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Re: BTC to $500, are you still buying?
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Cookdata
on 23/07/2025, 20:57:09 UTC
If that happens im going to buy a lot, but since its just a dream since , there is no way we are going to see that price, and as other said lots of people will buy, since they know what can happen a few bitcoin in that price is enough and keep it, sometimes you need to gamble on something, since we never know what could happen next, only people know the real value will not think twice.

Not saying that this can't happen but there are things that are practically impossible to achieve even small. Bitcoin in the last 5 years never for once mistakenly dump to $500, even when there is market arbitrage, you hardly see such. Bitcoin market with low liquidity hardly go this low, so this is not something that is going to even happen. If we ever see this kind of price slash with Bitcoin, that means that we are doom because it's either the world is against Bitcoin finally.

I don't want to be selfish but I will be happy if we are going to be having Bitcoin cheap again. Just imagine having a whole Bitcoin cheap as $10k, I'm not too greedy like OP who is asking for $500, I need just $10k figures Bitcoin in that amount and I will sell everything all I have to get it. I know I'm going to recover in the next 10 years or even lower and I don't even have any reason to sell, I will get money elsewhere and never think of going broke again.
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Re: Has El Salvador been lying to the world?
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Cookdata
on 23/07/2025, 20:32:04 UTC
El Salvador probably wanted to keep their image as a bitcoin friendly country. Not only do they want to appear friendly to bitcoin, it seems like they want to be a country known for having a lot of bitcoin and possibly get investors in their country. I have seen some people doubt IMF's reports but what do you think? It makes sense if bitcoin has become El Salvador's political move.

The IMF is afraid of Bitcoin in the sense that they don't have confidence in El Salvador Bitcoin reserves and since El Salvador want loan to grow their economy, they don't have choice but to make amends to what IMF instructed them. If they don't, they wouldn't have any laon and without loan, the country will remain backward and there is not independent organizations that is going to lend El Salvador that amount of money, even if there is the are going to ask the same condition.

Do I blame them? No! Do they alternative? I am not sure there is any and neither can the country survive without any loan. They need that money to grow their economy. They can't sell the Bitcoin because they have come far, they have gotten good recognition with Bitcoin, if they sell it now that means it might take ages before we see that country on the news again. They have to just accept the terms and get the loan or get the loan and come back to Bitcoin but there is a penalty fine if you breach in the loan contract.
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Re: Safely storing bitcoins
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Cookdata
on 23/07/2025, 20:22:32 UTC
Yeah, quantum computers are indeed powerful computers that have the ability to potentially break the cryptography that Bitcoin uses, and this is something that can actually put people's Bitcoin at risk.
But some projects are actually working on using different kinds of cryptography that will be resistant to the power of the quantum computers. For example, some are actually looking in hash quantum cryptography or even other post quantum digital signature techs. If this is achieved, then the safety of crypto will be guaranteed, even with quantum computers around.

The challenge here is that Quantum computers aren't even public yet for developers to start creating of some functions that can withstand any force. The Bitcoin hashing functions that are existing today didn't came from heaven, they were created after innovation of the internet and are use as part of Bitcoin cryptography, If tomorrow Quantum computers exist, there is going to be a kind of special cryptographic function that even Quantum computers can't break, it will need another special kind of computer.

However, the existence of Quantum computers is going to pose a big threat to Bitcoin. Not only Bitcoin though, any encryption that you can think of, Quantum computers are going to break it and that put even the government at risk, they will not allow it become a public tool because they are going to be affected the most. The nuclear weapons and all other dangerous weapons that are encrypted can be decrypted with a quantum computer which is not going to have a happy ending.
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Re: La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2024/25
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Cookdata
on 22/07/2025, 16:54:59 UTC
Rashford and Raphinha both have their strengths, but it's true they can’t both start in the same role right away. Rashford might need to come off the bench or play less critical matches at first to adapt and build rhythm. Over time, if he fits well in Flick’s system, he can gradually earn more minutes. So, it’s not about replacing Raphinha immediately, but creating balance and options in attack.

It will not make any sense to put Raphina on one side and start Rashford and at the same time, if Rashford isn't used properly, they can't know his potential potential and also considering the fact that he is just having a year contract with the club, they just have to use him unless they have money to waste on a product they don't want to use. I am just looking at what Raphina brings do Barcelona in the Champions League last season, too good to be ignored.

