Old statistics can often be misleading, because as the OP rightly noted, if the coach and most of the players have changed, then the only thing that can go in favor of the old statistics is the policy of the club, which replaces old players with players of the same quality and style of play, and asks the coach to force a similar style of play.

What is much more important to know is the current form (and the form in the last 5-6 games), and whether the club has any injured key players. In the end, there are a lot of factors in all of this that make the game unpredictable, and if it weren't for that, there wouldn't even be sports betting, right?

I know that it is not literally correct, it is a metaphor that has become so common that we still use it in our everyday life. I don't agree that frogs are smarter than people, but that perhaps they have a better instinct for survival, considering that they are guided by very basic feelings, which in humans are often intertwined in complex loops of feelings.


I've already written somewhere that it's a bit paradoxical that most people are looking for some kind of confirmation from their governments, banks, and various institutions that Bitcoin is something legal, good, acceptable - and that same Bitcoin was created as a kind of alternative to the current system.

I think that globally, we cannot say that there is some kind of universal opinion about BTC, but that it depends from country to country. Institutionally, the US is sovereignly winning the battle so far, but some studies say that about 21% of global trading/investing is in Central, Southern and Eastern Europe.

And what about coins held in custody services (CEXs)? Such coins can be seized at any time for any reason. People who don't understand that the only way to be sure their digital assets will remain theirs is to be their own bank.

The problem (if we can even call it that) is that most cryptocurrency investors do it solely for profit, and then that's a completely different story.

I'm a little curious as to what exactly you're interested in, but I hope you didn't get a job with some blockchain analytics agency that hired you to do some research for them

Those who have been in this for a long time have surely noticed that they are trying to boil us like a frog (someone mentioned it recently) in other words very slowly until it is too late. Countries like Turkey, Vietnam, and Thailand have a completely open tactic based on the fact that you can buy, sell, and store cryptocurrencies, but paying with them is prohibited - while on the other hand, the rest of the world is doing everything to get the idea out of the average person's head that they should use Bitcoin as a currency.

It's not something that comes exclusively from political circles, but we hear it every day from people like Saylor or companies like BlackRock. The latter has very, to say the least, strange attitudes when it comes to BTC, and for those who don't know, they long ago bought majority shares in practically all the biggest BTC mining companies. Some say they are building a Trojan horse, others that they have already built it and successfully deployed it.

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It's been quite a few years since someone opened Breaking Mixing Services in which it is proven that mixers are not quite as resilient as they seem, because at that time all but one have proven to be quite ineffective in what they are supposed to provide to each client.

If one man could do it, I have no doubt that some much more powerful organizations today can do much more, because it's no secret that they've been working on it for over 10 years.

Man's greatest enemy is man himself - and every day it seems to me that we are getting closer to the edge of the abyss into which we will push ourselves. Bitcoin definitely has the potential to become something big, although as things stand, not in the way Satoshi envisioned. Some might say that it is better for it to progress and survive in any way, others that it wouldn't make much sense if it were somehow "privatized" and "modeled" according to their needs by those who see it only as digital gold.

It seems quite realistic to me that in the next 10 years BTC could reach $500k, but we should take into account that inflation will take its toll during that period and that we certainly won't be able to buy what we can buy today for that amount then. Still, I would be happy with that price, because I think that kind of growth still beats most other investments.

Many here talk about the war, and fortunately they have never been a part of a war, so it looks like they are commenting on a war movie, and not real events in which people lose their lives and all the property they have worked for all their lives. My way of seeing things is that it obviously suits someone that the conflict lasts for decades, and that from time to time a real fire breaks out in which some new peacemakers try to prove themselves in finding peace.

What I can say is that after the massacre in Gaza that Israel committed (and is still committing), I ranked that country alongside all those genocidal countries that have committed crimes against humanity throughout history, and that is how history will remember them. Israel's obsession to destroy the Palestinians and Iran as a country that is almost 1000 km away from them is completely sick, especially if we know that such a thing will never succeed.

Not that they won't win any war, but they will create thousands of those who will hate them to the point that they will dedicate their entire lives to harming them in any way they can. I always thought that people who went through the Holocaust could and should do better, but instead of peace, they only want war, killing and destruction.

Lest anyone think that I am on Iran's side, they also have their negative sides, but like any other country they have the right to use nuclear energy for peacetime purposes, but why not for military purposes to protect their territory? If we are to be completely honest, only countries that have nuclear arsenals can be considered safe and strong, all others are just potential targets for large countries that from time to time go and "exercise" their armies and democracies on them.

If you admit that you are not a person who can successfully save a USB stick or a piece of paper with important information, then it would be best to sell what you have and not bother about such things. You're not the only person who has this problem, unfortunately I know a few people who lose something important every week, and when it comes to things like this, it's literally a no-go zone for them.

You've been a member of this forum since 2017 and should have learned the difference between an exchange and a non-custodial wallet a long time ago. I find such things incomprehensible, because storing so much value online with clowns like SBF is worse than gambling.

