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881  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: If bitcoin according to Satoshi is digital money then why call it investment. on: July 12, 2023, 02:26:02 AM
The world has freedom of speech and you can call Bitcoin as anything you want in your vision.

You can call it as it is, Bitcoin but you can call it as a shitcoin, a virtual currency, digital currency or even a scam currency.
If you buy it and hold it as an asset, you will call it as a store of value, for your investment.
If you use it at a gambling site, you will call it as a gambling currency.
You use bitcoin in your own ways and other people use their bitcoins in their ways which can be different than yours.

It can be called as The Internet of money
or as a Bitcoin standard.

Whatever you call it, others call it, Bitcoin is Bitcoin.
882  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1) on: July 12, 2023, 02:20:21 AM
I don't think Zidane will coach a club again in the coming season because he wants to coach the French national team or maybe he wants to coach a national team from another country because we have seen many offers coming to him to coach clubs starting from PSG or other teams but all offers  Zidane refused. Well, it's likely that he will maintain his reputation quite well, maybe even he will return to Real Madrid again if ancelotti leaves later.
He won three Champions League with Real Madrid, La Liga with them too and if we consider Champions League is a highest achievement for a club coach, he got it already and made it three times, not only one time. If Zidane does not aim at winning titles at other domestic leagues beyond La Liga, he will not have reason to become a club coach again.

He can change his mind but recent years, he is very solid with his willingness to become a coach of France national team.

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For Luis Enrique, he really has a lot of experience in coaching clubs, so his appointment as PSG coach was a pretty good decision made by PSG management. Therefore, the arrival of Luis Enrique is expected to make PSG stronger in the next season, especially in the UCL because PSG's big dream is the UCL trophy and if Luis Enrique succeeds in helping PSG win the Champions League. Then Enrique will be included in the history of the psg ledger.
Luis Enrique won Champions League with Barcelona but he got it only one time, less than Zidane. He only had more seasons and worked with more clubs than Zidane but about achievements, he got less than Zidane. Luis Enrique already got experience with Spain national team which is what he did more than Zidane so far in their coach careers.

Taking a job at PSG is a big challenge for Enrique and I am curiously to see how he does his job with PSG.
883  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ⚽ UEFA Euro 2024 in Germany ⚽ - Qualifiers on: July 11, 2023, 10:30:08 AM
Argentina will survive without Messi. They have good depth in player pool. But I can't say whether they will be able to defend the trophy in 2026 without Messi
Argentina will continue to exist without Messi just like they continued their national team existence without Maradona many years after his retirement. Many players were considered as new Maradona but only Messi came closely to Maradona or we can say he is already bigger than Maradona?

Next few years, after Messi announce his retirement, we will see more young players considered as new Messi, Messi Jr. This will put more pressure on those youth players and not only few of them can grow up their career well. Maybe only one player will surpass Messi but will it happen soon or we will have to wait like 50 or 100 more years to see such player?

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They have a very well balanced team with youngsters like Julián Álvarez, Nicolás González, Alexis Mac Allister and Enzo Fernández providing enough support to veteran players like Ángel Di María, Rodrigo De Paul and Messi. France also have a similar setup, but then the ci-ordination between different payers is not that great. Argentina on the other hand has excellent team cohesion.
Only Julian and Enzo are young enough to have good fitness in World Cup 2026. Allister is not old but three more years can change many things for a football player and he is not too young like Julian and Enzo.

Argentina always have many football talents but they might have some years with crisis like Brazil now. A good team have to play well without star and super star players because firstly they might not have such players and they can suddenly miss those players by injuries.
884  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: How to know an account has been blacklisted or put on ignored. on: July 11, 2023, 10:13:18 AM
I would like to believe I have made a consistent and persistent contribution to have gotten to the full member position, but I want to know why it is difficult to gain merits as it is looks like am stuck or on ignored or blacklisted.
It depends on your post quality, does it drop after you rank up to Full member?
It depends on how you gained merit before? From merit source give away threads or you rank up organically?
Sometimes, when one topic goes viral, you will get many merit. Did you have such viral topic in the past?

