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1  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion on: September 23, 2025, 05:37:27 PM
It's important game for both teams as loser will be eliminated from this contest and that's because both teams have lost their first game of super four. At the moment Pakistan in full control of the game and chances of Pakistan losing this game is very low. In first 5 overs Pakistan managed to score 43 runs without losing any wicket and that means Pakistan need 91 runs in 90 balls. SL remain unbeaten in group stage but in super four SL performance is down and out.  

Pakistan is under pressure at the moment. Pakistan has managed to score 50 runs after 7 overs. But the important thing is that Pakistan has lost three important wickets in 7 overs. Farhan, Saim ayub and Fakhar Zaman have returned to the dressing room. If Agha Salman and Hussain Talat cannot stay at the crease for long, it will not be easy for Pakistan to score 134 runs. Today I expect a responsible innings from Agha Salman. Pakistan will have to score 84 runs off 78 balls to win.
2  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2025/26 on: September 22, 2025, 10:25:00 AM
The absence of Yamal in the lineup didn't affect Barcelona performance in this match. What's more remarkable is that Barcelona dominated the full 90 minutes, while Getafe only played defensively but didn't change anything because they still lost badly. I'm also impressed by Ferran Torres, who performed impressively with his 2 goals. Now with this valuable victory, Barcelona has collected 13 points, and Real Madrid is above them with 15 points. But clearly, the battle between these two teams has only just begun. I can't wait for El Clasico.

Yamal has been out of Barcelona's squad for several matches due to injury. Yamal is one of the most important players in barcelona's squad. Despite Yamal not being in the squad, Barcelona's overall performance was quite strong  in the last two matches. We have also  seen a good performance from Barcelona in the champions league match. We have only seen Barcelona's dominance against Getafe. Barcelona's  attacking players played well, as well as Barcelona's defense  was also strong. Barcelona got a great victory of 3 - 0. Barcelona will face Real oviedo and Real Sociedad in the next two matches. I believe we will see Barcelona win in these two matches too.
3  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Premier League Prediction Thread 2025/2026 on: September 22, 2025, 07:47:11 AM
Seriously! I'm disappointed with this draw. Arsenal should have taken advantage of Man City current form and won the match. But from what I've seen so far it's clear that their forwards aren't clinical enough when facing big teams. For example, against Man Utd and Liverpool, their xG was very poor and this was repeated in the match against Man City. It seems Gyokeres hasn't really adapted yet.

Arsenal were expected to perform better. But considering the home match, Arsenal's performance was not good enough. Manchester City played defensively. Since Manchester City was able to take the lead very quickly, it was natural for them to play defensively in this match. But Arsenal should have played more attackingly. Then maybe they could have broken Manchester City's defense. Honestly, I am not happy with Arsenal's overall gameplay this season. If Arsenal's target is the Premier League title, then they will have to perform better. If they perform like this, it is impossible to win the Premier League title.
4  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Germany League - Bundesliga Prediction Thread on: September 22, 2025, 07:20:41 AM
You can count it however you want, but the fact is, it's hard to compete with these teams when they're doing well. Bayern are currently being chased by Dortmund, who are two points behind, and Leipzig, who are three points behind, but I think that gap will only widen with time. And in Ligue 1, Monaco, Lyon, and Strasbourg are tied with PSG on points, but PSG has a game in hand, so there's still competition. It's worth keeping in mind that this is only the beginning of the season, and their dominance will only increase.

The teams have just played four matches each. Bayern munich have won all four of their matches, and Dortmund have won three. Dortmund are only two points behind. However, I doubt  whether Dortmund can continue their winning streak in the long run. Especially if they face Bayern Munich, Dortmund's points gap with Munich will increase. If Dortmund can beat Bayern Munich in the match on October  18, then I would say that Dortmund has a chance of winning the title. But the  chances of that happening are very low.
5  Economy / Economics / Re: We work to earn, not to struggle in life. on: September 22, 2025, 04:34:04 AM

What you said is also a true reality in society and even in my own life. There are successful people here who had mediocre educations and never even went to college after graduating from elementary and high school. Yet, now they are the bosses of ten employees who work for them. This makes me think that even higher education doesn't guarantee success and immediate employment. The proof is that even people without higher education can still succeed with their own ideas, even if it's basically starting their own business and expanding it to become very well-known.

