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1  Local / Nigeria (Naija) / Re: The harsh policies facing bitcoiners in Nigeria. on: May 22, 2024, 11:28:18 PM
My guy I greet, for me Bitcoin no really hold naira down in any form. Naira will continue to be inferior or less valued until Nigerians make amendments to our factories and industries and to also stick with resources they have.
People still ravage and engage in dubious act through Bitcoin in this country cause that's actually is the safest and easier means of stealing funds without being caught.
I wonder how we expect a society wey one person for government go open eye thief billions of Naira and dollars for office, money way go fit emancipate and bring development to the community and nothing happened to am. He's walking as free as every other person. Money that could be used to develop our dieing industries  create employments. We get three refineries no one the work but everyday the government go the make promises of revamping till four years tenure go finish another government go come in with same promises. How the expect their economy to do fine and be competitive to bring value to the currency Naira. Imagine how many crypto exchange them don delist naira from their p2p still naira still the fall for value, only that no send them strong message say the problem na from within not outside.
2  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Coinbase's latest video about Pizza Day on: May 22, 2024, 10:40:42 PM
I recently came across Coinbase's latest video, which provides an in-depth and comprehensive explanation of Bitcoin and its impact on the taxes we pay to banks and governments. The video also mentions Pizza Day. I'm genuinely interested in hearing your thoughts on this video and its storyline. Wink


https://youtu.be/NON0euNOj3k
The video is all about the middlemen and the need for their total elimination which is what bitcoin is largely in for. Middlemen in their pursuit for what they can get only makes us pay more for what we can pay less, creating extra procedures for what we can get directly in a seamless way.

The video message may not entirely be about pizza but the message is a conglomeration of pizza and bitcoin knowing fully the important place pizza holds in bitcoin history.
3  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Fixed matches group in 3rd world countries on: May 22, 2024, 05:52:11 AM
You could have confirmed his words by joining the group to experience things for yourself to be sure if these things are true as he speaks. What amuses me is that the administrator of the group has to give each group member the money to use for his bet to later get back a percentage after the bets are won. That admin must be a good businessman  Kiss

I am aware about  these unpopular leagues competitions getting regular fix matches but still they don't get that easy to find  and a lot of so-called scammers uses this medium to extort lazy gamblers that are after cheap means of getting sport bet wins. Getting the right source to info about fixed match is 1/10, because of the consequences that can follow with if discovered.
I'm in the process of trying to join; I just haven't had the time to meet up with my friend due to different work schedules. I'm also amused by that, and he even told me that there were a few rare instances where the users took the betting money and left the group. I still can't be 100% certain about all this if I don't see it with my own eyes. In terms of consequences now, I do have my doubts.
While you join you have to tread with caution don't rest on the words of your friend. It takes smart people to know how to deal with these platforms which is why some users that join do exit with the money after a one time trial that worked well for them, and they might be doing that out of a bad experience from other similar platforms.

 
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I mean, in such countries, authorities are often non-existent. Who's going to bother with a few fixed matches? In the worst-case scenario, the casino starts banning users and potentially matches from such countries.
Weak systems create room for corrupt practices even under the nose of the said authorities because they do have a stake in those corrupt acts sonthey just sit back and do nothing. Any renowned casino that values their reputation and is submissive to fairness will never want to have anything to do with such matches in their platform, except for those that are
 dubious.

4  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Fixed matches group in 3rd world countries on: May 20, 2024, 10:56:55 PM
To be honest, I've heard of many signals or fixed matches, but nothing like this. Have you ever heard of such groups before, and have you ever tried joining one?
You could have confirmed his words by joining the group to experience things for yourself to be sure if these things are true as he speaks. What amuses me is that the administrator of the group has to give each group member the money to use for his bet to later get back a percentage after the bets are won. That admin must be a good businessman  Kiss

I am aware about  these unpopular leagues competitions getting regular fix matches but still they don't get that easy to find  and a lot of so-called scammers uses this medium to extort lazy gamblers that are after cheap means of getting sport bet wins. Getting the right source to info about fixed match is 1/10, because of the consequences that can follow with if discovered.
5  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Os boxing the worst sport to get on? on: May 20, 2024, 10:37:51 PM
Recently I read that a year ago the Olympic committee cut its ties with the International boxing federation due to corruption and unfair referee placement. It has been a year since and the boxing federation has still to fix these issues. Now boxing is threatened to be completely left off schedule from the Olympics for the first time in the history of modern Olympics!

