Bitcoin core is a bad choice for many beginners, I said this because OP stated that he is not even holding a lot of Bitcoin, but he planned to hold for the future, I doing someone like him can afford to run Bitcoin core and download that massive data.

It costs me $30 to get 300MB in my country every damn month and Bitcoin core requests over 500MB right now, that will cost a lot, since this is even Bitcoin we are talking about there are many good Bitcoin wallets out there now compare to alt crypto wallets.

I recommend Unstoppable wallet, everything OP asked for is present in this open source non-custodial Bitcoin wallet, Electrum is also a good choice but I can't recommend the Mobile version, it is too buggy, Unless OP has a laptop PC, but Unstoppable is available on mobile phones, the best ever for anyone looking for a Bitcoin wallet for mobile phones.

Many people don't check their lotto results because every day is like a normal day where they don't always win so they get used to it.

Claiming your reward the same day is great and a day after is also great but if it takes too long something else might happen.

I read somewhere online that there is a timing to how long you can delay your jackpot from lotto, I think it's up to a month or so. I can't remember but even if you keep losing every time don't ever stop checking.

The longer it takes to claim your rewards the harder it will get to verify and pass all the necessary checkups and documents, always check, every winner has their days, and you never know when yours will be.

He is very stupid for taking his life, if he get arrested or charged to court and get locked up how will he pay the debt back? So they will have to come up with an agreement to start paying the money back.

I know someone who owe a lot of money too, he was arrested few times and they made him Pay the money slowly through is job, as he get paid every month some percentage is sent to the person he iowesand the rest is for his survival and also his family too.

Every country has its debts, even the rich have debts too, taking your life because of debt makes absolutely no sense, something he could have prevented if he only used money that belonged to him, he will now be punished for taking his own life in the afterlife, he can't escape this.

Financial losses are better, because you invested your money hoping to bring you rewards, but gambling is different, you want to hit the jackpot in a day, it will surely comes with emotions and mental issues if care is not taken.

To say the truth, I have wished to be a winner like someone else many times before, but I couldn't let go of the reality that this is gambling, also I strongly believe that someone else path can't be the same as mine, so I move on after the weird feeling and thoughts.

When it is my time to gamble I still go my old ways, using the same amount I have been risking on gambling and I stop once I run out of money, I don't do what others are doing even if they get more luckier than me, it makes no difference, I could embark on what they did and I will be the one to lose.

You can't always be as lucky as others, and this gambling thing is all about luck, so why would you wish for something you can't control? It is safer to protect yourself when it comes to gambling, you can copy others in something else but not in gambling.

Come to think of this, it is a big problem if young people are not taught about gambling, I so agree with this idea of lecturing teens about gambling in schools but at the same time some teens don't get into gambling because of their environment, no one is doing it and they don't need to, if gambling lectures are brought to school it will be more eye-opening to everyone in these schools.

One the reasons why gamblers get addicted all started with how they start gambling from they one, they have no idea what they are about to do and they get lucky, it then becomes a part of them.

The world is turning into a more tasking place to be, it feels like the dead are the lucky ones, money is now a problem for everyone, including kids in schools, I wonder how many will focus on their educations if a part of them is worried about surviving, and since some gamblers are still getting lucky it makes these teen feel like they are the next on the line to make some good amount of money from gambling.

If you are a parent with teens at home, you should consider talking about gambling to them, you may never know who is into gambling already and hiding it from you all this while, don't wait until they are been thought in school, this is just an advice, it may never be implemented.

I guess that's because the airdrop tasks required aren't hard enough for them to see it as a worthy way of earning money.

I know such people exists, not until they get tired from doing a harder job they won't see the likes of airdrops as tasking, to them it is still free money.

Still, this doesn't mean they should risk everything on gambling at once without a responsible strategy, mind you, airdrops don't pay all the time, from my own side of view it is still not that easy to make money from airdrops.

Or am I missing something? Do airdrops pay all the time? The last time I went all in on airdrops only 2 out of 20 pays as promised, they mostly don't care, you do all those tasks and you get nothing in the end.

Now think about wasting all the money from a airdrop that paid after so many airdrops failed to pay? It makes no sense.

I don't believe that anything is free, if you are getting something for free you should check yourself and your environment, you could probably be in danger to yourself or a threat to others.

If CEOs and his team members will have a webinar call with you then you must be a developer, someone they are planning to have on the team or maybe you are a popular streamer and they want to talk about their projects and their updates so far.

These are reasonable, but it makes no sense for the CEO and his team member to have you on video live as an investor trying to confuse you to buy their tokens, even if this is real it is stupid, because it is either the project is not doing well or they lack good funding, it is better to avoid it anyways, but most importantly they are always scams.

