Chris Webber needed a win after being fired from his job as a commentator.

I’m glad at least the Warriors game is televised today. This will probably be the most exciting day of basketball so far this year. A nice intro to the playoffs. Enjoy today’s games!

I’m hesitant to use any service that asks for KYC rules to be met. Mostly because privacy is something that can be taken less serious by some people and security loopholes are often found by those trying to exploit a lot of information held insecurely in one spot. Many crypto operations don’t make their owners known easily, so it’s hard to rely on their security practices for your sensitive information.

I can’t believe that none of the western conference games that matter tomorrow are being nationally broadcast (unless my app is wrong or something changes). How is this possible? Both the Lakers and Portland games should be heavily watched events. I hope they were just late to be added to TNT or ESPN’s schedules or something…

It would be really great if the bull run went high enough to where even starting a business of your own would be unnecessary.  I think the ultimate dream is to be able to invest in the businesses for your friends and family in order to get them out of the rat race or to have enough money to spend all your time giving it away like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett.  Starting your own business is no small feat either though.  Especially if you're able to do it with something you love.

A triple tie to go along with a play-in tournament would be an interesting end to the regular season.  I have no idea which teams have the best record against who and how a triple tie would work out.  Hopefully one team has a better record against both others or else we might see a play-in for the play-in tournament?  It would make for some great comedy on sports shows and also I'm sure a golden quote from LeBron on his thoughts about all this since he seemed to be such a fan of the play-in already.

People were too bullish so the market needed to wipe out some leveraged longs. This needs to happen as markets rise. It has the added bonus of showing irrational investors that they can’t just 75x leverage long an asset and get rich. Everyone would have Diamond hands if it was easy. Sometimes not taking shortcuts and stacking sats while ignoring the noise is the way to go…

As others have said, so long as it isn’t a malicious link or forwarding you to somewhere that would be against forum rules to post here then I doubt anyone would have a problem with it, outside of maybe whoever complained. Honestly, someone out there will hate anything you do no matter what. Just use your best judgement, try to be a good person, and don’t give a fuck what other people think. You’ll be happier.

I’ve been tossing some signature earnings into shitcoins lately like some others have mentioned. This current market is just so insane it’s hard not to dive in with the rest of the crazies. It’s nice to have a little play money every week to toss at these meme tokens. When you ride the wave right between shitcoins it can be shockingly profitable. I wouldn’t feel comfortable using my actual savings for this nonsense though. It’s more about fun than anything else. I guess this is probably how Elon Musk views Bitcoin.

The end of this game was crazy. The Pelicans had the win in their hands and then gave up 6 straight points in the last 30 seconds to lose against the Warriors bench. I wonder if the coach has to tell them to lose on purpose or if they all just know they have to blow the end of the game. 

Pelicans went into full tank mode as soon as they sidelined Zion for a broken finger.  I'm sure if they win another game this season the coach will be fired.  LOL 

Last I looked at the standings they were one game ahead of the team below them and they seemed dead set on trading spots with them.

This is true.  In the end Bitcoin is guided by math, not feelings.  As long as you take a macro trading view, this nonsense doesn't matter at all.  I am disappointed in Elon though.  He's pretty much making a mockery of crypto by pushing dogecoin and now acting like PoS is the way to go.  It's like watching a newbie discover Bitcoin, only he's got billions of dollars and millions of followers to play with. 

Thanks. I haven’t put in much time yet, but you can believe that engraving 100 coins along with whatever orders come in will have me sweating over an engraver for many hours in order to give so many coins away. Shipping them all will probably put a nice dent in my pockets as well, but I love NastyFans and am happy to do it for you all. With a bit of luck everything will go smoothly and maybe I can do more giveaways for members in the future.

^ See what I mean. This place breeds negativity now. You can’t even have a genuine opinion about wanting an impartial moderator without being attacked by miserable depressed users. It’s a top down problem and needs to be addressed by something other than empowering a merit circle to give these people power over who gets into the default trust network or adding more ways like flags to negatively attack other users. Just once I’d like to see a positive change here not focused on breeding more drama for clicks.

