In the year 2010,my best friend introduce me to cryptocurrency and he advice me to invest in bitcoin. I felt bitcoin was another ponzi scheme created by scammers to scam innocent people. Today my friend is a multi Millionaire. If only I had listened to his advice,I would have become a millionaire by now.
You could have buy or mine bitcoin in 2010 when yout friend introduced Bitcoin to you, but I bet that you would have sold it long ago after holding for a while, 2010 is very far behind and few bull markets have took place at the time. There are many people who are fortunate to mine Bitcoin in the very beginning but they lost their recovery seed and some sell very early, it's all human mind and their emotions, only very few people hold their Bitcoin all this while. Anyways, it is really not too late, I know it's very easy to buy Bitcoin in 2010 because it's very cheap but maybe in the next 10 years to this time people will look back and say that it was easy to buy Bitcoin in 2024. Think about it and start buying some Bitcoin today. It's not too late unless you confuse yourself that it is. |
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OP what you don't know is that some people have been on this forum for a very long time already, they can create content and create good discussions and contributions but they are not Bitcoin investors.
Some people feel that they are better off not investing on bitcoin and they are doing fine in other altcoins investments, being able to deliver on this forum doesn't mean they are pro when it comes to Bitcoin investments or even crypto investments in general.
I would also like to add that reading about mining was how I can build one, I read about mining online and I put it into action, I tried with a single mining GPU, and viola I got it, but that was because I read the instructions very well.
Your observation is based on Bias, some are on here and they don't even engage in discussions at all, they come on here to do the reading and learn from just the reading part only.
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Some of you guys are some high risk high reward folks. I usually only bet around $5-10 so that it doesn’t really make a difference what the outcome is. I do recall betting $200 on a football game against the cowboys on Thanksgiving several years ago and winning big. The biggest gamble I’ve even been involved with was a pot of Acey Ducey at a friend’s house that got up into the thousands. I lost, but only a hundred or so of the $ was mine.
Is it really true that the higher the amount you use the better? If yes, what gives people the confidence that they will still win using a high amount? To me, it's not worth it. Gambling isn't a business deal where you have to innovate something for the future of the company or business, gambling owes no one, and greedy gamblers deserve to get rekt. My mentality about gambling is that, you are buying a 1% chance of winning out of a 100% chance with every round of bets you place, this is why I am satisfied with using very small amounts, anything over $20 is way too high. The highest amount I made from gambling is a little over 2k using $20+ at the time, but since then I've never got to lucky like that again, just keeping my head up and keep on enjoying the fun of gambling. |
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For this to make sense to me  A supercomputer should not be made by humans, allow me to break this down. Humans are going to play football on a field or stadium, remember, some will get weaker than the others faster and accidents or injuries do happen when no one sees it coming. Sometimes, even the most strongly active team loses their match to a football team that are less active, it has happened so many time, and I believe we should leave this type of what will happen vs what should happen to the master of the universe. Back to the supercomputer, they are created by humans, thats all the answers you will ever need. If Supercomputers will be built by some superhumans from outer space or god-like beings then I can say that this is possible. |
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Have you ever noticed or am I the only one?
The more active I become with gambling, the more it drags me back, luckily I keep risking only what I want to lose.
The less active I become with gambling, the more positive it gets for me, not most of the time but my results are simply better than when I was very active.
It's like the casinos are wired to mess with the most active gamblers. I don't know, so far I can only find someone who has seen such before.
A friend who lives far away from me has also said the same, he got tired of gambling because it wasn't going his way but when he started talking it less seriously, that's when he started to get positive results.
Has anyone had the same experience before?
