For me the chances of FC Chelsea to advance into the next round are just as slim, or even non-existent, as the one of Bayern Munich tomorrow. While FC Chelsea is "only" 2 goals behind against Real Madrid for me the performances of Chelsea in the last few games were even weaker than the ones of Bayern Munich. Real totally dominated them in the first leg and could have scored even more goals, while Bayern Munich was at least at the same level with ManCity until they conceded the second goal, after that they completely fell apart.
That being said, this is football and if Chelsea is able to go into the halftime break with a 1-0 lead then everything is possible again because even Real will get nervous when they are in the 80th minute with a 1-0 for Chelsea.

At the moment Arbitrum is definitely the hottest ethereum layer 2 solution out there. They are still having a lot of attention at the moment because of that huge airdrop that they did that brought tens of thousands users tokens worth 1000$ or more. Then a few days ago i have read a statement somewhere that the TVL on the Arbitrum chain was higher than the TVL of Ethereum itself. This is absolutely makes sense to me, because now that the market is making stronger movements again the fees on the native ethereum chain are already up at 60 gwei again, which is just way to high. A uniswap trade costs 25$ at the moment.

The performance of Bayern Munich was not stable before Thomas Tuchel became their new coach too. That was the main reason, why Julian Nagelsmann was fired. Of course now it seems like that change does not have any effect, but Thomas Tuchel is the last one to blame for that. In such a short amount of time he just can not really learn a new system or playstyle to the team. He has to work with what was there before. Even though Bayern Munich showed a pretty weak performance on Saturday against Hoffenheim it still feels like Borussia Dortmund was the big loser of this past matchday because they received the equalizer so late.

It seems like Osimhen will be the most wanted player in the transfer period that will come after this season. A lot of the biggest clubs will be interested to sign him. The last weeks made pretty obvious, that Bayern Munich for example really needs a world class number 9 again after Robert Lewandowski went to Barca. Thomas Tuchel is already looking for great strikers that could join Bayern for the next season and Osimhen is probably his personal favorite together with Kolo Muani from Frankfurt.  I don't know if Real Madrid is also wanting to sign Osimhen this summer, because Benzema still has a contract for one more year and i doubt that Benzema or Osimhen would be happy to sit on the bench.

I am not really a crypto expert but if you ask me then i would say that in terms of future growth potential, then i think that ETH has still more room to grow than Bitcoin. The reason for my opinion is quite simple. Bitcoin already did a x30000 or even more since it's very early days. Ethereum on the other also already did around a x7000 based on it's ico price. So there is still a factor of 4 between them at the moment.
That fact alone though does not necessarily mean though that ETH will really grow more in the future than BTC because Bitcoin still is and probably always will be the big lead indicator for the whole crypto space. So it is also possible in my opinion that BTC will outperform most of the altcoins in the future. It is really hard to tell.

For a neutral spectator i would say that the match between Vfb Stuttgart and Borussia Dortmund today was probably one of the most exciting one to watch in the last few years. I agree with you, that probably no one thought during the half time break, that Stuttgart would have any chance to come back into this game because they were two goals behind and even had one player less on the field already. The team of Stuttgart showed some great morale and passion though in the second half and in the end i think the draw as a totally deserved result. Dortmund was better in the first half and Stuttgart in the second one.
Of course Dortmund should have never let Stuttgart back into the game, that was completely their fault and also completely unnecessary.

First of all, it is pretty obvious that this is just a pretty badly hidden shill post for your exchange, but i don't really have a problem with that. The crypto space is still pretty much the wild west and a little bit of bad shilling is really not the worst that is going on here. To the topic of meme-coins. For me they are all just shitcoins that have no purpose. I can still understand, that a lot people are liking Dogecoin because it was the first of it's kind and really just created for fun it seems. All the other stupid meme-coins that were coming out since then and especially since Elon Musk made that tweets were simply created because the people behind it want to make a quick buck without any effort.

I agree here. Even though Thomas Tuchel is very disappointed today with the performance of his team, which he also confirmed during the post game interviews, it still feels like Borussia Dortmund is the big loser of this match day so far. They were 2-0 ahead against Stuttgart already and they even had 1 player more for the most part of the game. Then after the 2-2 of Stuttgart they even managed to get in front again in the 93rd minute, but still they gave away another chance to Stuttgart after that and the game ended with a draw. That was a great performance and demonstration of will of Stuttgart but still Dortmund should have not given them a chance to get back into the game.

I doubt that Real Madrid is really considering to sign Firmino as their replacement for Karim Benzema when he leaves the club after the next season. Don't get me wrong Roberto Firmino is a great player that showed great performances in every club that he has played for so far, but i don't really think that he is really an absolute world class striker. He also is already 31 years old, so he is definitely no young player anymore. If Real is considering to sign him, then i only think as a back-up for Benzema for the coming season and then for the striker that comes to replace Benzema, but not as the number 1 attacker.

In the end the final result was a 5-2 for Schalke. I could not watch that game live but looking at the statistics it seems like Schalke was not as dominant as the final result may suggest. In terms of shots, ball possession and passes both teams were pretty much at the same level. Schalke only has a real lead in the expected goal, which is a very important statistics of course.
Overall the win for Schalke seems deserved even though maybe 1 or 2 goals too high. At the moment Schalke is in a spot for the relegation, which is already a huge success for them. I would bet that a few months no one thought that they would be able to have a chance to stay in the Bundesliga.

