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861  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: El Salvador has become the first country to make #Bitcoin legal tender! 🇸🇻 on: April 15, 2023, 11:53:45 PM
El Salvador are already in that pinnacle of development in the world for BTC because, anywhere you go in the world it has been recorded that El Salvador is the first country to legalized BTC to improve their economy and they have published BTC books for people to read and steady more about BTC so that they will have knowledge of BTC. Many countries are now looking for help from El Salvador president to show them how to legaliz BTC for their people to believe that BTC is not a scam currency because, the people of El Salvador believed in BTC in their country because they know everything about BTC is favourable when you follow due process.

Being the first doesn't mean being on the top all the time. Do you remember the name of the first social network? Of the first mobile phone producer? Of the first online store? Hardly. So to stay on the top there is a lot of work to do. And luckily El Salvador's government understands that. They are not stopping with being satisfied with being the first, they work hard to achieve more and get as much of the situation as only possible. History remembers the winners and not the first, and the first stay in memory only if the first is the winner.
Agreed on the fact. Being the first doesn't get importance, the goodness and the success will be remembered forever. Even with bitcoin it gets related, because earlier to the existence of bitcoin there were more attempts from different persons to create cryptocurrency, finally Satoshi innovated bitcoin and it is the real success. The country amidst all the opposition trying to promote as well as create opportunities which is the best way to make people involve into it.

The government had prioritised bitcoin education which is the best thing that need to be done to make the public make use of bitcoin in an effective manner. For school children text books were launched, diploma programs were started. More such activities will surely make people use bitcoin with ease than the credit card and debit cards.
862  Economy / Economics / Re: Why do people stay poor? on: April 15, 2023, 11:39:41 PM
The best way to come out of poverty is through education. Having education is possible, there are countries where the education is really hard as the parents send their kids to plantations as they weren't able to feed them with their earnings. In such situations we don't have any other go. There are several sayings that people should have the rich mindset, work hard and so many things. Whatever might be, if the time/luck isn't favour of us we aren't gonna be rich forever. I've seen this happen to many people, they hard work but they don't know how to make money. If the same person is educated, surely he would be rich by now.
863  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: FIFA World Cup 2026 :Canada/Mexico/United States: Discussion Thread on: April 15, 2023, 11:33:10 PM
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Regarding the preparation of these 3 Beautiful countries, I think they should do something that will leave us all stunned, because the World Cup in Qatar was very good.


The world cup in America, Canada, and Mexico will be amazing because I think these three countries have enough sports facilities and stadiums to host the world cup and they won't need to spend much money for the contraction of stadiums while these three countries are tourist-friendly, especially Canada and America that's why any visitor who goes to this country will enjoy much more than the time they had in Qatar.
What's been said is right, these countries have got good infrastructure for sports and there is no need of big spending on renovation. It is to be noted that Canada, America isn't less expensive as Qatar. This means certain level of people will be able to enjoy. Next thing is the travel expenses and ticket cost. With Qatar these are really low and many common people got opportunity to enjoy football. Qatar is very small compared to these countries, so planning for the vacation along with football will be good choice.
864  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Can this be effective against the increasing numbers of gamblers? on: April 15, 2023, 11:25:47 PM
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Personally, I don't think it will have the effect of reducing the number of gambling addicts or people who play gambling for fun, because the money that was spent on gambling advertising in the Premier League will be spent in another area and I can assume that it will most likely be spent on Internet advertising. We all know how many celebrities advertise gambling. I think there will be more of them soon.
Probably this is their first big step to reduce the exposure of gambling on their sports, this can still help but not big enough to prevent younger people to get information about the gambling site being advertised. There's still a big factor that celebrities are endorsing a crypto gambling site, their influence are really a big help to a casino site but again, its not that good especially if their supporter is still a minor.
This is why most of the celebrities are being sued because of their advertisements, in my country there’s a lot of issues with celebrities endorsing a fake site, those who get victim from this are now suing that endorser and this can also happen to crypto gambling. Removing the advertisements on their uniform is still a big help, we can expect more updates from that regulations as they continue to fight the increasing number of gamblers, maybe they will fully ban this type of advertisement in the future.
Just for money the celebrities getting involved into unprofessional activities will come to an end. However this is going to be effective and it won't give immediate result. The first step is taken by the premier league and maybe other tournaments and sports too can follow it. At the same time it is also necessary to educate people about gambling and how it can be done being on the safer side. Earlier Moeen Ali based on his religious belief had an agreement with the team that he won't have any liquor company ads on his t-shirt. It could've given him the inner satisfaction and peace. Maybe more players will feel the goodness.
865  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion on: April 15, 2023, 11:18:43 PM
Pakistan vs New Zealand
 Pakistan won by 38 runs in its 2nd T20 match. Pakistan set a target of 192 runs in 20 overs. Pakistan batsman Babar Azam scored the highest runs in the match. He scored 101 runs in 58 balls. Mohammad Rizwan was dismissed with 50 runs in 34 balls. These two batsmen of Pakistan team were outstanding.  Batting. Yudhvir Singh Charak of Pakistan team bowled 3 overs and took 2 wickets with 19 runs. I can say that Pakistan won the match because of his amazing performance from bowling to batting.