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Can someone please help me know how I determine if my account is on ignored list, or blacklist?
You can not know if another forum member ignored you or blacklisted you. You only can know if another member blocked you and ignored your personal messages. You know it when you send PMs to that member, you will a notification in your inbox.
885  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ⚽ UEFA Euro 2024 in Germany ⚽ - Qualifiers on: July 11, 2023, 06:27:25 AM
There is no doubt that France is the strongest team in UEFA at this point. And only England can give them some sort of a competition. But there is no guarantee that France will be able to maintain their dominance in the long term. We all saw what happened during the 2022 FIFA World Cup finals.
France have a very strong team but it does not guarantee titles for them. They won World Cup 2018, failed in Euro 2020 and played well in World Cup 2022. They have a very golden generation that can help them to win more titles in Euro and World Cup.

England are a bit far behind France and they need to win one title to be recognized. A runner up in Euro 2020 is not enough. They can hope that a treble winning of Manchester City including Champions League will help their national team gain big success. We see Spain, Germany got a lot of positive impacts from their club success.

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Argentina completely dominated the match for the first 80 minutes, as there was hardly any co-ordination between French players. Having good players alone will not work, if the players doesn't bond together as a team.
Argentina will have to face with uncertain future without Messi. He does not want to play for Argentina in another World Cup and even he wants, Argentina have to prepare for a future non-Messi future.
886  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Lost bitcoins on: July 10, 2023, 03:59:40 AM
Yes it would cause the price of Bitcoin to go down. Imagine if satoshi starts to unload his coins. Obviously people would panic and sell since he owns tons of coins.

Back on those days a coinbase block reward was 50Btc that alone is over a million dollars. Back then you didn’t need much power to mine a block that like. So if some old miner recovers his wallet and starts to dump 1000 BTC then obviously Bitcoin will drop.  
Panic in the crowd is biggest effect. People who get access to old bitcoins that are considered as lost bitcoins will not be stupid to dump all their bitcoins in one sell order on the market. They will do it in OTC market, not at centralized market and will not do that in a single day.

With whale alerts from on-chain trackers and quick speed of new circulation on social media, the crowd will feel very panic when they see massive amount of old bitcoins on the move from old address to new addresses or read speculation and fud that those old bitcoins will be dumped on market soon.

If I own very old bitcoins and recovered my access to those bitcoins recently, I will do my research on how to sell those coins with less effects on market price as possible. It will help me to maximize my profit so I will spend time to think about selling strategy.
887  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Premier League Prediction Thread 2023/2024 on: July 10, 2023, 03:46:17 AM
Liverpool had a weakness in Harvey Elliott's position. Because he is still a very young and inadequate player for the starting eleven in my opinion. But now they have dealt with the situation really well so far. After Mac Allister transfer to the attacking midfield Szoboszlai was also brought to the position. Now they will have a much more reliable midfield than before.
Liverpool did help to grow up Harvey career but as a big club, they must have better midfielders. A new season will be challenging for Harvey Elliot and if he can not grow up quickly to compete with other midfielders, he will have less appearances for Liverpool. This can cause a conflict of interest between the player and Liverpool and he might request a loan or a transfer to another club. As a young player, he needs to have chance to play as many as possible. He can not sharpen his skills if most of his time is on bench.

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They are definitely a defensive midfielder as well right now. Because except Fabinho there is Bajcetic who is 18 years old and doesn't have much experience. This must be why they want to strengthen this area more as well. After that I think they wouldn't go for more midfielders.
Mc Allister is a combination of Fabinho and Alcatara as he can play very well in both defensive and attacking tasks. He is very energetic, runs a lot in each match and strong with physical fight. He is always ready to exploit weakness in defense of opponents when he see spaces to do this.

So if Onana is brought in I think Erik ten Hag work will not stop there in this transfer window. I think the management of Manchester United will continue to try to bring in other players in this transfer window because they need a striker to start next season.
Manchester United squad has many weakness and Ten Hag will try to fix those weakness as most as possible in this summer transfer and pre season training.

He worked with Onana a few seasons in Ajax Amsterdam and understood the goalkeeper well enough. Onana also played well after leaving Ajax Amsterdam to join Inter Milan but he will face with a bigger challenge in Manchester United and Premier League.
888  Other / Meta / Re: does the Bitcointalk telegram bots stop functioning? on: July 10, 2023, 02:28:02 AM
The page Who is online has very little online users today.

https://bitcointalk.org/SSI.php?ssi_function=whosOnline

I checked the forum stats page https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=stats and use usernames of most time online users to check, none of them appears at Who is online page. They are like scrapers which blocked by Cloudflare and slow operation of forum recent hours.
889  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1) on: July 09, 2023, 04:43:17 PM
It will conclude upon the expiration of Mbappe's contract next season. Mbappe is only trying to delay it. PSG is very angry to him right now. He was talking about the club so much during his in public interview.
The player thinks he is god and can do everything he wants in PSG, he is wrong. No single player is bigger than a club and PSG eventually understand it.

