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1101  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: 'Attack on Bitcoin’ Claims Circulate as Transaction Fees Climb Higher on: May 13, 2023, 08:44:18 PM
The mempool is also cooling off, there were over 400k unconfirmed transactions some days ago, but now it is below 300k and the fee rate for transactions is also coming down, soon the people who are using this situation to spread fud about BTC will have nothing more to say.
The best strategy is really not just stressing over it too much, but just wait for the whole situation to settle,  place any transaction you want to do currently on a must-do basis. Any transaction not important can wait till later after things get normal or you do your transaction in the traditional way with fiat. To serious HODLers, the whole situation of high transaction fees is just another news because they barely use their bitcoins for any form of transaction.
1102  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Crypto VS Fiat Online Gambling as per Google trends on: May 12, 2023, 03:13:31 PM
I may be wrong, but I think that might not also be an accurate result. Have you tried to get that result from different sources and compare if they are still the same? I know that a lot of casinos use Bitcoin or Ethereum as their means of payment, but these casinos still allow people in other countries to deposit in their local currency apart from dollar, so I assume that Fiat is also dominating...
You did a search for "Crypto gambling" , you should have done a search for "fiat gambling" which is broader in perspective than just "USD gambling" which restricts the results to the United States and countries that have the USD as their major currency. A search result for "fiat gambling" will put the currency of all the countries in the world into consideration before a data is given.

The results that was given to you, compared crypto gamblers and gamblers who gamble with fiat which is the USD based on your location. It is possible that in your location crypto gamblers have overtaken fiat gamblers, but it is not the same in other locations.


1103  Local / Nigeria (Naija) / Re: $800m Loan to take pay 5k for six months to Poor Nigerians. Wetin Him dey tink? on: May 12, 2023, 12:05:05 PM
- Is this loan really necessary?
5k is of little benefit to most Nigerians currently seeing how inflation has taken over and the cost of living has increased. This is just a scheme to steal more money before they leave office, and it is not just PMB.

- Why the man wan leave too much debt for him successor?
His successor currently Is BAT (if the Supreme court does not stop the swearing in). Now let us ask ourselves if the administration of BAT will want to focus on clearing the debt from the last administration or will further plunge the nation into more debt.

- Wetin really be the real worth of N5000 per month for market as at today?
Na to cook one pot of soup then chop am for one month.

- Who be the enemies of Nigeria wey dey give am this terrible advice?
The same set of people that have a strong grip on this country. The same cabals always talked about.

I remember hearing on a radio program a while ago how a government official said that the government spends 999 million naira daily to feed primary school children in the country in the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme. What a Horrible lie!! These are politicians are worse than the devil.
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1104  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Another betting fraud in Brazil - part 2 on: May 12, 2023, 11:43:24 AM
Match fixing is common in low leagues, but not in international leagues. This is the reason we should not go for low leagues because their matches can be fixed. Not the leagues only in your country, but many other countries too.
Lower leagues attract lesser attention and scrutiny, it can be a reason why it is always targeted by match fixers for their match fixing. It will not be easy to fix matches easily in the bigger Leagues that almost everyone pays attention to without raising attention and suspicion. Match fixing is terrible and can entirely affect the future of betting when people begin to find out that the games are no longer free and fair as they should be.

The sort of fraud in sports may still be found in other countries that have a huge number of persons interested in sports like football just like Brazil. Match fixing is possible in countries like Argentina, Mexico, Spain and others, although maybe not yet at the Brazilian level.
1105  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Advice when you are going a bit far in gaming and betting on: May 12, 2023, 08:43:52 AM
Budget: set it BEFORE you start gambling and stick to it.
Budget is usually set immediately you receive an income. At that time, the person is expected to allocate a percentage of the income to different expenses for a time frame. Your budget may be weekly or monthly. Have a percentage you use for gambling, stick to it.

Have a break from time to time, it is important to let your brain stop and consider.
Getting used to having breaks will allow you control the habit of gambling.

