A platform is a project, a website and other things like security layer. A blockchain is an infrastructure of a blockchain-based platform/ project and even more, it can be a homeland for many projects to build on top of it. A blockchain has its native currency for example Ethereum blockchain has Ethereum ETH as its native currency, which will be used as on chain transaction fee. On Ethereum blockchain, it is gas. Other projects build on Ethereum blockchain, will have their own tokens, but to move those tokens on chain, they need ETH for gas and transaction fee. Chain is an abbreviation of a specific blockchain. For example with Ethereum, we call it as ERC20 chain; with Binance Smart Chain, we call it as BSC chain. Definition of tokens |
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The top isn't really changing much and I think it will remain like that until the end of the season. It isn't very likely that Juventus Turin would start crashing and the same is true for Inter Milan.
Inter Milan and Juventus likely book first two positions of Serie A in this season. They are strongest and most stable compare to other clubs in top area and it's hard for other clubs to surpass either Juventus or Inter Milan. Roma has again shown their volatile face. Lukaku played, but he couldn't do anything about this draw. There was a moment in the game when I thought that Roma would get this, but Atalanta passionately defended.
Too bad though that this is another game that just died off when the first two goals were scored during the first half. There was still some action, but I thought Roma would turn this game around.
AS Roma played at home so this draw is very disappointed for them even Atalanta is no way can be considered as an easy opponent. Roma got a conceded goal first and successfully to equalize the match but they failed to find a winning goal even created some opportunities. It is not a good match from Lukaku but Roma wins, draws or fails, it is responsibility of a whole team members from their coach to players. Lukaku is the only person responsible for this disappointed draw. |
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Milan is already left behind in the title race because both Inter and Juventus will not easily lose any matches; therefore, Milan needs to buckle up to meet up and maintain their position because if they are not consistent, Roma, Fiorentina, Atalanta, and Napoli are all pushing to make it to the Champions League next season through the top four standings.
AC Milan fell behind the title race but they can keep fighting and wait for a second chance. Inter Milan will continue to play in Champions League so they have risk to lose points in Serie A. Juventus are playing impressively but they can drop points too. Before thinking of two above teams, AC Milan must look at themselves, make improvements and complete their matches well enough as a first condition to race for Scudetto. Temporarily, they have good differences with under clubs but if they drop points, those clubs will surely create more pressure on AC Milan. Fiorentina lost 3 critical points in this match in which they competed to go to European tournaments. Sassuolo is a team that is very at odds with other teams. While they took the 3 points on their own field, the match witnessed many dramatic events. As a result, Fiorentina lost 3 points and maintained its fourth place.
This defeat will be harmful for their fight to get in top four because around them, there are many competitive teams which want to be in as well. We can name, Bologna, Atalanta, Roma, Lazio and it is not all that easy for all engaged teams, not only Fiorentina. With this high competitive race, any mistake will potentially cost a lot at the end. No many chances to make mistakes, drop points and will still be able to be in top four and in quality, Fiorentina are not actually too better than other competitors. Therefore they must carefully collect points from every match, play carefully and avoid any points drop if they can maximize the result. |
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A few seasons ago the PSG managed to reach the champions' league final but they failed and after that they have not yet been able to the same thing, and actually in the champion league only teams have good statistics that can repeat good performance in a time not too far
If they want to win Champions League, they must maintain their good performances there, season by season. They can not go to the final match every season but a more regular they can join rounds like quarter final, semi final, the more probability they will have chance to join Champions League final. When a team already are in a final match, chance to life the trophy is 50/50. but other teams always have difficulty achieving good things in the next season, you can see Inter Milan who managed back to the final and it's long enough with the last time they managed it
Inter Milan are only a runner-up last season and the fact is even Champions League winners failed to defend their titles in a next season. In Champions League history, only one winner defended their titles successfully, it's Real Madrid and they did it two times by winning three Champions League consecutively. there is Kylian Mbappe there so that this club continues to get news and it will be a different story if the French national striker team moving to a different league.
If PSG considers Mbappe as their club's problem, they will let him go but so far, they did not see him as their trouble. |
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AS Roma will also face Atalanta both teams are only 1 point adrift and AS Roma as a home team will be motivated to be able to go up to the 5-6 place.
