Yes, it is not that hard when choosing between Denver and Miami. Unless someone is a big Miami fan or is always rooting for the underdogs which IMO is not very good in betting. But there are also those that are rooting for Miami because they beat the #1 team in the regular season and the championship favorite team.

I would love to see the finals reaching game 7 but my mind says it will be 4-1 or 4-2 in favor of Denver. Denver enjoyed a significant number of days chilling, resting, planning, practicing, and observing the flaws of Miami while Spoeltra's team may have been exhausted and suffering from injuries.

It depends on what type of news. But most assets are affected by big news. For example, the news about world economic problems is still lurking up to this day. It is nothing to do with bitcoin but somehow it is related. When the world is struggling financially, we expect all assets to have limited growth or the potential to drop in value centralized or decentralized.

If people and institutions are facing economic problems, most of the time they will withdraw their investments. The rich will at least try to do anything to safeguard their assets by holding cash and waiting for the right time to buy back. While ordinary people will be forced to use their investments until they can recover and starts saving again in order to invest.  

I am watching some vloggers on Youtube and it is really crazy how a lot of stuffs including food are being wasted mostly in the rich countries. It's not that I am blaming them since they have their own set of high standards and most of these highly developed countries have recycling factories. And I just started to understand that sending those stuffs to poor countries or any countries that have huge poor populations is worth it since they need to spend huge amounts for the shipments and many of the foods can be spoiled without that expensive storage containers.

What is really sad is when poor countries or countries with huge poor populations are wasting huge volumes of goods. Like in my very corrupt country, cartels and third-party people are destroying our food supply system thru smuggling and controlling the prices. I can see a lot of stories where goods are rotten not because of over-supply but because the cartels and businessmen are controlling nearly everything in our food chains for the sake of their big profits. Less supply means basic goods become expensive and less hassle for them since they no longer need to keep on buying and reselling if there is an oversupply.

Agencies, teams, and NBA scouts have their own set of preferences. Some players are not that good but they have high potential to develop while there are already good already but they do not have more room for growth. There are too many very good players around the world and there are only 60 of them that will be drafted in the NBA. And there are also coaches like Popovich and Spoelstra that can turn ordinary players into something really good in their systems.

Both teams deserved to become the champion but there can only be one. I am a fan of both although generally, I am more of an NBA fan first before teams and specific players. I just always want all the teams to become very competitive and I am glad that most of the teams nowadays are capable of entering the playoffs. And just like you, I am also a fan of the underdogs, not just in basketball.

But if I were to pick a team, I would side with the Denver Nuggets. They are the #1 in the west and proved it by reaching the finals. And kudos to Denver's management for bringing very good role players into the team to help Jokic who always gives his best without much complaining while the other superstars are always pressuring their teams to provide another superstars and capable role players. So the team management is the big difference IMO. Miami is always contending in the east despite being short-handed with players only because their coach is just super good and flexible and Jimmy Butler's extraordinary leadership.

I agree. I am looking forward to the next 2 years as another major bull run but the growth of the top coins are just limited. They might grow more but it will take more years of wait which makes the usual bitcoin halving cycle not enough.

I just noticed that you're staff here in Bitcointalk. It feels good to have a response from people like you. I am still looking for coins that have the potential to grow at least x10 in the next bull run. Any projects you can recommend or coins that you are keeping an eye on?

Yeah, it's official since it's been confirmed by Showtime at the very least. Although it seems like there are no press conferences and tours before they focused on their training camps. The date is a little early so there is no time for both fighters to travel to big cities around the world to promote this fight. But at least it is happening. I don't know if Crawford hired other advisors but I know he mentioned after the fallout of the deals that he will try his very best to personally talk with Spence. Unbelievable but it worked. Spence might be also convinced after the result of Tank-Garcia PPV buys that they can also do a hundred million PPV buys which can guarantee him and Crawford a minimum of $30 million.

And after seeing an online interview on both Crawford and Spence at the same time, I am more than convinced that Spence will have no reason not to go on with this fight. Maybe Crawford should not trash-talk Spence nor show some of his scary training because it might scare Spence and will declare another injury in order to get out of this big fight. Thanks for all the contributions.

We should understand that the bitcoin market capitalization is now worth over $500 billion. It needs hundreds of billions of dollars to double its price which is still very doable but not so fast. This is the same situation with the other top altcoins like ethereum and BNB that became more valuable throughout the years.

In investing, stay realistic to avoid getting disappointed. The higher the risk, the higher the reward. So if someone is looking for an investment that can possibly x10 in the next bull run, feel free to do heavy research on some potential coins that are undervalued. Specifically, those coins that are not in the billion-dollar market cap.

