After taking a look at the schedule for today I decided to go with a couple of my hometown teams.    Not much to work with as far as odds, but hopefully this will get me a parlay win and a couple of my home teams some wins.  Given my record as of late, I need this.  LOL.  I am concerned how the Kings will fare against Wemby.  They're sort of a short team.  Either Wemby will be a problem or Sabonis will bully him into irrelevance. 

Phoenix Suns - Toronto Raptors
Winner (Incl. Overtime)
Phoenix Suns

Sacramento Kings - San Antonio Spurs
Winner (Incl. Overtime)
Sacramento Kings

Odds
1.42

Shams is reporting that Ben Simmons has now been deactivated for the rest of the season. He had a few flashes of his old self this year but went right back on the disabled list in no time. I think he’s just not wanting to be an NBA player anymore. I wouldn’t give him another contract. His trade to the Nets might be the worst trade of all time.

FTX came out of nowhere under the guise that their CEO was such a brilliant trader that he made billions trading Bitcoin and started the world’s biggest exchange seemingly overnight. It didn’t pass the sniff test from day 1 and that’s why I never had an account. Pretty much any entity willing to pay you an interest rate on Bitcoin to store your funds is a scam. Nobody can promise interest on Bitcoin because it is a limited resource. As the saying goes, if you don’t know where the yield comes from, you are the yield.

At this point, I think I’ll probably be paying for my new Cybertruck with all the paid posts I made throughout this drama. So I guess I owe a thank you to all the folks who continue to attack me with lies. Without them I’m not sure I would reach such a wide audience. Just make sure to click that signature and sign up for a Stake account. Turn those negatives into a positive.

If I had a dollar for every time a user accused me of running a Ponzi Scheme only to have it discovered that they are running a Ponzi Scheme… I truly feel sorry for those who got caught up in this mess and won’t hold my breath for an apology from any of you. Some people just can’t be trusted to hold money for others. Now you know.

I had posted this along with the fight advertisement but I guess a moderator deleted it and set it not to notify me so I couldn’t easily repost the graphic and all the information here. I won’t bother posting it again, or the link to Jake’s social media post, but it’s out there if you want to search for it and see the actual fight announcement.

Thank you. I’ll admit it is difficult to remember to do anything 100 times a day but I’ve impressed myself that I haven’t managed to miss a single push-up yet since I started this challenge. I will admit I have had a few close calls, seeing the clock nearly at midnight and dropping to the floor for my last set. I’m not sure how long I’ll keep this going, but I’m sure when I do miss a day, it will be the result of my memory.

The recent news of the Biden administration flying illegal immigrants into the country is grounds for treason in my opinion. He’s actively aiding in the invasion of the United States. The guy should be defending himself from being convicted and punished for treason, not running for another term. Anyone dumb enough to vote for him should be forced to live in a sanctuary city.

People are obsessed with adding negativity to this site. The last thing the people who have destroyed the trust network’s legitimacy need is a new way to start harassing people on these forums. Take note of the folks that are for this idea and stay far away from them. That’s the best way to improve your forum experience.

Looks like we may possibly have a preview of the NBA Finals tonight as the Denver Nuggets face off against the Boston Celtics on national TV. Luckily this one will be on TNT so we can have a chance to watch. Sure, Denver is number 3 in the west right now, but they’re the defending champs. Denver hasn’t been playing great lately though, so I think Boston might take this one.

^ We’ll see. He’s going to be bombarded with podcast requests now. I don’t think he’ll be able to resist. At this point, I am leaning towards this fight not happening or going spectacularly wrong for Garcia. He’s in a downward spiral he needs to fix before trying to move forward. Something is going on with him and I think it is going to have a major effect on his next fight.

Freaking ASICMiner… I still own a bunch of shares of that (supposedly) and am owed a lot of BTC. A shame that guy disappeared and screwed everyone. I think it was friedcat right? Would be great if any of the old asset issuers from GLBSE came back to give back ANY of what they stole from their victims.

That's a good point.  There's also 0 chance that you'd get a sale without pictures showing the object when you're talking about tens of thousands of dollars.