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PSG has power to kick disrespectful guy like him to the club. It's a big shame for mbappee. PSG could elicit interest from other leagues if they decrease Mbappe's price tag, which is the only solution. I heard that if EPL clubs are also trying to get him. It's likely madrid gonna have strong competitor to get him.
Like him or not, they know they will lose him in a next summer if they won't offer him another more crazy offer than two summers ago. I believe PSG won't repeat a same mistake after all the drama Mbappe created after he signed a new contract with PSG.

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Mbappe looked like a kid. His controversial comments regarding the club have resulted in individuals questioning Mbappe's respect towards PSG.
This guy is always being so selfish by thinking he is even better compared to the club itself. Im also feeling so angry with his interview. It sounds mbappe wanna destroy PSG's reputation european football.
He is actually not a matured player and his career grows faster than many young players. We think he is matured enough but at his age, many young players still struggle to find a main position in their clubs. His mentality does not grow up quickly enough with his career and many times he reacted like a teenager player.
890  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Robert F Kennedy Jr a Bitcoin Holder on: July 09, 2023, 04:31:23 PM
In a recent news, financial records of Robert F Kennedy Jr shows that he is a bitcoin holder, and reported to have own between  $100k and $250k worth.

And that's why recently you will hear him to be a bitcoin supporter and attacking Biden and his cohorts for being anti-bitcoin or anti-crypto.
He supports Bitcoin because he is a Bitcoin holder but not only this, he has more reasons to support Bitcoin to maximize his political career. He knows many US citizens are Bitcoin investors, enthusiasts and they don't like what SEC and Gary have been doing recent months. They want some congress members or a president who support Bitcoin and make the nation more Bitcoin and cryptocurrency friendly.

By publicly announcing he strongly support Bitcoin, he hopes to get more supports, more votes for his Presidential propaganda and even hopes to become a next President of USA.
891  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Italian League Prediction Thread (Serie A) on: July 09, 2023, 04:26:21 PM
The price benchmark applied by Napoli for this striker which exceeds the market price seems to be one of the reluctances of big clubs to make offers to him, so choosing another alternative is done, maybe if Napoli lowers the price of this player then big clubs will start to aggressively provide offer.
Napoli knows that Osimhen is their best player and they don't want to lose him at cheap price. They also really know that they will not be able to keep Osimhen in their club too long. He will not expand his contract with them because with Napoli, they will not be able to win Scudetto too often and play well in Champions League like in the past season which is an abnormal season for them.

So Napoli know they will have to sell Osimhen and the task for them is selling the striker with as highest price as possible.

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Of course his presence will be needed by Napoli to defend the title because it was proven when he didn't play when he was injured, Napoli had difficulty scoring goals, maybe that's why Napoli set a high price so when there are clubs who are willing with the amount offered they have the ability to financially find a replacement which is no less good.
Even with Osimhen and Kravatskhelia in a new season, Napoli will very difficult to defend their title. Kim Min-Jae already left their club and again even with same players, the task to defend Scudetto is not easy.
892  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: The exit plan on: July 08, 2023, 03:51:56 AM
Seriously, a lot of people end up losing opportunities to make reasonable profit from the crypto investment because they never have selling targets,and all the roots of it are greediness. Human beings are hardly satisfied, especially with money. Many that even have a selling target at initial stage when it reaches when they should sell and take their profits to minimize their risk in the crypto industry always forget about the negative side of their investment because of their greed.
If they don't have plan to take profit or have it but break it when price hits their target price, they will wait with hope that price will reclaim that target price or break it.

