I've never seen someone saying that trading is fun, it's no fun and yes it's all about making money, the reason why trading is better is because the addiction is not that captivating like gambling, it's easier to walk away from trading than gambling.

You can limit your losses with futures trading unless you don't know what you are doing, all you need is the right skills and there are features like stop loss that are not available on gambling, if you know how to use stop loss you will limit how you lose money.

I just like trading more than gambling because you don't have to deal with emotional garbage, you don't have to set some rules on how you gamble per week, and you can escape total loss when trading.

Call it whatever you want but you will only understand if you plan to open your own casino one day, it's like running a crypto exchange illegally and the SEC bouncing on you for running an illegal exchange, KYC is compulsory for every legal online casinos or else they are at a greater risk themselves, instead of thinking that they are trying to scam people using KYC try finding out why they want people to verify their ID first before they withdraw their funds.

If you don't want to see KYC requirements and you want to keep gambling, find online casinos that don't require KYC and make sure they made the statement on their ToS themselves because many won't talk about KYC requirements until you manage to win some money first.

If this is why you think they can't be trusted, I am on your side too, but before using any online casino you need to find answers yourself, presumably from other users on this forum.

If the casino is very new and they don't have a certain amount of money to pay the winner, they can come to an agreement of paying the money monthly into the. Winners' accounts on the casino platform, that is if the online casino is a genuine business running by good people that want to progress with their business.

Most new online casinos will pay some amount and avoid paying the rest, if you make too much noise they will ban you from their platform and that's it, no coming back from that, some new online casinos have no mercy at all towards gamblers, that's why I don't like using a brand new casino.

I thought the sons know their fathers better than any one else? He should have known that his father will reject this because they lived together for years, there must have been something like this happening in the family before, when someone is religiously committed they tend to see wrongs in most things that people are doing in the world today to make a living, I will like to ask this son face to face if he knew not that his father will act in this such manner because he should have saw it coming.

It depends on the country, when government put a ban on crypto in my country, the only way left for them to know if I am still doing illegal crypto transaction is my bank account and as someone who don't use bank account for any crypto related transaction I was free.

Ban on crypto will affect using your crypto to purchase or make transaction in the country, you can't go to store nearby and use crypto to pay, since it's illegal, but online? I won't worry much, I wonder how they will know, all you have to do is use peer to peer and you are free.

This won't stop me from gambling on any online casinos either, it makes no sense, because we have DEX platforms and also P2P ways of buying and selling crypto.

There is no way Bitcoin can serve as a global currency in a centralized world, it's more of an asset than a currency, and it would be impossible to imagine it doing so as a global asset. It's not going to happen, but it's perfect as a people's currency. Bitcoin is people's money, and because it is a real decentralized digital currency, the government will never gain control over this beautiful innovation.

Moreover, who needs Bitcoin to become a global currency? None I guess, that's why the power to kill Bitcoin is not in the hands of the government or any law, the future that awaits Bitcoin is massive value as time goes on.

They are both at fault of been too greedy, the gambling agent want to make more money by force, from someone he knew that's already addicted to gambling and probably won't be able to pay back what he owes, yet, he still cruise with the deal.

The gambler himself doesn't care, because his last hope is using the loan to make more money, there are people who do this stupid thing and it turned good for them, instantly they believe they are the smart ones, but not everybody will be that lucky.

Now this person will see why taking loans to gamble is a very bad idea, because the gambling agent will have to use force to make him pay what he owes, I always feel like loan sharks and others feel happy when someone owes them money, they are always prepared to go to war with debtors.

I would rather gamble to entertain myself than trying to walk my way up to some LVL on a casino, I believe this will get you addicted to gambling and you will easily lose your control over your rules and limits.

Professional gamblers? Are there any at all? The prevalence of expert gamblers are focusing on sports bets, because it's still better than some online casino games of luck, still they always lose money too, there is no way anyone won't lose money when gambling, this is not mathematics where all you need is calculations.