If you are talking about taking gambling "seriously" then this might be the problem already. Since gambling is supposed to be entertainment, taking it serious already takes it way too far. People imagine the worst things when they feel conspiracies and so on. I can relate. I also feel like once I raise the stake suddenly the losing run comes. Since I can't prove anything and they say it "provably fair" that's just how is. The brain is a powerful tool but can be manipulated very easily. I love this part, the brain can easily be manipulated if we allow it. It doesn't cost a thing to believe that gambling can make you rich and it doesn't cost a thing to believe that gambling is all about entertainment, do it only when you can afford it. There is a very fragile thin line between thinking right and thinking wrong, that's why self awareness is a very important tool that we humans must apply to our daily actions. On the norms, it feels wrong to run after money that you don't work for, this is gambling, the best result you can get out of it is no doubt losses, because you planted nothing, all you have is money to take home more money, it sounds so unfair. But that is even if one is ready to accept the fact. |
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Have you ever noticed or am I the only one?
The more active I become with gambling, the more it drags me back, luckily I keep risking only what I want to lose.
The less active I become with gambling, the more positive it gets for me, not most of the time but my results are simply better than when I was very active.
It's like the casinos are wired to mess with the most active gamblers. I don't know, so far I can only find someone who has seen such before.
A friend who lives far away from me has also said the same, he got tired of gambling because it wasn't going his way but when he started talking it less seriously, that's when he started to get positive results.
Has anyone had the same experience before?
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I’ve been on losing streak for almost 3 weeks of gambling, not daily but in random basis for over 3 weeks. Mostly I play only live blackjack using small bankroll around 50$ to 100$ . No matter what I do, slow play or whatever betting strategy makes me lose since dealer card is always so good around 90% of my game.
What I did is I stop gambling for a week and decided to try different game so that my mind will be fresh and positive. I play slot games and manage to win huge amount that is enough to recover my 3 weeks losses and gain a decent profit. I’m just using small bet on slot games when I hit the huge jackpot.
In conclusion, if you are already having a rough time on playing same game over and over despite you have a good experience on it before. Trying new games to you and taking break will help you to snap out of your losing streak because chasing losses usually make us trap on our losses.
In your case, how do you approach when you are on losing streak so badly on specific game. Does changing game works for you?
Nice one. But we can't really stop the curse of losing streak in gambling, we can only slow it down and reduce the amount in every losses. Honestly, gambling should be very easy for everyone if they choose to go the lowest risks possible. There is no matter how smart you are, you will lose in gambling, but if you are someone who want to always win you will start losing more than usual. Smart gamblers take their time off gambling and come back only when they feel like enjoying some game, its not a must to win from gambling but losing is way too possible. I would rather give away a dollar to gambling in a week than a 10 dollar every week, losing a dollar every week is so doable that I won't even notice of losing money at all, and this is the way it should be. |
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Honesty is the best policy
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
A half truth is a whole lie
These are the things that i do believe about honestly on which we know that once trust is broken then it cant never be that goes back to normal
on which it would really be that something that common sense that you shouldnt really that make yourself that involved into those secrets
because once its been find out then trust is something that could be broken and its not really that something good to a relationship.
