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1  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ⚽ Premier League 2024/2025 Discussion Thread ⚽ on: August 06, 2025, 09:07:30 PM
Although considering the last season's performance, Arsenal should not be like this, but as you said earlier, maybe the bookmakers want it to be like this since it’s the first match, and maybe, as I’m saying, expecting Arsenal to be great in this match, I will also bet on Arsenal to win this match. They have new talented players in the squad, and I’m expecting positive results from Arsenal not only in this match but also in the entire season that will come. Arteta will be exactly what we want and expect from him all this past season.

Bookmakers doesn't care about last season when the match is on. The only thing they put into consideration is the previous matches and head to head between teams thats what they used to make odds for gamblers but that doesn't mean it will happen. Sometimes isn't what you expected that is going to happen because you don't know things that are beyond control is going to happen. Sometimes bookmaker just put what they want but begin to adjust when they see who is losing or winning.

As for Arsenal performance, I'm not feeling to well with some of their game. I don't know what Arsenal was think of Viktor Gyokores but he is mid. He played that game for 64 minutes and couldn't score any goals and he was just having it all because there was a chance to win but it's not like  that. A lot of if improvement is very necessary in Arsenal camp, the coach need to do better this time. If by this time next season and Arsenal doesn't secure any any trophy, Arteta is going to lose that job.
2  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2025/26 on: August 05, 2025, 04:56:38 PM
After the Club World Cup, Xabi has certainly learned more about his weaknesses that still need to be addressed to be able to compete in the new season that will start soon. Xabi is aware of their current weakness: the players haven't been able to execute the strategy he's implemented, and this was confirmed after the loss to PSG a few weeks ago.

The players apparently haven't been able to gel with each other. Xabi wants players to play as a team, not as individuals. This is something Xabi must address going forward. I don't think there's a problem with the midfield, as Real Madrid has plenty of options in that position. Real Madrid will remain a club to be reckoned with next season, even though they have a new manager, but they usually adapt quickly.

I'm not sure if he has really learnt something big or is it that he is still trying to see how things is going to be like looking out for their own pattern of ball. As far as I could remember, Ansi Flick started the season just like Xabi started Real Madrid last season and the guy came with a lot of energy, ever  friendly matches before the season was hit back to back but I never see him make any headline before his contract With Barcelona But Xabi was hype because of his previous Leverkusen performance.

If can only be the players that are not in good shape yet and not the manager fault. I can assure you that Anceloti wasn't the problem last season, the set of players they have are the problems, many injuries and all others. The only difference I'm seeing between him and Anceloti is that he doesn't care about anyone or how special a player is to the club, he just take who he think is the best for the match and that's it. This should give room for improvements for the time being.
3  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: How quickly do you forget a loss on: August 05, 2025, 04:50:38 PM
Since I don't like betting with huge money on bets, I forget my lost bets as quickly as possible without even remembering I spent this kind of amount on this day on bets. Let me think it over, or have a win to forget about it, or to feel good. I don't have such reasoning because gambling to me is fun, gamble with a little amount, and don't expect much on each day since gambling losses are bigger than its wins.

There is this rule I don't joke with when it comes to gambling, "if you don't have the funds to risk like them, don't even bother to want to risk like them. I risk what I can handle financially and emotionally, this is the best way to deal with anything relating to gambling loss. Some people will think if you don't risk much you would probably make little but I will be happy to make small loss and make plenty of win if I'm consistent than lose everything in one sitting.

The thing is, greed is one of the big factor that play so many people in gambling, I don't have any conviction in gambling that I was going to ever make big money, I have alwsys have that believe that I will make some money but it's not the way it's been talk about. We don't talk much about gambling loss like we do talk about the win. There is nothing like an assurance that you are going to win anything in any trial, it's just trials which is why you should risk small.
4  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: If Not for Gambling, Would We All Be Richer in Bitcoin Today? on: August 05, 2025, 04:15:26 PM
On this topic, We gamblers are actually one of the biggest reasons why Bitcoin took off. If we agree on that, have you ever thought that maybe we shouldn't have been the main reason? Because gambling made us spend our Bitcoin, and most of the time we lose money when we gamble. If gambling hadn’t been that popular back then, maybe we would’ve just held onto our Bitcoin and could be sitting on a small fortune today.

