That is really hard to predict in my opinion. I think though that we have seen the first impact of this news already. That was when the price of Ethereum went up pretty quickly to almost 2000$ like two weeks ago or so when the news become public that the merge was successful on the testnet and that it will go live earlier than expected. Since then the prices keep on dropping tough and ETH was below 1500$ a few minutes ago. So i would say the first big effect of this news is already gone again. I think that if the merge is successful the price will go up a bit but not that much. If it fails though then i think the prices will drop significantly.

Well i would say it is not that big of a surprise that Bochum is at the bottom of the table at the moment. I would guess that most experts and fans expected them to already be relegated down again to the second Bundesliga after the last season but back then they managed to surprise everyone and to finish the season on the 13th position and they were never really in danger.
This season they did not manage to get a good start and now it becomes harder and harder for them to keep the good mood in the club. In addition to that there are some rumors regarding their coach Thomas Reis because his contract is running out and it seems like he does not want to prolong it. That can also cause some unrest.

It is true that more and more regulations are hitting the crypto market in the last few months and years and of course there is also a reason for that. The whole crypto scene has just become to big and mainstream already to just keep neglecting it totally. It is also not a big suprise that privacy coins are pretty high on the list of things that governments and federal banks want to be regulated or even banned because in the end they want to control the cashflow or at least know when and where the money is going.
That topic is not new though and i think that even if a ban on privacy coins will happen, then they won't be dead, there will always be a need for privacy coins like Monero, Dash and so on.

If i were in Frenkie de Jongs position then i would do completely the same to be honest. I see the fault for this 100% at the side of FC Barcelona because as far as i know De Jong accepted a deal with them that he would waive a lot of his salary for the last season and that he would get those missing payments on top of his regular salary during this season. So De Jong did Barca a big favor last year and now they want to get rid of him without paying him his earned salary. That is very shady from Barca in my opinion and i think they should have make sure first that they can pay their existing players before they started to buy new ones. Crazy what is going on at Barca.

I am also not a fan of meme-coins, to be honest i dislike them pretty much and i am also very happy that the whole meme-coin (or shit-coin if you ask me) hype is almost over now. A few months ago it was just extremely crazy and stupid what was going on. There were like hundreds of new meme-coins appearing each and every day and the only reason for that was that Elon Musk made a tweet about Dogecoin. Obviously that is not enough to justify the creation of a new crypto project, let alone hundreds of those.
Even i have to admit though that Shiba Inu definitely was the most successful one of those meme-coins and even though i would never invest a single dollar into it i do think that it will still be here in a year.

For me the strongest group that has been drawn is Group C because it has three teams in it with very big names and a successful history with Bayern Munich, FC Barcelona and Inter Milan. For me Bayern is the favorite to finish the group in the first place and Inter and Barcelona will probably battle for the second position, but of course it is also possible that Barca and Inter will be ahead of Bayern, everything is possble there in my opinion.
Group B is not that strong so i think that Atletico Madrid should manage it to go through to the knockout stage pretty easily and Bayer Leverkusen has a good chance to advance also if they can manage to beat Porto at least once. PSG and Juventus in the same group is also interesting.

I think that 2018 was still quite OK in terms of the number of upcoming projects in comparison to the 2020 and 2021 hype around new tokens. The reason why 2018 was better in my opinion is pretty simple. Back then most of the new and upcoming altcoins at least tried to offer some use case and functionality to it's users. Of course a lot of them are dead again ow but at least they tried to achieve something.
In the last two years though it were mostly useless meme-coins that were created and the reason for that was not because they were needed but because the creators wanted to make some quick and dirty money without putting any effort in. Thank god that hype is over and more than 99% of those shit-coins are dead again already.

I think that in this season it is basically the same as in at least the 10 seasons before: If Bayern Munich is able to perform at 100% or maybe even only at 90% during the whole season, then there is nothing that Borussia Dortmund or RB Leipzig could do to be ahead of Bayern at the end of the Bundesliga season in my opinion. The difference in the quality of the squads is even bigger this year then in the years before if you ask me even though Dortmund made some good tranfers with Süle and Schlotterbeck and Leipig was able to prolong the contract with Nkunku because Bayern was able to sign to world class players with De Ligt and Mane and i also thin that Gravenberch is a great player.

I feel exactly the same. I mean come on, players can not be that naive to go to a club like FC Barcelona just because it has a huge name and a very successful past and history. Just look at Jules Kounde for example. Barca already sold club property worth around 500 to 600 Million € in the last few months and still they don't have the money to register him as their player. That is just absolutely crazy to me. I already read today that Kounde might leave the club again in the coming days because he still can not play.
I also will never understand why Lewandowski wanted to leave Bayern Munich for Barca. Bayern has the better squad and at Bayern he could at least be sure that he gets his full salary everytime.

Apecoin is one of those projects that started with a huge marketcap right off the bat, just like the token from Uniswap for example. The reason for that is, that a pretty big number of users got those tokens for free because they used their platforms or products before. This also means though that a lot of people are holding this tokens now that have a significant value and they did not pay any money for that which means they also don't have a price range where they have to sell in order to be in the profit zone.
So there can be a big sell pressure for this tokens at all times. So i would be very careful to invest in a token that was distributes in such a way. Either you were one of the lucky ones that got them for free, or you skip that project.

