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1  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Amazon is looking to accept Bitcoin payments by the end of the year on: July 26, 2021, 06:51:09 PM
Can be of interest:

Amazon is looking to accept Bitcoin payments ‘by the end of the year’, and is investigating its own token for 2022, says an insider:

https://www.cityam.com/amazon-definitely-lining-up-bitcoin-payments-and-token-confirms-insider/

Anything involving Amazon is definitely going to move a market as they are the most profitable online retailer in the world, so it is possible there could be more upside once they make some sort of official announcement on the subject. They would probably prefer to keep it low key so it feels like a bit of a slip-up for them to disclose the information in such a way. I have a feeling that they will build up an enclosed ecosystem like we've seen at Paypal, where people can pre-purchase and store Bitcoin internally within their systems. After that they can profit from internal transactions that are essentially free compared to paying a small cut to payment networks like Visa or Mastercard.

We should still not forget that Bitcoin has transaction capacity issues. If Amazon were to accept only Bitcoin and no other payment method at all, we would be screwed. Their revenue is so high and their transaction volume insane, we would quickly be running into a deadlock as Bitcoin couldn't scale quickly enough. It is good news on the one hand, but it would be even better if we knew that Bitcoin could live up to the challenge technically.
2  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Which Cryptocurrency has best future? on: July 26, 2021, 06:49:13 PM
After a loss, we will all know where to begin. Several banks provided several services to make our life easy. But the results are taking our money as a transaction cost. I'm not happy with any kind of bank service, if you visit worldwide. Cryptocurrency offers us good privacy, but the government doesn't like it. Crypto can't be properly popular without the shadow of government.

Another big question is what happens to banks during another financial crisis when they totally crash again? Will they get another bail out paid by the public? What happens if they don't get a bail out? Are bank deposits gone then and people will be left with empty hands? There are a lot of important questions surrounding the fragile banking system. If you understand security well enough, cryptocurrencies are a good alternative where you do have more responsibility, but also more certainty as to whether your money could be gone tomorrow or not. Bitcoin does provide a great alternative despite its volatility.
3  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2020/21 on: July 26, 2021, 06:46:35 PM
According to rumors, Griezmann is ready to cut his salary if he remains in Barcelona. If he still has to leave, he wants to return to Atletico Madrid. But in my opinion he is not expected there. Atletico Madrid fans do not want to see him on the team. Griezmann did a great error going to Barcelona.

The negotiations between Atlético Madrid and Fc Barcelona are already going on about Griezman. Since Atlético knows that Fc Barcelona has some salary issues because of the cap and therefore want to get rid of Griezman, Atlético is trying to push the price down a lot, which Fc Barcelona also can't accept. Bad position for Barcelona here I would say.
4  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Football Transfers Speculation, Odds and Predictions on: July 26, 2021, 06:37:16 PM
The young Dutch striker is good at playing in the wing and spear positions, which makes him a distinguished alternative to the Norwegian striker Erling Haaland as well, who may leave during the current summer transfer season,
Borussia Dortmund are preparing for the unforeseen, they already have good wingers who can easily cover up the Sancho I think that was the reason they bought T. Hazard last season they knew Man utd would not give up on Sancho and that's the same dilemma they are facing now with Halaand they know he is a top priority to Chelsea this season and they are going to do anything to get him and Halaand is also open to a move so they needed to get someone should in case the Halaand deal go through. Malin is a promising young player who can play ST and CF.

Chelsea are preparing an improved £130m according to several reports, they have a good squad they just need a clinical finisher to contest for the league.

I don't think that the problem is the first squad they still have even after Sancho left. I think that the bigger problem is a long and demanding season with injuries. That is why Bayern was always so strong. When somebody was injured from the first squad, the substitute could easily compete on world class level. I don't see that for Dortmund if they let two or three world class players from their first squad go.
5  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Germany League - Bundesliga Prediction Thread on: July 26, 2021, 06:35:24 PM
I remembered the truth when you said it. Yes, he can be released for €75 million a year. There are at least 10 teams that will line up to pay this fee. So selling Haaland this year makes every sense. €150 million is a very good fee.  I hope Dortmund can sell it this year.  For that money they can get a very good striker.
If Dortmund can find a good offer about €150 million, they will sell Haaland immediately because they know Haaland will leave the club and they will have cheaper offer in the next two years.

