I started investing in Bitcoin in 2016 and I don't think this year is the worst in crypto history. Maybe OP mentioned this because you and your friend lost a lot of money. I can feel the pain mate. 2018 is my most painful year of investing. Bitcoin's highest price was at $17k+ that year and it went $3k+ before the year ends. It was bad timing because I had my house constructed that year too. I was too worried and I lose hope and sold over 90% of my Bitcoins and other coins. I learned a hard lesson. I would've been a dollar millionaire by now if I haven't sold them and just let my house slow down in construction or even sold it.

Bitcoin and crypto are not really for the weak. Although I also heard about this before, it was just a different feeling once you experienced it. And the common saying that we only need to invest what we can afford to lose is of great value. Maybe if our investments grow a lot already that we cannot afford to lose them anymore, the best thing is to sell part of it so we can stop worrying about it.

Back to the current Bitcoin situation. It will bounce back mate. Its been proven over the years. I will also start with my new DCA starting next month.  

I am partly blaming Errol Spence as well, he is a PPV fighter. PPV fighters can demand because they are the cash cows in boxing. Teofimo Lopez and Terrence Crawford are just a few that can fuck up their own promoters because they knew they are superstars and are in demand. They can sign with any promoters easily. But Errol Spence remained silent and is not showing his eagerness to fight Crawford. Maybe he knows that he cannot beat the boogeyman even though Crawford is nearly a year inactive. What a shame. I am really disappointed with Spence. He is rich but does he even care about entering the Hall of Fame that every proud boxer wanted? With Spence's age, it is difficult for him to become a 3-division champion. I don't think becoming a 2 division champion without a lineal or Ring belt is enough to enter the Hall of Fame. Whereas Crawford already has 1 division undisputed, 2 divisions lineal, and an overall 3 division champion.

I am interested to hear everything Oscar De La Hoya wants to tell the public about Al Haymon. Although I think I already know around half of what he will be saying online. Oscar De La Hoya's Golden Boy Promotions is once the biggest before he was fucked up by his own CEO Richard Schaefer. Most of its fighters were later signed by Al Haymon's then newly found PBC. And there were fights that never happened due to promotional and network issues even if they were supposedly mandatory fights like the Jermall Charlo- Jaime Mungia match-up.

I am really liking what the Utah Jazz is currently doing. No pressure from the coach and its players. They are a rebuilding team and are expected to lose a lot so there is nothing to lose to them anymore. The coach can easily transition his players according to his play since there are no demanding superstars to please and follow. The players at the same time can just play and enjoy their games while following a chemistry-first approach or their coach can just easily bench them.

Hopefully, they can continue this kind of momentum the whole season. It is really difficult to beat a team not depending on a single or just a few players.

The WBC Convention is ongoing and one of its latest actions is issuing a mandatory for its welterweight champion Errol Spence against ex-unified champion Keith Thurman. Keith Thurman is the third-biggest name in the division right now. But as popular as Thurman is, he is not the same fighter anymore, in nearly 6 years, he only fought 3 times and he struggled in those fights. Thurman doesn't even deserve a top 5 ranking but the WBC is one of the best when it comes to business exploitations. This seems like a sweet save by the WBC so Spence can avoid undefeated young prospects Eimantas Stanionis and Boots Ennis. Both will be high-risk with low rewards for Spence but they are supposed to be the mandatories for his WBA and IBF belts. And who knows, Spence will be ready against WBO champion Terrence Crawford who's turning 36 next year.     

Errol Spence: current WBA/WBC/IBF champion
Pro record: 28-0-22 KOs

Keith Thurman: ex-WBA/WBC champion
Pro record: 30-1-22 KOs       

This is not yet official but if Spence won't take this big easy fight, he will be stripped of his WBC belt and he might face either WBA or IBF mandatories the young and undefeated Stanionis or Boots. Spence can also move up to 154 and say goodbye to a possible undisputed fight against Crawford.

My personal take. This fight will happen since this is a big fight and should be very easy for Spence. Spence should be able to stop this past-prime version of Thurman or at least win an easy unanimous decision if he wants to stay safe.

Right. I am a little sad that the market went deeper but somehow I cannot deny in my mind saying it is an opportunity to accumulate more. We might even see the price drop even more to like $15k something. We still have around 2 more years before the next halving so we better expect more traders to sell every small increase in price. The best thing for us here is to always DCA and think long-term.

At least if Bitcoin reaches $100,000 which is my minimum target in the next halving, we are x7 on ROI if we base to its current price.

I always remember my cousin when he told me before to trust no one when it comes to money. It was a piece of advice because I used to let some of my friends borrow money but most of them aren't paying me back, especially when the time I needed it most. It is really true that people really change when it comes to money based on my experiences as well. It is better to keep all our financial assets secret as much as possible. It is enough to let 1 to 3 people you entrust most and give them a hint in case of emergency.

Kyrie Irving if not injured will always find a way to mess up his team. I bumped earlier a post that Irving is meeting NBA commissioner Adam Silver. I wonder about the results of the meeting. The season is still young but I don't see a potential for Brooklyn Nets to contend for a title. KD might push for a trade again which I believe he should. KD is still performing well but he is just wasting his years in Brooklyn. I don't know what he sees in Irving before he committed himself to Brooklyn before.   

