Happy for Michel, thought he did enough, but was a close fight. Wasn't too wild, but was still entertaining. I missed the main event so I can't comment on how close it was, I fell asleep after the Michel fight. I'll be looking at some highlights later, but they never really tell you the full story.

That fight annoyed me even more when Rose thought she won, and did what she had too. I mean, honestly I would have scored two of the rounds 10-10 or 0-0 whichever way. It was absolutely shocking. I saw some comparing it to Izzy, and Romero, but for me wasn't anything like it. At least there was a little action, and some technique going on.

I kind of just wish that the UFC starts docking points for cage grabs, eye pokes, and punishing fighters that aren't there to fight, but to just do enough to win. I get it somewhat, you don't want to get in a fire fight as your odds of winning go down, however this is a sport, and therefore it needs entertainment. That's the reality of it.

If you care about privacy, then peer to peer trades are always going to be better. However, if you need proof of purchase or sale for tax purposes make you get that. I know some countries require proof of funds, and what they were used for. Using an exchange in that sense will allow you to prove they were sold on an exchange.

Usually, though it's just a record of the sale, rather than why.

Can I just add to this, that when entering your passwords into a wallet then try to do this away from CCTV. CCTV is usually the shop owners responsibility, unless they're the local council or whatever the equivilant is in other countries. So, technically if you don't trust that shop owner then they could potentially see your credentials, which could become problematic if you visit that store regularly. I'd say it's probably very unlikely, but something to consider if you care about security. Since, if they know your credentials, then you're a potential target.

Like I said, relatively low chance of being a threat, but definitely something to consider. For example, you see this all the time since there are usually cameras on ATM's, and people don't care too much about showing their pin or unlocking their phones (which likely are the same pins/password's which they use across different devices/services, obviously don't do that either).

I'm going to do my final predictions, might be a few more changes than a few weeks ago. I think City with their weakened defense, could well drop points. I initially predicted a draw, and I think I'm going to stick with that. I'm going with a 1-1. Hopefully, Villa do us a favour. I'm confident against Wolves, so I'm going for a 2-0, but we could just as easily slip up here. Although, the boys should be going into the game relatively stress free as not many are expecting City to drop points here.

I think Leeds are going down, I don't see them rescuing themselves this season. Don't really have a score prediction for their game today. Probably one of the best final days in recent memories, since it's so tight up the top, and also down at the bottom of the table. I'm expecting drama today, as the final day usually does give you that due to the nerves.

I wish it was that easy for me to forget . Nah, I enjoyed our successes, and failures. It's a bit like Rocky right. Making the comebacks is always fun to watch, and now we're at the top I'll enjoy it while it lasts, which I imagine will be until Klopp leaves us. Then, I anticipate a hangover from that very much like United have experienced after Ferguson.

I remember being so nervous in the last ten minutes of every game, and thankfully with the players we've got now I never feel nervous. Even when we're losing with only a small amount of time left, I still feel calm, and actually confident.

It does however, link to the new username's profile if you put in their old username. I guess, if the user changed their username for privacy reasons, could potentially be an issue. Although, there's other ways to find that out, so probably not that critical.

Yeah, not something I even considered trying. Good to know for the future, though.

It's a bit of both really. I find sometimes veteran's can be a little overzealous. For example, I know that the recommended approach is you search up your issue before posting, but we're a global forum used by users of varying different levels in terms of language. Therefore, I know how it's sometimes when you can't quite find your answer, and you kind of need to word it your way, to make sure that it is actually being read, and answered correctly.

This is especially true when there's jargon involved. Also, it's a great learning tool. Being able to ask a question differently to how someone has explained it, I find has improved comprehension of certain topics. Now, I'm not giving anyone the green light to do this for the sake of doing it, but I understand somewhat with particular questions.

I do think sometimes we can all be a little guilty of judging certain users on past experiences, a bit like stereotyping. Although, I don't think politeness is necessarily needed. It's probably desired to prevent discussions from being misled on personal tangents. Although, that usually only happens when someone is being outright rude for the purpose of being rude.

I tend to correct myself at times, using language that a newbie wouldn't understand, and that's why I think when you're writing a guide, you need to consider the type of users that will be using it. It isn't likely going to be the technical folk, that would use advanced language. Plus, expect basic questions. This is what the beginners & Help section is exactly for. It's for questions that don't really fit anywhere else, and are probably of basic nature, and most discussion is intended with newbies in mind. So, theymos at some point recognised the importance of that.

Also, I guess it depends on how you've been brought up, and in what environment. While, I wouldn't use it with strangers or those that I think would take offence. If one of the respected users here called me an idiot for a mistake I made which was a valid take, I'd probably agree . For example, a while back I accidentally ignored all my reports in the report queue, so I had to contact theymos. He didn't call me an idiot just to be clear, but I bet he was thinking it . We all make mistakes. Newbies are definitely expected to make mistakes, and I feel like sometimes users come here trying to walk on egg shells a bit, which is not what we want.