For example, in my case, IIRC, I lost more than 1 BTC back in the early days, maybe even 5. If I had those 5 BTC now, and gambling wasn’t that popular back then so I wasn’t tempted to spend them, that money today could’ve been worth around half a million dollars. That’s a huge amount that could’ve made life a lot more comfortable.

I didn't have this kind of exposure maybe because I had experience in gambling before I started to make use of Bitcoin. If we are to look at the main gambling board, not gambling discussion I will have to agreed with what you said because way back in 2013 and 2014, some casino came here because they wanted Bitcoin as easiest way to make everyone to gamble, there were some casino that was even given Bitcoin for playing slot back then while the casino make money from losses of players.

This might have been the reason why over time, we have had many casino comes to this forum for marketing and advert. Their main target is Bitcoin community otherwise I'm sure they are not going to have any signature campaign from this forum but it's because that's their main target and hence why they have focus on the forum for long time. It's obvious the money they make from Bitcoin here is far more than what many of them has lost here. If reverse is the case, many of the companies wouldn't he here anymore.
5  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Premier League Prediction Thread 2025/2026 on: August 05, 2025, 04:07:45 PM
It may not be a major change but certainly there will be an improvement or it could also make a major change nobody knows Manchester United has strengthen their front line by signing Bryan Mbeumo, Benjamin Sesko and Cunha this 3 players can bring a major change to the team, they have won the pre season tittle and their performance was good though we know that pre season games doesn't determine the main games when they start but it's certainly a sign that we will see a different Manchester United this season I just wish they could sign in a good goalkeeper because they will conceive more goals if Onana still remain in their goal post.

If you change the position of players or the squad depth, you are definitely going to see some improvement than before but you know as the squad becomes used to a particular pattern so is other teams studying one another and not every team can withstand long performance, as time goes on you begin to see a different version of the team playing some disappointing games you never expected. Perhaps Manchester United is build different but we have to see in the league.

There are some players that are still in talk to be bought but don't know how serious the deal at this point. If they can bring those deals and have it completed, the team will have more strength than before and also sell some of the players that are long overdue. They will only be wasting weekly paycheck on some of them if they don't sell them to utilize the resources for the development of the club. I expect some purge but there hasn't been any serious one yet.
6  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2025/26 on: August 05, 2025, 04:02:48 PM
Real Madrid struggled under Carlo Ancelotti last season, and Xabi Alonso took over the team in that situation, and right now, that's how it should be because it's not always easy for a new coach to adapt to the teams, just a few coaches used to have luck in that aspect, which is why he still finds it tough to get them back to their best strengths. I believe in Xabi Alonso because he's a tactical coach and a former Real Madrid player, which might give him an advantage of not having much challenges with players in league.

This is his first season, and he had performed well in his Club World Cup debut. Currently, all the players are performing well, and if managed well, they can achieve success. However, Real Madrid needs to improve its midfield because i don't think they have a perfect replacement for Toni Kroos, that can distribute passes like him.

Things will not transform drastically but I expected them to have some improvement in their camp but what we are hearing so far is parallel agreement between the team and the managers. There was a speculation last two weeks that Xabi gave a compulsory roel to play to each player and that has spark a lot of reactions and criticism between the players and also there has been a lot of talk and disagreement between the players and the club because of their pay increase.

