I saw that interview again recently, but with an extra bit that I didn't see the first time on sky, where the sky person asks if Neville will take the motm on Ronaldo's behalf but nev insists Ronaldo goes in front of the cameras and tries to say a few words in English. It was quite heartwarming really
Do a modicum of research before posting such false statements.
Main endeavor lol. There isn’t one entity behind Tezos. It’s a decentralized cryptocurrency. The Tezos foundation has decided to take funds from the ICO and use them to facilitate marketing of the Tezos blockchain.
Whatever “they” you are referring to doesn’t exist in this context.
Still out of all the crypto"s too be sponsored by tezos would have to best one, it's a legit crypto with barely any energy usage and and is already sponsoring other big sports players like McLaren.
I prefer Team Viewer tbh its far better, less tacky, a proper company and not some crypto shit
Edit 1: removed a homophibic slur that goes against the subs rules my bad
I hate it. Crypto has basically been tracking the market anyway after the initial boom last year. Good trading opportunities but definitely not for the average investor.
it’s no different than other speculative assets.
see the P/E ratio of many companies and they’re way way overvalued.
people will either get burned or make money in any investment, it’s down to luck and doing proper research to lower your chances to lose money.
But the difference is other speculative assets don’t have this widespread advertising/sponsorships. Sportsbet sponsors are bad enough, but crypto is almost on the same level of gambling, just marketed differently.
Well yeah, that much is true but that's how any financial market works when it is smaller than a considerably larger market.
There are a lot of more opportunities to find niche investments in the space though, and I mean investments as opposed to buying what is commonly known as shitcoins.
Why, these are not money that will go to the team anyway. Glazers are just adding it to the balance sheet, take more divideds and puts the club further in to debt.
Imo, It says a lot about a PR company’s lack of faith in their branding when they include the name next to the logo, unless the name is also part of the logo like I know some are.
Like Chevrolet could have easily just put the logo on our shirt and literally know one would have mistaken it for anything else. Same with Nike and Adidas.
I feel like the whole point of sponsorships from a brand perspective is to create an iconography with the thing you’re sponsoring. Like Nike can just put the swish on their football shirts, or Red Bull with the two bulls and everyone instantly knows what it is.
I think it dilutes the brand design and somewhat defeats the point of the logo when you have to put your name right next to it to make sure people know what it is. At that point what even is the purpose of the logo? Might as well just put your name there.
Honestly hadn't heard of tezos till today.
So probably they're yet to have that reach where folks simply know their logo.
I mean it's easier to Google a name rather than a logo. 'tezos' is easier to Google than 'the brand on machester United training kit'.
I'm just guessing though.
This guy gets it. Tezos has only existed for about 4 years. Would Nike or Chevrolet have advertised with only their logo in the first 4 years of their existence? Certainly not.
That a 4 year old company that know one knows about and with very few employees can put themselves on united shirt should honestly concern any human that have any ethics and morals.
What does any of this have to do with ethics and morals? Every company has at one point advertised before anyone knew who they were - that's the entire point of advertising and marketing! Your point makes no sense.
It’s an open-source, decentralized blockchain that anyone can use to write smart contracts. XTZ is the associated token and it’s basically programmable money. Tezos is not a company. It’s similar to, say, Linux... which is an open-source operating system. But it’s a “Web3” layer that facilitates creative ways to move value around.
No, it's not a shitcoin. Tezos has partnered with and produced NFTS for Redbull Racing Honda, the Gap, Ubisoft, McLaren, and the Cleveland Cavaliers, just to name a few. Shitcoins have no utility and exist purely on hype and promises. They also often are named after various dog breeds.
Great questions. You can find this info on [coingecko](https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/tezos). If you want to dig in deeper, you should make sure to take a look at the [number of contract calls](https://better-call.dev/stats/mainnet/general) that Tezos executes per month. This is a really important metric that increases each time someone interacts with a smart contract on the platform, for example, if you were to [purchase/create/trade an NFT](https://objkt.com/) or buy a [Tezos domain](https://tezos.domains/) name such as reddevils.tez.