I would recommend locking this topic, taking your sweet time to go get some pictures of your Casascius coin, putting it back into it's secure location, then listing again with photos of the condition and proof of ownership so that you aren't putting yourself at risk.  It is great that you mentioned you are willing to accept escrow, as that will go a long way towards establishing trust with a potential buyer. 

Good luck with your sale!

Good luck.  LOL

Just look at my trust ratings.  I have some negatives from DT members and have protected tens of millions of dollars for people here while never misplacing so much as a satoshi.  Unfortunately, people would rather weaponize trolls against those they disagree with than have a legitimate trust network.  OP's post is even merited by a user who includes a proven extortionist in his trust network.  The hypocrisy among users here is off the charts.  Sadly, those who stand up to the abusers are targeted for years here while regular people stay silent in hopes they won't become the next target.  

If Blackrock wants it to happen, it will happen.  That's just the way the finance world works when you own everything.  For this reason, I too believe that there will one day be a spot Ethereum ETF.  Maybe not as soon as this year, but it will happen.  Too many wall street folks were involved in Ethereum for it not to follow in Bitcoin's footsteps.  I wouldn't go selling your BTC for ETH, but if you've got fresh money looking for a spot to sit, grabbing some ETH and leaving it staked isn't the worst idea.  I think of my ETH holdings like a stock and have some exposure like I do with many companies, but it pales in comparison to my exposure to Bitcoin.

I received an airdrop that I staked several years ago and then eventually turned into ETH and left staked.  It is now worth over $45,000!!!  Granted, it also led me down the path of web3 which easily probably cost me the loss of half that much, but who knows, maybe those NFTs will be worth something someday (wishful thinking).  I'm not mad at it at all though.  I still get something like $3 per day from having this staked and since it's now in Ethereum, the recent gains are also impressive.  I'm very glad I decided to claim that airdrop after coming across it by chance.  I'll probably leave that ETH staked for many more years to come.

Well, they missed the Bitcoin call and they're an organization focused on bringing you the next bit investment.  So I'd imagine this whole Bitcoin and crypto rise is a bit of an egg on their face moment.  Of course they've going to keep doubling down until a correction eventually comes and they can proclaim themselves as the ones who got it right...  Ridiculous, but that's how these outfits operate.  They've got to focus on finding the next Bitcoin, which means trying to steer funds from Bitcoin into their picks.  You see this same behavior on this forum with new coin makers.  They bash the established makers to try and steer customer funds to their own products.  It's nothing new.

This is interesting.  I wish more gambling companies were public, but they're such cash cows I can understand why people would rather keep them private.  Especially when it comes to the lower cost of operation when operating online.  I'd invest in operations like Stake in a heartbeat if I were able to, but with owners on the younger side of things (I believe) it's unlikely that they'll be looking to cash out their company by taking it public anytime soon.  Who knows though.  Coinbase was able to take the next step from crypto to public markets, others could follow suit in time.

This post makes me think perhaps there is a chance that some of the lenders could receive SOMETHING.


Is there more information on how much money Jon had in mtgox?  Now that distribution is soon to be on the way, this is something that should be looked at again.  So much money was scammed through these fundraising sites early on.  It would be absolutely amazing to get something back.  It's been so long though, does anyone even have the owner's list of who is still owed money?  I think it might even be public somewhere, but it's been years...  As an investor in this project at one point in time, I'm curious to know if anyone is still investigating this.  With all the heat my project gets for continuing on after the collapse of these sites, it amazes me how those who just scammed and ran got away clean.

MicroStrategy decided that $600,000,000 wasn't enough money to spend on BTC so they have now upped their convertible debt offering to $700,000,000.  This is most certainly going to have an effect on the market price of Bitcoin.  I would assume at least a couple thousand dollars.

Article: https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2024/03/06/microstrategy-upsizes-convertible-debt-offering-to-700m-to-buy-even-more-bitcoin/

No word yet on how much Blackrock will be buying for their other investment funds, but I'm assuming they won't be doing anything conservatively. 

"looking to raise $700 million through the sale of convertible seniors notes at an interest rate of 0.625% per annum" - That's a pretty crazy rate for the current environment.  Saylor has to be feeling pretty good about his Bitcoin bet at the moment.  Especially given where we are in the cycle and the price action we're already seeing.