Someone posted this picture online showing a Cybertruck Release Candidate with a built in Starlink antenna. No idea of this will be an accessory that you can choose or not, but it’s pretty cool to think that you can get satellite internet on these bad boys. Hopefully we’ll get a look at what options are available before the end of the year.

Steve Kerr seems ready to let Chris Paul start in the Warriors lineup. He said today that he plans to let Klay Thompson guard the opposing team’s power forward in this upcoming season. I’m not sure how long that will last as Klay certainly can’t match up against guys like Anthony Davis. I think CP3 will be coming off the bench pretty quick.

I’m still looking for people to give me recommendations on how and what I should AI in order to try and generate gambling predictions. I had better get on it because I’d love to kick off the NBA season this year with a thread predicting games. Maybe even throw some money at it for fun. If you have any experience playing with AI in this manner, PM me.

With all the hype surrounding Ryan Garcia and his last embarrassing loss to Tank Davis, the pressure is definitely on him to rebound and get himself a big win. Two losses in a row for a guy that everyone was claiming was going to be the next great thing would be pretty bad for his career. Let’s hope it doesn’t come to that.

Woj is reporting that while James Harden hasn’t been to training camp for the Philadelphia 76ers yet, they are expecting him to report tomorrow. Woj is usually right on so I’m expecting that to happen. It appears Harden has blinked first in his fued with his GM and might be in a Sixers uniform to start off the season after all.

I doubt I will gamble in old age.  A big part of gambling is the fun for me and for that I have to watch the games and know the players.  I just don't see myself caring if history is any guide.  I used to watch all the sports but over the years things like strikes have led me to have less of an interest.  I barely ever see a football or baseball game these days.  I imagine someday I will also lose interest in following basketball or replace it with a different hobby that will make it so gambling for me would be less entertaining and thus I likely wouldn't participate.  Who knows though, maybe gambling will take over and we'll all be doing it everyday in the future.

The specs seem like they will be pretty good though.  With the GPU market in shambles at the moment and even with cheap power mining isn't very profitable, I wonder if this next gen of GPU might not be a bad pickup to run for the next couple of years while the market recovers.  I could see this next generation sticking around and staying profitable for the next 3-4 years maybe.  While that isn't as great as the run the 1080 or Radeon VII had, today that seems like it would be a dream come true.  I might have to pick one up to see for myself.

I honestly don't think it matters how much evidence they have or present.  The system is broken.  They literally have video of him talking about exactly what he did in Ukraine to help his son and nothing happens.  I doubt that proving he and his family took 8 figures in bribes will do anything.  In the grand scheme of things where most lifelong politicians end up being worth hundreds of millions of dollars for illegal stock trades, I don't think they probably consider Biden taking a few million here and there for his family as a big deal.  They'd rather point fingers at Trump for some reason, which I'm not even sure why he's been mentioned in this hearing.

Obviously it isn't satoshi, but someone has had control of this account for some time now.  Who knows the reasoning for the post now.  Maybe Elon finally is freeing up usernames that have sat idle for a long time and someone jumped at it.  Maybe the person who had control of it finally decided to sell it to someone else. 

I'm hearing rumors it had something to do with nchain and faketoshi but you never know what to believe when it comes to that camp.  For now I think I'll just stick with the fact it isn't satoshi and let the irrelevance of the tweet be what it is.

Bitcoin development has been going slow and steady.  It's a tightrope to walk while introducing new features yet keeping the interface usable for everyone.  I personally liked the way they handled the fee market and coin control, but you are right that they are way behind services like metamask when it comes to interfacing with websites, etc.  Websites can still use simple tricks to make payments simple for the end user, so your complaint can also be directed at those building the websites you're accessing, but I agree that a Bitcoin wallet more focused on browser based transactions would help adoption.  You have to remember that the core devs think Bitcoin is digital gold though, so this is probably not high on their list.

Jimmy Butler is definitely making a name for himself with his hairstyles at media day.  I wonder how much longer it will be allowed to continue before the team takes action as I imagine it can be a bit of a distraction when they use those images during games, etc.  I personally enjoy it a lot though and look forward to seeing what hairstyle he comes with next year.  We'll have to wait and see how the season and next offseason goes before we can really make a decent guess.

I couldn't tell you what they're looking to achieve from it, but it does seem like a concerning development regardless.  I'm not sure what Australia and Canada are up to these days but they seem like they're trying to get an ever tightening grip on their societies.  I don't know enough about this to have an educated opinion though.  Hopefully it is a best case scenario and this is some sort of move to make gambling more accessible and widespread in the future.

Stock market is starting to take a beating with everyone expecting a recession to hit in the near future. Personally, with inflation where it is I wouldn’t want to be out of the market, but surely traders are jumping ship. We’re nearing the time when the optimistic are expecting Bitcoin to decouple from traditional markets and jump while everything else burns. We will see. Watch and learn all you can.

I haven’t ever accidentally bet more than I wanted to, but I have accidentally taken the wrong side of a bet before and won. When you use new platforms you always have to be careful not to get complacent and pay attention to what you’re doing, at least until you figure out the user interface and can avoid making stupid mistakes.

Managing greed when gambling is simple. Just assume that you’re going to lose and think about the added enjoyment from playing. If losing that bet seems like it will suck more happiness from your life than winning would add joy, then you’re probably gambling for the wrong reasons and would be better suited pumping quarters into an arcade game.

I am definitely not efficient when it comes to taxes and gambling. Being totally honest, my tax plan when it comes to gambling is to make sure I lose everything I bet in the end so that I don’t have any taxes to worry about. Maybe not the best plan, but it seems to work out pretty well and I always enjoy myself.

Thanks for bringing this to everyone’s attention and good luck in getting it resolved. This is a danger when it comes to using smaller online casinos. Especially if they have great incentives to get you to deposit funds. I hope that you are able to withdraw your funds at some point, but remember that if a deal sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

I think the war has less to do with the people of Europe and more to do with who will be making money off of them. You saw the first thing the West did was blow up the pipeline to give themselves a hand up in selling them oil. Now we’re trying to exhaust Russia’s finances to cripple their ability to mine/deliver more of their resources to Ukraine and force them to sell to other countries at a discount.

It looks like the recent explosion upwards might have been due to the news that you can now buy a Honda with Bitcoin. I think that the ETF approval will likely see similar price action, albeit probably a little more explosive. We’ve seen a little bit of retracing since the pop, but it certainly feels like we’ve got more room to run here as we await what will cause the final dip before blast off.

He picked the Charlotte Hornets because that’s his home town team. Pretty amazing that he’s come so far as a YouTuber and is branching out into traditional advertising deals while having such a huge platform himself. He’s clearly trying to take his chocolate brand public and cash out huge, which is what I’d do as well if people were buying chocolate bars off me for $3 a pop.