Unfortunately, with financial sufferings from the pandemic, €150 million is very expensive, even the player is Haaland. Dortmund must announce cheaper transfer price for Haaland. €100 - 120 million is more realistic and feasible price for other clubs to buy Haaland.

Haaland's current market price is 130 million euros based on transfermarkt, rumors Chelsea are willing to pay but Dortmund are not willing to sell Haaland this season
It seems Dortmund are still ambitious with the title this season and Haaland is one of the proponents for that.


If Dortmund wants to have any chance to compete for the title, they can't let Haaland go. If they let him go I would almost bet any amount of money that they are not going to be champion in the Bundesliga. Sancho is gone and if Haaland is also gone and two or three players might be injured during the season, it is definitely over.
6  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Germany League - 2nd Bundesliga Prediction Thread on: July 26, 2021, 06:34:01 PM
I guess this will fill out the first game win and the first game draws and right now there will be 3 more games today and the games will be

SV Sandhausen VS Dusseldorf

Nurnburg VS Erzgebirge

FC St. Pauli VS Holstein Kiel

and right now I am rooting for Holstein Kiel here so let's see if they really could win against their opponent.


You haven't had any luck. St. Pauli won against Kiel. 3 - 0. St. Pauli continued their performance from last season and deserved to win.
Nürnburg drew against Aue. Düsseldorf won against Sandhausen. 2-0

Well, It is just all a wild gist and because It is just their first game, and I am still just thinking who's really the best team that could make it to the 1st Bundesliga, But the league is just starting and it is still too early to say what team may make it that far, so far in the standings we had 6 teams that already won their first match, 6 teams that have a Draw record and 6 teams that have lost their first game, I think in the next or third game we can already sort out who's really is the impressive teams in this division.

This year is tough to guess anyway because there are so many strong teams. Kiel performed very well for several years in a row but always closely missed the next step to the first Bundesliga. Now with their bad start I think that is kind of demoralizing for them. I don't see them among top four or top five this year. Pauli played a very good second half of last season. If they can keep the momentum, who knows, maybe they'll be competing for the 1. Bundesliga.
7  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Germany League - 2nd Bundesliga Prediction Thread on: July 25, 2021, 11:48:50 PM
werder bremen who had new players coming this season still it was a good game by both teams its important to not lose the first game especially an away one.

Another point is, that for Werden Bremen (and Schalke 04), the second Bundesliga is a totally new environment. The preparation is different as the games start one week earlier. For the first Bundesliga, the teams have one week more time.

Well this is the strongest second Bundesliga we probably have seen in the whole history. One thing is certain already: a couple of good teams won't advance to the first league this season. Werder Bremen will have a hard time. If they don't score decently the first games they will become extremely nervous.
8  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Germany League - Bundesliga Prediction Thread on: July 25, 2021, 11:47:15 PM
If Haaland doesn't sell this year and Dortmund doesn't extend his contract, his contract expires next year. BvB Dortmund could lose a football star like Haaland for free with no revenue. They are also aware of this. So if the contract cannot be renewed, it would be more profitable for them to sell it.
Haaland contract expires in June 2024 but he can quit Dortmund next year after paying €75m.
I read Chelsea offered around €150m to Dortmund, accept it or leave it, I think it is a golden chance for Dortmund otherwise they will lose him next year most probably for half that number!

At the moment Dortmund should sell Haaland. 150m is a very large amount of money. Maybe Haaland should be sold, otherwise they can add some experienced players to the team by spending more money. Then they can expect to win the title. Relying on Haaland alone is not possible to win the title.

To me, i see the Haaland situation as Dortmund refusing to sell up 2 core squad members in the same summer; it is not about the money involved, or the release clause in Haaland contract. It is about keeping the Dortmund squad competitive ahead of a new season.

On the other hand, the Player himself has shown no signs of wanting to leave, and ofcourse not to London. Dortmund would earn huge bucks from Haaland departure; either this summer or next summer