This is quite an impressive statement, honesty is everything because lies will only bring destruction and add new problems that are much more difficult than before. Maybe lying can hide what happened for while, but you have to understand that no lie can continue for long time, there will come time in the future when all these lies can be exposed. When everything is known, that where new problems start to emerge that can destroy anything, including trust in wife, clearly this is something that must be avoided because it is related to family integrity and harmony. Moreover, saying everything about what happened earlier would be much better and more acceptable than hiding it and letting husband find out directly what he did. Obviously emotional, and also feelings of not being appreciated arise and trigger bad things to happen if the lies that have been carried out can be found out directly by the husband, of course the consequences could be much worse. Maintaining trust is not easy because once trust is destroyed it will be difficult to get it back. I agree, sincerity between two people who are friends is essential, we would not be doing anything if this is lost, that is why many people appeal to continue in a relationship where both deceive each other, or where one of them deceives the other. . On the other hand, I also start from something, between heaven and earth there is nothing hidden and in a couple when it is discovered that one of the two hid something from them, the other person will feel offended because they will say: what am I doing here? What to do with a person who is supposedly on your side and hiding things? It is something that should not be done, things tend to be clear in the couple, that is why there are so many Divorces in the world , because people do not know each other at Least a little better, when they have secrets , Some people don't let them know that they don't like them and they don't forgive them. If you have a partner, I think you Should always trust that partner. Agreed, I fear lack of solid foundation, in whatever you plan to do, the beginning is the most important part, how you start is what will define the end result, and so is relationships too. Before you start a relationship with anyone you must have claimed to like them, even if you are a natural liar, you should understand that becoming someone's life partner is different, don't ever start using lies to build your foundation, it's not going to end well. You could end up fighting every day to make them believe that you have changed, because in today's world, once someone finds out that you lied to them it means you can't be trusted, and they won't see you the same way they used to. Solid foundations are always built on trust, especially between spouses, give no room to lies. |
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The only time that you should be talking about your bitcoin is if someone starts it and they're also a hodler, even at that point, you still need to be vague or maybe even the best thing to do is not talk about it, that's probably the best thing that you can do. There's this meme that I've seen in my social media feed and it talks about how you're the one that's funding most of the food in the family reunion because you keep bragging about your investments, it's a funny thing to happen but there's times that things can get worse for you and it's something that's preventable. Minding your own business will always be the thing that you'd have to be thinking about.
This is very true, we actually discuss about bitcoin a lot, my cousins and I but non of us has ever revealed how many Bitcoins we hold, I do not believe that people are bragging about how much Bitcoin they have, I have not seen a soul doing this. Its fun to talk about the market and what could possibly happen in the coming month, I do this a lot when I am in the midst of Bitcoin investors like me, it is really something good to kill your free time with, we also have discussion about good upcoming projects too, from there we will have clue about which upcoming projects to look out for. I don't see why I would want to tell anyone that I have one Bitcoin or ten Bitcoins, there is really no need, people get jealous easily, they can turn to enemy because of what you have or how much you worth. You are right about the meme, I have seen something similar, maybe even the same, but wealth or rich can't always be hidden, the more you get richer the more people will notice, even if you don't talk about how rich you are, be expecting family to start demanding from you. |
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How does a $10 gambler goes up to $60,000 in loss? He must have fallen under the category that increasing the amount will bring him luck faster, till date many gamblers think this way, and thats why they all have no good stories to share about gambling.
If to you, everything about gambling is, money money money, you will eventually start doing the stupid things, Being disciplined will be so far away from you, and you will not fall under a particular category.
The man OP is talking about is still regretting his losses, thats a lot of money he lost trying to become a millionaire with gambling, with $60,000 in crypto I would have turned that into numbers very close to 1 million dollars.
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When we talk about religion we cannot dine the forbidden things like alcohol, prostitution and many other things in this topic we will discuss why do gambling is forbidden (Haram, interdit) .
So can you tell me why is it forbidden in your religion?
And for the non religious persons what you think ?
Even religions understand that every humans has their level of capabilities, some are smart and some are smarter, some are dull and some are dullard, sorry to say but most humans don't think for themselves, they go astray too easily. For the sake of mankind, religions have to forbid anything that can make you lose your way, and its obvious that gambling, violence, drinking and other things are forbidden, is this wrong? To me its not. Still everyone have their choices to make, I believe that I am capable of avoiding any dangers in gambling, I am not easily motivated by the wrong things and its always me against the world. I don't follow people and I don't like doing what others are doing, I think for myself and I leave what's beyond me, I know how unrealistic it is to make money from gambling, believing that its unrealistic makes me thread with ease, I am good with risking what I can only afford to lose. |
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Lets take a look at the family aspect of everyone gambling and try to give our individual opinions concerning these questions i will like us to discuss from regarding how we are gambling and how that can affect the family for the benefits of those already having one and those that will soon be in the league of a family man, lets make it as simple as possible in giving our earnest contributions on our take from this following questions i have for us.
