Thanks for the response. Just a final comment on ads budgeting.

Sure, but that extra cost for targeting is what puts potentials off, and can be considered more intrusive (then you also only get people who want to be targeted which brings out the "bounty" mentality, like on Brave, almost narrowing away people who will actually spend money at your product/service. While the "display to all" gets you... well... awareness, which is something to pay for anyway, in most advertising cases.

Ah what a nice game that turned out to be eh? No Blackjack and when I saw the lineup missing Immobile, Insigne, Chiellini... felt it would be low-scoring but 7 corners from Italy wasn't so bad! 13, a push, but more importantly, the yellow from the scorer to give us our first Special hit from Sportsbet.

Nice way to wrap up the week;)


8 corners each, what a match that must have been (didn't see it)!

^^ All agreed. Stater, either you're really new and you didn't do enough bg research on how "bounty" programs run so didn't know what to expect (we could have all told you before you started it what you'd be getting) or you got hoodwinked by them marketing projects promising numbers (not quality).

You do get peanut-eaters if you pay peanuts, but you also can't be promising more than peanuts if you're not delivering more than that.

If you're really serious about the project and serious marketing, maybe you need to rethink bounties as part of your strategy?

Portugal, feel bad for them, but Germany deserved the win thoroughly. Pretty cool memories from the weekend, yeah? Hungary celebration, and that Ronaldo flick, I'm entertained even losing.

Got quite a few bets that will settle today, but for now, a boosted insured parlay at Sportsbet:

100 units on Italy, Switzerland, Colombia, Ecuador and Palmeiras to WIN @12.46. Other odds: 11.88
Units advantage: 58

Exactly. Because it's how you tie a country to you with debt. It all began with the Marshall plan 70+ years ago, and when even Marshall Islands tried to use the Sovereign they worried about it, IMF had to step in.


You also have to blame the Venezuelan government there, though, as the Petro was not only ill-thought out, it was completely fraudulent, just another tool to oppress the people, and it didn't want it to co-exist with Bitcoin.

I used the Goals Scored For stats from Livescores but you're right, what a lousy stat checker I am;) I'm checking again and this is the correct standings:

Group A: 10
Group B: 9 8
Group C: 14
Group D: 6 5
Group E: 6
Group F: 13 12
55 from 24 games
Average: 2.29

Good going still.


Ah I had no idea BitDice had become a sportsbook! Used to have an account there long ago, but for dice (yeah, I know haha).

Hope Italy get a yellow for simulation or time-wasting, for fun, or Bale eggs them on who knows haha.

Yeah, I saw several other angles after my initial comment and yes, agree, VAR as it should be. No complaints. I honestly thought Germany would win that special for us. We wait another week as it is.


More of that, please Germany, and this is what I wish more teams would do. Push for direct attacks, stop fiddling around with finding chinks in the armour, just bang on the goddamn doors and get own goals and penalties and corners haha.

Hi OP, also stopping by out of curiosity and I've actually seen several models implemented in my home country as long as 10-15 years ago, mainly because of cost issue (can't afford google or don't know how to get value for money) but also they used in networks (food businesses advertising also in other food businesses, but not to compete, to complement... e.g. a pizza place showing ads for everything else other than pizza).

The problem I always found was you can't really estimate the benefit. 90% cheaper ads could mean 90% less relevant views? And you'd only be selling views, not clickthrus, very hard to track otherwise, or I suppose, ad time, which is the billboard model. You've probably also underestimated costs... $250 a month for 10 smart TVs running 24 hours doesn't sound right but also doesn't sound effective -- in my moderately sized city, you get a week's 24/7 roving banner on a tram = $250 a week. I feel like I'd rather pay for that exposure.

P.S. Somewhat reminiscent of all those pay2surf companies from late 90s to even 5/6 years ago, just running those ad bars and getting people to view them or open them up on screens in public places -- that model crashed after a while, no?

P. P.S. Brave ads, let me tell you, they're probably the best cost per view and acquisition and they still only pay a fraction to the user.

Hodling and buying are getting more popular is good, I guess. I do think using getting more popular is even better, but I think it's just because prices are down so much from the ATH that people are waiting further to see. Once the MA gets a little lower, people will be less reluctant to spend, when they feel that the rally's over and it'll slowly pick up again on the next cycle.

Not the best thing to happen ever, but certainly, I'm enjoying the lull.

Catastrophe in Seville!

With Pau Torres getting booked, we now truly only wait for Italy. I think it's going to be our first winner, but always nice to hedge, but as Trofo says, you can't precisely hedge as it's booking points, not yellows, as far as I can tell for all the books I'm using.

The only option is to open a market on Fairlay or something and hope someone takes it haha, otherwise, everywhere else I've checked nothing precise.

Nevertheless, the way Italy plays, I can't see a red card, so I booked an equal bet there anyway on under 0.5 booking points -- 2.76 -- still best odds at SB with boost. If we lose the special, I get my money back, if they only get a red card, I'll lost about 30% more than my original outlay. Its okay:)

==== Update on total goals====
Group A: 10
Group B: 9
Group C: 14
Group D: 6
Group E: 6
Group F: 13
58 from 24 games
Average: 2.41 -- we're still alive!

