This match today just proved again that nowadays the gap between the favorite teams and the underdogs are by far not as big anymore as they were 10 or even 5 years ago. Nowadays it is completely possible that a team from Marocco can beat Belgium, that Saudi Arabia beats Argentina or that Japan wins against Germany. Almost every nation has a professional organisation now for their national team. So i i think in the future it becomes harder and harder to become world cup champion, because we now have like 10 clubs that have the quality to for the title and in the future we might have even more than that.

My personal story of my first investment into crypto at all is also a very negative one. Back in 2017 i made my first investment into the ICO of Dimcoin, back then ICO's where the new sh*t and Dimcoin also already collected more than 10 M$ or so if i remember correctly. Right after the ICO was finished the german CEO of the company resigned and from that point onwards everything went down pretty quickly and the project died completely which meant a total loss of my investment. Thank god i only invested 150$ or so, so it was not that big of a loss for me, but i was definitely very disappointed with my first crypto experience.
The most important thing is, that you learn from mistakes and that you only invest what you can afford to lose.

I have to say that today it was really noticeable that Argentina was under a lot of pressure before this match because of the loss against Saudi Arabia. In the first half for me Mexico was the better team and also in the second half i don't think that Argentina was better than Mexico. It took a lucky shot from the distance from Messi in order to bring Argentina on track for a win today. So of course every Argentina fan is relieved today because they still have it in their own hands now to advance into the knockout stage. That being said, with a performance from Argentina like today i think they will have a very hard time to win against Poland and to advance.

The simple truth in my opinion is, that no crypto stable coin that exists right now is really 100% safe, so waht the FSB is saying is definitely true in my opinion. I mean just look at what happened with Terra Luna a few months ago. They could not hold their stablecoin at the dollar peg anymore and that killed the whole company and brought the rest of the crypto market down. Without the events of Terra Luna i think FTX would not be bankrupt today.
Also USDT has also lost it's PEG for a few days. According to coinmarketcap it is at 0,9996 at the moment. Of course this is only a very small deviation from it's peg but still. As long as their is no official digital $ or € we won't have real stablecoins.

I also don't think that Memphis Depay should be the number one target of Manchester United. I just don't see him as an absolute top player in european football to be honest. Don't get me wrong he is a talented player but definitely not in the same league as the best ones in my opinion. Also i am not sure if Depay really has the character to be an absolute top player that also is able to lead his team to a victory or through a difficult match. For me he seems like one of those ghetto-kids that made a big fortune pretty much out of nowhere because of his talent in football and now he kinda became a pretty big diva that only plays good if he is in a good mood.

Well i would say that is a pretty obvious statement for everyone that believes in the idea of cryptos. At the moment we are at around 1/4 of the last Bitcoin all-time-high price so it is not a very surprising prediction that the price of Bitcoin will rise again in the future above the levels that we are having now. I am not really sure though what Elon Musk is rally thinking about cryptos because in general his whole tweeting for Dogecoin a year ago or so was only a bit of fooling around of him in my opinion and i also think that if makes a tweet nowadays about Dogecoin then it has by far not the same impact anymore then it had back then obviously.

After England showed a very convincing performance in their first mathc of this world cup i have to say that their performance today was pretty disappointing to me and that i was also surprised that England had such a hard time today against the USA. It was a pretty even game in terms of the statistics too, so i would say that the draw was not lucky for the US but a very deserved result for that game.
Now England can still be eliminated if they lose their last match against Wales and if there is no draw in the match of USA vs. Iran. I can imagine that England is feeling a lot of pressure now and it will be very interesting to watch them play against Wales.

Back in 2017 when i did my first steps in the crypto market i had a time of a few weeks or months where i joined every airdrop that was available. Even back then there were a lot of airdrops, but in the end i can not really remember of any airdrop that was really worth the effort. So i totally stopped following airdrop sites or telegram channels.
I would imagine that nowadays it is even way worse than back in 2017 and that today there are probably at least a dozen new airdrops of some shit-coins each and everyday popping up that will never have any value.
I made some swaps within metamask in order to qualify for a potential airdrop, but that is the only thing that i did in that regard.
Personally i think that airdrops are not good for the project that are doing it and also for the people that invested into that project that is doing an airdrop because then the telegram channel or discord becomes flooded with thousands of airdrop hunters that are absolutely useless for the project.

I am actually very surprised how this match is going so far. I expected that Wales would be the totally dominant team in this match and that they would have not that big of a problem to win it. As of now though it is kinda the opposite. For me Iran is the better team so far and they had 2 huge chances to score at the beginning of the second half but they hit the post 2 times within like 10 seconds or so. Therefore i would say that Wales can be even lucky that it is still 0-0 now in the 80th minute. I don't have the numbers in my head now but i think if Wales will not win today then they definitely win their last game against England, which will be hard.

To be honest i don't really see any positive aspect of that whole FTX crash at the moment. I mean the immediate effects where that the whole crypto market, that was already going down for a few months, was hit buy another big dump. Of course you can now say that this is a good opportunity to invest and such but we just don't know if we are not going to see another drop in prices of 30% or more from here on.
The only good thing is that obviously FTX was not really financially healthy anymore so i am happy that they are gone now already and that this news did not come up during the start of a potential bull market, because that would have killed it right away in my opinion.