Yes Haaland is very quiet, but from a money perspective that calculation may not work which was provided before here. If they sell Haaland for 150 million but then miss the Champions League, I guess they haven't won anything. They have merchandise revenue from him, the stadium will be full during the CL and so on and so forth. 75 million difference is a lot of money, but still missing the CL costs a lot of money as well.
9  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Football Transfers Speculation, Odds and Predictions on: July 25, 2021, 11:45:22 PM
but in case of Mbappe I hardly think so. He is young and so wants a change.
That could be it. He is young, talented and considered as one of the prodigy as well as the future star but he play in one of the league with no real competition in it. PSG basically dominate ligue 1 although they didnt win last season which is kinda absurd considering that their whole squad worth atleast 5 times of what the other team has
He knows what the real problem is so he choose not to sign the renewal contract, if he sign another contract with PSG then there is probably no club that would be able to sign him considering that he is worth atleast 150 million euro right now according to transfermarkt.
Well things could change though, I doubt PSG would be letting him go as a free agent. Thats definitely not going to happen
In football, money decides a lot, and even more decides how this money is spent Wink The fact that the Paris Saint-Germain squad can cost five times more than other rivals in the French championship speaks only about the potential of the team, but this potential must be realized and it is not always possible to do it and this is good, which gives a chance to not so rich clubs.

What I don't understand about Paris' transfer policy still is this fair play rule or what it is called. How do they manage to again and again circumvent it without getting any penalties from the UEFA? If there is one club violating that rule by far, isn't that obviously Paris? They probably have contracts with those players that go beyond their normal task as a soccer player. I don't know, maybe some special purpose vehicles where they can cash in extra money from other activities which Paris supports, although I thought that is also forbidden.
10  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2020/21 on: July 25, 2021, 11:43:18 PM
A pre season tournament has zero effects on how a clubside approaches a new season and to be honest; pre seasons are just to gain match fitness and fix match rustiness. To put into context, this is Rangers last pre season game while it was Real Madrids first ofcourse a team has to be fitter.
It does have some effects to some extent on the side of signing new players and renewing contracts. If Madrid lose like 2-3 matches in a row. There will be too much pressure on the club to buy a couple of good players. I have seen this kind of thing happen before.
Without preseason, the team would be comfortable as though everything was OK.
I think that even losses in several games in pre-season hardly have a strong impact on the selection policy of clubs, because there are a lot of nuances, especially if it concerns such a top club as Real Madrid. A lot depends on the level of sparring partners, when they start the championship or the preliminary rounds of European competitions, what loads the players are under.

I don't think those tournaments have an effect on a team as a whole, but what I think is possible is that it has an effect on individual players. If a young player plays his first games fora big club and maybe scores two or three times during such a tournament, it can definitely give him some confidence in his abilities. In total though I think it is relatively meaningless.
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12  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ⚽UEFA EURO 2020 Discussion Thread | Current Phase: Finals in June 2021! on: June 25, 2021, 04:50:49 PM

Ronaldo with 5 goals, but I kind of dislike the fact that he scores so many penalties all the time. It feels like it distorts the true top scorer list. He has always been scoring a good chunk of his goals per season with penalties. I am not sure but I think there was a time when penalties didn't count to the overall total, am I wrong?

It is indeed a fact that some goals are scored on penalties but it can't be denied it's still a goal every country can do the same so there's nothing strange there it's normal unless only Portugal can get a goal from a penalty that might be weird.

It is a goal, yes but think about this: if the number of goals is supposed to determine the best scorer during the championship, someone with four penalties outcompetes someone with three free kick goals from 30 yards and more. To me the free kick goals are way more impressive than the penalties, yet Ronaldo is going to win the award because he scores all these penalties. I just dislike that, not sure if you guys agree but it bores me to see someone getting an award for scoring the most penalties over someone maybe scoring three or four outrageous dream goals.
13  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Prayer and gambling. on: June 25, 2021, 04:48:00 PM
Perhaps this is a controversial stance but I think if praying is part of your gambling process you probably shouldn’t be gambling maybe. You have to remember that gambling is paying for entertainment and while some people use it in an attempt to get rich it doesn’t change the fact that you are paying for entertainment. Leave God out of your debauchery.

Amen.


I need to add a couple of words or otherwise my post might be deleted as spam, but what I really wanted to respond to OgNasty remains: Amen. Wink
14  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: Ethereum May Surpass Bitcoin’s Market Cap in the Next 10 Years on: June 25, 2021, 04:46:27 PM
It's not impossible, but it won't happen. Maybe there will even be a new coin or another coin that will surpass the BTC, but this coin is certainly not ETH. The economy, a structure that has already developed around the BTC, is enormous and this won't be affected so easily. There are many factors that inhibit current prices, but in 10 years if you have to bet on who will survive and still be number 1, betting on ETH is really being very brave.

