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441  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ODI cricket and general cricketing discussion [self - mod] on: April 01, 2023, 11:58:44 PM
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At the start of this game, almost everyone thought that the match would be one-sided and that was happen on the field. Netherlands ended their innings scoring 189 in 46.1 overs. On the other hand, South Africa won the match easily. South Africa collected 190 runs for losing just 2 wickets. The next match will have the same result if normally play. After all No one including the concerned authorities can benefit financially in such matches.
I missed the starting of the match and hence missed out on wagging a bet because Netherlands was not a competitive team for the South African squad and if there is no rain intervention like the first ODI, South Africa will be winning easily and this is the perfect opportunity for new players to get some experience and cement their place for the next World Cup.
442  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Going to Bitcoin events on: April 01, 2023, 09:33:08 PM
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are you gone to any bitcoin events ? and, in which way it helped you, do you learned new things that is very difficult to learn on internet, do you met amazing people, do going to that events worth your time and money.
Have been to cryptocurrency meet ups and events in the past, the best aspect is to meet like minded people and if you have business aspiration then you will likely meet people who are willing to collaborate with you and that was the experience i had in the past. Not been to any meet ups after the lockdown. It all depends on the event you are participating as well and who is conducting them.
443  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: MMA Info and Predictions - Bellator, KSW, PFL, ONE... on: April 01, 2023, 08:30:09 PM
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Weight ins finsihed for Bellator 293 and one fight is canceled between Rustam Khabilov and Jaleel Willis because of issues on Khabilov’s side.
It was a fight card for the underdogs where we saw many heavy favorites loosing their fights and one with controversies in judging, Joey Davis was the heavy favorite and he dominated the fight taking Jeff Creighton to ground and controlling majority of the time and Jeff was able to land some strikes while on the ground and when the decision came, they adjudged Jeff Creighton the winner for landing some strikes in the final minutes of the third round Cheesy.

Rakim Cleveland another heavy underdog won against Christian Edwards and his hype train is over as he completely gassed out in the third round and presented his head and got chocked out  Cheesy.
444  Other / Meta / Re: New CAPTCHA now required before posting on: April 01, 2023, 12:37:33 AM
Happy Birthday everyone  Cheesy
445  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Cricket match prediction discussions on: March 31, 2023, 08:19:26 PM
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Normally i am not against the migration of players but at the same time, I'd like to see the organic growth of cricket in specific countries and the fact is most of the time these teams look almost fake (would be much better if they allow India to field 4 teams lol). We hardly see any local players in many teams and in gulf countries, players don't even have a nationality.

The solution is simple, give them nationality or add at least 50% of local. Doesn't matter if any tax heaven countries have a team or not, building an office over there is just good for business.
These nations does not provide citizenships not even to Arabs from Jordan, Lebanon or Egypt who are living as refugees for decades or even born in the UAE even after a generation. The local Arabs in the UAE does not play Cricket, they only play or watch Football and love their sheesha  Grin. There are many Cricket clubs and every club will have their teams competing against each other and i have personally played in these tournaments and majority are from India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and there are many tournaments round the clock where you will be able to earn money and to be able to play for UAE you need to have a resident Visa and you need to live their for 4 years to get involved in the selection trials that is conducted.

In a hypothetical situation where you force the local Arabs to play the game who gets everything for free from the government, they will choose Football than Cricket.
446  Economy / Speculation / Re: Crypto traders beaten by girls on: March 31, 2023, 07:56:42 PM
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Since it looks like the answers were self-reported, there's a chance that women may not be telling the truth, to make themselves look better. But maybe there's something in the female approach to trading that would explain it (i.e. higher risk aversion?).
If an exchange who has conducted mandatory KYC has released a report then that would be considered authentic but this is just a theory that some of the users that participated in the self reported survey claim that they are female but considering Singapore government has a positive attitude towards the entire cryptocurrency space, the rest of the things said in the article might be true that they are positive in the long run and would diversify their portfolio in the coming years.
447  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Cricket match prediction discussions on: March 31, 2023, 04:10:44 PM
3. FIFA never allows foreigners in national team. ICC allows a team to be made of 100% foreigners.
You have a problem with restricting teams in World events and if strict rules are observed, then some of the teams will be disband. They allow these loopholes hoping that the sport would grow in that specific region.
This is the most idiotic argument that I have ever came across in this forum. United Arab Emirates, Oman and Saudi Arabia have been playing with Indian and Pakistani players since time immemorial. And how did that helped to grow the sport in that region? For the last two decades, I haven't seen a single Arab in any of these teams (before that there were a few, such as Sultan Zarawani and Saeed-Al-Saffar). If teams need to disband, then let it be. Why there should be a team from UAE, when none of the natives are interested in cricket?
Why is your hard on of the rule only focused and revolved around Arab countries hope you are aware that there are many other teams that play Cricket, what about teams like Austria, Belgium, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark (some of the players are migrants), Estonia, Eswatini, Fiji, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Lesotho, Luxembourg, Malawi, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Norway, Panama, Peru, Portugal, Romania, Seychelles, Singapore, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, United States, who include Pakistan, Bangladesh and Indian migrants.