Life is bitter like this, price will not reclaim that high one but will be corrected more, fall deeper and after a while of patiently waiting, they will become disappointed eventually. Their reaction will be selling with small profit or even with loss. People belief looks to be stronger when the market is bullish but within a same period, their greediness increases too. When the market is bearish, they become less uncertain, their belief will be broken and fear, disappointment will trigger their exit, no plan.
893  Other / Off-topic / Re: how to get mod jobs on any crypto platforms on: July 08, 2023, 03:43:51 AM
I know of some friends whose side hustles include moderating social media groups or channels. One is hired through somebody who's connected to a group who offers social media moderation. Another participated in a paid online training class. She paid tens of dollars. Right after the short course, she was immediately assigned a moderation task. She was able to refer a few friends for the same job. There are also others who went through platforms like Fiverr, Upwork, and the like.
Get jobs from friends' introductions is one of ways to have jobs in cryptocurrency. But nothing comes without reason, you must show your friends that you are capable to handle those tasks and when chances come, he will introduce you to company and if luckily enough, you will be hired by the company.

Different social medial groups and channels require different skills of moderation and a newbie can start with one or two familiar channels like Telegram or Discord. Handling social media accounts like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram will require more knowledge and more skills. It's not easy like with Telegram and Discord.

If you can use bots to help your moderation in Telegram and Discord, better chance to be hired.
894  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Premier League Prediction Thread 2023/2024 on: July 08, 2023, 03:36:14 AM
Chelsea also made a hasty decision in my opinion, especially about selling important players. Mason Mount was one of the most important players for Chelsea in recent seasons, Kai Havertz too, but they sold him to Manchester United and Arsenal instead. Admittedly I was pleased when Manchester United managed to sign Mason Mount, but it was a big loss for Pochettino who was hoping for more good depth to his squad.
Mason Mount lost his position in the last season and with Euro 2024 comes after the end of a new season, he does not want to spend time on bench at Chelsea and lose his position in England squad too. He was informed that he is no longer in plan of Chelsea and Pochettino and eventually a story of 18 years (he joined Chelsea Academy at his sixth) comes to the end.

Kai has a better situation than Mason Mount but he does not satisfy with his chance in Chelsea. In contrast, Chelsea thought they should get more better contribution from Kai. So they came to a separation in agreement for better future of the club and the player.

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I will not be completely sure Pochettino will succeed in building Chelsea as quickly as expected, that's because he and some players need adaptation. Next season it is clear that there will be many opportunities for players like Mykhailo Mudryk and several other new players, so of course they need time and adjustments to the strategy from their new coach.
It is a long time since he left Tottenham and Premier League and it is not easy to repeat success from one club to another. In addition, in Tottenham, Pochettino did not win any Premier League with Spurs but it is his main task in Chelsea. If no Premier League, no Champions League after two or three seasons, he will lose his job.
895  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1) on: July 07, 2023, 03:45:50 AM
Zinedine Zidane is a former French star and PSG is a France League team because of Zinedine Zidane's experience and strategy PSG offered Zidane to become their team manager but Zidane turned down the offer from PSG. PSG fans were somewhat angry with Zinedine Zidane for his behavior as he is not in charge of any team at the moment so why is he unwilling to take charge.
Zidane is a legendary player in France and contributed for them to win World Cup 1998 at home and Euro 2000. He went to another Word Cup final match with them in Germany 2006 but Zidane did a headbutt towards Materazzi and were sent off. France lost in that match in penalty shootouts against Italy.

He is still a famous guy in France and with his great success as Real Madrid coach, he aims at the France coach position. It is understandable as Zidane is very smart and ambitious. I don't understand if PSG fans show their angry against him but it maybe emotional reactions without logical thinking.

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Zinedine Zidane may return to Real Madrid, which is why he did not agree to this offer from PSG. After Zinedine Zidane refused to coach PSG, Luis Enrique was appointed as PSG manager. Luis Enrique has been in charge of Barcelona for a long time. So I think he has no less experience than Zinedine Zidane.
I doubt he will return to Real Madrid a fourth time, first time as a player, two other times as their coach and perhaps he does not want to become their coach a third time.
896  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: UEFA Champions League 2023/24 Season on: July 07, 2023, 03:38:09 AM
Unless Mbappe changes clubs and Neymar is not injured and the rest of the team is fit, PSG could have a chance to do well in the Champions League. Osimhen joins PSG alongside Luis Enrique as PSG manager. If there are no injury problems and the understanding between the players is good, then even with the current squad, PSG can do well in the Champions League.
Did I miss a news that Osimhem officially was bought by PSG?

With Osimhen, PSG will have a good striker with good contribution for pressing and defensive effort at their front line. It will help to free Mbappe from a central area and puts Mbappe at the swing with more space to use his speed. Neymar will provide creativeness and key passes from those two attacking players. In theory, they will be a better attacking system than with Messi.

