For me France is still the favorite in this upcoming world cup final, because for me France has simply the stronger squad. Of course Messi is an absolutely world class player and maybe even the best football player ever but he also is only one out of eleven players and i think that a lot of his teammates are not more than average players. France and the other hand has a more than one great player in their squad. They have Upamecano in the defense who is a great player, if still a little inconsistent sometimes, then they have Griezmann, Dembele and of course also Mbappe. So far France was also very effective with their chances.

FTX invested in a lot of projects in the last few years through Alameda and just because FTX was an investor in a project does not mean automatically that this project is now bad all of sudden just because FTX has gone bankrupt and is gone now. Of course you have to double check first how how the investment of Alameda was in those projects. I also think the worst thing that can happen is that the tokens that are owned by Alameda and therefore FTX could be sold off within a very short period of time if FTX is forced to pay back their debts to its creditors, but i don't really how that works or if that is realistic.

If you want to use a centralized exchange for your trading then maybe you can try Kucoin. They have a lot of coins listed and a lot of trading pair supported and they are among the top crypto exchanges out there and they have also recently published their exchange reserve data so they are pretty transparent about their holdings in this chaotic times.
That being said if you want to trade meme-coins then you should probably use uniswap or pancakeswap because most of those meme-coins get never listed on the big exchanges. That is also the reason why i would suggest to never touch those stupid meme-coins. They have zero use-case and 99% of them are dead again within a few weeks.

I have never heard of that player to be honest because i don't follow the Brazilian League. I think that a signing of a player at this very young age is always a complete gamble for the club that is signing him. In this case Real Madrid obviously. There were so many wonderkids already in football and only a few of them really made it to a really big star in the end. Just remember what was happening with Martin Odegaard a few years ago. Everyone said he was the biggest talent ever and basically every big club like Real Madrid, Bayern Munich and many others wanted to sign him and in the end he decided to go to Madrid but he never really managed to make it there. Now with 23 he is a good player for Arsenal but nothing more.

That is definitely true here and i would even add that it is even a little bit worse, because a lot of threads are not even discussions about good projects to invest in or other news that are happening in the crypto space with the altcoins, but they are just badly hidden shill threads for the 10000th new meme-coin with no use-case at all that will be dead again within a few days.
That being said, there are some news and events that were happening in the crypto space where i heard here in this sub-forum first. The main reason is probably because i am not active in the bitcoin section because i don't own any bitcoin myself. I agree though that a more technical and sophisticated area would be nice for the altcoins too.

Well that serious and totally unexpected injury of Manuel Neuer could really have pretty big impacts now all of a sudden. I read today that Hassan Salihamidzic has stopped his vacation in order to take care about the goalkeeper position at Bayern Munich now. After seeing most games of the ongoing world cup so far i have to say that i would really like the idea of Bayern Munich signing Livakovic he showed some great saves during the tournament and he also seems to be a very calm and relaxed guy. I was surprised though that he is already 27 years old as he looked way younger.
I still think though that the most possible solution will be to get Nübel back earlier.

As you already said, it is just not possible for a financial project to be sustainable if they are offering stupidly high APY's. I mean it is also relatively simple mathematics that it can not really work out if a project is paying interests of 1000% per year or even more to their stakers. That projects like this can not last long should be clear to everyone that is able to think logically no matter if they are completely new to the crypto world or not. Also i suspect a lot of those projects are created with the intention already to only last a few days or weeks. The team and the very early investors make a huge profit that way but everyone that is joining to late will lose almost everything.

I think we all know that Croatia and Morocco are having zero excitement about that upcoming match for the 3rd place of the world cup. Both of them are still sad and disappointed that they did no reach the real final of the tournament. So it will be interesting to see how both teams will perform in that match. Obviously Morocco was showing performances at their absolute top level over the whole tournament so far. This has brought them so far. I doubt though that they can show again such a high class performance in a rather unimportant match. I can imagine that the players will have a hard time to motivate themselves for this match.

I agree that privacy coins will always have a place in the crypto world. I still remember when i first joined the crypto space back in 2017 privacy coins were one of the most important types of crypto projects out there and projects like Monero, Dash and others where all among the top 20 in terms of the marketcap. Nowadays it is different though. In the meantime we have seen a few other hype topics appearing in the crypto space. We now have Defi, NFT's, the Metaverse and play2earn games. From those 4 new topics i think Defi is the most important one and it will always be here to stay but the other 3 could just be temporary trends too. Once the focus is shifting away from those projects privacy coins could come back stronger.

It was not only Sosa that had a pretty unlucky day yesterday but Gvardiol too and i think it is just too much for a team to handle if two of your defenders are just having a bad day in the same match. I think that was pretty unlucky because both of those players are absolutely great defenders and i think that especially Gvardiol will be one of the top 5 central defenders very very soon. He is only 20 years old and is already an absolute world class central defender.
I also think that epecially the second goal of Argentina was pretty unlucky for Croatia because the attacker of Argentina had so much luck to score that goal. The ball bounced back to him from a croatian defender like 3 times in a row within just a few seconds until he was in front of the goal.