Prevent yourself from going bankrupt, gambling should not be your source of daily bread, if you are not gambling to entertain yourself, you shouldn't be gambling.

Are you running a Bitcoin node yourself? Can you drop a picture of your setup? I think it's easier to judge people on this forum without trying to understand some facts about running a Node.

The solution to those leaving their coins on centralized exchanges is not running a Node, it's keep their coins in a hardware wallet or Electrum wallet, if running a Node for them is impossible, it has nothing to do with how or where they keep their coins.

I believe it's not easy to run a full Bitcoin Node for some people, because of power epileptic in their country, them downloading the blockchain data and the power goes off will be frustrating, waiting for the wallet to get full sync is another problem without stable grid power.

It could be happening already, who knows? But there is nothing to prove here that Banks are investing money in Crypto, I think they understand the risk between crypto investment and Stock investment and I am aware of their involvement in the Stock market, they do use deposits from customers' fixed accounts to invest into Stock market, Robert Kiyosaki revealed something like this in one of his videos too, the Banks outsmart the masses, that keeping money in the bank is the best practice for the people, they promised them some percentage per year but they already knew what they are going to do with the customers money.

Not every $1,000,000 dream chasers will end up with such an amount and if you don't know when to stop things could go wrong for you, I've estimated all the money you have won in bets and that's close to 1million, I think you should stop risking this amount in gambling anymore.

If you can't stop, find someone you trust and give the money to them, you are simply becoming an addict already, make sure the money is far away from your reach, and only come back when you have beat the addiction of gambling.

What you already have is good enough to maintain a good life, I don't understand what else you want, millions of gamblers can't get this amount that you've won, assume yourself luck and leave gambling alone.

I would have said that you have a friend that's scared of the possible outcome in the future, he doesn't want to bring you along to see you hurt in the process, but that's not what I am seeing here.

I have read many replies on this thread and many are wrong or they are not completely focus on what OP wrote, if truly his friend is protecting himself why would he take his families along?

Don't tell me that you guys missed where OP said that his relative was how he knew that his friend was into Bitcoin all along and he pretended like he is not, the relative of OPs friend must be shocked if he finds out that there is no Bitcoin relations ongoing between OP and his friend.

This is a case of competition or envy, maybe OP had a good life earlier on and the friend was jealous and getting to know Bitcoin looks like a way to beat his friend's success, I might sound crazy but this always happens between two friends, both males and females around the world.

If all the friend wanted was privacy, his relative won't know about Bitcoin, sorry to say OP, your friend doesn't want to carry you along, maybe you are already in a better place than he is.

The truth about Bitcoin investment is, the richer you are the better, if you have enough money for investment you will enjoy Bitcoin investment.

We can gamble online today with the help of our smartphones and the internet, how the hell will people know that you are a gambling addict and they start calling you that? Well if that's the case then you must have done a lot of things wrong, like..

1. Borrowing money from people you are living with, either your neighbors or your families.

2. You must have found yourself in a very bad situation that caught the attention of your neighbors, e.g losing a lot of money that you aren't ready to lose and it hit you hard that you wear it on your face.

3. You resulted into a drinker after losing a lot of money and you start misbehaving, or even start revealing everything you did wrong through gambling.

Some people are already waiting for your shaming day so that they can use you to laugh, I don't encourage gambling in the open, and if you can gamble responsibly, no one will know that you lose or win some money, and never tell a soul that you are into gambling because if things aren't going right for you, your secret will be used against you.

There shouldn't be anything g wrong with using a VPN like you said, but you can never know if any online casino will use that against you, your VPN might be the world best but make sure that your journey on any online casino starts with that VPN and the exact IP address, because they could wait patiently for the day when you made a lot of money through their platform and you try to withdraw your funds, that's where all the past allegations will come upon your head with full force, some online casinos keeps record of your activities, e.g the phone you use to log into your account every time, the IP locations and addresses etc.  