AS Roma and Atalanta are direct competitors to top four but they are racing with other clubs too. This direct match is very important for both team and even a winning will not be enough for them to jump to the fourth position but no doubt they will try best to win this match. In early matches, Bologna and Fiorentina did not have good results and it means Roma as well as Atalanta have a big opportunity to reduce their gap with those above clubs. Roma after claiming the fourth position weeks ago, started to fall down after the defeat against Bologna and they are trying to climb up again. It seems this season will continue to be another tough season for them and Mourinho to participate in top four of Serie A. |
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Although I'm still giving Michael Saylor some benefit of the doubt, the kind of mindset that he exposed of himself truly having about Bitcoin is a sign that he wants Bitcoin to become like a corporate-controlled settlement layer for the wealthy and the elite, instead of what it was intended to be as a decentralized, censorship-resistant, self-sovereign cryptocurrency for everyone.
Michael Saylor is building up a massive automatic profit printer for MicroStrategy. I am not considering him as my idol and anyone similar. I just think about him and his strategy for MicroStrategy and in my opinion, he is a genius. People can ask questions like, MicroStrategy is getting benefit by their decision to invest in Bitcoin which no doubt has big contribution from Michael Saylor to convince the company board members to spend money for a risky investment in BTC since 2020. As a clear result of this, the company stock has very good growth in 2023. People can ask question like, if Bitcoin Spot ETFs will be available, will people continue to buy MicroStrategy stock? I think they will do because if they buy Bitcoin Spot ETF, they won't have a thing that can bring double benefit like MicroStrategy stock. Buy the stock, see Bitcoin growth to increase your portfolio value and also see the stock increases in value. Double wins. I am sorry if someone thinks I am shilling MicroStrategy stock. It's not my intention. Just thinking about Michael Saylor as businessman with very smart strategy. Plus don't forget the question of, "How much of the total supply must be held in centralized third-parties' vaults before we start to worry? What's the threshold?"
It is a big concern but MicroStrategy and any investor are free to accumulate bitcoin from the market. |
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Inter Milan had a very good campaign last season and were even able to reach the final of the UEFA champions league competition as well as finishing in the top four of the Italian Serie A but this season the club has taken their impressive form to another level and are seriously in contention to win the the Italian Serie A title. They're currently at the top of the league standings and closely followed by Juventus. They know how detrimental it'll be to their title chase is they drop any point against Hellas Verona later on today. So I don't expect Inter to underestimate the strength of their league opponents today.
Inter Milan in recent seasons can play well in Serie A but they just don't have similar good performances in Champions League. Their achievement in the last season, going to a final match, is a big surprise and it gives them ambition and belief that they can repeat it in this season. They are going to repeat it but first they will have to beat Atletico Madrid in two matches of round of 16. The opponent is not weak and easy for Inter Milan. In fact Atletico Madrid are one of most stable clubs in Champions League and they have a very good experience here, even more than Inter Milan. Their manager Simone Inzaghi is a very experienced manager who would definitely want to implore his best tactical approach to that game in other to make sure they grab all three points from the game and extend their lead at the top of the table.
He only had a first Champions League final match in his coach career and Inter Milan is a biggest club in his coach career so far. He is still a young coach and has less expererience than Diego Simeone, Atletico Madrid's coach. |
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You almost have same reasoning with me because sometimes I use to wonder why giving a merit to a good and quality posts of a user who have been inactive for a long time like close to or over a decade now, like whats the need for? When we know truly well that such a user may have either lost access to the account or may be dead? Like what's the essence
It is how you show your recognition for their past contributions. You send merit if you see their contributions are important for you and Bitcoin. You don't lose anything if you send your sendable merit away to a good post. Don't hoard your sendable merit because it is created to be spent (spendable). You also won't lose your merit or your rank won't be deranked by sending your sendable merit. |
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There have been some good and quality posts that I've come across why navigating through the forum and I found out that some of the users have been inactive for a very long time but the posts they've made deserved merit, so is it advisable to merit the post(s) of a user(s) that have been inactive for a long interval of time considering the fact that they made Meritable posts?
They and their posts deserved to receive merit if post quality, thread quality are excellent. Merit is for quality contributions. Sending your sendable merit to quality posts if you see them. Active or inactive users is not a concern because forum has unlimited merit and monthly theymos dumps more sendable merit to merit sources. You don't have concern that if you and other members send smerit to inactive users, total sendable merit in the forum will dry out. I'm hoping that this system will increase post quality by:
- Forcing people to post high-quality stuff in order to rank up. If you just post garbage, you will never get even 1 merit point, and you will therefore never be able to put links in your signature, etc.
- Highlighting good posts with the "Merited by" line.
While we will not be directly moderating this, I encourage people to give merit to posts that are objectively high-quality, not just posts that you agree with.
