Can't believe we missed out on another PSG upset haha,,, I thought Neymar would come in and win it all but 5 red frenzy hit the French leg. Villareal too, ugh, coulda won it many times.

Simpler, tougher parlay?

Game 1: Sheffield United FC - Wolverhampton Wanderers FC. Wolves WIN @2.65. Betcoin odds: 2.48
Game 2: Brighton & Hove Albion FC - Chelsea FC. Chelsea WIN @1.62. Betcoin odds: 1.60
Game 3: K Beerschot VA - KRC Genk. Genk WIN @2.03. Betcoin odds: 2.01
100 units parlay at Sportsbet @8.22. Betcoin parlay: 7.96
Bet ID: 5f5f4c48dd80bf5b195b00e9

Odds advantage: 26

You and me both I guess. I actually seemed to be doing really well until yesterday, as I mentioned, same points as JanpriX until it all went to hell starting with La Liga haha.

Always prefer to do really badly, law of mean and average means I should then keep my "good luck" for the big wins;)

But I don't know, I actually won it last round so maybe I'm getting better hahahaha...

To be fair, if you really want people to take notice and get curious, then telling them to be your own bank and using #MagicInternetMoney will probably be the way to go.

It'll likely attract the general speculator and curious people, but those more interested in Bitcoin as sovereign money will dig deeper, just as we all did when moving on from faucets and magicmoney memes;)

I think it's more of people forgetting! I almost forgot myself on a couple of occassions, even though I'm on SB every day. This probably is more of an endurance challenge in that sense;)


Are you playing Sports Guru as well? I was pretty sure I put my picks in, and was bummed I didn't go for the safety car safety net, but can't seem to find my history in SG now, so don't know how well I did (I got all the Hamilton picks right).

Although, I think in the first place a lot of people use their positionings to sway voters and sway lobbyists and influence the flow of money, sometimes if supporting (or going against) Bitcoin is to their advantage, they'd do it anyway.

Peirce is different though, she actually has quite a lot of pragmatism in her views, which aren't all simply pro Bitcoin, and I think she genuinely feels the system needs to change quickly, not necessarily just by adopting crypto, which also makes her Crypto Mom tag slightly erroneous and seems to undermine what she's really all about.

@jayce: Heh yeah, they certainly gave us a scare. Mind you, both Bielsa and Klopp will be giving a huge bollocking to their defenders for playing like schoolboys last night.

@toke:Actually, we have more or less the same players last season or from previous season all enter -- I see a number of names I don't recognise, neither on Superbru nor on this forum, so I imagine some are just gunning for the huge prize and/or are Sportsbet players who don't come on the forum much. Joca I know is a tipster on the forum but usually on Nitrogen, saw he joined (hey Joca;) ).

Too unbothered to check, more money for me when I sweep it all muahahaha.

Anyway.

The other promoted team WBHA. Not a single shot on target, Vardy joins Salah already on the race for goals, routine win for Leicester, too bad I didn't stick to my guns and go 3-0, I went for 3-1 thinking Albion at least had a goal in them.

26/48 so far, Fulham pick really hurt me haha.

Spurs-Everton, brave Joca went on 0-0. Stevebitcointalk (is that SB itself?) went for a Toffees win! On evidence of first 15 mins, maybe not such a bad pick. Son and Kane a bit subdued, but they're generally like that at first I guess. But Richarlison 1-on-1, rounded the keeper, and then blasted into the skies. Heh.

In my country, bitcoin is still not considered a means of payment and people don't care much about bitcoin. But where they don't accept cash, they also require a bank's payment card rather than bitcoin. No one advertises for bitcoin so it's possible that people don't know bitcoin much in my place.
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And as I said, even those who do "care" about Bitcoin are still going to be speculators, traders at best. We're not going to be sharing this discussion with actual users... who definitely care about adoption and hence are using as much as possible.

So back to my point. You don't need to ask merchants to advertise Bitcoin. Or ask for more places to use it or promote cashless and crypto cards etc. That's what altcoin people do.

Bitcoiners simply Bitcoin. That use and increased demand won't go unnoticed. Then merchants will see the market and begin thinking, fuck it, yes, I want in on it.

Is there a way to tell how many people are playing? Obviously, for SB they want 3k people playing to cover the weekly costs, to I always assumed we were getting that number.

I know for sure I appeared in the leaderboard in the first ones but never since.

Me and JanpriX are exactly the same points and remaining selections now, he got Montpellier and I got granada.. Didn't expect someone else to do no-draw strat;)

Leicester with the threat but still no goals...

Mane could have scored, and Firmino should have pulled the trigger on two occasions, but Salah hattrick and a huge opening day win suits me just fine too. 4 disallowed goals on both sides too, phew! Nevertheless, still alive on our parlay!

Sportsbet always makes it worthwhile on these 5-leg parlays with free insurance and boost, so here we go (sorry Leg 1 is playing right now I thought I clicked post on this a whole while back!

Game 1: LOSC Lille - FC Metz. Lille@1.70. Betcoin odds: 1.70
Game 2: AS Monaco FC - FC Nantes. Monaco WIN @1.95. Betcoin odds: 1.92
Game 3: Paris Saint-Germain FC - Olympique Marseille. PSG WIN @1.62. Betcoin odds: 1.63
Game 4: Villarreal CF - SD Huesca. Villareal WIN @1.59. Betcoin odds: 1.60
Game 5: Los Angeles FC - Portland Timbers. LAFC WIN @1.51. Betcoin odds: 1.52
Bet ID: 5f5de47a348a11714e09c0d2
100 units boosted parlay at Sportsbet @13.80. Betcoin parlay: 12.94

Odds advantage: 86

Phew guys, phew. rdbase must be feeling pretty good sitting there pretty eh? Lost 1 and won 2 of my big bets, I definitely won't be doing that so soon now but I think Klopp knew he would be in for torrid time with Leeds the unknown factor and them being as equally crazy on the pressing. Liverpool high line as usual but Gomez and VVD simply not being able to keep their lines steady so we kept getting 3/4 vs 2 in the box!

