Without the Silvergate drama, Bitcoin would've breach and surpass that $25,000 price resistance already.
I mean it already tried I think twice or thrice to go above that price, and it's on its way to go above $25,000 if not only because of the news.

The previous price movement of Bitcoin during the last 2 months made me change my sentiment towards Bitcoin. I expect that it will go sideways, but will not go above $25,000, but it seems like the bulls are starting to gain momentum right now. Even though we've seen Bitcoin plunged towards the $22,000 price level, I still expect Bitcoin to go above $25,000. We still have many days left for the month of March so... yeah it might still happen because after all, it already did try.

It wasn't only greed that was the reason why your friend's wallet got hacked.
What's the other one? Curiosity

Your friend got curious on what is inside that link, and the next that happened is that your friend got greedy thus, his wallet got hacked. Overall, I'm expecting that your friend is a newbie because those who are in to crypto for a long time already know that Telegram Private Messages especially from strangers are 99% scams. As a newbie, your friend surely learns from his mistake.

Experience really is very expensive right? You need to lose a huge amount of money before learning.

They are a surprise indeed, but don't you know that all of the playoff teams right now really want to face them in the first round?

Like you said, they are a very impressive team right now, and many are surprised with how they are playing this season knowing that their roster hasn't that much changes aside from their head coach Mike Brown.

Home court advantage? I find it useless right now especially when it comes to the playoffs. What's more important that is the playoff experience, and that's what the Kings are lacking right now. Aside from Sabonis, all of the players of the team don't have any playoff experience yet. What if let's say for example they face the Warriors in the first round? How can a team like the Kings that has no playoff experience defeat the Warriors who has lots of playoff experience already? Even the pressure of the crowd don't intimidate the Warriors anymore because they already experienced it many times and they know what they will do.

I'm agreeing with what you said that they aren't a championship team yet.

Mukhang wala silang plan bumuo ng solid group at itry sakupin tong 182.
May mga high level silang players (3 ang nasa around 200k tapos mga 5-8 na 190kPS) at may mga pinoy rin silang mga kasama pero wala silang palag. Kung titignan, parang isang buong clan lang sila compare sa amin na lagpas 3 clans na pwedeng isabak para idefend ung valleys. Manganganser lang talaga sila saka kaunting progress na rin bago tumalon siguro.

Ask ko lang boss @acroman08 kung anong level mo na. Ako kasi malapit na akong maglevel 120 (baka bukas 120 na ako kasi 95% na rin ako eh). After nun, di na muna ako magpapalevel at magfofocus ako sa constitutions, Inner Force, conquests at epic gears. Bukod pa doon, gusto ko rin muna mag-stay sa TOBD 1F sa Domination server.

Correct me if I'm wrong since I'm not expert on gambling and it's terms, but is this them winning the title?

They are currently on a 5 game winning streak just because they are playing on their home, and currently they are one of the best teams right now on their home. On the other hand, there road record is very awful. They are only 7-23 on the road, and if you will ask me what's the problem with the team? It's their defense. They are 2nd last season in defense, but now they are at the top 16th. Defense plays a big role and that's why we saw the Celtics getting into the NBA Finals last season.

If you really want to bet on them, maybe try to wait a little longer and observe their record in their next 10 games because on that 10, 8 games will be on the road. If there is an improvement on them playing on the road, you might try and risk it. I mean there are some experts who are betting on them as well. It wasn't a waste of money, but try and observe them for the next 10 games then you decide.

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Good luck to all of us and here's my bets
Washington Wizards - Toronto Raptors - Washington Wizards @ 2.12
- I thought that this game will be held on the home of the Raptors, but when I saw that it will be on Washington "again", I think that they will win on it again. They just have a game a few days ago so these 2 teams know now how to counter each other. I just bet on the Wizards because it's their home court.

Miami Heat - Atlanta Hawks - Miami Heat @ 1.74
- I guess the Miami can defend their home against the visiting Atlanta Hawks. With their new coach Quinn Snyder, I'm not expecting too much for these Hawks team, but this match will be an important match for both teams. If Atlanta wins, they will switch with Miami on the 7th and 8th spot because the Miami are only 0.5 games ahead of the Hawks.

San Antonio Spurs - Houston Rockets - San Antonio Spurs @ 1.97
- The battle of the low-seeded teams. I just bet on the Spurs on this one because it's their home court.

Milwaukee Bucks - Philadelphia 76ers - Milwaukee Bucks @ 1.54
- With the Bucks having a very good home record (27-5), I don't think that they will lose on this one even though they are facing Harden, Embiid and Maxey. The winning streak is on the line here. Giannis is playing like the normal Giannis that we've used to watch who is dominating the paint. He recovered from his injury already.

