We've talk about Luka's frustration even before Kyrie gets on-board though, but right now it's more evident as they might not go to the playoff because it seems that Luka doesn't have control of the team right now. Unlike before when he was just the focal point and everyone is waiting for him to give them the ball. Maybe it's because him and Kyrie are too dominant players? Now sure, but something is not right with the team, the attitude and maybe there were issues in the locker room that we are not aware of.


Jazz is still fighting it right now against the Nets, they made a massive comeback in the fourth quarter and they are just down by 5 right now, with a minute to go. So there is still a good chance for them to upset the Nets and maybe made it to the play-in.

A lot of games is playing already, I might pass on them.

Magic vs Detroit - Since Detroit is already out for the season, I will go on the Magic at their home court, -8.5 @1.62.

Hawks vs Dallas - Hawks is well rested, Mavs, back to back games, Hawks -2.5 @1.83.

I'm also going with that parlay here, @2.96.

That is the worst scenario that we can think of, specially if you are a perma bear against crypto. It might not be as big as the Mt. Gox heist, because we have a lot of exchanges that we can go if in case Binance will go down. However, I'm not saying that it's too big to fall or what, everyone here can collapse like FTX, but I think CZ is not as tricky as SBF and we can't compare the two personalities.


First the issue is not that big in the beginning, yeah it's just a misconception and CZ has cleared that thing though. But if they needed more explanation, for sure he is more willing to explain it to US Senators or from which US authorities is going after him.

Second, he could have himself surrounded by big lawyers, who might be advising him on how to deal with this lawsuits and litigation form US. That's why he responded swiftly and it has substance.

Third, as I have said, SBF and CZ is very different, CZ will not allow anyone to stop him. He is growing bigger by the day, and this is due to his hardwork, and he won't simply let it go down the pipe just because the US is going after Binance.

Right, we wish we can hit that $30k, but with some negative news around the last week of March, we didn't have enough push. But the most important thing is that the price reaches it's barrier again at $28,500 and I think we will see it trading sideways for sometime in April, maybe a couple of days or even in the first week. But after that we will see a break out run, either on the upside of it, $30k, or just another minor correction to $25k-426k. But that is a healthy correction as the price might rally after that because it will be open for another opportunity to purchase because as I have said, we might not see $20k as our entry point anymore. So this is still a good price to buy and get in the ecosystem before it's too late. Because the next bull run could be higher than we all expected.


Yes, that's what I'm saying, we should understand that the price won't go on a direct parabolic rise, specially with BTC volatility. So there would be time that the market is going to be down -1% to as high as -5%. And then we will rebound and move higher than the previous price. That's how a downward movement will be positive to us. When it goes down, then buy more and HODL. Or for short term speculators, they can take advantage of that as well and make money selling when it's goes up. In any case, it's a win win situation for everyone.

If I'm not mistaken, there are new school of thoughts about bitcoin cycle, which what they call now super cycle. The reason behind this is that since bitcoin narrative have chance, we might see super cycle before the bull run, or at least the catalyst of it all, the block halving. Initially I just dismissed this theory, but it seems that this year, before the halving, we are somewhat in the bull run.

But for me, super cycles can only be achieved if we are going to reach a new all time high this year, so maybe $70k or higher. So that will be the first cycle, and then it will be culminated when we have our scheduled block halving pushing the price even higher and more than double the first cycle of $70k or up. So we shall see what scenario will work for this year as you have said there are a lot of factors, like the banking crisis or the inflation in our global economy. And if there is the right time to test this theory it will be this year and 2024-2025.

Obviously, like any other business that some entity put, you need to have deep pockets, which means not just capital to put up a casino, but you need extra money for promotions and other business cost. Which means you have like a year of buffer in your wallet to be able to stay afloat in the business. So millions if not billions cash and any other illiquid assets. That's why some of the casinos whether online or offline are offering some part of them thru investing. So that's one good strategy for them. The more investors they have, the more capital for them and then they can paid those promoters and influencers and in turn it will bring gamblers to their platform. Business 101.


Earnings are generated from those gamblers who have lost, so it's going to be a balance, there could be days that the casino are losing money because gamblers got lucky win millions. But most of the time, since they have the house edge, they are going to generate more than what they actually lost to gamblers.

Well one red flag is playing on a casino that haven't got reputation yet. So the best thing to do is just go around the community as you can see a lot of good casinos and also bad who scammed their players.

