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I read the story of a guy who managed to get faucet from a gambling website and get more than 3 btc to pay for his expenses so I thought maybe it can help me with my problems too but I lost some money. Then I came up with a decent strategy and took the loss back with some profit. This strategy had 0.04% chance of losing all the money but that happened and I lost 0.95 btc which was the savings of 1.5 years of work. I had to cut from my other things and save that money, then wire it to my friend's paypal so invest in bitcoins which was his idea actually and it was working just fine before I read about that guy on the internet. Today a friend of me gave me a few more cents in btc, but I lost them again to the same strategy.

I'm from Iran, you can't even imagine the hell I'm living in. 1$ is worth 40,000 my currency and you can get food for a day with that much. People are really poor in this country, we use dial-up internet. I get paid every 1.5 months with just enough to get by. My mother ended up in hospital since three months ago and I had to pay for her because my dad doesn't have enough money. All of the money from my last payment has been spent for my mother's hospital and helping my dad and I was counting on the investment I made in bitcoins to pay the house rent and pay for food. I literally don't have enough money to buy food for more than a week or a few days more than a week.

You can't even think about the quality of life here, I was really rich with those savings before I lost it all. Only rich people have electronic devices and internet a bit better than dial-up. My house rent has already been delayed for 5 months and each month has a 5% fine, this is the last month, if I don't pay for it, I will have my stuff thrown out. I might be able to live with my dad and borrow some money from him for food but I will never do that, he already has his own problems so suicide is only honorable way to go now. I'm working from 8 to 5, and won't have any money until my next payment, I don't have any real life friends to borrow from, my life is literally ruined.

Because of US sanctions I had to use my friend's PayPal to invest my savings throughout this 1.5 year by wiring him the money legally. I have to pay for rents in 5 days and it takes me at least 2 days to sell the bitcoins and have the money in my own currency. I totally lost my life to 0.04% chance of losing, and since I can't pay for my expenses now and my mother gets out of the hospital next week and the money is fully paid, I'm gonna kill myself with poison in 3 days before I starve to death or make a family member some trouble. In those 3 days I'm going to search for a better and more efficient way to kill myself and hope maybe somehow a miracle happens.

I just wanted to say that I don't blame anyone but myself. I wrote the story here but I don't want to name any specific casino because I think that might scare a potential user or two and I really don't have any hard feelings for anybody or any casino. I also want to thank them for their fair service, that was totally my fate to lose to 0.04% and kill myself and I have no hard feelings against that casino or anybody else.

I wish you all a good life and good luck, if any of you know better ways to kill myself other than rat poison please tell them to me in PM. I know cutting myself is probably not gonna work and we don't really have buildings taller than 5 floors that I can jump off. Most people use taxis and old buses and I don't have a personal car either, so rat poison is the only ready option I have available but I read that it's not really efficient either. Please let me know if you know a better way to die for me, help me one last time...

Been there..

Never gamble what you cannot afford to lose sir.

You forgot to insert your bitcoin address so people can donate to your rat poison fund.

I'm not looking to beg for coins, if I wanted to borrow, my dad could give me enough food for a month or so probably. Even if there was a way the get coins, it would probably too late for the debts and rent by the time I get them. What I was looking for here and suicide groups which were easy to find on google is some advice. After reading the wikipedia, I now think that the old rat poison I have in storage might do the job as well. By not getting the money in time, I can put other people and my dad in trouble too, if I'm dead that can't happen.

I hope some mod closes this atrocity of a thread as fast as possible.

Welcome to the club!

>> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=452431.0

If he posted a bitcoin address, and a donation I would supect its a scam or a sob story.

But almost all sob stories request BTC or $$$. Or cry for help. This one he doesn't ask, just
says I don't like begging, all I am saying Is I have a hunch that this suicide urge is potentiality the real deal.
And It needs serious investigation as suicide is considered both illegal, and a crime.

As always, the common saying goes, never gamble what you can't afford.

Adding him now. I wonder how many countries I'll end up representing.

Forgot to quote the OP.

