Manchester City, of course. The way the Citizens have been playing is impressive. They have won every Premier League match this season, and it seems that even Guardiola’s departure hasn’t affected them too much. Liverpool are a very dangerous team at Anfield, but I think the best they can hope for is a draw. City will be going for the win, and I hope that even the 115 charges won’t affect their morale and prevent them from getting the victory in the upcoming match.
Before this 114 case guilty I would have gone for a narrow win for Manchester City not because they are away at Anfield because Anfield since the departure of Jurgen Klopp is no longer a fortress and any team can come and beat them there, the only difference this season is that Iraola is actually trying to play safe and not lose any match and it’s actually on this that I am settling for a draw plus the saga at Manchester City which I definitely think will be the major talking point in most of their matches this season. Enzo Maresca will most certainly wants to win more matches and collect as much points as he can before Verdict of their breach is confirmed or their punishment is issued because every point might do count for them to stay alive in the league
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His experience alone is invaluable for the Portuguese players. Cristiano Ronaldo is a football legend who has achieved so much for Portugal. In my opinion, the way this situation has unfolded is unfair to him. Do you know if he has retired from his national team career yet? I hope he hasn't, and that Portugal organizes a proper farewell match for him.
Let’s be honest will be farewell be anything more meaningful at the moment, I do think this saga already has created the dent and I don’t think any farewell will be able to curtail the damage done to his image. Probably a national honor in Portugal that no other footballer in the country has ever won or something like a statue in the Portuguese national team main office or a stadium named just after him. Maybe all this could help but still they won’t repair this dent on his legacy. When I look at this situation also from another perspective I usually do think that Ronaldo himself brought this upon himself because for me he should have exited international football immediately after the World Cup, that was when the ovation was still loud not now
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What are the plans for Chelsea to get a new defender ahead of the transfer market?
They are out of shape defensively and if they fail they bring in two defenders who can keep up with the Premier League pressure and also back three formation, they will once again lose their chances of qualifying for the Champions League competition next season. Fofana is that defender I don't think should be with them furthermore, they have to look for a way to get ride of the French international.
I was actually surprised to see them not addressing this their defensive problem, it was supposed to be one of the most emergency measures that they should have taken, while they did signed couple of few other defenders I don’t think this players had that much quality except maybe Lacroix. With the departure of the likes of Chaloba, Cucurrella I thought more experienced players will be coming. Currently they are in mess and seriously I do think before the winter break arrives some damages would have be done already and more so winter break hardly doesn’t have much bigger players moving like that, although there are history of great players that were signed in this transfer window.
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Congratulations to your cousin for agreeing to invest in Bitcoin. If I were to chose between starting an immediate business, invest in Gold and in real estate, I would gladly choose Bitcoin. I can bet it with your cousin that when Bitcoin might have easily handed him 3x of his money, Gold might not be able to deliver 2x. And if lucky, real estate might have given him about 30% ROI.
While I totally agree with you that bitcoin is definitely up there as one of the best investments and I personally can confidently invest more than $20k at a go into bitcoin I still think that putting out this numbers of saying bitcoin can do more then other assets doesn’t seems well when introducing someone to bitcoin. This is because with this kind of narrative the new investor might probably have set up a target some of which are unrealistic and can lead to panic in periods of bearish conditions. For me I do think the best way to go is actually telling the investor the dangers around their investment there is a possibility of the investment not yielding profit in short term
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Ok, I get it. But I still think this can be true in 2 of 2 multisig if only both public keys have not been exposed yet. But if it has been exposed, don't you think an attacker can brute force the public keys independently and maybe in parallel ( that is at the same time with two different quantum computers) to derive the private keys.
The thing is once the attacker actually brute forces the keys independently from each other then he will only be able to recover different wallet because each private key will only lead to each different address and in most cases he will find the two addresses empty. Where the security lies is that attacker has to know that both of this keys are multi sig wallet and needs to be combined to spend from them. But I think the blockchain can give away this information if you look at a transaction id from any transaction coming from this wallet, the reedem script key will give away the information that it’s a multi sig and even the input data will show the type of multi sig wallet it is.
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I just saw a post from instagram; about a German content creator who threw away a bottle containing Bitcoin, and the amount is more than 8000 satoshi. They said; that the person deliberately did this to give away free Bitcoin to the person who found the bottle, but there was no reason behind it. I tried to find other sources, or references to confirm this information, but I haven't found any. I am still confused about this.