I guess this New Zealand team is not capable of beating the Pakistan team in their home ground. We see that again their batting line up failed while chasing a big score and they lost the match by 38 runs which is again considered as a big margin in T20 cricket.

If we analyze their batting only Mark Chapman scored 65 runs in 40 balls and gave New Zealand a bit of hope in the middle overs but no one other batsman supported them or stay on the wicket for a long duration. They lost their first wicket of Tom Latham at 44 runs and after that, the wickets kept on falling at regular intervals.
There is home ground advantage for Pakistan, it is to be noted that New Zealand won against Pakistan in the ODI series 2-1 touring Pakistan. New Zealand team is able to perform, but something isn't working for them. In particular players need to stand wicket according to the situation and further focus into scoring. Consecutive fall of wickets will ease the bowling and pressure the upcoming batsmen to score as well as stand wicket. Anyhow it is predicted to level the series by now, atleast in the third T20 New Zealand needs to make a win or else this series is going to be whitewash for New Zealand.
866  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Are lotteries really a good way to engage with gamblers? on: April 14, 2023, 11:59:04 PM
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That's bad for a business to focus on one particular game while your competitor have a lot of variety. So instead of focusing on one particular game much better to have more option to choose so that it can look appealing to their existing players and decide to stay and look for another game to play.

Lotteries are losing fame now maybe due to some results especially if its conducted by online platform but if the rewards is appealing then maybe many would try their luck.
The gambling industry is big and to be successful it needs more things into consideration. Rather than focusing on lottery it is good to have focus on dice and further add more games to the platform. People look for instant results which isn't possible with lotteries. Another thing, almost every gambling platform have got lucky draws conducted at specific time interval.

Lotteries have ruined the life of lot many people. People have lost the trust on it, because we don't know what is happening behind. Technology things have got advanced, still manipulation is possible. Even now there are people who keep buying lottery tickets regularly. I've got a friend who used to travel 20km every weekend to buy lottery. Now this had become his routine.
867  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Indian Premier League #IPL on: April 14, 2023, 11:49:57 PM
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Most of the indian fans were not happy about H.Brook performance because his performance for England and in PSL were totally different compared to IPL, but tonight through his power hitting he smashed his opponent and scored a century.
With 3 disappointing innings Harry Brook needed an innings like this to solidify his position in the team and that innings helped the team achieve a good total to defend against an in form KKR who has some power hitters down the order.
In two matches he scored 13 runs and against Lucknow Super Giants he scored 3 runs. Finally good performance have come from Brook. In the first two matches, he played at the middle order. For the last two matches he had been moved to the opening. Maybe this too could've helped him go for the big runs.

