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1101  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Microstrategy bought more bitcoin on: April 06, 2023, 01:51:25 AM
It does! Every time Microstrategy buys bitcoin, bitcoin gets dumped though the reversal should be the case. I don't get why bitcoin price drops when Saylor announces BTC purchase LOL.
I can not stop laughing when I read your post  Grin

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Well, I guess this isn't something we should be happy at. They are trying to get the big piece of the cake; isn't it going to make him influence the BTC price significantly? I guess yes, that's what going to happen in the near future.
Sounds like Michale Saylor usually gives us signal of market falls or corrections. However, I don't know why big guys like Saylor and Microstrategy chose to buy Bitcoin at peaks like newbies. If they want to accumulate Bitcoin, they can do it more aggressively when it was about $16,000 few months ago.

Below are three latest purchasing times of MicroStrategy. It takes them three months from 24 December 2022 to 27 March 2023 to buy more bitcoins. They did miss three good months to buy Bitcoin from January to March.

MicroStrategy statistics
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12/24/2022   810   $13.65M   132,500   $4.027B
03/27/2023   6,455   $150.00M   138,955   $4.140B
04/05/2023   1,045   $29.30M   140,000   $4.170B
1102  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Intends of existence bitcoin on: April 05, 2023, 04:45:07 AM
With reference to Lucho Poletti that says; Satoshi Nakamoto created Bitcoin, but what he really gave us was hope.

Hope for a better financial system, Hope for a fairer, more equal world, Hope for a brighter future.
Satoshi did work to code and create Bitcoin and he did not give us hope but a tool to make our financial freedom.

It is real and has bigger impacts in society after many years. Satoshi's lesson. A next responsibility is ours, will we take Bitcoin as a tool for our financial freedom or we just hope to see changes in central banks and governmental economic policies?

Don't hope, take action!
1103  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Saudi Professional League 2022/2023 on: April 05, 2023, 01:59:08 AM
Yep, it was an easy match for Al Nassr. Ronaldo scored 2 goals, it showed us that he is still on fire and wants to play better and better in every match. I really hope that he can maintain this good performance until the end of the season. Anyway, Ronaldo and Talisca look play solidly now. This is a good sign for Al Nassr that their attacking line is in great condition.
They started to play better together and Ronaldo shown more happiness when his team mates scored goals. It looks like he changed himself and became less selfish at Al Nassr. Good performances from Ronaldo and Talisca will benefit Al Nassr in last 9 matches of this season and can help their club to win the league.

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However, returning to 1st place seems not as easy as we think. I know it is only 1 point gap, but Al Ittihad always performed well and they look stronger toward the end of the season. If they always win, Al Nassr will fail to return to 1st place and win the title.
However I agree with you as their opponent Al Ittihad are simply too strong and dominating in the league just like Al Nassr. So it is very hard to see Al Ittihad lost points in their matches.

Al Nassr has 52 points and Al Ittihad has 53 points. Although there is a gap of one point, Al Ittihad has occupied the first place since the past. Al Nassr position has improved significantly since Ronaldo joined Al Nassr this season. Full credit goes to Cristiano Ronaldo as the match played today between Al-Adalah and Al Nassr was 0-5 with Cristiano Ronaldo scoring a brace. It is because of his performance at this old age that Al Nassr team was able to come in the second position.
He is on fire and got 11 goals in Saudi Professional League even he just joined them since January, after World Cup 2022. Now he has only four points less than top three scorers in the league including his team mate Talisca who scored two goals in the match too.

With ability and habit to explode with some goals in a single match, Cristiano Ronaldo can jump to the first position any time. In addition, he has another advantage by being a first choice to take penalty shots for Al Nassr.
1104  Economy / Speculation / Re: Possibilities and chances ! on: April 04, 2023, 10:37:43 AM
This has raised concerns about rising inflation. Along with that, there is a fear of increasing the interest rate of the central bank.
Bitcoin community were in fearful mode when pandemic occurred in late December 2019 but they only dumped bitcoin when World Health Organization (WHO) announced that it is a pandemic, 4 months after it officially announced in China mainland and spread over many nations globally.

A few weeks and months later, people were fearful for inflation, recession but then bitcoin rose a lot, made its new all time high and people said that it rose sharply because of pandemic. Is it true?

In the last year, people said bitcoin fell because of pandemic effects, increasing interest rate, inflation, recession but they just witnessed Bitcoin rose from $16,000 to $30,000 nearly. Now, what is a new fearful type?

