Its clearly understandable that gamblers are anything but frugal spenders. They once addicted will spend more than they can afford and its something that they cannot control. A frugal person on the other than will budget and spend as per need trying to save every penny at every instance so much so that they become obsessed with savings.

The better term is bankroll management and again another concept less understood by gamblers who regularly play EV- games and burn their sats on slot machines and dice rolls.

Casinos who have gone scam have been scam from the beginning, they got caught eventually and then the sufferers are the ones who were playing on it. Thing is that you should stick to well-repuated and old casinos before jumping into new ones. With so many of them coming up who is going to certify something as genuine or not? The forum cryptographers who are tech-savvy and are well versed with provably fair systems can help you decide in this regard.

Genuine casinos will ban users who try to exploit or cheat the system. There is nothing wrong in this and all such cases the casino gets public support.

The news of influencers should never be taken at face value, heck anything that you see or hear should be questioned and observed before accepting.

I have investments in all the traditional markets and crypto. All have their pros and cons and knowing only one of them is a disadvantage.

One thing I have understood over the years is that speculative trading carries a mental health problem. Hence a cushioning effect is necessary and that is where different classes of assets come in. One day market A may crash but market B might not. You mind gets cushioning from the fact that you have investment in market B too.

Those who have experienced the market will understand what I am trying to imply.

Coming to stocks I mostly go for long term holding of well reputed companies, their dividends keep kicking in every quarter.

One common question I face, is that bitcoin does not exist in real unlike physical money. I try to explain that bitcoin can be acquired by spending physical money similar to what the barter system has been at one time. It is minted solving a math problem by the miners, but these things boggles the minds of non-techy people - how is that even possible is the next question I face.

Clearly we are ill-equipped to answer such questions. Lets make this thread a place where we can discuss about common problems and logical fallacies that we are facing when trying to spread the knowledge of crypto.

I would have bought both if this crazy space lover guy had not come in to shill for one make the entire crypto ecosystem look like a joke. In the light these recent events, I would prefer Litecoin being the silver to bitcoin and buying that. Even then I dont see much price movements in the future that I can ascertain unlike bitcoin and hence would not invest more than a grand.

I sold most of the DOGE when that shilling happened and made a good profit off it. Never looked back at them. I still believe litecoin can have a good future.

For gamblers, there is no "nice hit" because any win needs to be doubled, tripled and quadrupled, etc. They never get satisfied with the win they have and forget the manage their bankroll such that they realize their win in order to stop.

If I win a big amount I would leave and cash out, but that I if I gambled in the first place. Gambling should not be thought be a method to make money for the player but only for the casino. It is an entertainment for the players and if they manage to land in the green zone, they should exit with whatever they have.

This a common modus where a victim is shown to profit from trading on a scam trading website and then when the victim try to withdraw that won amount they want a certain amount refundable deposit.

The entire thing is a scam:
1. That trading they did was fake and was pre-determined
2. The money they are asking for will never be refunded. Remember that in crypto you cannot reverse a transaction on your own. If you have sent the money its GONE, no questions asked.

Please try to ascertain where your "friend" got this site's link from and tell them to avoid such corners of the internet.

Prediction 2: $30,152
bech32 address: bc1qyhhkhdcml6cfzsjk3wm42jezu689f3mghh3lea

Specifically speaking about that amount, no I did not sell, but that amount went into the same wallet where I store my campaign earnings and hence it has been a big boost in my course of accumulation of bitcoin. I have rarely sold, mostly for buying some gift cards and paying for some services, which is a minor total amount.

Hence specifically I never sold that chunk in one go.

The grocery chain I that I buy my stuff from, I buy their gift card which comes in predermined amounts on Bitrefill, and then I redeem them on the grocery site. However the gift card "availability" also varies and often they are unable to provide my with giftcards with reasons "out of stock". Then I just wait it out, top up my bitrefill account and set up an email notification to notify me once those card are "back in stock".

But such incidents have reduced in frequency recently.

I hope that clears your confusion.

The ads are there to promote family planning not get people addicted to porn. It is how we take things, someone may get excited and wish to watch porn. Similarly someone may wish to make money and go into gambling. The correct thing is to know that gambling exists and people try their luck but also realize that gambling is a mode of entertainment and so is porn. It is not the actual method to make money.