Nothing is impossible of course, but realistically speaking it will be hard to surpass Bitcoin anyway. It could happen though because there is some intrinsic incentive to it. If Ethereum gets closer, there could develop something similar to self-fulfilling prophecy. The closer Ethereum gets, the more the people are excited to see Ethereum surpass Bitcoin.
15  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: Ethereum May Surpass Bitcoin’s Market Cap in the Next 10 Years on: June 24, 2021, 03:34:06 PM
If Ethereum scales strongly and maybe even more than most investors expected, I think it is not impossible. Out of a sudden all applications would have the perfect platform to go to and that might drive the price up a lot. When full POS is rolled out with more scalability solutions and there is an ever-growing need for gas it is very attractive for investors to hold onto Ethereum.
in principle it is true what you said that investors will determine whether ethereum can also develop well as desired. maybe after a new system starts to come and the benefits that investors want, anything can happen and the ethereum platform gets stronger and many continue to take advantage of it.

but the problem is ethereum is catching up with time because now many other platforms are popping up due to their own effect. if this is ignored, it is likely to be constrained and difficult to imagine because there will be many platforms that can be used by adjusting the price to what is needed.

You shouldn't forget that it is harder to sail big ships than small ships. Changing directions or speeding up is much easier with smaller blockchains that are not as popular. Those claiming they could roll out updates faster are simply not as big as Ethereum is. As soon as they reach the size of Ethereum's network all other projects will run into the same coordination problems when it comes to rolling out upgrades or protocol changes.
16  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Prayer and gambling. on: June 24, 2021, 03:31:36 PM
I suggested something similar but your sample size is too small, if someone tossed a coin 1000 times without praying a single time and then did the same while praying to get the results they want we are going to find out there is not a statistical meaningful difference between the two samples, which leads us to a very simple conclusion, praying has no effect on our probabilities, something that should be obvious without running this experiment but this can be done just to make sure this is the case.

It can't be done actually because how are you going to verify that the person actually prayed? What does praying even mean? Talk some bible verses? This experiment can't be done, but I guess most of us agree that calling for some transcendental power for your own good does not work out very often... Wink
Of course it can be done and I gave full instructions about how to do it, the experiment is a personal one and not a discussion about how people are supposed to pray, they only need to do what they do at the casino when they are wishing for the odds and the results to change in their favor, if they do this and they find no difference with the control sample then the conclusion is easy, praying does not influence the results no matter how hard they ask for it.

Are you trying to tell me that your suggestion on how to do it is scientifically sound? Cheesy lol...

If it is all about wishing, then who doesn't wish for the outcome that makes the player win? This cannot objectively be tested. Anyway, who cares. Let the people pray and believe they can outcompete the house just by praying, good luck holy people!
17  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ⚽UEFA EURO 2020 Discussion Thread | Current Phase: Finals in June 2021! on: June 24, 2021, 03:28:44 PM


LIST OF TEAMS THAT QUALIFIED FOR ROUND 16  EURO 2020/21:

1. Italy
2. Belgium
3. Holland
4. Wales
5. Switzerland
6. Austria
7. Denmark
8. Czech Republic
9. English
10. France
11. Sweden
12. Portugal
13. Germany
14. Spain
15. Ukraine
16. Croatia





EURO ROUND OF 16 FULL SCHEDULE 2020/21

Saturday, June 26th 2021

Match : Wales vs Denmark
Time :  9:30 PM
Stadium : Johann Cryuff Arena, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Sunday, June 27th 2021:

Match : Italy vs Austria
Time : 12:30 AM
Stadium: Wembley Stadium, London, England

Match : Netherlands vs Czech Republic
Time : 9:30 PM
Stadium: Puskas Arena, Budapest, Hungary

Monday, June 28th 2021:

Match: Belgium vs Portugal
Time : 12:30 AM
Stadium:  La Cartuja Stadium, Seville, Spain

Match: Croatia vs Spain
Time:  9:30 PM
Stadium :  Parken Stadium, Copenhagen, Denmark

Tuesday, June 29th 2021

Match: France vs Switzerland
Time: 12:30 AM
Stadium : National Arena Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

Match: England vs Germany
Time: 9:30 PM
Stadium: Wembley Stadium, London, England

Wednesday, June 30th, 2021

Match: Sweden vs Ukraine
Time: 12:30 AM
Stadium: Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland


WHIlE LIST TOP SCORE  EURO 2020/21:

1. 5 GOAL:
Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal)

2. 3 GOAL :
Patrick Schick (Czech)
Romelu Lukaku (Belgium)
Georginio Wijnaldum (Netherlands)
Emile Forsberg (Sweden)
Robert Lewandowski (Poland)  

