I think that Klopp will put out a good team tonight, even with the league cup final at the weekend.  He should appreciate that European competitions are important, whereas most English teams only see the CL, and seem to think of the europa league as a hinderence rather than a goal competition.

Both the Spurs and Liverpool games look well positioned and should be good games.  I think Augsburg might choke at Anfield, and Tottenham are a good team this season.  I think Tottenham might decide the league is more important though, so Fiorentina will win, and Liverpool too.

Well city are actually playing well in Europe, maybe they just can't do well in the CL and EPL at the same time!
I still think they will concede and make it more difficult for themselves in the 2nd leg.

Atletico should win tonight, I have watched PSV a few times this season, they are pretty average!
The spanish league is the strongest in the world. I expect a fairly clinical 0-1 or 1-2 win from them Atletico

Although CLAM is a good coin, and one of the few Altcoins that have real value due to JD, I think we can all agree that we won't be using it in 20 years time!
I agree that inflation isn't a bad thing, in fact in some ways it alleviates the problem of the whale diggers, as they will be diluted out of their idle fortunes.

That being said, in the long term the inflation will be too high, resulting in a low value of CLAM, so people will be less inclined to use it.  I don't see that being a problem in the short term.

I wonder what influence that would/will have on Mt Gox?  If all of a sudden they didn't steal out crypto, rather they took our money, that would surely increase the severity of any punishments doled out, as well as possibly increasing the final payout to those who were stolen from.

I bet they don't back date it, or take into account Mt Gox though.  Still good that Japan is moving the right direction, or is it that they can charge a negative interest rate on it if it is real money?!

Fair, but tonight is Manchester City, not Manchester United.

Manchester United are just not very good this season, whereas Manchester City are decent but, as always, poor in Europe!  They should still have a good chance against Kiev though.  English team don't do well in Kiev, in fact only Manchester United back when Sir Alex was in charge have won in Kiev in recent times.

I think the draw is the best bet.

The advantage of bitcoin being decentralized is that the 21million limit ist just that, a limit.  ETH might have advantages in that it is more malleable as it is centralized, but that comes with the disadvantages that they can change the entire direction of the currency as and when they choose.

Basically at the moment all crypto is valued based on trust.  Bitcoin has a value because it can't be heavily diluted, just as with PMs, ETH could be 'printed' like fiat is.  I think that the powers that be would prefer that ETH was successful and that Bitcoin dies, that's a good sign that Bitcoin is superior.

Well I got one of my predictions right!  66% possession for Barca and 2-0 away win.  Not sure Arsenal are going to come back from that one!

It's such a shame, I remember the CL final years ago, when Leyman got sent off for Arsenal (wow it was 10 years ago!), they could and should have beaten Barca in that final, it's been a long and slow fall from grace since then for Arsenal.

The figures are all complete rubbish!  The jobless number especially does not represent the participation rate at all, even though they should essentially be the same thing.

With inflation, I don't know about in the US, the in the UK they have 2 rates, which they decide to use almost interchangeably to suit their current mood!  The 1.4% inflation must include a huge fall in the oil price, so gas, oil and energy generally will have fallen, but overall inflation was 1.4%, so what would it have been if oil hadn't dropped about 60%?!

I don't hope for hyper-inflation, and it hasn't happened in Japan yet, which always seems a few steps ahead in the race to the bottom, so who know what will happen.  Maybe all currencies will hyper-inflate, so we will only notice when non-inflating PMs and Cryto go up a lot!

I don't think that it is so bitcoin specific, the US government seems to want to stop or restrict movement of money generally.
The goal seems to be a cashless society, which could be bitcoin, but they won't let that happen unless they can control bitcoin.  That means we are headed to a 100% online bank led monetary system, where they can track everything you spend and receive.

They banned all sorts of exchanges in the past, they don't even allow online gambling (officially), this just seems like another step towards the nanny state taking over.

If they are proveable fair, then they can't be rigging the dice.  It sounds like they have been having software problems, I would at least wait it out until they look into it. 

It is of course possible that you have either found a flaw, or they are in trouble so decided to start messing with the fairness, but I doubt that is the case.

It might have been a good bet, but unfortunately that isn't going to help me today!

Bayern are looking pretty good here, Juve need to pull something out of the bag, otherwise this tie will be over before the return leg

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I think the Arsenal vs Barcelona game is much easier to call.
The premier league isn't as strong as it was, Arsenal like to play football, but can't do it as well as Barca, so will get passed off the park and lose.

It could end up being a bad night for Arsenal, they need to tighten up like they did last year against Chelsea (if I remember correctly), but generally Arsene is stuck in his ways now, that's why they haven't won anything meaningful for so long.

Juve are savvy, and Bayern aren't stupid either.  I would expect that, as is often the case in first legs of the knock out rounds, they will play conservatively, not take any big chances and that it might well end up 0-0.

Both teams would be pretty satisfied with 0-0, so at 7-1 I think that is a good bet!

Boris Johnson is a long way from being a Marxist, it is possible that you meant Ken Livingstone, the former Mayor of London, but Boris is conservative!

Oil will rise over the short to medium term, almost no one doubts that.

The price now is low enough that investors are pulling the plug, fracking companies aren't drilling any more, so when the current rigs stop pumping, they won't be replaced.
OPEC and non-OPEC producers are all playing a similar game to the central banks, i.e. a race to the bottom.  They pump to make more money, then the price falls, so they pump some more!  Why would anyone invest in long term clean energy schemes when oil is so cheap?

I don't really buy that people are dropping out of developing bitcoin because it is growing faster than expected.

I tend to agree with this. If the whole problem with the coin is a super-digger, then there isn't really a problem at all.
Whatever happens, it needs to be done soon.  Why would someone buy now when they might end up with CLAMS alone, whereas other holders will have CLAMs + Doogs

There is little incentive to buy with so much uncertainty around the future of CLAMS.  Essentially whichever coin JD uses will be the coin of value, so I would back Dooglus generally.  If he wants to limit digging, then I would rather that to a new coin.

Can you explain what you are talking about so that others can understand?
Why should he give you money back? Why now?