I do somewhat agree. However, I do think intentions matter, and sometimes that can cloud the judgement of the seasoned veterans here. Most of them have seen every trick in the book, and if an innocent newbie posts something similar to one of these tricks as an example, I kind of get why they would have alarm bells ringing, and be a little more hostile. Is it a good thing they do that? Probably not, can I understand it? Yeah. I'm specifically thinking about instances where someone has made a post, which kind of looks like they were searching for merit, but basically repeating the same ol' content that has been posted a million times, you know the inspirational post attempts.


True, it isn't moderated, and definitely isn't something that ever will be. However, I don't completely agree with you should accept criticism. I mean, that criticism could be wrong, even if you're getting it from someone who has been here for years, and you've been here for a week. Not all criticism is valid, and warranted.

Absolutely crazy interest rates. Terrible deal, surely not that many people will want to use these types of loans with that sort of interest? The thing is for longer term loans, i.e a mortgage you're probably looking at fixing yourself in at a certain interest rate, and then after that you're probably going to be subjected to even more.

Yeah, I'm sorry absolutely terrible idea from bottom to top.


I doubt it, with interest rates like that. Also, there's some just a better market out there already with fiat loans. However, I'm a firm believer that we're already heading for a huge recession, probably bigger than 2008/2009. I just talked about it in the speculation section, but basically the governments have offered incentives to keep the ball moving in the housing market, but these incentives basically made it more attractive for people to put less down, and basically stretch their budget, when the interest rates ramp it up, which they will a lot of people are going to be struggling. Imagine, if you secured a Bitcoin loan at 14%, then a recession kicks in, I would suspect these companies would be looking to increase it the next time you have to mortgage, as I suspect they'll be working on a fixed term period, and then renegotiating the loan.

Interesting, I seriously wasn't aware of how wide spread the Bitcoin to fiat loans market was. Not that I'm interested in it, but my first thoughts was that doesn't sound right. I'm wondering when government regulation comes in too, since I know they'll want to have KYC for this, since there's money laundering issues.

I know there's been lending peer to peer for several years, and there's been platforms allowing users to provide loans, but never knew there were so many companies offering it. Especially, without proof of funds, that's kind of surprising to me. To secure any fiat loan, you need to provide at least your income, and usually where you got your deposit from if it's a mortgage.

Anyway, prediction time:

Ketlen Vieira
Michel Pereira
Duško Todorović
Polyana Viana
Jun Yong Park
Alen Amedovski
Jailton Almeida
Omar Morales
Jonathan Martinez
Chase Hooper
Sam Hughes

I'm going with Michel Pereira just because I'm a fan. Honestly, this is going to be a close fight, regardless if Michel looks after his gas tank. If he doesn't, I can probably see him getting knocked out in the second or third. Hopefully not.

I've gone for a few underdogs, especially in the women fights. Think there's a few there that will be close. Although, could go either way on pretty much all of the WMMA fights. I'm liking the look of Yong Park, Vieira, and Morales in particular. Also think Almeida gets a knock out or KO.

I'm probably having some time off now from betting, until the next big name event. I might put something on Michel, although I rarely do singles. Can't remember the last time I did a single bet. I'm not confident on the rest for an accumulator though.

I believe we've already had the big events that will cause the recession. I don't think we ever recovered from the last one. So, you could argue there's compounding events leading up to this recession.

Right, however this was the case for most things. The housing market made a boom during the pandemic, and now it's showing signs of a crash. I mean, the government in the UK as an example were offering 5% loans, which is exactly what they did prior to the 2008/2009 recession. It's them identifying that without offering incentives, there's going to be a stale market, however the only thing when they do that is when interest rates increase, people then can't afford their mortgages. They also did a few other things like removing stamp duty completely, which is a sort of premium you pay on houses over a certain threshold, i.e another way to tax you.

So, I don't think nuclear war is something that we have to worry about due to MAD, and game theory. However, the bad effects have already happened. We've never seen sanctions like this before, Western countries sanctioning Russia might have hurt the Western countries even more than Russia. A large amount of European countries relied on Russia for its gas, and oil. Now, we've seen massive increases, and I mean unheard of increases in fuel, and heating bills. People paying over 100% of what they were previously. America is a little different since they don't rely on them as much.

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What has happened now is the housing market globally is showing signs of a crash. Houses were flying out of the door a couple months ago, and already we're seeing deals fall through because of the news about inflation. Inflation has gone up around 9% I believe in the last year alone. That's absolutely insane. Food prices due to the war going on are about to shoot up, since Ukraine, and Russia are a massive supplier of wheat etc. The government over here are already warning that heating bills will increase massively over the next year, which they've already been increased by over 100%. Interest rates of mortgages are starting to rise, with some predicting huge increases which basically means those that took up the government incentives of lower deposits, and higher loan to value, means they are going to struggle, and will likely have their house repossessed.