Education and degrees never guarantee anything for us not only in this era but in any era. It is just a tool, a platform to open up more opportunities for us. The only difference in modern times compared to the past is that education and degrees have become the basic standard. This means that our world has become more civilized and it is easier for everyone to go to school and get degrees. Therefore, to survive and thrive in today's modern world, we not only need to meet basic standards (educational qualifications and degrees) but also need more advanced things (skills, experience) if we want to survive and be respected.

Don't blame your education and degrees, if you fail or fall behind in society because it is your fault. It's like when you go to the battlefield, you are equipped with the most advanced weapons but you don't know how to use them. It's your fault, not your weapon's inferiority.

It's true that there are many successful, wealthy people who only graduated from high school or elementary school, but do you know what they had to sacrifice and trade off? They even paid with their blood and lives, can you do the same?
6  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Could Bitcoin’s value proposition be undermined by a few large players hoarding on: September 22, 2025, 04:11:57 AM
Few large players is bad for business in any industry ,because this implies a monopoly and these players can break or make the industry at will !!

And the fact that market's are highly speculative, any sell from these whales will be picked up by market watchers who will broadcast this to the world and everyone will be waiting to hit the seller button to ride the wave 🌊 with them whale's 🐋, so yes few large players can undermine what's happening on the markets.

Everything has its downside and we need to accept that. Although with the participation of big players, they can manipulate the market in their favor and can destroy the natural nature of the market. But besides that, without their participation, there would be no large capital flow into the market. Can Bitcoin and the market thrive and increase in value to hundreds of thousands of dollars?

Bitcoin is just a financial market and any financial market needs a lot of money to develop. So we need those big players if we want bitcoin price to rise and become popular globally.
7  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Should we be concerned big firms and countries are hodling more bitcoin? on: September 22, 2025, 04:03:38 AM
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You perfectly captured key point about Bitcoin it is open asset for everyone. And dear I agree that this is not just for rich or poor. It is system anyone can join they can buy small part or whole coin. Your view on big companies is also great. Instead of seeing them as threat we should think their investment is positive sign. When these large companies put much of money into Bitcoin it shows they share same long term belief and vision for its future as individual investors do. Their investment is showing power of Bitcoin and showing confidence of growing that we are all part of same movement.

Gold and stocks used to be open investments for everyone but over time they have become more valuable and expensive. This made them less accessible to many people in the lower classes of society and over time, people thought that they were only for the rich.

Likewise, with wealthy people, institutions jumping into the bitcoin market, this will be good for the value of bitcoin as demand increases sharply. But soon, bitcoin will be worth $500,000 or $1 million, and while it will still be an open asset, it will clearly be less accessible to the poor.
8  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion on: September 21, 2025, 03:58:46 PM
If today's match does not turn out to be a victory for Pakistan, then the people who like Pakistan will be disappointed with them. Because Pakistan has faced defeat from India before and if Pakistan victory today match then that defeat will turn into a victory for Pakistan. Pakistan batsmen are batting first and are rising towards a strong target and they are scoring more and more runs. Pakistan batsmen have scored 97 runs in 10 overs so far which is playing quite well and if they score runs like this then the match will become difficult for India. India bowling is not very tough, which Pakistan batsmen should take advantage of. Pakistan team should play strong so that they can defeat India and victory easily.

Pakistan has not won against India for a long time. Most of the time we have seen India win. And India defeated Pakistan very easily in the first match of Asia Cup. But today's match will probably be different. But it is not possible to predict anything about Pakistan's performance. In 15 overs, Pakistan scored 119 runs for the loss of 4 wickets. Even after 9 overs, I saw that Pakistan's total was 83 runs for the loss of only one wicket. In these 6 overs, they have only 36 runs and lost three wickets. Will Pakistan be able to collect a big score? Will Pakistan be able to collect 60+ in the last 5 overs?
9  Economy / Speculation / Re: Volatile week on: September 21, 2025, 09:08:07 AM


I don’t even understand the fuss about this rate cut that many people are looking towards it as a way for the market to actually starts a super bullish trend, it is not that we haven’t been having rates cuts before that I Will say this will be the first, yes I can deny the fact that the more rate are cuts the more investors actually get more money to invest into volatile assets like bitcoin but this is usually a gradual process most especially with the rate cut not that so high for now, I will say until the rate cuts happens again to make it more like 50bps cut off the market will actually slowly see the reaction or demand from investors.

