After beastcoast and EG won their series yesterday, they are now secured to play in Lima Major even if they will lose their next 2 series. But I am still interested to watch their upcoming series. It will be interesting if EG can beat beastcoast with the winner being the best in Latin America.

So far, Team Liquid and Team Aster are the other teams that are already qualified for the first major of the year in Lima, Peru. In 3 hours, Execration will face Fnatic the former powerhouse of SEA. A victory by Execration will secure them a lot in the major as well.

Earlier today, both the camps of former champion Nonito Donaire and Jason Moloney were informed by the WBC to start negotiations for the vacant WBC bantamweight belt. They will have until February 17 to reach a deal, otherwise, it will go to a purse bid. Moloney's camp already showed willingness and wanted to bring this fight to Australia. Meanwhile, Donaire's earlier target is to drop in weight and face El Gallo Estrada for his ambition to become a 5 division world champion. We will see if old Donaire entertains this fight as he was already a 2-time champion in this division and he's got a few more fights left in his career.

All the belts became vacant after undisputed champion Naoya Inoue decided to move up in weight to continue his conquest of glory. Meanwhile, the WBA, IBF, and WBO are yet to make their own official announcements. Jason Moloney still has a lot of options and he can wait for more announcements from the other sanctioning bodies. I believe he may be able to outpunch past-prime Donaire but I don't think he can take the Flash's powerful hooks. It took another great to be able to survive Donaire's powerful hooks in this division although Inoue was also hurt for the first time in his career. Moloney can opt for his other options. He is also ranked #1 by the WBO which will be easier to outbid the #2 Vincent Astrolabio from the Philippines if he really wants to fight a title in his home of Australia. Moloney is also ranked #3 by the IBF which is also doable if ever #1 Vincent Astrolabio prefers to fight for the vacate WBO belt. Moloney can face #2 Emmanuel Rodriguez of Puerto Rico whom he lost already in a very very close fight which could've gone either way.   

Alright! Hopefully, Fulton is committed to the challenge and is willing to travel to Japan. And I am also hoping that Fulton put this matter into his own hands and stops Al Haymon of PBC from deciding what to happen next to his career. Earlier, it was announced by the WBC to let Fulton and Figueroa do a rematch at 126 for the vacant WBC or the interim belt depending on the outcome of current 126 WBC champion Rey Vargas who's also moving up to 130 for the vacant 130 WBC belt. If Vargas losses at 130 then he can remain as champion at 126 and face the interim champ. I wonder what will be the reaction of Al Haymon after the arrangements earlier will be canceled due to Fulton's willingness to give Inoue (a rival Top Rank fighter) a shot at his 2 belts.

And I was betting for Miami on those 2 seasons' finals against the Spurs. Personally, I am more of a fan in general and I love the high level of competition and fairness as well before rooting for specific players and teams. So I'd been jumping to many different teams over the years as I gambled regularly in the NBA. Lebron is a special kind. Probably the best if not the best. I cannot hate the guy although I can also say some negative stuff about him. But Bron is much better than the late Kobe. 1 of the questions I have in my mind is if Lebron would be able to mature, gain confidence and earn a ring if he stayed at Cleveland for his entire career. He seemed to struggle and was a bit nervous in the late minutes when the games are pretty close during playoffs. His confidence grows a lot after he took a ring together with Wade. If only he's got that same confidence earlier at Cleveland, he would've overcome Boston and Orlando in the east.

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Not at all. Bitcoin will remain as always, a deflationary decentralized form of digital currency unlike that centralized version of digital currency with an unlimited supply. Both can co-exist anyways, so there is nothing to worry about. And besides, it is not just the United States that is planning to launch a CBDC. There are a lot of countries that will be minting their own centralized CBDCs sooner than later. I expect most countries around the world will have their own CBDCs in the next 2 decades. 

Kudos to Japan, the Philippines and Indonesia for the join hosting this prestigious event. This will be the first time that there are 3 countries hosting FIBA just like the next FIFA World Cup wherein the US, Canada and Mexico are also hosting it at the same time.

It's good to see that both New Zealand and Australia are part of the event. By the way, I am curious since Canada is already qualified right? But the US is yet to join the American qualifiers? How did it happened when the US is known as the powerhouse of basketball in their continent?