While on the other hand R.Singh and other batter try hard to achieve the required target but unfortunately they failed and lose an important match
Was not expecting another magical performance by KKR but if the top order played well who knows they would have chased down the score as Nitish Rana and Rinku Singh played an incredible knock.
Everytime magic won't happen. In the previous match it was completely unexpected. This time the performance from Rinku Singh is really good and he did the best at the critical situation and took the match closer. As said, maybe the better runs at the start could've helped them win the match.
868  Economy / Economics / Re: Is some certain lifestyle a waste of money and time ? on: April 14, 2023, 11:41:16 PM
I believe smoking is far worse because those who quit smoking can already see the effects, and it is also dangerous to others because they can inhale it, though both are dangerous, which is why we should try to quit if we can. Also, both are expensive, and they are extra expenses in our budget. If we stop doing these things, we could have extra money for sure, but the problem right now is that it is difficult to stop.
Yes it is better to quit all kinds of addictions because they waste our money. And it doesn't do our body any good but causes damage like cancer and liver rot, all of which can kill a person. And it is true that we have to keep a separate budget for these bad habits which often hinder us from doing the necessary work or saving. Although the price of cigarettes is low, an addicted smoker consumes 10-25 cigarettes a day, which is quite costly something like alcohol.
There are some people who go into such a state of smoking cigarettes that they smoke cigarettes a day without counting. A smoker is so engrossed in smoking that he doesn't even know how many cigarettes he should smoke in a day. But what can I say about others?  I was addicted. I was so addicted that I didn't know why I was smoking cigarettes. I used to smoke when I was in trouble and when I was busy. I used to smoke when I wasn't doing anything.  I used to. But now I quit smoking altogether.
People who smoke always say that smoking reduces tension.  But I think it is a bogus logic.  Because when a person who is addicted to smoking does not smoke for a long time, the addiction of tobacco makes him restless and when he smokes, that addiction is removed and he feels a little better.  So they probably give this logic.  To tell the truth, I smoke only when hanging out with friends, so the addiction has never really hit me. And as these can weaken my financial condition, I always try to avoid bad habits to reduce wastage of money.
Avoiding habits like smoking to avoid the wastage of money is really appreciable. When we smoke we should think of the future as well, because when we smoke wr just calculate what we are spending on the cigarettes. The truth, we should have the calculations for our future medical bills. Even the person who doesn't smoke suffer different disease, but we should not pave path for some medical issues to be caused. In my view avoiding smoking could save big money in one's lifespan.
869  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Federal government and banks are threats... on: April 14, 2023, 11:37:08 PM
Nothing we can do about it, unfriendly countries towards bitcoin usually do that. Banks and its government always do partners and shares the same ideology towards crypto, good thing it's not in my place.
What people should do about it is doing p2p like others have said, and avoid transacting for large amount of money in one go since it will eventually be detected by the banks, if it can be traded/transferred for multiple times, much better.
Going for multiple transactions against the single transaction is good. I had the similar experience years back and I'm not aware of the bank policies. For some reason I was to withdraw a huge amount and soon after the withdrawal being processed I was called by the manager and questioned of how the money came to your account and what's the need of big withdrawal and you haven't made such withdrawal earlier. I feared and further said it came from my friend and I'm withdrawing for some medical purpose. So, we should be careful as the banks always keep eye over us how to steal the money from the people.
870  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: we don't have proper education on bitcoin. on: April 14, 2023, 11:31:31 PM
Nothing is bad when we all rise up to take it our own personal responsibility in teaching others about bitcoin at all cost, this may involves our financial commitment as well as time also, but when we like doing what we want, we make others feels happy by teaching them and seing them doing well in life by the impact from bitcoin adoption, when they invested and have this joy, they will never regret going through the educational process as well, many loose because they lack knowledge on bitcoin in full.
Agreed, we need to take responsibility and keep sharing about the goodness about bitcoin. This is how we can spread the goodness of bitcoin. Maybe it is hard to make people believe in it as well as understand. Once they've given a try and experienced the goodness, automatically the same person will share his experience. This is how the spread about bitcoin have happened from its day of existence. Something good will always be shared and there is no need of advertising. Spread through word of mouth is a trusted advertising than a Hero/heroine doing it for money.
871  Economy / Speculation / Re: Bitcoin 2023, Bullish or Bearish? on: April 13, 2023, 06:56:09 PM
The beginning of 2023 was not very good news for the market. However, the market has changed a lot in the past few days, especially the price of Bitcoin, where it fell more, has now leveled off. If you look at the market, it can be seen that there has been a major change in the market in March and April 2023. A bear market that has turned into a bit of a bull market is truly a joy for Bitcoin investors. But I think Bitcoin price will peak by the end of 2023. 2021 Bitcoin price is expected to increase at a higher rate than it did.

What do you mean? January we have 40%+ increased already, February and March is also good month for us. It's not that we just have a sudden uptick in the price of bitcoin or the whole crypto. We have been trading sideways this April and we thought that the bullish sentiment is gone or the bulls have been exhausted. But this week, the price goes above $30k so continuing the bullishness of the market.

We might see the price going higher this year, maybe around $50k or higher. But I don't see a new all time high yet.

