If i had to pick the top 4 of the premier league now then it would still be Manchester City, Liverpool FC, FC Chelsea and then maybe Arsenal. In that order. For me Manchester City is the strongest club in the world at the moment and that for at least 2 or 3 years now. Yes they did not win the Champions League yet but they were again very unlucky last season where they should have easily advanced against Real Madrid, but we all know how it turned out. Liverpool is also among the 5 strongest clubs in my opinion together with Bayern Munich, Real Madrid and probably Paris Saint germain. FC Chelsea and also Arsenal are still not on that level if you ask me.

So far it seems that Bayern Munich is doing better without Lewandowski than he is doing without Bayern at the moment. Of course the personal stats of Lewandowski are great at Barca too and he already scored a lot of goals there but in the end Barca will miss the knockout stage of Champions League again this year with 99,9% certainty which is a huge disappointment.
Bayern on the other hand has played a great group stage so far and is already qualified and in the Bundesliga they also seem to be on track again. It is kinda weird. Two weeks ago after the 2-2 vs. Dortmund everyone acted like Bayern is in a big crisis and Dortmund is on a great run. Now 1 week later Bayern is fine again and Dortmund has a huge crisis.

Yeah i feel it is very hard to predict any outcome so far in this International. First EG totally owned the group stage and looked by far the strongest of all teams and everyone already thought that they would be a candidate for a spot in the grand final and now they lost both of their matches in the group stage with 0-2 against teams that were not among the favorites so far, at least until now. I have a very hard time to pick a bet here.
At least PSG.LGD was able to perform like most people expect them to do and they went through pretty clearly against Boom right now, even though LGD had quite some problems in the beginning of the second match. For me they are still the favorite to win this TI.

As others have already mentioned, i doubt that the apology of Ronaldo was an honest and serious apology. It think it was just a post that was made by one of his managers and sounds more like a copy/paste standard apology than a real one. Also i agree that Cristiano Ronaldo definitely can have the feeling that he is not treated with the respect that he deserves. When he joined ManU again 2 years ago he was the big savior for everyone but sadly it turned out not that way so far.
Before this season he desperately wanted to leave the club but it just did not work out and now he is stuck here even though he does not want to be here. It's an unfortunate situation for everyone.

Well in general i definitely agree with your statement here. I also think that a bear market like the one we are having now is usually a great opportunity to buy into big and established project because now they have lost at least 50% or even more compared to their all time high from last year or so. The big problem is that we just don't know what will happen in the future. If the prices start to climb now and we are having a price of 5k$ per ETH in a year or so everyone will say "why did i not buy ETH for 1300$" but it could also happen that we are having still 2 or more years of bear market ahead of us and that ETH could also go down below the 1000$ mark.

That was a really surprising outcome to me and i would guess that a lot of people have lost their bet here. It looked quite ok for Team Spirit for the first 20 minutes or so but then everything went into the direction of Boom and then the players of Team Spirit just were to nervous and felt to many pressure and could not turn the game around anymore.
This just proves again that the competition in the Dota pro scene is extremely high and that basically every team is able to beat even the biggest favorites. Also the best of 1 format in the first round also makes big upsets more likely then a best of 3 series. Boom now against PSG.LGD, i doubt that they can eliminate another favorite.

Is this really true? I mean i am no IT guy but i just checked the price of Bitcoin SV and it did not move in the last few days. I would imagine that the price would heavily go down when news like the one that you posted become public because a blockchain that is completely controlled by one miner has nothing to do with crypto currency in my opinion because it is just as centralized and controlled like all the FIAT currencies.
Overall i have to say that i have never really been a fan of such forks and i am always surprised that such forks are able to maintain a relatively high price at all. In the end such forks create a lot of money out of nowhere that needs to be bought up by others first. I am always surprised that people are buying that fork coins.

Yeah i was also very surprised to see that PSG.LGD lost to Team Secret. Before the start of the tournament PSG.LGD was the big favorite for me again, just like in the year before, but they already had a pretty bad start into the group stage to. Back then i still thought that this was just tactics by them because they don't want to give away their strategy yet but today they lost again and that was definitely not intended by LGD. This also means that we could have a match of LGD vs. Team Spirit in the second round of the lower bracket. That is pretty crazy because that was the grand final of last year. So one of those two team will definitely go out very early.

Yeah i also think that it is pretty sad and unfortunate what is happening with Frenkie de Jong at Barcelona at the moment. He was probably the most wanted player back in 2019, after his great season with Ajax Amsterdam and basically every big club wanted to sign him and now he is barely playing anymore which is just a shame. In addition to that he agreed to not be paid his full salary last year because of the huge financial problems that Barca is having. So even though de Jong was very loyal to the club by doing this he still gets absolutely no reward for that. He should go to another club where he gets respected again. He still is one of the best midfielders in my opinion.

Usually i think that Mnemoic phrases are very safe. I don't really know the numbers but as far as i know it is almost impossible to brute force the because there are millions of possible solutions obviously. So i would guess the reason why your friend was hacked was not the mnemonic phrase but the way he created it or how he saved or stored it. Usually you are connected to the internet when you are creating your mnemonic phrase no matter if you are creating it for metamask or for a desktop wallet. So if your PC is already infected with a malware or something when you are doing that they can already get the phrase there.