So what is your smart move to get rid of teams like UAE (who provides a tax heaven for ICC), Oman and Saudi Arabia, to disband all these associate teams to get rid of these Arab countries  Roll Eyes.

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5. FIFA is mostly administered by ex-players. ICC is mostly run by businessmen with no link to cricket.
No idea what you are talking about, name one ex Football player who was the president of FIFA in the past 50 years or even played for their school.
Eagerly waiting to hear about this conundrum you were claiming as facts. None of the FIFA presidents in the past 50 years had any links to Football and they all served administrative positions.
448  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 🥊 The UFC Info and Prediction Thread on: March 30, 2023, 11:43:40 PM
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It seems like fate is really playing bettors as well when we see Adesanya still is more favored by bookies. Since then it's always Adensanya that people are betting to win but a big disappointment every time. I'm starting to believe he is in love with Alex.  Cheesy
Israel Adesanya actually motivated Alex Pereira to focus on MMA when he dissed Pereira during an interview when he was asked about his knockout loss in Kickboxing, you can search that video online and after that Alex Pereira was in the corner for the Anderson Silva fight in UFC 234 and Pereira made his mission to defeat him in MMA as well  Cheesy.

Pereira had done it 3 times already against Izzy, once in Kickboxing. Pereira is Izzy's nightmare that doesn't go away and he may do it many times more.
Twice in Kickboxing and once in MMA, if Alex Pereira can make the weight then i am expecting him to win the fight once again but looking at his training videos, he looks much bigger now and he might struggle to get to championship weight with the body mass he gained.
449  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Cricket match prediction discussions on: March 30, 2023, 08:49:01 PM
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None of the sports bodies work that way. USA and EU contribute to more than 50% of FIFA revenues. But these countries don't get any extra funding from the FIFA, and in case of USA their grants are much lower compared to high performing countries such as Argentina and France. Funding should be based on performance, and not based on where the funds originate.  
I am a bit confused, are you saying that the Soccer Federation in USA is contributing major share to FIFA. how come that is even possible as Football is not that popular in USA and nowhere near NFL or NBA or even Baseball. If your claim is that companies from USA is contributing as part of broadcasting rights and sponsorships, then it is a different story altogether.

If a non profit sports body is able to generate 80% of its total income from a specific country, don't you think there is an aspect called fair share, no one is making any obstacles to generate the same income from other countries but they are not getting the same revenue from other countries, after all its business at the end of the day.

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There are major differences between FIFA and the ICC:
There is a major difference between Football and Cricket and how that game is played globaly.

1. In FIFA, every member nation has equal voting right. In ICC only 12 full members have voting rights.
Consider teams like China, Russia and all the associate teams comes together and then start creating new rules simply because they have voting rights. Only teams that play proper Cricket gets the voting rights and what is wrong in that.

 
2. FIFA expanded the world cup from 32 to 48 teams. ICC reduced the size from 16 teams to 10.
Remember 2007 World Cup 16 teams and it was the boring tournament till date, it was an experiment to include more teams and it failed miserably.

 
3. FIFA never allows foreigners in national team. ICC allows a team to be made of 100% foreigners.
You have a problem with restricting teams in World events and if strict rules are observed, then some of the teams will be disband. They allow these loopholes hoping that the sport would grow in that specific region.

 
4. FIFA fund allocation is based on performance. ICC fund allocation is based on member status.
Mostly exaggerated and explained about the fair share model.
 
 
5. FIFA is mostly administered by ex-players. ICC is mostly run by businessmen with no link to cricket.
No idea what you are talking about, name one ex Football player who was the president of FIFA in the past 50 years or even played for their school.
450  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Did Laszlo Hanyecz see it as 10,000 BTC or as $41? on: March 29, 2023, 09:04:18 PM
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I believe that Laszlo saw his 10,000 bitcoin as $41 and not as 10,000 BTC.  AND that is how many of us see bitcoin today and including myself. In 10yrs time, we could have thousands of Laszlos among bitcoiners, but the difference is that we won't make history as Laszlo did.
You need to remember the context, 50 BTC as block reward and Laszlo was mining with Nvidia 9800 GTX on his Mac OS and no one in the early days expected the market to explode like we see now. Gavin had a faucet giving away 5BTCitcoin per claim so that people would start using BTCitcoin and you would see many selling for cents in the old forum.