For 21 goals, our hopes rest on Netherlands and Germany? Maybe even another thriller betwixt Portugal and France?

So, Morata's goal looked offside. Was flagged offside, and there wasn't that much of an argument from even Morata himself, and then VAR review, goal. Have to say that was lucky, but I guess this is why VAR's here.

But what a feast from Germany. Sorry that Portugal lost as they were sharp on the counter at first. Two own goals, guess their good luck from first match evened out today.

Much of the developing world certainly needs solutions to their monetary problems but the entire financial system globally is rotten at the core. I still don't think Bitcoin "is the answer" but yeah, perhaps, there are some use cases for a state to at least protect some of its wealth, or, alongside other types of consumer tech layers like Lightning, maybe Bitcoin network is a viable way to conduct parts of the economy for the masses that's also inflation resistant (but they will still need to solve volatility via heh stablecoins maybe, probably).

One step at a time, though, I guess.

^ Can't say I know enough about what's going on in Texas, I think it's a tragedy but I also think it's a case of mismanagement and poor governance, and a direct result of storm damage (or failure of storm resistance, which it knowingly did not fix for a decade at least apparently).

So them Texans had better start electing better leaders or pushing for better means to distribute energy or fix the storm damage. Blaming it on miners is at best going to remove them from the equation, but that doesn't mean they won't simply be replaced by other commercial consumers, nor will it mean redistributing power to where it's needed.

The problem is a loss of power generation capacity. The miners won't have been invited over if there wasn't enough capacity in the first place.

RIP Mbappe fts special, I was itching to pull trigger on a Hungary 1st Half upset at 9/1 but did NOT see this coming. France should really take more shots on goal, I remember their keeper wasn't too good but he's not even been tested properly, while Lloris failed on his first test -- hate those near post goals which you should always cover.

Mbappe still good to watch though, if they hold their nerve we still can get a win.


Check it, it's 2,865 boosted to 3,867! That 35% boost made it even more legendary hot damn.

Indeed. Use case is use case. In fact, governments trying to stop Bitcoin (I'll always remember the US sanctioning of Bitcoin addresses and how that actually led to more anon donations going to those addresses as a funny case) only proves Bitcoin's main value proposition, as you say. Marathon is only the latest to realise the folly of trying to stop/censor any part of the network.

Round 3 Bet Free 6-6 is open, don't forget gentlemen!

https://sportsbet.io/sports/bet-free-6-6


Even as round 2 was going on I was already prepared to get money back on all those specials; to be fair, most of them were not expected to hit anyway, but let's see if Spain/France/Germany can still remind us why they were the early tournament favourites (except England which I think is always because of bookie margins they totally don't deserve their odds). Group D now need to find a way to score 6 in their final game, so that alone should kill that special... but then we also have E and F who're competing to disappoint;)

Group A: 10
Group B: 9
Group C: 14
Group D: 6
Group E: 4 with 2 games in hand
Group F: 5 with 1 game in hand

I've actually been doing well with picks, problem for me is I've also been parlaying them with Copa and Asian games which keep losing me legs. That said, I've won back insurance almost every day now on the 5-legs, as EURO favs minus England have been showing up.

Scotland draw or handicap was a value bet and that was one of my parlay legs yesterday (ruined by Czech Republic not winning though haha). I know I could be saying this as a biased Liverpool fan but the way his team was set up felt like he forgot he doesn't have Trent feeding in crosses from the right flank.

They broke their group hoodoo this year by winning their first game (5D 4L in their previous 9 tournaments) but this is the familiar England I've always remembered in WC and EURO. Overhyped and blunt, can't even really showcase their supposed Premier League physicality.

I know they're still probably progress but you're right. He's got Sancho (16 goals, 20 assists last season) whom every bloody club wants NOT playing. You've got Grealish (6 goals, 10 assists but missed a lot of games and well, plays for Villa) who only got 30 mins yesterday. I think Foden's great, but time to switch it up or hell, throw them all on! At least for me fefinitely time to try one game without damned Sterling.

Gotta confess I don't know much about options trading so this does sound like a good risk to reward ratio if your numbers work out. Definitely makes sense for these bear predictors and shorters to show off their put options. But since none, not even resident bear proudhon, do that, we all know it's not money where the mouth is, or that it's further reverse attempt FUD.

Just suddenly realise now this is probably why there's a lot of options demand from miners and such. Seems like a good hedge for such a small outlay. Always thought price had to hit for them on options.

Didn't notice it but I was expecting mempool to fill up after the last difficulty adjustment (13 or 14% was it?) but could still send 1 sat/byte txs and they went through fine.

Not sure if anyone mentioned, didn't scroll every page but maybe it's also layer2 eating up some of those txs? Lightning use with the Arnhem bitcoin city merchs have been slowly picking up after a huge drop during Covid lockdown (shops finally open again in past couple of weeks). Small nett effect I guess but maybe but that plays a role? Is it possible also more people sending each other on consumer apps that are off chain?

Pah. Upsets did not happen, I almost thought Scotland might take it too, actually had more shots on goal than England and I think the 3 Lions will feel absolutely let down by their performance.

It's been pretty good for favourites so far and I made a mistake of parlaying too many other legs so:

100 units on France, Portugal, Spain to WIN @6.40. Other odds: 6.10
Units advantage: 30