The thing is, it might not be easy for every one in that camp because it's not easy to be at the top and then become a struggling team but things are going to be better. Even the players that are threatening for pay increase or wanted to leave, if really they won some big trophies last season, they will want to play because it's easy to have a trophy to your name than go to another club that may give you penny and never win anything in your career again.
7  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Premier League Prediction Thread 2025/2026 on: August 04, 2025, 09:45:38 PM
A lot of Manchester United fans have been saying that the club is back to winning ways because of their last performance against Bournemouth. Manchester United supporters have gone as far as saying that Manchester United will shock everyone next season lol. I hope so, that is what we want, let them increase and tighten the competition in the league next season. We want premium entertainment.

Manchester United won Premier League summer series, they didn't lose a single match through out the series is why I think many people are too hype about the club performance but I'm not too convince as well. The team they played were Bournemouth, West Ham and Everton. This teams last season fought hard to remain relevant, they didn't do something extra ordinary to make me think they are the best that's why I still think they have a long way to go.

If they can work on their play making, scoring goal will not be difficult. I have observed that Amorim style of game is completely different this season. He is not sticking to the usual starters, he is making some adjustments and it's really working for him, he better be playing like that until he can find a suitable and keynote players in all of their angles. If Ahmad is good at forward is good as supporting wing, he better stick with this man else they are going to be confused be confused and difficult to get another pattern.
8  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ⚽ Football Transfers Speculation, Odds and Predictions on: August 04, 2025, 09:25:16 PM
You need not being surprised mate, if you had followed up the whole shenanigans antics pulled off by Napoli towards Victor Osimhen's move from Napoli which layer landed him in Galatasaray eventually. This is just a similar path Atalanta are seemingly taking towards Ademola Lookman as he has declared his interest to leave the club. Overpricing his transfer fee means discouraging intending suitors for him within this summer transfer window.

Let's not dive too much to how they treated Osimhen before Galatasaray. He need to go back and check how Napoli was messing up things for Osimhen during the transfer period. They were forcing him to accept Saudi Arabia club because the club was willing to spend more he ever imagine because he wanted going for a better club but Napoli wasn't pushing because the salary scale was low, they wasted his time and effort and he has to accept Galatasaray in the end.

Even this Galatasaray, the deal was seal off because Galatasaray knows they need Osimhen and they don't have any means to get a better replacement so they have to settle with Osimhen but gave him long contract and then Galatasaray negotiate with Napoli but even with this, they were trying to get more money from Galatasaray. The contract for Osimhen is ridiculous. They wanted to make profits for Osimhen future  sells, imagine if they dis this.
9  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Don’t give in to gambling bullying on: August 04, 2025, 09:13:48 PM
Have you ever been bullied or seen as a bad person because you gamble? And How to you stand up for yourself to gambling bullies and does it affect you emotionally of psychologically?

I am an open gambler and I don’t see why I should be shy about it but really gamble bullying is a thing and I have seen secret gamblers even bullying an open .

I will need to have my hands tied and mouth tapped before someone could bully me because of I am an open gambler.

Why would the world bully me because I choose to be a different person. That's even an abuse iof human right. The people that has the right to talk sense to my ears when I go wrong are my parents but they also have limits to how they advice an adult because only kids get to do things by force since you can't stand the consequences of their actions but an adult has the right to stand and believes in what they do unless they still leave under the roof of their parents and don't have their personal money and rely on the parent.

I don't think there is any problem with gambling from anywhere unless it's ban. If something is prohibited from one place, expect a reaction from people when they see you doing that thing but if by any chance there is nothing of such, then intimidation shouldn't be tolerated. Not even from any religious view, if you want to do your thing nobody has the right to say otherwise unless it's not allow to be played in your region and guided by law.
10  Economy / Economics / Re: Ensuring generational wealth on: August 01, 2025, 04:15:36 PM
I hear a lot of young people wishing they can build generational wealth for their kids. The kids of their kids and the kids of their kids' kids. But is it really up to us? We can build wealth now and leave all our assets to our kids but how can be sure they can protect the wealth and make it grow even more?

Honestly the best thing we can do is to teach our kids and hope that all the things we got to accomplish for them won't be put into waste. Build your portfolio now. Invest in assets that will be profitable in the long term so you can leave this to your kids.

