I've said many times here that the merit system is not as people think of it, and I've sided with those who claimed some impartial sharing is going on. Seeing you now again saying a similar thing, I conclude that unbiased people can think beyond the bracket and those who are favoured by the impartiality will always look away.

Well, I am not against the campaign managers becoming a merit source, but it might be biased towards the people in their campaigns. They have enough work to do already, and for this, they can't move around like those who are not CMs.

Well, let me first disclaim that I am not in support of drugs or any stimulants to do anything whatsoever, yet, the case of your friend can't speak for all situations. To some people when they take drugs or alcohol and other stimulants, that's the time they record the highest productivity and best decision-making. But to many others, that's when they act irrationally, so it depends on the person we are talking about, the level of the stimulant such takes and how he can moderate this stimulant as well. I've never taken beyond alcohol in my life and my observation shows that the results have been positive taking it while betting or trading. It is just like pushing out the best in me by emboldening me to do what I should do even at those times that I fear taking the risk. This is not in any way near the effect of drugs, but one can still relate to them similarly since they work almost the same way.

Drugs are bad, I wonder why he takes them in the first place, and if he must take the drugs, he should have known his limits or the personal effect of the drugs on himself and what he does before taking them. Since he now knows that it is negative on himself and his activities, I think that it will be wise for him to stop immediately, after all, there's no good in taking drugs. If not now, it will still ruin the person if care is not taken. I know a lot of them who push drugs, but none of them have ever had a good testimony to share unless they quit it.

Sorry if this is coming late, I just saw it. First, let me thank you for the good notification work done with the Telegram integration, I must say that I'm enjoying it.

But using the notification service on another channel could only mean more compromise and the risk is too high for those who want to keep their privacy. Telegram has been the best shot for people these days when it comes to a thing like this. Not even Whatsapp can be able to compare itself in this regard.

I wouldn't want it in my email for personal reasons, but if it can pop up when I am actively surfing the Bitcointalk is a very good option. I am not a tech-savvy guy, but so long as it's working fine without compromising one's privacy, I think it is a good one.

The $3,000 is no longer new to Ethereum this week, it's a good comeback by the coin which is showing the resilient nature of the coin now. Being the number 2 cryptocurrency in the world by market capitalization rating, it has lived up to the standard. It is able to do whatever Bitcoin is doing and always proves itself to be a worthy rival without disappointing both its short and long-term investors. As it is now, Ethereum will certainly hit its ATH of about $4865 again, it has behaved as a very serious coin, and nothing should stop it from hitting that level even before the end of 2024.

It hit the $3,000 you mentioned on Tuesday and also hit it yesterday but the two days did not witness a close above that level which makes it not stable above there for now. Going forward, I know that it will have a close above it pretty soon, maybe next week or month, and by then it can be rigid on what's next afterwards.

Regarding the ETF approval, the chance of approving Ethereum is very high. If the SEC could approve Bitcoin, there can't be a good reason why Ethereum with better utility would not be approved.

Well, whether it is a long or short-term investment, the investors can make their cool money, it all depends on the experience of such investors and the approach of investment they are engaging in which you didn't put into consideration. It is fine that we HODL when it comes to Bitcoin but what if the investors want to be squeezing the juice out of Bitcoin bit by bit? These are the kind of investors that maximize their earning potential in the market. They only look for the possibility of the market to move between 1-6 months and take the opportunity in it. But the moment they see it showing the bearish outlook again that can run for days or weeks, they would remove their money and wait for the time it will reactivate a bullish pattern again.

I see this as a smarter way of earning in the Bitcoin market, but it takes better expertise to be able to achieve the best goals through it. All that matters is for us not to miss out on the world's cake presented to us by Bitcoin, regardless of the approach, money can be made. I now advise those who are investing in Bitcoin at this higher price that they should wait for a correction, though I do not know if that is possible strongly anymore, however, the right reading of their charts can guide them about that. Or they make use of the DCA style. Enough opportunities have been missed by them already, they should not push it too hard this time without proper guidance.

Perhaps we should respect people's opinions and the way they want to live their lives or view things instead of calling it a myth or a lie. Who knows if it's actually true with some people? I've seen people say it times without numbers, though they have their new casinos but they often say that they are luckier in a certain casino than the other. For this, I think we should just let people choose/believe what they want to choose/believe, and however they want to view it. We might call it myth or superstition but when it is occurring in a rampant fashion, it could be beyond what we may be saying. Views and experience vary. The things of life could be a mystery at times, and I love the fact that people are not always blind to it, except that some people could make them feel they are insane.