Avoid drugs / drink as much as possible, they will make you loose some control innevitably.
In other words, someone who already does drugs and drinks should be aware that they are more at the danger of loosing their self control.

Seek help if you feel you are no longer in control. Make a phone call to a friend or go out and speak with someone.
Speak with not just anyone but someone who understands your situation, and will not judge you or try to give self righteous answers.

1106  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: sending bank statement for verification on: May 11, 2023, 07:17:01 PM
10days are completed and i still didn't received my refund, and they told that "if you don't receive your refund in 10 days then you can contact us with your bank statement"

my question is, is it safe to share bank account statement for verification purposes?  the site is reputable, but in bank statement all my information are available. is it safe to share?
You have to first know that you are not the first person that have faced this kind of situation or challenge when trying to fund their casino accounts so they can gamble, and the Casino you are playing has handled this kind of situation before. Since you have already made mention that it is a reputable casino but have refused to share their name, it is either you choose to trust them and go ahead with sending them your bank statement which I am sure that they only need to verify the statement from that day to see if the money left and not your every transaction, or decide to let the money go since you do not trust them enough.
1107  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: The Importants of PSYCHOLOGY in a trader on: May 11, 2023, 03:01:30 PM
* UNDERSTANDING FEAR ÷ When trader get bad new about a certain stock or about the economy in general, they naturally get scared. They also overreact and compelled to liquidate their holding and sit on the cash refraining from taking any more risk. A Trader need to understand what fear is, it is a natural reaction to aperceived threal.
It is the natural reaction for action to happen after the feeling of fear has been accommodated. It is natural to have some kind of fear no matter how hard you try not to show it to seem tough, what understanding fear means to me is for you to understand that the reaction after should not be made without control or consideration. The chances of making wrong decisions in trading increase if you make decisions without controlling the effect that the feeling of fear gives.

*STAY FLEXIBLE÷ It's very important for trader to remain flexible and consider experimenting from time to time.
A trader who refuses to be flexible with their strategy will not be a successful trader. A part of trading requires you be able to observe and know when your strategy is no longer functional or effective and then be flexible ssek and accept changes.
1108  Economy / Gambling / Re: NEW Flush.com Crypto Casino - ♠️ $BTC ♦️ $ETH ♣️ $DOGE ♥️ $LTC on: May 11, 2023, 08:22:22 AM
We're currently working on developing our own original games for Flush, but it will take some time before we can launch them.
This is really impressive! Original games from flush will give a unique flush experience to anyone who plays these games on the flush casino.

It's bad that the tournament is held in slots from Pragmatic Play. I don't like these slots. I will wait for tournaments from other software.
But I note that Pragmatic Play is the leader in advertising on the gambling market
You have a right to your own preferences and opinions, but to openly criticize and say it is bad that the tournament is held in slots from pragmatic play, you have to support it with reasonable reasons.

Is it a personal reason, or from a popular opinion from people around you?
(Your feedback will be of immense benefit to us and the Flush team behind the tournament)
1109  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: with the high transaction fees btc makes me stronger to hold btc. on: May 10, 2023, 10:43:30 PM
It is passively holding your bitcoins, not proactively. You are forced to hold your bitcoins because you don't want to waste too many satoshis for transaction fees. If you don't proactively do holding it, you will return to not holding it when mempools are clearer and network has cheaper transaction fees.
You are not wrong, but passively holding bitcoins due to the high transaction fee can turn someone with a habit of not hodling bitcoins at all into someone who begins to do it proactively if the period where they are forced to hold is long enough (Long enough means different durations. For some people long enough may just be two weeks, while the standard twenty one days to form a habit for others, and longer for others too)

This period will definitely give people a time to pause and rethink how much they have not really been hodling bitcoins. It will give them some time to catch up with themselves for those that making withdrawals have become something of an impulse to them.
1110  Economy / Gambling / Re: 🎰 What software of online casino slots do you prefer? on: May 10, 2023, 10:18:08 PM
I have seen one discussion about the slot provider that gamblers here prefer whether original or third party, I am not surprised to see another discussion about the software of online casino slots and the one we prefer.