1. At what age will you allow your child to start gambling? that is if you will even allow for that at all?
2. At what age do you see yourself quit gambling? that is also if some of us are going to ever do so?
3. Ever since you have started gambling, have you ever achieve a satisfying level that makes you think it has good impact on you?
4. Would you have missed out on anything if you were not a gambler?
1. I will prefer not to allow my child to know about gambling, and even if he or she does know about gambling I will advice against it, just because I am gambling doesn't mean its good for my child, hell no. 2. It's very easy for me to quit, because gambling is not a business to me, I engage in gambling when I feel like, I've never feel like gambling owes me a lot of money, I don't expect from where I don't do anything, I can quit today or tomorrow if I feel like. 3. I have feel satisfied gaming for many times already, and that's because I enjoy good game designs and soundtracks, I risk very little on gambling all the time and I've never for once felt like I should be risking more, it a lot easier to lose even if you risk a big amount, it doesn't matter. 4. I would have missed out on those cool slots games but it's not going to be a big deal if I was never a gambler, as there are many other ways to enjoy your free time on this mother earth. |
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The Big Question Who Is Really At Fault? Have you noticed that whenever someone complain or there is an incident of scam they is always a role that was played by the person in that happening, either they failed to be security conscious or they were totally ignorant, and when you look at it the scammer never forced them to comply, this people willingly fell for their trick. There are lots of crypto investors that are well educated, have a good job and a higher level of exposure than even most scammers, but they chose to enter into the crypto space irresponsibly and they inevitably get scammed and at times lose huge sums of money or even life savings. Last bull run there was this Elon musk swap scam that was on and someone lost 10 bitcoins to it and even other cases where people have gotten scam through crypto ads or crypto exchanges that shut down and all this would have been prevented in a way.
In conclusion there are numerous experiences and stories of people getting scammed and it wasn't as tho a high class hacker went into the blockchain or stole their seed phrase, they literally gave them their money, I think no matter the new app with added security or software, people would still fall into scam as long as they chose to remain ignorant and disregard security consciousness, we can not protect anyone's holding for them, no matter how many treads on security and how to avoid scams are introduced, at the end of the day its a personal responsibility and each person must play their role in their safety. O boy, your write up is definitely going to get some people angry, and that includes me, are you for real? So scammers are now the saints because they lay down some traps and wait for innocent people to fall for it and they don't force anyone to fall? I hope you become a victim sooner than later, you will know how it feels, what is bad is bad, there is no other name for being bad, do not try to turn something bad or evil into good. Some scamming tricks are confusing enough, to make people fall victim, while some scammers use greed in humans to lure them into traps, none of these is a good one. Scammers are to be blamed, they are the doers of evil, and the internet will be a safer place without them, but if you think that scamming people is not bad, may you become a victim yourself, maybe someone will steal all your money in your bank account one day, you will then know how it feels. The truth really tastes bitter so your free to be as angry as you want, face reality this is decentralization, we all signed for it when we decided that crypto was the way, and that includes beign responsibility for yourself and security, which ever way you get scammed either by misleading information or by total ignorance and sometimes people are just too greedy, if you read my post I made mention of a 2021 bull run scam called ELON MUSK SWAP that a man lost his 10 bitcoins too, does he look like a newbie to you, he has been here even before most of us, but was foolish enough to fall amongst many others, so now tell me, who would you blame the so sweet Elon scam or the man that failed to do his own research. You get me wrong I'm not saying scammers are saints or angels, neither am I justifying the action, but its clear that we played a major role in any scam that happens to us, this people just merely exploit our weakness. You feel I've not been scammed before, your joking, I have and yeah it's my fault, I was too greedy and that's fact and next time I'll stick in my lane, tell yourself the truth, your responsible for yourself. I am glad you make some correction on your original post, you thus