I also noticed recently that there were a lot of projects launching in the last few weeks and months that had quite a lot of hype and also a pretty big and successful seed and private sale but once they were launched the price and also the whole mood within the project went down slowly but surely. I don't really know why this happens that often because none of those projects that i observed that slowly died were useless meme-coins some of them were even pretty good in my opinion.
I think that a big part of the problem is the mentality of the investors. It is all about a quick pump and dump for most people. If a project does not do a x2 or more right after listing then it is already a fail in the eyes of a lot of people, because they don't have patience anymore.

I am not sure if Tottenham would really be happy to make a direct competitor in the premier League stronger by letting Harry Kane go to Manchester United. Usually clubs don't want to do that. So if Kane really does not want to stay at Tottenham any longer, then i am pretty sure, that the club would prefer if Kane would leave to a club outside of England, but of course it is also important where the player himself wants to go.
Regarding a move from Kane to Bayern. I think it is still possible, but i think at the moment other strikers like Kolo Muani and Osimhen are the favorites of the Bayern Munich officials. This makes sense in my opinion because both of those players will roughly cost the same as Kane, maybe a little more, but they are both 5 years younger.

At the moment pretty much every crypto project is making some gains, so it is pretty hard to pick a favorite simply based on the rising prices. In the last few weeks i bought a little bit of Cosmos (Atom) and NEAR. I simply wanted to have some pretty big and already established projects in my portfolio too, because before i only had pretty small and new projects and obviously with such projects you are always in danger of losing all of your investment.
I chose Cosmos and NEAR because in my opinion they have still big potential to grow and at the same time they are giving me passive income through staking and that was important to me.
Radix could also be a good pick. It  already pumped like 30% in the last few days but it seems to just have started to gain some traction.

A lot has happened in the second half of those games. Leverkusen vs. Union SG has ended with a draw 1-1. I have to say that i am very impressed by the performance of that Belgian team. In the end Bayer Leverkusen was the better team but over the whole course of the game the 1-1 was a deserved result. I would guess that players like Teuma and especially Boniface will go to bigger clubs after this season.
Also the match between Manchester and Sevilla just ended with a 2-2 as the final result. Manchester scored two own goals in the second half which is pretty crazy. Looking at the stats of the game, the result also seems to be ok though, as both teams have very similar statistics in terms of shots and ball possession.

First of all 40k$ is a very big amount of money for your first investment into crypto, so congratz to have that many funds to invest. My very first advice would be to only invest those 40k$ if you can afford to lose them and if you really don't need them for your daily life. In crypto it is still very much possible that you will lose all of your funds because of a hack, a rugpull or whatever.
Also i would not expect to become a billionaire, if you have such high expectations then you will only be disappointed. To become a billionair your investment would need to make a x25000. I heavily doubt that this will happen.

I personally invested into NEAR and Cosmos in the last few weeks because i think they have potential to grow.

That seems to be a pretty big happening now in the world of sports in Germany. I watched some sportsnews tv channel today and they pretty much reported non stop about that incident for at least 2 hours straight, even though nothing new really happened. To be honest i was pretty surprised, that Mane would do such a thing because he was always considered as such a nice and gentle guy, that is always smiling and also helping the people in his country and so on.
Seems like he is way more unhappy with his current role in the club that most people have guessed.
The truth is that he needs to perform better, if he wants to play more. At the moment he is just not playing well.

To be honest i am pretty sad about the turn that James Rodriguez' career took in the last few years. After the world cup in 2014 he was probably one of the hottest and most wanted players of the world because he played so well in the world cup and he also scored that beautiful goal is still replayed pretty often even today. After that he joined Real Madrid and he also played for Bayern Munich for 2 years.
It is weird to me that now he was playing for a club in qatar and Olympiakos Piräus in the last few years because he is only 31 years old now, so he is still in his best years in my opinion. Clubs in Turkey are usually a good candidate for players with a big name, that are not really at their best level anymore, so it would make sense, but it would also be sad.

I also think, that Real Madrid is the favorite against FC Chelsea tonight. Madrid is playing at home today which always is a little bit of an advantage even though the Real fans are most of the time not that supportive if the team is not playing well, it wants to be entertained by good football. Besides that i think that Real is just the team, that has way more experience in this competition in comparison to the team of Chelsea. Somehow Real always manages to show good performances in the Champions League, even though they are not the big favorites to win the competition, the same thing was happening last year.

Well one of the rules of crypto investing always was "buy the rumor, sell the news" which means that most of the time it is to late if you buy a coin after they have released some big news. You need to buy them before those news become public, that is not possible in most cases though if you are not an insider. So you at least need to be very fast once the big news are hitting. If the news are already 1hour old or even older i would not buy anymore.
Losses only become a reality when you sell those coins. So if you can afford to hold them longer, then i would definitely do that. If a new bull market comes, then Dogecoin will definitely pump together with the rest of the market and you can sell your tokens then.

I had a few XLM myself until i sold them one year ago or so. Since then i am not really following the developments around XLM anymore to be honest, but as the other guy in the thread has already said, it seems to be pretty quiet around Stellar Lumens at the moment. That does not really mean though that this project is not active anymore. It is still in the top 25 in terms of the market cap, so it is still a very big project and to be that you have to be active. When the next bull market and the next altcoin season are coming, then i am pretty sure, that XLM will also pump together with the overall market. I am not sure though if it will outperform the general market.