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Although Girona and Real Madrid both have 48 points, Girona will win the La Liga title based on their current record, as even Real Madrid is aware of their limitations. Girona's next game comes on 21 when they take on Sevilla. Since Sevilla isn't a very good team, I fully expect Girona to work hard and produce excellent results for them so they may get opportunities and unseat Real Madrid at the top of the table. However, I doubt that the remaining teams you listed will encounter is only Barcelona. I'm optimistic about since they put efforts and 41 points of work they may be able to catch up
They have same total points now but it is too soon to think that La Liga title will be decided by extra factors than total points of two competitors. The league is still long enough to see two competitors will complete this season with different total points. Even Girona and Real Madrid have probability to not end this season as first two clubs on the ranking table. They still have a long journey to go in La Liga and many matches to complete, to take the trophy. Even Barcelona, Atletico Madrid are currently behind with big point differences, they can play more strongly and better in second half of season and can return to the title race in future. True. Barca is not as powerful as it was some seasons ago and out of nowhere in the last 2 seasons almost every team from LaLiga managed to score at least once against Barca in both home and away game and that didn't happened before. This season so far is not different and we can clearly see Barca shaking against some teams and also conceding quite some goals and we are just half of the season in + in my opinion this current Barca in top a top 3 team in LaLiga so far.
They are in a rebuilding and transitional phase even they won La Liga in the last season. When the transitional phase has yet completed, it is understandable to see their performances are unstable and sometimes are very terrible. Xavi generally does his good management job and Barcelona must give him fairer treatment as well as must know that their club actually needs more time to return as a giant in La Liga and Champions League. If they lose patience, treat Xavi bad, sack him, they will put their club into another crisis. |
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Did you see the new release of Satochip limited edition card hardware wallet pack inspired by Genesis block message?
This is a cool collectibles item, but it can also be used as hardware wallet and as seed phrase backup.
Those stuffs have very cool designs. I like them because first it helps to keep our wallet seeds safely and also contains historical information of Bitcoin. It is like dual purposes in one, safety and education. Thank you for sharing links to those products, it helps me to check prices of those stuffs. I don't buy them now, cost is not feasible for me but I bookmark it and will return to buy it later if it will not be sold out. |
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As these challenges persist, there's a growing worry that Bitcoin may be viewed more as a store of value than the revolutionary payment system envisioned by Satoshi Nakamoto. If high fees become a recurring issue, the risk of hindering Bitcoin's adoption as a medium of exchange is a real concern.
There are things for developers and community to improve with Bitcoin on chain and it won't be done too soon. Meanwhile people can have solutions like off chain, layer 2, side chain which can not solve all problems from on chain transactions but can give people options to choose and avoid mandatory paying too expensive on chain transaction fee. Before any technical BIP can be deployed to improve transaction fee experience, people must be flexible when choosing what they use to move money. It can be Bitcoin on chain and it can be altcoins. |
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Soon we are going to see another surprise in the Saudi League and this time it's about the superstar player of Manchester City, Kevin De Bruyne. Kevin De Bruyne even had an offer from Al Nassr in 2023 and they were interested in hearing this player but they couldn't do that. Now it seems PIF wants to try their chance for another time for hiring this player. He was mostly away from the first squad in the last games after he got injured in the game against Burnley.  Kevin got his highest by winning Champions League in the last season and I really think that he does not have chance to win Ballon d'Or at this age with competition from Mbappe and Haaland. His chance to win titles with Belgium national team is small and almost impossible. With more injuries and chance to be qualified for Manchester City first squad in all matches becomes smaller and smaller, it's time for Kevin to make decision. PIF even take big risk by hiring the player and they might face with another costly failed transfer like Neymar. Both players have bad injury records and they are no longer at most energetic ages in player career. Kevin, in addition, just got a most serious injury in his career, that is a big risk in this transfer for PIF. It will be more wisely if they use that fund to bring Mohamed Salah to Saudi Professional League. |
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Like many pieces of advice I give to those new to this market, if you want a lasting profit, invest in knowledge of the field you want to research first. And in a field that includes finance and technology, ask yourself how do you define investing
With Bitcoin market, investors will have to learn about Fundamentals, Technical Trading and they have to learn more than that. How to store their bitcoin. If they store their bitcoins in accounts on centralized exchanges, I wish them best and hope they won't lose their coins on CEX. Reminder: do not keep your money in online accountsWhen CEX has a bankruptcy, if they make compensation, they will pay you in fiat currency and don't care about how much does Bitcoin cost at the time they bankrupted and at the time they pay you in compensation. Mt.Gox, FTX filed documents to pay their users with very low price of Bitcoin years ago and in 2022. Imagine you store 1 bitcoin on FTX in 2022, and now if they compensate you, you will receive like 1/3 bitcoin because Bitcoin has good rally from its bottom in 2022. Painful. |
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To be fair though, what he said wasn't necessarily even that bullish, just on the scale of 6/10 in terms of bullishness.
