There are a lot of coins that can have a better TPS than ethereum, doesn't mean that they will be higher in price or market cap, it just means it’s cheaper to do transactions there. However, ETH will still be second ranked because it is doing amazingly well with the projects, many projects want to be in either bsc or eth networks and that’s why it is so important for us to always have a foot in the door with ethereum.

SOL on the other hand tries to do one thing but keeps getting frozen chain at times for failing at what they promised they will have, and that is not something I would like to see which is why I do not invest into it, doesn't seem likeable to me.

It's literally just a coin with its own blockchain, and a token that uses someone else's chain, it's that simple, you can't mix that up. Does the thing you are using have its own blockchain or does it use another network of another coin? That is how you could find the difference between them and it is super simple.

ETH is a coin, AXS is a token, BNB is a coin, Cake is a token, these are all simple to understand because one of them has its own chain, and the other one is listed under another coins chain network to exist. I personally invest in both of them if they are good, just like how I have both bnb and cake, but people could have different views of course and I respect that.

Those copy-trading people who are willing to share their trades are usually people who would like to promote themselves and that's not always bad, but usually that's a bad thing. It means that they do not truly care about being right or wrong, they care about being followed by as many people as possible and that usually entails getting right back to back, so the "goal" is same, if they make you money then they get famous, good for all.

However, they won't care if you do not make money, they won't be famous and that's bad but they do not lose anything, they just fail to reach their goal, on the other hand you would be losing money and that's not fine.

They can't "dump" it, the money is there but it doesn't belong to them. If they sell all their ETH and then people ask their ETH back, then what? Or if they sell and people sell there as well and there is a financial difference? How are they going to pay for it, out of pockets? What do they gain from it as well? Shorting ETH to make a profit?

I think we need to think this through, and it looks like there is no reason for them to do anything illegal, because if they use others ETH to sell and dump the price, they are located in the USA and SEC would destroy them, not only they will be given a penalty worth tens of millions of dollars, there will be jailed people as well. Doesn't make sense to me at all.

Unfortunately we do not have the power to change the price, or at least we are not organized enough. There are many people here, people who own websites, news sites, casinos and even exchanges, which means that if all of bitcointalk members who wants bitcoin to go up got together somehow, and decide to pump it somehow, then we could afford to make it go up, not just by buying, we would be able to do that as well but by hyping it as well, and if we did that it would work.

But unfortunately we are disorganized and we do not move like a unit, and that is why it doesn't end up being a good return for anyone, obviously it is normal for us to not get organized like that, but it is sad to know we could, but we won't.

I believe SEC or FED or any government organization in the world could try to stop or ban anything in crypto as they want but they need to realize that it's decentralized and even if you want to ban it in one nation, it will continue from another nation.

You may think that if USA bans it, it would hurt the price a lot but China did it long time ago and we are fine, and China isn't a small nation neither, they had so many investors with so much money, at least as much as USA has, and we are still fine. So, ETH not being liked by governments is not a big deal for us, the reality is that we shouldn't really be worried about such a thing at all, it's fine, they can try to dislike it as much as they want.

Those people assumed just 1 thing, which would be "if this goes 10x it is still nowhere near the levels it used to be, so why not try to make it work?" and that's it. They believed that even a small recovery with just a few million dollars bought on the market would make it go back up a lot, and they would profit from it.

As we all know it did increase a good chunk but in return we ended up with something major with a crash. Just do not invest into stuff that are shady, that should be an easy step and yet people keep forgetting about that all the time. I am not saying that it shouldn't really be a no-risk taking person, of course take risks but this one isn't a risk, it's idiotic.

United has been doing fine so far, not great of course and City is of course the favorites but at the same time we are talking about a team that is getting on a rebound after starting the season badly and anything could happen. Liverpool was seen like a definitely better team as well and they ended up beating liverpool too, to be fair liverpool doesn't look like a great team anymore neither but at least on paper they are.

So, we could still end up seeing an upset in that game, I wouldn't wager on United, but I won't wager on City neither, the upset possibility is weights more than the odds City are given in most places so I would pass up that game.

Ronaldo doesn't really have a "price", because it changes from club to club at this stage of his career. He is not the type of player who would be fine about going to Qatar or some Saudi team or whatever middle east rich persons team, or MLS, like Zlatan and Beckham did and earned a ton of money. If that was the case, I am sure you could find a team that is willing to pay 50 million for him and 50 million to him for 5 years, just look at Iniesta and how insane he is getting paid.

So long story short, that 20 million could very well become zero for the right team or fifty million for another, it all based on which team, he is not young anymore so his value is not known.

I disagree with this, I have a family elder that I know, he is my mother's uncle and he is very old now, but I remember him when he was 70 years old and stories about him were told many times before. He used to own a fish restaurant, he would catch the fish early in the morning at 4-5 am, and then would go to restaurant at around 9-10 am, and start preparing for the dinner, people would come and eat the fish he caught that day.

He did this from around his 30's to until his 60's, the place he owned became more and more modern and someone paid him millions of dollars in the 90's, or early 2000 times, and he sold it and retired and he took up painting and just lived a happy life without wanting more. So, there are people who do not want more.

My father could be considered one of them too, he worked as an employee of a logistic company for 32 years, and then retired at age of 55 and just watches TV and sleeps and drinks coffee and reads the newspaper and watches reality tv shows all night and I haven't seen anyone happier than him. So, not everyone wants millions or wealth or non-stop riches to satisfy their needs.

