France will still be a favorite team to be chosen as a winner in the semi final match with Morocco. Morocco have gone far in World Cup 2022 and it makes gamblers are more fond of this under dog. However, their team are affected by injuries and suspensions. They don't have good substitute players like France so I am sure these injuries and suspensions will affect their general strength seriously.

Morocco have already had a successful World Cup and they will fight with all things they have and the best they can do in semi final match. They have less pressure than France because with France, only a trophy can be considered as a successful World Cup for them.

I believe France will beat Morocco, if not in 90 minutes, it will be in 120 minutes. The semi final match will not go to penalty.

If Bitcoin or crypto donations are used rightly with right purposes as planned initially, all donated cryptocurrency will not be dumped on a single day or within one week. The entity behind the charity will use it gradually since the beginning of donation campaign and long time after campaign ending.

Hence I don't have too much worry about price dumps because of charity, donations. They are different from hackers who will dump hacked coins on market immediately whenever they can. Hackers are different because they need quick money and they also are fearful that their identities, living locations will be discovered by communities and governments.

Both teams are very careful because with defense of Croatia, it is a mountain challenge for Brazil if Croatia score first. For Croatia, they will get trouble and have to change their defensive tactic which they don't want to.


The second half looks more exciting with more dangerous opportunities for Brazil. So far, Croatia still luckily keep their goal safely. The VAR rejects a penalty for Brazil and the shot of Paqueta was safe by Croatia goalkeeper.

The coach of Brazil replaced two wings, Vinicius and Rafinha by Rodrygo and Anthony. Will these new players make moments to change the match for Brazil?

These three midfielders played well for Manchester United but again they should not depend on their old players like Eriksen and Casemiro. Even these players will continue to play well in this season and next one or two, at the moment, Manchester United should have plans with younger players.

In United, now it is difficult to find young players who have potential to be top-notch players in near future. People can believe in Rashford, Sancho or Ganarcho but only Ganarcho is young enough. Both Rashford and Sancho are no longer too young and they might hit to their best ability already.

Fred and Elanga are average players and they can not carry United midfield if they don't have star midfielders around.

They must beat their opponents in coming quarter matches, Croatia and Netherlands, to meet each other but not in the final match. If both of them win in quarter matches, they will meet each other in a semi final match. That would be a Latin American Super El Classico during World Cup 2022.

That is a 1 - 7 defeat, not 0 - 7 but it still is a very nightmare day for Brazilians. Nobody imagined Brazil defense will be broken too easily and too fast like that. It does not come from absence of Neymar because of his serious injury in quarter match with Colombia. One attacking player is missing would not make a whole team collapses especially their defense if it is actually strong enough.

But they did not want to satisfy Lewandowski demand with a longer contract and good salary for him. Bayern knew that old players can have worse performance after one or two seasons and giving old players too high salary is risky. It is not good if the old player suddenly can not play well as he did before. It is risky for a club structure too if other players raise similar demand when they want to resign or expand their contracts with the club.

With team B, they can win some matches and it is enough for them because they already have team A which dominates Bundesliga already. So they only need to have acceptable performance from team B or some substitute players when they need these players. In reality, it is rarely to see Bayern to start a match with a full team B so risk to lose more points is smaller.

I only know there are layer 1 and layer 2 projects but I don't know about layer 0 or layer 3 projects. 

Layer 1 projects are like Bitcoin, Ethereum which are created to verify transactions on their blockchains. Their blockchains can have problems with speed and transaction fees so there are Layer 2 projects to resolve these issues.

On Bitcoin blockchain, we have Lightning Network and Liquid are Layer 2.
On Ethereum blockchain, we have Polygon and Arbitrum as Layer 2.

I want to focus my portfolio on Layer 1 projects only so I choose: Bitcoin, Ethereum (for ERC20 chain), BNB (Binance coin for Binance Smart Chain). Newer layer 1 projects must have more time in market to prove their survival.