For context this is the transaction ID of 10,000 BTC done by Laszlo to Jeremy Sturdivant for the pizza: https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/transactions/btc/a1075db55d416d3ca199f55b6084e2115b9345e16c5cf302fc80e9d5fbf5d48d

PS: You cannot replace OG  Wink.
451  Economy / Speculation / Re: What is your take on the price? on: March 29, 2023, 08:42:35 PM
I have really undermine the price of bitcoin this time considering when I buy at a high price I can't even look at my capital twice because if sometimes I should just stop checking anythiny relating to bitcoin especially internet.
I cannot fathom why anyone would wait for the price to rally to start investing when you had more than enough time to invest when the price touched its bottom and then complain that the price is consolidating than your investment value when you literally waited for the market to rally to make a move. The best investment is always simple, invest when the market is on a correction phase and then wait for the long term rather than making the same mistakes again and again.
452  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ODI cricket and general cricketing discussion [self - mod] on: March 29, 2023, 06:33:46 PM
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USA lost a match they should have won. If they can't chase down a target of 199, and that too against a weak team such as Canada, how they are going to perform while playing against the full members? And the ICC want to provide them with direct qualification to the 2024 World Cup.
It is not a surprise as every team that chased failed to chase down the score in this ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier Play off. Lowest happened to be in this match but Canada defended against Jersey as well and even the odds makers were suggesting that Jersey would win easily as they were 117 for the loss of 1 wicket at one point chasing 238 runs and they were all out for 207 and cashed out at a loss when they lost their 6th wicket.
453  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Is it safe to keep your money in bank? on: March 28, 2023, 11:18:33 PM
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 if a bank is officially registered and has an operational license from the government, usually if the bank is going bankrupt then the government's operational license will be revoked. and customer balances will still be replaced in accordance with applicable regulations, (according to Bank rules). and you don't need to worry if the bank goes bankrupt, the balance will be replaced again
The way US is doing right now, they are giving incentives to the bankers to experiment fail and the government will eventually print money and rescue them without any repercussions, but the fact remains that how long they will be able to do that by printing money out of thin air and finally inflation kicks in and the currency that is held will be no longer valuable.

So the security of your money in the bank all depends on country to country and their banking rules and how strong is their economy. You cannot fail all the time and expect everything will be alright at the end of it and no government can save them all the time. The sole reason why cryptocurrency markets started to rally is because US banks started to fail left and right and people are not sure how many will be falling.
454  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion on: March 28, 2023, 08:42:21 PM
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West Indies used to give some unexpected performance, and this time they weren't able to make it a winning match. When batters does well, the bowlers fail. Even today's match looks similar, because West Indies have made a target of 220 runs but the opponent team is good enough to score 148/2 in 14 overs. Once again the match to be favoured South Africa as West Indies bowlers weren't able to give break. For South Africa Hendricks 63* and Miller 11* on the crease.
Just like the last match, South Africa was on a good position to win the match, but West Indies pulled back with the help of Alzarri Joseph who bowled the 19th over picking up 3 wickets that changed the match upside down and that over cost South Africa the match and West Indies won by 7 runs in
a thriller where the odds changed drastically in the final overs.
455  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion on: March 26, 2023, 07:33:12 PM
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It was such a crazy match to see. I mean who would have imagined that someday batsmen would be able to chase 258 in just 19 overs in an international match. But i feel really bad for bowlers in these type of matches. I feel pitches shouldn't be made in this way where bowlers suffer such a bad fate. I think normally totals in T20 is around 160. We can deviate in few matches based on the conditions but this thing that happened today was just crazy. But Charles, De kock and Hendricks what a beauty.
Even if we complaint about the pitches, the match was really entertaining, South Africa always provides surprising chases we never expect when the opponents score impossible target and that is one such instance in this match and props to the openers for giving South Africa a dream start for this big chase.

Afghanistan once again defeated Pakistan, if anyone thought that the first match was a fluke then it is not. I do understand that Pakistan is trying out their youngster but good to see Afghanistan taking these opportunity with both hands and won the series, probably the first against Pakistan.
456  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 🥊 The UFC Info and Prediction Thread on: March 26, 2023, 05:54:45 PM
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Well, it was an awesome fight, and Holy show us a great fight with those dominating takedowns. In the start Yana was really explosive, but that energy ends fast, in the end of the first round I realize that fight will be an easy win for Holy.