If you are not becoming politician over night, you can't build a generational wealth. If you do some background checks on people that are wealthy today, if they have not done one or two bad things, their fathers have done it for them to have an easy life or their grandparents were the one that help them built the foundation while the kids build on the foundation that was set for them. You can't even build a generational wealth with your business or salary, it's not possible.

It's easy for a woman to get married to a wealthy man and become a generational wealthy person herself, this are the kind of things that elevate people to something good. Even investment can't guild a generational wealth but will put your family in a good path and might never struggle financially but not a wealth that can change everything about the family. Why are we not asking why did Trump came back to rule America again despite been rich, you know the answer.
11  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Receiving bitcoin as a donation on: August 01, 2025, 04:09:43 PM
I don't understand how things work in the US in terms of transaction of cryptocurrency, because if it's about tax invasion or the owner of the cryptocurrency doesn't want to pay tax or supposedly doesn't want to reveal the history behind his crypto transactions, is there no P2P options that are available with exchange companies within his country, at best you can only pay the charge for using their exchange services, because P2P will just have to pair you with an agent that will pay you the equivalent of Fiat that you need into your Bank account, instead of running around the globe and going to Philippine and looking for charity to donate to before getting back your money.

P2P doesn't save one from getting away from being tax. If IRS want to do their investigations about tax fraud, anyone involved will not escape it because of KYC has made the job easy for them. If for instance User A has invested in Bitcoin and send then convert that coin into another altcoins, a time will come that he is going to covert it back to stable. If he decide to send that coin to p2p for sale, he is going to be required to pay tax on capital gains because it's easy to do that with KYC, p2p doesn't save anyone ass from tax evation.

The only means you can evade tax is if you run your p2p on a decentralized exchange where you don't have to do any KYC requirement and transaction are purely base on agreement. As long as there is no coin sale reference on your payment, you absolutely have nothing to worry about but you know as they say, 99 days for the thief but one day for the owner. It's better to pay tax and avoid aby future problems in your finances, any culprit caught evading tax don't end well.
12  Local / Nigeria (Naija) / Re: How Bitcoin Uses UTXOs Instead of Balances on: August 01, 2025, 05:40:56 AM

There's no Segwit v2. It's 0 and 1, which you missed Up as 1 and 2 respectively.

Mixed it them up.  Cheesy
Edited them.
13  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: is it important to know others bets? on: July 31, 2025, 09:57:22 PM
when you are placing a bet, do you tend to look at other people's bets? does looking at other bets make you feel more confident or more anxious about your own bets? are there any benefits into noticing which are the most famous bets? just to see which one is the favorite or you do not care and you just want to mind your own business?

I don't look at other people's bet to make my own decisions but I look at other people's bet that has a good history of winning in gambling for conclusion of my bet. I used them for confirmation base on my own ideas that I have use to select my bet. Sometimes, I just bet what the things I have selected and go with what I have initially and then use other bets to make comparisons to my own bet and stake another money with it just to be sate with with a I have risk with the casino.

I feel like if you do this most of the time, you wouldn't grow enough balls to make decision in gambling. What are you going to do the days they don't bet or don't have similar games like yours. I may copy other gamblers ideas and tweak it to my own idea to bet but I will not let others idea to confuse me me more. This is not even a standard practice of gambling, some of the guys other people looks upto sometimes copy my bets to stake just to make wins from my games too because it's not every of their own bet they do win.
14  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ⚽ Football Transfers Speculation, Odds and Predictions on: July 31, 2025, 09:52:09 PM
Galatasaray officially signed Osimhen today. According to the official announcement, Osimhen will earn a total of €21 million, including a €1 million loyalty bonus, a €15 million salary, and a €5 million bonus. If Galatasaray doesn't get the goalscoring support they expect from Osimhen, it will be a waste of all that money.
Galatasaray is now looking to sign a goalkeeper. Ederson's name is being mentioned a lot. They'll likely bring Ederson to Türkiye. Galatasaray has more time to play because they won't be playing in the qualifying rounds.