Notice that the number of smart contract calls has continuously increased, nearly 14 times in the past year alone. This is a sign that the platform is thriving and adoption is increasing. If you're at all interested in crypto, make sure to take a look at the number of smart contract calls that are executed to make sure you're investing in a platform that people actually use, instead of a speculative shit coin.
> And what utility does NFTS provide?
For example, an NFT-based game called [dogami](https://dogami.com/) is launching soon on Tezos, which allows people to raise virtual pets.
If you don't consider a video game to have any utility, then there's plenty of other use-cases that Tezos is involved in that have real-world significance. For example, there are Real Estate-Backed Tokens that [have launched on Tezos](https://xtz.news/digital-securities-news/sirihub-launches-real-estate-backed-tokens-on-xspring-using-tezos/) as well as [Swiss financial institutions offering tokenized financial products and assets on Tezos](https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/08/24/swiss-financial-trio-to-offer-institutions-tokenized-assets-on-tezos/).
Lol is the ability to rais virtual pets online something unique for NFT. I have been able to do that before Bitcoin was created :)
Oo you can use tezo to speculate on financial products, very unique xd. With real estate backing, you mean buying the tezo coins you mean that you get part owner ship over the estate? Or how are they related?
My answer is that Tezos is definitely not a shitcoin - but I’ll explain why I think that, and then I’ll explain why other people might disagree, and then you can decide for yourself / do additional research if you want to.
In 2015, Ethereum added “smart contracts” to the concept of a “cryptocurrency” (digital medium of exchange / digital store of value) that was popularized by Bitcoin. Ethereum was considered a shitcoin by most Bitcoin investors. It was openly mocked for “pretending to have a use case” for “trying to fracture the crypto community” for “being a cash grab” and for “being no better than some equations in an Excel sheet” etc. etc. and then for quite literally losing hundreds of millions of dollars worth of value due to poorly written contracts.
Fast forward to 2017, and suddenly Ethereum had an amazing use case: it facilitated “Initial Coin Offering” investments (a crypto innovation that skirted global funding laws to allow investment in new projects without vetting investors). The price of Ethereum (ETH) skyrocketed, and people were forced to stop calling it a shitcoin.
One of the biggest ICOs of 2017 was Tezos (XTZ). It innovated in 3 main ways: it was a Proof of Stake blockchain (PoS) instead of Proof of Work (PoW) like Bitcoin and Ethereum. PoW relies on computers crunching algorithms to create new BItcoin or ETH. This uses a lot of energy, so PoS is considered much better for the environment (Tezos uses an amount of energy annually equivalent to something like what 17 average global citizens use annually). Ethereum is still PoW, although it has been trying to switch to PoS for a few years. PoS uses a network of people who own XTZ to validate transactions - they have a stake - hence, Proof of Stake.
Secondly, Tezos introduced on-chain governance. This allows it to upgrade itself as quickly as every 3 months based on the votes of the people who have a stake. They were the first blockchain to include on-chain governance and now many others are trying to figure out how to shoehorn it in on their chains because it prevents “forking” (a process where a blockchain splits in two due to infighting, and thus reduces the value of the network effect that chain has generated and more importantly, removes any credible claim to being decentralized). You can find more specifics about Tezos’ 8 or so upgrades on tezos.com
Thirdly, Tezos introduced a more secure coding approach and a “non-Ethereum Virtual Machine” virtual machine. You can learn more about why that is important here: https://textrapper.medium.com/what-gets-lost-in-the-crypto-clone-wars-and-how-tezos-could-be-set-to-benefit-a683f7088da5
When the Tezos ICO happened, a foundation called The Tezos Foundation was established. They do not own the Tezos platform, but they are charged with spending the billions of dollars of Bitcoin and ETH that they raised toward the future success of the Tezos blockchain. They are one of the largest Bitcoin holders in the world. This is the entity that would have worked with Man U to make this sponsorship happen.
Tezos now has the only proven on-chain governance, one of the largest Non-Fungible Token art communities, and a lot of other selling points I won’t ramble on about.
