


Totally made my day, and scarily, not off the mark.

There is no safer alternative, in terms of technical ability or pure brute force attacking power, which really now is the only way to crack any kind of network like this. There is no safer alternative in terms of having the financial might to 51% attack the network either (which, even if somehow achieved, would be ignored as the good actors reorg).

Seizing private keys is really not overcoming the security.

So if this is the 2018 run come early, then we can see another super rally in three years, which is 2024? Sounds like the cycle aligning closely to the halving for sure. Bring it on, laddies.


Or maybe just more people selling than buying, like a normal reason for a market to go down. If you weren't able to hoard at opportune prices, then your prayers have been answered.

We should all be pleased!

^Hmm I never get people who forfeit, I mean, we've seen upsets before and you can always win something on a day, especially when the odds are against you, no pressure. Definitely fishy or some =]

But very happy my first longshot hit on this tourney day before yesterday (Medvedev straight sets, 2 aces per set, and no tie breaks) but it was a nervy final one to clinch the final point woo! Today going against him on a similar 15/1 though, each has to score 8 aces and 20 points but easy right?

Yikes on both counts, small consolation is not one underdog found his way through yesterday, friendly or otherwise. Hit some nice bets in tennis but I wasn't expecting those. Live bets on the trailing favourites are the way to go for RG!

Another 2 underdogs for U21 and a friendly, then? Both at Fairlay:

100 units on Andorra U21 to beat Kosovo @9.81. Other odds: 9.20
100 units on Albania to WIN vs Czech Republic @6.80. Other odds: 6.40

Total units advantage: 61+40 = 141

Um no. He didn't "expose" Bitcoin's environmental issue. All he exposed was his acting like any newbie rushing headfirst into a tech. Liking what he saw, and then finding out belatedly the actual industry required to secure the network, and yet somehow not understanding how that is what makes all the shiny benefit of PoW security and finality only Bitcoin has possible.

He won't sell it all, but I hope he does. Those Teslas need producing.

A bit too lazy to check but this doesn't feel like typical Anonymous... though I'll admit I don't even know what's typical, just feels weird they'd get so stirred up by a social media influencer (which is all he is now in this context).

We all realise he's just lapping all this attention up, right? He's got an ego, it needs feeding. We're feeding it. Best way to deal with egos is to starve them.

Well, stick around a couple more years or three. By the time the next crazy rally starts again, you'll remember this cycle still ongoing and then you won't be surprised anymore. China will pop up (again) but I think Elon will be displaced, just as good old McAfee and Dimon etc. were.

And hey, to be fair, crypto emojis would be much more a mass adoption thing than El Salvador;) But let's wait for that country to actually walk the talk first, yeah?

Ah, that'll teach me to go against the Dutch, who've actually given me really good returns as underdogs themselves. Sound whipping for the Georgians, reminding them why they've never qualified for the finals even with the Nations League format!

WC qualification, we backed Indonesia and they almost beat Thailand the other day, why not again to succeed against Vietnam? Plus a friendly against Faroe Islands please!

100 units at Sportsbet on Indonesia to beat Vietnam @9.58. Other odds: 9.32

100 units at Fairlay on Liechtenstein to beat Faroe Islands @7.72. Other odds: 7.40

Units advantage: 26+32 =58

This vault management thing is already a thing now too, caught sight of big recent announcements from Yearn, polka, others, all jumping on board each other to use Yearn's vault solution to manage all them sidechain and wrapped tokens "securely".

The fact also that many of these, when called out to explain their counterparty risks, aren't willing or able to, says a lot.

Only a big fall for these, catching out all those bitcoiners pegging in their coins, is the only way people might finally understand why Bitcoin is "clinging to PoW".