As much as possible most of us want to stay private and stay out of KYC for privacy purposes and since there are a lot of these sites that are selling or sharing information. I understand that we should have a separate email when we register to a gambling site but what about our mobile phone numbers? It happened to me that I am starting to receive emails and text messages from other sites and these are the consequences when we share part of our information.

But generally, I do not mind doing KYCs. I understand very well the importance of it. But they should keep our information private because it is also very important to us.

There is a possibility that the person does not have enough funds to risk in order to continue his daily DCA. This is the first time I heard about someone making a DCA daily. I don't think it makes sense. Maybe a weekly DCA as the shortest span. And DCA system is better used with a long-term goal.

Besides, people should at least familiarize things first before venturing especially if we are talking about big amounts. Over the years, bitcoin's halving is always consistent so far as where the price goes. You don't do a DCA when the price is at its highest or at least make sure that your DCA is enough to cover until the next bitcoin halving. What happened to this guy who is doing a DCA during a major bull run and was only capable of doing it for a few months.

Recovery is still possible though if the person is able to hold it until next year or by 2025.

Win or lose against Denver Nuggets, they are already in the history books. A bunch of undrafted players with an extraordinary coach and Jimmy Buckets. This Miami Heat team needs to get under so much pressure first in order to activate its X-factor thing. They are supposed to be the #7 but lost to Atlanta in the play-ins that they still need to beat Chicago just to join this season's playoff. And after a surprising 2-0 win in Boston, they lost 3 straight games which was so unusual that they really have to undergo a very tough situation in TD Garden for a chance to be in the finals.

I say, what a journey for the Miami Heat before heading into the finals. And let's not forget that they are missing some key players due to injuries. But somehow they beat the #1 seed in the whole NBA, the Milwaukee Bucks, and the championship favorite Boston Celtics. 

I smell that Ryan Garcia is just bluffing. But in Romero's case, it makes sense since he might not be able to hold the belt against the real contenders of the division. Garcia just came from a KO defeat so it's like an easier defense but financially big. But unless I can hear from Oscar De La Hoya, Garcia is just talking so people would see that he is not scared of Romero. But maybe this is doable if Garcia is really, serious. Both seem weak in the division but very popular so it is beneficial for both of them. And Garcia may not be able to get another title shot if Romero losses the belt to someone really good.

But there's also the promotional and network that both camps need to address. It is obvious that Garcia is the bigger name so I wonder if PBC and Showtime will allow GBP and DAZN to the event so the fight will go on. Just like when GBP and DAZN allowed them during the Tank-Garcia fight.

That's good then. Let these 2 arrogant fighters trash-talk each other and maybe do some drama in the press conferences and the weigh-in. Personally, I am not a fan of both but of course, we cannot deny the fact that Josh Taylor is a former undisputed champion.

The betting odds are not really that far off. Because Taylor himself performed badly against Catterall and then went inactive. I can only hope that as much as possible his request that the judges are not all-Americans. Maybe he should also request a non-American referee or at least get the approval of the possible referees. There's too much controversy in the US officiating lately due to the Loma-Haney and the Barroso-Romero results.

We are supposed to enjoy more of our lives when we retire so it's really hard to imagine seeing many of our elders continue to work not because they still have the urge to do it but because they need the money. In my country, 60 years old is the retirement age although they can still continue to work if they wanted to since our forced retirement is at 66.

I quit my regular job 6 years ago. Although after a few years of enjoying and traveling everywhere I like, I am back to looking for ways to earn a regular income due to the COVID pandemic. I still have no regrets that I quit my regular job since I am confident that I can establish another successful business soon. I'm loving the freedom of my time especially since I am a night owl. I cannot imagine anymore waking up at 5 AM or 6 AM in order to be in the office before 8 AM. And there is also that stressful overtime where most of the time I never received extra payments.

You have to understand that we are still currently in a bearish or accumulating period or let's just say recovering period. The usual bull runs in crypto are the bitcoin halving year and the following year. So you better invest an amount that is not needed since the crypto market may continue to have its swings this year that are unpredictable.

With regards to altcoins, many of us here in this forum hold altcoins including me. I also have ETH and around 10 more altcoins apart from bitcoin. If you do not like the volatility of altcoins then you have to sell some of them into bitcoins. At the moment, my crypto portfolio is 63% bitcoin, 20% ETH and the remaining 17% from other altcoins like SYS, GALA, BNB, MATIC, and many more. And I am not yet done buying altcoins and bitcoin. You can also invest regularly or the dollar-cost averaging method.

