I guess the last years of Messi was just a merchandise situation. Think about it, dude was getting 70 million at the peak level, 70 million! You could spend 200 million and get 2 amazing players which will be just 3 years worth of salary for Messi, and I mean like Haaland+Kane together for just 3-4 years of Messi salary, and you can pay them combined 30 million as well.

This team has managed to actually save themselves sooooo much money that eventually they will be doing insanely better, unbelievably better, everyone will be shocked how awesome Barcelona will be in the next decade, they will have the chance to dominate European football again with all the money they will save from this deal. Messi is great and all, but I think he was the only reason the team was doing horrible, sure financial management wasn't good neither but Messi was the main cause of that.

Honestly I was shocked to learn Abraham is even on the market, he is way too good of a player to give up at this stage for Chelsea. Maybe he may not find himself in the starting eleven all the time, but he is still a good contribution to the team whenever someone gets injured, you can even place in at any place aside from defense, dude is that good and overall.

I guess Roma just wants to build a great team, the logic of getting Mourinho makes more sense now,  having last years' Roma with Mourinho made no sense, but with addition of some new players that could actually become something very good for them. I heard that they are after Icardi as well just now, and that means that with Abraham and Icardi they could actually be a very valid team, but I have zero idea where they are getting that much money from, never knew they had the coffers filled.

I am feeling very lucky that I bought during those periods as well. I didn't do it because I "knew" it would go up, obviously we all know that I am not a wizard who can see the future, but I just buy whenever price goes up, for the future basically but not in a week of course. I believed that in a few months price would be over 40k even 50k and that would profit me, maybe even a year later, but I just knew that it would go up "one day" not this quickly obviously.

So, I got lucky when I bought, but it is also quite smart to buy whenever price goes down, you should buy, because we all know even if it doesn't go up tomorrow, it will go up in a week, a month, a year or whenever and that is how you make money. People who bought at 20k or bought at 3k in 2017-2018 all made money, that is what we should be taking as examples, everyone makes money as long as they buy bitcoin, some do it quicker, some do it a bit later.

I am always telling people this! It’s not over, yet. Though the price we have now might seem like it’s really too much, but this will be small compared to what we are going to see in the future, because by then there is going to be lots of institutional investors who will invest huge amount of money. That’s going to move up the price and those who don’t invest now wouldn’t be happy about that.

2026 is five years from now, and before then I believe we are going to see another halving take place, and it will shorten the rate of supply and since there will be much demand coming in at that time, this will pump the price. With the way I am seeing things now, I think anywhere around $30,000 is the least price we will ever see from now.

In my opinion on both good and bad streaks, gamblers usually do lose self-control. Because, both positive and negative rolls will disturb the balance of emotions of gamblers and when gamblers start losing their control over emotions then they start taking worst decisions like adding more funds to bankroll and then increasing bet amount randomly and then forgetting to generate new paring-seed.

I have seen gamblers lose in thousands on each round still they were in hurry to win so that they believe that they could recover all the losses and may leave the casino with profits. On one occasion, a friend of gambler was trying to understand the worst current situation of gambling, but that gambler refused to listen to his words and followed his own intuitions and lost all his money.

This is a common case for all the gamblers. Because, once you get into the excitements of gambling then you will start forgetting about everything which includes your budget and hours for gambling. Even gambling houses are not ready to alter us about excessive gambling in terms of funds or duration. Because, when you are into gambling for longer hours, their chances for higher profits is more.

Like experts do suggest always, only when gamblers feel their responsibilities there will be the chances for "regulated gambling". In an unrestricted environments, we cannot expect gamblers to be disciplined and responsible.

First games are not really that important because teams are just getting used to things. Neymar didn't play neither, and Messi is moving to PSG as well so he wasn't around, goalkeeper was still Navas, Ramos was nowhere to be found. Basically we are going to see a whole different PSG in a few weeks for sure, I don't know everyone's excuse but they will eventually play. When that happens we are going to actually see something insane, it is going to be unreal.