In my casinos, I only prefer to stick to my old casinos once they are good with their services, and I can change at any time if I am willing. I do not believe that one is giving the luck and privileges better than the others. But in trading, I can be of the opinion that I earn better in a certain account than the other. Maybe it's luck, I can't really say, but when I deposit in a certain account, I discover more profitability than depositing in other accounts. I wouldn't want to relate anything to this but just trying to tell you that we can't always know all the things of life even as I believe that it's a mystery in some cases.

OP, if what you wrote about Bons.com is true, then they are not ready for the business yet, or should I say that they are in for ripping off unsuspecting people. I just started to see the casino's signature recently on the forum but I've not tried them and I do not think I can ever try them judging by what you said. If I read you correctly, you mean $800 minimum to withdraw via ETH, and 10% will be deducted from your money whenever you withdraw? These are enough reasons to dissuade people from using them. They could be successful in attracting customers due to their affiliate programs but they can't make such customers stay due to these ridiculous conditions in a more competitive gambling industry.

But for the Trustpilot review, I do not trust it, I don't even use it, and that website has never been a serious place to gain the best info if you are smart. Also, about the KYC, I think that's the standard for some companies these days and you can't blame them for that especially if they are truly regulated and the regulator demands such from them.

Exchanges ask for that often and people gladly oblige them.

Anyone who doesn't want to lose should steer clear of gambling, even the best gamblers do have some losing times as no one is perfect at gambling. Even in real-life dealings, nothing is perfect, you can get it right at times and get it wrong at times, so life goes on, just find a balance. What makes people outstanding is the ability to manage their strengths and weaknesses in line with the wins and losses they incur, they can use that to manage the entire situation to their advantage. The same thing goes for gambling in particular, we should know that we can't always have that winning, and as a matter of fact, we might have more losses than winning, but when we manage our gambling correctly, it will not affect us

Now, many are making the mistake of managing what they play and their gambling account most time, but turning a blind eye to the psychology of it, which is where the problem of some gamblers arises. It's good to have a good budget and plans and make good calculations towards it, but it could be so ugly if your focus is only on them, you have to look towards the psychology of it as well. The moment gamblers underrate the need for a check on their gambling psychology, the moment they start gambling irresponsibly. That means emotion has set in. What makes this worse now is that without knowing it, all the good budgets and plans you initially had might be set aside ignorantly because the emotion has taken over, and before you know it, you will be gambling anyhow and based on how the emotion leads you. All these have to be foreknown by gamblers so that they plan against them before they ruin the gambling. Because a single loss could set us off the correct psychological balance and it will not be funny if care is not taken.

That's one of the issues with cryptocurrency, it aids illegality unchallenged in some cases and this is one of them. I believe that KYC casinos will be unveiling in this regard and will not allow the underage to open a gambling account undetected. If such was successful in opening an account and trying to play for a while by lying about the age, it is when the time to do KYC that such would be revealed. This is unless he completely lied by using another person's profile from the beginning, or else, KYC will reveal it, which is one of the beauties of it despite the criticism by some people. But with the no-KYC casinos, such an underage person can lie and go scot-free with it for as long as he would want to gamble. Cryptocurrency itself doesn't need verification like the fiat means of sending money that would have revealed the issues from the beginning and this is aiding enough bypass of the set financial and gambling rules.

Your points are good, but we can still further argue the subject out based on the context of your narration. In both trading and gambling, we need luck, only that the level of luck we need varies, and that's if we want to view the expression called luck as existing at all. I must say that many times in my trading experience, there are instances that I could truly express that luck was at work for me, so it exists too there. Take, for example, a trader who analysed the market quite well and opened a buy position with 250 pips take profit and 100 pips stop loss. But suddenly, the market started moving against him abnormally without a valid reason, and for this, it (the market) changed the short-term trend to bearish, which is against the position of the traders. After some times of scary movements against the position, the market now almost hit the stop loss having moved 99 pips of it and remaining just 1 pips to hit it and close the position at a loss.

But suddenly the market could not proceed further with just 1 pips to hit the stop loss but just threatened for hours but still couldn't hit the level. Due to this, the trader could have just taken heart and abandoned the trade and closed his gadget believing he had already lost with no more hope. On getting back to the chart after hours of closing the gadget, he now met the trade in huge profits. I see that as luck and something similar had happened to me many times in trading. Also, the sports betting aspect of gambling could be likened to trading. The two are not so strongly the function of luck but expertise. This is especially true if we limit it to the buy/sell in trading and lose/win in gambling. It's the casino aspect of gambling that is so reliant on luck, even though the expertise in trading will still yield better results than the expertise in gambling.