Everything that is too much is bad including eating. Sometimes it is not addiction, it's about the lack of discipline to put money that we are only capable of losing.  Then comes the urge to take back the losses which makes some gamblers continue gambling with money that is beyond its budget. This time, it needs to seek professional help.

So it's like it is better for someone that gambles daily but is responsible enough than someone that is not a regular gambler but always wanted to take back the losses which makes matters worse.

Nowadays there are a lot of choices for us to do once we are done playing or gambling with our allotted time and budget. There's not even enough free time for us to do them all.

No one is late when it comes to bitcoin investment. 14 years old is still young IMO. Although bitcoin has already grown a lot since its inception there's still a lot of room for growth. There are only a few million people in the world that holds bitcoin. Bitcoin is still far from becoming a normal currency worldwide like our fiat. There are only 2 countries that officially call bitcoin a legal tender.

Even bitcoin's previous ATH of $68k is far from the current price of bitcoin. I expect bitcoin to reach its previous ATH price by next year or by 2025. If we buy at today's price that is more than 200% of our investment in a year or 2. No financial institutions will double your money in that short span of time. Bank interests, bonds, and other government and banking instruments can only offer little returns and are usually not enough to cover inflation.

Alright Miami fans, prepare your cold beers later and fasten your seatbelts. There are a lot of figures to show like there is no team in the NBA playoffs that came back from a 0-3 deficit. It says there were 150 tries and none of them could win. Boston Celtics has a chance to make history and they are actually the favorites to do it.

While I have to admit that Miami Heat is really the underdogs here, I still trust coach Spoelstra and Jimmy Butler to lead the team to another surprising win. Their toughness and mentality should not able to get the job done. Butler needs to perform big time once again and contributions are also significant, especially on Adebayo whom I believe should step up offensively.

Loma is always a headliner with Top Rank but I don't remember any of his fights on PPV. Haney is not even good in English and there is less Ukrainian blood in the US. I believe it is more on Haney being an American but boring with less power.

Anyways, 150k at $59.99 is already $9 million which should be enough to cover their guaranteed purse. And that did not include those who paid for the $9.99 monthly and $99.99 yearly subscription because of this fight. Plus the audience of 14k was really high probably because it was an undisputed fight. Seldom I can see a lot of personalities and some were even rivals to Top Rank and ESPN were there. So Top Rank and ESPN should be good or with less net income than expected.

It seems like Haney needs more drama and antics if he wants to earn more than $10 million in the future. Maybe Josh Taylor if he continues to bully Teofimo Lopez during the press conference will have better numbers. Although it also needs Teofimo Lopez to do his own acting like what he did during the Kambosos fight but he seems scared to fight back knowing how good a 100% Josh Taylor can be.

OP, do you mean online communities? There are plenty of reasons why online communities will remain. I see no reason for online communities to get destroyed because a better version of a search machine arrived.

Communities just like Bitcointalk are for discussions. What Chat GPT provides is also available online which is possibly open for debates. The world is changing, and new innovations and discoveries are being made. History changed based on proofs as we progressed so does Chat GPT's answers.

So if we are to based on Haney's tweets, he did not actually re-sign with Top Rank. And with this version of old Bob Arum not careful with his words once again, an affected Haney might really return to Eddie Hearn once again. DAZN has the deeper pockets over ESPN should it won't be surprising if Haney joins Matchroom again.

Haney's camp are being open about their struggle to make the weight. Loma was part of his contract with Top Rank so Haney will definitely move up in weight with or without Top Rank. Top Rank already offered Haney earlier the winner of WBO champion Josh Taylor and Teofimo Lopez while Matchroom offered WBC champion Regis Prograis. The only reason I can see Haney remaining in the division is a fight with Tank Davis which I believe is too difficult to make. PBC only picks weaker opponents for its bigger star.

The WBC retained Loma as its #1. Although what happened in the fight will only make Loma's ranking higher if he is not #1 since he actually won the fight, only that he lost to the judges' scorecards. If Haney moves up in weight then the WBA regular holder Tank Davis will automatically become the WBA Super champion. Loma is most likely #1 by the WBC, IBF, and WBO so he can choose any of the belts. Top Rank can make a double-header for Loma and Shakur before they unify their belts. But it will be very hard for the 4 belts to get unified again. Tank Davis will only fight Loma maybe 2 years from now when he depreciates big time but he will never fight a prime Shakur Stevenson.