Ajax Amsterdam is one of those clubs in Europe that are always able to bring out good new and young players almost each season. Only this season they have sold Ryan Gravenberch to Bayern Munich and also lost Mazraoui to them after they did not manage to prolong the contract with him and in the years before they have sold Frenkie de Jong and Matthijs de Ligt for huge amounts of money to Barca and Juventus.
This have brought Ajax Amsterdam a lot of money, but of course this is also a problem. They can never really hold their squad together because Ajax is simply no Tier 1 club at the moment so their best players are always leaving for the biggest clubs. It's the same with Antony and Jurrien Timber.

The last price drop came completely out of nowhere for me i have to admit and even now i still don't know what have caused it. It also was a pretty massive drop in my opinion because almost every project lost around 10% of value in a very short time. At the moment it looks like the prices have stabilized again because there were not big movements in the last 2 days or so in terms of the price and today almost all projects are in the green zone again. Of course it does not mean that much to be 1 or 2 percent in the plus zone today if you have lost over 10% a few days ago. The market remains very unstable in my opinion.

I just read that Aubameyang will go join Chelsea not immediately but in January, but then Chelsea does not have to pay any transfer fee for him, which is a pretty good deal for them it seems, given the fact that Aubameyang still has a contract at Barcelona until June 2025. I would guess that Barcelona wants to get rid of him no matter what because they are in such deep financial trouble that they must save every salary that they can and i would guess that Aubameyang is getting a pretty big salary.
He already played in the premier league before so i am pretty sure he can still perform at Chelsea even though he is already 33.

It's not only the fact that Bayern Munich is looking like they are in the best shape of the last 5 years or so. In addition to that it also looks like that their 2 biggest rivals for the Bundesliga title, Dortmund and Leipzig, are not playing that well at the moment. Leipzig totally screwed up their start with only 2 points out of 3 games. Dortmund won the first two matches but even there they were not the better team and pretty lucky that they have won those 2 games in the match against Werder Bremen this saturday, they almost managed to win the game again even though Bremen was better but then they still lost 2-3.
So Bayern is now already ahead of the others again. It's still very early in the season. I doubt that Bayern can keep that level over a whole year.

I watched the game today and the performance of Bayern Munich continues to impress me. They look really strong this year and way more motivated than last year in my opinion. The departure of Lewandowski did not hurt them at all it seems as all the other offensive players have way more space and freedom now, because not all actions are tailored to Lewandowski. Because of that Bayern is way harder to predict for the opponents defense.
If Bayern continues to play that way then i don't see any competition for the Bundesliga title again this year and Bayern could also have a good chance to go far in the CL too, but of course it's still pretty early.

I just don't understand why Barcelona has bought Kounde and Lewandowski in the first place if they were not even sure if they have enough money to be able to register them. Now they desperately need to get rid of some of their players or some of their newly signed stars can't even play for them even though Barca has already sold club property worth around 500 to 600 Million € that is just absolutely crazy to me.
The way the FC Barcelona officials are dealing with money in the last years is absolutely irresponsible and if they continue to do this in that way then i think Barcelona will be completely bankrupt and out of order within the next few years, and rightly so if that will be the case.

Well it has definitely not been a get rich scheme for me so far  . I agree with you though that many are entering the crypto market with completely wrong and exaggerated expectations. Of course it is possible that you will find the gem project that will make you a x100 or maybe even more of your initial investment but the chances of finding that one project are very slim because there are just so crypto projects out there now. If you are new to the market then the chance of picking the right projects are probably even slimmer because you maybe will still follow the advice of crypto influencers that are just shilling their sh*t-coin to you.

That was an absolutely crazy game. I watched the conference and i had to leave in the 80th minute or so because i had an appointment and when i left i was like: "Damn Dortmund really is lucky this season so far, they won all 3 games so far even though they were never the better team and should have lost at least 2 out of those 3 games". When i came home and saw the results i could not believe it at first to be honest. That a team turns around a 0-2 after the 89th minute happens only like once in a decade or so.
I think that Werder Bremen has totally deserved that win. They were controlling the game and also had the better chances. Dortmund can not be lucky all the time.

I am kinda torn if this transfers is a good one for Manchester United or not and i think we have to look at two different aspects here. First of all i think that Casemiro is a very good player and that he can help every club in the world, so i would say that from a sporting point of view that transfer definitely makes sense for me. From a financial point of view i have to say that this was a pretty expensive deal. Like others here already mentioned here, Casemiro is already 30 years old and he gets a 5 year contract with a high salary at Manchester United. By the end of his contract Casemiro will be 35 and ManU will get nothing or almost nothing for him.

I have not heard about this rumor before to be honest. Maybe this rumor was the reason for the pretty sharp price drop a day ago. I think that is definitely possible. I know that 2 Billion of BTC are not that much in terms of percentage of the total supply but the fact alone that 2 Billion $ worth of a single asset will be released (and maybe even sold) at the same time definitely has an impact on the price. I mean 2 Billion $ of selling pressure at once is a lot and probably magnitudes higher than the normal sell pressure of BTC. Of course it is only theoretically possible that those 2 B$ worth of BTC will be sold at the same time but still.