*Still advertising a dice site  ::) I think you are still there

With this perfect English you should easily find a better paid job.

But if you are really serious about suicide: I keep hearing of associations in your part of the world that take care of your family if you do them the favour of blowing yourself up in busy areas.

Due to the nature of this post,I think it would be viable if we all could get some coins together to get to this man. He doesn't deserve to end because of some silly 0.95BTC. I've lost 4.2BTC and I understand the pain, I wanted to cry extremely hard and end it all... I managed to get to 35BTC with it, until busting in two hard bets of 19 and 13BTC. Money isn't everything, and you (if you are still watching this thread) should know that.

Post your address, and I'm sure you might end up getting some donations to help you out.  Your story is very touching, and only a psychotic person could come up with this kind of story.

Dude If you have problem of online gambling, let someone else store your funds or simply convert your funds in cash as soon as you get them and it's easy to earn money, but you need to do some kind of work.

Since your english is pretty good, article writing job is better for you or you can simply join some signature campaign and earn money by making posts here.

Thank you for trying to help me, but the only reason I posted this story was because I hoped it might save someone's else life. Someone who is about to make the same mistake as I did, and I don't want this to happen to anyone else.


Thank you too but please don't, it's just not gonna work out. If you really want my address, please PM me, I'll give it to you only because you can see how hard it was for me and tell your friends so they don't end up like me. But, the money I lost was just too much in my own currency and I'm probably late already. If I die my parents can get the insurance money, my dad can live happily with my mom after she gets out of the hospital.


I work from 8 to 5, I haven't gone to work in the previous days since it wouldn't matter after I die anyway. I told them I'm sick, I didn't lie, sick people can die, if I'm about to die I'm sick. It's way too long for my next payment and all my savings are gone now, so it wouldn't have matter if I went to work anyway. It's not that simple, I need the money soon and no job is going to get me that money that soon so I guess I'm done for.

If you really want to help please, please tell this to other people who might repeat my mistake. This way, I would have done one last good before death. You can ask me and show them my wallet so they see how easy I lost everything I worked so hard to collect as I will be here until the very end (I have nowhere else to be, I can't look at my parents while thinking about suicide).

I dont  know why you decided to gamble so much!If I was you I would just gamble 0.10! And surely not on dice!!!
If I was you I would have play ed blackjack. But still, I dont wanna look like an heartless persona but you could think about int when you where going to be psychologically dead?
You didnt putted the donation addy but we requested you one,so maybe we care about you dont you think?
But I can believe your honor is way stronger than your need of living your Life .
So if you want to really do that why you posted your don story then, because you wanted someone TO pat your shoulder and expect what?
Yea you can say sa but you are sponsoring a dice site! Im doing a favour, not because I paricularly love dice.


Edit:you fare doing this forma saving others? You could do that even broking out. But still thanks forma wanting TO help, but you Will bot save the world with your sacrifice.
If you want TO sa ve your parents only you know that they Will not be paid id you suicide?

I posted it because my heart tells me there are many people like me, I don't want them to ruin their lives by careless betting. You are totally right, I shouldn't have put everything I had on the line, but the chance of losing it all was only 0.04%. What made me do it was the story of a guy who managed to get 3 btc with faucet and pay for his rents and expenses. I thought if he could do that with faucet, maybe I can do it with my own money because I really needed the money and was like him.

If anyone wants my address, I can PM but only for you to see how I lost everything I had in a blink of an eye and show others who might do the same mistake as me so they won't.

Btw What's your age ? and what work you do? Do you have any kind of computer related skills?

Re ad my edit mani, you Will not sa ve your parents with a suicide. Insurance doesnt pay if you die by your own hand.

If you think you had a .04% chance of losing then someone lied to you.  maybe you mean 4 % ?  .04% is 1 in 2500 chance of losing all your money.

You're obviously quite educated with the level of English in Iran.  If that much money is your life savings, then you really just need to apply yourself in some other manner.  How much money do you make in a day working 8 hours ?  Maybe it is hard to earn money on the internet while being in Iran, but seems like you could do better.