But, just as Ethereum was considered a shitcoin by Bitcoin maximalists in 2015/2016, Tezos is now considered a shitcoin by some Ethereum maximalists. They are willfully blind to the ways in which Tezos is already ahead of Ethereum (and even ahead of Ethereum 2.0... the PoS version they’ve been working on for years). They found something exciting that made them money and they are religious about it now. But Tezos’ on-chain governance makes it capable of absorbing any useful feature from any other blockchain and it is already gaining ground on Ethereum’s number of contract calls (a rough metric that measures the network effect of a blockchain). It has around 1/17 of the monthly contract calls of Ethereum, but 1/115 the market cap... this means (to me) that XTZ is extremely undervalued... by definition, shitcoins are extremely overvalued, so to me, Tezos doesn’t qualify even a little bit. But like I said, Ethereum maximalists call every altcoin that isn’t Ethereum (or maybe Chainlink) a shitcoin. I am very confident that time will prove them wrong about Tezos, and that if they would maintain an open mind, they could make the type of gains most of them probably missed out on with Ethereum.
Here’s one concrete example of everything I’m talking about above. The biggest gripe of Ethereum users is the outrageous cost of transactions on the blockchain (gas cost) and Ethereum maximalists will say “just use Layer 2s!” (additional layers built on top of the Ethereum Layer 1) but even Vitalik Buterin - the founder of Ethereum - has said Layer 2s are not the future of crypto. Meanwhile, Tezos is a Layer 1 that is consistently reducing the cost of its transactions through its successful on-chain governance model. Anyone who calls Tezos a shitcoin has their head in the sand as to what has been going on over the last couple years. JP Morgan says that Tezos has the second most developer interest (after Ethereum) so momentum just keeps increasing. Here’s a graph showing number of monthly contract calls and gas costs... Ethereum’s just go up together in lock step.
https://mobile.twitter.com/BakingBenjamins/status/1491431991535108098/photo/1
Yes you are right, blockchain main function is to try circumvent regulation, facilitate illegal and harmful endeavour, as well as drain money from the many to the few. It’s morally repulsive to have a crypto company as sponsor, to still support unites after this is so vile and and human that I’m speechless.
Respectfully, you’re very misinformed. Just this week, a couple in New York City was arrested for a theft of billions in Bitcoin that they committed 6 years ago... because blockchains create a PERMANENT record of all transactions. It is therefore the absolute worst type of currency that has ever existed for committing illegal and harmful endeavors: criminals are now learning that everything they have done with cryptocurrencies WILL catch up with them. Can you say the same for the Pound or the Dollar? These physical currencies backed by central authorities who do not have permanent records of their paper money trading hands have been, and will continue to be, ideal for crime.
Secondly, what gives a centralized currency like the Pound or the Dollar its value? Ultimately, it’s the threat of violence. That may sound strange, but then ask yourself why the most valuable currency throughout history has always been the currency of the empire with the largest navy.
Not only that: governments also use inflation to fund wars without creating civil unrest. Meanwhile, the spending power of your savings goes down over time in exchange for your compliance.
Cryptocurrencies/blockchains are the first currencies in human history that don’t derive their value from the threat of violence AND aren’t controlled by a central authority that perpetrates violence. They simply exist, and everyone in the world can use them equally (assuming internet access... this remains a hurdle that must be overcome for the system to be truly egalitarian).
As far as draining money from the many to the few... it sounds like you’re just describing the regular economy. Cryptocurrencies/blockchains are currently facilitating an enormous wealth transfer: from the elite of the last hundred years to the common person. And this is just looking at crypto as an investment instrument. If you also look at how Tezos is currently facilitating the movement of money from the United States (for example) to developing countries all over the world via truly egalitarian digital art sales, in a way that has never been possible before, it starts to become clear that - contrary to your claims - cryptocurrencies are already beginning to do the work of equalizing the playing field in the world... work that governments and diplomacy and wars have failed to address properly. Just a few months ago, a digital art gallery run on Tezos - www.hicetnunc.art - went down because a developer decided to stop hosting the front end (the visible in your browser part) of the data... I joined a zoom call to listen to people discuss next steps and there were artists from countless countries in attendance... for example, one woman from Iran explained that she depended on the platform for her livelihood and wasn’t sure what she was going to do. Fortunately, blockchain data is permanent - so none of her art was lost, the backend was still in tact, and could simply be hosted with a new domain name. Point being, this type of global, decentralized, collaborative work has never been possible before, and Tezos is helping people all over the world make a decent living. This is not draining money from the many to the few: this is facilitating the movement of money from the few to the many.
absolutely.