sound like you are saying it serves people right for losing their assets to scammers, as if every investors that lost funds to scammers are greedy. There will always be newbies in this space, and mistakes will always be inevitable, learn everything you can, mistakes will still come seeking. @Troytech, you got greedy, thats how you fell for scammers trap, have you ever not be greedy and still lost everything? Maybe you keep your recovery seed the right way and still someone moved out your funds? This have happened to me, until I got a hardware wallet and no problem since that time. You don't have to be greedy before you get scammed, most people get hacked without being greedy, especially on computers and laptops, the world will be a better place without scammers, I wish they never existed. |
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The Big Question Who Is Really At Fault? Have you noticed that whenever someone complain or there is an incident of scam they is always a role that was played by the person in that happening, either they failed to be security conscious or they were totally ignorant, and when you look at it the scammer never forced them to comply, this people willingly fell for their trick. There are lots of crypto investors that are well educated, have a good job and a higher level of exposure than even most scammers, but they chose to enter into the crypto space irresponsibly and they inevitably get scammed and at times lose huge sums of money or even life savings. Last bull run there was this Elon musk swap scam that was on and someone lost 10 bitcoins to it and even other cases where people have gotten scam through crypto ads or crypto exchanges that shut down and all this would have been prevented in a way.
In conclusion there are numerous experiences and stories of people getting scammed and it wasn't as tho a high class hacker went into the blockchain or stole their seed phrase, they literally gave them their money, I think no matter the new app with added security or software, people would still fall into scam as long as they chose to remain ignorant and disregard security consciousness, we can not protect anyone's holding for them, no matter how many treads on security and how to avoid scams are introduced, at the end of the day its a personal responsibility and each person must play their role in their safety. O boy, your write up is definitely going to get some people angry, and that includes me, are you for real? So scammers are now the saints because they lay down some traps and wait for innocent people to fall for it and they don't force anyone to fall? I hope you become a victim sooner than later, you will know how it feels, what is bad is bad, there is no other name for being bad, do not try to turn something bad or evil into good. Some scamming tricks are confusing enough, to make people fall victim, while some scammers use greed in humans to lure them into traps, none of these is a good one. Scammers are to be blamed, they are the doers of evil, and the internet will be a safer place without them, but if you think that scamming people is not bad, may you become a victim yourself, maybe someone will steal all your money in your bank account one day, you will then know how it feels. |
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If you want to contribute to the community by doing some marketing, there are tons of ways to do that other than exposing how rich you are. Contributing by supporting the development of Bitcoin Core by donation for example is more meaningful than this, or if you want to attract retails you can just buy ads or run a website for education purposes. I guess that's just too much for some people, so they opt to show off since it is easier.
Personally, having another intelligent writer who can educate people through their books or social media is better. You can gain some following, yet at the same time can be low-key. You can even do this by being anonymous/pseudonymous, as long as you're careful and don't use anything related to your personal info with your new account. CMIIW.
How rich he is? All those exotic cars doesn't belong to OP, I think you should read the full write up again. I don't know how OP managed to get these pictures but if there are people doing this around the world they don't know what they are doing. They are simply exposing themselves to greater risk because everyone around them will know that they are rich right away, and the bad ones will believe that if they can kidnap their family they will make money. I know that some countries are more secured than others, they can't try this in a new country, they will learn straight away why this is a very bad idea. |
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Seeing that the OP has been on the forum but hasn't come back through the thread to comment on any of the issues we have raised, I'd bet he's already gone back to play what he won and lost it. Being the first time and having won a total of $1.2, that would be most likely.
