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2741  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Premier League Prediction Thread 2021/2022 on: April 03, 2022, 06:33:04 AM
This is the most competitive and important match in the Premier League. Which team will be the champion depends largely on this match. Both teams are strong and in very good form. However, Manchester City is ahead in the performance of these two teams. In the end, Manchester City has won 2 out of 5 head-to-head matches, and 2 matches have been drawn. Liverpool won one. Besides, City has scored 13 goals in these 5 matches, while Liverpool has scored 7 goals. The city is ahead in statistics. However, victory or defeat will depend on the performance in the match.
Both top teams won and moved together with 3 more points. So difference between them remains at one point with the leading belongs to Manchester City. They keep the title competition exciting.

It seems they will win most of rest matches and ny team lose points in any match might give their opponent decisive chances to make different in final phase. It might result in trophy decisive mistake.

After the defeat There are now 14 points to the top of the League, they dont take the lead in the last 8 games. Chelsea have 1 game less than Manchester City or Liverpool, but they have no chance. A place in the top 4 is save and with it the Champions League next year.
Exactly. It is best for Chelsea to only focus on their third position. Playing well to keep that position and won't lose it to Arsenal. It is a good achievement for them after the sanction on Abramovich. In this season, they still have opportunity to win Champions League. Will Tuchel become a second coach so do Chelsea as a second team to successfully protect their trophy?
2742  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1) on: April 02, 2022, 08:17:27 AM
If Zidane accepts PSG's offer then this is the biggest good news for PSG. Because they have an extraordinary squad, the squad has no shortage of talented and star players. Their only shortcoming was the lack of experienced coaches. PSG has failed to improve itself due to lack of experienced coaches and poor match strategy. If Zidane takes charge of PSG. Then maybe PSG will be able to do better in the Champions League next season.
Yeah. It is good in theory. Zidane is a smart and successful coach so far. He has made some records in history of Champions Leauge as a very few person who can win it as both player and coach. More impressively, he is the first coach who wins 3 Champions League consecutively. The first ever and it seems to be very challenging for any coach to repeat it.

But his good records don't automatically bring Champions League cup to Paris for PSG. They will have to comprehend his philosophy and need luck to beat all opponents around Europe in order to win Champions League.
2743  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ⚽UEFA Champions League Discussion Thread -- 2021/22 Round of 16! on: April 02, 2022, 07:58:15 AM
Do you think Chelsea midfielders are stronger than Real Madrid midfielders this season? Although the last season, Real Madrid midfielders are defeated by Chelsea midfielders, it doesn't mean Chelsea midfielders' performance is better than Real Madrid midfielders this season. I still believe that Real Madrid midfielders have learned many things from their lose in the last season. So, it probably won't happen again this season. Young or old players sometimes don't give a significant influence in the match.
They have good players but they are different. Chelsea's midfielders are younger and more energetic. Real Madrid's midfielders are olders and are playing at lower intensity. I could be wrong but Real Madrid's midfielders are playiing with experience they have learned from their long career.

When they face in two matches, if Real Madrid can not control playing intensity, they will very likely to fall in late of matches and get collapsed by Chelsea. If Real Madrid successfully to control intensity at the level they want, Chelsea will get troubles because Real Madrid will find holes in defense of Chelsea and win matches.
2744  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2020/21 on: April 02, 2022, 07:51:31 AM
If at this time Real Madrid really depended on Benzema then the notes on paper or head to head records would no longer have an effect, because the situation was very different where Real Madrid depended heavily on one player.
It is naturally to see a club rely on their biggest star player. In another hand, it is naturally to see other players to take over that position. Just like how Benzema takes over the goal-sourcing position of Ronaldo. He does it well and if Benzema leaves Bernabeu, others or another players can do it as well. Players need to be assigned with important duties but they also need time to adapt to their new roles.

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I don't think Madrid is a big team and the champions only rely on one player in the game, so they don't deserve to be at the top. Therefore, the match against Celta Vigo should be a trigger for other players to be able to play better and still be able to win the match without Benzema.
First Real Madrid have good difference than Sevilla and Barcelona.
Second, they have experienced coach and players
Third, the season does not have many matches left

I believe they will get the title eventually by one way or another. They might win or might not win Celta Vigo but they will win La Liga.
2745  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Italian League Prediction Thread (Serie A) on: April 02, 2022, 07:45:19 AM
Juventus will host Inter Milan at home on Sunday. The game is going to be much fun because the two teams will exhibits their best performance in other not to drop points. The game is a must win for Juventus as they looked to secured their spot in the champions league. The Bianconeri is under probability to beat inter Milan, and Milan has drawed their last 2 Seria A games. Let's hope and see the outcome of the game. I have already placed my bet on Juventus to win the game. I prayed that they shouldn't mowed my bet ticket like they did the last time against Villarreal.
It is a big Sunday match for two teams and for Serie A. They are both in the Scudetto competition with AC Milan and Napoli. Juventus still have diligent chance to win Scudetto if we consider how AC Milan and Napoli are not stable with their performances.

