Bayern Munich, Ajax Amsterdam, Real Madrid and Liverpool are teams that have some dominating seasons in the past but I did not implied about these seasons. It's too far in the past and European football last two or three decades are very different than in 1970s, 1980s and before that.

Since the change from C1 to Champions League, only Real Madrid successfully defend their Champions League title, and this fact shows how hard to become a Champions League winner last three decades.

It's true so and three consecutive Champions League titles of Real Madrid with Zidane as a head coach, is very magnificent achievement for their club and it's an impressive club performance in Champions League history too.

Manchester City failed to defend their title in the recently completed season too and this again shows very high competitiveness of Champions League. It's hard to win it but it's even much harder to defend your title.

Bitcoin is not a technology, it's simply Bitcoin and the technology is used for creating Bitcoin is blockchain that initiated from cryptography.

You can start to learn about Bitcoin with Awesome Bitcoin and https://learnmeabitcoin.com/

With only $100 invested in Bitcoin, you will hardly become a millionaire  but you can continue your investment in Bitcoin, with DCA and increase your capital investment.

Bitcoin can increase 10 times from $70,000 to $700,000 and to become a millionaire with that 10x, you need a capital at $100,000.

You can do DCA and use these tools to have idea and calculation for DCA.
https://dcabtc.com/
https://costavg.com/

Trading is not easy and it is a complicated challenge that requires many things to succeed.

You will need to have knowledge of the market in general, trading in either fundamental to technical things, understanding of the psychology of market cycles, capital and risk management strategies then choose a proper one that fits with your own characteristics, and very lastly you need discipline to apply knowledge into your trading practice, to get profit.

Many things can cause losses for a trader especially in this volatile market. That man can make many bad mistakes from lack of knowledge about trading, the market cycle, risk capital management and poor discipline too.

Generally I agree to advice newbies that it's better if they don't trade but focus on investment, long term and invest with pocket money.

Underdog teams from clubs to national teams don't appear too often. In Euro, we can recall some underdogs like Denmark, Czech, Greece and in Coppa America we can recall Chile but they don't usually appear and win Euro title or Coppa America title.

Strength of a team from club to national level, comes from many players and coach team, a single star player is hard to carry a whole weak team to success and title. Modern football is different than decades ago when one star player with a magnificent tournament was able to carry his team to title. In modern football, a star player is only a piece of a team that need to be strong as a block and not only eleven debut players but alternative players on bench too. With latest changes in total substitutions for each match since Covid-19 pandemic, importance of alternative players becomes bigger. If a team don't have good alternative players, it's more difficult to succeed against competitors.

We can not trust governments and they do things behind the scene, usually they do oppositely to what they announced to their citizens and other countries. Assuming this news is true, I believe that China government through ICBC and maybe other governmental institutions actually did many activities to accumulate Ethereum many months before this announcement.

Think bigger, if they accumulate Ethereum, they would have not ignored Bitcoin.

Chinese government has 190,000 bitcoins even more than this figure.
https://bitcointreasuries.net/
https://bitcointreasuries.net/entities/115

Total number of Ether owners by country in 2022.
Some interesting information and figures are written in the blog article from Coinshares.

They have reasons to reconstruct their products and fund managements to reduce cost of operations and maximize benefit for their business. It is story about different ETFs managed by BlackRock but months ago, before and after Bitcoin Spot ETF approvals by SEC people already discussed about how many Bitcoin Spot ETFs in the USA will exist and continue after some time like one or two years.

I read some discussions and news that some predictions lead to conclusion that there will be less than 6 Bitcoin Spot ETFs in the USA after one year or two years. Weak Bitcoin Spot ETFs will have to self close their ETFs and customers will move funds to bigger Bitcoin Spot ETFs.

Duelbits is good with their customer support and their response to customer complain, accusations as I knew.

There will be compensations for ex-FTX customers but compensations won't be fair for their ex-customers by formulas used. It's better to receive compensation than lose all money but I am sure it's hard for ex-FTX customers to feel completely satisfied and happy with refunds they received from new FTX team in future.

Reputation is hard to build, need time and massive combined efforts, so when a business company gets good reputation from their business operations and marketing, they will never want to destroy it by themselves.

They will use their resources to expand their business from customer base to reputation and good reputation is one of key contributors for future expansion of a business.

In history of UEFA C1/ Champions League, there are very few clubs which could win three titles in three consecutive seasons or within several years so to catch Real Madrid's record, Manchester City will spend a long time to get it. They can win some titles but Real Madrid will be able to win more Champions League titles in future too.

Last two decades, Barcelona had some dominating seasons with their golden generation with Messi is a core player but they did not maintain it and they are still far to catch Real Madrid. It's explainable for all clubs as players come and go, start as young players, grow up, succeed, get old and retire. Success for one club can not be from only one generation of players but must be maintained with different generations and Real Madrid do it best so far.

Grayscale won against SEC. and paved a foundation for BlackRock to join the fight, submit Bitcoin Spot ETF application and finally we had Bitcoin Spot ETF approvals from SEC. in January 2024.

About 6 months later, we had another big surprise with this announcement from BlackRock.

They will close their Gold ETF soon as announced in BlackRock's  Product updates.


Bitcoin and gold markets are different ones and will exist together but more investors will switch their capital from gold to Bitcoin, it will be a new trend after Bitcoin Spot ETF approvals early this year.

Scam teams if succeed with their scams, can spend big budget for promotions. I believe that many people in cryptocurrency communities, knew about FTX and Alameda Research scams and their collapses in 2022, 2 years ago.

They did stupid things, scammed investors and donated massive funds to politicians and political parties. They advertised everywhere but we saw how they ended their scams.

