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A few days ago, the entire sports world was outraged by a photo in which Jerry Jones, an 80-year-old American entrepreneur best known for being the owner of the Dallas Cowboys - NFL team, almost 65 years ago, took part in an attempt to stop black students from entering his high school. Due to the fact that he is a public figure and one of the few owners of professional sports clubs willingly appearing in front of the camera, this photo gained popularity in the blink of an eye. Even faster, people began to question whether someone like this - an alleged racist - should not only be in the limelight but also occupy any decision-making position in a serious organization. The sports world is extremely divided on this matter with a slight majority of people having allegations against the businessman. However, looking at this situation, shouldn't the fact that this "prostest" took place almost 70 years ago - when racism was basically praised - be put in the first place? The situ...

Exactly one week ago the FIFA World Cup kicked off. This year's tournament takes place in Qatar. In the opening match, around which there was a lot of controversy, the hosts of the tournament faced the national team of Ecuador and lost 0:2. This edition of the World Cup, even before the beginning, brought us many questions and fears regarding the state of FIFA and the legality of its activities. Apart from the fact that this championship is held in Qatar is the result of corruption and bribery in the 2010 draw, we hear many rumors that even some matches of the tournament can be "bought". Already before the opening match, Skysports journalists came to the information that the Qatari sheiks were to offer the superiors of the Ecuador national team a total of $7.4 million in exchange for allowing the Qatar national team to win the match 1-0. Ultimately, this did not happen, but the intention to do so puts the integrity and fairness of the tournament in a very bad light. sour...

Today, on 1st of November 2022, a very popular and influential raper, Takeoff, a part the rap trio - Migos, known all over the globe, got shot dead. Sources say that Takeoff took part in an argument that broke off because off a misunderstanding while playing dice game. The brawl turned into a shooting and Takeoff was the one that became a victim of that. The whole rap world is in tears and expresses it's sadness in memory of the artist. Takeoff was 28 years old. We have heard stories like this a lot in the past, 2Pac, Biggie, and many more. It is not the first and unfortunately probably not the last time a popular persona related to music andmedia dies as a result of a shooting. It sadly shows how inhuman, brutal and evil the enviroment, from which the celebrities coming from poverty, gangs, etc. really is. Takeoff was a great artist that gained legendary status while he was alive. All we can do now is pray in loving memory of him and hope tragedies like this won't happen in fu...

Exactly a week ago a french football player for Real Madrid, Karim Benzema, won the 2022 Ballon d'Or award. This is an award given by a french magazine "France Football" to the best football player in the world every year since 1956. This is the most valuable and most important award a player can win in this sport. Even though the winner is announced at the ceremony, the day the award is officialy given, this years Ballon d'Or winner was known as speculated for the last 4 to 5 months. Karim Benzema was far ahead of his comp etition this year that everyone speculated him as this years winner. So it came in no suprise when he was granted the Ballon d'Or last week. It was only the 2nd time in the last 14 years the award did't go to either Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo. Those two are recognised as the two best and most famous players for the past  20 years, both of them also hold the 1st and 2nd place in the number of Ballon d'Or's won -  Messi with 7 ...

Over the past few days, we have heard disturbing information about the condition of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. There has been a gas leak from the pipeline in several places, and on a huge scale. According to experts and specialists, such a leak could not be caused by an ordinary failure. After a short time it turned out that it was not a failure but an organized attack on the largest sea gas pipeline in the world. Despite the fact that neither authorities had come forward with a clear case, nor had any suspects thought of admitting the offense, it is clear that hundreds of kilograms of explosives were needed to leak the gas. Whoever had gathered up for such a disgraceful courage to blow up the gas pipeline must have had a clear goal connected with it, which, looking at the destruction, damage and loss it caused, did not meet his expectations. So far, it seems that blowing up the water pipe has caused more media hype and interest than the actual damage. One might speculate that thi...

In recent weeks, numerous highly destructive protests have erupted in many cities across Iran due to the death of a young woman named Mahsa Amini. The woman was killed a few days after being arrested for breaking the hijab law. The official version says that the woman suffered a heart attack but the victim's family said she was perfectly well before the arrest. Suggestions arose that the woman might in fact have been killed. Iran's tumultuous protests are nothing new. Obviously, this case affects much more women who have protested against the hijab law more than once in Iran, but yet with very little success. Hence the question, why these protests would change anything? So far, a total of 60 people have been killed in protests, both policemen and ordinary citizens. This is the first time any upheaval against the law in Iran has produced such results. Additionally, taking into account the progress of today's world (even taking into account the strength of faith and the fairl...

The ability to notice this events or future important cases is exactly what allows you to predict is crypto going to go up or down. This of course doesn't work every time cause as I said earlier crypto varies not only due to political changes but also due to its own 'problems'.  But no matter what it is always your own and personal decision to buy or sell your crypto. As a summary I can only say that predicting for ex. cryptocurrencies value due to world events works, but not every time. Sometimes it is a 'gold mine', for (not only crypto,) investors like Rafał Zaorski  ,and sometimes it is just a complete, miserable try that may or may not cost you losing your money, because as we all know (0:37) and it is the same in the crypto world. Thanks for staying with me and reading the blog.  source:  Coinbase ,  Barrons

Predictionning when and why each crypto is going to go up is the most valuable skill you can have in  crypto world. Many say it is not a skill or a gift but an ability to sensibly observe the market and generally the world situation.   Because the flow of every currency, no matter is it crypto or real money, somehow depends on the world around us.  Many cryptocurrencies values vary due to economic and political state of the world but sometimes the downs or ups are not regulated by any more or less important events. This chart shows the Bitcoin price among last year. As you can see there are many price swings, of which only few are regulated by some political events and others are just a great example of crytpo's unpredictable price changes.

