Those are probably addicts who are addicted to substance or alcohol. But how come those people are going to steal from you and gamblers won't? I don't understand since gamblers feed on burning money in order to gain more money. What's a better scenario than them being in a place where they can take someone else's money without that person's knowledge and be able to gamble with it? I have met some substance and alcohol abusers in the past and they take pride on being an addict but they can afford it.

Gamblers, on the other hand, no matter how rich they are, they can never afford gambling. Some would think that a rich person can gamble and lose money but not worry about it because he's rich, but what happens when he starts betting higher? The higher the bets, the more thrilling it is to gamble. What happens when the person starts going all in, starts gambling with the things he owns (properties, cars, etc)?

Honestly, I would be able to stay under the same roof with people that are addicted to substance. They are just people like you. The only difference is that they are using gambling, drugs, and alcohol to escape reality. If you don't do that, then I'm proud of you. I'm proud that you don't have to resort to doing those things. But you have to understand that this people are just trying to carry on with their lives without destroying anything but themselves. They are not to be disgusted of.

Perhaps it's the other way around? Perhaps we value it more because we know that the money doesn't belong to us and if we lose it, we have to pay for it? Not really sure about gambling and trading but in business, people usually take loans from the banks to start a business. It has become rather normal that we take a loan for emergency purposes but the main purpose of a loan is so that people will have money to start a business. They require a business plan so they will have an idea of what business you're going to build and if it's likely to be successful or not. This way, you also get to know the falls of your business and what are the reasons why it might be a bad decision to start that business.

Nonetheless, it's better to risk your money only so you can only go bankrupt (zero balance). Starting a business or pretty much just risking money that you have borrowed and losing it all will put you in debt (negative balance) and it's a lot harder to start from there than zero balance.

Sleep is refreshing. Drinking plenty of water is refreshing. Gambling? I don't think so. We are losing money in gambling. It's only refreshing when we're winning. But the reality is most of the time the opposite. After a busy day at work, all you want to do is lay down, see your kids, kiss your wife, eat dinner, and go to bed.

Gambling is very draining (and not refreshing!) especially if you're a self-aware individual although I doubt that a self-aware individual will have gambling as a hobby. A self-aware individual will usually be aware of his earnings per day from his job. Losing some of it will mean that all those hardwork for that day, he's just throwing it away. On your way home from work, you can just listen to some relaxing music. You can also study something or read the news. Gambling will just add to your stress for that day.

They do know their chances. They know that they have really small chance of winning but the thing is, they don't know how little. In lottery (which is another form of gambling), it is said that your more likely to die on your way to buy a lottery ticket than you winning. Just imagine how little that chance is.

I think countries are banning gambling so that it will not be in the majority of people's minds. People wouldn't make it an option because they know it's illegal. Some people would argue that there will still be people gambling since there are still people doing drugs even when it's illegal. But as you can see, there are far less illegal drug users than drunkards because illegal things aren't our immediate coping mechanism since we know that we can go to jail for that which will pretty much make our whole life go to waste.

I honestly never get why people think that bitcoin can make you rich. The people who have invested in the past when bitcoin was much cheaper, those are the people who got rich from bitcoin. That train has already passed and it will take a lot more money today for you to be rich in bitcoin unlike before since the price is a lot more.

The work is alright. It requires nothing but a computer and an Internet connection. The only thing you have to invest in is maybe an upgrade of computer so your workflow will be easier and maybe a better Internet plan.

There really is no point in just saving money just to save money. Put some money for emergency fund and put money enough for you to survive 3 months of zero income then start risking your money. Of course it would be stupid to just risk the money without knowledge about business and economy. The better you know, the more chance for you actually doing good in the business world.

If you do have a lot of money, perhaps you can give your job less time or just have a part time job then start focusing on learning business. Why? Because business people are the only people that don't have to work for someone but themselves. They don't need jobs, they offer people jobs, and it's the only way for you to become rich even when you don't do much.

How is it that not finding common grounds with your wife and kids would mean you won't be finding common grounds with your friends? Like I said, the difference between family and friends is that you can choose your friends. This means that you can just be in a social gathering for people like you and everyone there will have common grounds with you. Pretty much why gamblers go to casino, to socialize with people like them, people they have common grounds with.

I really would rather find a new hobby or adopt to my wife's hobby instead of dragging her into gambling which we know is very expensive and risky. I can't afford to have her addicted in gambling since we share common funds and her losses would be my losses too.

Random words like the one you said? What a way to set an example, Do you realize that what you said is contradicting? You said that people get addicted to substance because they want to "escape reality and they don't want to face their troubles in life". This means that they were lonely and afraid in the first place. They have a problem. People cope using drugs and gambling because it's the way they cope with the problems which doesn't really make sense since it only gives you even more problems.

