The whole point of gambling is the casino to make money, not the gambler.
If you think that the whole point of gambling is the gamblers to actually make money, you are simply wrong.
Gambling is supposed to be a fun form of escapism, a bad habit that boosts the dopamine and adrenaline levels in your brain.
This isn't a way to make easy money.
Casinos refusing to pay big jackpots is basically the same as insurance companies refusing to pay big compensations when an insurance event occurs. The people, who are expecting to get their money will have sue both the casinos and the insurance companies.

Don't be too optimistic about it. A 10% increase in the BTC price doesn't mean anything. Bitcoin is a volatile asset and price pumps and drops in the range of 10-20% are normal. We can't draw any conclusions about what 2023 will be for the Bitcoin traders/investors by a small price movement, that happens in January. Don't get too excited and don't trust anyone, especially centralized crypto exchanges and "crypto influencers", who are promising things, that are too good to be true.
Congrats on starting your Bitcoin journey. I also have a bunch of old stuff that I want to sell, but I can't find any buyers.

Onion is one of the cheapest vegetables. I wonder where do you live. I'm glad that I can grow onion in my own garden, so I don't have to buy it, but it's relatively cheap in the vegetable markets in my town.
The basic foods inflation in my country is 52% and the costs for heating had increased by 40%. The overall statistics show that the average inflation in my country is around 18%, but I just don't trust any statistics anymore. It sucks to live in times of high inflation, but the older generations in my country had lived in times of hyperinflation, so there's no point of bitching and complaining.

Chelsea needs a striker, who can score goals. Felix is a talented player, but he doesn't score a lot of goals.
Also paying 11 million euro for a player, that will stay in the team for about 4 months seems stupid. Felix probably won't have enough time to adapt to the English football. Chelsea is making so many costly transfer mistakes, after buying Fofana for 70 million and Marc Cucurella for 56 million pounds. It seems that the new Chelsea owner is printing money. The blue team from London acts really desperate on the transfer market. The best transfer for Chelsea would be singing a new manager and replacing Graham Potter.

Why are you so butthurt? Bitcoin haters are gonna hate, no matter what.
Bitcoin helped the economy? Which economy? How Bitcoin helped poor people to become rich? By buying low and selling high?
Which countries are making use of blockchain today? Can you mention a few countries and how they are using blockchain technology?
Can you show me verified info about how much taxes are getting paid to the governments by global crypto companies around the world?
I don't care at all about this Peter Zeihan guy. We shouldn't waste our time with people, who don't want to understand Bitcoin/crypto and want to spread FUD and hatred over Bitcoin/crypto.

Should we be worried about this statistic? The quit rate growing from 2.6% to 3% doesn't seem like a big deal to me.
The ability of the people to quit their job and find a better job fast is actually a good sign for the labor market and it's flexibility.
However, we don't know how many of the people, who are quitting manage to find new jobs.
I think that the amount of job openings will start decreasing at the beginning of 2023. The labor market cooling down is supposed to be a signal for decreasing inflation.

Such weird number combinations are being used mostly by lottery gamblers, not by sports betting gamblers.
I haven't heard anything about this "gambling method", but I'm not surprised. Many gamblers try to find logic in places where there isn't any logic. Call it superstition or a "strategy", but at the end of the day, it's all about luck. The guy you mentioned was extremely lucky for once.
I bet a million dollars that the won't make any money with his future bets, by using this "jersey number" pseudo-strategy.

BTC wallets containing large amounts are most likely owned by big crypto companies.
The true Bitcoin whales own several wallets and keep their BTC in all of them. You know the saying "Never put all eggs in one basket".
There's no reason for a Bitcoin whale to keep his BTC in one wallet. The risk is higher.
What do you mean by "our takes on them"? Every industry has it's own early adopters and successful investors, who profited the most out of the industry's growth. The crypto industry is no different. It doesn't matter if we like or hate the crypto whales, we can't deny them.

1.Bitcoin/crypto exists for more than 10 years. Do you see any signs of the global financial system being weakened by Bitcoin/crypto?
I don't see such signs.
2.The national currency of Venezuela-the Venezuelan bolivar is more worthless than toilet paper and the PETRO currency failed, because Venezuela is failing at it's own oil production. Please don't use Venezuela as an example for "financial independence".
3.The current fiat financial system will keep dominating the world in the upcoming several decades.

That would be a great "strategy", if you successfully predict when you will have luck and when you won't have luck.
There are times, when you have luck at the beginning of the game and later on your luck disappears and you lose everything.
Can anybody predict their luck? I don't think so. Superstition doesn't help at all, when it comes to predicting luck. It's just a placebo effect.
It's like all the traders, who are trying and failing at timing the market. "Buy low, sell high" sounds like a great "strategy". The problem is that almost nobody can predict the market. The same thing applies to gambling and "having luck".