I paid dearly for picking Fulham to beat Arsenal, but am surprised there were THREE other guys picking Fulham or the draw haha. Looks like I have many more companions this season for those foolish picks;)

Full credit to cygan and big G for getting Palace spot on... sorry to jayce and webtricks for picking the Leeds draw.

So far, last season's lesson of just keeping mainly with favourites and simply getting the scoring right is working out!

Personally, I believe that we are still in very damned early stages of institutional investments into bitcoin.

Sure we already have had some institutional investors entering into the BTC space, and like you suggest, some of these investments into BTC are likely "on the sly," but still I doubt that BTC is really experiencing anything close to large scale institutional investing into it, and that would include some government entities taking some kind of position into bitcoin too. 
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The problem is it's going to be very hard to prove or track this "institutional Bitcoin" -- they're mostly held in custodial wallets, mainly done OTC, and mainly happen off-chain. I simply don't see them keeping stuff on their own wallets or addresses, nor even making actual transactions on chain when they're trading or moving, they're simply doing everything third party. In fact, with second-layer now, even more difficult to see, my suspicion is LN channels some day just moving between institutionals and perhaps closing it all off to show one big transaction hiding thousands between institutionals. So we'll never really know.

...the smoke and mirror show were to be able to be continued for a decently long ass time.
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Certainly far longer than I'll be alive, probably. And for a lot of investors, that's more than enough time to ride on that correlation. I agree, none of that is sustainable but for shitcoins like ETH, to even be at $100 when they were $3 4 years ago or so... they'll not care they couldn't hold on to $1400.

To be fair, Palace last season had quite a few good upsets, Zaha's just scored his 50th Prem League goal and shown he's still right up there as a creative threat. Saints ought to still have won, creating more chances, but let's hope this is just a one-off and early season trips, kind of like Liverpool.

I agree the Reds may not find this season to be a walk through the park, but if Salah keeps his form, Bobby finds a bit more confidence AND we hopefully get some cover for our back, we'll remind everyone why we're the toughest team in the world to crack week in, week out.

Steve's Multi Magic still alive, come on Spurs and Chelski:p

Dangerous game they're playing, that's what I think. And no I don't think it's real Bitcoin holders doing that either, cause holders won't be risking shit for rug pulls. It's those investors who use custodial services or who have their Bitcoin not in their own wallets and in investor portfolios. So, they'd be putting money in anything from ICOs to Defi. Dangerous game.

Apart from parlays, I had three big singles: Liverpool WIN HT (won, phew!) at 18/10, Liverpool Over 1.5 goals at HT at 2/1 (won) and Liverpool handicap -1.5... so need 2 more goals to score heh.

Not to mention a couple more parlays, AND one special that needs Mane and Bobby to net (and oh Mane almost did damn).

Such a champage 47 minutes! And very weird ones right now... 15 mins left...

Thanks for the share, at least it's a year on from the Github piece, but still wondering if there's any progress on that or if there's been any strong opposition against it. I still do think it'll be at least another couple of halvings before things get seriously considered -- though by then, prices would likely also adjust to further delay that.

Whoa what a first half. Liverpool irresistible, Salah even more so, but Gomez and VVD slightly off the mark. Definitely gave away the second goal at any rate. But never mind. Like 2 seasons ago with Alisson, make all those mistakes first and get it out of your system.

5 goals in 31 minutes, now let's put this to bed early in second half shall we?

All boils down to investment mood, doesn't it? I agree, on the major movements, capital and equity basically just flow in or take flight, always. In between, things in Bitcoin happen independently (and great point on magnitude) but if there is strong movement in stocks, it's going to trigger trader emotion across the board. Also proof for me institutional investment in Bitcoin happened long before people said they were waiting for ETFs and such.

It's the same correlation in crypto itself. Bitcoin goes up, so does the rest of crypto, but at different magnitudes.

Everyone's talking out of their ass. SEC, IRS, Interpol all have contracts with Chainalysis or similar, and their own ex-staff said they even had problems tracing CoinJoin, never mind privacy coins! Gotta admire their overselling though, seems to have worked!

There was also talk about that 6900 BTC wallet being passed around hacker to hacker, with no one being able to crack the wallet.dat for over two years, and IBM claiming they'd only need 2.5 days if they tried (but obviously talking out of their ass even with quantum computing).

Where have all the holders gone? Still where they always have been. I know a lot of talk going on about Bitcoin Defi (whatever that really means) but I think Bitcoin users and holder are, thankfully, a lot wiser than that.

Patience always wins in the end. I think the long-termers aren't emotionally affected by this Defi so much.

Next, please.

They got their first win, a big one too I think, and they'll need to grind out these 1-0 wins. 7/1 to win the Championship and I figure that's odd I'd take any day any time.

Spurs will definitely be the spoiler if there are ones, or Arsenal. I won quite a bit of money last season going against the two, except when they actually were the underdogs. Can't say if they'll end up being the same but the first game of season should give us a clue!

Salah's our PK taker, and then Milner... so Bobby needs a no-look goal, he can't score ém easy ones!