I do not remember a team that was as built amazingly as PSG in the recent years, this team is filled with superstars in every position and they will definitely win the league with ease, and I mean like with quite ease, probably at least 10+ points to the second, argument could be made for 15 and more but usually teams give up after that much difference and start losing games so I think 10+ is more realistic.

There is a difference between accepting a decentralized currency versus accepting a decentralized management of a nation. Obviously the law and the politicians will keep being centralized, however that doesn't mean that the currency have to be. Even in that case, you could have a centralized government rule + a centralized currency but add in a decentralized currency as an alternative to your already established one.

Look at USA, are they giving up on USD? Of course not, dollar is rampant as ever and there is nothing to stop that, however that doesn't change the fact that federally crypto is not illegal, coinbase is already listed on stock markets, it is a very much allowed thing, or look at El Salvador, are they not using fiat at all? Basically allowing crypto to thrive doesn't mean that you will have to stop, it just means that you have to let them both coexist.

Maybe the price is going to stabilize when there is much adoption. I think for now that it is still growing, there is always going to be an expectation that it is going to increase in value. And especially times when there is halving, everyone usually looks forward to the time the market price will go up.

This is normal because when there is a decrease in the rate of supply, then you should be looking forward to an increase in price since demand is going to be high at times like this. So, the question is what would now happen when there is no other supply coming and there would be no other halving? I believe the price will be really stable by then.

Bitcoin can be all (speculative asset or a store of value or a currency).

All currencies can be traded hence being volatile may not disqualify from being a currency.

Speculative asset means highly fluctuating one and bitcoin is already doing that in great manner.

Being used as store of value will be possible if NOT too volatile still if people ignore the volatile nature then bitcoin will remain as preferred store of value as bitcoin always appreciating in long run.

In long run, after bitcoin attaining values in millions then people may start afraid to spend bitcoin for buying their foods and groceries which might be the point where bitcoin will start losing its positions as a currency. But, being speculative asset and store-of-value will continue forever how gold is doing even after 2000 years of running.

That has been my life style ever since I was a little kid and that sometimes confuses people. For example every year my birthday wish has been "I am thankful for what I have, I do not need more, please do not let me have less and that's enough", and I will always keep doing that. 2020 was a bit of an exception for that, and so did 2021, I asked for pandemic to be over but nothing financial, just for humanity basically.

As long as you are happy with your life, then you can start actually living the current life, when you are not happy with it, you always aim for something bigger and bigger which will basically be you living a life that is always for the future and never right now which will be a very sad situation. This is is why I think we should not be focusing on the future and what can have, but what focus on what we have instead.

There can be a lot reasons as to why a lot of people are going to hate cryptocurrency. I have seen different people who has such hatred for cryptocurrency and they all have different reasons as to why they don’t like cryptocurrency. I have seen one person that told me she hates Bitcoin and when I asked her to know why she doesn’t like bitcoin, she said because it’s a Scam.

And when I asked her to explain in details what made her feel that Bitcoin is a scam, I happened to know that it’s a misunderstanding, she had invested her money in the wrong place, she didn’t invest direct in Bitcoin, rather she invested in some sort of bitcoin project that’s being run by scammers and she was scammed, so she started to think that Bitcoin is a scam and there has decided to stay completely away from Bitcoin.

No. Definitely you people are misguided by lots of myth. If you go for a survey to study how much ROI an average investor had made for a particular time frame between bitcoin investments and altcoin investments then definitely bitcoin investors must be leading in that study. So, even altcoins are seeming to support you to be rich in quick time, in long run you might be losing as there are lots of scam coins in the market and you may fail to filter them out.

In my opinion, just bitcoin investment will be more than enough for all of us. If you are ready to risk then you may go for up to 5% of your portfolio with all other coins and tokens. Otherwise, you may make good profits in one coin and may end up losing all your capital in some other.

Success always not depending on only one factor. In this highly competitive world, we must need more than one support to stay ahead hence both knowledge and capital are important but in my opinion these two are just basic requirements and beyond these basics, we must need lots of other factors also should be in our favor so that we may remain successful forever.