But in any case, everyone should be happy at the rate of the price going up this year.
The market is quite bullish through the year. Compared to the price on January today we've reached big growth. During the start of January price of bitcoin was around $17k and today it have crossed $30500. This means the price is bullish and market is in good position. I don't see the price to reach $50k sooner this year. Even if the price reach $50k or higher, we can expect the price to drop gradually towards the price point from which the growth bagan.

I'm stating this based on the halving scheduled for the coming year. When the price is at higher price, surely the price to reach new heights gonna be difficult and chances were low. For this reason, beyond certain point the bullish move would turn bearish.
872  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion on: April 13, 2023, 06:47:34 PM
Punjab are over-dependent on Dhawan who cannot rescue them every single time. Looks like DC, RCB or Punjab won't win the cup this season either.

However, Gujarat won three of the 4 matches. However, the team is placed third in the table due to their low NRR. If they could have won today's match in 15/16 overs then maybe they could have grabbed the second or top spot.
They probably aren't really worrying about the NRR at the moment since they are close to the top of the table and only lost one match so far thanks to Rinku freaking Singh. Instead, they should worry about Pandya's form which is pretty bad.
In each and every match Shikhar Dhawan can't lead the team. Even in today's match I thought he's the one to score. Fortunately he lost his wicket earlier going for the wrong shot. Joseph took the catch of Dhawan in a perfect way, but it was a little difficult catch. RCB is unlucky, if not they could've won the match against Lucknow Super Giants in the last ball. The match which is a confirmed win for RCB got turned with the performance of Pooran. More matches to come and we can't be sure of the outcome as there are teams that have won matches after losing the beginning matches to enter the playoff.
873  Economy / Economics / Re: Age as a factor depreciating some people of their dreams on: April 13, 2023, 06:36:06 PM
Most of the time people have made themselves within specific circle. I'm stating the mindset of a common man from a third world country. Very few follow their passion whereas the majority live for the society. There is a timeline, within 25 years of age studies need to be completed. Within the next five years marriage and within 32 a baby and further run for the betterment of the family. Very few break this and follow their passion. This is where most of the people were unable to reach their dreams. Once again after their retirement they start a new life. Maybe by that time following the mentioned person's everyone can follow their dreams.
874  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: IF ONLY EVERYONE CAN EASILY ACCEPT CRYPTO on: April 13, 2023, 06:25:46 PM
Transition needs time. Everything won't happen overnight. The acceptance of bitcoin and the awareness on the same can be seen high in comparison to few years back. Traditional banking have got more flaws, ans bitcoin is innovated to fulfill what is lacking with the traditional banking system. What is being mentioned by OP were common issues that everyone into banking experience. Bitcoin can be considered as a solution, but to create awareness among the common people it takes time. Because bitcoin is much known among the urban population and to make effective usage from the rural population is the real growth. I reside in a rural region, and it takes atleast 5+ years for people to talk about bitcoin.
875  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion on: April 13, 2023, 06:05:45 PM
Gujarat Titans team has brought the match in their favor 64 runs from 50 balls I don't think it is too many runs. Because Gujarat Titans have lost 2 wickets so far. They still have 8 wickets left. Victory depends on the performance of Gujarat Titans team batsmen.  I think Gujarat Titans will win the match very easily.
From the start everything is in favour of Gujarat Titans as the players were very responsible in their roles. Today it was Shubman Gill who played perfectly and took the team towards win. Maybe if he had lost his wicket earlier, surely Gujarat Titans would've lost the match. In the final over Sam Curran bowled really well, but Tewatia played in a cool manner targeting short fine leg which isn't concentrated by the Sam Curran while bowling. Anyhow the match came close during the last over when Shubman Gill got bowled out and missed a run out.
876  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion on: April 11, 2023, 05:56:39 PM
These days, watching David Warner bat to be boring rather than entertaining. In today's match against MI, Captain Warner once again produced a rusty knock, scoring 51 runs off 47 balls.

Not a fair total, as DC getting bowled out for 172 in 19.4 overs. However, thanks to Axar Patel's blistering knock, that helps to post a respectable total. Let's see if DC's bowlers will be able to successfully defend the total or not.