There are some who are just buying stocks that gives higher dividends, and forgetting about the company itself. On the other hand, there are some who are doing a thorough research on this dividend-paying stocks that even though they are giving lower dividends, they surely are a better company. Warren Buffett is one of the reason why I switched to dividend investing, and I've already set my goal this year with regards to dividend investing particularly into stocks.

It's just amazing how he is earning 56% of his total investment in Coca-cola annually, and that's only from one stock. He owns some other stocks that are paying dividends to him as well. It's kind of ironic though that he is invested heavily to some dividend-paying stocks, but his company Berkshire Hathaway aren't giving dividends to their shareholders.

Correct me, but is it Warren Buffett who said that and not Albert Einstein?

In our country, REIT's are paying us on a quarterly basis, and just last year, I think the lowest amount of dividends a REIT has given to it's shareholders is at around 7-8%. Well, that 13% annually is already a huge one knowing that they are paying the shareholders either monthly or quarterly. If you really want a continuous cash flow on a yearly basis, REIT's is a way to go since the company will always pay the stock holders.

No sense for the team to get an import this time.

They only have 1 game left, and with their current record of 2-8, even they will win their last game against the SMB (that doesn't have JMF I think because he got injured on the EASL tournament), it will still not be enough for them to get at least the 8th seed. For a team to have at least a spot on the playoffs, you need to have at least 5 wins to have a chance. I think the Phoenix will secure that 8th spot even though NorthPort will win on their last game against the TNT.

Congratulations to NorthPort Batang Pier and the Magnolia Hotshots in securing the wins for tonight's ball game and congratulations to the bettors as well. I didn't put any bets this time.

Curry is very happy watching his Warriors team winning on their home court even without him, and Wiggins and you can just see in his facial expression whenever the camera is being faced to him. I mean who will not get happy if your short-handed team can still get wins even with the top teams right now like the Clippers.

The old big 3 of the Warriors are Curry, Thompson and Green, but nothing changed at all except from the fact that Curry is injured, but still they have Poole which is an elite scorer as well. What only changed are the role players who are starting to step up offensively. Players like Divincenzo, Kuminga, Looney for rebounding and those other role players are stepping up in order for the team to win. Currently, the Warriors are on the 5th spot already with a 4-game winning streak.

First duo in Mavericks history to score 40+ points in a single game. Well, as expected from both superstars who can explode at anytime they wanted it.

Luka got a double-double 42 points and 12 assists while Irving got 40 points and 6 assists as well. TBH, I thought that they will choke again because the Sixers got a good start in the 4th quarter putting down the lead of the Mavericks to as low as 6 points, but those 2 timeouts by Coach Jason Kidd made the difference and made sure that it  will not happen again and from that on, they put the lead into double digits again and never looked back.

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Here are the results of my bets:

Washington Wizards - Toronto Raptors - Washington Wizards - WIN
- The Wizards won on this one. Even though Beal is on foul trouble and didn't contribute that much scoring only 15 points, Kuzma and Porzingis stepped up scoring 30 and 25 points respectively. They will face again a few days from now, but it will be on Toronto's homecourt.

Dallas Mavericks - Philadelphia 76ers - Philadelphia 76ers - LOST
- I lost on this one because I thought that the Sixers will steal this one on the road, but when I looked at the double digit lead by the Mavericks in the final minutes of the 3rd quarter, I put a bet on Sixers +14.5 spread to recover my losses and luckily, I won on that so overall, I'm just breakeven with this. Sixers big 3 of Embiid, Maxey and Harden scored for 91 of Sixers' 126 points though it wasn't enough for them to win, but they almost.

Golden State Warriors - Los Angeles Clippers - Golden State Warriors - WIN
- They did it "AGAIN". After being down 11 at halftime, the Warriors surged in the 3rd quarter and outscored the whole Clippers team 42-16. Poole scored 21 of his 34 points in the 3rd quarter alone so he basically outscored the whole Clippers team on that quarter. The Clippers are just 9/46 from the 3-pt area for 21% which is really worse and that made them lose the game. Now the Clippers are 0-4 since acquiring Westbrook. Still, I'm not saying that he isn't a good fit for the team, but if they will not do something about it, they might fall down on the standings knowing that the battle for Western Conference standings is very tight. Currently, they are now on the 7th spot from 4th before getting Westbrook.

I don't know if I'm dumb enough to not understand what the OP is saying to us, or it's just he's using words that aren't intended to use at all.

Buy more money? You made me laugh thanks for it. I mean how can we buy money? Using our own money as well. 
Invest more money or capital? Ohhh sh*t I didn't know that. Thanks for teaching us. Now I know that the way to increase capital investment is to invest money or capital. I've been in crypto for years, and I don't know this way. I'm really grateful OP. (sarcasm)

The way to increase our capital investment is to just work, work, work, and work. Whether you're an employee, or a businessman or whatever it is, you just need to work if you want to increase your capital for investing. Anyway, what OP has said was really helpful. Thanks for teaching us.

