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Sorry but I got to disagree with you because it was reviewed, not only 1 ref made a decision, it was a unanimous one and I think they know their job better, unless we think it was rigged.
You see from the top view camera angle and the ball clearly flips out from scope of the cylinder they usually make the judgement of the call. Believe they line it up in a cone formation to make the call. Look at the screen below:  https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dVjr64E9l7kSo call it what you will. But watching it live like I did, you can see where the ball's trajectory was going and where he grabbed the ball to dunk it for the score. |
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Nah @BADDecker the Devs do!  Had been too busy lately that completely slipped my mind to post this rather telling of the times ad from Coinbase. Which had been created over a year ago but revised weeks ago so to get more onboarding of the plebs into bitcoin.      Watch the complete Coinbase commercial here: https://twitter.com/thomas_fahrer/status/1788169526862860549 |
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I went with the unpopular opinion and back the Dallas Mavericks when they had a 1-point lead towards the end of 3rd quarter, My sole reason for that was because of how Kyrie has been playing all night, and I believe if the Timberwolves have attempted way more 3 point and have knocked down significant number of it but still can get a decent separation, that could mean trouble is lurking around for the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Congrats on your live Mavs bet, i'm surprised that the odds were a bit high at the time. The Timberwolves were close to building their lead by at least double digits before the second quarter ended, but the Mavs kept it together in the last few possessions. Then that back and forth during the fourth quarter with 3 minutes left made it feel like it could've gone either way, but the Mavs quickly brought it back with the double three-pointer while the Timberwolves couldn't get a bucket until the final minute. The loss of the TWolves was due to a bad call by the refs towards that Kat dunk. They say the shot from the previous attempt was within the cylinder of the basket. So Towns dunk did not count which would of tied it with just over a minute and a half left in the game. That was when Luka was on that 9-0 point run and counting that basket from Kat Towns would of switch that momentum the Mavs had to win the game. Hard loss by Minnesota so hopefully they can comeback in tonight's game along with the Pacers who are at Boston. |
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^^ Still a long ways off until this event is upon us as the other sports leagues are wrapping up for the summer break. So still have those to keep us bettors busy enough and it is a well needed rest for the fighters on memorial day long weekend where the UFC is headquartered in Las Vegas. McGregor announced during one of the many podcasts he was on the other day, that he has something big in store for the fans soon. Another world tour after his fight with Chandler perhaps? Anyways, here is the video: Conor McGregor: 'Michael Chandler's head on a Pike... I'm cold in the soul"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbBRtnQ6NnY |
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Better doing that than "In the world today: BREAKING NEWS!" We have these platforms such as X (nobody calls it twitter expect for stuffy old people) to get our r n' d as the simpletons like to call it, who go around wearing trucker hats thinking they are cool but they are just red necks who like to yell that the world is ending. Oh look  :  https://x.com/BitcoinNewsCom/status/1793311751573795183It's a shitcoin, we get it. But it's all blockchain bruh. Deal with it. |
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Some people are getting all worked up over a possible Vitalik tardcoin ETF.
Now they're talking about dogshitcoin ETFs.
What's next? NFT ETFs?
NFT ETF Futures ! AMAZING! Can I lose all of my money with this? -every tardcoiner ever You can and will in these murky waters called the cryptoworld or as many have seen today the panderverse of what Biden and his handlers have done a 180 of their views on cryptocurrency towards the political landscape to gain those 85 million Americans who hold crypto (Think Novogratz math is wrong. There are more people who own dogs with an average of 3 people per household  ) so to gain the power of cryptoholders in their favor. Kucoin will be listing one called gayelon as it was announced earlier today. https://cryptodaily.co.uk/news-in-crypto/crypto-intelligence:gay-elon-musk-gayelon-to-skyrocket-14000-as-kucoin-listing-announced-while-shiba-inu-and-dogecoin-struggleSo make any sort of seriousness from that as you will but those same who will buy that one are the same ones hoping for a SH*TCOIN ETF to be approved. Here is a rather interesting post on X which just happened come up on my landing page earlier, before the passing of the FIT21 bill just several hours ago: "it's time for bitcoin to start competing (aka how to cope with the ethereum ETF, and my predictions for bitcoin)
yesterday was the most important day in bitcoin's recent history. yes, i actually believe that. way more important than bitcoin's own ETF approval. and way more important than predetermined halving dates.