Inter Milan if lose this big Sunday, will face with a very bad ending in this season. They began it too well, maintained their position at top for many weeks and now are falling down to the third position already. It seems that Simeone Inzaghi has bad ability to manage resources for second part of season. From Lazio to Inter Milan, clubs he manages ususally have worse latter half of season than first half.
2746  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Premier League Prediction Thread 2021/2022 on: April 02, 2022, 07:39:56 AM
Liverpool and Manchester City both want to get a win in the Premier League match week 30, because in week 31 they will meet at the Etihad stadium. The distance of one point with Manchester City makes Liverpool players more motivated to win the match against Watford to keep the distance from Manchester City.
9 matches left for each of them and with only one point difference, if any team make mistakes, lose points and let the opponent to take a lead, they will face with very high risk to lose the title. There are not man matches left and it is not enough to correct mistake. It is not abnormal to see a team have a win streak from 6 to 8 matches, so if mistakes make, it will almost be able to correct in this phase of season

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Pep Guardiola certainly does not want his team to abdicate, he will look for a way to get 3 points off Liverpool to secure his position at the top. If the Big Match week 31 ends in a draw, Liverpool will have to wait for Manchester City to lose points in another match in order to sit in a first position.
Pep will not want to lose Premier League and he together with his team have one point more than Liverpool and Klopp. It means they still controll the competition in their hands. Nevetheless, if Pep have to make hard choice between Premier League and Champions League, he will choose Champions League. He and  Manchester City are more obsessed with Champions League. It somewhat gives big opportunity to Liverpool and Klopp.
2747  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: CEX ruins the true value of Bitcoin on: April 01, 2022, 04:55:07 PM
True DEXs, like BISQ, are open source projects licensed under a GPL-like license that makes the project "owned" by the community. If a lead developer leaves, another from the community can take his/her place, like Bitcoin when Satoshi left, or Linux if Linus Torvalds leaves.
Problems with Bisq is their low trading volume. So it reveals the fact that not much people actually care about privacy, anonymity and truly DEX. If they care about that, they will use true DEX like Bisq more and will contribute to make trading volume on it much higher.

I disagree with the OP on the opinion. Bitcoin is for everyone and there are many use cases for it, on DEX, on CEX, on Peer-to-Peer marketplace, gambling sites, etc. Nothing destroys the true value of Bitcoin. Together, they contribute to bring Bitcoin to the world, to result in better adoption. It's more good than harm.
2748  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: Exchanges - How many people have access to Cold storage Private keys? on: April 01, 2022, 01:55:51 PM
                                                                "Not your keys, not your coins"
There is a website on it: https://notyourkeys.org/

Your question is strange. In my opinion, exchanges decentralize their fund into hot wallets and cold ones. You store most of funds in cold wallets to make sure that only their team have access to private keys or seeds.

For hot wallets, when it needs to be refilled, they will make deposits from cold wallets to top up their hot wallets. So if exchanges let other people (outside of their team) to have access to cold storage private key, it means they have very serious issue. For exchanges, I think they know how to keep their cold wallets untouchable by strangers
2749  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Premier League Prediction Thread 2021/2022 on: April 01, 2022, 01:44:57 PM
The 4th position this season is in the hands of Arsenal and I'm not sure Manchester United and Tottenham will manage to overtake Arsenal until the end of the season.
If I have to choose one potential team that can take over the fourth position from Arsenal, I would choose Tottenham, not Machester United.

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Arsenal's good form can be expected to stay safe in the 4th position at the moment, they have a few points advantage over Manchester United and Tottenham and Arsenal also have 1 game in hand. So it will be good to keep thinking Arsenal will be safe in 4th place this season.
Arsenal in surprise of all, have managed their performance good and long enough in this season. Now the season is going to the end and with advantage they currently have and their latest form, I don't see how Arsenal will lose it.

