Teofimo revealed that he turned down a $1.5 million offer to fight Ryan Garcia. Perhaps it was a bit of a lowball offer from Golden Boy, but I also don't think Teo is worth nearly as much as he thinks he is. The long layoff due to Covid and personal issues followed by a loss to Kambosos and a lackluster split decision win against Sandor Martin really hurt his value.

Ryan still has several options but at 140 the only champion he is capable of beating, in my opinion, is Rolly Romero. That should be his next target if he beats Duarte.

Daily transaction count for Monero hasn't changed much in the last 3 years. I'm not sure its adoption is going anywhere either.
https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/monero-transactions.html

For every new merchant that accepts Monero I see two or three that accept Lightning. This is purely anecdotal so I'm not sure which one has the advantage.


Node count isn't a very reliable measure because you can cherry pick whichever source is more favorable to your argument. MoneroHash says Monero has 3k nodes while Monero.Fail says it's 22k. For Bitcoin it's 16k nodes according to Bitnodes and 63k according to Luke Dashjr's website.

I've never know anybody personally who was this addicted to gambling. I've had relatives who went into debt because they were betting with money they borrowed and ended up losing. Most people are sane enough to quit after they have lost a substantial amount. If you are unaffected by losing hundreds of thousands of dollars then that is a sign of severe addiction. Maybe there are underlying issues that are causing this addiction and they should consider getting treatment.

I honestly thought BitShares was a dead coin. I haven't heard news about it in several years. Waltonchain is also an old coin that had become irrelevantafter some scammy behavior. I don't know if the Tornado Cash token is associated with the mixer but Binance probably doesn't want to be associated with something that has been sanctioned by the US government. The other tokens I haven't heard of but I assume they are dying projects with very little volume.

The IDF objective is committing genocide and ethnically cleansing Palestine of it's native population. That's not according to Hamas, that's according to the Zionists themselves.

Here is convicted terrorist and Israel's current Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir celebrating along with Zionist settlers the burning of a Palestinian infant.
https://x.com/muhammadshehad2/status/1723739613125116299

Further down that thread there are many more examples of genocidal incitement and celebrations of the killing of children.

Here's a compilation video documenting Israel's racist abuse towards Palestinians.
https://x.com/BTnewsroom/status/1712606372813066586

Currently, in the West Bank, religious fanatics are terrorizing and displacing entire communities with encouragement from Israeli government officials and with the military as their accomplice.
https://www.vox.com/world-politics/2023/11/9/23945651/west-bank-israeli-settler-palestine-gaza-war-violence

It isn't very hard to find statements from Israeli politicians openly calling for genocide. It's completely demented to witness the dehumanization of a population and conclude that this Zionist savagery is done with the intent of making Israel safer.

After watching Shakur Stevenson's performance earlier this month I am glad those two are not facing each other. We were spared from what surely would have been a boring chess match. Both, Shakur and Haney, act like tough guys on social media but they turn into pussy cats when they are inside the ring. Over the weekend we saw that technical fighters like Demetrius Andrade can be beaten with aggression. It can be frustrating for an opponent when they are missing punches but it is necessary to remain calm and continue applying pressure.

Unfortunately these newbie bounty managers are not very reliable and often end up scamming or disappearing without explanation. I made the same mistake when I was lower rank of joining a bounty managed by a newbie without an established reputation. I wasted a month of my time only to end up not receiving payment. Forum users should beware of newbie managers and only join bounties managed by people with a high level of trust.

This is some nazi level depravity. Palestinians who survived a massacre can't even bury the piles of corpses around them because Israel isn't satisfied with the many hospital refugees they already murdered and these maniacal, sociopathic criminals want to finish them off.

Over 92% of those killed by IDF terrorists have been civilians.  Over 80% of the population in Gaza has been displaced. Clearly this isn't about preventing terrorism, that is just the excuse Israel uses to carry out an ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.

Bankroll is part of the reason but also the media makes a big deal when a celebrity influencer wins a lot of money. We don't hear much about a whale going bust and losing millions in one night. This causes us to perceive that rich people are just winning all the time when in reality they are also the biggest losers. Having greater wealth can have certain benefits when gambling but you can also incur higher risk so it ends up balancing out where statistically the average rich person will have a similar losing percentage as someone who is poor.

Andrade's awkwardness kept him in the fight for a while but Benavidez is too strong and every body shot was zapping the energy out of Demetrius.
Benavidez was never hurt by Andrade so he just pushed his way forward and broke him down.