yesterday the cultist dogma of saylor and his low iq laser-eye friends died.
people who only exist on twitter may not know this, but some of the largest bitcoin holders in the west, who i had the extreme displeasure of interacting with offline in the last year, ACTUALLY BELIEVED the conspiracy theory that ETH is an unregistered security and would never have a spot ETF.
(saylor even proudly said that on-stage and on-camera just a few short weeks ago at his own conference)
they ACTUALLY BELIEVED that bitcoin's victory is preordained, that it will never have any competition, that there is no second best.
they ACTUALLY BELIEVED that any change or upgrade is haram because bitcoin is perfect as is and will never have any other competitors.
they ACTUALLY BELIEVED that wall street only likes pet rocks with no vision and no roadmap.
all of that died yesterday, as rumors came out that an ethereum ETF is likely to be approved as soon as tomorrow.
let me be very clear. for the bitcoin maxi regime, this is a devastating blow. i am not referring to the broke laser-eyes on twitter. i mean the very leadership of the cult. those are people who have a lot of vested interest in preventing what just happened. and they lost.
they're licking their wounds today, but the damage is done. they're not coming back from this. their fandom will abandon them. all of their plans were foiled one fair morning and nothing will ever be the same.
this leaves bitcoin at somewhat of a pickle.
the strategy so far has been to count on regulators to stifle competition, and that strategy has now fully failed.
most bitcoin holders are not bitcoin maxis, but they do have to live with the failures of the maxi regime. the lack of vision is going to become a problem now that bitcoin has to compete on equal grounds against the rest of the crypto assets.
a network that doesn't will suffer a lot of outflows. and as it currently stands, bitcoin barely flexed its innovation muscles at all in years. if it wasn't for the orange tsunami started by ordinals last year, i'd say we would've been in dire straits right now.
thankfully casey rodarmor did offer bitcoiners a glimmer of hope, and there is a small ecosystem starting to innovate around bitcoin in the last 18 months.
here are my predictions for what's going to happen with bitcoin in the next 24 months:
1. we're going to see the vast majority of bitcoin stakeholders rally behind "bitcoin season 2". this will happen faster than people think, probably in a matter of weeks.
once the ethereum etfs become a done deal, bitcoiners will be feeling the heat. they will not turn to podcasters again. they will turn to builders. builders bring about progress and new narratives, and that's what every bitcoin holder is going to want to see to stop the outflows from bitcoin etfs to ethereum etfs.
expect to see bitcoin stakeholders such as mining pools, bitcoin VCs, exchanges, etf issuers etc toss the old laser-eye narratives and fully support bitcoin season 2.
2. ordinals going mainstream: i expect a big push from most bitcoin stakeholders, including those who previously opposed them, to make ordinals way more popular. as the digital version of luxury goods, bitcoiners will see ordinals as a trojan horse similar to ethereum NFTs in 2021, and many public-facing narratives will shift towards the collectible use case, at various price points.
after a period of early adoption, NFTs eventually helped onboard a generation of new ethereum users in the previous cycle, and I expect bitcoin whales will give in soon and attempt to use this narrative to onboard new bitcoin users as soon as the ethereum ETF goes live. the competition over flows is going to be fierce, and the bitcoin whales would not want to lose.
3. cross-chain BTC: one thing that early ordinals adopters learned last year, is that trading is a lot more satisfying when the price is BTC, as opposed to some shitcoin.
sure, we can trade whatever we want in the casino, but when the final reward of a successful trade is more BTC in your wallet, there's something really special about that.
those who tried it with ordinals swear by it, and as ordinals become more mainstream -- see (2) above -- many more will be exposed to that concept.
meanwhile, chains like solana are vulnerable: there is no real reason for people to denominate their casino winnings in SOL, even if they use solana for infrastructure.