Of course, we wanted everything to be simply in life, we don't even want to go into line in a physical store and we wanted to get out and pay as soon as we able to get the items needed and pick it up. So I like the concept though, but I haven't seen one. And the closest that I have been using my bitcoin is to pay online using our local exchange and third party coins.ph. They have options of gift cards if I'm not mistaken, but I haven't tried it.


I guess fiat will still be there no matter what and won't get obsolete even if we go digital and cashless in the future. But the good thing is that we have other options now and most advance countries in Europe are going cashless society with their credit cards and other mode of payment, it might include Bitcoin and Ethereum or any other cyrpto or CBCD.

I know, everyone is looking for the $30k price return last March, but there were some correction that time, even go as low as $26,xxx and I thought that we ill continue to go down that time. But the good news is that the investors really push for the price to go to $28k again and that is our price at the end of March. But as I have been saying, $28,500 is the big resistance, and although we just higher that that, the price right now is peg around it. So hopefully there will be no retracement and wanted to see how we can maintain this price level.

Because if we do, then once we jump to $29k, it's easy to break that round numbers of $30k just like how we break $20k around January-February. And with that said, I will be bullish as well for the month of April, still many reasons for investors or even average joe like us to buy and continue to invest and just HODL. The price is still very cheap and at a discount and we may never seen the price in the $20k'ish as this will be the new $4k price (which we all wish back then in 2020).

It's because Wilder still possesses that one punch knockout, which is still very scary. Who ever he touches, not name Fury, are going to go down hard. As opposed to Joshua who changes or a bit hesitant to pull the trigger after his first lost to Andy Ruiz. And then he switches coaches one after another that affected his style and then back to back lost to Usyk.

Probably this fight against Franklin that he won is just a tune up fight for him. Just to get back that confidence to be in the ring again and beat someone. And that 2 losses against Usyk really took a toll on him mentally. And if he chases Wilder next? I will go with Wilder and Joshua might be knockout for good and stay in the canvass. Wilder is still one of the heaviest hitting in the Heavyweight division right now.

I'm not sure how can you missed it on Stake as it has been there for weeks now:



You need to click "International Matchups" then below "Load More" to see more matches in the future. It won't simply display the fight as is because there are a lot of boxing matches in schedule.

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As for the split of the purse question, Shakur got more than 63/37 split against Herring that time in his favor. I know it's absurd but if my memory serves me right, it was under the WBO rule. So in this case, it might be the same or even higher percentage for Shakur because he is the A-side of this fight and some of us is not familiar with Yoshino although he is being rank in the top 5. So yeah, more money for him, and the upside for Yoshino is that he will get the exposure in the US soil for the very first time.

Might be hard though to comeback if he losses this one. He is already 34 years old and maybe just about to hit his peak or maybe he is on his prime right now. But if he losses this one, then it might be over for him as it might take some time to bounce back and maybe can't get a decent fight that will boost his name again. So for me still a must win for John Riel and it will be a plus if he can win impressively as most of the posters said. Because a big emphatic win will make his name one of the hottest in this stack 122 lbs. Maybe after this fight, chase some good names like Luis Nery or even Ra'eese Aleem. Those names are rank by WBO as 2 and 3 and Casimero at 5. So there could be opportunities if he will win here as a lost will be costly in his career at this point.

^^There is also one fight that we haven't talking and it's Anthony Joshua vs Jermaine Franklin. Here's the official weigh-in,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0quLYVBNMs

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And the fight is ongoing right now. Joshua is boxing good in the first 3 rounds and I would say that I give him 2 rounds out of 3.

Franklin did a better job in round 3 in avoiding Joshua's power punch and it seems his chin is holding on right now.

But let's see, too early yet and maybe the phase will pick up in the later rounds.

Edit: Joshua won by UD, The scores were 118-111, 117-111 and 117-111.

I have him 118-111 in my unofficial scorecard.

@bisdak40 - it's decision win and that odds, ohh, hehehe.

It's probably just Haney trying to bargain for himself to get more money. But for sure Bob Arum knows it and most likely either talk Haney about it or just give in to the demands just like what he said during the Pacquiao vs Hatton fight wherein Hatton wanted another million and he says that he give it out of his own pocket just to make the fight (not sure if this is true though).


He will definitely cemented his legacy in this fight if he won against Loma fair and square (Loma being healthy and 100% in this fight and no longer affected by the war going on in his native Ukraine). Yeah, Loma is a HOF boxer, one of the best Olympian that went and become pro and become a world champion. He has accomplished a lot in just short amount of time as a pro boxer. And his skills, we haven't seen anyone as technical as him before.

