I agree that it is 99% sure already that Bellingham will leave Borussia Dortmund after this season. He completely stands out in the squad of Dortmund and yesterday in the first game of England in he world cup he also was a starter and showed a great performance. I guess that most of the very big clubs in Europe are interested in signing him. I also think though that it probably does not make a big difference if he would already sign a pre-contract now with another club or not. I mean if he would do that at least his future is already fixed and he does not have to think about that anymore. In the end it doesn't matter.

I don't follow Vitalik on twitter but i don't think that he is usually the type of guy that is posting silly memes and meaningless messages on twitter. If you are looking at the comments of this post though then i think it becomes obvious that he is just making fun of some big crypto influencers that have probably said that they have informations that ETH is going down soon and with his post Vitalik wants to make fun of them. It even seems that those people have replied to him in the comments.
I don't really know what happened or where the rumors are coming from but in deep bear market times like this every rumor can cause another dump. So i hope it turns out to be false.

I agree this was one of the most boring races of this season in my opinion. A big reason for that is obviously that the Championship was already decided some weeks ago and to be honest the fight for the second place was only hyped up by the media in my opinion in order to create some drama and excitement before the race but in the end it is just the second place and not many people really care about that in my opinion.
Also today was the last race for Sebastian Vettel and also for Mick Schumacher. For me it is pretty said that his contract by Haas was not prolonged but i think he will be back in the Formula 1 pretty soon. Today he made one mistake again but he still was ahead of Magnussen. I think he has the quality to be a permanent F1 driver.

I don't know about that. To be honest for me the national teams and the national cups like European Championship and the World Cup have never been of the biggest interest for me. I just enjoy club football way more than national teams. I also think that the quality of the football games is way higher in the Champions League and Europa League then in the world cup for example.
Especially in the world cup there are some teams that are taking part that are at least 1 or 2 tiers below the best ones like Saudi Arabia and Qatar for example. Overall for me the world cup is not really the highlight of this football year. I will watch it though because obviously that this the only football that is going on during that time.

I think that the same thing is true for Decentraland as for most of the other crypto projects. As soon as the market as a whole leaves behind all those negative news and happenings with the drama around Terra Luna first and now the bankruptcy of FTX and starts to recover most of the projects will recover with the overall market. The next question is, if Decentraland is able to reach the price levels around it's ATH again.
Regarding that i am not sure to be honest. Play2earn and metaverse were two big trends of the crypto industry of the last 2 years or so. Now that the big hype wave is over only the good projects of those genre will survive. I think though that Decentraland is one of them.

Even though it's their home tournament i don't really think that Qatar has a chance against Ecuador. The difference in quality in the squads is just way to big in my opinion. That being said i don't really know the players of the team of Qatar. I could imagine though, that Qatar did the same thing with their football team as they did a few years back with their handball team when they also hosted the handball world cup. Back then they "hired" some very good players to play for their national team instead. I don't know if the rules in Handball are less strict but in football a player needs at least some connection to the country that he wants to play for.

Well there is not much that we can do about the current happenings and the condition that the whole market is in. So we just can endure it and hope for better time. I think times like this make very clear again, that the first and most important role for investing into crypto is to never invest more than you can afford to lose. And by that i mean if you are having 3000$ on your bank account only put 1000$ or so into crypto and not all of the 3000 $ because you still need some savings if your crypto investment goes completely wrong.
If you are following this rule, then you can be pretty relaxed even through markets like this. Of course it is never nice to lose money but if it is "excess money" than at least it is not that bad.

Well if the world cup is used as an excuse for the other clubs that their players are not at the top performance level then that is automatically the biggest excuse for Bayern Munich because they are the Bundesliga team which has the most players in the world cup as far as i know. I think in the end the difference in quality between Bayern Munich and the rest of the clubs is just to high. Before the season started a lot of people said that Borussia Dortmund has a good chance to become the Bundesliga champions this year because they got players like Süle, Schlotterbeck and Adeyemi. I mean those are good Bundesliga players but Bayern got playes like Mane and De Ligt at the same time, so for me the quality difference became even bigger this season.

At the moment it is definitely pretty quite around those launchpads and community VC's. I still remember back in 2020 and 2021 the hype about those projects was huge. I am still part of DuckDao and Poolz which are both offering investment opportunities in private sales. Of course now in the very deep bear market the number of projects that is offered is way lower than during the bull market, but i still think that launchpads and community VC's are a good way to get into good projects very early.
For example DuckDao was offering a investment opportunity into the private sale around of Magicsquare a few weeks ago. That is a great project in my opinion with big investors like Binance, Kucoin and Huobi for example.

To be honest i have never really heard of Potter before he became the coach of FC Chelsea. Looking at the results i would say that his work so far is not really that successful. I think that Chelsea made a huge mistake by firing Thomas Tuchel as their coach. I mean he became coach of FC Chelsea when they were in a really terrible state and after he came he not only made them successful in the Premier League again he even won the Champions League with them, which was an exceptional performance as a coach. I think Tuchel is one of the top 5 football coaches in the world right now. The only thing is that he seems to be kinda complicated to handle sometimes for the club officials.

