I have not heard about that news before and to be honest my first thought was that this is definitely false news but i just googled and i found multiple reports that are confirming this rumor. According to a article i found, CZ wants to buy banks with 1 Billion $ in order to gap the bridge between traditional finance and the world of cryptocurrency. I am not really sure what i am supposed to think about that. I always thought that cryptocurrency was invented as a rival or a substitute for the traditional financial markets and not to be integrated with "normal" banks. In the end CZ does what makes him even richer and not what is the best for the space i guess.

I don't follow the Italian serie A that closely so i am pretty surprised how bad Juventus is performing this season in the Champions League. I mean they basically always were the by far the best team in Italy in the last ten years or so and they also always have been a favorite to reach the semi finals of the Champions League or even more. They are also only on the 7th place in the Serie A too. I did a little research and found out that they have massive debts apparently just like FC Barcelona. Juventus made a loss of more than 200 Million € just in the last season alone and they were doing this for five seasons in a row now. So it's their own fault i would say.

I would guess that Axie Infinity will still be one of the top metaverse and play2earn project in 2 years or so. I just has the big advantage that it is a first mover and that it is also by far the most well known play2earn project out there at the moment. I am not so sure though if Axie infinity really counts as a metaverse project? A metaverse for me is a artificial world where you can dive into with an Virtual Reality headset and where you can do "normal" stuff in a digital world. Victoria VR is a project that does that stuff, or Bloktopia or The Sandbox.
Star Atlas is a play2earn game project that had a lot of hype a few months back but now it is pretty quiet about that game at the moment.

I don't really agree that Bayern only has cheap players. I mean just look at their squad. Kimmich, Goretzka, Davies, Musiala, Coman, Gnabry, Sane, Mane and De Ligt all have a market value of 60 M€ or higher. Also the total market value of it's squad is higher than the one of Real Madrid, FC Barcelona, FC Chelsea and Manchester United for example. Bayern is ranked on 4th place in terms of total market value of it's squad. So i would say that Bayern Munich has a very high quality squad with absolutely great players but yes of course it is true they never went for that absolute superstars like Ronaldo or Messi.
Also Bayern had absolutely no debts like all the other top clubs, Bayern even has Money still sitting on the Bank and all that without that crazy high English TV money and without the financial help of sheikhs and oligarchs.

It really seems like that Litecoin is kind of on the sideline now in the last two years or so. As you already said, at lot has happened in the crypto space in the last two years but Litecoin was not really a part of those crazy movements and developments. The main reason for that in my opinion is the fact, that the biggest trends in the last 2 years were Defi, NFTs, play2earn and the metaverse and all of that stuff is just not possible to create on Litecoin as it does not offer smart contract functionality. It's the same with bitcoin but of course BTC has the big advantage that it basically invented crypto and therefore still is the leading indicator for the whole market.
I don't think that Litecoin will die, but i also don't think that it will come back to the top 10 to be honest.

Before the start of this Champions League season, i would have never thought that both Atletico Madrid and also FC Barcelona would not make it into the knockout stage. To be honest i am even more disappointed by the performance of Atletico Madrid than with the one of Barca. At least Barcelona made it into the Europa League while Atletico is completely out of the international competitions. Maybe we will see some big chances at Atletico after this season.

Well i have to agree that in most cases a token burn is just a pretty obvious marketing trick in order to suggest a deflationary supply and an increasing rarity of the tokens or coins. In most cases though those token burns have absolutely no effect on the price because the numbers that are burnt are so small in comparison to the total supply that it just does not matter at all. Shiba Inu is a good example for that in my opinion. You can often see news about Millions of Shiba Inu coins burned, but the total supply of Shiba Inu is so big that millions of tokens are still only 0,00001% or so.

Usually i would say that Tottenham is the big big favorite in this matchup against Marseille and should have no big problems to win this one. This time i feel diffeent though. First of all Tottenham did not really perform that well so far in this season overall. They had a few weak results in the Champions League so far. Secondly i think that Tottenham will feel a lot of pressure today. When they group were drawn a few weeks ago i am sure that most people have thought that Tottenham would have a pretty easy group stage ahead of them because they should be the strongest team of the group by far, but it just did not play out that way.

I think it is still the case that the crypto market is attracting a lot of people that are either desperately in need of money and that see the crypto market with all it's stories of people that have invested 100$ a few weeks ago and are now millionaires as their last hope. Of course sadly this only works out for a very small amount of people like 0,01% or even less. I also think that the overall age of investors in the crypto space is very very low in comparison to investors into "normal" financial assets and young people often have way to high expectations obviously.
In the end it is just as likely that you lose money in the crypto space than that you make profit.

