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901  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Germany League - Bundesliga Prediction Thread on: February 11, 2021, 09:25:14 AM
Referring to the World Cup which sees Bayern involved, Flick said in an interview he respects Tigres a lot and he's worried by their wings being able to get advantages on the pitch sides. It sounds me like the usual politically correct phrasing to avoid stating that he actually believes that his team can dismantle the mexicans.  Grin
Can't wait to watch the game this evening.
902  Economy / Speculation / Re: Top 20 days for Bitcoin on: February 11, 2021, 09:18:00 AM
If corn was able to get an 8k candle in one day I guess we all know everything can really happen here! There is really nothing that can tell us what can happen from now on, we all saw it takes a single announcement from a few people/companies to let the market go crazy.
PlanB is my only term of comparison these days as I have no fuckin' clue about the rest!
 Grin
903  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: February 11, 2021, 09:13:54 AM
I was looking through one of my old collections of downloaded images and I found this gem.

I'll dedicate it to Mindrust.



 Cool

At least he is still active on the forum, trying to re-build his stash from scratch.
But You will probably never see him again here on the WO.
We can't judge, what we cannot understand.
904  Economy / Economics / Re: Are institutions hedging? on: February 11, 2021, 09:01:42 AM
Humans have always looked for ways to store their wealth over the years and we all know that.
For that reasons my simple anwser is yes, institutions, smart investors, people like us and companies are hedging against the current financial system. It is a necessary move to preserve some wealth before the real economic crisis caused by the pandemic will hit. The fracture between those who were able to sustain themselves despite covid and those who saw the ground grind under their shoes is too big.
Don't just think about hedging, but secure your holdings for the future: that's what institutions are doing, do the same.
905  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Destroying Bitcoin on: February 11, 2021, 08:47:11 AM
I think it is almost a no-brainer to invest in bitcoin considering that every major world currency is devaluating both against it, and naturally as all fiat currencies are doomed to lose their value on the long run. Bitcoin is like gold for nation states: new Fort Knoxes will be digital and will be based on our digital currency.
906  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Premier League Prediction Thread 2020/2021 on: February 11, 2021, 08:42:49 AM
Just finished doing some research before placing a betslip on FA cup (got some hints here and there tahnks to a few of you  Wink )
Manchester United - Hammers is the most interesting game for me, I think that there can be more than two goals and that UTD can win the game and keep going in FA Cup. Then, for Burnley - Bournemouth I'd go for a 2-0 for the home team. My last pick is Leicester - BHA, again with a win by Leicester.

That Burnley vs Bournemouth game looks like a burst already. Bournemouth took the lead earlier on in the first half amd are till leading. It's close to the 8th minute. I don't see Burnley coming back for this one. But this is football, we can never be too sure. For Man Utd vs Hammers game, I'm not too biggy on the clash but Ole put a decent starting line-up for the game. Anyway, I took inspiration from your tips and went with Total goals market of over 1.5 goals. I will just keep it simple and its a single.

Edit: Burnley 0 - 2 Bournemouth.
Referring to my betslip, what an utter failure! I find no consolation considering I got the final score of Burnley - Bournemouth, but on the opposide side  Grin
2 out of 3 and I always end up missing one game when I decide to bet on fewer games. Luck is really not on my side these days!
907  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: I regret selling BTC for entering DeFi. HODLing is the way! on: February 09, 2021, 04:29:48 PM
Even my tiny shitcoin holdings percentage allows me to lose big (in bitcoin equivalent) whenever there's a massive spike up, like the one we all saw recently.
And consider I am 95% on bitcoin!
I can't and don't want to imagine what other people might have seen if heavily invested in altcoins. Maybe they don't care about the btc price of their holdings and only look at the fiat equivalent: I don't care about it, I only want to preserve my btc stash!
908  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Dice games on: February 09, 2021, 04:25:56 PM
Most of you still can't get it; whether you win playing dice is based only on the randomly rolls generated by the algorithm. Those numbers determine the game’s outcome before you even decide your bet. Changing your strategy, whatever it may be it won’t influence the outcome of your roll in any way.
Just live with it and try only to have fun.  Wink

Quite right. The only way to beat the casino (legal - using bugs in the game is not legal as far as I know) is to find inaccuracies in the random number generator. All casinos use RNG close to the real one, but still, in most cases these are just programs/algorithms, sometimes they contain errors.
In fact, you better collaborate with the casino if you find such bugs as if they find you they will never release the funds as they were won illegally by exploiting those bugs. There are plenty of examples of players who discovered critical bugs (provably fair implementations, betting option glitches ......) that were rewarded a lot for their disclosure.
There is really no other way to beat a casino, unless Luck decides you'd be the one and let you, let's say, win a dice rool on a x9900. It can happen, but will you be the one picking that on a high roll too? I doubt Wink
909  Economy / Economics / Re: Tesla Bought 1.5 B in Bitcoins on: February 09, 2021, 04:21:11 PM
I do not see this as a "good thing" in the short term. It is of course great that companies are getting into crypto, that is something we should encourage and by the looks of it their 1.5 billion dollars nearly became 2 billion dollars or about to if this rise continues.

