That too, sincere help is better than a forced one because you know that the person cares about you. Open mindedness is a mindset that needs to be learned early on in life because being open minded is difficult when you're an adult with an established belief. The victim blaming part is a difficult one because when you listen to the argument of these people that do this, they always sound so logical and reasonable but the problem is that victim blaming invalidates their horrific experience into a lesson that will soon be forgotten after listening to it, I hope that more and more people learn not to do that kind of thing against people that are a victim of addiction and many other horrifying experiences out there. Good for your friend to be able to stop gambling and live a life free of that vice.

Shouldn't it be the casino's responsibility to inform their players that there's a changing in the terms and conditions? That's downward unethical to just do that unless they've stated that they can change without a notice but then, that's still an unethical thing to do because you're basically cheating your customers and breaking their trust. For me, I really like when they're just upfront when it comes to KYC, there's nothing wrong with that so why hide that and do a weird turnaround when they're withdrawing? And then some of these casinos are even crazier because when you finally comply with that underhanded KYC, they would subject you to the waiting game.

I guess it's that time for them to learn something new then, sure it's unnecessary if they have a decent self-control but the point is that at the very least they've got an option on how they should do things and you can't really say it's a great option and then the next thing you say that it's unnecessary, that's contradictory.

There are some stuff that can easily bypass through a phone's security and even on the app store that are supposedly safe for you to download on stuff, you can see some apps that can bypass through that are Trojan. You also can never be sure of official sites because there are scammers that imitates the official website and pays top dollar to get on top of the search engine results which buries the official site on 3rd or 4th place in the results. The best thing to do is to double or triple check so you are sure that something isn't fishy.
Nope, reformat is the best thing to do if there's a potential that you've downloaded a virus together with an app, that's the only way to remove the virus and be sure that reuse of the computer is clean slate. Virus don't go away just because you've deleted the file that it came with because some of them install themselves somewhere that's different from the destination of the file that they've been with.

Have you checked on any of your recent programs that you've downloaded? There's a possibility that the reason why the Windows Defender didn't detect this is probably because it's a Trojan and an advance one at that as Windows Defender is already a good antivirus program so you can probably check on the previous downloads that you've done. Is this virus only a thing for computers? Or is it on mobile too? It's a scary thing for me because I'm not really checking too much on which address I would send my bitcoin so I'm a likely victim to this, good thing I don't do a lot of transactions.

You can click on the HELP and learn the basics of navigating the forum, always ask the questions no matter how dumb do you think they are to you, just ask and never hesitate to ask. You don't need to worry too much about the forum and at the same time, you just have to be an active participant in the forum and if you have a marketable skill that you can do online with a computer or a mobile phone, you can check out the Services board to see if you can find a job there.

That's a decent thesis to follow, a lot of people have regretted not getting into bitcoin and they're not really that into missing out again if they can help it, plus it's the easiest thesis to follow when it comes to bitcoin investing, all you need is patience to wait for your bitcoin price to come and then buy again when the price starts going down and setting another goal.
Totally agree, not knowing where you stand in something will ultimately be your downfall and in the case of bitcoin investment, neutral or indecisive stance will lead to losses and discouragement from investing in something ever again. If you don't like complications, just follow the first investing thesis since you don't have to work too much in terms of analysis there but do what works best for you.

You seriously need to get out of that country that you're from if that's the norm on the retirement is because that's downright sad that the notion of retirement sounds like a choice and not the fate of working your ass off for a long time. Maybe if the workers made unions and try to ask for a fair wage that's updated to the current standard of living, maybe we would see less and less people becoming miserable with their jobs, that's the only way that workers aren't going to become robots that would look at retirement as a death sentence for their livelihood.

Diversification is definitely a good thing but the problem in my opinion with that is that not all altcoins even those with promising technology and other stuff, you're still risking a lot of your money in diversifying in hopes that you can hit a lot of altcoins and get more profit when you can just buy bitcoin and hodl, it's more a better option that diverse number of crypto because with bitcoin, you're guaranteed to make a profit if you're patient unlike altcoins that are 90% likely not to go up after one peak in prices.

What are you talking about? How can they exactly prove that banks are one of the reasons why it's a big reason why crypto projects fail. Of course they're not immune to fraud, but banks have a way to be able to detect them and find them and that's not even the point of this post anyway. How exactly is it normal that there's a lot of projects that fail?

I get the plight that you have OP, maybe the reason why we all have these so-called "useless" stuff in this world is probably because our species is an innovator and we are trying to create a perfect life and so we end up having to spend this time creating stuff that we believe is essential until another one builds the same thing but has a different name and have a minor difference in function. Another thing that I believe is making us think this way and how we're creating stuff we don't need is because our brain can't or is programmed in a way that we can't stop doing something or that we can never feel boredom so we have to continuously think and innovate or maybe it's just capitalism in full working order.