Perhaps the team will want to give each of them fair share of play, it's left for the players to make use of the time they are given. If Raphina is given first half of the game, it's left for him to deliver the number of goals expected and same goes for Rashford and I think this pattern of share time will not only make the players serious, it will make each of them want to deliver good performance because if they don't score on their time, they have to wait for another match to deliver again.
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Re: Premier League Prediction Thread 2024/2025
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Cookdata
on 22/07/2025, 16:35:05 UTC
One of the major problems Manchester United is facing is not having a better goalkeeper, and the performance of Onana as Manchester United's goalkeeper is nothing new; he has not been performing at his best. I think the team would be better off if they got a new goalkeeper. Onana has made so many mistakes that have caused Manchester United to fall behind.

 If there were a good goalkeeper, I don't think Manchester United would be in the position they normally end up in at every competition. However, I believe Manchester United will still want to retain Onana, believing he might improve and become consistent in his performance.

I'm not really sure if Manchester United really look at Onana contract before they signed. Could it be because of his performance in the Champions League with Manchester City and Inter, I'm not really sure but $150k a week is a very huge amount for Onana judging him from his performance, that payment isn't worth it if we are to say the truth about what guy has been putting that club in the last two years and the problem now is no club is willing to take him as loan.

Unless he is ready to cut down his pay, nobody will want to hire a goal keeper that is really bad like Onana and be paying him huge amount of weekly payment. With additional of 2-3 years remaining, the club just have to endure whatever comes their way or they accept their loss and bench him with a replacement, maybe that is going to put the team in the top place. This is the same faith with the likes of Maguire, no club is willing to pay huge amount of money to buy these guys and I don't blame them.
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Re: ⚽ Football Transfers Speculation, Odds and Predictions
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Cookdata
on 22/07/2025, 16:23:31 UTC
Do you think Manchester United can compete with Arsenal in the new season? In my opinion, it is impossible at the moment, there is a gap between the levels of the teams. Arsenal was strong enough without these transfers, and Manchester United seems to be in a very bad state and these few transfers are attempts to level the situation a little. So I do not expect any reaction from Manchester United to this transfer.

With or without Viktor to Arsenal, Manchester United are not close to what Arsenal has done in the last few seasons. They are incomparable and are not fit to be on the same trouser but I don't want to use over excitement of Viktor to Arsenal to think they are the best here. He clearly want Arsenal and has rejected other offers and also reduced his wages so they can consider him to the team and now they just did, he is just another potential but that doesn't mean he is going to change everything over night.

Last I check, Amorim was the previous sporting cp manager, he was doing well until he switched path to Premier league and things hasn't been the same and that's because clearly Premier league is very tough and competitive. Viktor Gyökeres has had a good career in Sporting CP but that doesn't uplift Arsenal performance to the top of the table but I expect to see some changes since they now have a perfect striker that is going to do more for the club than they have always wanted.
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Re: Why some countries gamble more than the others?
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Cookdata
on 22/07/2025, 16:12:51 UTC
1. Support from the government.
Countries who gamble a lot has solid laws protecting their players so gamblers in those countries can just freely gamble as much as they want without having to worry about their rights. This doesn't mean that the countries have very free and loose rules but it just means that they have clear frameworks. Some other countries have some limitations but since their rules are clear, many still gamble.

2. Bigger paychecks.
Not all rich people are gamblers but they certainly have more chances to gamble if they wanted to. According to data, the higher the income is in some countries the more people gamble in that country. Since the average citizen is earning a lot, even if they spend quite a significant amount of money in gambling this will still not cause financial doom.

Is it fair to assume that a better economy and a solid framework will make people gamble more but be addicted less? This is the source, by the way.

I'm not so sure about your complete evaluation but I can tell you for a fact that people gamble a lot because of money and the love for money is coming from been idle and lack of work. There are many gamblers in some good that don't have anything about their life, they don't know anything other than just gamble and that's all, you see t them do everything just to gamble, you never see them engage in any other things but just gamble and sleep in the night.

One quick puzzle I find hard to solve is the way they don't quit gambling, I saw one video from street gambling interview on TikTok yesterday, a guy was interview about his gambling lifestyle and he says since he has been gambling in 2020, he has never won big amount of money and he has lost alot of momey, sometimes he even go hungry without eating and he will used the amount to gamble. People were laughing and making jokes but they don't know how serious that boy must have gone through with addiction. I'm very certain that if there is something better doing, that boy would have look for other options to make a good living instead of having hope on gambling.
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Re: Would you allow your underage kid to use your detail for KYC after a big win.
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Cookdata
on 21/07/2025, 20:20:23 UTC
This thread reminds me of the argument I was having a few days ago.