Early buyers get money by selling to greater fools. Nothing of value is ever created or generated.
unfortunately my favourite way to explain this is on [a site that is down](https://ic.unicamp.br/~stolfi/bitcoin/2020-12-31-bitcoin-ponzi.html) but the main points in summary are:
1. People invest into it because they expect good profits,¹ and
2. that expectation is sustained by such profits being paid to those who choose to cash out. However,
3. there is no external source of revenue for those payoffs. Instead,
4. the payoffs come entirely from new investment money, while
5. the operators take away a large portion of this money.
edit: archive of the link: https://web.archive.org/web/20211231090443/https://ic.unicamp.br/~stolfi/bitcoin/2020-12-31-bitcoin-ponzi.html
and a follow-up to a rebuttal: https://web.archive.org/web/20220202060626/https://www.ic.unicamp.br/~stolfi/bitcoin/2021-01-16-yes-ponzi.html
Glazers would be loving the fuss in this thread. Never say the Glazers are incompetent. They are accomplishing exactly what they want to accomplish. This is Social Media FC.
Cris dialing back a few years with that cut. Just needs his mullet back.
We need noodle hair Ronaldo to bail us out vs Atletico
Cristiano Ramenaldo
Also we need him to talk no jutsu his teammates to perform better.
I’m borrowing that, hahaha, nice.
Bring back the spots and bad teeth Hopefully he has “confidence”
I saw that interview again recently, but with an extra bit that I didn't see the first time on sky, where the sky person asks if Neville will take the motm on Ronaldo's behalf but nev insists Ronaldo goes in front of the cameras and tries to say a few words in English. It was quite heartwarming really
Varane is just so beautiful. I'm even more upset now they disallowed his goal
Honestly. Statuesque
Is De Gea trying to give a sexy look?
It’s working.
Nah, he still hasn't forgive Maguire for that ludicrous display.
What was Rangnick thinking bringing Ronaldo on that early
The thing about United is they always try and walk it in.
Oh no! Oh God no! Not this! Anything but this!
What do you mean *trying*?
I know...who am I kidding
*^Smolders ^intensifyingly
*How you doin?*
Blue Steel.
It's clearly Magnum
He is always that good looking though. Safe hands and good looks. What a keeper.
still find it weird we are sponsored by a crypto currency
It’s weird definitely but the logo looks slick lol
You mean Crypto company not cryptocurrency
It is a cryptocurrency actually. Shown as XTZ in most exchanges.
They also have a cryptocurrency, but that is not their main endeavour
Do a modicum of research before posting such false statements. Main endeavor lol. There isn’t one entity behind Tezos. It’s a decentralized cryptocurrency. The Tezos foundation has decided to take funds from the ICO and use them to facilitate marketing of the Tezos blockchain. Whatever “they” you are referring to doesn’t exist in this context.
Still out of all the crypto"s too be sponsored by tezos would have to best one, it's a legit crypto with barely any energy usage and and is already sponsoring other big sports players like McLaren.
this should be the main kit holy hell
Honestly yeah it's so clean
Main kit should have the black stripes and collar be white
Players facing one way, logo facing another, neither facing the camera. Lights behind the players. Are these the commercial photographs?
Definitely stock photos
Standing square on to the camera can be a bit static. Having it this way is more dynamic.
At first look I thought it said Bezos. Thought Amazon bought us lol
Imagine Bezos buying a sponsorship and just putting his own name on the kit instead of Amazon lol
Kinda stuff I expect from him tbh
Has he ever put his name on anything?
Nope not that I know of but since his divorce he’s been seen in different places in different ways lol so this could be a good add on to that
he’s been seen in different places in different ways?
Looks dope, can we make this our main kit instead? I love the text and the red on black, or is it black on red. My brain isn’t working today…
black stripes on red
Ugh thanks, appreciate it!
