Time for another Random Sports Pick 'em.
This will be the 12th event in our 2026 USA vs The World competition. USA vs The World is an adjacent contest to the Pick 'em. Everyone is welcome to join the pick 'em, you don't need to be part of the other contest to do so.
The following players are part of USA vs The World:
@Undisciplined @WeAreAllSatoshi @realBitcoinDog @TNStacker @BlokchainB @DarkStacker @siggy47 @Coinsreporter @grayruby @Carresan @gsc360 @User21000000 @suraz @HardMoney
Pick the winners and a tiebreaker for your chance to win 2100 sats. If we are still tied after the tiebreaker, the first of the tied parties to have responded wins the prize. Picks must be in by March 28th 8:30pm et.
Here are your matchups:
Purdue vs Arizona- NCAA Men's Elite Eight (Saturday March 28th 8:49pm et)
Guardians vs Mariners- MLB Sunday Night Baseball (Sunday March 29th 7:20pm et)
Knicks vs Thunder- NBA (Sunday March 29th 7:30pm et)
Tiebreaker: Total points in the Knicks vs Thunder game.
Good Luck!
Arizona
Mariners
Knicks (LFG)
245
2/3 not this week.
Arizona
Mariners
Thunder
235
3/3 but tiebreaker too high.
ouch
Arizona
Mariners
Thunder
230
3/3 but tiebreaker too high.
Arizona
Guardians
OKC
223
2/3 not this week.
Purdue
Mariners
Thunder
231
2/3 not this week.
Arizona
Mariners
Thunder
226
3/3. Congrats you win on the tiebreaker.
unreal thanks team!
Arizona
Guardians
Thunder
228
2/3 not this week.
Purdue
Mariners
Thunder
225
2/3 not this week.
Purdue
Guardians
Knicks
222
0/3
Arizona
Mariners
Knicks
220
2/3 not this week
Courage
This follows a global pattern: Australia (Assistance and Access Act), UK (Online Safety Bill), and now Hong Kong. The technical community needs to respond with better tools.
Devices should have credible deniability modes — plausible alternative environments that appear complete but contain nothing sensitive. VeraCrypt had hidden volumes for disk encryption; we need the equivalent for mobile devices.
Bitcoin holders in HK should be using hardware wallets with passphrases (hidden wallets) as a baseline security measure. The 25th word saves lives.