When we talk about minors not being allowed to gamble, it's a general rule everywhere, not just in some countries, so if a child who is below 18 years has been gambling without the knowledge of the parent and he or she happensto win an amount which requires advanced KYC to be passed, if the child uses his real ID card, it will be noticed that he's not yet of age.

As a parent to the child, can you allow the child to use your details to pass KYC verification, if asked? And if you do that, does it also mean that you are supporting underage gambling?

I'm not sure there are unlimited non KYC casino for kids to play around with casino but if you have a kid that is smart enough to know the difference, then questions need to be asked where and how they even started because this is abuse of the freedom their parents must have given them. I will allowed my child to use my documents to KYC if the need be but that's going to be the very end of his gambling lifestyle, he is not going to gamble again until they are ready and by that, I mean age.

There is difference between supporting something and event that has already happen. If it's by law, the money belongs to the child and since the parent is responsible for everything the child does, then parent has a very valid reason to stand for any responsibility that comes after and as for the KYC, there is nothing wrong but for gambling, the parents has the right to take any action against their child, it's left for the parent to correct their child for the wrong doings.
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Re: Am I a bad father for letting my daughter gamble?
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Cookdata
on 21/07/2025, 20:08:41 UTC
I know most of you might think I’m an irresponsible gambler after reading this. But let me share a bit of my story first....

I started gambling when I was around 10 years old, IIRC. It was because of family influence, and yes I eventually got addicted. Hard to admit, but it’s the truth. over time though, I’ve seen some positive outcomes from my gambling experience. I became wiser, more calculated, and a bigger risk-taker and I was able to apply that mindset in running my own business.

Now, I’m a father, and my 17-year-old daughter is starting to gamble too playing slots and even doing some sports betting. I don’t know how to feel, part of me feels oddly proud of what she’s doing.

What does that make me?

We have to look at gambling from different justifications. Legally by age, I think she is good enough to start gambling because the gambling age is 16 minimum but if it's morally, then I can say that you have not been competent. Kid of 17 years old is supposed to be focus on his life and how to be something better tomorrow, more like focus on education and other skills and not some random skills that are not guaranteed of high giving you anything in return.

She is a lady, she deserve better life than having gambling on her door steps. I don't care if there is any kind of fun here, I just think it's better for her to have something better doing than allowing her to gamble. Heaven will not fall if she doesn't gamble, kids behaves and follow the things their parents told them. If you have been feeding her with gambling or watch you gamble, it's your responsibility to make it right while she is still tennage, it will be impossible if she becomes an adult.
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Re: La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2024/25
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Cookdata
on 21/07/2025, 20:00:28 UTC
Yes Rashford is good enough to play for Barcelona but with the present Barcelona's squad I don't think Rashford is good enough to earn a stating role in the Barcelona's team.
This would be a different pattern of football than the one Rashford has been used to but he has the pace and ability to do just fine, I don't think Barcelona will use the buy option later, Rashford future will just be a decent premier league team, but I wish him all the best at Barcelona and I hope he proves me wrong.

Why do we all of a sudden forget how beast Rashford was some years ago in Manchester United but all of a sudden, the anti ETH did their thing and made him a scape goat from a regular starter in the team to been bench then to been let out as loan. He did well in Aston Villa which was even for 6 months, he did well under a short period of of time and went back like prodigal son because he has a huge contract with Manchester United till 2028.

For him to reject other teams and settle for Barcelona says alot about how he loves Barcelona dearly, he even cut of his salary so that Barcelona can take him and yes they did take him with an option to buy. With all of this, Barcelona have no choice but to accept in the team. Now that he is hear, the only thing is full time so he can what he want to defend himself for Barcelona to take him in. The only thing the club need now is to give him well tome to see what's he is going to bring to the table.
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Re: Drinking vs Gambling
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Cookdata
on 21/07/2025, 19:43:36 UTC
I think the main difference is that cigarettes and alcohol are harmful in a biological level when gambling doesn't really hurt you biologically but emotionally and psychologically
one can argue that it could lead to neurotransmiter imbalances but I think this is probably forcing too much, not really the main thing to focus on

of course one can get addicted to the activity but this is probably more in the mind than in the body.