Pretty scary how close the timing was with the recent cascading liquidation event though, that was presumably started by the MatrixPort article.
High probability of Bitcoin Spot ETF approval is like 90% just rumor. Possible rejection of Bitcoin Spot ETF applications from MatrixPort article is only rumor. People love rumor but they forget that "Buy the rumor, sell the news". A magic principle for them in Bitcoin market is, ignore news, buy and hold your bitcoin in your wallet. Time will help you get profit when you are not affected by rumor, news. |
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1. Miners have years to plan for the halving, which means they are given the chance to readjust themselves to see if they can continue the mining task. Certainly, profits might not be guaranteed, especially when working as a solo miner.
Miners have to build up their strategy because mining is like an investment but requires very long time to get break-even. If they take risk too much, don't have good strategy, they can have bankruptcy. We usually think Bitcoin miners easily get profit but it is not like this. It is a risky investment for newbies and with each halving, we will have many new miners join this mining industry. New miners are most vulnerable with market shocks, corrections because their budgets likely are not too deep and they over take leverages, risks. Experienced miners are like senior investors, they know what to do in bull and bear market and how they can reserver their block rewards for halving and bull run. |
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Despite the noise and the FOMO and the hype, I think it's 50:50. It could be a yes or a no. Although I want the SEC's decision to be positive and see how the market reacts, that it would once again reject the applications is a probability. The SEC might reject the applications for now pending further preparations and polishing of policies and safeguards which pave the way for an eventual approval. A spot Bitcoin ETF in the US is still a matter of when, of course, but the SEC might simply say it's still premature for now. There's much more cleaning to be done.
I am not a lawyer and don't know about laws in the USA. especially for Bitcoin Spot ETF and how long SEC. can delay it. It seem they are going to a deadline to announce their decision, Yes or No. However, is there any chance for SEC. to postpone it again with somewhat reason they can use? I don't know, again about laws but if SEC. do another postpone, I really think they will delay it after the Bitcoin halving or worse, after the 2024 USA. President Election. If some big changes in SEC. board members after the 2024 President Election, I expect to see Bitcoin Spot ETF approvals after that because it must be 3 yes votes from SEC board members to approve those applications. Now we have 2 - 2, and the decisive vote is on the hands of Gensler, he votes No, very likely. |
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Ac Milan? We can all agree that AC Milan will win the game; Cagliari's performance is insufficient to consider them as a threat to Ac Milan. Ac is not playing in the Champions League this season; they were eliminated from the group stage and are now concentrating on the remaining league titles, such as the Italian Cup and the serie A. Given that Ac Milan is currently in third place in the league table, I believe they have a chance to perform well enough to qualify for the Champions League the following season.
It is only a match in Coppa Italia which is not too much important for AC Milan. By their failure in Champions League, AC Milan will have to focus on Serie A and they did not have too good performances that cause them to have an unsure position in Serie A. There are many clubs that compete with AC Milan for a position in top four and AC Milan will have to play rest matches in this season with full focus. If they are careless, risk to be kicked out of top four is not small. The only thing I'm not sure Ac Milan can accomplish is win the serie A league. Ac Milan can't win it because some teams are more concerned with winning the trophy than with winning the league; teams like Inter Milan and Juventus, who are currently leading the league table, want to win the league title this season and have demonstrated through their performance that they can do so.
However, a winning in Coppa Italia is helpful to bring AC Milan back on positive track. It is so good to start a new year with a big winning that brings a lot of hope. I see AC Milan almost have no chance to compete for Scudetto because Inter Milan and Juventus are too strong and have good gaps on the table against AC Milan. |
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Time flies! It's (2014) like yesterday that I randomly read about how you could use bitcoin to buy games online and after a little more research I was hooked. A decade later and I'm glad I found out about this fantastic innovation  I am so impressed because you digged a hole and got hooked by it for years. The impression is mainly because you learned about Bitcoin, not only to use it like other Bitcoin users but you actually learned deep enough to become one of Bitcoin experts in Bitcointalk community. I read your posts many times and see they are very knowledgeable, insightful and admire you a lot but I don't have technical background in programming to understand it all. |
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