3. 2 GOAL :
Manuel Locatelli, Ciro Immobile (Italy)
Andriy Yarmolenko, Roman Yaremchuk (Ukraine)
Denzel Dumfries, Memphis Depay (Netherlands)
Xherdan Shaqiri (Switzerland)
Yussuf Poulsen (Denmark)
Raheem Sterling (England)
Ivan Perisic (Croatia)
Karim Benzema (France)

4. 8 OWN GOAL :
Merih Demiral (Turkey)
Wojciech Szczesny (Poland)
Mats Hummels (Germany)
Ruben Dias (Portugal)
Raphael Guerreiro (Portugal)
Lukas Hradecky (Finland)
Martin Dubravka (Slovakia),
Juraj Kucka (Slovakia)




Ronaldo with 5 goals, but I kind of dislike the fact that he scores so many penalties all the time. It feels like it distorts the true top scorer list. He has always been scoring a good chunk of his goals per season with penalties. I am not sure but I think there was a time when penalties didn't count to the overall total, am I wrong?
18  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: TRX to $1? on: June 24, 2021, 03:26:21 PM


What are your thoughts? Do you think TRX will go all the way to $1 someday? If not, why? How much do you think TRX will be worth by the end of the year? Your input will be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much. Smiley
Since your question runs from "SOMEDAY" meaning any time ?

so my answer is YES of course , Tron is one of the best currency i am holding so I'm very confident that one day 1$ is indeed be on the way.

It's also strange when other top coins can reach new ATH this year, but the price of TRX is rising slowly and has not reached ATH until now and tends to be stable, but to reach the price of $ 1 it is not impossible for TRX, just need trigger news for TRX to reach that price.
There are some attacks against tron , that's why this hinders trx to reach the top sooner but mind you like dogecoin? tron is one of the most used currency now.

Tron is definitely an awesome option to transact with. Lightning fast and extremely cheap. I didn't pay a lot of attention to Tron for quite a while, but kind of fell in love with it. Though what is the missing piece of the puzzle so that Tron can go up a lot? Is the network not as popular as its competitors?
19  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: TRX to $1? on: June 20, 2021, 11:24:48 PM
Hopefully, trx will soon reach on that profitable value when everything settled down for good. But we need more time before our goals will be meet according to a desired situation that could exist from time to time.
Tron is worth to hold for long term, because if you only view it as quick trading I don't think it's a wise idea. You're only wasting an opportunity when perfect time comes you'll only regret, once price go uptrend.

tron is a really promising alt to hold. i do agree with Abiky, tron has blazing fast and dirt-cheap fee transactions. i also use this coin for transfer purposes now, if i want to transfer coin from one exchange to another. even their USDT-TRC20 has very cheap fees as compared to other networks. before, i used doge, but this old meme coin is becoming expensive in fees. tron is a very good alternative if you want to transfer your coin.
and for long-term holding, i believe, it is worth to hold. TRX team just need a very good marketing plan because they already have good technology in place.
but $1 is still a long way to go for tron, maybe aim for 50 cents before the end of this year.

Yes the transactions are awesome for sure, I use it frequently. But Tron urgently needs to onboard more users and projects. I don't know why it is not more popular among developers. Is Tron very centralized or anything like that? I have never looked into it in detail, just realized that its usability is awesome.
20  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ⚽UEFA EURO 2020 Discussion Thread | Current Phase: Finals in June 2021! on: June 20, 2021, 11:22:03 PM
italy won in the first place with 9 point , this is was predicted , the match of today against wales easy for italy Match wasn't offensive either only one goal  Italy may have wanted to save energy for the next matches for sure , congrats for italy  , pays de galles in the second place with 4 points then switzerland in the third place with 4 points too , i think italy and wales to next round of euro 2021


Italian boys are playing like on drugs! After my fiasco with Spain and France yesterday, Italy is kicking ass today and bringing some profit! I wasn't sure about Switzerland vs Turkey, I had both teams to score and I won that bet... but to be honest I thought we will see more from Turkey!
Today was a profitable day for me, unlike yesterday... Tomorrow we have 4 games, and I only expect Netherland to win, I am not sure about the others! I guess we can see some surprises...

Italy by now is the favorite of the tournament I would say. Another convincing win even though they didn't have to win, but they are definitely on fire. There is no doubt about that. If they have a good day it will be difficult for any team at this EURO to beat Italy. It is fun to watch them. Intense games with good defensive work and offensive power all the time.
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