This statement is valid and has been repeated multiple times on the forum. Repeating it one more time doesn't make it more valid.
It's true that the crypto exchanges exist mostly because of the altcoins, not because of Bitcoin. The original purpose of the crypto exchanges was to be some sort of "financial casinos", where the traders by and sell various "shiny objects", like altcoins, shitcoins, tokens, etc.
The crypto market was crazy speculative and the traders were expecting insane profits out of pump&dump schemes or they were waiting for some altcoin to become "the new Bitcoin".
I'm still a Bitcoin maximalist and I still think that the crypto world doesn't need altcoins and crypto exchanges.
 

Are you aware about the previous bear markets in the history of Bitcoin/crypto? It seems that you are a newbie trader.
Nobody knows the exact time when Bitcoin will start a major bull run, but I guess that it will be after the next BTC halving in 2024.
Are you a day trader? If yes, there's nothing you can do. If you are not a day trader, just don't panic and HODL your BTC for the next 2 years.
You shouldn't be dependent on your income from trading, because crypto trading is high risk. Get a job and earn a stable income, crypto trading should be your side hustle.

I don't think that there's going to be a deflation in the USA(or global deflation). I expect a slightly lower inflation in 2023, maybe around 10-15%.
There are too many factors, which are pushing the prices up, fuel costs, global supply chain disruptions, the COVID wave in China.
Having higher interest rates in the USA means that many companies might decide to move their business in America. More investments in the industry would mean higher industrial production and more jobs. I don't really think that 2023 would be such a "doom&gloom" year for the USA.
 

1.The wagering requirement is the main protection against abuse. Can you come up with other security checks and anti-fraud measures?
It's like asking the question: "Would you rob a bank, if there are no guards, the cameras aren't working and you have all the keys?" Of course that some people will try to abuse the system, when the security is off.
2.The casinos, that offer bonuses without a wagering requirement will simply lose their money, because everyone will abuse the bonus system until the casino goes bankrupt. There's no alternative to the wagering requirement. The people, who think that KYC is a good replacement to the wagering requirement are naive. The darkweb is full with stolen ID pictures and info, which can be used for ID verification.

What was the value of 2000BTC ten years ago? 5000 dollars? Nope, I wouldn't change my name to Bitcoin for several thousand dollars.
I would do it for a million dollars. Bitcoin was totally unpopular back in 2012 and only a bunch of geeks/nerds were actively using and mining BTC on their PCs back then. I think that the guy was joking about changing his name. Bitcoin went to more than 60K USD, but I've never seen any news about people changing their names to Bitcoin(or people naming their kids after Bitcoin). Naming your kid after a currency seems like the dumbest thing ever. I don't know about any people named Dollar or Euro.

If you know that buying reselling tips is not good, then why are you asking?
Do you really wanna buy tipster services from people you don't know?
Do you know how easy it is to fake screenshots from winning bets?
Do you know how easy it is to fake screenshots with "positive customer reviews"?
Are you addicted to sports betting?
Sorry for asking so many questions, but this topic seems weird.

1.I don't think that this topic belongs to the Bitcoin Discussion forum. Logan Paul's project "Cryptozoo" is a Play2earn NFT thing, which has nothing to do with Bitcoin. Maybe someone should move this forum thread to the Altcoin Discussion forum.
2.No scammer wants his reputation to be damaged. This Cryptozoo project was intended to be a "pump and dump" scam right from the start.
Logan Paul and Cryptoking had a beef, so Cryptoking secretly sold tokens from the liquidity pool, which forced Logan Paul to block Cryptoking to access his tokens. At the end of the day, it's just two scammers, who don't trust each other, but want to get some easy money from the innocent people.

The comparisons between the internet and the crypto industry will never end.
I don't want to be the guy, who puts salt in the wound, but crypto cannot be compared to the world wide web.
The internet has utility, but what's the utility of crypto? Buy low-Sell high? What's the utility of blockchain technology, other than being the infrastructure for a bunch of speculative assets(Bitcoin and the altcoins)? I'm not saying that Bitcoin being a speculative asset is something bad, but I simply can't seem to find any other utility tied to Bitcoin. Privacy? Well, BTC isn't anonymous. Being a currency for the unbanked?
In most cases, you can't buy BTC without a bank account. Yes, crypto is here to stay and the scams won't crypto from growing, but the real question is: How useful crypto actually is?

The pattern depends on the gambling game.
I usually play poker, so most of the time I start winning slowly, but after a while, I get bored and lose everything. I lose everything because I get tired of waiting for a good hand, so I start taking higher risks.
With games like crash or dice, the pattern would be way different. I would be winning and losing small amounts and most of the time I just don't win big, because I hate making bigger best on such games. I have the hidden feeling that the crash/dice game might be rigged, when the players makes a bigger bet.

So you are surprised that a pyramid scheme turned into a scam? How shocking! I didn't see that coming.
I was scammed with 100 USD worth of BTC by a guy on Discord years ago, when the Bitcoin price was around 10K USD. Then the BTC price went to 60K USD, so I kept thinking that I've lost 600 USD not 100 USD. Anyway, it doesn't matter. We all make mistakes and we all get scammed by someone at some point. There's no point of regretting about the money we've lost. We just have to learn from our mistakes and avoid them in the future. A guy, who makes the same mistake twice is in idiot.