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West Ham, Tottenham and Manchester United will compete for the 5th place as Europa League contestants. Maybe Manchester United will take this ticket later even though their performance is not consistent.
I think Tottenham will finish in the fifth position, and the sixth position will belong to Manchester United. It's not good for Ten Hag to take over the club like this but he has no choice. He only can hope now but in my opinion, if Manchester United have to play in Europa League next season, it would be great for him. Because there will be less pressure on him so he will be able to build up the club gradually.
2750  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2020/21 on: April 01, 2022, 04:52:47 AM
there is no doubt that losing by 4 goals and not being able to score at least 1 goal was the worst humiliation we suffered this season and it hurts a lot because we lost precisely to barcelona. But talking about the future, we need to be able to play well even when Karin Benzema is not playing, the rest of the games are not very problematic games, with some exceptions, but unfortunately we have played very badly when Karin Benza is not present/
They will be adaptive to missing of Benzema. They have enough good players to help them go through without-Benzema time. They are a team and will do hard to work on behalf of Benzema. It is also chance for other players to make impression on Ancelotti and improve their position in the club next season. Ancelotti is positively tested with Covid so he will be missing at least one match and perhaps two or three matches. His son will manage the coming matches until Carlo comes back.

If Benzema is injured then I doubt if Real Madrid can win the title. Although Real Madrid's squad and coaches are experienced, their entire match strategy is centered around Benzema. If Benzema is not injured then maybe I don't see any chance of Barcelona winning the title. Besides, I don't think Barcelona will be able to win the next 10 matches.
They have good difference with Sevilla and Barcelona so their task in rest of season is not too hard. They can lose 3 more matches but will still be able to control the competition. In addition, La Liga has only 9 more matches left so if Real Madrid don't lose more than 3 matches or by anyway, don't lose more than 9 points till the end, they will take the trophy.

Benzema is their main source of goals and operation of their attacking system but I believe they will manage to win about 5 or 6 matches to complete the season at top. Other players can help them win perhaps with minimal difference just enough to win.
2751  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2020/21 on: April 01, 2022, 02:28:35 AM
Thanks to Xavi, Barcelona is getting better and perfect. Front line progress, center, and back have collaborated with each other although are not even better from the Pep era and this progress is getting faster than what they were beginning. Against Sevilla is not difficult when they still play like this, especially playing at home with supporters will definitely win with 2 different goals and shift the 2nd position.
Xavi has done great job to bring Barcelona to top level. They revive career of Dembele that is impressively if we know a few coaches failed with that mission. They have only 3 points less than Sevilla but have one more match. If they win it, they will have the same total point as Sevilla have. Barcelona can finish this season in the second position that is unbelievable at the beginning after the leave of Messi in very final day of transfer season.

Yes, I think Pep's squad is still above Xavi's players today. I remember when the era of puyol, xavi, iniesta they seemed to be better. I think the Spanish League went down a bit when the two world stars left. The quality of their game has decreased a bit. Barca have begun to rise, Pep's philosophy passed on to Xavi. Xavi gave the same touch as Pep. They do not remove their characteristics.
You are right. Current players in current squad have lower quality than the one Pep had years ago. The same for Real Madrid with their current squad now. However, the interesting fact is because both of them have decreasing quality, they are still be parts of a competitive race in La Liga.

The next season will give us a clearer overview on what Xavi and Barcelona can actually do. They will begin it with fresh mind and higher ambition. If they end this season in the second position, they will surely aim at championship next season.
2752  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Italian League Prediction Thread (Serie A) on: April 01, 2022, 02:23:29 AM
Juventus will beat inter milan to maintain their top 4 position on the league table. They needs this points to qualify for champy league next season. The game is going to much interesting, because the two sides pattern of play are likely the same. But I know that Juventus will dominate the game massively, they don't hope for a draw, because if they draw or lose, their worst nightmare would happen. That's if they failed to qualify for champions league next season. Afterwards, inter Milan has drawed in their last 2 games, I don't see any need for a draw in the game between Juventus and them.
Inter Milan won't let Juventus easily to beat them down. From my neutral view, Juventus are in a position with which they have both opportunity and challenge. There is an opportunity to get the Scudetto because they have 7 points less than AC Milan on top of Serie A. In another side, they have 8 points more than AS Roma and Atalanta. If Atalanta win in their unplayed match, they will have only 5 points less than Juventus. It is a bit of challenge for Juventus.