It really makes you think, if the international body of boxing is so corrupt, can you imagine the corruption that would be going on individually promoted events and closed leagues as the liked of UFC? Makes me think that fighting promotions and especially boxing should be avoided if you want to make bets.
Well, this i believe is nothing new, even though it's the first time I am reading about this on this forum.
Personally, I feel corruption have somehow eaten deep into almost everything in this world, that it's beginning to appear like a normal thing, talk about the government, the people, organizations, what about churches and even charity organizations? You did be surprised at the level of corruptions going on in this places.

So, if churches and charity organizations can be swimming in corruption, how much more sports organizing bodies like mentioned boxing federation, the UFC and so on, I can bet my balls the even FIFA, the premier league and so on all run on corruption, why? Because alot of people are corruption themselves, and as long as this set of people are the ones heading the affires of this organizations, rest assure the entire organization is corrupt, but they won't let it out to the public.
In today's modern societies whatever event that money or interest is involved be rest assured that corruption will be found in there and that's why it doesn't get me surprised when you made mentioned of those social and religious organizations as been corrupt because this corruption of a thing is interwoven. In the area of sports, that of boxing compared to other sports is so obvious in the manner at which results are influence by conveners.
6  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Do not forget your Bitcointalk account password!!! on: May 18, 2024, 11:02:02 PM
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Another reason why some user will forget their account password is because they are always logged in and don't bother logging out sometimes. This way, when they are logged out from the forum, it becomes hard for them to remember which password they had used in creating their accounts. Once in a while, it would be better to log out and log in to you btt account so as to always remember what password you had used.
If you can't face the stress of always logging in and out of your account then you just don't have to, causing for sure it's really stressful. Instead going through all of the logging in and out due to precaution of not losing or forgetting your password I'll recommend that the user could just use his username with additional peculiar numbers together as the password, the numbers could be before or after the letters (I don't advise using your year of birth, can be easily predicted). Doing it this way you can't forget your password as long as you can remember your username.
7  Economy / Economics / Re: I need my lambo now and manson and yahct life too short lets do it on: May 18, 2024, 10:32:00 PM
Op how do you feel forcing people to use a coin they don't want to make use of on their own free will? Create a good project and it will sale itself.

What makes you think such a coin where people are being forced to use of will see the light of day when you can't force them anymore?

Or where you  or anyone here forced to use bitcoin? No!

By the way, the type of partnership you're proposing is what could be referred to as utopia. And finally, you mustn't have a yacht, mansions or lambo before you can be happier in life, there are people that have more than all of these and are not happy or feeling fulfilled. Don't pressure yourself about life being too short.
8  Local / Nigeria (Naija) / Re: Localmonero and Agarodesk are shutting down on: May 16, 2024, 10:59:23 PM
I could remember even some centralized exchanges like Binance  will claim to be decentralized, and some people who don't know will fall for them. This is how we have fallen for most of them with no KYC.
plenty exchanges platforms they notorious about this habit of deceiving their new intended users about their decentralized system but nah when you no run your research well you go fall in come later know say na lie them talk about their been decentralized. However, I never hear binance the claim say them dey decentralized ever since wey I dey use them , I never even hear person talk this tin sef shaa except say maybe na me no keep ear down well. You mind throw me detail info or link about that talk abeg.
9  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Does the world know about Bitcoin? on: May 16, 2024, 10:46:51 PM
To me i think there are some part of the world that still don't know anything about Bitcoin, because there are people in USA, UK, Australia, Canada, China,etc. even in Nigeria there are people that don't know anything about Bitcoin, they always think that Bitcoin is a scam, but people that know about it are making thousand of Dollars,($) I think they don't know that we are in a digital world now.
You should know that it's not all part of the world that have access to the internet or makes use of the internet and you and I does. How do those people now have to know about bitcoin when maybe their topography or traditional conditions makes them have no use or need for the internet. Do you think these types of people will give a fuck about how much you're making with bitcoin?