I would just avoid all these honestly, because I have been messes up using a VPN before, but that's a very long time ago, they did everything that I wrote on here to me, but that's a finance platform, not an online casino, VPN and my money is something I don't want to try anymore.

After the drop in Ordinals hype, the Bitcoin transaction fee is now even cheaper than ever, I like using Tron and USDT but now, the Bitcoin transaction fee is cheaper, to send Bitcoin from my wallet to any online casino will now cost me 0.36$ to 0.46$ and sending USDT now cost roughly the same but if the USDT is coming from an exchange that's 1$ for withdrawal.

USDT is stable coin that's why it matches the role of Fiat for online gambling purpose and I still have hard times spending my Bitcoin for gambling when I should be holding and keeping for long time, now Tron and USDT feel better but the transaction fee isn't stopping Bitcoin anymore, for now at least.

The only problem any crypto investor can have with Bitcoin is trying to find the bottom, I can assure you that you will miss the bottom and you will have yourself to blame, there is no way anyone can know which or when Bitcoin will bottom and trust me, I hate trying to find the Bottom, even if it's not Bitcoin, you will end up deceiving yourself and you will look stupid.

Your post is from 2022 and I hope that you have already bought your Bitcoin, some idiots who believe that they are the smartest are waiting for 10k Bitcoin, some raised an alarm when the SEC sues on Binance and Coinbase came alive days ago that finally, Bitcoin is heading back to 10k, but instead Black Rock came along, and then SEC settles with Binance US...

See what I am trying to say? It's easier to miss the bottom in crypto.

The risk of investing in Bitcoin is where you should have started your Bitcoin initiation from.the beginning with your friends, you are making them feel like Bitcoin is totally risk free and they will get rich soon, sorry OP, you are not fit to introduce Bitcoin to people.

You simply gave them what they want to hear, the easiest way to make money without any worries or risks, this is wrong OP, some friends won't tell you a lot about the money they want to use for the investment until they invest and things are looking stagnant, that's when you will hear their cries.

Trust me, I have been there and I have learned my lesson, always tell them the scary side of investing in Bitcoin first and see how they will react, maybe they planned to invest 10000 and after hearing about the risk, they decide to limit the amount to 2,000$, it's still better this way.

There is no way around putting limit to your losses than training yourself to know when to stop gambling, and that's why staying on your plan for the day or week is the best, if you plan to gamble with $5 per week then let it stay that way and never use more than $5, either when you win or it's losses for the week.

It's not like trading where you're able to set stop losses for your trades automatically so that it won't get totally wrecked. This is why gambling is more risky than trading, because with trading you can design your own strategy, thanks to the many tools available, and set stop losses to prevent you from going back to nothing.

I spent more time on trading than gambling, because trading is more skills oriented than gambling, which makes trading less risky.

There shouldn't be panic while holding Bitcoin because it's Bitcoin, there is no greater risk to holding Bitcoin unless you lost your private key or you sell too early, my panic with crypto investment comes from altcoins only, and I really can't do without altcoins because they always bring me a better return of investment over Bitcoin. Only those that don't understand Bitcoin very well get panic while holding it, Bitcoin is well recognized and it's the market mover overall, if bigger companies are buying and holding Bitcoin everyone should be smart enough that it's just the beginning.

This discussion is not that necessary because we all know that men are up in numbers when it comes to taking risk in a certain job or other, gambling is very risky and men are made to be tougher, when they lose they smile and move on, many women can't withstand what men are facing, not even for a day, they might end up in an Asylum or something.

Only smart women will understand that no matter the measurement strategy between men and women, the difference is night and day, the world became what it is today because of men, they did all the hardest work, oil fields, gold mines, train tracks, and many many more.

I have seen limited numbers of females gambling online, they hardly do, and once they lose they aren't coming back, the reason why some men are addicted to gambling is because of pressure in society, they don't want to be looked down on like worthless pieces of trash.