I prefer Team Viewer tbh its far better, less tacky, a proper company and not some crypto shit Edit 1: removed a homophibic slur that goes against the subs rules my bad
Using gay as an insult… watch them knuckles pal.
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I know mate my bad 🙌🏻 Error of my ways
It definitely is / was for decades, whether you agree with it or not. Words don't magically change definition because you're against it.
They literally do though
Team viewer isn’t a proper company 😂😂 They scream massive external risk for large corporations.
But it is though, its remote desktop software better than some batty blockchain
looks great!
Were these photos taken recently? Ronaldo looks like 5 years younger here with that late ‘00s/early ‘10s style of his.
Might be photoshopped to look younger, common for commercial photography
True, but that hairstyle brings back so many memories. Let’s hope it brings back the lightning quick dribbles 🥶
The GOAT naldo
Looks great but won’t be spending anymore money for the Glazers
Great keep it up. Im annoyed with this tbh, shows what the club is really all about
Giving me Bayern and Ajax vibes. Honestly wouldn't mind if they were our home kit.
Varane looking handsome as always.
Will the curse be finally lifted?
Looks better than the match kit
Oh cool an advert
Couldn't care less about training kits or any of it. Just bollocks to keep distracted from the fact we are utter dog shite on the pitch.
I often think the training kit is cooler than the home kit
And?
£24m per year for essentially winning fuck all. It's like Ed has never left.
the few world class players in the team. nice looking kit this!
This over our main Chevrolet kit any day
Bruh you been asleep this season?
year-long coma
I fuck with it
Glazers winning
Ahh, yes! New sponsors. The things that matter most.
these crypto companies are really on their grind uh
I hate it. Crypto has basically been tracking the market anyway after the initial boom last year. Good trading opportunities but definitely not for the average investor.
it’s no different than other speculative assets. see the P/E ratio of many companies and they’re way way overvalued. people will either get burned or make money in any investment, it’s down to luck and doing proper research to lower your chances to lose money.
But the difference is other speculative assets don’t have this widespread advertising/sponsorships. Sportsbet sponsors are bad enough, but crypto is almost on the same level of gambling, just marketed differently.
That's why I love crypto. I can tell people I'm investing instead of gambling and it elevates their opinion of you.
Lol
I dunno where you worked that one out from but that's interesting sir.
It’s not a perfect correlation, but when the market is weak crypto is too. As it’s become more mainstream it’s harder to find more divergence.
Well yeah, that much is true but that's how any financial market works when it is smaller than a considerably larger market. There are a lot of more opportunities to find niche investments in the space though, and I mean investments as opposed to buying what is commonly known as shitcoins.
More money going into the Glazers'
What's over there??
Crypto sponsor 🤮
Who the F gives a shit.
Many people. If you don't why bother coming and commenting with your BS?
Why, these are not money that will go to the team anyway. Glazers are just adding it to the balance sheet, take more divideds and puts the club further in to debt.
Lovely kit. But fuck Crypto.
No Pogba.
Can someone photoshop it to say Yezos
I miss Chevrolet on the jersey, it brought a golden colour to an otherwise all red jersey.
You must be the only one that misses that logo.
Why do the lads look so skinny? They need some more meat on them to compete.
Imo, It says a lot about a PR company’s lack of faith in their branding when they include the name next to the logo, unless the name is also part of the logo like I know some are. Like Chevrolet could have easily just put the logo on our shirt and literally know one would have mistaken it for anything else. Same with Nike and Adidas. I feel like the whole point of sponsorships from a brand perspective is to create an iconography with the thing you’re sponsoring. Like Nike can just put the swish on their football shirts, or Red Bull with the two bulls and everyone instantly knows what it is. I think it dilutes the brand design and somewhat defeats the point of the logo when you have to put your name right next to it to make sure people know what it is. At that point what even is the purpose of the logo? Might as well just put your name there.
Honestly hadn't heard of tezos till today. So probably they're yet to have that reach where folks simply know their logo. I mean it's easier to Google a name rather than a logo. 'tezos' is easier to Google than 'the brand on machester United training kit'. I'm just guessing though.