So, it was a big surprise for me, and looks like she will chase the champion belt again, will keep an eye on her fights this year, and let's make some money with her.
Even i did not expect Holy Holm would start taking people down in her 40s and change her fighting style, from a pure striker to a fighter who could control opponents on the ground at this age was not expected and she lost against Miesha Tate, a fight Holm was winning on the ground, only striking battle she lost was against Valentina Shevchenko and if Holy Holm can continue surprising the opponent like she did with this fight then she can get another shot at the title.
457  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ODI cricket and general cricketing discussion [self - mod] on: March 25, 2023, 11:53:28 PM
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In today's match Netherlands could've reached atleast 280+ runs. Performance from Zimbabwe team is completely unexpected, they reached the 231 runs target in 41.4 overs. They're in a situation to chase 300 or 300+ runs based on the performance. Also they had 7 wickets in hand. Finally series won by Zimbabwe and Netherlands missed it and seems unlucky.
Netherlands were scoring freely till the 10th over and it looked like they will go on to score a huge total and then Zimbabwe started to put pressure on them and once they were able to pick the first wicket then Netherlands started to accumulate more dot balls and in the mean time loosing wickets as well and Zimbabwe was able to put that pressure throughout unlike the first two matches and then chased them easily.
458  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Cricket match prediction discussions on: March 25, 2023, 07:20:22 PM
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America has failed in its long efforts in the battle field to get rid of Taliban rule in Afghanistan. Although American troops have survived there for a long time, they have not been able to bring Afghanistan back to control. At that time they suffered huge losses financially as well as losing a lot of troops. As a result, a survey found that the amount of loss in America is very heavy and they are no longer willing to lose. And after knowing this, the Taliban government also strengthened their position. As a result, now the country will be run as they want. If they take any negative decisions in cricket then there is no other option but to say bad luck to the cricketers.
The bail out was a stupid move by the Biden government, during Trump presidency there was no causalities and there were no attacks against the US soldiers and before pulling out of Afghanistan the Biden regime had a meeting with the Taliban representatives in Saudi and after that meeting they agreed that the US will pull out and they can occupy the country and that is how everything went down throwing away decades of money and personal spent for the war.

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I do not understand why the cricket boards and countries are sanctioning the Taliban. Because those countries have a lot of feminists saying that they can do whatever they want and whatever a man can do. Just get them to remove the Talibans, get them to fight against the Talibans, and make them use their feminist revolution to get the Afghani women to go to school.
If you revolt you will be dead and no one will come to you aide. So it is an impossible task.

I just find it really surprising, and also dumb because I understand that they are trying to talk about women's rights. But the women in Afghanistan are far happier compared to the women in Australia, New Zealand, or other first-world countries.
It is not true, when a generation of people enjoy freedom for 20 years and then all of a sudden when you are forced to live with all the restrictions i bet no one will be happy. So the idea of everyone is happy that the Taliban took over is a myth. 
459  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 🥊 The UFC Info and Prediction Thread on: March 25, 2023, 06:10:50 PM
I see no one is talking about Holm's fight. It is important to remind how she was the legend who destroy Ronda Rousey's career, and today she is the underdog, but she looks really old nowadays and that's because she is 41 years old, I'm thinking of betting on her opponent Yana Santos. But it will be a great fight, for sure we will enjoy it because from what I read, Holm sign a 6 fights contract with UFC trying to become champ again. So, see will give it all in this fight.
Defeating Ronda Rousey was the highlight of Holy Holmes in her career and she was undefeated coming into that fight and after that she had 6 losses against top fighters and age is not in her corner like you mentioned and it is hard to predict how she will be fighting when she is facing against Yana Santos who is the wife of Thiago Santos and both used to train at the same gym.
460  Economy / Speculation / Re: Are We Going To See $30,000 Price Before the End of This week on: March 24, 2023, 11:20:05 PM
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We shall see what April brings to us, there are reports that FED added $393B in their balance sheet:
For bailing out the banks they are printing money, so is the reason we saw the rally because investors cannot trust their banks anymore and the general consensus is that majority of the banks in the US are on the verge of collapse. At this moment the market is having a minor correction after a weeks rally.

So many things can still happen that will be very positive for us.

Also there is some issues on Binance earlier that could also affect the price short term. Just read it in here: https://twitter.com/binance
Yes, Binance halted spot trading and even halted withdrawals which caused some panic but it is back to normal as they had server issues according to their tweets and now it is rectified.
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