While it is true that Brazil had a pretty tough match in the first half i still think that this was no reason to be disappointed by them. I mean in the end they have played against Serbia which is not that bad of a team. I would even say that the times where you have that huge differences in the quality of the teams is over for at least 10 years now or so, at least in mens soccer. So for Brazil to win with 2-0 against a very good opponent is a pretty good performance in my opinion. Other big football countries like Argentina and Germany would be very happy to have scored a result like that. Brazil is definitely one of the favorites to win the WC.

I hear this argument about Ethereum being not decentralized anymore quite a lot in the last time and of course it is true that now the big exchanges like Binance, Coinbase, Huobi and Kucoin for example all have a lot of power within the Ethereum network because they all own so many coins. That being said i don't really think that i was that much different when Ethereum was still proof of work. I mean there were or still are huge mining companies in china and if a single company is controlling a big share of the mining power of a crypto currency then it is just as centralized.
I think that Ethereum will always be the number one smart contract platform, simply because they invented that functionality.

I have always thought that Thomas Tuchel is among the top 3 coaches in the football world for a few years now. He is one of the very few coaches that really improved every club that he joined. He even managed to be on the first position of the Bundesliga table for a few matchdays with his first team as a coach, Mainz that was a huge underdog. Then he was leading Paris St. Germain into the final of the Champions League where they lost only because Bayern Munich had a little bit more luck that day.
Then he a Chelsea team that was totally down and far away from being successful and he made them climb in the premier League again and also win the Champions League title, which was an amazing performance. I think Tuchel should be the top candidate to sign for every club that is looking for a coach.

Well another major point about trust wallet is the fact that it is the wallet that is supported by Binance as far as i know. That is also the reason why it's price was climbing pretty heavily in the last few days while most tokens of the big centralized exchanges were plumbing after what had happened to FTX. At the moment one of the biggest rules in crypto: "not your key, not your coins" is in everyones mouth again because a lot of people had significant values on FTX and have now lost it. Trustwallet is one of the leading wallets out there so it is not a big surprise, that it's token went up. Metamask does not have a token yet obviously.

Well this loss of Germany against Japan was definitely a big surprise but by far not as big as the loss of Argentina against Saudi Arabia. Today Germany also was the dominating team for at least 65 minutes or so and they had a ball possession of 78% in the first half if i remember correctly but that alone does not really mean anything of course. They also had a lot of chances to make it to 2-0 but Germany was just not efficient enough today in the offense. Gnabry, Musiala and Gündgan all had good chances to score the second goal. After the 60th minutes Germany became more and more shaky and therefore the 2 goals of Japan were the logical consequence.

i don't know but in my opinion the crypto space as a whole is way more decentralized now then a few years ago. Just look at the whole situation with the exchanges back then and now. Back in 2017 and 2018 i still remember that new projects had a very hard time to even get their token to be tradeable because back then there were no real Dexes like we have them now with Uniswap or Pancakeswap. They had to pay very high listing fees in order to get listed even on small exchanges and big exchanges like Binance or Bitfinex or whatever vere extremely expensive. Nowadays at least everyone can get their token list themself.

I also always thought that the criticism of the Ferrari team this year was way to hard from the fans but also from experts. I mean we should never forget where the Ferrari team was last year and the years before. They managed to build a car that was able to fight for the championship this year after they were so far behind in the seasons before. So that achievement alone is pretty big in my opinion. Now they need to build upon that and also make the car more reliable.

Mercedes was very strong in the last quarter of the season. So if they are able to keep that level then they will definitely be fighting for the championship again next season.

Well your post makes it sound like this was a totally normal game with a totally normal result but in reality this was probably one of the biggest surprises in the whole history of the world cup of football. Argentina is (or was?) one of the favorites to win the title as they usually always are and Saudi Arabia is probably the weakest team of them all together with Qatar. So to see a win of Saudi Arabia was really totally unexpected as even a draw would already have been a huge sensation.
Of course Argentina was also very unlucky because they scored 3 goals that did not count because of offside in the first half alone. Still they should have played better and won this match.

I would be also interested to know if there are still good play2earn projects out there where you can really earn some money and that are also sustainable. Of course i don't expect to get rich from playing a game but to play a fun game and as a side effect earn some money with it would be a cool thing as a gamer in my opinion.
I thought that maybe it would be a good time to get into Axie infinity because it is the biggest play2earn project and probably will still be around in a few years, but then i read that there is some drama around their other token and that the players are unhappy about that. So i also have no idea what game to join.

I watched the match and it was not that spectacular i have to say but of course that has to be expected because in very important games the teams usually try to play it pretty safe obviously because a loss already puts them under a lot of pressure in the group stage. The penalty for Poland was definitely deserved and some referee experts even said that the player of mexico should have received a red and not only a yellow card. Unexpectedly Lewandowski missed that penalty even though he usually is very efficient with his penalty taking and i also think that the penalty was not that badly taken from him but that the mexican keeper just had the right corner and made a great save.