I do not agree with you because you seem to be abandoning the gambling addict due to the stage of their predicament, we should not do this for any reason. Fine, it could be hard to help gambling addicts especially when they've reached a certain stage in their addiction, yet, it might be worth it because no one knows the advice that will eventually heal them. Gambling addiction could be at the worst but it could be that the simplest thing will be their solution. Some are just suffering from this addiction because they do not have hope and purpose, if one could find the hope and purpose for them, they might immediately stop.

In my experience with gamblers who are addicted, one thing has always been their reason, and that is the money. Knowing this source of their problem alone is enough reason for you to help them. Just try as much as possible to show them another way that money could be made, and then you will see changes, at least in most cases. If you want to end the addiction in them totally, give them a purpose in life in addition to that, to the point that it will be taking their time and energy all day, but this time, it is positive because they are reaping the good results of what they are using their time and energy for. Before you know it, they will forget about gambling, not to talk of the addiction therein. This should work for most cases if not all.

You have some valid points there, Bitcoin is not what we operate offline, and as a matter of fact, we operate it online and has to do with gadgets at the same time, so the risks are there. The internet we use for it could corrupt, and so is the gadget we use for it, which makes it susceptible to attacks and could be stolen for this. We hear cases of Bitcoin and other crypto asset loss, this could be due to the carelessness of the owner, but at times, it is not about being careful or not, it's all about the smartness of the stealers or hackers as the case may be. Some people can be a target, and no matter how smart and careful you think you are, they will still get you and steal the crypto asset.

This can only explain how companies are being dealt with in this regard causing millions of dollars worth of crypto assets stolen from them. The recent advancement in technological information has also made us realise that even the hardwallet that people thought was immune to hacking and crypto heists could be hacked. But this should not discourage us from owning our Bitcoin, we should only do our part diligently to keep our coin and leave the rest to fate. We should also not be careless with our passcodes, including the seed phrases. It's also worth knowing that storing the seed phrases offline is the best-known method.

I like this warning, it's such a sensitive one of awareness, but unfortunately doesn't perfectly match with the situation here. Bitcointalk is already established but the altcoin forum is still not so established but just using what happened with the m!xers ban to actualise more relivance. There is nothing bad in it but the forum should be thankful for the liberal nature of Bitcontalk, if a rule is enforced that there is no double standard, I think that would affect a lot of relevance received by the forum lately.

That is what I call Power and Bitcointalk has it more than it. Aside from that, I believe that many will teleport to the altcoin forum and many more will not, which still makes Bitcointalk more valid even as those who move to altcoins still have a presence in Bitcointalk. You can't compare it directly with the case of Google and Yahoo because Bitcointalk is well-established already, unlike Yahoo which was sleeping then when a lot still has to be done.

I don't like to distract myself from people's speculation, but truly, Bitcoin is commendable. The feat which the coin has achieved within a short time is a very good one, and personally, I never expected this, I only believed that it would move higher, but not at the pace at which it did that. A big thanks to the ETF filling, it was what helped the asset to really rise amidst the FUD and FOMO it caused in the crypto market. The spirit and expectation of having added to this and the fact that Bitcoin is bullish in both long and short-term disposition. I do not believe anything is strong enough to stop it from achieving higher heights, but this will take time.

As threatening as it is towards the bullish path which makes people believe it will just be rising, I still believe that the coin would be undermined by the steepness of the slope it's climbing, many would want to hold on to the post-halving season before they buy it. At the current heavy price of $52,000, a decisive investment is needed which will slow down the demand until the post-halving effect. Not that the asset will be climbing without a pause. Even the tempo of buying will not be so much to the extent that would cause the hit of $60,000 pretty soon.

My view is however based on instincts, I see no valid resistance on its way strong enough to stop it either.

You are the one taking this far, it's never a big deal to me, rich people are everywhere and dealing with Bitcoin doesn't automatically make you richer than those who are not dealing with it. And if you must know, investment has been for so long, and dealing with crypto investment is an honour this time as this is the money-making avenue of this age that is not only easy but measurable with the stock and another honourable aspect of the financial market of old (the tradition).

Where I can say you fucked up is the fact that I could tell you did not have so much confidence being a Bitcoin investor but you need to change that. If you are good with what you do and your dealings are legit, bro, spit it out proudly. I must say that you are better than most of those bankers, so be proud of it whether for security concerns or not, you can't be a target just like that because you are not showing your worth there. Only that you can be better discrete next time so that private discussion and information do not leak outside the parties discussing it. There are ways you can achieve that without those around you aside from the bank official knowing.