This really is the most interesting group of them all and even right after the draw i already though that the teams of this group are pretty balanced in terms of the quality. Tottenham was the clear favorite for me before the season started but they had some matches where they just did not perform at their maximum possible level. I am also surprised that Eintracht Frankfurt is doing so well in this group. I mean they were already a big underdog last year in the Europa League but they somehow managed to win it. This year they are a even bigger underdog in the Champions League but they still have a chance to reach the knockout stage. My guess for the final table would be: 1. Tottenham, 2. Sporting, 3. Frankfurt, 4. Marseille.

It's really is kind of a repeating story what is going on with Dogecoin. When the first tweet of Elon Musk about Dogecoin happened back like 2 years ago it came pretty much out of nowhere for everyone and it caused a massive price pump of Dogecoin, but not only that. Musk and his tweets basically kicked off that crazy shit-coin hype wave that happened back then with literally hundreds of new shit-coins being released each and every day. Of course almost all of them are completely dead already again, only Shiba Inu is kind of still relevant but of course the longterm trend for Shiba Inu is also downwards and i would never invest into it. Same with Dogecoin.

I could not watch the game of Union Berlin vs Gladbach today, but i checked the score a few times and i have to admit that i really did not expect that Union would be able to win this game after they were behind until very late into the match. I thought that Union would not win today and that they would lose the leading position in the Bundesliga table but they have really impressed me with their performance today. Gladbach is a strong team but Union still managed to make a comeback.

In my opinion the influence of those super wealthy people is not as big anymore as a few years ago. A while back when elon musk made his first tweet about dogecoin, it did not only make dogecoin itself pump like crazy it also started the whole shit coin hype wave, which has brought us literally hundreds new shit coins each and every day for at least a few months. Now 99% of those shit coins are already dead again. Of couse big news like aquisation of Twitter still have an impact.

Now we are already in the extra time and now it is 6-2 for Bayer Munich already. That was a great game to watch in my opinion because obviously a lot of goals were scored and even though the result suggests something different Mainz did show a pretty good performance too. It was also obvious that the Bayern players did not really go all out today. Especially in the defense they were not as aggressive and consequent as in the match against Barca on wednesday.

I think that the crypto market as a whole is so big and professional now in comparison to 3 years ago that basically every project that is in the top 200 in terms of marketcap is a multi million dollar company that should have no big problems to survive 2 or 3 years of bear market if the project is managed in a responsible way. My take on the bear market is, that it is of course a bad thing overall but at least we have a chance to invest into big and established projects with a massive discount.

I think it is only a matter of time until Union Berlin will lose the top spot of the Bundesliga table to another team. It is already an amazing achievement by Union that they still are on the first place after so many matchdays. In order to be successful they need to really give 100% in each and every game or it will not be enough. I also hope that people are not disappointed if Union will lose a few games now and will fall back to positions 5 - 8 or so. That is still a good rank for a club like Union Berlin.

I think it is very hard to know if a project is a legit one or a scam project from the whitepaper alone but it is a good indication of course. I think first of all you should check if it is not just a copy paste whitepaper that was used by other projects before. Then you should check, if the Whitepaper has informations about very important aspects of a project like the team members, the tokenomics including vesting schedules and also other stuff like use cases and a roadmap.

First of all i don't think that PSG has the most successful players in their squad overall. I think that Real Madrid has players that have won the champions league more often than the ones of PSG. I also don't really think that we should blame the coach of PSG for the fact that his team is not performing on a level that you can expect if you just look at the individual class of it's players. The new coach just started recently so i definitely think that the management of PSG is to blame for the bad chemistry in the squad. They are just throwing out the money that they receive from the sheikh to buy the biggest names out there but they have no idea how to build a working team. That is the reason why they did not win a CL trophy yet.

I don't think i fully agree with your statement. Of course at the moment with the very high inflation the money that we have on the bank account basically loses a little bit of value each and every day that we let it sitting their idle. That being said i think you should always have a certain amount of wealth as FIAT available on the bank for emergencies because you can just never know what happens in the future. So to say "don't keep your money in the bank, invest it instead" is a very risky advice in my opinion. Of course if you have money that you can afford to lose then you can or should use it for an investment instead of just letting it sit on the bank, but you should never do that with money that you can not afford to lose.

I also think that Cristiano Ronaldo seems to have a pretty hard time to understand that he is not 28 anymore and that time also has an effect on him, even though he is living a life that is totally dedicated to football and to his physical fitness. It is just a fact that he is already 37 years old now and in 4 months he is already 38. So he is like 5 years past his prime now probably and he probably is not used to the fact that the top clubs out there are not trying anything to sign him because he was used to be one of the most wanted players on the planet for at least a whole decade. I can definitely understand the clubs though, he still wants to ear a lot of money and to invest such an amount into a soon 38 year old player is just very dangerous.