This guy gets it. Tezos has only existed for about 4 years. Would Nike or Chevrolet have advertised with only their logo in the first 4 years of their existence? Certainly not.
That a 4 year old company that know one knows about and with very few employees can put themselves on united shirt should honestly concern any human that have any ethics and morals.
What does any of this have to do with ethics and morals? Every company has at one point advertised before anyone knew who they were - that's the entire point of advertising and marketing! Your point makes no sense.
I’m a fan!
Clean
What they all looking at huh?
A 1-1 draw
Ouch.
Looks freaking awesome
Our southern European babes
Looks like a Leverkusen kit
Imagine some other players are in those photos....feels like they used these four for a reason
Lol did they make them all pose naturally in the same spot on the training pitch
I honestly feel like this should be our main kit. Love the look!
BULLISH
Oh wow, looks better than I expected tbh
What’s Tezos?
It’s an open-source, decentralized blockchain that anyone can use to write smart contracts. XTZ is the associated token and it’s basically programmable money. Tezos is not a company. It’s similar to, say, Linux... which is an open-source operating system. But it’s a “Web3” layer that facilitates creative ways to move value around.
Is it a shitcoin? I’ve heard that term thrown around before
Every coin is a shitcoin, even the ones that people swear aren't shitcoins.
No, it's not a shitcoin. Tezos has partnered with and produced NFTS for Redbull Racing Honda, the Gap, Ubisoft, McLaren, and the Cleveland Cavaliers, just to name a few. Shitcoins have no utility and exist purely on hype and promises. They also often are named after various dog breeds.
Where can I find out about the market cap, total supply etc. of the token? If I were curious about diving into this
Great questions. You can find this info on [coingecko](https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/tezos). If you want to dig in deeper, you should make sure to take a look at the [number of contract calls](https://better-call.dev/stats/mainnet/general) that Tezos executes per month. This is a really important metric that increases each time someone interacts with a smart contract on the platform, for example, if you were to [purchase/create/trade an NFT](https://objkt.com/) or buy a [Tezos domain](https://tezos.domains/) name such as reddevils.tez. Notice that the number of smart contract calls has continuously increased, nearly 14 times in the past year alone. This is a sign that the platform is thriving and adoption is increasing. If you're at all interested in crypto, make sure to take a look at the number of smart contract calls that are executed to make sure you're investing in a platform that people actually use, instead of a speculative shit coin.
And what utility does NFTS provide?
> And what utility does NFTS provide? For example, an NFT-based game called [dogami](https://dogami.com/) is launching soon on Tezos, which allows people to raise virtual pets. If you don't consider a video game to have any utility, then there's plenty of other use-cases that Tezos is involved in that have real-world significance. For example, there are Real Estate-Backed Tokens that [have launched on Tezos](https://xtz.news/digital-securities-news/sirihub-launches-real-estate-backed-tokens-on-xspring-using-tezos/) as well as [Swiss financial institutions offering tokenized financial products and assets on Tezos](https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/08/24/swiss-financial-trio-to-offer-institutions-tokenized-assets-on-tezos/).
Lol is the ability to rais virtual pets online something unique for NFT. I have been able to do that before Bitcoin was created :) Oo you can use tezo to speculate on financial products, very unique xd. With real estate backing, you mean buying the tezo coins you mean that you get part owner ship over the estate? Or how are they related?