Recession, inflation, interest rate, unemployment rate, what is or are reasons?
1105  Economy / Gambling / Re: Duelbits.com | Casino & Sportsbook | VIP | Instant withdrawals!|ARGENTINA & AVFC on: April 04, 2023, 04:45:16 AM
indeed the casino will provide more difficult conditions when the account ranking rises even higher because almost all casinos also provide the same conditions when someone will reach a high rank, of course it takes a little longer and definitely requires a higher total bet.
It is fair enough requirements on higher rankings which are given better bonuses and benefits on the site. Nothing is the same and if all ranks have same requirements, then same bonus and benefit, why do we need different ranks?

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even though the casino has to spend more money on high ranking active customers, it still earns profits from its customers.
because the bonus that is given is only a few percent of the total bet.
and for an active gambler, it's not a long time to raise those ratings. because active gamblers usually always have a large budget to gamble and of course with high stakes too.
Higher ranks don't only mean better bonus and benefits but also (sometimes) have better customer support. Like when you have a VIP account, you won't have to wait too long to get response from Customer support team. Some services have direct lines to a special channel for customer support on VIP members. Again, requirement would be different and harder than normal account with normal process.
1106  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Do you think low processing fees is more beneficial for merchants? on: April 04, 2023, 02:41:45 AM
There are lots of cryptocurrency payment gateways. Each of them have different processing fees and transaction fees.
They are operating their payment gateways for business that actually have operational cost so they have to balance that cost with income, to maximize their profit.

Those services can be the same or different at different payment gateways as well as different blockchains. They have to proceed on-chain transactions and each blockchain has different native currency for transaction fee. Ethereum blockchain has most expensive transaction fee because of high demand on that chain, its bad design and high price of Ethereum $ETH.

However it won't stop people using Ethereum ERC-20 chain for transactions. Last but not least, they have options to choose, from blockchains to payment gateways and you are free to make their choices.
1107  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Premier League Prediction Thread 2022/2023 on: April 04, 2023, 02:29:37 AM
Everton are considered lucky to score the equalizing goal in the final minutes of the game, even though they have 10 players remaining for a long time. For Tottenham, the red card Lucas received in the last minutes was bad. They won't be able to take advantage of him in the next match. It must be a bittersweet feeling now that both teams have won 1 point.
Tottenham have same points as Newcastle United and Manchester United but they already played 2 more matches than those competitors for last two positions in top four.

Table shows that Tottenham are no longer controlling their chance to race with Manchester United and Newcastle United. They will have to hope both competitors won't win one or two matches of their rescheduled matches. Those conditions are very hard to be met and a first match after Conte sack is not actually happy for Tottenham.

Premier league is an unforgiving league if you are not good even for a little bit, and these managers have been bad for a while as well. Not like they had a few bad games, in fact Tuchel started the season and he wasn't this bad and he was fired in less games for having even better result, whereas Potter managed the team for so long, with still terrible results. Just because they come thus far in UCL, he shouldn't have been kept. Its good that teams are finally figuring out that keeping the manager is not a big deal, you can fire them anytime you want, if the manager is bad, why wait? No reason to be patient about it at all, they are obviously bad.
Premier League has many rich clubs with good budgets for operations and they don't mind to pay compensation for coaches if they fire their coaches before contract expiration dates. In modern football and with rich clubs, patience is something does not exist and coaches can be fired anytime. Players can be sold if they have poor contributions in their clubs.

It is more hilariously that in such modern football, players are safer than coaches who are more sensitive to be sacked if results are bad. Club bosses are more keen to protect players than coaches and it's easily for them to sack one person (by choosing coach) or a few people (by choosing players).
1108  Economy / Gambling / Re: Duelbits.com | Casino & Sportsbook | VIP | Instant withdrawals!|ARGENTINA & AVFC on: April 03, 2023, 01:26:44 AM
I think that to increase the level of the Duelbits account, you don't have to be a big gambler or a small gambler.
As long as you regularly bet on Duelbits, of course, your accumulated bet will be calculated gradually and when you continue to bet, even if it's a small amount, your account rating will still increase slowly.
You must bet regularly enough to collect enough rating and rank up in member levels. Your initial capital for bet is important but not decisive. The intensity of your bet habit is more decisive.

To bet regularly, you must not lose your capital so this member level shows two things as you are a loyal user and very professional with your bet. Because nobody can have deep pocket enough to bet when all bets are lost in the air.