The funny thing about this three things is that they are all harmful and can be fun, this now depends on the end user. People smoke to get out of depression, might not really be cigarettes but some special things but if you abuse it, there are consequences that you might likely face and similarly, even gambling and alcohol share the same addiction, it can enjoy and it can be abuse but like I said, the consumption of end user will be what is going to determine the toxicity.

Government knows that addiction at very difficult to cure and that's why most often you see casino write that gamble responsibly, cigarettes pack with the warning "smokers are liable to die young" and Alcohol are been ignored but make awareness to people, these all looks legit in the eye of the government, they make money from it through revenue generation but they have their personal consequences that you may likely face later in the future.
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Re: Pump.fun fake airdrop
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Cookdata
on 20/07/2025, 15:21:49 UTC
Sorry, I accidently posted in wrong board, wanted to put it in scam accusations. I'll ask moderator to move it to correct board.

You don't have to wait any moderator, you can move your thread to anyboard you like.

Kindly locate left-down corner of your thread, you will see something like this.



Click on the move topic and move your topic to scam accusation board, that's all.
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Re: Don't Cap Bitcoin: The Game Never Ends
by
Cookdata
on 20/07/2025, 07:23:39 UTC
Let's be real for a moment. Is it really a dream? We are not dreaming, really; we are witnesses of how Bitcoin is growing without a limit and creating history with ATH. When we saw the dump again, Bitcoin created a new ATH. That means if you ask me about the target of Bitcoin, then I will say ATH. This isn't a goal actually; this is the next movement of Bitcoin, and again, the next ATH. That's how Bitcoin will survive forever. Because no one can stop it, government and regulations can't kill it. Due to decentralised behaviour, it will exist forever.

Some lousy investors are the reason why this became a topic and debate for discussion, Bitcoin just does it thing without all this price determination and one funny thing is you don't see this happening on traditional markets like expecting Gold to reach $10k in the next couple of years, they know the growth is slow so they don't even bother to make this speculations but does that with Bitcoin and it has become a norm for everyone to share realistic/unrealistic opinions.

If you pay attention closely, people that makes this calls most often have entry on their Bitcoin investment on even numbers. For instance, someone bought Bitcoin when the price was around $10k and with a thousand investment of $1k, it means that Bitcoin price must reach $100k before they can make $10k, $150k to make $15k continuesly. Now that Bitcoin has settled its resistant price above $100k it has become the basis with $1m as targeted price to be able to make 10x on their investment which is a very wrong thing to do.
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Re: Should wallets warn if you re-use addresses due to quantum computers?
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Cookdata
on 20/07/2025, 00:56:41 UTC
Such a warning could be implemented e.g. in two variants:

1) Warn if you are about to create a transaction which transfers only a part of the funds on an address to another address. This would make the remaining coins vulnerable to quantum attacks.

2) Warn always if coins are detected where the public key was already published on-chain (both those where already a transaction was sent from the same address, and those on P2PK or similar outputs). Offer a button with info about which utxos (coins) are currently vulnerable.

Why do I have a feeling that this is going to spark a lot of controversy and debate because this is going to look like wallet developers are going to become onchain surveillance, watching addresses that are public key exposed and the ones that are not exposed on the Bitcoin network. We are bringing a solution to take away little privacy we enjoyed with Bitcoin.

Unless it's going to become a consensus rule (with optional) for all nodes to have a special pub_expose(if there is any other name we can call public keys exposed) to have  all addresses that are public key exposed on the Bitcoin network so that all other nodes can communicate with each other and propagate this addresses to each other but then again, this is going to look like chain analysis.

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What do you think?

I'm not sure if some people don't really care about updates or threat on the Bitcoin network, it's just that some people like having things the way they are as long as it doesn't make their private key exposed or threaten.
We can't predict exact time Quantum computers will become fully operational but if today a solution is provided, everyone will adopt it for their own safety and security of their private and public keys.

Which ever way we try to treat this with caution, there is going to be  a every high transaction surveillance between wallet addresses whether the coins are spended or not if people decide to send coins from one address to another for the fear of having public keys onchain.
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Re: consequenced of promoting illegal casinos.
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Cookdata
on 17/07/2025, 20:30:32 UTC
I read a post saying that here in our country, the government has started cracking down on illegal casinos, and they’re also looking into ways to get vloggers promoting them banned from their social media accounts. I even saw some of the names mentioned, the top one had 13 million followers, followed by another with 9 million.

They probably got paid a huge amount to promote gambling, but they didn’t think about the consequences. Just imagine losing an account with millions of followers because you promoted an illegal casino. That’s years of hard work gone in an instant, all because of greed.