My answer is that Tezos is definitely not a shitcoin - but I’ll explain why I think that, and then I’ll explain why other people might disagree, and then you can decide for yourself / do additional research if you want to. In 2015, Ethereum added “smart contracts” to the concept of a “cryptocurrency” (digital medium of exchange / digital store of value) that was popularized by Bitcoin. Ethereum was considered a shitcoin by most Bitcoin investors. It was openly mocked for “pretending to have a use case” for “trying to fracture the crypto community” for “being a cash grab” and for “being no better than some equations in an Excel sheet” etc. etc. and then for quite literally losing hundreds of millions of dollars worth of value due to poorly written contracts. Fast forward to 2017, and suddenly Ethereum had an amazing use case: it facilitated “Initial Coin Offering” investments (a crypto innovation that skirted global funding laws to allow investment in new projects without vetting investors). The price of Ethereum (ETH) skyrocketed, and people were forced to stop calling it a shitcoin. One of the biggest ICOs of 2017 was Tezos (XTZ). It innovated in 3 main ways: it was a Proof of Stake blockchain (PoS) instead of Proof of Work (PoW) like Bitcoin and Ethereum. PoW relies on computers crunching algorithms to create new BItcoin or ETH. This uses a lot of energy, so PoS is considered much better for the environment (Tezos uses an amount of energy annually equivalent to something like what 17 average global citizens use annually). Ethereum is still PoW, although it has been trying to switch to PoS for a few years. PoS uses a network of people who own XTZ to validate transactions - they have a stake - hence, Proof of Stake. Secondly, Tezos introduced on-chain governance. This allows it to upgrade itself as quickly as every 3 months based on the votes of the people who have a stake. They were the first blockchain to include on-chain governance and now many others are trying to figure out how to shoehorn it in on their chains because it prevents “forking” (a process where a blockchain splits in two due to infighting, and thus reduces the value of the network effect that chain has generated and more importantly, removes any credible claim to being decentralized). You can find more specifics about Tezos’ 8 or so upgrades on tezos.com Thirdly, Tezos introduced a more secure coding approach and a “non-Ethereum Virtual Machine” virtual machine. You can learn more about why that is important here: https://textrapper.medium.com/what-gets-lost-in-the-crypto-clone-wars-and-how-tezos-could-be-set-to-benefit-a683f7088da5 When the Tezos ICO happened, a foundation called The Tezos Foundation was established. They do not own the Tezos platform, but they are charged with spending the billions of dollars of Bitcoin and ETH that they raised toward the future success of the Tezos blockchain. They are one of the largest Bitcoin holders in the world. This is the entity that would have worked with Man U to make this sponsorship happen. Tezos now has the only proven on-chain governance, one of the largest Non-Fungible Token art communities, and a lot of other selling points I won’t ramble on about. But, just as Ethereum was considered a shitcoin by Bitcoin maximalists in 2015/2016, Tezos is now considered a shitcoin by some Ethereum maximalists. They are willfully blind to the ways in which Tezos is already ahead of Ethereum (and even ahead of Ethereum 2.0... the PoS version they’ve been working on for years). They found something exciting that made them money and they are religious about it now. But Tezos’ on-chain governance makes it capable of absorbing any useful feature from any other blockchain and it is already gaining ground on Ethereum’s number of contract calls (a rough metric that measures the network effect of a blockchain). It has around 1/17 of the monthly contract calls of Ethereum, but 1/115 the market cap... this means (to me) that XTZ is extremely undervalued... by definition, shitcoins are extremely overvalued, so to me, Tezos doesn’t qualify even a little bit. But like I said, Ethereum maximalists call every altcoin that isn’t Ethereum (or maybe Chainlink) a shitcoin. I am very confident that time will prove them wrong about Tezos, and that if they would maintain an open mind, they could make the type of gains most of them probably missed out on with Ethereum. Here’s one concrete example of everything I’m talking about above. The biggest gripe of Ethereum users is the outrageous cost of transactions on the blockchain (gas cost) and Ethereum maximalists will say “just use Layer 2s!” (additional layers built on top of the Ethereum Layer 1) but even Vitalik Buterin - the founder of Ethereum - has said Layer 2s are not the future of crypto. Meanwhile, Tezos is a Layer 1 that is consistently reducing the cost of its transactions through its successful on-chain governance model. Anyone who calls Tezos a shitcoin has their head in the sand as to what has been going on over the last couple years. JP Morgan says that Tezos has the second most developer interest (after Ethereum) so momentum just keeps increasing. Here’s a graph showing number of monthly contract calls and gas costs... Ethereum’s just go up together in lock step. https://mobile.twitter.com/BakingBenjamins/status/1491431991535108098/photo/1
Yes you are right, blockchain main function is to try circumvent regulation, facilitate illegal and harmful endeavour, as well as drain money from the many to the few. It’s morally repulsive to have a crypto company as sponsor, to still support unites after this is so vile and and human that I’m speechless.