When you see a member at higher level, that means loyal and professional and it is more true for very top level on Duelbits.
1109  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Germany League - Bundesliga Prediction Thread on: April 02, 2023, 05:46:51 AM
Thomas Tuchel managed to make his debut perfectly. Very special for Tuchel because he was able to win in a crucial match and managed to take over the standings from Dortmund. This victory also greatly had a positive impact on Tuchel and also the team to face the next fight.
Tuchel has a perfect debut with Bayern Munich by beating his ex-club at big result. This match is a warning for Manchester City as Bayern Munich look to become stronger with Tuchel. Before Tuchel, with Nagelsman they already were able to destroy PSG in round of 16 and now with Tuchel, they can play better in quarter finals with Manchester City.

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The next challenge for Tuchel is to face Freiburg in a row, in DFB Pokal and Bundesliga, then face Manchester City.
Bayern Munich again have control on Bundesliga and Freiburg is one of strongest teams in Bundesliga this season so Dortmund will pray that Freiburg can do something to get points from Bayern Munich.

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Dortmund must acknowledge that his level has not been able to compete with Bayern Munich especially now under the control of his former coach. Bayern is getting stronger and will be very difficult to beat
I don't know why Dortmund collapsed easily like this and they would even have gotten a bigger defeat if Bayern Munich had finished better. Within the match, Dortmund players make many personal mistakes and played like they are a club at latter half of table, not a team are racing for the league title.
1110  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin usage in crime activity. on: April 02, 2023, 05:39:37 AM

Bitcoin is great in means of anonymous transactions and getting away from the banks and government control, but the problem is, it's the exact problem why criminals are using it. And it's a pretty big one. I'm not saying that criminals use bitcoin more than fiat, but we all can see that illegal services are widely accepting bitcoin.
Criminals use all things they can use for their jobs. Fiat currency, drugs, gold, real estates, Bitcoin, cryptocurrency so you can not say Bitcoin is the most favorite tool of criminals for things like money laundering.

Some reports for you
Crypto Mixer Usage Reaches All-time Highs in 2022, With Nation State Actors and Cybercriminals Contributing Significant Volume
Crypto money laundering 2022

Bitcoin is only one of their channels for money laundering.

Money laundering
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Almost all criminal activities yield profits, often in the form of cash, that the criminals then seek to launder through various channels.
You see many channels for it on Europol website.
1111  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Is this a Bug? Please Explain this. on: April 01, 2023, 03:03:10 AM
It's April Fool but even you don't know what is that, it is more related to the forum issues or else, related to TriNinja bot. It does not belong to Bitcoin Discussion board and you have two options to post this thread in.

Either Project Development board (in the announcement thread of that bot)
or in Meta board (for forum issues).

The first option is a best to move.
1112  Economy / Gambling / Re: Roobet.com | Crypto’s Fastest Growing Casino 🦘 on: April 01, 2023, 02:46:08 AM
Speaking about gambling site accounts then i dont mind much since i do put up strong passwords and when it comes to 2fa or something that layer 2 verification
then i dont mind that much considering that i do lost all the time on gambling sessions.  Cheesy
Make sure you don't install your 2FA application on a same device you are using log in your email (that is used for account registration) and login your account on Roobet, gambling site, exchange. If you are doing this, it's time to stop it because it violates basics to 2-factor authentication protection on your account.

People usually use Google Authenticator, Authy applications but there are alternatives for them and also open source applications like Aegis.

Aegis Authenticator, a decent alternative to Google Authenticator and Authy
https://beem.dev/
1113  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Premier League Prediction Thread 2022/2023 on: April 01, 2023, 02:40:53 AM
I think the fans of Arsenal must be very anxious and excited about every incoming game which Arsenal will be playing in the English Premier League this season. With only 10 more games left to play, Arsenal could finally stand a chance to win a big trophy for their loyal fans if Arsenal are able to carry on their excellent form until the end of this season
With only 10 more games left, if Arsenal win each game and see their gap with Manchester City is the same (not actually need it becomes bigger), their fans will have one more chance to celebrate not only that winning but also one more step closer to Premier League title.

It's very important for Arsenal to avoid a loss in match with Manchester City and they can solve other matches more easily. Manchester City will not feel happy and will have bigger stress if they see Arsenal win each of future matches.