Cant believe its warner who has scored a fifty on 46 balls and no six in his entire innings. Thanks to Axar Patel blistering 50 runs towards the end of innings. In reply MI are very nicely placed as Mumbai need 56 runs in 42 balls with lots of batting to come. Rohit Sharma is leading from the front and so far he has scored 58 runs on 35 balls that include 4 sixes. The match is very much in favor of MI and they will taste there first victory tonight.
Finally Mumbai innings have tasted their first win of the season against Delhi Capitals. Breathtaking match, 5 runs required in the last over and Nortje bowled well. In the previous over Mustafizur Rahman could've bowled well. There were more drops and fielding mistakes which made Delhi Capitals loss the match. In the last ball two runs required and Delhi Capitals could've drawn the match, moved to super over. Anyhow from the confident winning position Delhi took control of the match at the last over and missed the opportunity. Last three IPL match results have come at the last ball of the match.
877  Economy / Economics / Re: Quit borrowing on: April 11, 2023, 12:00:03 AM
Taking a loan is indeed one thing that must be avoided. but for some people who really have urgent needs and there is no other way, borrowing is like a solution at that time. but yeah another problem will come later. what we have to do is we have to be able to measure our personal finances.

When they are in a state of financial urgency and they don't have savings or assets that they can rely on to meet their needs, of course, the short cut is that they will try to find a loan, maybe borrowing is something that is really not a good thing to do, but at this very important moment will have to be done, especially constraints in need or urgent needs, and they are fully required to have to calculate their loan with income, so that later they will not be constrained in terms of payment.
There are people who borrow money to meet unwanted needs. Mostly to show themselves high in the society. Such things needs to be avoided. On an emergency for life going for a loan or borrowing have got its value. We need to make perfect calculations and work on it to settle it at the earliest possible. With some people they easily borrow, but to return it back it is very difficult and this used to create problem between the giver and the taker. Always the best choice is to live with what we earn.
878  Economy / Speculation / Re: Bitcoin can do 30k$ this month? on: April 10, 2023, 11:04:03 PM
We are still at the middle of the months of april and btc is already 28k$ so it is possible or it has a big possibility that it will go 30k$ price because we are almost there 28k$ is not too far from 30k and we start the year with a good market so maybe we are not far from bull run season.

Right now it's already reaching $29600 almost hit $30 and still moving forward, if support will hold then we might reached
$30K maybe within the day or two.

Lucky to those who are doing some leverage there's a good amount of profits for traders who did trust Bitcoin to be more bullish this week.

Still, lots of things that can happened, traders and investors still need to be more careful always do your DYOR.


The price has crossed $29600 and the market is bullish. This makes people believe in the growth of bitcoin to go further and test $30k. Based on experts choice it is quite hard to breach and stabilize above $30k. It is predicted that the market will test and fallback if there is no good support and move around $28k. If some positive news rolls around this could test $30k and could reach the next barrier of $35k at the earliest. Along with bitcoin most of the altcoins have got similar market movement.
879  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: are you a long time hodler? on: April 10, 2023, 10:35:44 PM
Majority of the cryptocurrency users prefer to be long term hodlers, but the same isn't achieved in reality. Most of the time people cash out bitcoin to meet-up unexpected needs of the family. What for an user holds is mostly to enjoy the growth out of the investment. Some just keep it safe and take it only when the target price is reached. Common kind of gamblers keep on getting into different forms of trading to increase the portfolio. This is the best way and my long time holding in these days doesn't last more than two or three months.
880  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Indian Premier League #IPL on: April 10, 2023, 05:32:55 PM
It was a very boring match. Punjab's batsmen looked completely aimless in this match. No other batsman can play better than Shikhar Dhawan. After winning the first two matches, this performance was not expected from Punjab's batsmen. The performance of the batsmen as well as the bowlers was poor. However, it was not possible to win on this pitch with such a low target. Still, if Punjab's bowlers put in a good performance, we might have had a chance to enjoy a competitive match. We have seen a completely one-sided match. It was just a waste of time.

Look like the teams which have lost the initial matches are now coming back to business. I wonder if Mumbai Indians and Delhi teams can also get their first wins in their next matches.

Today's match will be played between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Lucknow Super Giants. I was looking at the odds at stake.com and found that RCB is slightly favorite with 1.84 odds while LSG has 1.90 odds. I think the odds suggest that both teams are of equal strength and you may bet on your favorite team. Both the teams have lost one match each.
Both teams are equally strong. However I see Bengaluru Royal Challengers as unlucky team. Even after setting good target of 212 runs, Lucknow Super Giants have taken control of the match. Possibly Lucknow Super Giants will complete the match before 19th over. Nicholas Pooran have took the match to winning momentum scorin 62* runs in 18 balls. Just 28 runs necessary from 24 balls left and this will be easily reached.
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