That's just a few examples of what has gone on. However, the governments also have to try, and recoup the billions they spent on the pandemic. That wasn't free when they bought all those vaccines, and it's almost comparable to world wars in the amount spent. Over in the uk national insurance has already increased, which basically equals more tax to try, and recoup. Our healthcare service was basically run into the ground, and I imagine the government are probably going to try, and privatise via claiming it can't cope with its current model, which is absolute horse crap, but there we go.

I know you said that we can't predict when the recession is coming, okay I'll give you that. However, we can absolutely be sure that one is coming. There's no maybes or buts about it. The recession is coming, and it's likely to be the biggest in living memory for a lot of people. Bitcoin, despite performing well during the pandemic, doesn't mean it'll perform well in a recession. Since, every market basically performed well in the pandemic. People were staying home, getting help from the government, and therefore were buying more. In a recession that stops, and Bitcoin likely will be impacted from it.

However, having said all of this, I will agree Bitcoin might surprise us. People might look for an alternative to fiat, due to the fact that inflation is going to sky rocketing, and people will probably for the first time notice that they'll never get anywhere in life, if they continue in the rat race. I think that's the only saving grace that Bitcoin has, technically it performed well after the 2008/2009 recession, and it offers a deflationary model, which benefits its users in the long run.  

So, taking into consideration all of the above, predicting the market in the next couple of months or few years could potentially be very difficult, and not actually follow previous years or conventional analysis. So, identifying the bottom or trying to predict it could be completely wrong. I don't know which way Bitcoin is going, it has proven me wrong before, but I do think that any analysis that has previously proven to be reliable, could potentially be completely unreliable considering these unprecedented times. 

There's also a few other things that a lot of users might not even consider. For example, and I believe you might want to get your tin foil hat out for this, but what about unlocking your wallet in public spaces? There's the chance that prying eyes could see what password you're using, but also security cameras. They could technically be recording you entering your password, increasing the chance of being able to use that to successfully get into your wallet, especially compared to just looking over the shoulder or what not.

I've see it where people are entering their passwords or pin numbers right over a security camera. I'm not saying that the security camera owner would even look, but for me it's a glaring security issue that you wouldn't get with your computer, since it's very likely you're using your computer in your own home.

So, as you hinted. Even if a mobile phone isn't inherently insecure itself, the fact that it is mobile basically enlarges its attack surface.

I was watching the Aston Villa game for obvious reasons. My confidence might have taken a hit going into the weekend for the final game of the season. However, I'm still somewhat confident. Ings when he was on looked sharp, and I think he could knick a goal running in behind that City defense, which hasn't looked all that great in recent weeks, plus they do have a few injuries at the moment.

The only problem for me is Aston Villa likely is going to concede, it's just whether they have the firepower to hit back. Midfield for me is going to be dominated, so I'd like to see Villa approach the game with a counter attacking style. Sit back, and soak up pressure, and then look to break quickly. I think that's City's weakness, you see it every time they play against Spurs.

The only interest that ever makes sense to say it's a good thing, is the amount you'll collect if you're a long term holder of Bitcoin. Loans never really make sense if you can avoid them. It's basically signing up to lose money, so that you can have something sooner. If I offered you a pizza today, but you'd have to overpay 2x the amount of what it's worth, instead of waiting to have it in a week, you'd probably not go for it.

Although, this is also the first time I'm hearing of a Bitcoin backed loan, that's given in fiat. Sounds like a scam to me, doesn't really make much sense for the borrower or the lender considering the high volatility of Bitcoin, which I'd assume is written in the contract, that's if it isn't just an outright scam.

The only exceptions are houses, and while it's technically still a loan, not many people can get houses without one, and much of the time they're needed to be able to work in certain places etc. However, I wouldn't be using my Bitcoin for securing a loan. To be honest, I'm highly sceptical of the companies that are offering this, wouldn't consider them trustworthy at all.

Well put it this way, I'm definitely putting Ketlen Vieira on my accumulator. I think Holly Holm drops the ball here, and Ketlen dominates in the cage. Honestly, looking at the full card, as long as there's no other cancellations it's a pretty good card, which I suspect is getting slept on. Some decent match ups in the prelims, and the main card.

I don't think it was. I don't think there's much of a conspiracy here, other than differences between the two weighing scales. I would assume that Oliveira will have the first opportunity to win his belt back, I don't know exactly who it'll be against, but I imagine he will. As long as it's not Conor getting the title shot, I'll be happy. Nah, I know Conor was talking about moving up, and looking at his recent pictures, I'd say that's the case.