To be honest i have never heard of the DeSo Ecosystem before. In the last few weeks there were a lot of news about big companies stopping to advertise on twitter now that Elon Musk has bought it. To be honest i find that kind of ridiculous of those companies, the only thing that Musk wants to do is to ensure that everyone can express his opinion on twitter, if it is not against the law of course, and now where Twitter might become a place for real free speech for everyone and not only for the woke left those companies already are afraid because they always want to be 100% politically correct.
I heard of Mastodon as a twitter alternative.

If that rumor would be confirmed, then those would be huge news not only in the world of sports but in probably every big mainstream news corporation, so i am pretty sure that those are just rumors and there is no evidence for such an action. Can i imagine that stuff like that happens or that it was at least tried to bribe some of the Ecuador players? Yeah i can. If i remember correctly, then there was a similar case back in the World cup of 2002 where the south korean team made it to the quarter finals somehow and afterwards it became public that a referee that was completely broke before had suddenly a lot of money.

Well that makes sense to me. With FTX probably going bankrupt, there is a high chance that all the FTT tokens become completely worthless and therefore it is a good measure of those exchanges to just delist the trading pairs of that token. I mean even though they were warning not to buy and sell FTT token for a few days now at least people are still doing in in the hope of a quick profit, just like they do it with Terra Luna classic.
I just hope that the whole topic now slowly but surely cools off and that the rumors about other big exchanges also having financial trouble turn out to be untrue because if we see another big crypto company collapse then we are in for way lower prices than we are already having them now.

To be honest though i would be pretty happy if FC Barcelona would be eliminated by Manchester United in the next round right away. If the club officials of Barca are so stupid to spend that much money on new players, that they have basically spent the money that you get from reaching the knockout stage of the Champions League, then this is definitely their own fault. Before this season i was already surprised and shocked how much money Barca was spending on new players, given the fact that they have 1,3 Billion € of debts and that they had to sell a lot of club property in order to not go bankrupt. They are just action completely irresponsible with their finances.

Well in the end i think you always have the risk that a project becomes to decentralized no matter what type of consensus mechanism it has. In the last few months after the Ethereum merge a lot of people were pretty negative about it because now the big ETH holders, which means the big exchanges like Binance, Coinbase and Kucoin for example have a lot of power over the network now. As far as i know though that was not that much different before the switch to PoS happened because before there were huge chinese mining companies that were in charge of big portions of the mining power of the ETH network, which was not better.

I first heard rumors that FC Chelsea is pretty close to sign Nkunku from RB Leipzig already a few weeks ago. In the meantime it became also public that the technical director Christopher Vivell was released by Leipzig and that he is already in talks with FC Chelsea about a job there. So this could mean that Vivell already talked to Chelsea about the transfer of Nkunku to them and thathe had to leave Leipzig because of that. Now it is very likely that he will join FC Chelsea together with Nkunku. This smells pretty fishy if you ask me.
That being said, Nkunku is a great player and it is only a matter of time until he plays for one of the absolute top clubs.

I am also pretty sure by now that the whole crypto topic is not just one of those trends that is only a hot topic for a few years and then slowly but surely fades away into meaninglessness. I first joined the crypto space back in 2017 and even though we are now deep in a bear market and might fall to even way lower price levels in comparison to now it is still true that the crypto market is now way more mature than a few years ago. Nowadays it is nothing special anymore when a big company, a celebrity or a website is mentioning a crypto project. Back in 2017 a simple mention of an altcoin in a big media was enough to make it pump, nowadays it is absolutely normal.

I also agree that RB Leipzig is the one team in the Bundesliga that can potentially be most serious competitor to Bayern Munich in the race for the Bundesliga championship. I even already said that, before the season started, because for me the squad of RB Leipzig is simply stronger than the one of Borussia Dortmund. So for me Leipzig can be the number 2 team in germany not only this year but also in the following years after that. If they would not have had such a bad start into the season then they would be way closer to Bayern now in terms of points. Freiburg and Union are playing exceptional seasons so far but i doubt they can keep up that levle up until the end.

I am not sure what to think about Aptos to be honest. A few weeks back when Aptos was about to be listed on the big exchanges like Binance, Kucoin and others, i already had some stablecoins prepared to invest into aptos as soon as the trading on Kucoin starts. During my wait for the trading to start i did some reading though, which of course i should have down way before that but i just wanted to throw some money at Aptos because everyone was talking about it, and during my research my enthusiasm for Aptos dropped and in the end i did not invest into it at all. I just don't like the fact that they have collected 400M $ from the big companies and that those companies are now owning a majority of the tokens. As soon as the price is in their desired range, they will massively sell off.

I am also quite sure that this will be the last world cup of Cristiano Ronaldo. I mean he is already 37 years old already and i doubt that he will still play with 41 years of age when the next world cup is happening, even though i also don't want to completely rule that out because so far he shows zero signs that he wants to retire soon. He also is a very professional sportsman so even if he is 37 years old he still has the body of an average 32 year old pro football player i would guess so we will see.
Messi is 35 so i also think that there is still a slight chance that he will also play in the next world cup but of course until then anything can happen. One big injury and the career is over.