As others in this thread have already mentioned, i don't think there is a way of deleting or closing your wallet because it is stored within the blockchain and therefore it will exist withing the blockchain basically forever. I also don't really understand why it needs to be deleted for fiscal reasons but if you need to prove to the authorities or someone else that this is not your wallet anymore then you could try to just prove to them that you can not access it anymore. Like generate a new password for blockchain.com and then throw it away or something like that, then it is basically not your wallet anymore, at least in my book.

I definitely agree that it will be way more interesting now in the coming years who will win the Ballon D'or now that both Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo has reached an age where they both are definitely past their prime. In the last ten years or so it was really boring because most of the time the award just switched between those two players.
That being said, for me the Ballon D'or is not really that important and i also think the voting system for the Ballon D'or is not fair, because it is done by journalists from each country and those votes are not very objective in a lot of cases. Like in 2021 for example it should have definitely be Lewandowski who should have won it but it was Messi again even though he played an average season.

I heavily doubt that Union Berlin will be able to win more than 2 or 3 games out of the next 5 ones. It is true that they are having a great run at the moment but it is also part of the truth that everyting needs to work out 100% and every player needs to show his best performance in order to win a game. For me both Bayern Leverkusen and also Mönchengladbach have a way better squad then Union Berlin. Yes Bayer Leverkusen is in a pretty bad shape at the moment but in two weeks when the match against Union will happen that could have changed already and Gladbach will also be a pretty tough nut to crack for Union. The same is true for Freiburg.

I don't know. Even though my portfolio has took a huge hit sadly and has only a fracture of it's value in comparison to May of 2021 i still think that the bear market from 2018 on was much harder than this one. I mean just take a look at ETH for example it still is at around 1300 at the moment. Back in the last bear market it dropped to 150$. Of course this this not help you very much when you have bought your coins during the last bullrun of 2020 and 2021 but i still think that the years from 2018 to 2020 were harder.
This bear market is not over yet though and it could stil happen that we see prices of below 1000$ per Ethereum or below 15k per BTC or even lower than that.

I don't think that the absence of Haaland is the only reason why Dortmund is showing such weak performances so far in this season. I mean even Haaland can only score goals if he has chances to score and in this season Dortmund is just not playing well, which means they are not creating that many chances to score. I think that many people were tricked by the good results that Dortmund had in the first 5 games of the Bundesliga. They won 4 out of those 5 games back then even though they did not play well. They had a lot of luck to score so many points with such a performance. Now they still play at that level but they just ran out of luck and get the results that they deserve.

First of all i think you can never be 100% sure that a new project is not a scam but of course if you do your research and if you check and read everything that is available about that project, then you can at least reduce the risk a lot. I personally only invest into projects that have a real use-case that i can understand, so i would never invest into meme-coins. If i find the use-case interesting then i take a look at the whitepaper and check if it is written well or just copied together from other projects. I also take a look at the team, if the team just consists of two anonymous Devs for example then you should be wary already in my opinion.
Finally i check what VC's have already invested into that project. Yesterday i was reading about magicsquare for example and they already have BinanceLabs, Huobi, Kucoin and Gate.io as their investors for example. So i will try to buy a few of those tokens once they go live.

I don't really think that Dortmund has such a good momentum right now. Yes they were able to score a very late goal against Bayern Munich last weekend which made that game a draw in the end but you know it was only a draw and everyone acted like Dortmund had beaten Bayern with 5-0 or something. Also during this week in the Champions League they also showed a pretty weak performance at home against Sevilla and in the end the 1-1 in that game was totally deserved.
Still i also think that Dortmund is the slight favorite in this game but i also would not be surprised if Union would win. Hard to pick the right bet here in my opinion.

Hmm so far i have only heard about token swaps that needed to happen because a project was finally able to roll out their own blockchain so you could finally swap your Ethereum-token for example for the real native token that is running on the new blockchain. Another cause for a token swap would be if the contract was hacked or a critical vulnerability in the code was found.
If a swap happens with out a real reason and then only the tokens from investors get swapped but not from airdrop participants like you have mentioned, then you know that this is a shady project that only did an airdrop in order to boost their follower numbers but then tricked those participants with the swap. Very shady and also a scam in my opinion.

I have never heard of Pink Sale Finance before, so i can not really say to much if this project is a legit or a scam project, but i have some experience with other launchpads and crowd VC's. I am part of DuckDao and Poolz and i have to say that during the bull market it was pretty crazy. There were a lot of investment opportunities where you could invest into the priate sale of upcoming projects and in most cases those tokens did at least a x10 right at the listing. So you could have made quite some profit there. Now obviously it is much quieter in the bear market as not so many projects are launching but still i could invest into the magicsquare private sale through DuckDao, which is a great opportunity in my opinion.

I also thought (and kinda hoped) that Leverkusen would do well in the match today, but sadly this was not the case. I also like the club of Eintracht Frankfurt but in todays match i still routed for Leverkusen because they just have a pretty bad season so far even though they have very good players in my opinion.
I also like Xabi Alonso, i already thought that he was a great player and now i hope that he will be a successful coach. Even back in his time at Bayern Munich he was not only coming to get a few millions and leave after two years. He learned the language and the german culture very quick, which is not the standard for players from foreign countries.