I agree with you both on this view but Duelbits have their strong business over years and it's unfair and inaccurate to worry similar things like FTX and Alameda Research here.

In Duelbits, I trust.

Recent months, people hope that FTX will make its second life, "Let's make FTX great again" is hope of many people but I don't know how the new FTX team will make it.

My advice for you is very simple. Please read, that's all you need to know how things on this forum work.

In Beginners & Help board, you see "Newbies - Read before posting" and this topic was mentioned in other replies. You asked while you did not read anything before posting.

That topic is a big thread with given links to many more educational and informative threads which can help you learn about the forum, without asking basic questions.

Trump is not an exception among politicians who are known with many promises and failures to fulfill their promises in many years and through their long political career.

You can consider politicians as liars or else but national conditions are very complex while a single politician even as a national elected president, does not have power to do everything in their nation. They can fail to complete their promises because initially they did not want to do this and in this case they are pure liars. Otherwise, they can fail to keep up their promises because they don't have enough support from other politicians in a same party, institutional system and more conditions to execute what they promised.

I don't trust Trump and his promises but with his activities recent months, we saw that Biden and his party were under pressure to approve Bitcoin Spot ETFs then Ethereum Spot ETFs. Their party are no longer free to do attacks on cryptocurrency market when the President Election is very near and they don't want to lose support and votes from citizens.

In different matches with different importance for the club at that time, they will have different approaches like go serious to win it, to avoid loss or play it without clear result target for the match.

If they don't need to get points from the match, they will more possibly use young and alternative players and the B squad will not help them to perform as good as usually. With alternative and young players, I more expect bad results than good ones.

Moreover, checking information on player suspension or injuries will be important too because the information is helpful for us to guess possible eleven chosen players for the coming match.

Injured and suspended players. Sites to check

A company often has different support lines that support each other and work together to bring as best customer care as possible to their customers.

Lines of customer support can be chat bots, support email and direct chats with customer support staffs. Inside a company, there are different support lines too and they even have escalation supports with different internal contact points.

I agree with you that when a customer goes to a direct line, hot line for support request, it's more possibly because chat bot, email support did not help that user to solve his problems.

I consider Maddison can be more helpful for England in Euro than Mainoo or Wharton but Southgate want to bet and on young players than on experienced one like Maddison. Young players need to be given opportunities but Jude Bellingham had to miss Euro 2020 before was chosen for World Cup 2022. Mainoo and Wharton can wait for two more years to be called for England team in a big competition.

Southgate did make surprising decision because I thought he will continue to call Maguire for this Euro but at the end, he did not pick Maguire but he made me surprised more by choosing Luke Shaw. He only called one left defender Luke Shaw and the player missed most matches of the season. He bets that Luke Shaw can contribute for the team and hope that other right defenders can replace that left position if Luke Shaw can not play.

Swapping is convenient for users and they will not have to move their cryptocurrency to other platforms for selling to stable coin when they have that need.

Providing good services is great and giving convenience to their users will be big plus. Current users will have more reasons to stay as loyal customers and they can shill the platform to other people that potentially can help the business to get more new users.

With Blockchain and cryptocurrency, people have things to get smooth and permissionless experience. Using a centralized platform, will do require permission, approval for withdrawal but it's big plus for BC.Game platform in eyes of customers by quick or instant withdrawal approval and processing for their users.

Three main potential big changes for UEFA, clubs and players in my thinking.

UEFA will get richer with more matches, more income from UEFA Champions League and from television rights.

Biggest and richest clubs will become bigger and richer by money from television rights and their performances in next seasons. Perform better, go far each season will help biggest and richest clubs gain more income.

Players will have to play more matches that will cause bigger risk of exhaustion and injuries. These problems will cause bigger effects on national teams and star players will struggle to be healthy, perform well in big tournaments like World Cup, Euro and Coppa America.

Populist, you meant Trump.

Trump won over Hillary Clinton but failed over Biden in last two President Elections. He will return to fight against Biden again and if we don't count legal cases Trump is facing with recent months, I see he has advantage against Biden.

Economy, migration and border, war issues, many things are not on side of Biden. It's difficult to base on this and judge that Biden team saw all the disadvantages and want to do personal attacks against Trump as their proactive systematic activities to prevent Trump winning the President Election in November. This can help Biden to gain advantage but it potentially might cause side effects, negative effects on total votes for Biden in the November President Election.

Trust Biden or Trump? Who is a better President for the USA next four years?

It's tight because differences between them are small. I bet on Trump as a better President for the USA next four years. Trust him, I don't know because he is a populist and like a narcissist too but his policies and decisions can be better than Biden's.

Understand basics about Bitcoin blockchain, mempools and how transaction fee is calculated and paid, will help Bitcoin users to be more cleverly with their transactions and save more transaction fees.

The protocol is the same for everyone but we can be different on our own ways to use the blockchain, when broadcasting transactions from our non custodial wallets with which we have rights to set up fee rate but if we don't know how to set it up properly, we will have to pay expensive transaction fee as same as making withdrawals from centralized exchanges.

It will drop but from 1000 or 100 sats/vbyte, fee rates in the mempools will not fall to 8 sats/vbyte in next minutes.

By waiting a little hours, there are better fee rates to use.

Now, it is about 116 sat/vbyte. OP can get mempools information from the telegram bot, type fees to get suggested fee rates.
@BitcoinFeesAlert_bot

https://mempool.space/
https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#BTC,1w,weight

After about 9 to 10 hours since the latest peak, mempools give us better fee rates to use but it is still very expensive. I will not move my bitcoin with fee rates about 100 sat/vbyte, that is too expensive and can convert my small bitcoin fund to dust.