Just happened across this article about Antpool offering to refund someone their over paid transaction
fees of $3,000,000.

https://unchainedcrypto.com/bitcoin-mining-firm-antpool-offers-refund-for-3-million-record-transfer-fee/


From the article its clear that the mining pool was able to automatically freeze the transaction, this is a
good news story, any abnormal transactions like this one are able to be flagged, massively ver bought fees
are able to be refunded and it proves that Antpool are not scammers, they appear to be doing the right thing,
This creates a good vibe and says a lot for the Bitcoin community in general.

Thought I would post here to share with everyone rather than the Mining Board.

The user had until yesterday to confirm "their identity"

Thats interesting for sure and is a perfect example actually of a change in general member/spam behavour,
I had to examine that graph again to figure it out.


Thats actually very true, all things being equal ^{time spent on the forum and post count} the "rising
tide was floating all boats"

These points have changed my opinion on the thread title, I guess I was focussing too much on what I would deem
as low quality posts and useless threads.

The forum was never reliant on Mixers to exist, The influx in mixer advertisement on the forum
only started when Chipmixer went down which left a void which in turn was filled by numerous
other mixer services. The forum isnt going to die a death because there wont bbe any more
banner ads.

There will still be discussion about those services and I doubt there will be many people leaving
the forum because there are no visible advertisements from mixing services.

I dont think the forum has either benefited or suffered from the Merit system, I voted "No Difference"

IMO there is still the same amount of posts which are not needed, its mostly by low ranked members
who are trying to write posts primarily to get Merits, to rank up and get into a signature campaign, but
there is a finite amount of campaign positions anyway.

For me what the Merit system has done is put a -visual number- on everyones technical ability, Bitcoin
Knowledge and communication skills. Its a measure now of generally "how good you are" and its easier
now for the campaign managers to filter the applicants to their campaigns

There are still going to be people who are better than others and who are able to rank up quicker, that
was the case prior to the Merit system too.

No we wont see a repeat of December 2017.

We are currently PRE HALVING so we are in a bull run, back in December 2017 it was 18
months AFTER the July 2016 halving so the timing was for Bear season in Bitcoins 4
year halving cycle..

If you look at the 3 previous halvings, at least 6 months before the event we enter the
bull phase, and from approximately 12 months after we enter the bear season.

It might be the same month but its a different year and a different time in Bitcoins 4 year cycle.

Rugby 7's Round 2 - Cape Town

Mens

Argentina take the title beating Australia 45 -12

South Africa and New Zealand only made the QF's.

Some of my predictions didnt happen eventhough they were favourites. In the first
match Samoa lost to Australia and surprisingly the second match was a bit of
a shocker, Canada whipped NZ 7 - 19.

I didn't get to follow up on the rest of the pool matches but suffice to say it was somewhat
different to lat week...with the exception of Argentina who got to the final again.

Womens

All the first games in the pool predictions went according to plan except that Canada
beat USA which was a dodgy one to bet on.

It was an Australia France final with Australia winning, Thats 2 in a row for Australia!

Personally I have made a few moves to get out of the "rat race". I dont have ant FIAT
loans, credit cards or mortgages, I have a part time job and the rest of the time is
for myself. I did this approximately 3 months ago and reaping the rewards of it now.

In my country so many people are using Cocaine to be able to function at work,
its gotten to the stage where parents of young children are finding they need to
use in order to deal with the pressures of work, parenting, socialising and all the
pressures of keeping up appearances.

Thats the thing so many people have been talking about and what will be missing with
the new crop of players who will take over from the top 3, there have been countless close
battles between Roger, Rafa and Djokovic and Andy to an extent.

Maybe there will be 4 players who dominate the game for the next 10 to 15 years....

Alcaraz, Sinner, Rune and Medvedev? who knows.

Hmmm sounds very interesting - thank you 2stout!

Yea just looking at the odds on ROLLBIT for the line up's for the first matches now,
ATM its just the first round of matches I can see odds on.

Mens

Samoa v Australia - Samoa are favourite @ 1.81 against 2.24 for Australia, thats very close odds really,
They only won 1 game each in the pool stages, hard to bet on these two.