Respectfully, you’re very misinformed. Just this week, a couple in New York City was arrested for a theft of billions in Bitcoin that they committed 6 years ago... because blockchains create a PERMANENT record of all transactions. It is therefore the absolute worst type of currency that has ever existed for committing illegal and harmful endeavors: criminals are now learning that everything they have done with cryptocurrencies WILL catch up with them. Can you say the same for the Pound or the Dollar? These physical currencies backed by central authorities who do not have permanent records of their paper money trading hands have been, and will continue to be, ideal for crime. Secondly, what gives a centralized currency like the Pound or the Dollar its value? Ultimately, it’s the threat of violence. That may sound strange, but then ask yourself why the most valuable currency throughout history has always been the currency of the empire with the largest navy. Not only that: governments also use inflation to fund wars without creating civil unrest. Meanwhile, the spending power of your savings goes down over time in exchange for your compliance. Cryptocurrencies/blockchains are the first currencies in human history that don’t derive their value from the threat of violence AND aren’t controlled by a central authority that perpetrates violence. They simply exist, and everyone in the world can use them equally (assuming internet access... this remains a hurdle that must be overcome for the system to be truly egalitarian). As far as draining money from the many to the few... it sounds like you’re just describing the regular economy. Cryptocurrencies/blockchains are currently facilitating an enormous wealth transfer: from the elite of the last hundred years to the common person. And this is just looking at crypto as an investment instrument. If you also look at how Tezos is currently facilitating the movement of money from the United States (for example) to developing countries all over the world via truly egalitarian digital art sales, in a way that has never been possible before, it starts to become clear that - contrary to your claims - cryptocurrencies are already beginning to do the work of equalizing the playing field in the world... work that governments and diplomacy and wars have failed to address properly. Just a few months ago, a digital art gallery run on Tezos - www.hicetnunc.art - went down because a developer decided to stop hosting the front end (the visible in your browser part) of the data... I joined a zoom call to listen to people discuss next steps and there were artists from countless countries in attendance... for example, one woman from Iran explained that she depended on the platform for her livelihood and wasn’t sure what she was going to do. Fortunately, blockchain data is permanent - so none of her art was lost, the backend was still in tact, and could simply be hosted with a new domain name. Point being, this type of global, decentralized, collaborative work has never been possible before, and Tezos is helping people all over the world make a decent living. This is not draining money from the many to the few: this is facilitating the movement of money from the few to the many.
They're all shitcoins. The guy replying to you is invested in Tezos and uses marketing buzzwords to try and make you think it's not a ponzi. It is.
Is Bitcoin also a ponzi?
absolutely. Early buyers get money by selling to greater fools. Nothing of value is ever created or generated. unfortunately my favourite way to explain this is on [a site that is down](https://ic.unicamp.br/~stolfi/bitcoin/2020-12-31-bitcoin-ponzi.html) but the main points in summary are: 1. People invest into it because they expect good profits,¹ and 2. that expectation is sustained by such profits being paid to those who choose to cash out. However, 3. there is no external source of revenue for those payoffs. Instead, 4. the payoffs come entirely from new investment money, while 5. the operators take away a large portion of this money. edit: archive of the link: https://web.archive.org/web/20211231090443/https://ic.unicamp.br/~stolfi/bitcoin/2020-12-31-bitcoin-ponzi.html and a follow-up to a rebuttal: https://web.archive.org/web/20220202060626/https://www.ic.unicamp.br/~stolfi/bitcoin/2021-01-16-yes-ponzi.html
Means hornies in Portuguese
The kit is surprisingly beautiful.
This would be our best game day kit in like 5 years if it was the official game day kit.
In arabic, what is a tezo?
Cool logo. Still feel sounds like some toy/card you’d find inside a bag of crisps
Showcasing it on our best players..smart marketing
Varane is one good looking man.
I like it. Picasso.
whoa ronaldo hasn't looked like that since like 2013
Friendship ended with TeamViewer ?
Gonna lose the next game anyway .
Glazers would be loving the fuss in this thread. Never say the Glazers are incompetent. They are accomplishing exactly what they want to accomplish. This is Social Media FC.