In a knock out phase, FIFA rankings don't mean too much. Players at a specific match, how they are ready, how they are united, how they want to fight, will decide results of the match together with referee decisions and luckiness. FIFA rankings are things on the paper and are useless in reality.

Croatia have good defense system which will reduce dangerous attacks from Brazil. Hence, it is important for Brazil to have Neymar in this quarter match with Croatia. The same importance with Casemiro in midfield because Brazil really need him to break counter attacks from Croatia as far as possible since the middle of field. With Modric and Perisic, Croatia can turn from defense to attacking very quickly and with highly dangerous ability.

Brazil is my choice to win this match too but it's hard to choose between Neymar and Modric. I really want to see both of players to have happy endings with their national teams.

Everything including recovery from bottom form should start from somewhere and sometime. Liverpool did a good recovery after terrible start of season and it can be their beginning to better form in rest of season.

It is a potential drawback for Liverpool and it's too soon to say how their international players will return to the club, healthy or injured. Let's wait for the end of World Cup and even a few weeks after that. Because players might not get injury within World Cup but their bodies might be tired and injuries will occur when they return to Liverpool, get back to training, playing one or two matches which exceed their body limits.

Paxful is very popular in African countries too. Did you try Paxful with Bitcoin wallet and Lightning Network wallet too?

In the last month, they integrated USDC on their Peer-to-Peer trading platform and it is a second stable coin on Paxful, after USDT. With USDT on Paxful, you can send it on two blockchains, Ethereum and TRON.

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Brazil easily destroyed South Korea and that easy win makes them as a very solid candidate for the title. They are one of best candidates since beginning and this win convinces people more about their strength and their chance.

Croatia still rely too much on their old players, Modric, Perisic who can not play in extra times. In World Cup 2018, they went to the final match after three matches with 120 minutes for each. I don't believe their old players will be able to repeat it in this World Cup.

Brazil have more players who can replace their main players and decide the match. Croatia as seen in the match with Japan, their substitutions can not make difference.

Bitcoin and Ethereum are too big cryptocurrencies and their developers, communities are very careful with updates. Lot of things must be tested many times, debugs to make sure when an update is launched, it won't create a big chance for hackers to exploit their blockchains.

Both coins have same chart pattern and recent months, we see dead cat bounces from mid and low cap altcoins. In the same time, top coins are very boring and silent.

Ethereum must wait for Bitcoin rally to recover itself. In a next bull run, Ethereum must have a big upgrade to start its new bull run and to make community feel excited about its future.

Morocco successfully avoid to have conceded goal too early and they even completed this task better by ending 120 minutes without any conceded goal.

Spain as we know, they have problems to score goals and in the match, Morata had one great chance to make a headshot in 5m50 area but his finish is very poor in accuracy.

Sarabia made Spanish players regreted a lot with a shot in last few seconds of second extra half. Later he missed a first penalty for Spain too.

Morocco will be a first African team which can play in World Cup semi final if they win Portugal in an upcoming quarter match.

He is one of best players in history of Portugal and it is hard for Santos, their coach to eliminate Cristiano from their team. We know Portugal have many good attacking players who are younger than Ronaldo, and they can contribute more for defending too. I should be honest that I did not know about Gonzalo Ramos but Rafael Leao should be given more chances. After great seasons in AC Milan and a latest goal for Portugal, he shown that he is very ready for World Cup.

I don't know why Santos put his belief on Ramos but it is a very brave decision from him and it is a great successful decision.

With bad performance of Lukaku and Lautaro in World Cup, Inter Milan might get problems when Serie A returns in January.

Lukaku and Lautaro are so important for Inter Milan and they need these players at best forms in order to compete with so many other clubs in top four race. Lazio, AC Milan, Juventus, Roma and even Atalanta won't give Inter Milan too many chances to enter top four if Inter Milan continue to lose more points.

Lukaku and Lautaro did play too much in World Cup and maybe they will be less exhausted than other players. That can be their advantage to come back with club matches. Their disadvantage can be their poor performance and lack of confidence after World Cup.