I think that in this match it was quite the opposite of the matches of Croatia before. While they were pretty lucky in the match against Brazil and it was kinda undeserved that Croatia advanced into the semi final, i think that today the croatian team was very unlucky. For me they were the better team in the first 30 minutes today and the goals of Argentina came pretty much out of nowhere. Of course with 2 goals for Argentina scored withing only a few minutes it was almost already over at that point for Croatia. Even though they were the better team up to that point. After that Argentina played it very smart and in the end they deserve to be in the final.

I had no time to research yet but i read in a few telegram chats already that there are some rumors going around about Binance and now i know what rumors these are. Money laundering is a serious accusation and therefore i am not really surprised that a lot of people are withdrawing funds from Binance now and that the BNB coin has also lost some value in the last two days.
Well i think everyone knows that Binance is the biggest player in the crypto space since a few years now and if there would really happen something big with Binance like a trial or even more then i think Binance will go down way lower than now and with it the whole crypto market. Lets hope that does not happen.

I also think, that Argentina is not the strongest team of the remaining for nations that are still in this world cup. For me France is the big favorite. As you already said, Croatia is a very strong team too. They have a lot of quality in their squad and they also play with a lot of passion and conviction. Their greatest strength in my opinion, however, is that they are very good at defending and even if the opponent is making massive pressure towards their goal then the croatians still remain calm and are always defending well.
If Argentina wants to go through tonight, then they will need more than just Messi. They will need a good team performance.

I know that there are quite a few people out their that really disliked the fact that Ethereum has switch is consensus mechanism from Proof-of-work to Proof-of-stake recently. Some of them are miners and some of them are people that are just really disliking Proof-of-stake for whatever reason. I personally have to say though, that i like the possibility to gain some interest on your holdings. I mean if you are planning to hodl your tokens or coins longterm anyway, why would you not stake it and gain a few % of interest on it every year. I also does not really matter how much you have 5% are 5% and a few bucks for free are better than nothing.

Well i think the match yesterday was very very close and that France was just the luckier team yesterday and that was the only reason why they have won that game. France did not really have much chances to score. There was one header of Giroud in the first half and that was pretty much it. France scored their goal with a long distance shot and i think that Pickford should have saved that shot, but he didn't obviously. After that England was the better team and the penalty that they got was deserved and also the equalizer. After the 1-1 England remained the stronger team and was closer to the next goal then France in my opinion but then France again scored pretty much out of nowhere after a corner kick. England had another chance to make the equalizer but Kane missed the penalty, which is something that happens only very rarely.
So i would say that England was just pretty unlucky yesterday.

So far i only heard about the issues with USDT with their funds and that they don't tell us what their reserves are and that we therefore can not really be sure, how those reserves look like and if they even exist at all. In that context it was always mentioned, that USDC was way more secure and reliable than USDT, because the company behind USDC is Coinbase which is based in the United States. That means that Coinbase obviously has to comply to US-american laws and standards and so far i always thought that they are pretty strict and therefore that Coinbase and USDC is audited and checked regularly. I always thought USDC really have enough funds to cover every USDC 1:1 with a real USD. I have to take a deeper look.

Well i would say that the match today was completely open and very close. A draw and extra time or a win of England after 90 minutes would have just been as possible and fair as the victory of france. After England scored the equalizer in the second half they definitely were the better team and way closer to scoring their second goal then France, but somehow the french team managed to score again after a corner kick. Also i have to say i am a little bit surprised about how little Mbappe is doing in the defense. I mean i did not expect much from him, but he really does absolutely nothing to help his team defend. Even Messi is doing more here. I think Mbappe should change his way of playing and do a little more for his team. To be so arrogant already at his young age is not a good sign.

From those scams that you have listed i only heard of Bitconnect and onecoin before. There even was a pretty well made documentary about the woman behind onecoin last week in german television i have not watched it yet but i definitely want to. What i heard though was that onecoin really was a scam from the first minute. The token never existed, the blockchain never existed. Onecoin was just created in order to rip people off.
The bitconnect thing happened when i already were a little bit interested in the crypto space myself and i still remember watching that weird Bitconnect meeting with the moderator guy who quickly became a meme. I still don't understand though how people could really think that bitconnect was a legit project. Paying such high interest is just not sustainable. Even newcomers should know that.

I don't really think that it would have made a big difference if Cristiano Ronaldo would have played in the starting eleven today. I mean people just have to acknowledge that Morocco has the strongest defense in this world cup so far and i doubt that Portugal would have created a more good chances to score if Ronaldo would have started. Also he came into the game right after the half time so he had like 40 minutes to have an impact and to score but he did not really have a good scene if i remember correctly.
I would say that overall the win of Morocco was not that undeserved. Of course Portugal had a higher ball possession but in the end that does not matter.

In general i think that a bear market like the one that we are in right now is of course never a good thing, but at least it provides an opportunity to invest into projects that are already pretty big like the ones that you have mentioned. I personally would never invest into Shiba Inu though and i also heavily doubt that it will make a x100 from here on. I think the time of meme-coins is over and Shiba Inu will slowly but surely lose relevance because in the end it is just a useless shitcoin. Your other predictions are also very optimistic i would not expect a x10. I mean i hope that but i don't think it will come that way, so only invest money that you can afford to lose.
Cosmos (Atom) is also a good project in my opinion.