I wasn't really happy that he had Galatasaray deal sealed up but who am I to say than just my opinion, as long as he is happy and no longer indebted to that greedy Napoli club, I'm fine with his decision. I hope he brings greatness to Galatasaray because that club really show him not just love, they took him as a family that I'm not sure if there is any African player that is been love in Turkish like Osimhen, he should enjoy and live up to it while it last.

I don't know if there is something Osimhen can win other than the domestic leagues in Turkish. They will coming to Champions league this season and they were there before but I'm not sure if his presence is going to make any changes. Over the last few years, I have not seen any team make any differences in the Champions League than England and Spain, those teams has monopolize Champions League trophy, it will take years of trials to win that league for Galatasaray.
15  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Premier League Prediction Thread 2025/2026 on: July 31, 2025, 09:42:37 PM
I was so amazed with Manchester United’s performance yesterday. Even the goal that Bournemouth ended up scoring as an own goal wouldn’t have happened, because De Ligt tried to take that ball out to the corner, but it was already too fast, which ended up being an own goal for them. Still, nevertheless, 4-1 is an amazing performance from Manchester United. With the amount of pressure they put on Bournemouth, they have testified that Manchester United will do something different this time, and people will see wonders from them. I hope the season will be more interesting, with better performances from Manchester United.

I'm not impressed with how Manchester United team was before now but I will have to admit that I was impress by their performance against Bournemouth. I like the way the players are this way, no Onana the drama guy. Many people didn't want Hojlund to be In Chelsea because they feel he is not worth it but the guy is doing better, at least for now. He handle the striking position wonderfully and also have a goal in the match, this can be a perfect start for the team.

However, I have seen this before and I hope it's not what we have seen before. Manchester United will have a good start of the season but along the line, they change and everything went over the bar. They are doing that now and everyone seems to be applauding them, if they continue like this it's will be for the best. I notice that Amorim didn't make too much substitution not until the end and only then they have another goal, everything was done in the early time that's why I think this squad depth is unique and perfect.
16  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: gambling in prison on: July 31, 2025, 09:29:47 PM
I have never been in prison, and I don't want to be, gambling can indeed provoke riots in prison, but this can be prevented by officers, closely monitoring prisoners will help reduce gambling activities, these activities are indeed quite difficult to eradicate, because everything can be used as a gambling tool, at least officers can minimize gambling activities

I like the way you rejected everything Grin. Nobody want to go to prison, it's not a good experience judging from what people that has been there went through, the experience is not good. Most people that are saying one or two things here are doing it based on things they read and what they saw in movies, if we count the number of people that has made reply in this thread, many of them hasn't been to prison on their entire life but they are making it looks like they have been there.

The thing is, prison is full of people that need items and only the well connected people get access to most of the things they get in prison. Now, the people that have nothing has to use gambling as edge to also have access to this things and there best bet is to gamble with people that have this items. Most of the time, it's agree to disagree that often turn to violence later. Some people don't want to admit they loss to their opponents which is why the occurrence of the fight.
17  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2025/26 on: July 30, 2025, 06:45:20 PM
Barcelona is slowly recovering and returning to its golden age. Of course, i don't think they'll ever be able to match Messi & Co.'s Barcelona, but i think we're on the right track. Flick was truly instrumental in this transformation. Raphinha also contributed, as you say.

The rivalry is not like how it used to be and it can never be. What we are seeing now in Barcelona and Real Madrid is the continue legacy of the tradition that has been there for ages. Messi isn't not in Barcelona and there can never be one again same way Ronaldo isn't longer in Real Madrid, there were some additional players that contributed to this rivalry but the main character were those two. How many El clasico do you see a player bleeding, it's now just beef and that's all.