Without knowledge, I might have not got into bitcoin and even I have come to know about bitcoins, if I did not have good capital then I could not have enjoyed good profits from bitcoin; this is just an example how bitcoin investment as well requires both knowledge and capital.

Yes, trading without being an expert or at least knowing what you are doing is really a waste of time. When you don’t know what you’re doing you’re going to be losing money, so what’s the need for being a trader when you’re not earning from it? It’s good that we understand the risks that are involved in it, and once we understand that risk, and know how we can handle it, then we are ready to go for it.

And being a trader is not just about learning how to trade, even when you have the skills, you still have to apply different other strategies to make your trading successful, because there are times when your predictions might end up wrong, no matter how good you might seem to be in trading short term or long term.

The teams starting five is looking good I agree with that but let's be honest with each other, even with just one injury, one not being 100% and they are still a bit of a lack in depth type of team. For example as a point guard they have westbrook as a beastly great player, but what about after that? Are you really betting your team on Kendrick Nunn? At shooting guard who are they going to play? Melo? At that age? No way, then who? THT? Malik Monk? Is that really a championship caliber player level we would love to see in our team? Lebron is a beast at SF, then who? Ariza? They got Howard and Gasol as bigs, that is the center position for 48 minutes? Surely AD will go there for plenty of minutes.

Basically they do have the best top 5, but after that it is a steep drop for them and they will not be happy even if just one player gets injured and most of them are injury prone as well.

That puts their valuation at 270 million, why did Marathon agreed to something like that? These guys have 352 million dollars with cash+bitcoin holdings, they already have more than that amount, selling 7.4% for 20 million makes no sense at all, they could have sold some bitcoins and cover that difference as well, it makes zero sense.

I understand that they want to grow the company and that is why without selling anything, getting some more money and using that to buy some machines or buy some bitcoin would mean that the company will grow bigger, so it makes sense for the company itself, but it makes zero sense for the owners of the company who now sold a piece of their company for under what the real valuation for that company really is. If I had 20 million dollars and knew that this was the offer on the table, I wouldn't hesitate one second for buying it, you are in instant profit as soon as you buy it.

If they are actively managing their project means, they should have taken steps to list their token/coin in some other exchanges as well. It means they are not that much actively running their business but they somehow making up you to believe that they are running their project actively. Still, you may get chances to get good profits for your holding but there cannot be any guarantee for that to happen so make yourself ready to face anything.

As per the famous saying: when you are investing only what you are afford to lose on the event of an unexpected thing then you would never need to worry about. I believe that you have invested only very little amount so it can wait or you can take whatever decision striking in your mind right away.

Because, he is not winning anything there? I mean that seems like a proper reason to leave PSG all together, if he believes that he could win champions league with some other club then he can leave for that team is as well. I am not saying that there is a much better club that can win a lot easier, but it is definitely not out of question neither.

Juventus on the other hand is paying a shit ton of money for players while not having any success at all, which is why I do not think that they actually have a chance, sure they may end up paying him as much as PSG is paying but if PSG can't win champions league this year, I do not see how Juventus could do that year after that, hence they are not really a candidate if you ask me. Real on the other hand is a bigger chance because even without Mbappe they went to semi-finals, and that means with Mbappe they may end up winning.

The average cost for me to go to any game and watch it and come back is around 11k dollars, or more like 3 years of minimum wage. That should tell you how impossible for me to even "consider" something like that let alone actually do it, think about it we are talking about just 3 years of wage for going, watching, and coming back. I can't even afford nba official streaming service and illegally watch it from streams honestly.

However at the end of the day, NBA is just amazing and I would not miss it for the world, it is just THAT important in my life, I used to watch the replays from a horrible tv news show that simply had a sports section for half an hour everyday that included around 5 minutes of recap of each game and scores and maybe some moves if we are lucky (usually not even that), that was around 25 years ago, and I am still finding ways to keep track of my favorite sport, it is just amazing.