I have never been involved with cock fight and to be honest with you, I can't imagine myself to ever take part in such an event. Maybe it's just different cultures, but to me it feels like animal cruelty to watch 2 animals to fight each other to death and bet money on it. I understand that there is a lot of history involved and people don't want to give up their traditions. Do we really need to watch real animals fight in 2022? Couldn't there be an alternative that is less harmful to animals? I would rather watch and bet money on animals racing than on fighting. It feels a bit like what the sailors did a few hundred years ago with scorpions on the ships. Nothing wrong with people getting together and having a good time while betting money on some events. But if there are animals dying than I don't it could be a mainstream event that could be displayed in casinos. Imagine the public outcry if all the big casinos would start having daily cock fights. There would be a lot of protest by the animal organisations like peta in front of the casinos and media coverage could lead to bad publicity.

It's always nice to bring the Bitcoin price into perspective by comparing 5 or 10 years ago to today. Even though BTC had a terrible year and is down 65% year to date, we are still up 50% over the last 5 years. Over the last several weeks the number of threads of people asking "is bitcoin going to survive" increased a lot, it feels a bit like people lost confidence in bitcoins. Looking at past prices should calm our nerves even if we didn't buy so cheap. There is clearly a longterm upwards trend in bitcoin. Also thinking back 5 years should help us to decide that it's a good time to buy right now, rather than wait for price to drop to unrealistic low levels. I don't think that the bitcoin price would be the same today if more people bought in 2015. If most people bought their Bitcoin for 400 USD back in the day, why would anybody be buying now at 16,000 USD or 60,000 USD one year ago? Bitcoin wasn't popular back then, which is where the price rise is coming from once all the new investor joined the crypto community.

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In my opinion gambling should always be legal in a country. Having a nation wide ban on gambling is wrong as it will never remove gambling complete from society. The only thing that a ban is going to do is shifting it not hiding from the government. Private underground casinos will pop up and still satisfy the demand for gambling and sports betting. The government is missing out on taxes and also will not offer a legal framework for the citizens. It should be every persons choice to decide if he wants to engage in gambling or not. And as long as it's legal a gambler doesn't need to be afraid that he will scammed out of his winnings, he has the law on his side. In my country sports betting is a big market and is part of the culture over here, if politicans would try to ban it then there would be a public outcry. As for the metaverse I think it's the future and will be a big part for people watching sports, betting and engaging with each other while sitting on the couch at home. I would only be wearing a costume in the metaverse if I am getting paid for it. It feels a bit like making a promotion on Facebook or Instagram, as everybody else is going to see you with it. And a company should offer some goodies or monetary reward for people to promote their business.

Right now is the worst possible time to sell any of your coins. The prices are so low that at any point over the last year it would have been better to sell than now. I think that most longterm abf HODL investors are aware of that and are not considering selling any of their crypto coins. Short term volatility should have never any influence on our decision making, it's better to hold for another few tears than to sell now. For a trader things might look differently, he more concerned with shortterm profit.
Even though there are still plenty of HODL investors I don't think the bitcoin price is going to rise at the end of the year. The demand for cryptos is not strong at the moment, people are trying up get by with the higher living expenses and with Christmas around the corner there is not much free capital to invest left. The good thing of longterm investors not selling their coins is that the price is not falling further. We have to wait for 2023 for prices to recover.

Interesting article, I haven't see it before, thanks for positing it here. It sounds a bit unrealistic at moment for central banks to start buying bitcoins, but it would be a great success story for  the crypto community. For Russia it seems that cryptos are one way to get around the sanctions on international money transfers, this will make it more interesting for other governments to also go into cryptos. Especially for countries which are in rivalry or competition with the Western world cryptos can be a real alternative to get out of the Swift payment system. For central banks in Western countries it might be less attractive to start buying bitcoin themselves. The FED and the ECB are both trying to boost their own digital currencies. If word would get out that they start buying bitcoins in large quantities than it will be much harder to convince investors to start using the digital dollar or euro. I think western central banks would like to reduce the dominance of Bitcoins and buying coins would be the exact opposite.

Even though Ecuador won the match, it would still be nice to know if there was bribing happening or not. Seems like a big deal to me if the host country really engages in trying to bribe the enemy team. Only the attempt on it's own should already have major consequences and remove Qatar from the worldcup. I am not so sure about the average wages for professional football players in Ecuador, but to me it seems that 1 million is a huge amount. Shouldn't that be flagged by the banks? When 8 players get so much money added to their bank account there should be some kind of proof that could easily be investigated. It baffles me a bit that there is no demand by the international community to investigate the claims furthers. Also there was no need for Japan to bribe any Germany players, we are doing this happily on our own. 4 years ago it was South Korea, now it's Japan. The german team can't handle the pressure. Gonda played exceptionally well during that match, he deserves to win. Now I am rooting for a Japan to get far during the tournament as I lost all my money on Germany and not going to trust them again this cup. 