BTC and ETH will increasingly be seen as the most established and desirable assets in crypto for long term holdings, and as such i think an opportunity will open for encouraging the use of BTC the asset as the preferred asset on other chains like Solana, BNB, etc.
basically, a replacement for stablecoins. bitcoin has a real opportunity to capture mindshare in this area, as ethereum is unlikely to focus on it and will instead focus on its own L2s.
i think it's very likely that within 12-18 months, most phantom wallets will be denominated in BTC while operating in solana.
4. turbo-charged bitcoin wallets: this brings us to wallets. one of the things i learned about early bitcoin season 2 adopters is that they really care about layer 1 bitcoin assets.
they like BTC itself and they like ordinals. and maybe runes.
they DO NOT like assets on so-called "bitcoin L2s". if they'll use L2s, they'll do so transparently, without knowing it happened, and only with L1 assets like BTC itself and ordinals. no one wants assets that only exist on "bitcoin L2s".
i think this presents an opportunity to rethink wallet UX, something that ethereum clearly got wrong. bitcoin season 2 wallets will focus on the assets, not on the networks. users will be able to use their BTC or ordinals transparently across networks (be it mainnet, lightning, "L2s", "rollups", solana, etc). this is what the ethereum L2 UX vision was, but never happened. bitcoin has an opportunity to do this right faster than the competition.
5. consensus upgrades. if anyone had doubts before, yesterday's events should have removed them. an ethereum ETF is the most bullish thing imaginable for the OP_CAT upgrade.
stakeholders were already rallying behind it, but now with bitcoiners under the gun again, any last holdouts should be removed quickly. OP_CAT is a very simple and non-disruptive upgrade, and thankfully it's already well-researched and well-tested.
i expect activation will be swift to allow builders to start experimenting with CAT-based off chain constructs that will allow bitcoin to compete better, without risking any of its fundamentals.
after this small change proves to have positive impact, i expect we'd start seeing more frequent consensus upgrades to allow bitcoin to continue to innovate into the future." source: https://x.com/udiWertheimer/status/1793008881192358380 |
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This being a game 1 it is tough to guess how it will go out the gate.
Remember how everybody was on the Celtics last night yet the Pacers took them to overtime and it wasn't such a walk in the park from what the odds suggested it was going to be for Boston @1.33x pre-game.
So I will be backing the home team in the Timberwolves and possibly the under at 206.5pts combo bet.
But going to bet larger on the ML for Minnesota being 1.54x prematch odds.
Seems like a good confident bet to place since they are doing well and coming off the road so home court advantage will favor them tremendously tonight.
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About shitcoins, I'm wondering if BTC and ETH ETFs don't hurt them in the end (except ETH) ?
Who is going to launch an ETF for any other coin ?
Looks like these stuffy old money, mutual fund management type companies have picked up the memecoin bug.  Posted from their official gold checkmarked X account yesterday on the heels of SEC getting bombarded with comments on the filings for an ETH ETF approval - https://x.com/vaneck_us/status/1792966443950285241Imagine if pepe and not dogecoin is next. <->
I can't believe this shit! This ETH ETF is already retarted af and now they are talking about an ETF for a broken memecoin? are they crazy?
Yes, yes they are. |
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32 - rdbase
Happy BTC Pizza Day to everyone and good luck fellow forum members in getting these awesome looking tangem wallets!
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I also don't have a good read on this game so i'll go back to the first-half strategy that worked in the previous series since the Celtics are always solid at scoring tons of points in the first half. Combine that with the Pacers' offense that likes to up the tempo, they should hit at least 114 points, and looking at their h2h i'm liking our chances even more (in the three regular games they played two went over 120+).  If it works for you then you should stick with it and it seemed to hit for you with the tied at 64 pts each at the half. It is at overtime and it has been a wild one with that Jalen Brown three. Had a props bet and all them hit except for Tatum having over 4.5 three pointers. Was a longshot at 101x odds but it is a such a fun game 1 to watch i don't care for it to win or not now. |
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You could say Forest were safe entering the final game. They had to lose big and Luton to win big in order to turn the 12-13 goal difference and that's just near impossible.