The volatility after FOMC meeting or even after CPI meeting is usually for short time and most likely it is chased by those traders most especially daily traders looking for short term profits or looking to close their positions before the short term volatility takes them out through liquidation. But for someone who holds spot I don’t see any reason to be worried because the change is most definitely not going to be for long term

The market was expecting and excited about the rate cut not because they believed it would help the market grow rapidly afterward. What they were waiting for was that once the Fed decided to cut rates, it meant more rate cuts and QE would start soon.

Like me, I don't expect much from the Fed cutting rates on the 17th because that is almost certain, but what I am interested in is Powell's remarks after the meeting. And everything was great when he hinted that there will be two more rate cuts and QT is in its final stages.

High interest rates coupled with prolonged quantitative tightening have kept the economy stagnant and financial markets never had a real boom. So the Fed cutting rates is an extremely optimistic signal, so there's nothing wrong with people getting excited.
10  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin as a primary reserve on: September 21, 2025, 08:45:46 AM

You and the other newbies or even senior people in this market with experience can be gamers or gamblers but Strategy (MicroStrategy) is neither a gamer or gambler. They actually spent years for researching about Bitcoin, is it good or bad, potentiality in the future and more things, before their CEO bought his first bitcoins individually. Eventually the CEO succeeded to convince the Strategy board members to invest the company money in Bitcoin.

They smartly invested in Bitcoin with Dollar Cost Averaging strategy and they have been doing this in about 5 years with solid plans. It's not like they are lucky with their game, bet whatever, they have succeeded by having right knowledge and proper investment method.

The portfolio shows they stack Bitcoin over time and more orange dots appear on the chart with time.
https://saylortracker.com/

Agreed that Strategy has spent years researching and is serious about investing in bitcoin. They may be considered icons of the bitcoin community but we cannot deny one thing, investing is risky. Every investment has risks, and bitcoin is no exception. So with MicroStrategy's strategy of betting it all on Bitcoin, they are facing risks even greater than any they have ever taken before. So I don’t think there’s anything wrong with calling him a gamer.

MicroStrategy is using debt (over 8 billion), issuing shares (30 billion) and profits from business (1-2 billion) to buy bitcoin. That means if the price of bitcoin drops sharply and lasts for years, causing their stock price to drop, they will not be able to raise capital and will not be able to repay their debts on time. They will be able to dump their bitcoins to cut their losses and bankruptcy is a possibility.
11  Economy / Economics / Re: Investing in Bitcoin or physical trading? on: September 21, 2025, 08:17:00 AM


With bigger capital, institutional investor can get bigger profit but if their ROI is smaller than an individual investor, I don't consider that institutional investor got better profit than the individual investor.


An individual invests $10,000 with an ROI of 100%, meaning they make a profit of about $10,000. Meanwhile, an organization has a large capital and they invest 1 million dollars with ROI of 20%, which means the profit they get is 200k.

I don't think retail investors will have a better chance of getting returns than institutions, not to mention there are institutions investing billions of dollars in bitcoin. Just think, with just a 5%-10% ROI, they made hundreds of millions of dollars. This is something that retail investors like us can hardly achieve.
12  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion on: September 20, 2025, 05:05:13 PM
hahaha, Bangladesh batsmen have already started batting like idiots. Bangladesh could only score 2 runs in the first over. And opener Tanzid has already returned to the dressing room. Tanzid could not add any runs to the scoreboard. Bangladesh is batting at a big target. It is quite difficult to score 169 runs on this pitch. If the top order could have played well, the match would have been competitive. But Bangladesh stumbled in the first over. After such a bad start, the road to victory for Bangladesh has become even more difficult.
Don't call them idiots, they are the ones who are in the top four teams and in the Super Fours. That is a good achievement. Also in this match, they bowled well and restricted Sri Lanka to 168 runs. I think it was a good bowling display by them. Mustafizur Rahman and Mahedi Hasan bowled well and took five wickets between them.