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I guess Arsenal shall continue their dominating form and beat Leeds United today.
Leeds United in this season are no longer good as same as previous season and Arsenal can take this chance to beat Leeds United, win one more match and see the title more closely. However they must focus on their defense, tighten it and avoid conceded goals. They can not rely on their attacking players to cover mistakes from defense system and defenders in all matches.
1114  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: UEFA Europa League 2022/23 Season on: March 31, 2023, 09:22:31 AM
I agree. Crucial time's like this we need this players for big games, they might not have lots and enough chances but then one alone is enoyif they can put the goal at the back of the net, I'm actually talking about the game against Newcastle on Sunday.
Marcus Rashford wasn't Injured at all, pulling out made me smile, immediately I was like more time to rest those legs I really hoped Scott Mc Tominay would fill in well for Manchester United as they go against Newcastle.
Newcastle United did not lose in many matches in Premier League, only three with two of them come from Liverpool. Manchester United will meet a very tough opponent and it's hard to beat Newcastle United. Newcastle United still have chance to race with Tottenham and Liverpool for the fourth position and they will not let Manchester United have an easy match.

Scott McTominay is only a defensive midfielder and he is barely able to repeat his performance when facing Spain by scoring two goals for his team. He does not usually score goals for his club in his career and this season too. Maybe Newcastle United will successfully control Marcus Rashford in the match.
1115  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Premier League Prediction Thread 2022/2023 on: March 31, 2023, 03:05:06 AM
I don’t really think it has been difficult to analyze the match between Manchester City and Liverpool. Manchester City is the favorites to win and rightfully so too. City has been impressive in their performance, winning games and striving to reach and if possible overtake Arsenal at the top of the league table. That doesn’t look like a team that would be willing to lose to Liverpool any time soon. Apparently, Liverpool is also a top club but I wouldn’t say it’s hard to say they would lose the match cause it’s not. Liverpool would most likely score a goal but would go on to lose the game at the end.
Liverpool are no longer strong as in the past season but they improved a lot last one month. Their changes on Premier League table is good evidence that they are becoming better recent weeks. The big win over Manchester United when people mostly believed Manchester United would have won Liverpool is another reminder for Manchester City.

Matches between Liverpool and Manchester City are very exciting and balanced in last few seasons and I don't think it would be different in their next match. Both clubs have big tasks and they won't let opponent to beat them easily. If the past season repeats, they will have another draw that is what I am thinking. Even if on draw at all, it will not be a big win for winner either Manchester City or Liverpool.

It's likely the result between city against liverpool will be a draw or city win. It's caused by liverpool will be losing some key players. I see that how bad the defenders of liverpool are right now compared with manchester city. There is speculation that haaland to get injured but i think that he is fine right now.
Arsenal will be even easier to win EPL once city will be draw or lose against liverpool. Gunners are praying for city to get draw or lose.
What if Liverpool win?

I am not fan of Liverpool or of Arsenal but I would like to see Arsenal lift the trophy in this season. It will make the league more exciting in a next season, harder to predict who will be champions in next seasons. Arsenal if succeed, will give motivation to other clubs such as Newcastle United, Tottenham to beat Manchester City and be champions.
1116  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1) on: March 31, 2023, 02:01:47 AM
messi has no future at PSG and he will not stay at PSG for the upcoming season. Messi has told his father and agent to bring back him again to the barcelona but the problem is barcelona must have sold some players first to comply with FFP. messi will be leaving from the barcelona with free agent status if his contract will not be extended. Messi is not happy to stay in PSG. Some clubs have been started to be linked with him.
After two failed seasons with their bet on Messi and his ability to help PSG to win Champions League, PSG will not want to pay him too high salary if a new contract is signed between them. Messi will have to accept to reduce his salary payroll for his new contract with PSG. Will he accept to do this when his career has a few years left?

I am sure he will easily get very high salary, higher than what he currently gets in PSG if he decides to move to Middle East leagues like Cristiano Ronaldo. Not many reasons to sacrifice his salary and continue with PSG.

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https://barcauniversal.com/lionel-messi-waiting-for-barcelona-report/

The thing that is clear to us is if messi is not even wanna stay in PSG. Messi already accepted to decrease his salary once he will be going back to the barcelona.
However, it won't be easy for Barcelona to convince Messi returning to Camp Nou. It is very hard task for them even their coach Xavi has good relationship with Messi. Barcelona are not better than PSG in chance to win Champions League which is a most wanted title Messi aims at recent seasons. They will also not be able to give Messi too high salary.
1117  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Saudi Professional League 2022/2023 on: March 31, 2023, 01:53:16 AM
Well CR7 is one of the players who is very focused, it doesn't matter that he is 38 years old, he shows that age is just a number and that his training is everything, in the case of a game he ran much faster with The ball was held by a 28-year-old player, which shows that CR7 is shutting mouths, also in the Euro qualifiers, coach Martinez said it, that he saw a lack of respect not to put CR7 in the Portugal games in Qatar, here in the Saudi League if they give him the value he deserves, a great job that CR7 has done and I'm sure he will continue to do so.
We should give him recognition and round of applause for his professionality and his seriousness to prolong his career as longest as possible. However, we should take into consideration dramatic changes in sports healthcare to increase physical fitness as well as prolong career for sport players, not only in football.