I do not even bother to know the software any casino is using, what I prefer is to know if the casino is good or not. If the casino is reputed, I can register and use their site to gamble. When gambling, I will know the games that pays me more than lose and which are the ones I will go for. Everything is for fun for me and I do it as fun.

It can become stressful for new gamblers who just want and is interested in having fun to begin to concern themselves with the software of the online casino slot they are about to play. Old gamblers who have played slots a lot will have a preference for some specific reasons, maybe the one they are most lucky with, but for new gamblers, it will take some time to discover.

 It will take some time before a new gambler will notice and have a preference as I am sure it did for some gamblers here who now know the various softwares and have settled for a preference. New gamblers only get to observe and notice the difference in softwares after they have been playing for a long time. I am still in the process of discovery.
1111  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Do you prefer Original Slots or slots from 3rd party Slot providers? on: May 10, 2023, 02:53:27 PM
My question is this, which one of the two do you prefer and why do you like it more than the other. (Original vs 3rd Party Slots).
Someone who really likes playing slots in casinos likes playing slots not really considering the slot provider. In any new casino they play on they will like to test and have an experience of the slot games they offer, also to have a review for themselves how the original slot from the casino is, but on a general scale, there is usually one slots from a 3rd party provider that they like to play and are already used to, and they will like to see it offered on most casino's they play on, so they can re-experience the feeling it gives them each time. Personally I like original slots, I feel original slots give you an opportunity to have a unique slot experience of the casino.


1112  Economy / Economics / Re: Deposits-in the bank or in gold? on: May 10, 2023, 02:34:31 PM
How to save savings in inflation, there are many deposits provided by the bank, but banks often go bankrupt, does it make sense to buy gold?
It makes sense to diversify your investment to other things like purchase of gold, precious metals, bitcoins and land since these are all limited and will have higher values after inflation but saving or keeping money especially in banks is not wise against inflation. Regardless of the many deposits that may be offered by banks, your money will be lesser in value by the time inflation has dealt with it.

 Money kept in banks should not be higher than the money you have invested, money kept in the bank should be for easy access to fiat and not for savings.
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1114  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Some helpful Telegram Bots to monitor Bitcoin TX, Fees, other TX and this forum on: May 09, 2023, 01:34:13 PM
It's really not difficult to check the current state of the mempool yourself, instead of relying on a bot that does it for you. Plus, you learn something.
You can learn to check it yourself and it is true that you will surely learn something new doing that, but the purpose of bots should not be to transfer complete responsibility, but to help increase your efficiency. Bots can give notifications as soon as there is a favourable change in transaction fees. Because you are human and can be occupied with other activities, it will not be possible for you to always see these changes as soon as they happen, this is where bots come in for the purpose of instant notifications.
1115  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: How's your gambling experience right now? on: May 09, 2023, 12:17:17 PM
The fee is almost 5% of my total bankroll that I was supposed to deposit. I decided to rest for now since I will be down immediately by 5% for a transaction that I don't know when will gonna be confirmed.
You have easily made the decision to not gamble for the now with cryptocurrency because you are not a gambler with a problem about control. You have easily accepted the situation but it is not the same for some other people who are struggling with it and know that even though they have decided to stay away from gambling for the now, they don't know how long that they will be able to stick to their decision without just saying "f*ck sh*t, I need to gamble, and then go ahead to fund their accounts to gamble with, not minding the fee again.

Is anyone still playing today with this high fee?
You will be surprised how many persons still fund their gambling account not caring about the transaction fee because they have the money to do so, and cannot wait. These persons are already exhibiting signs of problem gamblers.