Most of the time when you see government taken action against something, know that it's for there personal interest. It's either most of those cassinos are not registered and licensed to operate, they don't pay their taxes, they don't know about them and perhaps there is probably something related to money laundering but if the casino are don't all of what I mentioned, they will not care how the casino is functioning, we have so many of them here.

What people don't know about most of this influencesrs is that the fact they promote something doesn't really mean they are using it and even if they are using it, there might not be making any money.i see them as click baiters to by force people to gamble in casino that need new  users and once influencers get paid thieir money, they don't even show up again, they go into the next thing they can make available and make their money. Most of the time, I don't value influencers in general.
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Re: ⚽ Premier League 2024/2025 Discussion Thread ⚽
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Cookdata
on 17/07/2025, 20:23:35 UTC
Chelsea was not just lucky they deserved what they achieved since they started very well from the day 1 of the club world cup competition, getting to the finals they proved himself and right and proved everyone who never believed that they could lift the trophy wrong. Enzo Maresca has proven himself in the competition and for next season every team needs to be ready because the league is going to be more competitive.

The only time I can confidently say Chelsea are not so lucky is when they face PSG, they killed that game and spin football around, including me I lost money I bet on them because I had the believe they were going to loss but things went south. However, if this guys face some other club from quarter final, semi final and knockout stage, they will be out before the final but the teams they faced were not up to their standards but they didn't decide that, it was decided by vote from the beginning.

All this looks good and everyone is hailing them now until they make some little mistake or if the season resume fully and they refused to meet up with everyone expectations, that's when you will know that there is no permanent friends and club in football, they will forget all the good part they have done so far and focus energy on the bad side until they see they change their ways and performance, that's how people behaves with teams when they are doing well or change to bad performance.
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Re: Elon Musk vs Donald Trump
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Cookdata
on 17/07/2025, 20:16:03 UTC
Musk isn't happy with Trump's big beautiful bill so he's going to make a new politic party. He's the world's richest man he's going to fund the new party with unlimited cash & ads to promote who he wants to be president. It won't affect Trump because he'll be president for 1 term but the new party's going to take vote away from republicans & democrats in 2028.

It seems that many of us want to believe what Trump and Elon want us to believe, there is nothing going between this people. It's obvious that Elon wasn't having to take care of his business, he is the executive chief of Tesla, you don't expect him to be managing the affairs of the politics and also managing what's going on in his company, it's not going to be easy to manage and beside it's going to make people lose confidence in his leadership, not everyone in the company might be in the party he support.

During his few months in politics, Tesla was even suffering and bleeding, there wasn't confidence in buying despite his friend policy to make some countries how to his kneels. Some days, he made a tweets for supporting Bitcoin and feel Bitcoin will change all the things he believes and that's when I know that yea the man is back to make more money from his gullible followers that don't know what to do with their own life but takes everything Elon say to their heart.
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Re: Is a University Degree Still Worth Anything?
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Cookdata
on 17/07/2025, 20:06:29 UTC
Having a degree is very important because it shows that one has gone through a perpetual learning under a specific discipline and this is what could be used to identify the specialization of each profession, additionally, we also needed to improve on the aspect of learning skills to help back up our experience both theoretical and practical aspects in other to be able to deliver to the society.

No matter how we want to view it, universities exist for a reason and there is nothing that would have been developed today without proper research. For we to know that university degrees are very important, government is funding university research to develop new things so things can be become easy for everyone. If there is a new drug today, know for sure that the drug most have been tasted in one university before it become public, now imagine life without all the university.

You can take university from life of uneducated people and universities are going to be fine but if you take people out of Universities, the wayward people we are going to have at going to be more than many like we have now. We are going to have a lot of uneducated peoples roaming the street that even ordinary life's is going to be hard for them. The basic life that everyone understand is going to be different, to havr someone to engage a common discussion is going to be hard.
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Re: Lending Service Started! (USDT/BUSD/BTC/LTC/ETH/DOGE/ETC)!
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Cookdata
on 17/07/2025, 02:13:17 UTC
Loan Amount: $700
Loan Purpose: Personal
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Loan Repay Date: 9 weeks or earlier
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USDT  Address:  In PM

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Confirmed. I will be paying a minimum of $50 weekly. Thank you.
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Re: Lending Service Started! (USDT/BUSD/BTC/LTC/ETH/DOGE/ETC)!
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Cookdata
on 17/07/2025, 02:00:49 UTC
Loan Amount: $700
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