AFAIK, bitcoin wasn't designed for every human on planet earth, and if the population that have knowledge about it and are making a positive change in their life with the use of it then I should care much about the population using it than been worried about those that ain't even after hearing about it.
10  Economy / Speculation / Re: Buy the DIP, and HODL! on: May 14, 2024, 08:49:13 PM
Imo if someone is experiencing any financial situation or problem, is better to reduce their amount for accumulating for a while than stopping totally.
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You are getting it all wrong because reducing your accumulation amounts if you are having some financial challenges can never lead you into giving up an investment because if the the source of income is low and the needs are a little bit high cutting down a bit of your accumulation will actually allow you to balance, however on the contrary your narrative on or rather your mindset could lead you into trouble on your investment if you are not able to Identify when the need to adjust your accumulation amounts arises, however if I may ask for instance your normal weekly accumulation is $20 while your monthly salary is $100 but on the process your salary drops to $60 on a monthly basis and your needs has increase would you reduce your accumulation amounts to either $5 or $10 weekly? Or would you continue with your normal $20 weekly?, because for me at this points $20 weekly is actually being aggressive and could get you into trouble.
This shouldn't  be very hard actually.... all you need is increasing the time interval still you find a way to get back to your $100 and if you actually read carefully I didn't totally go against the reduction  but I wasn't totally in support with it .
Let's break it down
I am a worker, I get a monthly  salary of 100 bucks.... my DCA $20 weekly  fir total $80 monthly taking the remaining 20 bucks for expenses
Now I got a slice on my monthly pay of 40 bucks  and  I now earn $60 monthly..
How can I do this by not reducing  my DCA value... I shifted my DCA to 2weeks interval $20  making $40  a month with same $20 left for my expenses.... instead of reducing and getting comfortable  with a new DCA  of $10/week  

Although  at the end we should come to a total of $40 but  anything less won't give us a $40  however, when I'm finally back to $100 it might be a little bit hard to switch back to $20/week as I'm pretty much used to investing $10/week
Yeah it shouldn't be very hard but you kinda making it potentially go hard for you, by trying to be aggressive with your investment giving no room for flexibility in line with the adjustment in that have been made with your monthly salary. It may look simple for you to contain at the beginning if you go with $20 DCA even as your salary has been slashed but in the process when other emergency needs arises unplanned for it's gonna affect your investment. Adjusting to the current situation doesn't make you weak, it's also another model of contingent strategy in making for a successful investment.
11  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Premier League Prediction Thread 2023/2024 on: May 14, 2024, 07:58:41 PM
At the moment Man City are mounting much pressure which is expected considering they have everything to lose if the game end like this or they lose. Tottenham Hotspur can do better too if only they maintain their confidence and continue pressing Man City whenever they have the chance because you have to think like Man City to be able to beat them and I feel this first half will end in a draw.
Both teams are putting almost equal pressure on each other at the moment. And Tottenham actually played beyond expectations. but when Man City makes an attack we can see that Tottenham's back line easily panics. I think Tottenham must maintain composure and continue to put the same pressure on the Man City defense. The fast attack scheme that Tottenham sometimes shows looks good, but there are still many errors such as the accuracy of failed breakthrough passes. I suspect that in the first half there will be 1 goal.
It's been an intriguing game with Manchester City haven't been able to get a goal despite the pressure they're surmounting on Tottenham defense, and it's so beautiful to see that the whole of Tottenham players are putting themselves on the line in this game, particularly I admire the defending by Tottenham tonight, just imagine how Bernardo Silva's shot was blocked, that could have been a goal for City in the first half time. There's so much pressure on Son tonight just wishing he had a good pair like Kane that would have been troubling to City's defense line. Haven't seen Tottenham played this way they do tonight if they can keep the composure strong in second half the game can end in draw just as the first half.
12  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Premier League Prediction Thread 2023/2024 on: May 13, 2024, 09:24:33 PM
I'm not at all sure what happened to Liverpool, especially towards the end of the match. Liverpool conceded 2 goals in a short time between minutes 85 to 88, it was really surprising for me. Liverpool failed to maintain a 1-3 lead when I was sure to see them win, but everything turned around and Aston Villa forced them to end the match with a score of 3-3.