So take home message, Taxation on gambling (and condoms ) will continue to exist, but gambling and intimacy will continue under the tax officers noses like they always have.

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I think we have steered a lot offtopic, myself to blame (Sorry!)

I still remember the heart stopping moment of when I rolled 10000 one fine morning 16th of October 2016 and was staring at my device for a few minutes and pinching myself that it was not a dream.

Before this there was a huge distrust among the community that 10k for 200$ prize was actually never possible and my post was criticized a lot too but I tried my best to clear the distrust and wetsuit created the giveaway of the ones who report 20-200$ wins would get 5$ rewards on their account from then on.

Here is the link to my thread where I declared my big win: Got 200$ from Freebitcoin today morning, call that a BIG WIN

I still roll whenever I have time hoping to see another one soon

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Oh and I noticed we just hit page number LEET, noice!

It is possible that the account may have been hacked, but there has not been any password change on that account.

Best way for them to prove ownership would be to sign a message from their address posted on the profile page. However that is not a staked address as per what I found on their page at ninjastic - https://ninjastic.space/user/id/122968?addresses

A number of other accounts with the username "money" in it have been listed there.

For now, lenders should ask for collateral or deny the loan.

I agree with the point that @Royse777 made, if you ask someone who visits this forum give me some examples of crypto based gambling sites and the first thing they are going to blurt out are Stake, Roobet, Duelbits and so on. They are not going to say BetMoose which is a Canadian mutual betting platform that I know about but very few people here might. Then there is also  the idea of constant bombardment with the banners so to keep the same thing in the users memory even if they dont use it at all.

Review campaigns serve a different purpose, I would like to add to my previous comment that after reading some comments in this thread I have felt that reviews are paid here and hence they are going to inorganic and having a biased opinion. That does not mean they dont help the project, but should be taken with a bit of salt for a consumer.

Advertisements of Condoms with sultry scenes done by famous actresses are also there, these are usually the gulity pleasures of many kids and were once ours too when internet access was not so common. Same with gambling based ads, in my opinion.

What is needed is awareness to be able to resist such types of temptations and follow what is needed for our betterment. Because money is so easy to spend these days, it must be saved before being spent. A lot of stuff comes in to discussion here and I think kids should be a part of that and taught the amount of hard work that goes in to earn each paisa.

I have been using them on a single merchant at a limited value per month. For that purpose I think this is a good option. Monthly I top up the account and then buy it whenever they are in stock.

Also I dont sell them but use them only for my person use so I did not face any drawback in this case. You could say that one problem is that stocks get cleaned up very quickly though.

There are often a multitude of reasons for such movements and speculating them only leads to more frustration because none of the reasons actually have any concrete link. Same happens in the stock market and hence there are ways to take advantage of them instead of losing your hair.

Because you should have bought when the prices were around 25-26k USD (Bear market, get that?) and place the limit order at 30k USD - if you did that and the price crossed for whatever damn time, you would be in a 5-4k USD profit/BTC.

This simple trick of keeping the order open may lead to unexpected profits on your account.

Investment needs time to yield the profit. However there are some fundamental differences between crypto and non-crypto assets which should be carefully understood before buying any from the investors point of view.

Patience is something of a virtue here, you cant hope to make money from bitcoin just by buying a lot today. It will cycle through bear and bull and then you sell it to get the profit. Haste will lead to waste here and the altcoins shining out as methods to quickly get rich are horrible choices often taken by newbies and gullible people.

I would go with the lump-sum, assuming you mean a big amount when the price drops. That once held for long gives you enough price to sell at a decent profit. This means that instead of buying every month in DCA you buy once every 4-6months during a bear market and you sell like that in a bull market. Use the profit to buy back at the next bear market and continue to multiply your money.

This needs patience and by that I mean a lot of it. Fortunately I can do that because I have other sources of income. So that cushioning is needed for anyone attempting this method.

Well firstly, dont gamble at all.

But we all would not be here if the above was true would we?

Hence start with a bankroll management, budget how much can spend on gambling (=waste for fun) and how much you need to pay off your debts and expenses.

If you find yourself struggling with this, you may need to control your habit of gambling and start saving big time.