I don't blame scammers, I blame the newer technology, because they made them available to everybody, both the evil ones and the good ones, there is no way this won't happen, the better the innovation is the more useful it will likely be for bad people.

I am tired, I got out of crypto because of the constant vigilance that crypto requires from me, it is too exhausting.

You can't trust anyone, you can't trust anything, all you have to keep doing is keep verifying everything, but for how long?

To keep your crypto assets safer they said you need a hardware wallet, as if this is the end to the worry, only to start guiding your recovery seed again.

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These words are not mine, but from someone who always bothered me about crypto lectures, I am surprised that he is giving up, some truth does present in what he said but ....

I guess he is just lazy? Or he want something different all along?

I think crypto isn't for everyone, some won't just be able to cope with crypto investment, maybe because they are lazy asses or they need to be elsewhere to make their money? What do you think about this?

Have you seen people giving up on crypto after they spent some time doing research on crypto and even investing?

Unfortunately, common sense is not common.

If not, why would anyone borrow money all because of gambling? When it comes to risks you shouldn't be using money that's not yours, most times they will land you in trouble, I almost took a loan to invest, yeah you heard right, to invest in crypto some weeks back but I changed my mind, now the asset have dump like 20% more.

This is why DCA is the best, slowly accumulation rocks, back to the gambling discussion, the risk in gambling is even higher than investment, you can lose everything if luck isn't on your side for that day.

Even if the money is all yours, think about the hard work you put in before getting the money, people don't get it that luck doesn't happen always, and it is clearing that this is what brings money for the casinos, you won't always get lucky, and most times you will lose, do someone needs to tell you to thread carefully around gambling? No.

You really have to be someone who likes boxing to place bet on boxing, this game has some strict rules but is very entertaining if you like boxing, I do not like placing bets on boxing but I love watching the actions, but isn't boxing a game to consider fixed?

For many, boxing could be the worst sport of all to place bets on, I can see why but there are few boxing fans that do nothing else than gambling on boxers, sometimes there was some past fights that ends with unfair result and they are too complicated to judge.

It is always left for the referee or the judge to choose a winner, in this case I don't always like it, some fights have no winner and some are miscalculated and unfair but all in all, you get what you want, to be entertained, that's why you must be a responsible gambler to yourself.

Risk only what you can afford to lose.

You can't even tell a difference until you use different smartphones yourself and the preinstalled OS on the phones is even closed source to me, and yet they claimed it is more secure, all I know is that these manufacturers have their ways of tracking and watching you if they want.

I have used Xiaomi several times and I have no issue with them, I have run crypto wallets on these phones and nothing bad happened, but I never intended to keep large amounts of assets on a mobile crypto wallet anyway, so there is no smartphone that I can't use right now, I have a hardware wallet.

@BitMaxz every Xiaomi devices that I used all supports Playstore by default, I don't know the type that you got though also what security features do you expect from Google? I would rather not have Google running on my phone, if you really want to be safe from possible spies and data breaches Google is a no, this is why till date I don't consider buying a Google Pixel phone.

Just get a Open-Source Android ROM running on your phone, a pal of mine will always install one on his every brand new phone, if you want real security on your phone this is the way or just get a hardware wallet and use your android phone as it is.

Many will say the same, but I guess it is because they aren't into Bible reading that deep, I understand but it is not true that there is no where in the Bible that says that gambling is a sin.

The first Timothy 6:9, 10 says the following..

Gambling even with the smallest amount can arouse a destructive love for money.

Isiah 65:11 says the following....

Gamblers often rely on superstitions or luck. However, God views such beliefs as a form of idolatry, which is incompatible with his worship.

When something isn't compatible with your God's worship that makes it a sin, some part sounds like protection of the people from destruction too but all saying the same thing.

Here is another, from the book of Galatians 5:26, it says

Gambling can arouse an unhealthy competitive spirit, which is disapproved in the Bible.

So now are we going to keep saying that there is nowhere in the Bible that says gambling is a sin?

Runes and ordinals are the new meme coins, unfortunately some people are stupid enough to buy some and hold, thinking that if Bitcoin made a new all time high they will become rich, if I say that I am wondering who will buy from them it is a lie, when retailers start running back to the market they might start buying too because they are bunch of idiots, it was how we never believe that the past meme coins will gain attention but they did, some turn rich and some turned poor.

The way people are investing in these useless ideas is mind bothering, some people Soley care about meme coins only, since crypto is mostly about hype anything can happen, here is what I think, right now it is too early to say that runes and ordinals are done, some idiots will still come back and buy, but when this bear market is over many will end up with worthless inscriptions.

Let's see how things will go this time, I am expecting one more noise on runes and ordinals before they finally died and forgotten, it is a shame that many people will lose a ton of money because of this madness.