Rug pulls, scams, frauds, uncertainties, more volatile than Bitcoin, risk of it being worthless or no value at all, price manipulation, pump and dump schemes.

I guess these are just some of the reasons why investors are very skeptical about Altcoins. They are asking because they want validation from other people. They want to know if a particular altcoin is worth it to invest or not, but the reality is it doesn't help them at all. Asking an altcoin whether to buy or not isn't a good thing to do (at least for me). I will cite an example. Let's say Coin X is just a new coin that just been listed and the risk is very high. Now a user asked it here, and many said that it's good to buy for some reasons. Will the user follow what others said even though the risk is very high that it's close to a scam or rug pull?

People are skeptical in investing into altcoins because of what I said above, and that's the reason why I'm only focusing on top altcoins. I don't want to ask all of you here if this particular coin is good to buy or not.

On the other hand, project developers doesn't want to use their own money to pay these bounty hunters.
Yes bounty hunters doesn't care about the tokens of these project developers, but look on the other side.

If you're the owner of the project for example, are you willing to use your own money just to pay these bounty hunters? Launching a bounty campaign isn't a guaranteed success for the project, and they can't afford to lose huge amounts of money if they know that the chances of the project becoming successful is low. I know how you're feeling because I already taught of that many years ago back when I'm still participating in these bounty campaigns.

Some might do it, but most will not do it.

The uncertainty of a new project is the reason why they can't afford to pay bounty hunters with established coins like BTC, ETH, USDT etc. If project developers will do, it will favor the bounty hunters, and what if the project fails? The project owners will lose money, and they don't like that. Instead of the owners risking their money, they will pass that risk to the hunters giving them some worthless tokens.

Are you sure with this one?
What's your basis on this one?
Do you have a crystal ball to foresee the future? Or are you a grand-grand-grandchildren of Nostradamus?

Well, even I will not give my jewelry to you (if I'm a girl, but I'm not).
It's a good thing that you convinced your wife to sell her jewelries to buy Bitcoin. I hope you shared also the potential risks of it. My family had some jewelries as well, but I will not do the same thing as you did. I'd rather buy Bitcoin with my own money or take a loan (that I can pay).

You are forced? You're convincing your wife to sell her jewelries and you're forced now to sell all of it because you don't have money anymore?

How in the hell you think of investing first where at first place, you don't have any fiat money? You're obsessed in having much Bitcoin that you're forgetting to have fiat money. I'm not an expert, but only Bitcoin holder. Selling your wife's jewelries and invest it into Bitcoin makes sense. What doesn't is that you're selling it in force and you forced to sell it because you don't have money anymore. That doesn't make any sense.

Depending on your risk appetite. I just hope that you and you're wife are still ok and you now have fiat money that both of you can spend.

He isn't playing because he wants to make a difference. It's either the management wants his veteran experience to be shared with his teammates, or he feels like he can still play, but I'm leaning more with his veteran experience. You said already that he was unstoppable on his prime, and his experience as well will help those young players of Converge. TBH, I'm not even watching PBA games when him and Danny Seigle are playing and dominating on SMB so for me as a PBA fan, it's good to see old player like him playing again.

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I also put 2 bets earlier than usual because I have to do something that will make me busy, and I can't watch it.

On the first game, I put a bet on Converge winning this game. A must win for both teams especially the Bolts. On the other hand, I don't know and you can correct me, but if Converge will win on this one, they will remain at the 5th seed because they lost to NLEX which is currently at the 4th spot and because of that, they can't still have a twice to beat advantage because right now, the top 4 teams have a twice to beat advantage as to normal which is only the top 2. Correct me on this one for those experts out there.

On the second game, I don't see the odds of Ginebra attractive anymore, that's why I put a -7.5 spread bet on them. I believe that they will cover this one against the Phoenix. On the other hand, it looks like Phoenix has a high chance to secure that 8th and final spot since the team below them which is NorthPort currently only has 2 wins.

Good luck to all bettors.

They almost choked "again" after they choked against the Pacers a few weeks ago.

I mean the Pistons had a chance to tie the ballgame, but their import Jaden Ivey made a huge mistake that caused them to completely loss the game after their comeback. He called a timeout on the final seconds where in fact, they don't have any timeout anymore. Bulls took a free throw and they got the possession as well. That caused them the game, and a possible comeback.

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Anyway, here are my bet's for tonight's games:

Washington Wizards - Toronto Raptors - Washington Wizards
- The Raptors are playing very well in their last 10 games winning 8 of it, but I think that the Wizards will come out victorious on this one especially when their big 3 are playing and it's their home court so... yeah I picked them.