I would give him credit still even if he went back and risk the whole balance again, its rare this days to see newbies risking $1.2 on a bet, they always go big, the few ones I knew are desperate, if he lost this amount it's not going to change him, compared to someone who risks $100 thats meant for food restocking on gambling and they starve for a month. At least he will feel what it's like to win and to lose, he can easily learn some lessons from here compared to someone who could end up chasing what he lost, because the amount is too high and can't move on from it. Its becoming very hard and hard for beginners to risk very small money on gambling, they always feel special when they want to start, they have no questions or curiosity why many people aren't making it with gambling. |
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Anything running on Telegram is not safe, they can decide to do anything with your account, you can get blocked for no reason, and there is also no proof of fairness in the available games.
Many people are complaining about online casinos putting bans on their accounts the moment they win a large amount of money and want to withdraw from the casino, I believe that this habit will happen more on Telegram, it's just way too easy to see such things happen.
Since other online casinos are doing very well why would anyone want to use Telegram casinos? They offer the same experience or maybe the usual online casinos are even better, I don't see any reason to use Telegram, it has never been safe to use anyway.
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I like Toncoin but running the wallet on Telegram pissed me off so I let go of this project, its not a bad one at all but telegram is a bad choice for everything, I have never like it and nothing will change that.
Its not just Telegram only, be careful with crypto wallets on Opera browser too, and I see that a few other browsers are also adding crypto wallets too, they are not Trezor, and they are not Metamask, so be extremely careful with the crypto wallet that you choose to use.
I will advise to use the norm wallets that we are all used to, Trust wallet and Metamask for those who can't afford a hardware wallet, and Trezor with other open source hardware wallets are best choices.
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If someone bet Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson and believe the match will going to serious, they're made mistake. You can't really know which one will win because it's an exhibition match, so I won't be surprised if Jake Paul will win. So I happened to watch a UFC related movie yesterday and the main character is a very strong one who never loses a fight but during a fight he decided to lose the fight, I found out that he did it intentionally because his uncle and his uncle's friend bet a lot on the biggest odd, which is the other fighter.
I believe this is illegal in professional match, the player must not intentionally lose the fight and his relatives must not bet on his match. That's why most casinos ask KYC to prevent from this kind to happen. It is still very possible for a relative to place a bet on his relative even if KYC is involved, all they need to do is ask a friend to pass the KYC and the friend will also be the one to place the bet, the person's name and surname will be different, enough to confuse the platform that they are not related in any way. You also called the Mike Tyson and Jake Paul fight an exhibition, that sounds like something that can definitely be rigged, it's left for them to choose, win for themselves and their statue, or win or lose for more money. |
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I think that we always risk when give our money to somebody. Sometimes risks are higher. In casino we risk 3 times: deposit, bet, withdraw. The KYC possible increase risk when you withdraw and need your money fast but anyway withdrawal is a risk with KYC or without it.
The main risk with KYC is that someone can use your data. But the same risk you have every moment when you give your data to any organization.
There is no doubt that gambling is a risky game and those who gamble know that they are taking risks with their money to gain profits and in the process, they may lose money too. However, being not able to KYC even after winning is not termed as bad luck but a scam by the new gambling sites. They will allow you to gamble and deposit without KYC but when you win something and place a withdrawal order they may start to ask for KYC. The bad ones won't approve the KYC and hence your money is stuck in the casino. To avoid this situation it is always recommended that we do the KYC first so this risk of getting scammed by casinos is eliminated to some extent. Now it only leaves us with luck in gambling and if we have good luck we can make money in gambling and cash it out. I disagree with the part where you said they will allow you to deposit without KYC, this is already common with crypto exchanges too and I believe that all gamblers on this forum know this about crypto exchanges too, why blame the casinos only? Few crypto exchanges will restrict you from withdrawing if your amount is big and will only allow a certain amount to be withdrawn every 24 hours and some don't even give room for such. If we can put the blame on online casinos for this act, then gamblers have their blame too, what's stopping them from passing KYC first before even starting to gamble on every online casino they choose to use? KYC and online casinos are like 5 and 6, always in one, be ready to pass it or forget online gambling, I would rather pass KYC first before using it instead of trying to pass it after I won some money. |
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