Nothing in particular, probably just save enough money so I can buy more in case the black swan event happens after or before the halving, that's probably all that I've got in terms of plan for the halving, I trust bitcoin and I have a target price so I don't think I have much to do besides having to hodl for as long as I can or until I get to the price that I promised I would sell all of my bitcoins in. That's not a big or grand plan but I'm happy with following that plan and I thought it's worth sharing.

As much as I do think too that there's nothing we can do to those people that still chose to get scammed by this or rather take chance that this is the real deal, I still feel bad that they're that desperate about finding ways to get ahead in the crypto landscape, I guess when you let the money blind you, you let anyone that offers you a too good to be true of a deal get a chance to scam you and step all over you at the end.
Why would you say a professional scammer but then say he's not the brightest? That's an irony if I've seen one, so technically this person is a professional dummy then? I just hope that this scammer finally find remorse and hopefully find the strength to make an honest living.

That's a bad way to do business, lying to your customers whom they've trusted that they're not going to need any type of KYC to play there and from what OP had said, the withdrawal came from a win so how the hell can that be a possibility that the money comes from a money laundering operation? It's weird thay they've allowed OP to withdraw 3 times with no problem and then do this stuff, maybe OP really did flag some identifiers for a money laundering that the team has put in their site or they're just being an asshole, the only way that I can think that OP has created this kind of problem is that the last 3 withdrawals were consistent to a schedule or something like that.
That's the same thing for many people though? The semantics and the meaning of the words will just be the same for some people and at the same time it's going to confuse them anyway. When it comes to this stuff, there's no grey area, it's either there's a KYC or there's no KYC.

Maybe just want to expedite the process of exploration which isn't a bad thing so your own exploration at the least isn't that difficult for you, maybe a little introduction video on how to navigate the forum can be helpful, I'm sure that not all newbies are pressing the HELP tab on the upper left so I don't see how harmless can a small video tutorial can do and if you actually let people at the least watch this before they complete their registration, we might help cull the amount of spammers registering new accounts.

Hodling isn't really earning money, I assume that OP is asking for a way to earn money without the hassle of having to hodl for long, you know something like joining signature campaigns and doing work and getting paid. Telling OP that learning is a good start isn't really the advise that OP is looking for but it's a good advise and to OP, if you want to earn satoshis here in the forum, you might want to check out the Services board, you might find some users that are looking for some services there although you probably need to have a profitable set of skills like programming or maybe even some sort of skill that involves computer or artworks.

The highlighted part means that you already have a good mindset already OP so I don't think that it's going to be difficult to teach you anyway about some stuff about bitcoin and how you can make benefit from it. I don't agree with you about bitcoin becoming a major project though, it's already there, you could've been right about that if it was around 2010 to 2012 as there's not a lot of people that's talking about bitcoin back then but now it's the future already. Stay and participate in this forum as much as you can and want OP, this is a good place to get answers for your questions, ask all of the curiosities that you have and people are bound to answer.

Long as I can still do a P2P transactions on it then I don't mind bitcoin not having a legal status in my country, I love bitcoin but if the worst thing has come where it's being criminalized to even own one then I would probably just stop using bitcoin until I can get out that country and then reap the profits there, I don't want the hassle of having to deal with hiding just to use bitcoin, in a way it's like I'm hodling my bitcoins out of fear that I will be criminalized for owning one. Hopefully my country is always as backwards thinking as it always and just stay in the gray as long as possible.

What do you use that computer for? If you're using it for your school and such and you are also doing some side hustles with that work then wouldn't it be counterproductive for you to sell that? I mean you could probably do more work with a computer and get more value out of it than just selling it and buying bitcoin right now and waiting for bitcoin to go up in prices, that 100 monthly investment is already a good number to put in bitcoin so don't be too hasty, you might want to leave some money for yourself in cases that you need a quick cash, it's going to be a problem for you if you were to have an emergency and you don't have a quick cash to pick up and you end up having to take some in your bitcoin stash.

I say that it would do you better to just invest in bitcoin only, maximize the potential profit by buying more right now when the price is just starting to run hot with the anticipation of the bull run and with the halving still in the near future, best believe that you're going to be better off investing in bitcoin only. I'm not saying it's bad that you're investing in Ethereum but think about it, there's going to be an altcoin season after a bitcoin bull run anyway, it's wise to go for taking a profit at bitcoin first and then trying to get in Ethereum after.