Dallas Mavericks - Philadelphia 76ers - Philadelphia 76ers
- 5 games might be a small size only, but at least we have an idea on how awful the defense of the Mavericks are especially their interior defense and with Embiid playing, I wonder how they can defend him on the paint. He can just score and score there because Mavs' defense is one of the worst right now. I picked the Sixers because of this.

Golden State Warriors - Los Angeles Clippers - Golden State Warriors
- It's their homecourt, and the Clippers are in a losing streak right now. They are on a 3 game losing streak and that caused them going down from 4th down to now 6th. I know it's a must win for the Clippers, but I still believe that the Warriors will win even though they're short-handed.

Good Luck to all bettors.

Just focus on the top coins or tokens in terms of market cap.
Why make yourself stressed if you can lessen it by just investing into top coins. If you don't want to get stressed, just focus on buying Bitcoin. Stress makes a person older.

A very common scenario that happens most of the time to the new coins that are being listed on exchange.
What's worse is that there are some coins that just being listed on an exchange, and after a few minutes after it being listed and can be traded already, it already dumped until it doesn't have any value anymore. No pump, just dump, dump and dump.

You're on cryptocurrency where investing into it is very risky.

Whether you are investing on top coins or new crypto coins or tokens, they are all risky. It all depends on the level of risk a coin/token has. Top coins have lesser risk. Those that are below top 100 on market cap has moderate risk, and those new crypto coins or tokens that are you are saying has the highest risk. On the other hand, there is a famous quote that says "The higher the risk, the higher the reward."

What they did is they risked every thing just to get a title in the next 2-3 years.
If they will not win this season, there will be another opportunity for them next season, but people will look the Suns as a disappointing team. Way disappointing than the Nets way back when they have Pierce, Garnett, Deron Williams, Joe Johnson etc.

The West become stronger with Kyrie and KD being in that conference. The ones a strong conference already with the battles with the standings so tight are now a stronger conference already just because of the arrival of these 2 superstars. Hope that their chemistry will be build before the playoffs, and one thing more is that, I hope nobody will be injured before or until the playoffs.

Don't expect too much for the Trail Blazers.

Lillard has many chances of him being traded, but he opted to stay with Portland because loyalty is more important to him than championships. Their offense like you said is very predictable and we saw it against the Warriors a few days ago where the Warriors just locked in on Lillard, didn't let him touch the ball and the whole Blazers team crumbled and lost to them.

Grant and Simmons is trying to help like you said, but with Simons getting injured, it's like they don't have another option anymore. If opposing team lock on Dame again and Simons is currently injured, who will be the main scorer of the team? Grant obviously is one, but he can't do it alone. They need more players that will help in terms of offense. They need players that can step up offensively, and unfortunately they don't have that as of this moment. Currently, they are now at the 12th spot, but with how tight Western Conference is, a mere 3 or 5 game win streak might put them to the play-in spot.

I thought that this will be a low scoring one that's why I put under 224.5 on this one, but as I watch the game, I think that it will be a high scoring ball game that's why I made another bet and this one, it's above 246.5 and my bet is just enough to get my loss on that first bet plus some profits as well. It really is a high scoring ball game as the total points is 267. I mean it's rare to see teams in PBA scoring that high. Most of the scores are ranging from around 90-110 points on average.

Anyway with this game, NLEX just tied the PBA record for most number of threes in a single game with 23. On the other hand, this is Trollano's night as he scored 44 points (his new career high in points) and has 9 threes as well. Their import also scored 38 points on this game.

The second game is also a high scoring game, and my bet bet before it starts is over 209.5. They covered it easily. What's good about the Hotshots is that, their offense is distributed because 6 players are in double digits, and they are above 15 points as well. Their import Hester is very efficient as well, scoring 28 points, 14 rebounds and shot 12/17 on the field. On the other hand, Murphy and Bollick tried to carry their team scoring 31 and 30 points respectively, but there wasn't enough help from other locals though they made a good run in the 3rd quarter.

Congratulations to your bet, and to all of us who won tonight.

Almost 3/3 today, but my bet against the Trail Blazers spoiled it. I thought that they will bounce back after that loss against the Warriors. The game was a close one until the 4th quarter where the Blazers only scored 19 points. They can't also stop Ingram as he scored 40 points in 18/29 shooting. I lost my bet on this one.

On my other bets, the Sixers won easily against the Heat on the road and that's without Embiid as well. They really bounced back after their lost on their home against the Heat as well. No chance for the Heat on this game as the Sixers just dominated every quarter. Also, the Lakers won against the Thunder without their big 3. Yes it might only be Thunder, and that's no SGA as well, but for the Lakers, all games for them are a must win if they want to clinch to the play-in or playoffs.

2/3 bets as well same with @danherbias07.

Correct me, but it seems that you posted this on the wrong thread.
Anyway, congratulations for the 12,000 merit milestone. Kind of late, but better than never.