They will either be able to take the Scudetto or be kicked out of top 4 by either AS Roma or Atalanta. I see they have a safe position against these clubs but no one knows what will happen. I believe Juventus and Max are strong and smart enough to maintain their position. For Scudetto, I don't know, let's see.
2753  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Germany League - Bundesliga Prediction Thread on: March 31, 2022, 04:24:32 PM
The dominance of Bayern in the Bundesliga is something everyone is used to. Borussia this season is very worthy of following Bayern, but due to the fact that rivals cannot create worthy competition, Bayern also does not play at full strength. In fact, Borussia is strong this season, and next season they may already be without Haaland, other key players, everything is repeated.
Bayern are stronger than other clubs on field and in finance. They can buy any player in Bundesliga if they want and they can give offer which is good enough for club and player. Such non-rejectable offer in Bundesliga is only from Bayern. Other clubs don't have abundant finance to make such one.

In another story, let's see Zlatan Ibrahimovic shows admiration to Bayern. Bundesliga is the league Ibrahimovic has never played in so in the end of his career, it's too good for him if Bayern knock his door and give him a contract.
2754  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: DeFi hacks [history] on: March 31, 2022, 12:53:45 PM
The huge compromise because of very low validators on a very centralized network like Ronin is undirectly convincing me that Ethereum is bigger and better than Binance Smart Chain.

People should know how big Ethereum network is in their total hashrate and how many validators on Ethereum network. Let's compare it to total validators on Binance Smart Chain. I am sure they will see how Ethereum is much safer and more healthy than Binance Smart Chain.

About Axie Infinity, I don't know why their team naively or carelessly to set up too low number of validators to approve transactions on Ronin chain.
2755  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Dogecoin - a joke or a way to make money? on: March 31, 2022, 12:48:39 PM
Meme coins may not have any utility at all, but they're certainly a great way to make profit in the short term. The crypto market is mostly speculative, so any coin that's fueled by hype, should be able to go towards new heights at a very fast pace. It'll be up to you to take advantage of this opportunity to make as much money as possible.
It's a speculative market and altcoins are more speculative than Bitcoin. Dogecoin is better than other meme coins because it is the first successful meme coin and it is the oldest one. About utility, Dogecoin is accepted on many merchants, gambling sites, platforms and this adoption makes Dogecoin different than other meme coins that were launched in 2020 to 2022.

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Those who held DOGE before 2021 got insanely rich thanks to Elon Musk's efforts to pump the cryptocurrency's price. Now that hype has faded away, Dogecoin's price is declining at a slow pace. Without someone (or something) that would pump its price, the meme coin might go back to sub $0.01 prices.

At least, Dogecoin's blockchain is alive and healthy after all of these years. Even if it goes to zero, it will still survive if there's a community backing it every step of the way. As long as you don't invest more than what you can't afford to lose, you'll have nothing to worry about. Just my opinion Smiley
What happened with Elon Musk is unexpected. However, without Elon Musk, Dogecoin is already a strong survivor in this market and it makes sense. No one can deny that Dogecoin is so strong survival. What it has achieved is unachievable by many altcoin projects which die after few months or around 2 years.
2756  Economy / Gambling / Re: 🦉 Owl.games 🦉 Web 3.0 Crypto Casino & Sportsbook - BTC-Metamask-Walletconnect on: March 31, 2022, 06:11:38 AM
Solana is the best for me in terms of transaction fee. There fee is almost zero while transaction is pretty decent(sometime its congested) and most of big CEX support this coin. I think I saw SOL in their list of accepted tokens before and this is not huge news we are all waiting for because the devs promised a major update while token listing is just basic for them since Owl casino is a web 3 platform.
They were best but months ago, their network had serious issues when more people joined and used Solana for their transactions. That congestive time shows that Solana is not a perfect solution and they still have issues like Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain when their network is overwhelmed by massive users.

Besides Solana, Avalanche is good to use technically and in transaction fee. I see good technology in Avalanche.

In terms of investment, Solana is still in expensive price range and I won't jump into it.
2757  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1) on: March 31, 2022, 05:33:33 AM
I don’t know if Zidane will accept the job because he loves to have complete authority at the club, but at PSG that won’t really be possible. Lastly I’m not sure if he would really like to coach Messi who’s been his arch rival for a long time now?, hence for these reasons I feel that Zidane won’t coach PSG.
Probably but I am keen on a possibility that Zidane is patiently waiting for a job with France national team after the World Cup 2022. The job in PSG and Paris is great but if Zidane won't take it, I think the only reason to explain it is he waits for chance with his national team.