Anyways, they might hire Ime Udoka as its next coach. But imagine the image of the team.

Cool! I just found this topic. And since I only need a few more left then I will post here. I only have very few smerits left here and I will contribute it as well.

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Lol! So Floyd Mayweather is not fighting Naruto then.

1.  Mayweather
2.  Under 2.5 Rounds
3.  Round 1

14. Alex Pereira
13. Weili Zhang
12. Dustin Poirier
11. Chris Gutierrez
10. Dan Hooker
9. Renato Moicano
8. Dominick Reyes
7. Erin Blanchfield
6. Andre Petroski
5. Karolina Kowalkiewicz
4. Choi Seung-woo
3. Ottman Azaitar
2. Montel Jackson
1. Carlos Ulberg

Match 14 winner Total Strikes: 72

It is still a rumor since we cannot see an official announcement coming from Valve itself. But there could be a high chance otherwise Invictus Gaming's official page won't post it. As far as I understand, there will be bidding and voting to decide the next TI host. Maybe Seattle has the biggest money and supports so far.

I agree that South America should host a TI. But did they host a major already? Maybe they should host a major first before TI. They did a great upset last TI performing better than SEA and NA. 

Hopefully, it'll happen in a neutral venue. But I won't be surprised if Valve approves a non-neutral venue. Valve is also based in Seattle. Valve earlier fucked up The Outsiders with their DPC trying to mess up the computations which happen to be the first time afaik as Liquipedia calculations went differently. My own basic logical computations are the same with Liquipedia too.

Aidos Yerbossynuly is still in an induced coma mate. Maybe the operation is still not complete. Really hoping for a speedy recovery on Aidos. This is pretty sure the end of his career but hopefully, he will wake up without a disability.

It is normal that some people will look for who to blame for accidents like this. I cannot really blame anyone because this is boxing and this is not a game. Nonetheless, maybe his head coach and his team should've stopped it earlier. In the absence of his team's willingness to stop it, referee Tony Weeks should've done better like warning his team or Aidos himself or even calling the ringside doctor since it was a one-sided fight.

I think Casimero will overcome Akaho. I am more interested in how well Casimero beat Akaho. If Casimero only wins a close fight or a tough win then he is in danger against the Akhmadaliev and Fulton.

If Casimero is still with Probellum then I think it won't be that hard for him to negotiate with Fulton, Inoue, and even Akhmadaliev. Although he might really need to rank up first to get a shot at them.     

Sometimes I do this too but I have to make a quick assessment based on their looks. I do not want to bargain with these poor merchants. This is the issue I do not like about this, many people that are asked to bargain their products and services are the smaller and even poor merchants. While we cannot ask these big stable companies to lower their prices unless we are also influential or rich and asking for volumes of their supply. In my country, small-time farmers are always victimized by these middlemen and sometimes by the consumers too.

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Many of us probably experienced this kind of situation. The most serious one is a close friend of mine who kept persuading me to handle his crypto investment. He even lowered the amount to $2000 as a test so I won't feel much of the burden if I ever lose a big portion of it. Profit sharing was 50/50 and I am also not responsible if ever the portfolio losses. In the end, I still refused. I understand that some people are busy and they just want someone to handle their funds. Personally, I feel more comfortable managing and risking my own money without thinking about other people.

After Canelo saw how Bivol made it easy against a bigger guy with probably the same power he has, he is not probably going to rematch Bivol. I think Canelo will face an easier opponent next. The WBC already inserted at number 1 an unknown Russian named Pavel Silyagin with an 11-0-5 win-loss-KO record to make it an excuse that Canelo will fight a ranked 1 opponent.

Bivol already beat Smith Jr. before and it was not even close. WBA ranked 1 (Joshua Buatsi) and 2 (Callum Smith) are also both promoted by Matchroom and are easy to set.

Last weekend, another casualty of boxing happened. Aidos Yerbossynuly 16-1-11 KOs received heavy blows to his head before it was stopped in the last round. Praying for Aidos' fast recovery and hopefully, he won't become a PWD. David Morrell, 8-0-7 KOs is another potential Canelo Alvarez opponent as he holds the WBA regular belt.

Earlier today I saw the Facebook page of Invictus Gaming posting that The International 12 will be once again hosted by Seattle in the United States. Some comments were like, goodbye to Russian players and the visa issues. Not to delve any further into politics but I do hope that the war in Ukraine ends before the next TI.

Meanwhile, Thunder Awaken is now disbanded. 2 players were earlier signed with beastcoast but the rest of the players are now free agents.
Another top South American team Infamous also released its players earlier.

Is this the biggest odds gap for a boxing unification? 1.02 is way too low. But maybe rich bettors will still take advantage of this by risking huge amounts of money. A million-dollar bet on Inoue gives $20,000 which is like free money.

But what really are the chances of Butler causing an upset? I respect that Butler is also a champion but he didn't take the belt against a champion and instead gained it because it was vacated and Sultan was an 11-minute late replacement. Maybe if the fight is in the UK or at least in a neutral place like the US can slightly change the odds. If only Butler is a KO artist, some bettors will risk since the odds is very high.