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First of all Luis Enrique needs to create a good relationship between all PSC players. Every player in the PSG camp should have a friendly relationship. When every player has a good camaraderie off the field, the game on the field will be better.
They have many star players and need to free some of those star players to have more normal players who are ready to play as workers and contribute more for their defense system. Having many star players in attacking area only makes their defensive ability weaker and they will become more vulnerable to counter attacks. Enrique is not a type of coach like Mourinho or Simeone who can build loyalty in players. I am not sure he will succeed to unite PSG players for a club target.
897  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: P2P will safe your life on: July 07, 2023, 03:31:03 AM
nice: salary in BTC -> food
reality: salary in fait -> BTC -> fiat -> food

You can directly use bitcoin to buy food at stores accept it.

However mostly you will have to cash it out to fiat and use fiat to buy food to eat. It means you likely always need to have cash in your pocket so if you receive your salary in fiat currency, don't use all of it to buy bitcoin. Because later you will have to sell your bitcoin to get fiat currency.

If you do fiat -> bitcoin -> fiat, you will have to make two trades and if you don't want to store your bitcoin in online accounts, you have to do two on chain transactions for withdrawal after you buy it and deposit when you want to sell it for cash.

Trading fees from two trades, transactions fees from two on-chain transactions will consume a lot of satoshi. Reserve some cash to use and don't make on-chain transactions or trades when it is unnecessary and if you can plan to avoid it.
898  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2023/24 on: July 06, 2023, 06:21:14 AM
I agreed about this as Federico Valverde is here for long time as this is his boyhood love club, and he will never think to leave right now, but officially we have second big from the Liverpool which is having worth of £77m with most chances this is also going to be rejected but good thing they are trying this which is also worth to try for the player like Federico Valverde.
Valverde was grown up by Real Madrid and he is one of their best young midfielders. Casemiro was sold, Modric is too old and likely will have last one to two seasons with Real Madrid, Kroos is already old enough and Valverde is one of best midfielders for Real Madrid future. He loves the club, play well and Real Madrid will send him to another club. Except if Real Madrid buy a very expensive midfielder and Valverde loses his position in the squad then will feel unhappy, a transfer might occur.

So far, no signal for such things in Real Madrid and he will stay in the club. Real Madrid will not sell him just to buy Mbappe in my opinion.
899  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Twitter Granted 3 Money Transmitter Licenses, Possible Bitcoin Integration? on: July 06, 2023, 06:15:40 AM
Exciting news! It seems that Twitter, the popular social media platform owned by Elon Musk, is exploring the possibility of entering the payments industry in the United States. They are currently in the process of seeking regulatory licenses to develop software that would eventually allow users to make payments directly on the platform.
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What are your thoughts on Twitter potentially enabling crypto payments? Do you think it would enhance the overall Twitter experience and provide new opportunities for businesses and users alike
Elon Musk has his ambition to create a super X application to proceed many things for human. He created Paypal and sold it years ago and he many times tweeted that he are interested in integrating Bitcoin and Dogecoin as payment methods on Twitter. Buying Twitter and adding it to his ambitious X platform is in his plan.

The first cryptocurrency to be added will surely be Bitcoin but guess, what is a next one after that, Ethereum or Dogecoin ?

I don't feel surprise with your news, it spreads in cryptocurrency in the last bull run when Elon Musk joined this space and Tesla invested in Bitcoin.
900  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Larry Fink of the day, Larry Fink of today on: July 06, 2023, 06:05:12 AM
I know that they're saying stuff like this because they have a financial incentive to do so, but also remember that people can change their minds. Back then in 2013-2015 I also thought that bitcoin was bound to fail; obviously, I already changed my mind.
They are applying for Bitcoin Spot ETF and they have reasons to shill Bitcoin. I don't know they have ever fud Bitcoin like JP Morgan and their CEO Jamie Dimon.

Jamie Dimon did made many Bitcoin FUD and he changed his mind recent months. We did not know since when he accumulated bitcoins for his personal investment.

In 2017 Jamie Dimon said Bitcoin is a fraud
In 2021 his bank JP Morgan to give all wealth clients access to crypto funds

The joke is he has yet stopped his FUD against Bitcoin. Jamie Dimon calls bitcoin a 'hyped-up fraud'
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