What makes you so sure about it? Gold price has dropped 27% since 2012. The price of Bitcoin has increased 5000% in the same period of time. So I wouldn't state that it's obvious that gold is a better investment than Bitcoin. We can't ignore the numbers and just state something just for hell of it if we are discussing economy, right?

What is to be rich in the first place? Most people in the world do not have enough food and even water to drink so I guess everybody on this forum is rich compared to them.

Yes, I would still gamble because I never saw gambling as a way to increase my earnings, on the contrary I lose a small part of my earnings because of gambling. So, yes, if I was rich and thus could afford losing more I would gamble even a bit more.

To maximise the chances of this never happening is easy, I'm pretty sure I will never have such amount or even anything close so the chances I will lose 10k BTC are very close to zero. But if you ask me how would I react in case of losing 10k BTC, well, I really hope that I would have the strength to move on.

I think fastdice is a pretty decent dice betting site. The bets go fast, the faucet can be claimed every 3 minutes and it's 1000 Satoshi and sometimes they give you even more, like 3333 or 6666 satoshi(not many dice sites give you that much). The only thing I miss there is an active chat. They do have chat there but usually there are less than 10 posts in 5 hours. But if you are there for betting not for chatting the site is pretty good IMO.

Looks like a nice site but I don't get this "chance every 10 minutes" thing. No matter what Hash Rate you enter you always get this "chance every 10 minutes" notice. I know it's technically true but I can't call it a useful information because to me it sounds like "every minute you have a chance to die". I think much more useful is a statement like this "in the next 200 years you will die for sure".

But thanks anyway for trying to do something helpful and free for people. Good job!

They are not affiliate links actually, but it's ok I thought at first like you too. They are basically ads for which payment is received once per week or once per month.

From my experience people hate affiliate links that's why it's not effective to use them.

I can confirm, the 110.000 Satoshi  were on my balance on the site. I played several times, won a bit more and withdrawed. All went quickly and smoothly.

Isn't trading the same thing as gambling?:

1. The more profit you want to have the more you should risk for that.

2. You never know what outcome will be, no one can tell you with 100% certainty about the near future of any altcoin.

Although I think that Bticoin price will rise so I agree with you here, I wouldn't recommend to borrow money anyway. This happened many times to my friends so I want to share it here: When you borrow money to buy something you end up having a thing that you don't actually need and a debt you have to pay.

It's not so easy to answer this question. If it was possible to know for sure where to invest, life would become much easier for many people. It's good you already know that cloud mining is a scam because unfortunately that's not a fact for some people and they are losing their money investing in cloud mining.

IMO one of the best investments is buying a good computer so you can design logos, create promo posters and such and make money this way. What's good in this approach IMO is that in this case you are counting on yourself and no one else.

We all know that house always wins ... Well, not always. The site could be hacked or one guy could have incredible luck one day and the house will lose. But generally yes, the house wins. Which doesn't mean you will definitely lose because you can be that lucky guy. 
 But I wouldn't count on that and I wouldn't recommend to anyone to count on that. If you want to make money with gambling you will lose even if the house edge was 0%. That's my opinion.

I think pumping and dumpimg of Bitcoin becomes more difficult to do with time. The more people are using Bitcoin the more of those who will "dump early" in case of pumping or will start buying in case of dumping.

You should never look for easy cash because that way of thinking leads to losing. If you are neither a thief from the government nor a relative of such a thief you'll be earning your money the hard way, and that way only.

You should have some skills people are interested in and you should work hard applying those skills.

There are several ways:

1. You can just buy Bitcoin and hold it until the price increases to the level which you consider sufficient to profit from selling. (HINT: Do not sell in case the price goes down, just wait a bit, you'll be fine).

2. You can do some services: photoshop, coding, promoting etc. and earn Bitcoins this way.

3. You can trade (which I don't recommend) and you can gamble (which I recommend even less than trading).

4. You can invest in a Cloud mining (which with 99% certainty will make you lose your money or at least part of it, so I don't recommend this either).

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The list above is not full of course but those are ways which generally come to mind.

What a great thread! Unfortunately I'm late for unswering the today's question as I see  because indeed Oscar Arnold Wergeland is the right answer and here's the picture



But I'll try to participate next time. Good luck all! Good job, OP!

IMO 30 BTC is not enough to start a dice site because you'll need around 20 BTC only for scripting the site. But if you already have the script or if you can do it by yourself then you can spend your 30 BTC on promoting and maintaining and this amount will be sufficient to run the site for several months.

I think Bitcoin is the best way of payment if we are talking about small payments. It's almost impossible to pay to someone abroad say $2 or $3 with fiat, right? With Bitcoin it's easy. And I think this advantage of Bitcoin will be used more in the future especially in cases of selling or buying digital goods.

That depends on how much time you really spend in front of the computer. I think spending more than 10 hours per day is very unhealthy and no money can buy you health afterwards. That's good that you can earn Bitcoins using your skills but please give attention to your health also, btw doing so you will be working more effectively.

There are lots of them exist already. Take a look at this map:

http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-atm-map/

But I agree that we need much  more of them in the future. We need dozens of them in big cities and at least one in a small town. Only then we can state that Bitcoin is fully adopted.

Exactly, as I was saying earlier, most of the poor people never even had a credit card. That's why Bitcoin is a good option to get payments for your job in the Internet and not only in the Internet.