I don't think bitcoin is close to death at all.

It is possible that at some point in the future, Bitcoin is not the number 1 cryptocurrency, but in that world Crypto would be far more accepted and used than here and now, so I expect the actual value of Bitcoin might be higher than it currently is.

It is a worry to me that someone with a few thousand USD can block transactions in a global currency quite effectlively for a few hours.  That should not be the case, it should at least be difficult to do!

Although China is the silent BTC powerhouse, I am not convinced that they really contribute much to the currency, other than mining and selling!

I don't ever really consider selling Bitcoin.  The price is fairly flat and has been for a while (in bitcoin terms)  I think the next big move will be upwards, so if the price flutters up and down in the near future, that isn't really a big issue to me.

I do keep my eyes open for the fundamentals of bitcoin changing.  Certain alts are slightly worrying for Bitcoin at the moment, that along with the full blocks and lack of leadership in Bitcoin, but I am still happy enough that Bitcoin will continue to grow and has a very low total value for something that is used globally.

Tottenham v Arsenal looks like a great game!  They both lost in the week, but Tottenham have the better form and seem well set up to beat Arsenal.
At 2.4 or better, I think Tottenham look a really good bet here.

I do think that Newcastle at home against Bournemouth at 2.6 seem long.  I know they are dreadful (unfortunately) but Bournemouth had a loong journey up north and Newcastle are due.

Away from the main game of the day, Stuttgart have been blowing hot and cold recently, very hot for a few games, followed bay very cold for the last 2.  They are at home against Hoffenheim today, and I think they will lose given their last 2 games.

Tomorrow is Mainz v Darmstadt in the local derby.  Mainz will be flying after a very very unexpected win midweek against Bayern.  They threw away the win away against Darmstadt earlier this season, I think they will confortably win tomorrow.

For a minute I thought Man City were 1.68 to beat Villa at home!  I know they are not on great form, and like to lose when they should win, but that would be crazy!
I think your bet has a decent chance of winning, but with the win and over I don't see it as anything special.

Good luck though, I will wait for the north London derby before betting this weekend (on the EPL).

To be honest, we don't need the rich guys to use bitcoin to move their money out of China, we need one or two!
The total value of Bitcoin might be too low for someone to really move wealth around, but if one Billioniare moved a few hundred million into bitcoin, the price would skyrocket.

That is a good thing for bitcoin, but maybe a bad thing for the investor.  I personally wouldn't be too keen to buy into an Alt if I thought that I needed to pay say 20% higher than market rate, because my buy was too big for the market!

I think Bayern will be ready for this one after their midweek embarassment.
I would take Bayern -1.

There is the leaving manager syndrome that happened with Alex Ferguson, but I don't think that will happen with Bayern, or at least not yet.

I would guess that they wanted to increase the fee they pay due to the full blocks problem at the moment.  Maybe they wanted 1.5mBTC or even 15mBTC as a fee, but messed it up.

It is a fairly crazy problem to have, on the one hand it is awful for the person who sent it.
On the other hand, they had at least 18BTC, so probably aren't poor!  Hopefully they are very well off and won't miss $6k

That seems hardsh, they play good football and have been consistent so far. 
I think they are lucky in that the league is weak this season, but they are the best or one of the best teams in the weak league.

We will see if they can hold it, but I don't see why not.  It is similiar to when Newcastle were top all those years ago, except we chased down by a SAF led Man Utd, not Tottenham and mediocre Man City/Arsenal!

I don't think many people can believe this one!  Mainz are a decent team, but they are generally fodder for Bayern.
That being said, they are now joint 4th!  Maybe they are constantly underrated.

I don't think many people realise just how small a club Mainz05 is though.  They basically sell every player they get who turns out to be decent!  They never spend meaningful amounts of money. They are like Southampton but without superstars or money!

I think that people are selling up to buy ETH and other ETH related Alts.
I assume that is the case anyway, the price kind of sucks at the moment though.

The amount invested in JD seems high still, so hopefully not too much invested money is moving out too.

My team mainz are winning at bayern at half time!  We were doing that 2 seasons ago too I think, but they came out and scored 2 in about 8 minutes and we got fairly soundly beaten.

I don't expect much else to happen today, Bayern will turn on the style for a few minites and we will lose.  I hope I am wrong though!

I am late to the party tonight, but it is still 0-0 so I think it is ok to make my prediction still.
After their long break, I think newcastle will win tonight against Stoke.

Tottenham are currently losing 1-0 but I think they will fight back, not for the win this time, but a 2-2 draw should still be on

Does he actually update the spreadsheet?  I (hopefully) joined a week ago, have done everything right, but haven't heard anything, or been added to the excel sheet.

It looks like no one has been added since I joined, so maybe he is just not updating the form anymore.  Some sort of confirmation would be nice though.

I am very tempted to try to ride this bubble, even though I know it is dangerous.
It could easily fall 70% in the next day or 2, but the price could also double.

I am not usually one for trying to turn a quick trade, but I might give it a go here..

I think that leicester might just slip up tonight against WBA.  I think they should be good for a draw, but I have a feeling that they won't win.
Chelsea seem very likely to win, I'd take Soton, Draw in the Villa vs Everton game and Sunderland too.

It seems like so long since Newcastle played, it is crazy!

Why can it not be that he has morals and doesn't want to hugely profit from essentially premining Bitcoin?
The whole idea of bitcoin is that it is for the people, if the creator crashed the market by selling out for a few million dollars, that wouldn't make him or his idealogy look very good!

I would assume that someone who came up with cryptocurrencies, and put it together as well as Satoshi did, would be rich enough or content enough with themselves that they wouldn't need to sell out.

I guess over time option 1 becomes ever more possible, but I would rather believe my reasoning.

Do you mean they need to play 12? That might give them a chance of getting into the top 4! 9 points back at this stage, it is all over for them really.
I think next season could be much better for them though. Klopp is a very good manager, he will get them fighting fit for next season, and bring in some good players in the summer.

I expect they will be a tough proposition next season, I would say probably top4.

Germany won't be happy if the UK leaves.  The UK wants to reduce it's deficit, wants to be globally competitive and is a big net contributor to the EU.
If they leave, Germany will have to pay more to cover the ever increasing number of poorer countries who are members or will be members.

If the UK leaves, I think other countries will consider doing the same thing. The EU would be better if they hadn't expanded in the last 15 years, it isn't a fair union anymore.

I'll take $446.70 if there are no strings attached to this competition!