The lower the amount they lose the easier it is for them to move on.

I am not addicted to gambling, I am addicted to a few other things that have nothing to do with money, and I love it, for example online gaming, like PlayStation and multiplayer games? I do this to get me on good mood.

I do this more than using money to gamble online, in fact I get more fun times playing video games than gambling, so having some great times doesn't have to do with money, I wonder how gamblers are getting totally wrecked in gambling.

It is a bad advice for many gamblers when you tell them not to gamble to make money, but this is just the truth, never ever use more than you can see lost when gambling, some amount are better stay the same than losing it all, build less expectations from gambling.

Shame on you all using the name curse on drake, a man losing what he can afford to lose, and sorry to say if that amount he lost got you good well it doesn't to him, get used to seeing millionaires losing millions in sports bets, this is normal, as long as they can afford to lose this amount it is fine by me.

I have lost most of my bets than drake as, but because he a popular figure people started taking this seriously, as if because of who he is he should not be losing money to gambling? Some are even saying it is ridiculous, that he is losing money to gambling? As a gambler that we all are, who is not losing money?

If I ask how many times gamblers have become lucky gradually this week alone I trust that the number will be from 0 to 1 as the max, this is gambling, if you are getting lucky know that it is pure luck and things will change soon.

Confidence and luck are not the same, many confidence on a game or sure bets still leads to losses, I don't want to choose a side, I would rather gamble with what I can afford to lose and enjoy the game instead, confidence in gambling is like you saying that you can see the air.

I know a brother who is into sports betting, he kept losing for a long period of time and is life changed after he choose basketball and abandoned football bets, I don't know how he pulled this off but man, this basketball games is very good to him, as if this was where he was supposed to be right from the beginning.

It is not a must to keep putting your head into football, you can try other sports just to see what happen, in your own case you want to win but in my own case I won't mind losing $5 on a game every week, like I make over 100s over dollars per week anyway, when the time is right luck will come looking for me.

I don't see anything on that topic that look like forced, the friend asked for advice and OP delivered, OP wanted the best for this friend it is so obvious, what we can't know unless we ask OP is how familiar this friend is with Bitcoin, because people should not be investing in something they have no knowledge about.

To escape inflation, Bitcoin is a good calling, if the money is just sitting in a bank account for years there will be problems, things are getting more costly, even food is expensive, inflation is hitting very hard, what do you expect? It is only a cool that will keep Fiat in the bank for years now, a million in the bank today will be half a million in value in a year and a half or two, depending on the country's economy.

I don't even want to risk this, I would rather keep my money in Bitcoin, it is left for the friend to accept the advice or say no to the advice, maybe you should read the topic again, there is no single words that look like force to me.

You are just wasting your strength, all gamblers know the rules but some of them are just born stubborn, their ways are "only one way to find out" if they don't fall at first they won't learn, how can I be advising adults about not taking a loan when starting to gamble? You don't have to tell anyone, they already know, even kids in my city knows that loan is a trap.

If any come asking if they can take a loan I won't advise them not to, normally what they expect is you telling them to proceed, and even if you tell them not to they will still do the same thing, everyone knows how unsafe loans can be but something they are special humans, they can find their ways through.

It is possible if you are lucky but gambling doesn't have a lot of room for luck, so don't go out there looking for one, instead focus on having a good time and risk a small amount of money, this is a practice that a responsible gambler will do instead of chasing the impossible.

I am not surprised, many gamblers don't really understand that taking breaks in gambling is the way, gambling is built in a way that you will find it hard to stop, that is even after you win.

No, this is a lame way of gambling, you are to force yourself to stop because believe me, what lies ahead is plans to take back all your money, you run out of funds you stop, you win some money you walk away.

Coming back another day is a great reset when gambling, doing this will make you on predictable for those casino games, trust me, I have better health and expectations when I put unexpected full stop to gambling.

Those games are meant to surprise you, but stopping out of nowhere is you surprising the casino back, learn to know what to stop and also learn to use money you are willing to lose, this won't make you chase some losses.

If I am in his shoe and I escaped this, I might not use the platform anymore, because normally passport should be one of the few ways to pass verification, there should be national ID and also drivers license, I hate platforms that just ask for one, to me it is dubious.

They are going to check that Passport out the same way they will with Drivers license and National identity cards, so why not make all the three available for users convenience?

This is why passing KYC verification first is better than finding out later, we all know that things are changing fast in this space, and just because OP has been using the casino for five years would not write off KYC requirements some day, I accept that they did him dirty if truly he has been using the platform for that long, they should have recognized him as the old customer already.

Gamblers should stop trying to get passed KYC verification, there is no way your favourite online casinos won't wake up one day and start asking for verifications, it is not them, but the will of running the business, they must if they want to keep running thr business.