I wonder if all those who were victims of this scandal learned anything at all from everything? Do they still store their cryptocurrencies online or have they changed tactics? I think most are still going down the wrong path considering that CEXs still hold huge value in various cryptocurrencies.

This is true and no one should be fooled into thinking that they will receive coins from such services that will have a perfect AML score. The only way to be somewhat sure that you will not have problems with future transactions is to trade on CEXs. Of course, this is not advice, but only my observation in relation to how cryptocurrencies progress over the years.

What the authorities want to do is to firstly discourage people from using Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as currency, and secondly to try to destroy every possible decentralized way of trading the same. Well, I can say that they will try, but given the nature of cryptocurrencies and the internet, they will never succeed, even though they will spend a lot of taxpayer money for that purpose.

I think that few would decide to receive their salary 100% in BTC, because considering the volatility, it is very easy for that salary to lose 5% or more compared to fiat in just a few hours. However, for those who want to invest in BTC regularly, a smaller percentage might be acceptable - and it would be even better if that percentage was not fixed but could be changed by the employee on a monthly basis.

It's not a new idea, as far back as 2017 I read that some companies offered their employees part of their salary in BTC.

Do you know why many people give up? Because they are not interested in the forum as a forum, but rather come with the aim of participating in bounty campaigns in which they make meaningless posts with links, and then it is not surprising that someone has hundreds of posts and has not received a single merit.

Of course there are those who try to scam someone, promote a link or present their project. Whoever they are, it should be kept in mind that it is not realistic to expect everyone to stay on the forum - after all, over the years many older members have abandoned their profiles. That's something completely normal.

I agree with you because I also tried to point out some illogicalities in speculations like the one we are discussing in this thread. I think there is still a lot of potential for the price of BTC to rise, but definitely not in the percentages that have been the case in the past. Everything will of course depend on the demand in the years to come and how much BTC will be available on the market at a given moment.

The fact is that in the next 5-6 years, about 1 million more BTC will be mined (which is a large amount), but after that, only 1% (210 000) will remain for the next 100+ years. Accordingly, if demand is even greater than today, it is logical that the price will go up, especially if we know that fiat currencies (especially the USD) do not have a bright future.

What would be a game changer is if central banks started buying BTC, and the world's largest companies followed suit - this means that in a few years millions of BTC would be removed from the market, and if we add to that that ETFs and Saylor have already removed around 2 million BTC - it is not unrealistic to speculate that the price of 1 BTC could be at least three to four times higher than it is today.

How many people can even imagine what a trillion is in numbers? I think many people have basic problems understanding how much money that actually is, and $3 million probably seems like a small number that BTC will one day reach. People should be realistic, but how will they be if they don't think for themselves and let some confused clowns do their thinking for them?

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Luckily for such people, there are always new people coming along who don't know them, so they have their own audience. Although I find it hard to understand the media that constantly brings such people into focus, considering that they are almost always wrong.

I personally do not support that FIFA wants to turn players and club staff into robots that play matches all year round with practically no rest. In addition, if it is true that tickets for the matches are not selling well, should anyone be surprised by this fact, given that the matches are played in the summer when most people travel and are not interested in football, which is not a very popular sport in the US.

I'm not saying there won't be interesting matches, but there are some that seem completely uninteresting to me and I wonder how some clubs even made it into this competition?

Congratulations to Portugal and its fans for winning the competition, they deserved it because they showed an excellent game and the desire to be the best. Since the competition is over, it's time to lock this topic - thank you all for participating.

It's not nice to see an old member resorting to these methods, and only reacting when he gets tagged and his posts are deleted. There may be some truth to his explanation for why he did it, but the fact that he didn't inform anyone in advance, and that he participated in the sig campaign at that time definitely doesn't work in his favor.

I know there have been other cases where Legendary members have been caught in the act of using AI for their posts, but mostly they claimed it was the result of using certain online translators or spell checkers. @nutildah has written about this in his AI topic several times, and the point is that many of these tools today use AI, and that instead of corrections, they actually add content that can then be detected as AI.

Some would disagree with the fact that it is safe - because if their firmware has the ability to share seeds with remote servers, I wonder how anyone can feel safe using their devices? As a company, they have made huge money from their products, but since their fame went to their heads, they have only had scandal after scandal.

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You're right, you're sending them the right message - I didn't throw my devices in the trash, I just use them as possible bait if I ever need them (I hope not). Imagine a situation where thieves force me to hand over my cryptocurrencies, and after a little "persuasion" I give them my old Ledger, and then one of them says "are you still using that junk?"

Perhaps the member in question does not even know that there are accusations against him regarding inappropriate use of AI, or perhaps he has decided to ignore everything. If he doesn't visit this part of the forum or doesn't use one of the notification bots, it's no wonder he hasn't reacted yet.

A person has to be really desperate to say something like that publicly, and TL seems to be really getting desperate and having to resort to crazy statement techniques to get anyone to notice him. Unfortunately for him, the internet remembers everything, so anyone who wants to know what he's been saying over the past few years has it all served up on a platter.

Let's see what ideas were going through his head in 2019