Also if you are going to kill yourself, stick with hanging.  Rat poison sounds like a nasty affair where you will internally bleed to death.

They do, according to their terms any cause of death is accepted.


I'm 22, I work in an office as manager (boss), that's why I could save that much in less than 2 years and that's why I could tell them I'm sick and take a few days off before killing myself. Not much, my English is good and I can google things I don't know so that makes me an above average user.


We don't get paid on hourly basis so I don't know how much I make in 8 hours. Most people use Dial-Up internet or don't use it at all here, I was kinda rich before losing all my savings. You can't imagine how much a few dollars can be worth around here. I don't know anyone who makes money from the internet here personally, but I suppose there could be some people.

I really don't have the craftsmanship to hang myself, rat poison seems to be the most efficient way for me.

wow then, fake your death they will pay too.

Enjoy your time, make fun of me.

You can't take how much you are paid and divide by the number of hours to get your hourly wage ?  This is getting weirder by the minute.  Yet you somehow calculated your gambling edge to be .04% ?   You can't tie a knot in a rope because you don't have the craftsmanship?  This is bizarre.  Rat poison will be slow and you'll freak out and likely go to the doctor or something after second thoughts and the symptoms kick in.

Having to utilize dial-up would make it hard to make money on the internet as most of the internet isn't really even usable with such a slow link.

If you are a real person and your story is real, you still have a job that pays ok for your country.  Just continue working and stop gambling.  

if you wanna save more than 10 ppl....post your story on reddit

They don't pay me by hours, they pay me each 1.5 months for all those hours minus the days off. What would be the point of calculating how much I earn each hour feeling what I'm feeling now? I didn't calculate the 0.04% myself, there was a chat on the gambling site and other users pointed the strategy out and I just changed it a bit. I can tie a knot, but you wouldn't understand what I mean unless you see my house. I read on internet that if you take enough rat poison, even after you go to a doctor they wouldn't be able to save you, I'm gonna take everything I have in the storage.

I don't use dial-up myself, I use 128 kbps ADSL but not many people have that because they usually don't need it or don't know about it. I do get enough from my job to get by but because of the cost of my mother's hospital I'm having a really though time these days. I had to delay my rent more because I had to pay for her hospital, now without the saving I can't pay for the rent and this is the last month. My calendar is different that yours, you can read about it if you want. When I receive the next payment from my job, it will be late. The money I have now would only be enough for buying food for a week or so and I can't pay the rent in time.

Then its your own fault trying TO  ab "histaker" then.
Your fault to pick a not skillful game. Even I from 1000 satoshi i reached 0.07

You have explained yourself better.  The reason I ask about your hourly wage is it gives an idea what you could do that would be an improvement.  Your problem seems to be you don't have money. 

I would reconsider suicide.  I can't speak about Iran and all the weird social pressures you face because I do not understand. It seems like if you were paying for your mother's hospital you did an admirable thing.  There should be no shame in that.  Maybe you should move out of the house and move in with your father ?  Surely there must be some other option. 

If you think you can beat a gambling game, seriously reconsider it.  The people in the chat box might have been working for the casino.  The chances of you finding a casino that allows a strategy to beat it is approaching 0.  There are very few people in the world who do this, but many think that they can.  You are not alone.  You are still young and like to be dramatic.  You are 22, educated, have a better than average job.  You did the right thing helping your mother out.  I see no shame or why you would kill yourself.  I was pretty down on life when I was your age too.  Cheer up.  Life savings at 22 doesn't matter too much.  Gamblers lose their life savings all the time at that age. Stop gambling!

If you are going to kill yourself, please find some other way.  I can't imagine going out by rat poison, especially some poisons.  If it is cyanide then it might be over with quickly.  In America rat poison means you would slowly bleed to death.

I would agree that you should really think about what you are doing. You really only get one shot at life so you might as well make the best of it rather than giving in and throwing it all away. You have faced hardship - the best way to approach it is to bounce back and fight harder.

From a mathematical perspective, you'll never actually be able to beat the house in the long run and while variance does happen and you can win you are just as likely to lose. No-one will or ever has found a strategy, to do so you would have to prove 1=0 and if you can do that we have some far, far, far bigger problems.