However it is not a good thing in the short term because it pumps the price up, not with just the purchase because let's be honest 1.5 billion dollars increases bitcoin only a bit whereas we had a huge increase which means people who heard the news bought even more than 1.5 billion dollars, the price went up because of the news not the act itself. Which means we could be overvalued right now, and that is why I think it is really not that great for short term.

But, it is a great thing for the long term since these guys will not sell right away, they will probably keep it in bitcoin and holders are always great for long term.
Supply & Demand at its finest: the more that buy the higher the price will go. If that keeps building, while hodlers become an invisible majority, nobody will sell at a discount. Today is already long term SquallLeonhart, I was waiting for a day like today since the darkest crypto winter days of 2014-5.
Enjoy the ride  Wink
910  Economy / Gambling / Re: ⭐ BTCGOSU ⭐ Your Trusted Guide to the Best Bitcoin Casinos ⭐ on: February 09, 2021, 04:15:39 PM
Hi efialtis, a little bit off-topic, currently visiting your website and I think I will apply custom affiliate links for my website.
I want to ask how do you create links like https://www.btcgosu.com/go/website-name.
Any plugin for that? Or do you have some links for guidance, please?  Grin Grin

Since I do have a (half-baked) Wordpress site I can tell you that the easy way to make such links is to just go to the Admin Panel and install a plugin such as Redirection. It's really powerful and lets you conditionally redirect by the pretense of a cookie, IP Address, referral header and even by whether you landed on a 404.

Also. maybe it's good to have a responsive ad banner (below the header).
two different sizes for desktop and mobile view. Because it's so small on mobile view.

Advanced Ads is pretty much the golden standard of ads in Wordpress. There's also Ad Inserter and Ad Inserter Pro but eveuone seems to talk about Advanced Ads. Maybe it's because it's been around for longer. The ads themselves can be created for free using Adobe Spark, which works so good you can even download the ad images when you finish making them.
Last thing I thought finding here was actually some nice webmaster tricks that could come in very handy for a friend's website too! Thank you NotATether
I had a look at advanced ads and it looks truly awesome for what she has to do, I am about to tell her about it.  Wink The name advanced tells it all as it has millions of options and configurations, which is what she needs most as she doesn't rely on AdSense only.
Sorry for hijacking the thread a bit.
911  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Premier League Prediction Thread 2020/2021 on: February 09, 2021, 04:09:05 PM
Just finished doing some research before placing a betslip on FA cup (got some hints here and there tahnks to a few of you  Wink )
Manchester United - Hammers is the most interesting game for me, I think that there can be more than two goals and that UTD can win the game and keep going in FA Cup. Then, for Burnley - Bournemouth I'd go for a 2-0 for the home team. My last pick is Leicester - BHA, again with a win by Leicester.
912  Economy / Economics / Re: Tesla Bought 1.5 B in Bitcoins on: February 09, 2021, 03:50:03 PM
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Finally, if enough US public companies put bitcoin into their balance sheets, the last thing the government wants to do is crash it's own index. Biden will not be known as the President that banned bitcoin in the United States and caused the S&P 500 to lose 10% or 5%. Besides, they've already seen what happens when China tried to ban it, when India tried to ban it, and when Pakistan tried to ban it.

I have a feeling that the SEC doesn’t liked this too much.
While we are jokingly referring to Elon’s tweets, this is exactly the thing that irritates the regulators. And Elon Musk himself should know very well what kind of tweets irritate the SEC.

Also sec has been denying, for admittedly futile reasons, an ETF approval for many times.

Results?
  • A few companies have been buying bitcoins in the market, via exchanges or OTC trades. Those exact venues the SEC declared illiquid and subject to manipulation.
  • Many investors are trowing money away buying overpriced GBTC shares, to the only benefit of Grayscale themselves and market insiders (whales).
  • Many other, less sophisticated investors (the ones that would need the most protection- if we really want to adopt this paternalistic approach to investments) are flocking to proxy-investments, like MicroStrategy shares, now seen as the “common people BTC ETF”).
  • SEC themselves are losing touch with this market, the pressure of the inflow is too big and they will need to abide to this, sooner of later.


My guess this is putting much more pressure on them to approve an ETF, in order to have a regulated, walled , fully AML/KYC’d venue for securitised Bitcoins to be safely traded.
You are absolutely right. Do you know how I see it? Regulators didn't think thoroughly of what the conquequences of restricting smart people (and their companies) to buy and hold bitcoin could be. Right now, the genie is out there, the bottle is now broken and other companies may follow the likes of TSLA and MSTR.
Bitcoin treasuries are getting huge and you know that!
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5280947.msg56306145#msg56306145
913  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: February 09, 2021, 03:37:41 PM
Mini ant-sized pumplet, just to bring us back up to ATH territory.