I think Klopp really regrets what happened in the last few minutes before injury time, it was a bad moment for Liverpool. But it's clear the results won't have a big impact now, whether it's losing a draw or winning.
Seem Klop made a wrong decision with that quadruple substitution at a go towards the last minutes because, Aston villa managed to revert the charge of the game from Liverpool's control  just after that substitution was made, to which they were able to get 2 goals just in no time. It's a bit of a delightful night for villa charging the game to a draw after two goals down, taking this one point has an important factor in their champions league bid. Manchester city may make their job easier  should they win Tottenham on Monday..
13  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Premier League Prediction Thread 2023/2024 on: May 13, 2024, 08:14:44 PM
The Aston Villa vs Liverpool match the first half has just ended with Liverpool taking the 1-2  lead. It was an earlier goal for Liverpool with that goalkeeping error from Martinez which puts Liverpool in the lead not quite long Aston villa responded with that beautiful distance shot from Tielemans  in the 12th mins  leveling the scores but Aaron Villa couldn't hold that goal as Gakpo gave Liverpool the 2nd goal from that cross pass from Salah making it 1-2 in favour of Liverpool.

Both teams are enduring a deficiency of strong defense in this game, both defenses are porous which gives me an optimism that Aston villa could  get a second goal going by how attacking and tenacious they played in the first should they continue playing that way in the second half, because Liverpool defense isn't anything strong in this game just as the Villa's.  Look forward to see more interesting performance as the second has kicks off.
14  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Premier League Prediction Thread 2023/2024 on: May 11, 2024, 11:05:48 PM
Yeah truly we cannot compare Chelsea performance at the beginning of the season and now because they have truly improved a lot
To be honest, there has been great improvement in Chelsea's performance, if they had been performing like this since the beginning of the season, they would have been in a better position.
The coach demanded then that the supporters of the club exercise a little patience with this new young team that he was trying to put together after that their huge defeat to Arsenal, Chelsea started playing well almost like the defeat fostered more unity between the players.

Arsenal have to win all the matches they have left,
Against Manchester United, Arsenal has to win, but Arsenal this season has been very good against all the top teams, so winning against Manchester United should not be too difficult for them. The goal difference Arsenal had has been reduced by City, they are an incredible team.
Arsenal had a victory over Manchester United in their first leg this season which I think the result was 3-1 in Arsenal's favour. But I won't count on that and assume that arsenal could easily find victory over again against the Red Devils at old trafford on Sunday. I know by stats and form arsenal are a favoured side on winning this game and base on how important the points from this game mean to them in their race for the title. But Manchester united on the other hand wouldn't want to lose this game , they need to win to be at level with Newcastle and Chelsea in terms of points to avoid dropping lower. I just know this game isn't going to be an easy one for arsenal to win even though they look promising for the victory.
15  Economy / Speculation / Re: Buy BTC sold for 16 BTC-1 mil USD on: May 11, 2024, 10:33:10 PM
people could actually buy collections for the sake of collecting, perhaps out of admiration, but there are those that buy for the sake of saving their money through collections, you see them buy many of these collections stack them for the future rather than having those money sitting in bank accounts where eyes could easily notice their networth. This is just how some of these wealthy people could choose to store their wealth against the future and  they can always sell any whenever they have a demand for bulksum of money and the chances are that the could sell at a price 2x of what they bought it.
There is no certainty that the price of this artwork will appreciate in the future. Sina Estavi bought Twitter Co-founder, Jack Dorsey's first tweet as an NFT at the price of $2.9 million because he thought the price would skyrocket in the future. When he wanted to sell it the highest bidder priced it for $277. This example doesn't dispute the fact that other NFTs' value have increased.
People don't buy these artwork because they are certain about the future value of the work skyrocketing profitably for them, anyone that has ever bought an NFT does it as with the ideology of every other investor going into the investment of any other common potential asset. For NFT just as it's been clearly narrated in the article you provided, I get it's value from the people, it's the people that gives it the value any NFT could possess, and just like the Bored Ape which was initially bought at the price of $200 but currently about a million $$ (don't you still it could depreciated below $300) now all still to the value from people such as the brand promotions it's getting with business products. It could still lose it's value in future if those promotions no more comes. What am I saying in essence? It's that whether be it the NFT that's making appreciation or others that aren't, they were all bought out of uncertainty about it's future value - investment risk

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Some NFT analysts believe that people buy these NFTs artwork to build brands around them. They gave an
example of the Bored Ape. This NFT artwork has been used by many companies to brand products. Since this artwork is popular business products can be branded and promoted with these NTFs.
16  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Non custodial wallet is not for the weak on: May 10, 2024, 11:45:13 PM
There's nothing as beautiful as a man having to be in charge of his own life, and having absolute control over what would happen to his future. Thais is just how it is with using non custodial wallet,  I see no much of a responsibility in using a non custodial wallet other than the safe keeping of ones secret key phrase.

