Have you thought about putting this thread on the blockchain?

I would guess Gayle, McCullum, Dhoni, Afridi and maybe De Villiers?

It's a popularity contest, and people are popular for a wide-range of sometimes odd reasons.

I'm convinced that, had Mo Farah forked out £20 for a babysitter, Rea would have won and Doobs would be sitting on a golden cushion atop Punting Mountain.

HOW THEY VOTED: #SPOTY
Sir Mo Farah 83,524
Jonathan Rea 80,567
Jonnie Peacock 73,429
Anthony Joshua 73,411,
Adam Peaty 63,739
Lewis Hamilton 60,627
Chris Froome 47,683
Harry Kane 18,759
Anya Shrubsole 15,237
Bianca Walkden 13,962
Johanna Konta 7,591
Elise Christie 6,504 🧐🏆

Under 3,000 votes cost Doobs his super-banzai.

And only 18 votes sees the 1/100 Joshua top 3 odds go down.

Farah fair enough after the charming shenanigans of his interview, and Rea with the campaign behind him but how does Joshua not beat Johnnie Peacock?

A middling performance on Strictly does better than becoming heavyweight champion.

It serves me right for already celebrating my bet on Rea to win the Without Joshua market.

My word that SPOTY top 3. Shocker.

It was the son wot won it

A bit leftfield, but motorcycle news is campaigning to get Johnathan Rea to SPOTY.  Bob Nudd allegedly won it back in the day when some angling paper did this and this looks a weak year.

betfair has a bit available at 100/1 and up.  I have enough on.  obv not nailed on, but I have had worse 100/1 bets.

he is a three time world superbike champ, for those going who?

Doesn’t need many votes to win - probably around 150,000. He’ll get big support from NI where motorcycling is huge.

Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas has made $60m in royalties.

James Wade interview where he talks about his mental health issues.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/dec/17/james-wade-bipolar-darts-word-championships-donald-mcrae

Darts thread elders - thank you for the successful punting in opposing Bunting.

Surely if the value of cryptocurrencies keep going up (which they need to if they're going to reach that level) - it'll mean it'll never be stable enough to use as an actual currency. And if that's the case - why would it be going up so much?

And if it does become stable enough to use as a currency - why would people choose to do so?

This is an interesting point. With Bitcoin rising quickly, why would anyone ever spend it on anything? Why would you pay 1 BTC for something if you expect to be able to pay 0.9 BTC for the same thing in a week?

From the title I thought this was going to be another thread about Tom losing his glasses.

'As Bitcoin prices charge ever higher, the same people who were dismissing Bitcoin as a "bubble" at $35 six weeks ago are now huffing about it being even more of a "bubble" at $235'

Bitcoin article from four and a half years ago - there's probably the exact same article been written in the past week just with bigger numbers.

http://www.businessinsider.com/why-bitcoin-speculators-laugh-at-anyone-who-calls-it-a-bubble-2013-4?r=US&IR=T

What's to stop a drugs cartel building a huge server farm and dedicating it to crypto mining?

That's already happening - bitcoin mining rigs were found in a raid on one of the Irish drug gang's operations in the Netherlands.

http://www.thejournal.ie/bitcoin-mine-cash-kinahan-3597575-Dec2017/