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    Right, I'm so pumped for this! Hotel room reserved in Vegas (went with the Hard Rock as I suspect thats where Starrcast will be), flights picked out, time off work booked, now I just need to wait for tickets to go on sale! Probably my only chance to do somethng like this as I don't think I can dodge the whole 'kids' thing with my wife much longer......

     

     

     

     

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    3 minutes ago, David said:

    What makes you think that though? We saw a lot of dips and rises over 2018, none of which signalled an uptrend.

    BTC is currently sitting at around the $4,000 mark today. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that it won't crack the channel between $3,500 and $5,500 throughout 2019. Lots of people seem to think that this was a Bitcoin crash.

    It wasn't, this is it finding its level. The days of $20,000 per coin are long gone, and they won't be back.

    It wasn't, this is it finding its level. The days of $20,000 per coin are long gone, and they won't be back.  Agreed, at least not in 2019. I do personally believe that the future lies in crpyto and blockchain however. I don't think Bitcoin will win out eventually. Ripple has a high chance of being successful, as does Binance Coin. I may just but some and put in cold storage and forget about it.

    BTC is currently sitting at around the $4,000 mark today. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that it won't crack the channel between $3,500 and $5,500 throughout 2019. Lots of people seem to think that this was a Bitcoin crash. I suspect we will get to $4700 in the next week, maybe higher. The problem is there is (a) no 'new' money is entering crypto and (b) there are far too many shitcoins that serve no purpose and need to die off. I suspect a strong move above $5k and commentators speculating the bottom is in might start to bring in new money, in which case a move back to closer to $10k. But who knows......institutional Investment could see all-time highs by the end of 2019 or BTC could continue to drop to $1k!

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    2 minutes ago, gmoney said:

    Sorry to hear that mate. Did you buy in at the top of the market? I hope you weren't unbearably smug about how you were about to make millions when it was riding high. It's a good lesson on investment, when tech bros on twitter , people in pubs and cab drivers all talking about an investment as if it's easy money, you know the bubble is about to burst.

    To be honest, I've only lost about $3k in 2018. I've spent much of the second half of the year in tether. I'm just getting interested again as the BTC chart is increasingly making me believe that we bottomed on December 15th. Since then it has rallied by $1000 and whilst its still countertrend, if it continues another month, we'd be in an uptrend again.

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    1 hour ago, gmoney said:

    No, but I follow every Bitcoin price crash with great interest and glee as everyone I've ever encountered who's invested in it has been a complete prat. 

    That would be a summary of my 2018.....lost a fair whack

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    47 minutes ago, garynysmon said:

    For all the piss and vinegar that's thrown at WWE, a large section of the general fanbase does seem to suffer from some kind of Stockholm syndrome and act like they're being forced to watch the product every week. I haven't watched WWE regularly for years, but the sheer amount of negativity suggests that many others shouldn't be bothering either if they don't get anything out of it. 

    Yet, there's also an element of the wrestling fanbase that seem to want other companies to fail if its felt they're getting remotely close to having an effect on the WWE's monopoly-like dominance. I don't understand it personally. The WWE is hardly 'a little engine that could' that need such minions.

     

    Very well put.

    I actually think there are 4 groups of people who want this to fail:

    1. The blatant WWE marks who see this a threat

    2. Your stockholm syndrome lot

    3. People who out of spite want to see it fail because other folks are getting excited about it and want to rub their noses in it

    4. Cody Rhodes haters

     

    Other than that, surely every wrestling fan would like this to succeed to give the industry the massive shot in the arm it requires?

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    16 minutes ago, MPDTT said:

    Thats a bit extreme.I didn't literally mean get rid of the booking and the agents......I think it's pretty well known that the wrestlers had much more control over creativity in their promos and input into their character in WWE in the past and I think the loss of that has taken something away to the detriment of the product. AEW needs to offer something different and one way I believe they can do that is by giving the talent more input and control in getting both them and their angles over. Let the wrestlers cut a promo from the heart instead of a writer.

     

     

    Just a coincidence, but after writing that I stumbled across this tweet from JR:

     

     

     

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    14 hours ago, Tamura said:

     

    I can just imagine a two hour live show where the wrestlers are free to improvise and not bother with things like scripts, the producer will probably drop dead of a heart attack during the show. How are you planning to schedule ad breaks when there's zero to little script and people are busy improvising? And you expect excellent production values while that's happening? You do realise that for lots of important shots the cameramen don't just happen to be in that position by accident, that they know ahead of time they know what's going to happen? Even if you aren't broadcasting live, what you're suggesting is still going to be a nightmare to tape. 
     

    Thats a bit extreme.I didn't literally mean get rid of the booking and the agents......I think it's pretty well known that the wrestlers had much more control over creativity in their promos and input into their character in WWE in the past and I think the loss of that has taken something away to the detriment of the product. AEW needs to offer something different and one way I believe they can do that is by giving the talent more input and control in getting both them and their angles over. Let the wrestlers cut a promo from the heart instead of a writer.

     

     

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    13 minutes ago, Statto said:

    For me, it comes down to one thing  - the roster they can assemble. If they can put together a true 'best of the indies' (by which I mean non-WWE) crew then I'm interested.

    If they are restricted to a roster of people who aren't already attached to WWE, TNA, RoH, MLW, NJPW etc then I'm not so sure.

    Actually, there's a second thing - not having Jim Ross on commentary.

    For me its less about the history of the roster and more about the product itself. I remember a great interview with Paul Heyman discussing ECW, when he talked about realising what he couldn't compete against WWF and WCW on, so focussed on the things they could do better. AEW absolutely must not try to be WWE light or it will fail - this is where TNA went wrong post 2010. They must create their own identity, their own style of product and target market. I hope it's less scripted and more improv, gives talent much more freedom in the ring, less child orientated and with much more focus on the quality of the in-ring product over all else. At the same time, offering excellent production values that don't make them look like an indie fed and with a marketing budget designed to create a huge and maximise exposure. I'd quite like JR on commentary.  

     

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    54 minutes ago, Love-Wilcox said:

    RoH has been coasting for quite some time now and I think fans feel like they peaked in terms of popularity years ago. AEW is a fresh, new brand that has potential to do well right from the start with relatively big-name stars signed on right from the start. Now I'm not saying that they'll fare any better than RoH in the long run, I just think that's how most fans are feeling at the moment. 

    I think the difference will be the money invested - in production, marketing, contracts...They will sink more into this than ROH ever did.

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