WHatever you do, do not play the holdem gambling game on ritzgrandcasino.  I have never seen a game as rigged as that one.  Seriously.  The rules are made so that it seems like it should be beatable, but then you realize that the dealt cards are not fair.  They are not anywhere near fair.  Ritz does not even try to be subtle about it.

I've seen people claim rigged-ness off a grand total of 3 rolls on JD before. If you want to claim that a casino is lying based off the results of the games then you would have to do at least 1 million bets to have the variance at a low enough point to actually suggest what your saying is true.

No game is 'beatable' if it has a house edge. You will lose in the end. On that note I can't claim to know whether they are fair or not - I have not personally audited their RNG system so I would urge you to check it yourself before you gamble there or anywhere.

I don't want to make fun of you, I have better ways to enjoy my time anyway.
I mean, you should just accept donations from the community to be on the right path.

We are all human afterall, we understand you, and as I said, if you wanted to play your luck with something real and risky, it's ok for me. Dice game is like asking to people... should I play next roll high or low?
You will find people that plays hi and some low.

While on blackjack for example your life is at risk when both of you and dealer have 11 and you decide to double the bet. That's the highest risk I would take.

It's not that simple, I've lost too much coins and too much time for some donations to save me.  I've lost all of my savings, even if I get donations it would be far too late by the time I get enough to pay the rents. This is the last deadline for me, if I don't pay I have to empty the house. I can't take that much money from random people, even if they were kind enough to give it to me by the time I get it it would be too late. There's nothing I can do now, I have to pay the rent in 4 days max if I get lucky and take an extra day.

The only reason I gambled all my savings was because I needed more than it. Even if I get my initial savings back from donations, after paying the rents with it, I still wouldn't have enough to get by until my next payment or at least barely have enough.

This may be slightly offtopic , but I was wondering something.

If poison is old and expired , does it become more poisonous or less poisonous ?

For your sake , I hope it does not become less poisonous , leading to a slow and painful death.

JD seems fair and easy to understand , yet not perfect.

On the other hand , RGC is really really shady.

I've been searching for ages , and you can really set a client seed.
But you have no idea to verify , you just need to hope that they used your seed.

I'm pretty sure they can't publish the numbers , as I wouldn't guess that they have really good odds.

Gambling is that, a gamble. Gamble responsibly. For fun.
And remember the House always wins.

I don't really know but the one I have is really antique, what I know is that if I consume all of it, I WILL die eventually.

Put it all on Nadal!   ;D

If this is serious, please get off an internet gambling forum and seek mental advice and help from more qualified individuals  :-\  Hope this is a joke

Okay , I've done some research.
It will still be poisonous and you will die a slow painful death from internal bleeding about 3 days after consuming it.
Not fun.

Anyways , how much exactly is your rent ?
You should scrape through , you can do it pretty easily with the internet and generous Bitcoiners. (assuming you don't get flagged as spam and burnt)

From what I read, if I drink all I have, it shouldn't take more than a few hours. Maybe you've read about a different poison or what I have isn't called rat poison in English.

I have to pay 1 btc at least before the deadline only for the house rent alone and "lightlord" has been really generous trying to help me but I really can't accept money from other people. There's just no reason for them to help me, even if they're kind enough to do so, I still won't have enough in time so I asked him for a wallet and I'm gonna return him the coins he sent me. I only gave him wallet so he can see how I lost everything so suddenly.

Just find the highest building in your city and jump off the top balcony.
See you in another life mate.

So you are saying your "rent" is worth 450 days worth of food.

Damn mate, if my rent is as much as expensive as your rent in that Iran I would have died years ago  ;D

Are you gonna post your smart answer now? I am waiting for it mate.

The cost of property is staggering here, so most people have to pay rents. I have to pay almost 85$ each month for the rent. Same goes for bills, the bills are really expensive too but food on the other hand is really cheap here. You wouldn't starve to death if you manage to live and sleep on the streets.