Yeah especially when it's before midnight GMT, settling is almost instant. My tennis special yesterday settled 5 mins after the match ended (The 15/1 Medvedev straight, 2 aces each set, no tie breaks one) so the yellow card one I think too yeah, will settle as soon as matchday 1 is done =D


Heh, yeah well I've taken almost all of the countdown specials, so that is something like 14/15 already? Didn't count but also some small accas. I rarely make very early bets but sometimes you sniff out really good value early on before bookie odds swing from punting interest, yeah it's more like gambles, but with deep squads and chance also as likely to affect other things...

And that's just on EURO =P

I can understand why a lot of people want their Bitcoin fast -- hence BCH and all those ugly halfspawn. But why on earth expand the supply by almost 80%? That part I don't get. Fixed rate transactions? Sequential? Interest rate?

Man you really have not paid attention to the altcoin space and what they've been attempting (and failing) all this while to fix in terms of tokenomics huh.

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Was too late to take this one, but yeah, another friendly with penalty goals, incredibly low corners and just the one yellow card (according to livescores as I can't really get good stats on this). Good to flush out all these low pushes from our system before the real proper games come out eh? But maybe World Cup qualifiers or Brazil Serie A or some this week? Maybe even MLS?

Nothing exciting from today's games, except confirmation that Caucasus teams like Georgia still have a long way to go before readying themselves in four years' time for the next Euro, getting thrashed by a proper team in a friendly;)

But Greece been scoring in last few games, hm?


Mmhmm. Which is the whole point of the discussion surrounding playing these players in friendlies, isn't it? Anyway, more than enough said;)

Hoping it doesn't become 4/1, 3/1, and 2/1. I love them big odds but the payout's been following the countdown so far, except maybe the final day we see something really big;) Or not, doesn't matter. Already have over 20 bets now that'll be locked in for weeks!


SB tends to settle really quick. Another reason I don't mind group stages settlement so we get money back (or wins heh) to go big on the KO stages! It'll probably get a bit duller after group in terms of goals but hoping to be surprised;)

My mouth too tired to talk about injuries during friendlies costing teams and nationals their best talents. Lewie, Trent, injured for meaningless games possibly harming their careers at club football and actual representation? Anyway... updated the OP with a group image, but the full schedule hasn't changed and is available for download in OP but here it is for anyone who wants a full overview:

https://www.uefa.com/MultimediaFiles/Download/competitions/EURO/02/64/21/93/2642193_DOWNLOAD.pdf

Can't wait, and Copa too! Football!!

Pretty decent stuff. Thanks for sharing. I'm still never really truly convinced about this "banking the unbanked" stuff. People who need financial services or banks usually don't find Bitcoin as the probably solution for many reasons, technology and access at the heart of it. I've seen in East Africa for example where mobile phone fintech has worked wonders (talking about SMS -based $5 phones on GPRS network, not even smartphones that Bitcoin wallets need right now). Nevertheless, El Salvador isn't a place I know a lot about and if Bitcoin works there, certainly a case study for the naysayers.

And yeah, Japan's not quite "legal tender" apparently as even Reuters had to retract their earlier statements suggesting the same. So yeah, El Salvador CAN take the "first"... but they're not nearly there yet until it's set in stone in the legal books.


Let's see if legislation (or legislators) does indeed catch up. Can see the US Feds keeping an eye on it too. They might prefer LatAm to remain in the financial dark age.

Last March, we saw Bitcoin drop to just about 16% of its then all time high of 20k.

If 65k is what we take as the current ATH then yeah even below 10k is still possible. If we expect all cycles to behave the same way which they don't really.

Shouldn't worry us, though. Saw the bounce after last Marh?

I actually had to deposit money for this, I saw it and only had well, something small, not even 10, which it seemed to be able to accept. But then 2 hours later (now) I'm back online with the deposit confirmed and now it's only letting me bet 5mbtc max.

Which of course now means I have more money for silly bets, so I hope I don't do anything silly until the promo countdown ends. Have a feeling it's gonna be big on the last day.

Anyway, I agree with you it's not a big miss today at only 5/1 BUT it's more than okay if you have 5 mbtc to spare. Think if this hits, it'll have to be on Matchday 1.