Rumors of a change of a coach are being blown from PSG, reportedly will a sack Pochettino who is considered to have failed to meet the expectations of the club owner, now Zidane name has emerged as a coach after PSG collaboration with Pochettino ended.
Pochettino might be sacked because of bad result in PSG but I have another opinion. Indeed, Pochettino did not actually make things too bad in Champions League. He almost managed to bring good results and good tactics for PSG but what happen in last 30 minutes of second leg is not what he can actually manages by himself. Players are ones responsible for what happen on field mostly, the coach can not play on behalf of players or can not control their mentality.

PSG renewed a contract with Marquinhos even he did make bad mistakes in Champions League so if PSG can not find a better coach, they might keep using Pochettino.
2758  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Italian League Prediction Thread (Serie A) on: March 31, 2022, 03:08:21 AM
Atalanta is still showing a less competitive team in terms of fighting for the Scudetto than Napoli, but it may well compete for points in this particular match. On the one hand, victory is clearly more necessary for Napoli in this match, given the lag behind Milan and the presence of Inter in the immediate vicinity, but let's not forget where this match will take place and the support of their fans in Bergamo can also play a role.
I don't think it is good to compare Napoli and Atalanta in this season and to put Atalanta in Scudetto competition. Napoli are in but Atalanta are not for now. In future, Napoli might fall down and get caught by Atalanta, Juventus or Roma in the fourth or fifth position but for now, they still have good difference against these clubs.

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Also, let's not forget that Atalanta is also fighting at this point in time for a higher place and participation in the Europa League with clubs such as Roma, Lazio and Fiorentina, so Atalanta will at least play for a draw and everyone can solve some nuances.
Yeah it is better for Atalanta to focus on their race with Juventus and Roma for a last position in top 4. They successfully joined Champions League last few season and this one they might end out of top 4. When it happens, it might trigger a wave of star players transfer out of Atalanta that can put the club in some decreasing performance in next couple of seasons. After a few seasons in Champions League, some of their star players will not want to play in Europa League and they will leave Bergamo to find better clubs.
2759  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Premier League Prediction Thread 2021/2022 on: March 31, 2022, 03:02:37 AM
The only advantage Manchester City has over Liverpool is a one-point advantage in the standings, but we are well aware that such an advantage is scanty and can be lost literally within one round in the event of a successful result in the form of a victory for Liverpool and a defeat or a draw for City.
What team lose concentration in Premier League will lose trophy there. Because they are still in Champions League which will drain a lot of their resources. They are all want to win it but Manchester City have more ambition to win Champions League, from board director to coach to players. They highly want to win their first Champions League in the club history, in their career or first one with the club (Pep). So it will highly be like Manchester City will spend less concentration for Premier League and consequently they might lose more points there

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I would also call Manchester City the undisputed favorite for the end of the championship, given the previous history, but this season Josep Guardiola's wards are not carrying out a typical ending and managed to lose that solid advantage that in previous years allowed them to comfortably take the title. Therefore, I will refrain from declaring any club a favorite for the time being and I think and hope that Manchester City and Liverpool will give us a bright ending and a serious fight for the title until the last rounds.
It's bad for Pep and Manchester City to waste their big difference months ago and now with the tough matches in Champions League, they will have more challenge to maintain just 1 point difference against Liverpool. It is super hard to balance resource allocation and concentration for both Premier League and Champions League and I am sure most of people in Manchester City want to win Champions League more than Premier League. They have won a few Premier League but no Champions League so far.
2760  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1) on: March 31, 2022, 02:36:05 AM
PSG have failed in the Champions League this season and now only leaves regret amongst the fans. I don't really know how Pochettino is going to do with PSG while at Tottenham he's still an average looking coach. Several times he managed to bring Tottenham to the Champions League, but failed in the end so that experience was not enough to lift PSG's motivation to win.
Champions League is the most desiring target of PSG and Pochettino so far does not satisfy requirement from PSG director board. I disagree that Pochettino is just an average coach because he achieved some good things with Tottenham but he still need titles to become a big coach. He has been going through what Tuchel did before the Champions League trophy with Chelsea.

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Pochettino is not a coach who talks a lot on the touchline, he is more silent and evaluates the performance of his players on the bench and that kind of thing is not enough to get the players excited during the match. PSG need a coach who can change the dressing room atmosphere for the better and I don't think Pochettiono has that. I think he will be sacked after the season is over.
He looks like not a tough coach like Mourinho or Simeone who can control ego of star players in the club. It can be a serious issue for him and PSG in long run. If things are well, it is not an issue but if things go bad, there will be more internal conflict which will drag down general performance and might cause a failed season.
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