And I swear it's the same people that want to give you advise in life and even financially. It says so much that they know what to do but they just don't do it because they are lazy. When you approach them about their TV series addiction, they say that it's their stress reliever but you can see them even on weekends watching. These days, you really have to learn how to ignore people. Next time they tell you what to do financially, ask them where there is fortune or if they have a degree in business or economics. That should shut them up.

Becoming rich is a combination of luck, intelligence (knowledge), talent, and connection. You would never get somewhrre far if you don't have all of it.

Most of the time it doesn't work like that, though. Promising ones have a lot of investors and they get sold out almost right away, at least the ones with a good marketing strategy and the ones that have been hyped up.

ICOs have been the new nest of scammers and they are making more and more promising looking ICOs. At the end of the day, it still depends on whether or not they are going to run away. I suggest that you buy once the coin is listed to an exchange. That way, you will be able to avoid getting scammed since most ICO scammers run away right after token distribution and some don't even get to list the coin to a exchange. Plus, buying after the coin is listed in an exchange is better than buying pre-sale because it's the time when bounty hunters are dumping the coins and they are so muc cheaper. I really don't recommend investing in ICOs unless the advisors are relevant people in the crypto world.

If that is the case, then those countries sure are very proactive. The number of bitcoin users in our world is so little that it's just a fraction more than 0%. On the other hand, I don't think it's the main reason why they are banning cryptocurrency in their country.

I think they are banning bitcoin and ICOs to prevent their people from losing money from investing. ICOs are mostly scams these days and bitcoin is very volatile. Those people's monetary loss are the country's loss too. They don't want people going bankrupt because they are gullible and got scammed by ICOs or got greedy in holding bitcoin that they held on to it too much that when they needed money, they had to sell at a low price.

While all of that is true, bitcoin users definitely cannot avoid taxes. Sure we can whenever we transact to other bitcoin users but can you really use bitcoin to buy your necessities? For the most of us, we can't and some can but they simply don't. We are always exchanging our bitcoins into fiat so we can use it in real life and it has a taxation going on.

Exchanges have to pay taxes. Some don't realize that they are paying taxes whenever they exchange their bitcoin into fiat because the exchange rate has already been adjusted so we automatically pay the taxes. You can only know about this once you've done your own research. They don't include it right when you're exchanging.

Now, I wonder what would happen to our ecosystem when the government adjusts that tax to a ridiculous amount. It seems like it's the only way for the government to have control of cryptocurrency.

I don't know how did that scare you when there's tons of similar apps that don't require access to anything in your phone. Usually you can also browse weather apps through your browser. There will always be alternative apps for certain apps.

In China, they are so terrified of their government. There was an interview where the people aren't saying anything about the government and that "they might be watching them as they are being recorded." That's how scared they are of their government.

In my country, on the other hand, the government doesn't seem to have much power on the Internet. They can't even properly block pornsites. The government's website itself is getting attacked. The hackers are changing the images into edited pictures of government officials holding dicks and they never get to catch the people doing it.

I get that and sometimes you just don't want to go home because work has become the new "home" to you and your house is just a place where you're constantly being pressured and annoyed by the people you are supposed to love. I guess if you do have that, you should go out with friends instead which you can filter. We were born with certain family members and you can never change that fact for the rest of your life. Friends, on the other hand, you can choose who you want to befriend. Choose someone that destresses you or helps you relax more.

Alright, I was just wondering where it came from since it was just mentioned with no explanation. Just for clarification.

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With or without OP's help, the person will still learn how to gamble because the information is out in the open. It's not like gambling is so secret that people have to pass on the knowledge to you so there really is no point in blaming who started it. Who's to blame is the person who continued it which is the person who asked how to gamble. But honestly, people really do think like that. People are blaming those who taught you something and they will forever be to blame (for people) since you can never change the fact that you were the one who taught him. That's why if you don't want any of the stress, just pass on it. You're not getting any benefits from teaching someone how to gamble anyway even when let's say they are going to register under your referral link, it's not worth it.

I probably have lost 0.1BTC in the past from gambling. Day and night, I was gambling and that was the time I didn't know this forum yet. Well, I do know of it but I haven't registered. I was one of those people who thought that you can beat the house by figuring out a good gambling strategy. I used different scripts, edited them to my liking, and eventually learn how to create one from scratch. My inspiration in gambling are the people that are also using a gambling script but are always on the winning side. I told myself, "hey I can be just like that guy."

The ending was that I put so much money in gambling trying to test out this new gambling strategy "which definitely will make me rich because it's a foolproof strategy." The only fool was myself. After a couple of months of not making a fool out of myself, I went back to the gambling site. The people that have been running "good" scripts are already in negative profit. I guess you really have to withdraw your funds while you're still winning and that no script can make you earn forever. Eventually a tremendous loss streak will come to you and end your winning streak.