In the past, it is very hard to see players can play at highest level in Europe after their 35s but it has gradually become more popular nowadays. We see Pepe, Ibrahimovic, Cristiano Ronaldo, Messi and some old players have such long career. Now they don't stop at their 35s but are trying to expand it to 40s like Ibrahimovic and Ronaldo.

Ronaldo, Pepe and Ibrahimovic will try to join Euro 2024 and after that we will have to wait for their performance and decisions to continue with World Cup 2026 or will retire.
1118  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Zksync Era Mainnet launch on: March 30, 2023, 07:50:30 AM
Since they got testnet and zklite working, I think they are gonna do snapshots on these as well but we can assume that mainnet is more important when it comes to use case for them, so interact on mainnet frequently. Since we can only speculate with the process, but judging from the rmmainnet release, it would take time to know the airdrop announcement maybe next year.
Interacting with their main net and do transactions regularly as well as some other activities like adding liquidity, minting NFTs on their main net are good activities to be recorded for their airdrop. I believe adding liquidity will be important to get higher airdrop with Zksync ERA as cheaters don't spend money to add liquidity.

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Yes just head on the official twitter post of zksync and youll fins there the links of their webpage, they have list of updated and active dapps for us to interact.
Interacting with active dApps on Zkysync and some bridges are other good activities proactively for their future airdrop.

Next year is too long and I think they will announce airdrop in coming months, before the end of 2023. They must make noise, expose Zksync to as many investors through airdrop, news as possible and must have enough time for market to absorb tokens dumped by airdrop receivers. It takes a few months to finish before 2024 bull run which likely starts after Bitcoin halving in April or May.
1119  Bitcoin / Legal / Re: Canada Requires Pension Funds to Disclose Crypto Risks on: March 30, 2023, 01:37:03 AM
I think this is a good move for the government to see the activities in regards with cryptos that involves pension. Pension money should always be secured and it is the government's duty to protect it and make sure it is legally used and saved. This transparency would also make the citizens have reassurance of their funds. Overall, it is a great idea to have this.
Not only in pension fund management but also must be regulated more strictly in other areas related to fund management. People should not use money of others for their own greed and benefit that cause bad management and potential collapse.

Collapse can be small or big but when it happens, it surely affects people who believe in that entity and their management board members. Their life can be broken forever and putting some people in to jail won't rescue life of others so as their savings and funds.

Some might argue that risks are present in any asset the pension funds are exposed to, even fiat and government bonds. In the U.K some months ago, a large pension fund came close to crashing and needed emergency intervention to stay afloat[1], this was a result of financial policies put in place. Situations like these would never be painted as a 'fiat problem' or show the risk in banking activities.
Governments would have seen negative nets of government bonds in banks but they did not intervene it sooner. They just let it be and see some banks collapsed and later they reacted as they are saviors. I don't believe in them and their regulations are for citizen benefit.
1120  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: French Soccer League Predictions and Discussion Thread (Ligue 1) on: March 30, 2023, 01:30:05 AM
The club already expected to have a new coach in upcoming season. PSG will be making some movements during the summer transfer season. PSG just let galtier to end this season in PSG. Galtier is not as good as people think.
Hiring another coach is not enough for PSG. They must to rebuild their squad and make it more balanced between attacking and defense. If their squad continues to be not balanced, no coach can help them to win Champions League.

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PSG already bought some world class players and that's not enough to win UCL PSG. To be honest if the performance from PSG this season is disappointing for PSG fans. Galtier will be sacked or he must be leaving the club by himself. I would not be surprised to see that PSG has been offering some good coaches to join the club.
They have world class players but their squad are imbalanced that makes them weak when they play with big clubs in Champions League. Such imbalance is not a big issue in Ligue 1 but in Champions League, it is their dead weakness.

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Messi is already rumored to go back again to the barcelona.
I believe he won't. Barcelona current president Laporta treated Messi badly and he has no reason to rejoin them. Moving to Saudi Arabia Professional League and grab huge salary in a last few years of his career is more interesting for him and his family. In addition, returning to Barcelona might not bring more happiness to Messi and he will get more pressure there.
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