On the undercard I was impressed with Subriel Matias who maintains his perfect KO win ratio and also improved his streak of wins by retirement. I don't know if it's a record but 5 straight opponents quitting is even better than Lomachenko's streak when he earned the nickname "Nomaschenko".  A unification against Teofimo Lopez could probably sell out Madison Square Garden.

Jermall Charlo looked a bit rusty but still got the win against a naturally smaller Jose Benavidez Jr., who also only has one good leg. Charlo's best days may be in the past and I can't see him being competitive against Canelo or Jose's brother David. It seems like his best option might be Caleb Plant.

My predictions should be on a single row instead of being listed separately.

wetsuit hasn't been active in the forum in several years so I'm surprised to see he logged in today. There were a few issues earlier in the day but they were resolved quickly.



The price has been stable in USD, hovering around $0.005 for many months. The price in BTC is less volatile than months prior. They are making steady progress by announcing several partnerships recently. Maybe not the most high profile partners but it shows they're still committed to the project. I'm not expecting it to outperform Bitcoin, so I wouldn't invest too heavily, but perhaps 2024 will be when we start to see a positive price trend.

An absolutely dominating performance by Benavidez. He might not be the most skillful fighter but the relentless pressure always breaks down his opponents. We are all expecting the Canelo fight to be next. Benavidez is still the mandatory and the next best fighter in the weight class. It is only logical that they would face each other. The fight has marinated for long enough. Even though Canelo is considered better I wonder how he is going to deal with the size and power of Benavidez. Canelo isn't a slick, defensive boxer so he is likely to receive punishment. People will favor him because of his résumé and talent but it is not a foregone conclusion that Canelo will prevail against this difficult challenge presented by Benavidez.

None of your comments are useful in helping the OP recover his BTC. Instead, you are completely off-topic and derailing the thread to promote an altcoin. You are free to create your own thread in the section of the forum designated specifically for altcoins.

The majority of these funds were stolen from Justin Sun owned platforms. That's far too suspicious to be a coincidence. After seeing what's happened to Sam Bankman Fried and CZ, it could be that he is executing a grand exit scam. This theory seems entirely plausible taking into account that Tron and Bittorrent were recently charged by the SEC with committing securities fraud.

Being overcollateralized because the value of BTC goes up doesn't mean that Tether will decouple from the dollar. It will just make their peg stronger. If the opposite situation happened and the BTC price fell so much that the issued amount was a lot higher than what was in their reserves then that definitely would have a negative impact on their peg. It happens often with algorithmic stablecoins when the collateralization ratio starts to get really low.

Tether is only releases transparency reports once per quarter. They've only been doing these for the past 3 years after there were accusations of not being fully backed and they were investigated by New York's Attorney General. Prior to that there were promises of audits which they never really did and instead released incomplete information. If you check the reports & reserves section on their transparency page you can see that they've switched auditor multiple times which raises some questions about whether they're just shopping around for auditors which will let them get away with providing bare minimum and incomplete evidence.

This is unprofessional behavior from a fighter who's been coddled by his promoter and the WBC who allowed him to keep his title despite not defending it in over two years. This was supposed to be a showcase that would lead to bigger fights. This will tarnish his image and makes it seem like he isn't serious about his career anymore.

The official weight-in is always behind closed doors and the ceremonial weigh-in is the one that is open to the public. It should be happening right now so we will see if there is any update on this situation.

It is becoming harder for exchanges to operate within the United States. Many of the top exchanges have had problems with US regulators so it is best to avoid that region until more crypto friendly politicians come into power. Playing by their vague rules and obeying their guidelines doesn't seem to be enough. They will continue to arbitrarily target businesses in order to have tighter control over citizens' financial activity. We will continue to hear that Hamas and Iran are using these exchanges but these are only scare tactics, none of these actions affect terrorism financing or money laundering. The land of the free will oppress freedoms if it means maintaining economic hegemony.

There are many old wallets where I have lost the recovery phrase or private keys. Some of these wallets were used for claiming airdrops or bounties and I quickly forgot about them because the coins weren't worth much or I dumped my holdings. There was probably not much value in those wallets except for perhaps my Shapeshift wallet. I remember claiming an airdrop from it but then I deleted the wallet, a few years later they did a bigger airdrop where people were claiming thousands of dollars and when I tried to re-install it to see if I was eligible I could not recover it. Fortunately, I still had access to my Metamask wallet which was eligible and I made a nice profit from airdropped FOX tokens.