When it comes down to choosing which crypto to buy, it is always a personal choice. You should never listen to someone else's advice as long as it isn't somebody really experienced and trustworthy. You should always do your own research.  When you want to buy cryptocurrency you usually choose between a few aspects of the crypto usage. Diffrent cryptocurrencies have diffrent usage, some are dedicated to support some platforms or give the opportunity to build other crypto's blockchains on them - for example Ethereum - other are used as a real currency that you can pay with. Before you buy a c-currency you have to know its usage - it is crucial.  There are really many reasons for which a given crypto's price may go up or down. Many of the times it is unpredictable, but sometimes it is something you will see after the first look on the crypto's price chart. The most important thing when buying a crypto is to do your own research and decide do you really want to risk loo...

If you think you know enough, and it is time for you to buy your own crypto, there is nothing better than just doing it. Of course firstly you will have to analize the market, predict its ups and downs to not lose money, sometimes this will require a long time market observation, and sometimes just a 5 minute consideration. When you have everything set up, you know what to buy and how much, there are only few clicks separating you from owning some Bitcoin, Ethereum or Jasmy.  There are not many, if there are any, cryptocurrencies costing a round, beautiful price like 1.00$. Most of the time coin's price will have many numbers after a decimal like Bitcoin (1) or Jasmmy (2). This means that you will never ever, no matter which market you use, have to buy exactly 1  quantity of a coin. Let use Bitcoin as an example. When you buy Bitcoin you choose whether you'd like to buy 1 Bitcoin (a coin itself) or 1$ worth of Bitcoin, or whatever price or amount you want. For example, if you ...

Crypto wallet, is a form of an app or a system that allows users to store, receive and send cryptocurrency. The wallet can be 'hot' - connected to the internet, online and more vulnerable to fishing and hacking, but also easily accessible - or 'cold' - a form of an USB, physical device that is very safe and impossible to hack but also less accessible. No matter in what wallet you want to hold your crypto firstly you have to set up your hot wallet.  Some wallets are free to use and some are paid - those ones are of course more invulnerable to hackers, etc. Wallets are of course very good protected, and the protection works very simple, it requires a password and a puzzle from 25 randomly generated english words that are set up in exact order.  Every time you want to use the wallet or just see how much crytpo you have on it you need to log into it. It doesn't work like Facebook - you connect to it once for a device and don't have to do it twice - crypto wallets ar...

Crucial terms that are a must know. Lately we focused on what  the crypto market is and how does it work. Now it is time to explain to you what specific things or terms mean. We will start with the simple and work our way to those very complicated ones. I know this may not be an entertaining post, but knowing this terms and having the ability to use them freely is crucial in the crypto world. You just can't move on without understanding them. Let's start simple;  Altcoin - altcoin is any cryptocurrency other than Bitcoin, this term stands for Alternative Coin. It is important because Bitcoin got so into mainstream that most peaople don't even know any other coins, so it is good to seperate them. a Wallet* - of course very intuitive, just a 'place' where you hold your cryptocurrency. There are two variuos kinds of wallets, but it is going to be the topic of the next post. Blockchain - you already know that from the latest post, so to check your knowledge try to expla...

How does crypto market work? In recent posts I explained to you what crytpo is and on what is it build - the blockchain of course. Today it is time to dive into a little bit of details and get to know what is crypto market and how does it work. Cryptocurrencies market are decentralized markets that allow people to buy, sell, transfer, store  or just spectate crypto flow. The fact that they are decentralized means that they are not controlled or backed by any higher authority or individuals such as the government. Instead they run across a network of computers. It means it is nothing like stock market, crypto market works on its own and is up and working 24 hours, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. A good example of cryptocurrency market is 'Coinbase'. Coinbase is a secure online platform for buying, selling, transferring and storing digital currency.  It works very   instinctively. It is  very easy to use and I would recommend it to everyone who is starting his jou...

What is The Blockchain? Most of you probably haven't even heard this term ever in your life, but in fact, you use the blockchain everytime you do anything on the internet. The main idea behind blockchain is to store data by spreading it across the entire network The information that is stored on the blockchain is saved in a form of data blocks.  Each data block is connected to the previous one with the use of cryptography, programming and codes. They are built that way so faking, hacking and breaking them is impossible. There are 2 types of blochchains, public ones and private ones. Private blockchains are more complicated and we are not going to dive into them. Most webs, programms, etc. work on public blockchains.  Nowadays they are mainly associated with crypto, but  blockchains  are used everywhere.  Blockchains are built with programming languages, in crytpo for example: Ethereum's blockchain was created with Python and C++, and  Bitcoin's blockch...

Cryptocurrencies, otherwise known as "digital money" or just "crypto" is a digital payment system located on a scripted data string known as "the blockchain". In simple words, crypto is just digital money that you can buy for real money, and use however you want. Crypto is not controlled by any higher figure or institution such as countries, banks, etc, and that is what makes it so special. Its real value can't be determined by anything and anyone except people. Cryptocurrencies exchange rate varies depending on, just like normal currencies, demand and supply. The higher the demand and the smaller the supply for a given cryptocurrency, the higher its price will be. Some cryptocurrencies have a limited amount of them available. I am sure you have heard about Bitcoin - if not then educate yourself - but you probably didn't know it has limited amount available on the market which is, 21.000.000.  Actually there aren't 21 million Bitcoins available...