Know about risk and invest if you can afford to lose your capital.

More risk if you store your coins, tokens on centralized exchanges. They own your keys and they only credit you a number in your account balance which means nothing, has no value if they get bankrupted or scam exit.

Tomorrow begins since today and the collapse of FTX is a good catalyst for cryptocurrency market. If they did not collapse in this bear market, they will become bigger in next bull run. And in next bear market, when they collapse, impacts would be bigger.

At least the collapse of FTX helps other exchanges to look at themselves and be more transparent with their capital management on behalf of their users. More regulations to prevent illegal use of customer capital that is good in general.

Yobit exchange does not have customer support. A least it is what you will get if they contact their customer support. Your request will go to the air and no reply back to you after all.

Yobit run many spam campaigns in forum and their account even was banned, their signature was disable in forum by the admin (6 months).

Months later they came back with Cryptotalk signature which was a spam campaign too before it was handled by yahoo.

Yobit spam on the forum
Yobit /Cryptotalk signature campaign

If they did not care about quality of participants and only spent money for spammers. You should guess where did their money come from. Easy have, easy spend without consideration.

The return of Neymar helps Brazil to be more creative with their attacking and Korea simply is not good enough to constrain a team that plays with Latin style like Brazil. They can play well with teams have European style like Portugal. Because their national K League is full of physical competitions of players.

Neymar has his first goal in World Cup but more than that, he contributed one assist and some key passes. The appearance of Neymar means so much for Brazil attacking system which is more smoothly with him at the number 10 position. In last two matches, Rodryog were not able to replacr Neymar in that position.

So far no shock in round of 16. Three Asian teams were out even Japan did get very close to a win and make a first shock in this round.

Morocco has some good players like Ziyech, Hakimi and with their experience in Europe with big clubs and at Champions League, they can lit up a fire of fighting and confidence in their team. It would be great if we have a first underdog to go to quarter round.

Spain did show they have weakness and it was exploited by Japan. In addition, their attacking is not perfect and still has difficult to convert ball possession to goals.

Considering the win of Netherlands against USA, I saw that Netherlands are ready to exploit any weakness and mistake from Argentina. Going far to quarter round, no team is weak and any mistake will be exploited very easily by opponents.

Argentina went to the quarter with outstanding contribution of Messi but again we saw that some of Argentina players wasted opportunities created by Messi. Will a nightmare like Gonzalo Higuain in World Cup 2014 and two Coppa America later will be repeated in World Cup 2022?

Lautaro Martinez did not score any goal in the World Cup and he turned likely goals to wasted opportunities. That is very bad because Argentina need more than Messi to win World Cup. Fortunately, Julian Alvarez is a big discovery for Argentina and maybe he will be a main choice for them in a quarter match.

Today two Asian teams Japan and Korea will play their matches. Japan has more chance to win than Korea because Croatia is still an easier opponent than Brazil. I don't mean Croatia is weak but Brazil is at higher level. In addition, if Japan meets Brazil, they will have higher probability to lose than Korea.

Because the tactic, formation and techniques of Japan players are like copy versions from Brazil players. But Japan is at lower level and with similar style, chance to lose for Japan would be bigger.

With Croatia, Japan can play counter attacking and wait for some non focusing minutes from Croatia. Japan can beat Croatia just like how they won Germany and Spain with some goals within few minutes.

Liverpool had good recovery before international break time for World Cup. Fortunately for them as Salah and Firmino are free from World Cup. They have some important players who are playing in Quatar like Van Dijik, Henderson and more but at least, two attacking players have good time to recover and preprare of rest of season.

They can if above clubs play bad in future and if they perform well. It is not easy for Liverpool but I agree with you that they have enough quality to get a second position. However I think a third position is more realistic for Liverpool.

I really believe in Arsenal that they will end this season in top 2 but more likeky at a second position. Manchester City will win Premier League 2022 - 2023.