By saying cryptocurrencies overthrowing the normal and old-fashioned fiat means overthrowing also the many governments around the world as well which seems impossible. What you are seeing OP right now is many governments are being tolerant of cryptocurrencies and are keen on regulating them. Governments will have their own centralized versions of cryptocurrencies sooner or later or CBDC which will co-exist with decentralized cryptocurrencies.

What we should be hoping for in the near future is legalizing cryptocurrencies, particularly bitcoin as legal tender. So far we only have El Salvador and the Central African Republic. Let's see who's next to follow in their footsteps.

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2. Round 9
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Few more days to go and we will finally see this explosive fight. By the way, Artur Beterbiev just turned 38 years old a few days ago. He is damn old. The power though won't age, it's a gift but it remains to be seen if Beterbiev still has enough strength, stamina, and speed in order to land his bombs on Yarde. Yarde on the other hand is not known for his quickness either and was already stopped before by a past-prime Kovalev which makes most people believe that Beterbiev can also handle him.

Meanwhile, it seems like we are not seeing Beterbiev-Bivol next for the undisputed title. Bivol might temporarily go down in weight for Canelo's 168 undisputed belts. Yarde though mentioned his willingness to face Bivol if he wins this one. But the WBC earlier also stated that a mandatory is next and it will be another British in Callum Smith. Callum just last weekend believes that Beterbiev will win over Yarde and he likes to fight him in a huge football stadium in the UK.

They did it. Execration just won 2-0 over Bleed. Not an easy win though as it seems it was Bleed who's been dictating the games and then in the later stages Execration takes over. There were moments in the final clashes on both maps when Execration made some great escapes on their cores and then reposition themselves in order to fight back and sealed their victories.

It's just good to see the top 3 teams maintaining their positions as I wanted to see something new when the world watches SEA's representatives in the upcoming Lima Major. Bleed vs Talon will be a great deciding game this Wednesday.

You must have too much faith in Solana OP after you continued to inject more funds to avoid your position getting burned. Congratulations on your gain! Although I don't know if the stress you experienced is worth that gain. I would've imposed my stop loss without hesitation if I were in your situation earlier, the same thing when I sold my LUNA last year.

That is really the downside of futures trading. I hope I won't get tempted to use that trade feature again this year. Usually, I lost most of my futures trades. Maybe I am so tight with my stop loss so it is not fit to my trading style. Anyways, I am content with my spot trades and it is better for a position trader.   

I think I am 50% to 60% invested in Bitcoin. About 20% is in Ethereum with the rest being in BNB and some smaller amounts on PIVX and other altcoins. I actually just purchased PIVX after I sold all my remaining AXS today which was up by 40%. Bitcoin and some altcoins might continue to grow bigger on my portfolio since I am not done purchasing them regularly. I buy Bitcoin monthly and then have my sights on Syscoin, Hedera, and some more BNBs.

It would be easier to track especially on the ROI per coin if you just purchase coins with fixed amounts like $1,000, $100, or $200 rather than based it on percentage.

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In the past, there were casinos that started their own tokens and they also accept other coins like bitcoin and ethereum among others. Now they are all gone, let alone if a casino mandates all of its players to use their own tokens for their games. I don't think it works well unless the casino has deep funds in order to have a lot of promotions that are way better than most casinos in order to entice gamblers to register. But still in the long run those casinos that offer multiple coins for gamblers to select will prevail.

I would also prefer to use bitcoin and maybe some other top coins for my bets.

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I always wanted Denver Nuggets to surpass Boston and lead the overall NBA win-loss race. But today its 9-game winning streak ended. Unlucky for them since Jokic is out and we do not know how long he will sit. MPJ was also absent but I thought that they can continue their winning ways with Murray, Gordon, and KCP running the offense. Bet lost as Oklahoma's thunder torched them in a close game. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is a different animal this season and OKC should start building the team around him.

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It was funny how the Lakers tried to shut down the offense of Ja Morant. The defense was good. I mean Ja still performed but it was probably his worst field goal percentage this season where he seemed to become unstoppable. There was also a very good but unusual contribution there by Russ.  What can I say? The Los Angeles Lakers always step up when they are playing against the top teams. They are still fighting for a spot in the playoffs despite not having AD. But I really believe they can still make it at least in the play-ins because AD is coming back before the end of the regular season. And there's still time before the trade deadline, maybe the Lakers will consider some movements to enhance their roster.