Yeah, Tanzid Hasan got out early but if other batsmen, especially Litton Das can stay on the wicket, it can turn out to be an interesting chase. They just need to stay on the wicket and runs will come by.

You may have forgotten that Bangladesh was lucky enough to qualify for the Super 4. If Afghanistan had won against Sri Lanka, Bangladesh would not have qualified for the Super 4.
Also, what else can you call them but idiots? When was the last time you saw Bangladesh's opening pair batting well? Bangladesh is batting at a big target. The opening pair definitely needed to bat well. If Tanzid had batted a little better, the road to victory would have been easier for Bangladesh.
However, opener Saif is playing responsibly. And Bangladesh is also in good shape at the moment. Bangladesh has managed to collect 59 runs in 6 overs of the power play. Liton scored 23 runs off 15 balls and Saif scored 34 runs off 19 balls. Bangladesh still needs 110 runs off 84 balls to win.
13  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion on: September 20, 2025, 04:41:07 PM
Bangladesh team faced Sri Lanka in the Super Four match today. In this match, Sri Lanka batted in the first innings and scored 167 runs. Although Bangladesh team put a lot of pressure on Sri Lanka team in the beginning, Sri Lanka was able to score good runs towards the end. If Bangladesh team cannot beat Sri Lanka team in today's match, then they will be eliminated from Super Four. That is why Bangladesh team has to meet the target of 168 runs. If they fail, then their Asia Cup dream will be broken. However, I think Bangladesh team will play their games well and bat with patience in order to have a good batting performance. Moreover, since Sri Lanka team is good in bowling performance, Bangladesh team must play their best batting otherwise they will not be able to beat Sri Lanka.

hahaha, Bangladesh batsmen have already started batting like idiots. Bangladesh could only score 2 runs in the first over. And opener Tanzid has already returned to the dressing room. Tanzid could not add any runs to the scoreboard. Bangladesh is batting at a big target. It is quite difficult to score 169 runs on this pitch. If the top order could have played well, the match would have been competitive. But Bangladesh stumbled in the first over. After such a bad start, the road to victory for Bangladesh has become even more difficult.
14  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2025/26 on: September 20, 2025, 02:07:00 PM
It's the 90th minute and the score is 0-3 in the Girona-Levante game. What rock bottom Girona are!
It turns out that after 4 games they have only one point and a goal difference of -12. Considering their current home defeat to a direct competitor, I'd say Girona is becoming the favorite to leave La Liga. An incredible decline for a team that recently played in the Champions League.
It will be interesting to see other surprises in this round, all the favorites have very easy games.

In the 2023-24 season , Girona was in fourth place in the table and qualified for the Champions League. This season, this team will  probably not be able to get out of the relegation zone. Girona has started the season badly. The team is in the last position in the  points table. They have only 1 point in 5 matches.
Girona lost their home match against Levante today by a big margin of 4 - 0. Girona performed very badly. We did not see a good performance from their attack, at the same time Girona's defense  was also weak. If Girona continues such a bad performance, we will not see Girona in La Liga next season
15  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion on: September 20, 2025, 08:51:02 AM
I think Axar Patel was a good bowler but he has only delivered a single over and conceded four runs. However, in the end of the day India won the game, but in each over when Oman was batting it looked like India would lose, an impressive performance by them.

Agree. The way India performed against Oman was  not good. India won by just 21 runs. Firstly, India set a target of 189 runs on this pitch. We expected to see a bigger score from a team  like India. Secondly, the Indian bowlers also failed to do well. Oman managed to score 167 runs for the loss of just 4 wickets. Oman does not have  any experienced batsmen in their squad. If Oman had had experienced batsmen in their squad, India would have lost this match. The Indian captain used 8 of his bowlers. We did not see any bowler bowling satisfactorily.
16  Economy / Speculation / Re: BTC Shows Strong Recovery Amid Fed Rate Cut on: September 20, 2025, 03:29:06 AM
It is believed that a rate cut will increase the amount of investors since more of them will put money in risky assets. The price is currently 116,343.99 and my prediction is that it could get to $125k and above before the end of this month

In theory, if interest rates fall and the economy becomes more stable, investors will tend to invest in riskier assets. But so far, the Fed has only cut once in 2025, interest rates are still quite high (3.75%-4%) and they say the quantitative tightening process is not over yet. That means the economic situation is not really stable yet, money has not been printed and there is no large cash flow into the market. So we should not be too hasty to rejoice and set expectations too high.