Besides, was the question necessary? Yes, of course, you are doing an account upgrade which is also a KYC, they need to know everything about you including the source of income.

I believe what I wrote above has already answered the remaining question.

What you asked is all around us unless you are not conversant with the different charts of altcoins, they are all there. As Bitcoin has its great memories of success by some people and missed-out feelings by some other people, many other altcoins have theirs as well. Is it Dogecoin, Shib, Ethereum, and even the newer ones like INJ, PENDLE, BONK etc., they all started at a distant price from the level they are now and I believe that they will continue to move higher and give multiple incomes to their investors.

However, some of the mentioned coins/tokens are far from their ATH due to the huge fall witnessed by them during the general bearish season of cryptocurrency which was aggravated by inflation. While others are getting close to them gradually even as we are getting closer to the altcoin season. Nonetheless, from the level they started compared to the level they are now, the early investors will never regret committing their money to them because they would still be holding the asset in value which is several multiples of what they bought.

Different people with different views and plans about Bitcoin. Some had envisaged what we are currently experiencing, while some are late to opt-in but still want to enter the train to avoid completely missing out on the world's cake presented by the coin. Anyone yours is, try to be very careful, your trading chart should be your friend and your account management should be your top priority. Don't be a blind follower as well because anything unforeseen could happen.

For me, I've stopped buying Bitcoin since last year, I can't buy it anymore since it's too expensive now. This is worth it because I started buying the coin in 2022 when I joined Bitcointalk. What I was reading at that time motivated me so much, so I was getting ready then even when it had not bottomed yet and I made sure that I bought enough of it periodically as my capability could carry me. That is what I will maintain till after the halving period and I know that Bitcoin will at least reach $100,000 no matter what happens.

We can't entirely blame them because it is the love of money or the need for it that pushes most into gambling in the first place. It's not a good mindset to believe that gambling will make you rich, but one thing is that it's not all those who gamble that think that far as well. Some would only think to make some sustaining money through gambling by just trying their luck, but before they know it, they have lost their money. Due to this, some will just quit, but many more will try again whether because they believe they have better hope of winning or they are just revenging. But with time, enough of them would have been entangled by it and would hardly do without gambling afterwards.

I often advise people to learn about gambling before engaging in it due to this kind of issue, because with the right education, they will know how to gamble and also establish what they gamble for so that they will not be badly affected by it in any way. Gambling is an activity that is risky and also an avenue through which money can be made, which makes it tempting. However, the manner and approach in which we engage it matters so well. Nevertheless, in all sense, it's so ugly to fix our minds on the money to be made in gambling since if our attempts fail, it can destabilise our plan more.

Do you mean he noticed it on two different betting companies? That's serious. Well, I can't be so thorough in my response about it if the names of the casinos are not posted for verification. But in my experience, I have never noticed this before despite having long years of gambling online. Maybe your friend should be more careful next time as we can't entirely believe that the fault is from the casinos. The fact that it is no more one company means that something might be wrong on his side, so he should be very careful next time.

On second thought, since you said he is winning, the casinos might be tricky. He can only know if he could be so patient to snap or screenshot all the games played before clicking on the submit/confirm as the case may be. With this, the truth can be unveiled, and if it's the fault of the casinos, he can take it up with them. Since he is winning, they might be trying to spoil his ticket through the additional games. However, I am just saying that nothing is impossible in this current dispensation and it takes more investigation to know it.

I wonder why you can't also be of help to him. You can open accounts with the same casinos and try it out to ascertain what is going on. If realised to be the fault of the casinos, you can point their attention to it to challenge them. Who knows, it could be a technical fault as well, we can't just conclude even if the fault is from them, especially if the two are using the same company for their gambling software.

Emotion is certainly bad in gambling, it pushes gamblers into doing what they don't want to do and they will hardly be able to control themselves until they waste that money. This can't be short of irresponsible gambling indeed and the only solution is to turn to a responsible gambler. When you know you are emotional towards gambling, you should not just gamble, that's the rule, or else you will always regret your action which makes it senseless to do such. But one can change the narrative through discipline and determination to gamble only when they are ready for it and also when they are in their right senses. This is the time that they are not so keen for the money to be made through it but just want to gamble for the fun part of it. Even if the gambler wants to make money, it should not be in such a desperate way or time that could trigger the emotion which will make them gamble badly.