I really can't believe it but "lightlord" has given me all the money I needed to pay off my rent and I'll be owing him forever for literally saving my life. Now with the rent paid off, I can manage the food and other things myself although it will be a very little bit hard but the main problem was solved. I really can't ever thank him enough for literally saving my life. Thank you lightlord!

 I hope you stay away from gambling for the rest of your life.  If gambling took you to such a low spot then it is clearly something you should never ever mess with again.  Gambling is fun but almost no one ever quits when they're ahead.  That is when they're having the most fun, so why stop?  Then you see the result...  same story happens a thousands of times every hour on this planet.

What part of Iran are you from?

US sanctions have seemed to really contribute to inflation. When I was there last year $1 = 1500 toman. You are saying $1 = 4000 now?

It`s sad to see how much difference there is in this world. In my country, the average salary is around $400 a day now..  :-\

I'm not sure why you've decided to post on a bitcoin forum.  Do you WANT to die?  Or are you simply committing suicide because you believe there is no other option?  If it's the second one, don't kill yourself, go meditate.  I'm not sure why you lost it all, then got a bit, and then decided to lose it all again. 

Never gamble with what you can't afford to lose.

I met lightlord in real life at a cafe.. he's a good guy.

It's unstable between 3000 and 4000 tomans.


I will man, I'll never ever gamble in my life again.


I was hoping my story would stop someone from gambling what he can't afford to lose.


He really saved me, thanks again lightlord.

And by Cafe.. you mean a gloryhole. :D

Are you that guy I met at Waves coffee? Because I did met someone at a cafe in downtown Vancouver that
was a Bitcoin user on bitcointalk.org. I don't remember who, but it was like 6 months ago I think.
I generally go there to sell bitcoins, etc, very convenient, though recently been using local bitcoins
as the fee is better.

Also profited several times, by buying BTC at $330 there, and selling at $500 several times, made quite a decent amount of $$$ doing that.

never gamble, for sure.

All gamblers, even the sucessfull guys have been broke multiple times.

If you saved what you consider to be a huge amount of money in 1.5 years why would you kills yourself? Just do it again and buy something with it that you cant gamble with, like gold. You have to die anyway so just might as well go down fighting.

Hmmm... I'll make an exception. Feel free to transcribe an LTB episode (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=562541), OP. It pays .15BTC per episode transcript. Shouldn't take more than a day (probably <5h once you have it down).

Yeah, that was me.

Nah... probably not :/  Real gamblers always be like "it happened to that guy, doesn't mean it'll happen to me."  Besides, there are little to no people in your current situation ;)

Can you please explain a bit more about it? I didn't quite understand.

Sorry. I forget how incomplete that thread is since I decided not to move qwk's ruleset over. Basically, qwk and Adam at Let's Talk Bitcoin have put together a bounty of .15BTC per episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin (http://Letstalkbitcoin.com) transcribed. The episodes are ~1 hour long in audio, but generally take a good bit longer to transcribe well. Once you submit a transcript (preferably in .doc format on Scribd.com), I'll proofread it (usually within a couple days), and then you'll be paid.

A more complete list of rules and guidelines for transcripts is here (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=294947.msg3161350#msg3161350).

I still don't understand what it is, I get I have to write something but don't know what exactly. Am I writing a story for a show?

Do you know what transcribe means?

Wanker, hopefully it's happened you instead since then!!!

It means copying something.

Actually, it means writing down what you hear from an audio.
If an audio says: "in the past years I've ate chocolate and milkshake" you will need to write that.

So I have to download an audio file and then type down what I hear like subtitles?

Sort of, if I have understood right ::)

First I am glad you are back from the brink.

Yes, what this appears to be is payment for writing down everything that is said on a let's talk bitcoin podcast.  You'd need to be a good typist and understand whatever language they are speaking in well.  If it really takes 5 hours to transcribe a one hour show that is not too rich of a payment, but it is something!

Good LucK!

Damn, that would be 5111000 IRR... Makes you a millionaire :)
@OP... Glad to see you trying smarter things... Good Luck.  I may be launching some bitcoin freebies sometime in the near future, will PM you if I do :)

Thank you for the encouragement.