Firstly I think you should correct your statement as he threw away a bottle containing seed phrase which is alleged to have keys to 8000 Satoshi and not that he bottle containing bitcoin because bitcoin isn’t a physical commodity to be put in a bottle. What I do think about this is that the content creator is doing it for the views and clearly he just got it because you shared it here and that’s the purpose, for $7 I think it’s worth the noise or motion his page will get. I don’t usually fancy any of this things or even see them as anything related to creating awareness for bitcoin rather it’s creating awareness for themselves. Now the question is how are we sure it’s even a valid seed phrase or private key or the OP hasn’t even double spend it? Nonetheless I don’t see anything extra here
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But I just like the fact that bitcoin was able to reduce volatility. In every four years cycle that has been happening, the volatility also reduced again this time. It is a very good thing. Bitcoin is becoming a better store of value gradually.
Exactly bitcoin volatility has drastically reduced because if we compare the last cycle when bitcoin all time high was actually $69,000 around November 2021, one year after that date the price dropped for almost 75% to around $17,000 one year apart. Compare that to the current volatility which the price is just 32% off the all time high as at today. Once can see that it’s more than twice the volatility reduction. Now the question is with this reduced volatility will we reach the current all time Price faster than the previous cycles where the market spends more than 25 months before it creates another ATH. For me I do think we would see another all time before the 25 months if the market continues with this volatility
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Italy played like they wanted nothing but a victory and got it. I'm not surprised they won, Turkiye didn't stand a chance to get a victory away against the Italians. Away from the Victory, I think Riccardo Calafiori's incredible performance this season isn't talk about as much as it should. The Italian defender since the start of the season has been very instrumental for Arsenal and now for his national team. If he continues with this form till the end of the season, he'll definitely be included in the discussion of the best left backs I. Europe, at least for the 2026/27 season.
This game all but confirms Turkey’s relegation from this group because I don’t see them getting back again. Seriously there are certain players you would wish actually play for a much stronger footballing nation than their current team and one of those players is the Arda Guler of Real Madrid. This lad has been really a great gem and has put in a A plus performance in each of their four games this period and yet he cannot inspire them to any win and it’s sad for someone like him. As for Italy this is rather more impressive because after four games under the new manager Roberto Mancini they have managed to pick up seven points out of possible 12 and I will say it’s a good start for a nation trying to build back their reputation, they just need to stay on this track and hopefully we get the Italy we all cherish back. While I do think it’s a very long road for them considering the squad they currently have I think this break brings hope for them
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Bayern Munich are already many steps ahead of all other teams in the Bundesliga this season. They don’t have a chance when it comes to competing for the top title against them, they can only try. The dominance of Bayern Munich and their financial situation is far much better than other clubs can meet up with them to stand a challenge with them. The fact that they are not at the top of the standing doesn’t mean they have lost the title race, they will surely take over that spot because the team there don’t have the capability to win the title and maintain consistent performance from now till end of the season. To stand a chance, they need to strengthen their squad and to also do that, they need more financial resources which I don’t think any club has it near what Bayern Munich has now.
I would have disagree with your statement that even though they have started the season already off the top of the table and they will come back right on top, I would have said this is football you cannot give in so much Verdict like that but to be honest the Bundesliga for years has been reduce to a very less competitive league and more precisely a one team league, so the stats available will definitely support the position of your statement, I could recall a season that I support this Dortmund side for the title they play their hearts out and were almost champions I think this was the season before the Leverkusen triumph season. Dortmund instead of killing off games early allowed this Bayern Munich back into the title race and eventually lost it on the last day, so reminiscing this past moments I think I allign with you that they will get back for the title
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After Cristiano Ronaldo is not in the squad, Portugal looks better now. Do any of you feel the same?
They are on a positive run, four wins out of four games, something I hadn't previously seen from the Portugal national team. To be frank, I think it is time for Cristiano Ronaldo to retire from national team, if he remains in the national team, it will hinder the team's generational transition.
No I don’t feel the same with you because I feel it’s a baseless attack on Ronaldo. I haven’t seen extraordinary thing that this Portuguese team has done behind Cristiano Ronaldo, and if you say you haven’t seen this before from them then I will gladly say you started watching this Portugal team in the World Cup then, this is because the team was excellent just like the recent form before heading to the world cup finals they were beating every team they faced and even highly favorite for the title but as usual went to a major tournament to just have a bad World Cup
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Chelsea needs more than Enzo's replacement. They even need Caicedo's eplacement. Caicedo has started this season just like Rodri started last season, injured from the start. Lavia is strong, but the creativity that the midfield requires is seriously lacking. The loophole was made more obvious with Enzo's exit as well, so now they're left with a weak midfield.
I don't think Henderson can do that Midfield alone and Barco is still very inexperienced to handle the pressure there. Honestly Chelsea needs Caicedo back in play or someone with such ability before creativity can return to the Chelsea midfield. With Palmer and Joao Pedro joining the injury list, Chelsea attacking form is still at stake. Maybe its time Alonso made more use of Estevao who has seen little game time under his management.