Oh well, 2 bad early picks for me, so I did the live betting on the Lakers vs T'Wolves, bet at half time when the Lakers are down by 10 points.



And it did take a lot from the Lakers to get back and make a huge run in the third quarter. AD is unstoppable in the last 6 minutes of the game although he had one bad fall and I thought that it's another season ender for him.

After that, the Lakers wake up from their misery, and it was the combination of Dennis, James, Vanderbilt, D'Lo, and Reaves.

A must win for them and they deliver.

What a huge comeback from the Lakers in the last two quarters to win this very important game, and even if Davis looks like to be going down again with another injury, he comes back and score crucial points for them in the fourth quarter, finishing with a high 38 points. And there are another five players who score in double digits.

I love how the Lakers put a defensive clinic in the third, they didn't allow any easy points for the T'Wolves and then they score to lose their rhythm, KAT didn't have the percentage in three point area. And it seems that Anthony Edwards is sick leading up to this game as he also scored 11 points. And it was Mike Conley with 25 points. And with this win the Lakers move up to 9th place.

If I remember correctly, https://swcpoker.club/ is carrying this game, but not sure though if the discontinue it already for lack of players.

For all other games, its mostly local to us and so I doubt that crypto based casinos is going to open it unless there is a huge demand for it. And not just Philippine games though, there could be other games that is local to one country and they could be also lobbying casinos to list it to no avail because again for the same reason, they needed money to developed it and so before doing it, there should be some business behind like (making money).

The press conference kick off:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQxR1tzUjrM

Yeah, this is real fight, all the belts on the line and two of the best fighter in 135 lbs. Just love what the Haney's are saying on Loma though, there is respect, but we all know that when this two steps in the ring, then it's going to be war. I expect a clean fight, and their style are contrasting, Haney though still a huge favorite, Loma almost 3:1 underdog. In contrast against Davis vs Garcia, this could be the biggest fight though, in terms of the belt on the line and the legacy that either boxer is going to make, whoever wins. And it's funny though that Bill Haney is saying that the Davis vs Garcia fight is comparable to a exhibition match, hehehehe.

For Haney this is a validation for him to be the undisputed, beating Loma and cementing his legacy.

And if Loma wins, he will fulfill his dream to have all the belts, even comparing it to a Gold medal chase in the Olympics.

Here's my pick for tonight's game,

Philly vs Raptors, I already put a bet on the Raptors 6.5 early when the odds is still @1.83. But it seems it has moved a lot already, because that odd is now @1.72. Philly might win but might struggle to not cover their spread. Or at least Raptors pushing for a win for a spot in the playoff, they are in a 3 game winning streak now and on the .500 and technically they can still make it.

Hornets vs Bulls - I live the chance of the Hornets, although they are out, but they have been a solid momentum as well with their 3 game winning streak. While the Bulls is very inconsistent whether in the road or home game. Hornets 8.5 @2.01 (currently 2.20).

And most likely to bet live if I there is a good line or see which player are out or teams may have been resting them. Best of luck.

Just one example, you can enable it on Electrum if you wanted to have this capability in your open source wallet.


Yeah, basically that's it, so there's a lot of benefits to enable this features on a wallet. And I guess it should be the norm for every bitcoin user. Because just like in recent months, the fees has been tremendously high, it used to be a minimum 1 sat/vByte, but due to ordinals in which the mempool has been clogged those normal fees that we are used to are stuck and many are complaining how to accelerate or bump the fee.

If they only knew this features on most of the open source wallet, then they won't have any headaches. The cons is that you will have to used more than usual fees. And looking at the mempool now, 1 sat/vByte is no longer viable for a quick confirmation.

I guess the first goal is to become a champion first in the bantamweight and forget about the unification. And by chance Moloney won the other belt, then obviously Donaire won't fight him and vice versa. Because that is the original plan here, Moloney vs Donaire for the WBC vacant belt. Unfortunately, Top Rank has issues with Donaire's manager to the fight is scratch off and both made a different plan. So for now, there could be no unification in the table if both fighters win the belt.


That's why the best thing for Donaire is just win that belt first and then worry later. He has control if he won the vacated belt and maybe dictate the terms on when he will fight next who it is,  and the location. So he can fight once a year, or to an stretch twice if he can. He has been in this business for so long that he knows when to fight.