Will it succeed?

Never underestimate the power of ants. And Elon's.
Ants will rule the world one day, trust me.  Grin
914  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: So lets talk honest now about btc on: February 09, 2021, 03:36:06 PM
We all have started here from the basic and from the bottom of learning what Bitcoin really is all about. Do not expect to get rich in an instant specially if you do not certainly know anything on what Bitcoin is and how this works. There are lots of things that can make you rich here in Bitcoin just like doing related works on Bitcoin some are just like investing, trading and other stuffs. You cannot easily get rich if you will just sit right there blubbering and doing nothing. Better work things out on learning first before engaging because if you have prior knowledge, you can be possible to work things out on getting you into the path of getting rich. It is basically depending on your hardwork and effort you will exert to make you rich.
Wise words and I believe they will fall into the abyss as the majority here is for to get rich quick program. To me Bitcoin is still an ongoing journy filled with learning, doing, saving, playing etc. I am so grateful to myself I spent 2014 researching whatever I could on the bitcoin here and I am so thankful to many here who guided me along the way. Now, I only lack time as I would get a deep dive into the most technical traits of btc but that requires time I don't have right now.
915  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Dice games on: February 08, 2021, 06:53:07 PM
Most of you still can't get it; whether you win playing dice is based only on the randomly rolls generated by the algorithm. Those numbers determine the game’s outcome before you even decide your bet. Changing your strategy, whatever it may be it won’t influence the outcome of your roll in any way.
Just live with it and try only to have fun.  Wink
People who believe that they can win with strategy will disagree on that matter, or what I should call addicts, they do not believe in statistics, they believe that if they just do that strategy that they might hit the jackpot. I do agree about enjoying the game, if you cross the line of being obsessed instead of having fun then you will have a problem.
I mean, good for them. Probably we all start gambling for fun and then we end up risking our entire fortune there. Unfortunately, I have a really good friend of mine who got ruined by his gambling addiction: he even asked me money once and I gave it to him. I've never had it back but there's no point asking him as he's now an homeless. He had everything in life but his gambling losses destroyed his life.
916  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: February 08, 2021, 06:49:24 PM
Sorry guys I got caught by life a lot lately but still this is the best time to be alive really. I remember when a few of us where here during hard times, giving strength  to one another, always sharing why at some point we would have been inevitably where we are today.
Thank you all!
Enjoy the ride WOers!
#loveyouall #nohomo

We can tell you cure for corona if life dominates you! Cheesy Cheesy
No corona, just simple and plain life.  Smiley
917  Bitcoin / Press / Re: 2021-02-05 Musk’s Doge, Bitcoin Tweets May Spur Double-Digit Returns on: February 08, 2021, 06:48:20 PM
The entire dogecoin stuff is fine for a humorous, fun thing, but (at least when it started) it was a continually inflating coin so it is a terrible store of value for the long term.  I don't have a problem with dogecoin, it just isn't someplace smart to hold money long term.

I said it in another thread, but Tesla's bitcoin purchase tells us everything one needs to know:  money talks, dogecoin walks.


Better he pumped Doge instead of some other crappy shitcoin. Do you know what I think? Now that he went public about Tesla (your money talks) he went on trolling the world about Dogecoin. This is a simbolic take: he's too smart to not knowing that doge is a joke and by choosing bitcoin as the real asset he's basically showing the truth of what he thinks to the rest of the world. There's nothing like bitcoin, that's what he's sayin'
Nice one Elon!
918  Bitcoin / Press / Re: [2021-02-08] BREAKING NEWS: TESLA BOUGHT $1.5 BILLION IN BITCOIN — SEC on: February 08, 2021, 06:45:03 PM
It was about time, really. We all knew that it was coming and we were expecting it. As soon as I got the price alert on my phone I said to myself this must be some Elon crazy decision: and that was it.
As I use to say all the time hold on to your precious coins. There's not gonna be enough for everybody.
Other companies will now follow, and many more already are planning to do the same.
Hold on!
https://bitcointreasuries.org/ to be updated with Tesla but look at the numbers
919  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: February 08, 2021, 06:40:16 PM
Sorry guys I got caught by life a lot lately but still this is the best time to be alive really. I remember when a few of us where here during hard times, giving strength  to one another, always sharing why at some point we would have been inevitably where we are today.
Thank you all!
Enjoy the ride WOers!
#loveyouall #nohomo
920  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: BTC back to All time high ..did you buy ? on: February 08, 2021, 06:36:44 PM
I was happy enough that my DCA monthly buy was set on February 5th (I buy whatever the price may be every month). So for this month it was a bargain but I still don't care very much as my plan is to accumulate as many as satoshis as I possibly can. And trust me, I don't look at the buying price anymore (you would argue that for tax and such I should be worried but it's only 12 buys a year, I do the differences and all good).
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