Seriously I cannot agree less with you, Chelsea are currently held back more with leaky midfield of theres, I will easily say that Chelsea made a very bad decision or mistake in the summer regarding this midfield. They were aware that Enzo Fernandez was forcing his move to Manchester city and as a proper football club as you’re actually delaying such transfer you should be working tirelessly to get the replacement signed not a deadline saga like we had. Another mistake is the choice of player they went for seeking experience, seriously they had options of getting players like Granith Xhaka who I find a much better option than the Henderson because even with his age he can still compete at the top level and in the period like this when options are not much available he will be a worthy choice to start certain games
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I hope what I said would be the punishment meted against them, as others are too severe/harsh to be imagined.
If it's points deduction of 40-60 points + a hefty fine, they will quickly recover in a few seasons. However, others could be expulsion from Premier League or stripping them of all the titles and benefits gained during those violation times, or worse.
With 114 charges I do think that every punishment is definitely going to look like it’s not enough because to be honest that’s a whole good years of cheating. First of all 60 points or less is much smaller in my opinion because of the multiple breaches. Rather I will consider it to be at least 15 points for. Whole 6 to 9 season deduction irrespective of the division they are playing this will limit their chances of qualifying for Europe or even make them get relegated and in both cases make them lose money which is the main factor to consider here. As for the one that they should stripe them off their title? I am confident that will not happen because this punishment is only vented out because of cases like match fixing and with juventus coming to mind when they were found guilty. So I don’t think the punishment will be the titles which wouldn’t still look harsh on the club if it was the punishment but harsh on the players that won it for them without them knowing of this behind the scenes
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I have to agree with you because it's a shame how they're performing. Germany under Julian Nagelsman performed better than the one Klopp is managing and I'm still wondering how in a group where we've got the likes of Netherlands and Germany as the strong teams, it's Greece that is occupying the 2nd position and are equal on points with Netherlands? I'm yet to see the Germany that were dubbed 'The German machines' in this tournament because these set are just a pitiful excuse for a team.
Here we go again Blaming Jurgen Klopp for the poor German performance and thinking that the last manager Julien Neglesman is better than him after his last game was a knockout defeat to Paraguay, this is the same thing we did when he took over from Hansi Flick. I would like to say that it’s time to do away with the blame game most especially on managers and face the reality which is this German side have had their golden generation gone for good just set of average players in it, if they do understand this the earlier, the better for them. For me they need to build from scratch with young players and the Bundesliga definitely houses a whole lot of talent for that and for me the perfect man for the rebuild is this Jurgen Klopp because he has done it multiple times. The only thing he needs to support with lot of time and they could be well grinded before the 2030 World Cup if not we are going to witness another giant European country fall like Italy
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It does add some complexity, though.
Would you consider multisig necessary for personal holdings, or is a well-secured single wallet still enough?
There is this common saying that “To whom much is given much is expected” this is the case for self custody because when we demand for self custody then we should be ready for extra security consciousness and this is what most people are still not able to do and end up with losing their coins on custodial platforms. For me Multi sig has it complexities and best owner of such set up are two or more people trying to hold coin on one single wallet or better off for institution holdings and avoiding dependence on one key but this doesn’t limit an individual to not own a wallet of such set up, The only problem is that if a single person actually set this type of wallet up there is a tendency of a single point of failure like the wallet will be set using one wallet or the seed phrases are not well back up due to redundancy, it is base on this that I will say as a single person single sig is much better. You just add extra layer of security like a passphrase with probably more than 30 characters as your passphrase and stored both separately and you are good. This saves you money from buying multiple hardware wallets or devices for Multi sig
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I dont think he will get much playing time at all. His career will probobly go down if he dosent start playing for Real Madrid. This was the scenario for most of the players that were in this situation. He will probobly be loaned out two three more times and then will be sold to some middle team that isnt world class.
He improved a lot in Lyon but still i dont think its enough for him to play for Real Madrid and i think he might be soon loaned out.
When ever I look at this Endrick situation one player that come to my mind is Mariano Diaz, the one that graduated from Real Madrid academy and when he had playing time issues then because of players like Ronaldo, Benzema and Bale he was sold off to this same Lyon and he went there to play excellent if I could remember just for Real Madrid to buy him back a season later after Ronaldo had left for Juventus and was even given the Ronaldo number 7 shirt. Man was so full of himself then and next what happened he struggled for minutes and that’s how his career went down like that before he left for Sevilla. I didn’t even know he still plays football until this season that I saw in Deportivo Alaves and currently doing well with three goals and three assists already this season but let’s be honest this is already late with the player currently above 30 years what’s left of him then. Another player with similar path is defender Vallejo who wasted his years too on bench at Real Madrid
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It's true that Arteta spent years as Pep Guardiola's assistant coach at Man City, but I still believe something that what you learned, your natural talent and fate/luck have huge roles to play in your success as a coach, and not whether one person learned from the other only. Arteta has shown his own uniqueness, IMO. That said, Arsenal under him has naturally made them a threat in the EPL, so it's not just happening. If not, tell me how the first runner-up for years is not a threat. As it is now, I still expect him to up his game. And so far, so good, if not for the shameful display against Brighton.