Parham, I was there the other night when all this happened. I just saw your thread and had to comment. I am glad to see you are doing better and seem to be in better spirits. I know its hard to lose, I lost over $20k a few years ago playing poker and it was devastating. It wasn't all I had, so I don't even know half of your pain and fear. Please feel free to PM me if there is anything I can help you with.

0.95 Bitcoin that is awful be careful and glad to hear your back from the brink.
Know I keep a small amount in just dice in the investors section for those types of events mentioning it since it might be a safer storage method not quite sure how Iran is for that although cold storage is best a little bit of interest is still a lot for some (although do not put it all in one basket).
But it does suck to lose a large amount of coins hope you will get it back someday and props to lightlord for helping someone know props aren't needed but it seems to be rare these days.
The services thread may help you earn a few coins so hopefully you can earn it back transcribing is just writing down what you hear and putting it in a text file. Signature campaigns at a modest slow pace would probably help subsidize your living in the long run if rent is 85 dollars where a little bit of additional income could make a significant difference.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=615953.0
Best of luck to you and good luck

Where the fuck do you live because suicide is neither illegal or a crime in the majority of jurisdictions.

Great community! well done all, glad to read the outcome of this thread!

Never understood the money is everything attitude, some of us have had lower points in our lives, so what if you can't pay rent? Live on the street for a while, find a new job, live with your dad, stand back up on your feet.

It amazes me how people are dropping dead from financial crises, what kind of degeneracy is that. Do sports, find yourself a girl (or multiple) and stop being a depressed little sad cunt.

give me a free hug TradeFortress, you owe me 0.04 for the signature thing. :|

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On topic:


That's great to hear, but you shouldn't never ever gamble again unless you're fully content with throwing the money away.

Thanks.


You can see here:
https://blockchain.info/address/1FdQjxFXe91ozGuKE9JX3pGWvXJVN7nmYT
https://blockchain.info/address/1459xqYkKZ4AQSQNsAB1nHRTCkBV6hmuf7

Thanks for the suggestions.

Nah, it 's illegal. If you kill yourself, they put you in prison ...  a very small one... true story.

Gambling is a legal drug lol. People don't know when to stop.if your story is real, sorry to hear it.

Probably not a great start for transcribing something, if the poster doesn't know what transcribe means  ;)

I wasn't aware of this, but I don't see that it's "open" for new transcribers, otherwise I'd do it no problem.

I will never gamble again in my entire life, unless someone gives me a referral link or free btc in those sites, in that case I'll only gamble until I'm able to withdraw (or lose).

and so it begins ...

Seriously, I would really advise you to not use such bonus offers. There is a decent probability that it will hook you up with gambling again  :(

I don't have any Bitcoin to gamble with, I have zero because I cashed them out the moment lightlord gave them to me to pay me rent. I can't be hooked up again, even if I get I only lose the free coins I won from referral links and giveaways.

No excuses. Don't gamble.

agree, if you wanna gamble just do it on facebook. ::)  8)

I'll never gamble with my money ever again, not even a single cent. Never.

I have a few particular questions to you, as i have noticed you say you are from Iran and things are tough, everytime i get to look at your thread, you are online. Does it mean Internet there is cheap also. And not having any bad intentions, i assume now you have received the help you needed, we are happy to have you alive but then this thread is dangerous to the bitcoin society in two ways, firstly, it will promote the practice of suicide and MORE dangerously, it can be a hub for scammers. I mean people have sent you BTC because they felt sorry for you, even though they maybe no truth in what was being said. I believe its time for this thread to be closed

Dial-Up is pretty cheap here yeah, but I have ADSL. I'm only online because I have two weeks off work because I told them I'm sick. I can't close the thread myself, I don't think there's any option for doing that.

but do you agree that maybe its tym to close this one and maybe start off a new one with maybe the Title "Gambling taught me a lesson " something like that

You can lock the thread. Go to the bottom of the page and look in bottom left corner, you'll see a bold phrase saying "Lock thread". Click it and the thread will be locked.

Locking this thread now...