I think those gamblers that leave funds in the casino are very happy that they didn't need to experience this fee drama.
They will be happy yes, but will be thinking about when they exhaust the money there and if the situation will remain the same.
1116  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: What could be the Right and Perfect Counter-Argument for this? on: May 09, 2023, 07:48:13 AM
No one is finding it easy with the high Bitcoin transaction fee. Some of us (Electrum wallet users) are actually stuck because our transactions must be done with Bitcoin. It's sad that we are experiencing this, and what's even sadder is having a Bitcoin critic point this out. They don't stop there but go ahead to write a long thread warning people not to invest in Bitcoin, citing this current issue of high transaction fees when compared with fiat transactions. What could be the right and perfect counter-argument for this?
Critics will always want to criticize and will look for any opportunity even the slightest one to do so. knowing this is a common attribute to critics, you will not want to pay them much attention, because immediately you are successful able to win their arguements with facts they will quickly have another twisted point to pull out.

The whole situation with bitcoin transaction fee and those of us who have bitcoins we may like to use in our electrum wallets should be a reason to want to keep hodling and leave the bitcoins you have there untouched until maybe this situation gets better.
1117  Economy / Economics / Re: Retirement Age for Workers - Does this Make Sense? on: May 08, 2023, 04:24:14 PM
Workers who are approaching retirement age should be given a choice after appraisal to keep working or retire.

What sense does this make? Would you agree or disagree?
People age differently, and while some other people in growing old may become both weak in body and mind, some others may just become weak in body but their minds more better with time. For that reason I feel workers should not just be given a choice but some sort of test to determine is they will be fit to continue working or retire.

If only a choice is given without any form of test to really know the answer, some workers may want to lie about their fitness to continue working productively, just so they can still get the benefits of working in the company.
1118  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: When using Bitcoin to make purchases, do you feel bad? on: May 08, 2023, 11:02:32 AM
However, my issue is that whenever I consider purchasing using Bitcoin, I feel uneasy.
It is understandable that you feel uneasy using your bitcoins to make purchase, it is because you have the mindset of a hodler and someone who has been attracted to bitcoins due to it's ability to be invested in to make profit not for transactional reasons. If you were attracted to bitcoins because of the you were tired of the 3rd party services from banks when making transactions to any part of the world, you will not have a problem or feel uneasy whenever you use your bitcoins for transactions.

Using bitcoins for transactions is part of engaging all the benefits that it offers, not just the investment side.
1119  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: What kind of rewards/bonuses do you prefer? on: May 08, 2023, 09:44:15 AM
Hi we are changing the reward system and we would like to have some feedback before launch the new system

What kind of rewards/bonuses do you like ?

Welcome bonuses , cashback , freespins etc ?

or what kind of rewards would you like to see in an online casino ?

Thanks
A poll would have been added to this discussion, so that at the end you will be able to see which of the rewards/bonuses that gamblers on this forum like the most because everyone has a preference.

Since you are trying to change your reward system, and the aim definitely is to increase and attract new gamblers, it will be important to point out to you that before some gamblers choose to begin playing on a casino even with any promised reward or benefit, they first consider the terms and conditions of the bonuses and rewards offered, the withdrawal limits, wagering requirements, in some cases how long the rewards can last, and how often they will get rewards for gambling even after they sign up for the casino's.
1120  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: How long the high transaction fees will last? on: May 08, 2023, 09:19:49 AM
As a gambler, I'm a bit worried if this trend will continue because I have some fraction of bitcoin that I'd like to use for gambling, especially for the NBA playoffs. So for my fellow gamblers, or those who really need to transact with their bitcoin, what are the best things to do now in order to save from fees and avoid having our transactions stay unconfirmed for too long?
I made a transaction today, but the fee I had to pay was very high to ensure it went through. For me I personally have resolved to myself not to make any other transactions on the network again until the the congestion is less and fees reduced because it is too much for me, and I can only pay such fees when I am under pressure. For gamblers who this development is affecting, It is frustrating, but for the time being you can stop gambling on crypto casino's. Wait till things settle down, or if you cannot wait, go gamble with fiat.
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