I think we shouldn’t be downplaying Arteta’s work because he learned under the tutelage of Pep Guardiola, most people today have easily forgotten that this same Arteta didn’t have it easy when he took the job at Arsenal or was it blooming rosy when he left Pep, in fact he wanted to copy Pep so perfectly in his first years and he failed but gradually started to build himself and it was exactly through this new part that he actually got Arsenal way back at the top. Let’s also give Arsenal the biggest credit for trusting a rookie like him and also sticking with him until it started to work out well for them, I can tell you that many other clubs would have had him gone after he couldn’t qualify for Europe in two consecutive seasons. But they deserve their credit like just anyone who has contributed
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I agree with controlling spending, but here in my country, it's about minimizing or stopping corruption. In the current scandal that rocks our country, politicians and government workers pocketed almost 10 billion pesos. If there is no corruption, there will be more infrastructure, and there is no need for higher taxes.
Another one is good tax collection; there were so many uncollected taxes due to rampant bribery. Only corrupt officials are making a lot of money from taxes, and companies are paying less in taxes because they manipulate their tax receipts and instead pay corrupt tax collectors.
I think most underdeveloped countries are all suffering from the same problem which is leadership problem. If most of the corrupt leaders actually been penalized and funds recovered there will be definitely more infrastructure because it’s usually money meant for this things that they do steal. If you read about alleged amount some corrupt politicians are accused of, one of them can even fund a country’s quarterly budget. Whenever I see government increasing tax I usually just say this people are intentionally not ready to address the real problem which is trying to solve the leaking tax problems. We all can agree that taxes are paid but the major problem is accountability. Most of the tax collectors and government officials pocketed this money and simply blames it on lack of tax revenue
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Other than that, as others have already pointed out the fees haven't been high for a very long time. So... - When you did send your tx?
When is one of important factors for spending more or less satoshis in Bitcoin transaction fees. Weekends have cheaper fee rates, then transaction fees than working days. To be honest this particular ideology failed its test when bitcoin network was last congested because I noticed that even during weekends transactions weren’t remotely cheap or even low as always talked about, just very few Satoshi difference when comparing the fee rate, the last notable period this happen was in 2024 when Rune attack affected the bitcoin network. Come to think of it if everyone moves their transaction to weekend or more people do, then we might soon see more congestion in this period then. Your patience might wear thin during the Ordinals and BRC-20 trends, when you could be charged tens of dollars just to spend a single UTXO that gets confirmed in the next block. At times like those, patience isn't really an option; you are effectively forced to put off spending your Bitcoin on small transactions, these surges have persisted for months.
During periods like this, there is the option of using layer 2’s for bitcoin transaction example is the lightening network.
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The Problem with Paper Most of us all just start by writing our 12 or 24 word on paper, but paper is absolutely weak. This because it can just rot from a water damage, it can be just thrown away thinking it a trash and can get burnt. And also you should never take a photo of your seed or even save it on your phone(note pad, email or cloud). This is where people get hacked so easily. Papers can be destroyed, your device can be stolen this where you need metal.
It’s a good one to share your thought but I will advice you actually make use of the search button more often because topics like this related to steels for seed phrase back up has been treated in the forum. Nonetheless the use of steels are the best but you shouldn’t relay on just one back up but rather you should build at least two back up and store them in different locations because even if they wouldn’t get destroyed like paper in periods of disaster they can also be easily washed away during maybe flood or even be buried in the ground during earth quakes.
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Argentina can always do well even without Messi in the team because they have good players that are performing well. When Messi is in the game the rest players dont depend on him , they all contribute to make sure the team wins. Argentina is one of the team that is loaded with players full of talent. Even before Messi joins the Argentina national team i have alwsys heard of Argentina as one of the interesting team in the world cup. I feel Argentina as a country value football so much and this why they always produce talents.
While everyone can definitely acknowledges that the Argentina National team is definitely blessed with great players I do think they were still carried by the brilliance of Messi and the ability to actually play together as a team. Yes they recognize the importance of Messi to them which most teams will easily depend on but they actually put in a collective effort to get to that stage of the World Cup but still it was heavily influenced by Messi individual brilliance in most of the matches. If you watched the matches they struggled the countries they played stopped Messi from playing and it’s what caused them problems then. I don’t know what the future holds but to be sincere I do think this Argentina side will struggle a bit without their talisman in major competitions, this i am most certain of happening
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