Since you had no other draws i suppose you went Burnley?
Only heard what Ariel while watching the podcast had said yesterday and just brushed on the club staying in the league for next season as he talks to the former player of Nottingham during his past shows so he has some connection to the club. As I had mentioned I didn't follow them one bit but knew they were just one spot outside the relegation zone but didn't know by how much. Luton scored first if I am not mistaken so it could of been a trashing but Fulham straightened themselves right quick to comeback with 4 goals to quell their attempt, not matter how futile it might have been. Anyways, since not being in the pool I didn't follow many of the clubs in the gutter of the table while the season went on. And yes, got burnt by burnley.  Wonder how many got the share of the grand prize if anyone got 10/10 for the final predictor. They should have this promotion available during the Euros. |
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Suddenly been reading a lot of post saying Donald Pump dude's been bullish on Bitcoin lately 😁 Meanwhile 😊  It's good to know that he's gradually coming to the winning side. Who knows his view on Bitcoin at $71k now? Road to $100k coming faster and faster than ever before🏆 2019 isn't "meanwhile" it's ancient history in terms of Bitcoin. Muse over this Michael Saylor tweet from 2013: #Bitcoin days are numbered. It seems like just a matter of time before it suffers the same fate as online gambling.— Michael Saylor (@saylor) December 19, 2013 Meanwhile is for recipes ie. 3. Bring water and rice to a boil in a covered saucepan. Then, reduce the heat to low and let it simmer until the rice is tender - about 20 minutes 4. Meanwhile, check BTC price on stamp and check for new posts in Bitcointalk.org's Wall Observer thread. Stamp price!  "I'm bull posting lately and not bullshitting!"  https://x.com/elliotrades/status/1792646585504952651 |
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Yes @slaman29 a nice little surprise when you win these promotions and they send it to your balance for a currency you don't usually deposit to. Then with what happened to you, while you are switching over to it, you see something you had not expected being there to begin with. The greatest feeling to start off your betting day, isn't it? Got 9/10 correct so received my $1000USDT prize within the day. As the games weren't that difficult to predict with almost all the favorites winning and the final day we didn't see any draws happen. Only one I didn't have right was the Nottingham Forest match. Had I been aware they were fending off relegation (didn't follow the club at all this season and only found out by watching a podcast of MMAFightingSBN where Ariel Helwani announced it first off. His support of them from a post a year ago: https://www.sportskeeda.com/mma/news-an-elated-ariel-helwani-reacts-nottingham-forest-stay-english-premier-league) then I would of picked them and got the grand prize of $10,000USDT. Which I believe several people probably had won so it would of been shared amongst the winners as stated in the terms and conditions linked on the promotions page of the EPL Predictor challenge. Anyways, almost doubled it up in several bets in the Serie A and MLB last night. So it had been a good betting day with those winnings. Hope you all had the chance to OPT-IN yesterday for Bitcoin Pizza Day as they had been doing a giveaway of some mbtc to random player accounts tomorrow May the 22nd. "Stay active from May 17th to 21st and you could be one of the lucky players to get a random mBTC drop on the 22nd. Whether you're a sports aficionado or a casino game enthusiast, we've got toppings for everyone." source: https://sportsbet.io/promotions/2024-05-bitcoin-pizza-daynote: link is not valid anylonger since entry into the contest has ended |
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So without any UFC for the next couple of weeks we have a peaceful calm to the storm of fights coming up in June. Watching MMA Experts latest telecast on youtube so to get hyped for the next main event of UFC 302 next month: UFC 302 Early Predictions, Barboza vs Murphy Recap, McGregor Teases HUGE Announcement | Moneyline https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2vU584IoDU |
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