We need more positive signals before expecting the market to boom such as they will continue to lower interest rates, CPI will decrease as expected. Only then does the money really flow in and the market explode. So I believe it won't be until mid-October that we really see more pronounced growth.
17  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Why is Bitcoin hard for people to understand? on: September 20, 2025, 03:03:45 AM
Because bitcoin in reality is very complex, most especially if you are not inclined to technology and innovations. And the fact that people are used to see a currency that can be physically touch and seen, but bitcoin is only seen online and therefore people can’t even hold or keep it physically inside their pocket just like fiat currency is.

And lastly, bitcoin appreciates and depreciates its value any time of the day, one reason that majority of the people do not even care to do research and understand.

Bitcoin is not complicated and you do not need to be tech savvy or have in-depth knowledge of technology to understand it. As long as you have a little bit of tech savvy like internet access and know how to use a smartphone, you will be able to use bitcoins.

If people believe in the virtual numbers that banks give them through their bank accounts and apps. There is no reason why bitcoin is not practical for them.

In my opinion the only problem here is that bitcoin is not really popular and not promoted by the government, which is why people are hesitant to learn and accept it. If the government openly encourages people to use bitcoin, I believe they will flock to bitcoin.
18  Economy / Economics / Re: Investing in Bitcoin or physical trading? on: September 20, 2025, 02:41:47 AM
I would advise you to sell your bitcoin and invest in your business, as once your business grow you can always buy more bitcoins as a saving or investment, but right now, if you wanna start it, simply sell bitcoin and go ahead with it.

I support this decision and if it were me, I would do the same. While bitcoin still has the potential to increase in price and still help us make profits, the reality is that the days of getting rich by investing small amounts in bitcoin are over. We won't get rich holding a small amount of bitcoin even if we hold it for the next 20 years. Meanwhile, business can help us earn a lot of money and even become rich if we have good ideas and plans. Not to mention, when we have a lot of money or become rich through business, owning more bitcoins will become easier.

Look at the institutions and businesses that are making many times more profit from bitcoin than us even though they invested after us. Simply because they have more capital and money than us.

But in the end, the final decision is still OP's, no one can give him advice on what to do and what not to do. Because only he knows what he wants and needs.
19  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Will bitcoin be able to replace traditional banking in the next 15 years on: September 20, 2025, 02:15:00 AM
I don't know why people want bitcoin to take over banks I guess that will be because of the love they have for bitcoin but the same time they should not forget that bitcoin is not meant for that and they should know the advantages of bitcoin now than commercials banks in term of savings.

It doesn’t just stem from the blind love for bitcoin but also because they do not understand the role and importance of banks in the economy. They think of banks as just places where they can deposit their savings or help them handle their daily bill payments. They do not know that it is not by chance that banks are considered the backbone of the national economy when providing many services and utilities for businesses and entrepreneurs to develop, balancing the economy so that people can have a stable life.

They don't even know how quickly the economy would collapse without banks and if bitcoin became currency.
20  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Italian League Prediction Thread (Serie A) on: September 19, 2025, 05:43:03 PM
Meanwhile, Juventus only managed a draw. However, that was slightly better than losing.

Juventus performed well. But they were very lucky that they were able to secure 1 point from this match. After 90 minutes of the match, Juventus was trailing 4-2 in the match. After 90 minutes, Juventus scored two goals and they were able to draw the match.
Juventus played in a completely attacking strategy in this match. Juventus players were able to attack a lot. However, Juventus' defense was weak. If the defense was strong, Juventus would never have conceded 4 goals. Especially I would say that Juventus' goalkeeper's performance was bad. Dortmund players were only able to make 5 on target shots. Goalkeeper Di Gregorio was able to save only 1
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