We live in a world where people have become so lazy that they leave almost everything including their privacy and financial security in the hands of a third-party to to take charge for them therefore risking their power and right to make choices and determine how things should be for them. 
17  Economy / Speculation / Re: Buy BTC sold for 16 BTC-1 mil USD on: May 10, 2024, 10:59:45 PM
Then the collectioneur at heart... just collecting things they really appreciate and by buying giving things a value... Could be discussed, but by bidding and buying they set a standard for certain objects ... This also makes other pieces more valuable. Some people collecting stuff really appreciate it and they are happy with owning it and owning piece of that history. It's charming some people just are so interested that they wanna hold such specific things...
For me its the same like people owning cars, not to drive but collect, or wines not to drink but collect those are things that can be used for consumption or fun. Not like that paper or Einstein paper or paintings... But still those things also are being bought not for what they can use it for or for its purpose but just for collecting.

We can always discuss either if its worth it or would we yes/no pay such money if we would own that kind of money etc, but people is people and everyone is different, I wouldn't pay for it, but I can appreciate those things happening and be able to think about it, putting it in perspective.
people could actually buy collections for the sake of collecting, perhaps out of admiration, but there are those that buy for the sake of saving their money through collections, you see them buy many of these collections stack them for the future rather than having those money sitting in bank accounts where eyes could easily notice their networth. This is just how some of these wealthy people could choose to store their wealth against the future and  they can always sell any whenever they have a demand for bulksum of money and the chances are that the could sell at a price 2x of what they bought it.
18  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Why do people lose in gambling and still go ahead and bet more? on: May 09, 2024, 11:11:56 PM
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The most dumb thing to give someone is to give them the idea that if they continue gambling they'd win it big at some point. That's how all gamblers fall into that endless loop of an idea that they'd be someday repaid with their continuous gambling. It does happen though, dw, just that it only happens to that 1% (or maybe even less) of gamblers. And it's not even a fair selection really, since rich people would be able to get into that 1% more than an average gambler could.

I'd honestly tell them to do something else, find a hobby or something. Maybe invite him to join me on what I enjoy.
Plenty gamblers have their perception that the much you gamble the more you get closer to getting that anticipated win that could make your world go round but that's just some lame perspective in anyways a person wanna garnish it. And I oblige to your opinion, getting a more creative idea than gambling to augment could be kinda relieving than anything persistent gambling.
19  Economy / Economics / Re: Hahahaha, the world of cryptocurrency is really magical on: May 09, 2024, 06:10:05 PM
After Donald Trump met with holders of his NFT collection Wednesday, meme coins caricaturing him and rival Joe Biden surged overnight.
Enjoy this why it last but don't forget to understand it is a memecoin that can die any day. So try as much as you can not to invest what you cannot afford to lose into such coins. I have read terrible stories by coins that are so hyped and manipulated and it will be terrible for someone that is active in this forum to still fall victim for such after going through the amount of information shared in this forum. Just be careful out there and know when to run because such coins does not have longevity.
There are huge chances that after the US election which is the generator of this euphoria that is producing this influence this two figures are currently having on the cryptocurrency space, after the election is done with, we probably not be hearing about anything positive regarding this memecoins that are affiliated to them. Wisdom is that shit coin will always be a shit coin so risking what one can afford to lose shouldn't be undermined.
20  Local / Politics and society (Naija) / Re: Naija political scandal on binance on: May 09, 2024, 12:14:02 AM
My country people,  wonder sha never end. Finally we all suppose don find out say every treat from our today government na due to greed and selfishness. So recently our government demand 150  million dollars from oga kpata kpata for binance just to make the illegal Nigerian charges go away.
This allegation really strong to swallow whether na true or not as binance oga alleged but if you come shift face look the nature of the country and the people inside person no get any option but to believe say this request for $150m na true. Nothing those greedy selfish politicians no fit do for money.

Even after them stop p2p naira trade inside the binance the tin still no stop many Nigerians to use business so other trading on coins because normally binance na one cex wey get beta repute level. But wetin go bad for binance na say them pay Naija government money just to reapprove the Naira p2p, automatically them go just loss more of their trust from Naija users because we go just see them as tool for we government hand and them fit knack us any time in side there.
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