Good luck in the giveaway!

For those who might be unaware, we also have a twitter bot account that tweets when seats are purchased.  I think the recent BTC run has made it so we need to add another decimal to the price in order for it to be right, but the tweets with seat sales are there.  @NastyFansSeats on twitter if anyone was interested: https://twitter.com/nastyfansseats?lang=en

This is definitely a concern.  It seems like large companies wanted to benefit from the obviously inflating Bitcoin bubble, but they don't want to stick around to see it through.  They don't actually care about Bitcoin.  They just wanted some easy money and now they're ready to run before things start to get messy.  I think they see what most experienced Bitcoiners believe, we're going to see a massive bubble and then a massive correction.  They don't want to be accepting Bitcoin during that massive bubble, they want to cash out.  You can probably expect Elon to make up some nonsense or release some BS alternative energy mining product and then claim all is fine and Tesla will accept BTC again, as soon as the crash happens so he can score cheap BTC again...

If Elon cared about the environment and not money, Tesla would be a non-profit and they'd be giving away a few billion dollars worth of cars per year to get combustion engines off the road.  Instead, he's the richest man in the world.  Look at the facts and actions, not the rhetoric. 

Don't worry.  Almost all traders fail.  That's why people say to hodl.  Everyone has this dream of becoming rich when trading.  That is why when crypto bubbles every 4 years you see the most activity going into shitcoins.  It's because people all think they're the trader that's going to make a million bucks in a month, then they all lose everything when they realize there's no liquidity in their shitcoin to get out. 

If you really want to learn to trade, first of all now isn't the time to be learning with crypto because markets are acting irrationally, but also you should learn the basics and set yourself up for reasonable expectations.  If you are trying to earn more than 10% per year trading, you don't have reasonable expectations and are going to just toss money at shit hoping some other fool pays more for your shit later. 

Start at the beginning.  Use a site like caps.fool.com and get your expectations right, learn to value things, then you can start the multiyear process of building a portfolio that will be able to provide for you someday.  That, or buy the biggest piece of shit you can find and then look for the biggest fools on the internet, as that seems to be the trend in crypto today, and you never fight the trend .

This may be a bit off topic but I agree. This place seemed to go through some sort of transition around 2016 where I don’t know if guidance changed or just the community was inundated with spammers and get rich types, but I think a majority of the users still here after 8+ years are more here for nostalgia than anything else. The fact that some users are allowed to harass and spread lies here and that’s fine, but if you have a political opinion differing from a moderator or you are suspected of posting to inflate your post count you’re silenced seems a bit backwards. There was a point when this forum was moderated by rules like “no trolling” but those days are long behind us. While Bitcoin went from the Wild West to a regulated mess, the forum went from a well moderated place to build projects in a supportive environment to the Wild West and the user experience has suffered greatly.

With the Blazers loss tonight, the Lakers are now able to potentially skip the play-in tournament. Their next two games are against teams they should be able to beat, and the Blazers are playing Denver next. Granted Denver might take the night off to rest for the playoffs, but the stage is set for the Blazers to lose their next game while the Lakers win their last 2. That would put them in the 6th spot and keep them out of the play-in.

Looks like we were both wrong. The Suns snuck away with one tonight. Making the Lakers feel like they might have a chance to escape the play-in now. I’m feeling better about my home team now that they’ve shown they can beat a quality team that’s trying hard to beat them. Hopefully they keep this momentum alive heading into the post season.

I feel like this sort of thing is becoming more common over the years in professional sports. Before 20 years ago this sort of thing would have been unheard of. Shoeless Joe Jackson is still known 100 years later for pulling this sort of stunt. I’m not sure if there’s any way to stop this from happening. Even if they paid the players more the criminals would just target the officials. It’s a serious problem that undermines sports as well as gamblers.