New Zealand v Canada - yea well we know what way that is going

Argentina v Spain - same as above - Argentina @ 1.04

Fiji v France - Same as above - Fiji @ 1.25

Ireland v USA - Ireland were good last weekend winning 2 games and making it into the knockouts, favourites
tomorrow @ 1.42 - not bad odds.

South Africa v Great Britain - SA favourites @ 1.04

Womens

Ireland v Brazil - Ireland favourites @ 1.10 - should be winning that

New Zealand v Great Britain - has to be NZ @ 1.02

Australia v Spain - Spain are 28.0! [not going to happen]

Fiji v Japan - Like the mens side the monens side are very strong anf favourites @ 1.1

Canada v USA - the odds suggest this will be close, its 1.83 v 2.18 - wont be betting on that

France v South Africa - France @ 1.09 - SA didnt win any of the pool matches last week, Strange
how the mens side are so competitive and the Womens not [so far]

I agree with this synopsis.

I havent given the matter of Merit in relation to the Gambling board any thought before and there actually
isnt very much Merit awarded in the Gambling threads I frequent. I suppose its probably because its a very
busy board which inevitably means there is a lot of nonsense posted, I guess I subconsciously thought in general
the Gambling board was not worthy of merit.

Hopefully if cryptofrka gets approved and there is a Merit stream on the board it will prompt people to
post at a higher quality therefore I back cryptofrka's application_FWIW

For the Six Nations next year I will agree with 1 out of the 3, I'll probably go with Ireland over France,
and Scotland over Wales so 3 away wins, Ireland, England and Scotland.

Ireland will be a different team without Johnny Sexton and France could very well be a full strength outfit.

Based on where Wales were at last year winning only 1 match and that Scotland finished in 3rd spot I
think the 2024 season could be a reoccurance of sorts. in the URC the two scottish teams are in the
top half of the table while the 3 Welsh are in the bottom half with 7 rounds played.

I did a thread on him back in 2021 too > Jamie Dimon & Tulip Bulbs

...anyway this is just more hot air from Dimon and its clear he says one thing and does another.

The worlds largest asset management company ^Blackrock and their clients obviously
dont see Bitcoin the way he says he sees it.

Surely he isnt that naive in thinking Bitcoin can just be "shut down" or is he just pandering
to his audience who expect this negativity and skepticism.

Nice one Tibu! congrats.

Thanks to MX and Mopar.

Ah I think Argentina will be in the mix for either Gold, Silver or Bronze in some if not all of the
7's series.

Last year they were placed overall in 2nd spot, just 21 points behind New Zealand with 3 Golds
and 3 Silvers. In the 2021 series they finished 4th! so it looks like they are improving.

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European Rugby Champions Cup

Connacht are at home playing Bordeaux Begles. Connacht are favourites @ 1.52 and are probably
worth it at that. They have had some "unlucky" losses in the URC and will be itching to put things
right in this European Cup round.

Glasgow Warriors are at home playing Northampton Saints and are favourite @ 1.33 again they
should win this.

Toulon at home to Exeter Chiefs and are big favourites @ 1.17. They are 2nd in the Top14 ATM
and the Chiefs are mid table in the Gallagher premiership so yea they should win this at home.

Bath at home to visiting Ulster. Bath are favourites @ 1.37 but I think Ulster could come up with
an upset, they are 3.30.

This is a massive project, actually a massive undertaking to make such a book. I have skimmed
through the work done already and yup there has been a lot of hard work put in already.

What I like about this is that it will be a go to book for further research by others in the future
and coming from an artistic point of view this book will should certainly help Bitcoin artists as
a "source book" for new Art themes.

Thats Massive Mopar!
Thank you for the ticket!!

Ah its a long shot but if he does win it or another grand slam it will be big headline news,
to be able to come back from being a year out due to injury and prove that he still has
what it takes to overcome all the odds.

Would he announce his retirement at that stage or would it spur him on to try and catch
Djokovic's 24 gland slam lead ^{possibly 25 after AO 2024!}


or use the hard courts to build game fitness and play at 80% for example, surely he has to
realise that he has to pick his moments now, he cannot play at 100% for a full season at this
stage in his career?

I promised you a ticket a while ago 👍

Received today - safe and sound!
Thank you paid2