For me, I don't think they need to know who's a user of a specific website, however when it comes to gambling signature campaigns, it's pretty easy to determine where users are spending their money, since they often posting on a specific sites announcement thread.

The reason I don't think they need to know specifically is, they want to convince already gamblers to come to their website. Therefore, if they hire these type of uses to promote their signature, then they're getting the best of both worlds. They're getting their name out there, and the user that they've hired also has a high chance of going to them to spend their earnings. Therefore, gambling signature campaigns might be able to offer higher rates than normal, since their participants are going to come back to them, and spend a bit of what they've earned, and therefore they get that money back.

For other signature campaigns that doesn't involve gambling it's a bit harder. Although, I can think of a few examples that would be a good indicator that they would use their service after advertising it.

I've only ever invested in Bitcoin. I haven't touched any stocks or altcoins. I've shown an interest in certain altcoins, but not your typical ICO's. Mainly those that have interesting technologies. Although, they hardly ever make it, since people prefer meaningless hype, and promises rather than actual functional, and logical ideas. Although, Bitcoin was definitely the exception there, but at that time it wasn't competing with a million other options.

I mean I technically withdrew some Bitcoin Cash, which made me absolutely disgusted even if I didn't willing fully invest in that, due to the hard fork. Still though, felt disgusting. While I definitely didn't fall for it, I'd say that's the most deceitful thing I've ever witnessed here, mainly because of the politics outside of it.

Inflation is definitely forever . I do understand this was probably sarcastic, since I'm not convinced you ever fell for this. Although, maybe inflation will become a thing of the past, at least somewhat. Bitcoin is deflationary by design, and if Bitcoin were to ever replace the current money system, we could technically potentially eradicate the problems associated with inflation or at the very least mitigate the rises. Obviously, Bitcoin replacing the current money system probably is rather unlikely.

I'd argue that having your money in fiat/cash isn't exactly great either. Look at the how much the inflation rates have increased recently. Plus, we're heading into one of the biggest recessions we've ever had, at least for a lot of people in their life time. Now, I probably expect Bitcoin to be effected just as much as fiat, but I'm not certain on that. What we do know is fiat will definitely be effected, and in a big way. Only have to look at previous recessions to find that out.

People won't be spending as much as they did a year ago, and that creates problems for an economy. People lose jobs, because their companies have ceased making a profit due to the reduction in spending from customers. It's a vicious cycle, which is likely to effect every currency out there. Bitcoin, in my eyes probably has the best chances of avoided issues.

However, I get what you're saying. Regardless of the way you look at it, fiat is probably going to be a lot more stable than Bitcoin, and investing all or a significant share of what you're worth, probably isn't the best idea, I'd agree. I do respect those that do though, kind of tells you they're very much sick of being a slave to society.

Yeah, this is something that isn't often talked about. The thing is, the signature campaigns usually are looking for those that post in the gambling sections, and therefore they already know they're gamblers, and most likely gamble with their Bitcoin. So, there's such a thing as brand loyalty, and if you're getting paid a decent amount by a signature campaign, they're likely going to have some sort of brand loyalty, and end up using them. What's the best way to avoid fees of exchanging Bitcoin, and then gambling it? Using the income you directly receive in Bitcoin.

I wouldn't be surprised if the vast majority of those advertising gambling websites, gamble a lot of their signature income on that exact website they're advertising for. Not like that's a bad thing if they can afford to lose it. Although, it's definitely one of the reasons you see gambling signature campaigns going on for longer than others.

I can't say I'm not disappointed about the news this evening . Nah, in all seriousness, Everton deserved it. They really stepped up these last few games, and you can almost see the passion in their players again. I do think they'll need a complete clear out in the summer. Will be interesting to see if Frank can turn them around completely. I mean, the players they got aren't exactly awful, and I'm not quite sure what made them perform so bad over the course of the season.

It's kind of like United, where they have world class players, but don't perform or get the results. I do believe there's a lot going on at the board level, as well as struggling with Ferguson hangover still, but something is amiss. Everton obviously to a lesser extent, but they definitely have a problem or two. It'll be interesting to see if they keep their best players beyond this summer.

He's been curbing his antics recently. Not completely, still an absolute wild fighter, but to be honest I wouldn't want that to change. Like you said, one of the most exciting fighters, and to be honest the most unique fighter in the UFC. I want to see him do well, but for him to do really well, I think he would need to chuck the antics, which I don't think anyone who's a fan of him wants to see him doing. The thing is I actually think he's a top fighter, its just he gasses out from all the wild stuff he does, which at times can be annoying. He goes from doing wild stuff, absolutely destroying his opponent, then next minute he can barely hold himself up.

What I find with his style, his opponent's are actually very reluctant to throw due to the fact you just don't have a clue what's going to happen next. I mean even he himself, probably doesn't. I'm hoping for him to win though, probably my second most favourite current fighter.