At this point, you two can pretty much agree that "it's a case to case basis". At the end of the day, the damage that is caused to the gambler depends on how much the gambler wants to fight his addiction and the same thing is true with a drug addict.

We can weigh what's worse by listing down the negative effects ithas on you. In gambling, you're losing money, you're ruining your reputation, and you damage your body by staying up late. In drugs, you're losing money (but not as much in gambling), you're ruining your reputation, and at the same time you're ruining your body by putting all these illegal drugs into your system.

I think it boils down to usability and the fear of losing money due to bitcoin's volatility.

Right now, there really is no point in using bitcoin if you're just a regular individual. You have fiat money and you have been perfectly fine since day one. Why the sudden switch to using bitcoin, right? I think crypto is really useful to people who sends money online. The fees are just a lot less especially when you have to transfer abroad. Other than that, is there really anything else? There isn't much reasons for a regular individual to use bitcoins. If I wasn't making money from the Internet, I probably would have stayed away from bitcoin and have focused in other things instead. We need the merchants to start accepting bitcoins.

The next thing, people are afraid that they are going to buy bitcoins and then wake up the next day that the price have become really low. It's very unlikely for that to happen but it still can happen. To solve this, people should realize what volatility is and how can they be in profit even with the market going down. They have to understand the concept behind it to understand that it's a normal thing to happen.

On the other hand, what's the fuss anyway since we're making money from bitcoin and we don't need non-tech savvy people asking dumb questions here.

It doesn't really matter much if that much has been lost because 1 bitcoin can be separated into smaller units. Bitcoin doesn't have to be completely 21 million in numbers to be able to accommodate everyone in the world. The decrease of bitcoin in circulation actually kinda helps for the price increase of bitcoin since it will be more volatile.
There really is no way to know what will be the price of bitcoin at a certain time in the future so anyone who claims anything like this is basically just guessing that's why I never really trusted speculations although it's sometimes fun to hear their "explanations".
You can use it as a way to pay but only for digital transactions. Transactions IRL are mostly paid with fiat money which you can buy with your bitcoins. So indirectly you're buying things with bitcoins. It will take a long time before we can directly use it.
1 bitcoin can be divided in much smaller units. It's not like we're supposed to have 1 whole bitcoin, 2 whole bitcoins.
Don't be crazy. Altcoins are only profitable in the short term. Altcoins die right away. Once the majority of the bounty hunters have dumped the coin, it's very unlikely that the coin will have anymore future. As you can see, most altcoins don't really have a future anymore. It's profitable only if you're lucky enough to dump before everyone else. Otherwise, you'd be losing money. I'd put my money in bitcoins instead and just wait out a couple of months. It's a lot less risky than holding an altcoin only to find out the next morning that the devs are already gone and everyone has already sold their coins and your money is basically gone.

I think permanent money only comes from having multiple successful businesses. You can't have permanent source of income from a job either. The company can shut down or they can choose to remove you. You can also get old and not be able to do the job anymore. Crypto is not permanent to us because the price is moving a lot and we're affected by it a lot. Business is the only way to have permanent money since it will always generate money. It will take a lot more hardwork and a lot more of time. People will always consume things and they will always buy things. It's a continuous cycle. They buy something from you, they consume it or the item wears out, then they buy something from you again.

That's why if you want to end the days of you having to go to work, you're gonna have to learn how to run a business and if fate allows, it might even become successful.

I think you meant we're going to come back to gambling whenever we're sad in order to cope up with the loneliness. It really depends on your situation and how can you handle it. Do you get lonely whenever you're alone because of this problem? Then you sure will be gambling a lot. But, are you the type of person that only gets lonely sometimes? Then even when you have gambling as a way to cope with it, you wouldn't be gambling much since you're seldom lonely.

Another thing that we can put into consideration is our ability to solve the problem. If we are able to get rid of the problem, we have no more reason to be lonely, thus, no more reason to gamble. It really depends on a lot of things but the ending will always be you actually solving the problem.

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Sometimes we're not really addicted to something. It's just that we don't have anything else to do. Before, I used to think that I have a drinking problem because I'm going out a lot with my friends we used to drink almost every day. When I put some thought to it, we all don't have anything else to do with each other. We like different things and we all have different hobbies. Basically we're bonded by the alcohol. At some point, I stopped coming just to see if I actually had a problem. Turns out, I don't. I used the time I would spend drinking (which I thought was my addiction) doing something else like taking photos and editing them. I didn't even feel the need to drink at all. The addiction was nothing but an illusion and I was able to give it up right away by just filling the time with something else.