Honestly people are overreacting to it for sure. In the end we had many bad news on bitcoin before, it happened during 2018 as well, same mt.gox news and it dropped but what happened?

We moved to 68k in 2021 so we shouldn't worry about these, we should be considering these as a normal thing that happens in bitcoin and not an unusual thing. That's my personal opinion of course, but people are making decisions based on news is a wrong thing if you ask me, because fundamental is still strong, a gold covered in dirt is still gold and it will still have the same value, you just have to wait until you wash it before you can sell it but it will be still valuable anyway.

That is the point, Litecoin doesn't go down to nothing, it stays and as long as it keeps on staying at these levels on ranking, the price will keep on rising more and more. People may not understand whats so special about it since there are better blockchains invented, but bitcoin has been pretty similar to how it started out and it is still number one.

So, what matters is not the tech (of course that matters too) but more about consistency and Litecoin has been profitable for us for so long that I doubt people would really mind if it started to go up, people would probably say they expected such a thing and buying now and waiting for a very long time could yield such a huge profit.

Empoli could try to do whatever they want but in the end we are going to see Roma win, they are the much better team. I know that people are not really joyful to see underdogs get punished all that much, but I can see a score like 4-0 or so happening today. I wagered 2.5+ goals for the total score, and I am guessing that it is going to happen for sure.

Maybe I am wrong on the total goals for the game but I am pretty confident about the fact that Roma will be easily beating Empoli, they can't just stick to defence and hope to not get scored on, that tactic may work on smaller level clubs but Roma is a big club and it is not going to ned up being realistic for them to do it to Roma as well.

He "may" not be the special one anymore, but he started the whole "talk about the manager and not the players" stuff back in the day with pep. If we are talking about managers this much instead of just players, then it was mourinho vs pepe battle that we had, sure we talked about Ronaldo more than we talked about Mourinho, but that dude was probably 2nd or 3rd most talked about person in that club for that time, same goes for pep of course behind messi and xavi/iniesta combo.

Hence, I do not think that it really matters that much how he is, because he has the recipe for it, and he could still take a team to success, all he needs is more time than he used to need, but results would be the same.

Even the investors of these projects are aware that these are scam projects, but they believe they are smarter than everyone else. This means if they get in very quickly and then they get out before it goes down then they could make money.

To be fair, some really do that, they get in before anyone else and they get out before anyone else as well. This allows people to have a good return on their investment but I can't really say that they are not dealing a good amount of risk when they are doing this. This is why it is much better if we are dealing with known and big name projects instead of taking a risk with these silly stuff and be first and quick.

I agree that luck plays a role, but you can't win a championship back to back with just luck, you need to be talented of course, but you also need a great team and a great car. When you have all those three, even if you get unlucky here and there, you will still end up winning. Of course it is better to be lucky than unlucky, but that doesn't mean that you should be focusing purely on luck neither, you should be focusing on how you could turn it around.

I personally do not think that neither Max nor Lewis were lucky, they both had great cars when they won and Max will keep on winning more and that will show how great he is and not just lucky.

I am pretty sure that we are going to end up seeing a lot of changes in the bitcoin accumulation by people eventually. People buy it to get rich these days, but people will eventually realize that they shouldn't buy it to get rich, they should buy it to hold it for long, even too long.

I personally feel like if I can do the right thing, then I could hold it until I die and pass it to my child one day, if I ever have a kid. That way it would be possible for them to have a much better life. I am doing alright, I do not need wealth to be happy, I am happy without wealth, but providing wealth to my kids would be something I would be super happy about.

The team? Hell they even changed the owner ffs. They are having trouble because even though they are still a good team, they literally changed the whole team and that is going to hurt them a lot. I personally would love to have a situation where it is going to be a trouble for them unless they can get used to playing with each other.

I do not know what to say to make it work, but that is not my job neither, sometimes we have our own advises as fans, like "ronaldo should practice more aim" was a real thing when he was a younger player, and he did, and he is good. But I have no idea how they can bond Chelsea now and be a better team with high chemistry.

You know what was the most amazing thing ever, nobody made a mistake during Q2, everyone did their real best, and we got a 15 car list with only 1 second difference between fastest and slowest. I mean not like this never happens, of course it happens, but that usually means nobody made mistakes and everyone gave their %100 and that is unfortunately rare.

Some may disagree, but I have seen weekends where people failed to race during Q2 for car reasons, people who crashed out, people who had spins or even people who went out of tracks by a milimeter and not have their run counted, there are millions reasons why it may be a fail and sometimes it happens few times in a row.

This week, we have q3 with 2.2 seconds difference by 10th tsunoda, 1.1 by mick schumacher and no time by stroll. So, it does happen and happened even during the same qualifying which means that Q2 was unbelievably good to watch.

The interesting is that people are not realizing "why" firewood is used right now as alternative and why it is a good thing. The real deal is that Germans realized long time ago Russians can't be trusted and Putin is the evil person in the world today, history always had those evil people, maybe Putin is not as bad as Hitler, but certainly the worst for the world today.

So instead of gas, oil, petrol whatever that you can get from Russia, they would use firewood, but not forever neither. Even though as you mentioned it is not as bad as people imagine, it is still not a forever thing, Europe is trying to build self-energy sustainable ways and when that happens, firewood will slowly fade out again.