Thanks for creating this topic OP. Should be very helpful.
I sent you some karma and would encourage others to do that too. It's not easy to maintain a thread like this one and update it regularly, sosome sort of reward for the effort is more than appropriate.

Here we go. In today's Forbes article, our good friend Jamie Dimon promises to shut up about Bitcoin once and for all. I don't believe he will though.

JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon Says He Won’t Talk About Bitcoin Anymore—After Trashing It One Last Time

https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2024/01/17/jpmorgans-jamie-dimon-says-he-wont-talk-about-bitcoin-anymore-after-trashing-it-one-last-time/?sh=3a4aec0329c1

TOPLINE
Jamie Dimon, the billionaire CEO of the U.S.’ largest bank JPMorgan Chase, offered what he said would be his last-ever takedown of bitcoin Wednesday, maintaining his long-held attitude toward the $830 billion cryptocurrency even after last week’s breakthrough for institutional investment in bitcoin involving JPMorgan.

KEY FACTS
Bitcoin is akin to a “pet rock” because it “does nothing,” Dimon said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Dimon explained the only “real use cases” for bitcoin are criminal activities like sex trafficking and money laundering, echoing his prior criticisms of the massive digital asset.

In what Dimon characterized as “the last time” he’d ever talk about bitcoin, he suggested that bitcoin derives the rest of its value from paper trading rather than serving a tangible purpose, but still believes investors have a right to buy bitcoin because it’s a “free country.

Dimon’s still-dismissive attitude toward bitcoin notably comes a week after regulators approved bitcoin exchange-traded funds, the first-ever investment vehicles enabling backers to invest in real-time bitcoin prices via standard security exchanges.

CRUCIAL QUOTE
“I don’t care, just please stop talking about this shit,” the billionaire Dimon responded to CNBC’s question on whether other traditional financial institutions’ issuance of the new ETFs changed his mind on bitcoin at all.

SURPRISING FACT
Despite Dimon’s blasé reaction, JPMorgan is intimately involved with the new bitcoin fund. JPMorgan is one of two authorized participants for BlackRock’s bitcoin ETF, meaning it facilitates capital flows in and out of the fund.

KEY BACKGROUND
Among the sharpest critics of bitcoin for several years, Dimon said in 2017 it won’t “end well” for bitcoin investors and the currency will eventually be worthless. Bitcoin is up about 1,000% over the last six years. Despite bitcoin’s strong return on investment, Dimon has often been proven right about bitcoin’s association with criminal enterprises, as crypto funded terrorist organizations and the founders of the two largest crypto exchanges have been arrested by U.S. authorities for fraud.

BIG NUMBER
About $2 billion. That’s how much new money was sunk into the 11 approved spot bitcoin ETFs during the funds’ first three days of trading.

Regardless though, we still have the block halving coming up in April, the catalyst for a bull run. So we will have to wait for it to happen and then gradually see some good movement and perhaps we will exceed $50k this year and reach at least our least previous all time high of $69k and then next year, that 6 digits that we all have been waiting for.

I don't think all the big players like Blackrock would even bother with filing that ETF application if they didn't know there will be a big demand for it. So I'm fairly confident that this will have a significant effect, even if it's stretched over a longer time.
And if the demand for all those ETFs overlaps with the "normal", post-halving pump (resulting from the 4-year cycle pattern) then breaking the $100k barrier sounds very plausible.

Boxing is rotten and corrupted for a long time, maybe it is time for boxing world to get shocked and cleaned up.

Amen to that.
Tom Aspinall touched on that in his interview + he commented on Fury Vs Ngannou, saying that Tyson did not underestimated Francis and he was properly prepared.

when it comes to boxing, Sean is superior against Du Plessis.  they fight for 5 rounds standing and Sean will still have the stamina to carry out his strikes. he could do the same approach with Izzy to defend his title.

what could go wrong however is that Du Plessis can take him down which Du Plessis could dominate in the end. he was the first to have hyped to fight Izzy until Sean put himself in the picture. that was the time they both start trash talking  then.

Du Plessis is known to be a very awkward guy to fight against. He might not seem like a great striker as he moves a bit unconventionally, but he has been very effective in his striking so far.
I remember him knocking out Roberto Soldic back in his KSW days, when he was in his early 20s. Soldic was a phenomenal striker and was undefeated, but yet, DDP managed to KO him (he lost the rematch though).
As for the ground game - I don't know. Strickland has a wrestling background and allegedly has a very good takedown defence and both seem to prefer striking, so we might not see any ground action at all.

Than you should not watch most movies that are coming out, you should not watch tv, and you should not use internet like most people, because nudity is now everywhere.

I don't. But there are plenty of good, older movies, or non-Hollywood ones, that do not include unnecessary sex scenes. TV is garbage and nobody watches it anyway and there's a lot more to the internet than porn.
If you're one of those guys that send money to e-whores (hope not) then, instead of looking for excuses and following the "everyone is doing it" mentality - have a break and think about what are you getting out of it. There is NOTHING good about simping and watching porn. You're just damaging yourself and pissing your life away. The world needs men more than ever. Be one.

His win against Joshua would be biggest boxing sensation in many years and people will take MMA more seriously.

Nah, after the Fury fight, everyone knows what Ngannou is capable of, so him defeating AJ wouldn't be a shock. It'd be pretty bad for boxing as a whole, if anyone from the outside of the sport could just show up and manhandle guys from the top.
But for comparison, the decimal odds for Francis to win are around x3.8 and for Andy Ruiz, for his 1st fight with AJ, they were at x12.0, and Ruiz still managed to win.

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I've checked the odds and to no surprise, AJ is a favourite:
AJ to win: 1.26
Francis to win: 3.85

So even know he's an underdog, according to bookies Ngannou is not without a chance, less than x4 pay out is not a massive one.

I think Francis will approach this fight with much more confidence than in the first fight with Fury, but I'm not sure if that will work in his favour or the opposite - if he gets relaxed too much, he could get punished.
He definitely looked more confident than AJ during the face off. I almost suspect Anthony acts like he's a bit afraid and withdrawn on purpose to get Francis to feel overconfident and make more mistakes.