Why you see some players like Vinicious, Raphina, Mbape and Yamal trying so hard is they want to be better than the previous players, they want to make names but circumstances has change, there is too much hype in players than their contributions. I'm not saying the current players are not doing well but if we are been real with ourself, I can tell you that some of this hype some players are having are not worth it. Fans keep chanting Yamal as next Messi and I will just smile, I know hype when I see one.
18  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Premier League Prediction Thread 2024/2025 on: July 30, 2025, 06:23:46 PM
It will be a funny to write off Manchester City from winning the premier league. They might have had a set back last season,  but that does not make them a weak team or not make them a title contender. They still have a very good team and have brought in some good players, so I really expect them to compete for the league and they can also win the league and I don't think a coach like pep will want to go another season without trophy.  I am very sure that they will be coming with full force this season. Like I always tell my friends, it's only a fool that will write pep's Manchester City off.

Despite the setback, Haaland waw topping the highest goal scorer not until the setback was becoming too much. They were losing matches like they weren't in the competition and Liverpool was doing better. Salah became the top but before then, he was below Haaland but when they had one goal behind, they made it personal and began to give every penalties and assist the could get to Salah so he can become the top which eventually worked in the end in favor of Liverpool.

There is nothing that is impossible, but I must tell you that they have lost some players to other clubs. I'm not sure if the current team can replicate the wonders they have done in the previous seasons but we can never say never. There were some players that were there before, we never for once knew their potential until they made an appearance and show what they have. Maybe these ones are going to brings same wonders here and make the club proud again.
19  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Gambling Wins, Losses, and lessons learned on: July 30, 2025, 06:14:53 PM
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Yes, the weekly budget you have set for gambling is really good. Because if you gamble randomly, then something bad can happen to you. For example, if a person gambles with the money he needs, then he may end up in a lot of debt later. Because there is no guarantee that gambling will win. It is very good to gamble with the amount of money you can lose. As you have set a budget for gambling, if you lose, it will not have any effect on your financial situation. And if you can keep yourself stable after losing, then there may be no more stress. For example, there are many people who become more aggressive after losing in gambling and lose all their money.

Having a precise Bankroll over a period of time is one the best way to gamble responsibly but at the same time, if you are going to gamble, make sure you don't use everything in one game. Your own rule is what is going to save you as a gambler and not really what other people are doing. If you don't have money to risk like other people, don't bother to extend your risk, this is the simplest yet the most difficult step many people fail to get in gambling.

I have a precise amount of money I use a gambling budget, I don't have bankroll and it's not like I don't want to but I prefer to deal with a weekly budget. This strategy has help me escape addiction jail. I put in an among I can afford to lose for that weekend and once it's set, no any deposit is going to enter that casino again no matter how good or serious I see any game later, I don't gaslight myself to think there is a way I can make money from any bet.
20  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ⚽ Football Transfers Speculation, Odds and Predictions on: July 30, 2025, 06:04:36 PM
The reasonable reason why Rodrygo did not want to accept an offer from Tottenham is because this team is still difficult to compete in European tournaments --- while Rodrygo still wants to shine because he still has great abilities in processing the ball.
It is better to stay at Real Madrid despite being on the bench as long as he continues to perform in his appearance then Xabi can re-enter his starter, again this is not clear whether there has been a statement from Xabi that he will be on the bench if he does not leave?

But playing in the Champions League and Premier league is enough to have a good start. What I think is the boy don't want to start with a team that is going to spoil his career. How many players has really went there and has trophies in numbers, after many years of Harry Kane, he never had anything with them until he left, Rodrigo might be the next victim because clearly they didn't do well in the Premier League last season, the Europa was based on consistent and Manchester United negligence.

Rodrigo can be in Real Madrid and has good recognition over there than he is going to get in Tottenham. If we factor in the salary and other benefits he is getting in Real Madrid, I'm not sure if Tottenham is going to be ready to offer that amount. In the end, they might either want to loan him if all is not going well for the club or they force him to take a deal that is not worth it with another club. Look at what is happening to Cassmiro career in Manchester United, from grace to grass recognition.
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