Sorry to hear this buddy, I know exactly how you feel. Sometimes you look at a match and it seems like a sure win, there is nothing that could go wrong to make you lose your bet, only to be proven completely wrong. It's such a devastating feeling to watch the game and see how the underdog is winning and there is nothing you can do. This happened twice to me this year again during big CSGO matches when Navi got kicked out. Right after the match it feels like I will never bet again in my life, but that feeling passes. The Worldcup only just started, taking a break now will make you miss out on a lot matches still to come. Maybe split out our bets over several matches next time to diversify your risk a bit.

Not really, on my opinion it's more important to have people who work well together than a genius. Very intelligent people usually come with a big ego and they know how intelligent they are. So you are going to have to pay them a lot of more money. This depends of course on the job itself, for some positions a specialist required and then it makes sense to get a very smart person. If I had to choose o would pick a well centered, easy going and friendly worker over a difficult smart person. Another factor is that if you only hire people that are smarter than you, then what are you bringing to the table? Maybe the employees realise that they are doing all the work and could cut you out. And being smart and expert is one thing, having people skills and emotional intelligence is something completely different.

Very nice game of Saudi Arabia yesterday, luckily I only bet on England and France so far. Argentina was one of the countries where I would expect more from them. Today with group E & F matches the are some more good games to bet on. First with Morocco vs Croatia that should go in favour of Crotia, but I am passing on the match. More interesting is Germany vs Japan, that should be a sure win for Germany. Then Spain vs Costa Rica seems a pretty one sided game for Spain. And then last match should Belgium beat Canada. I will place small bets on these three games for today. Just going for outright wins and not placing on particular scores as I am a bit afraid for the number of goals we have seen so far. With France getting 4 and England 6, these where hard scores to predict. Right now it's all about building a higher bankroll for the semi and quarter finals to place some more risky bets.

It's always harder to make a diagnosis on yourself than it is for others to interpret your behaviour. I would say that I am not addicted to gambling, but if you ask my ex girlfriend she would probably say yes. I started gambling more than 10 years ago and over the last few tears I have been doing it every week. So you can say that I am regular gambler and stopping gambling completely overnight would be difficult for me. But I still have control over myself. There are weeks where I don't gamble, like on vacation it's no problem take a break for 2 weeks. Another important factor that is part of my gambling routine is to have fixed limits on how much money I use each week for gambling. With such restrictions I limit my maximum loss per month. Once I lost all my balance for a week it's not a problem to stop and not play for the next several days. To me the main thing to not be addicted to gambling is being able to control your habits. As long as you are in control yourself and not driven by the casino it should be okay. Still important to reflect on ourselves though.

No hopefully the gambling industry is not going to be affected by the recent turmoils. We have already enough problems with the FTX bankruptcy and don't need another crisis on our hands. If all gamblers would withdraw their money at once and nobody keeps on gambling then of course the system would collapse. Do we really want to see all the casinos on their knees? I don't.


Unfortunately yes, if a major company in the sector turns out to be a scam than this will affect all the other companies as well. This will probably only be short lived though. Once the gamblers see that the other casinos keep operating normally and are not closing down shop things should normalise again. These crisis in financial markets are soon forgotten when prices start rising again. There have been bankruptcies in the past and industry always recovered afterwards.


I have some money left at the casinos, but I wouldn't call it storing them there, rather this is my usual gambling bankroll I am using each month. Whenever I make a decent win than I am going to withdraw some of that money. This is not only about security reasons to not leave too much money at the casino, it's also a control for myself to not directly gamble again with the money I won. Leaving some money in the casino seems fine and you save up on the transaction fees to always deposit and withdraw every time you want to gamble.


Depends on how questionable the casino really is. If the casino has been around for several years and you never had any issues in the past of withdrawing your winnings than I don't see any problem here, if the casino is very new than I would be more cautious. It also depends on what kind of customer I am. In case of being a whale who wants to deposit thousands of Dollars than it might be worth to check the financial situation first. In my sitatuion with betting only small amounts I don't think the casino would respond.

I don't think working alone with free spins is going to make a decent profit for you. It's always nice to get a free spins, especially now with the Christmas time approaching there will be more promotions. But these free spins are usually a bonus we can add to our regular gambling. In the past I never won anything big with free spins, there were some minor profits but nothing substantial. You could always be lucky and hit a jackpot with your free spin, that seems not so realistic though. Another thing is that there are usually conditions on withdrawing money from free spins. You might need to bet a couple of times before you are eligible to withdraw. My recommendation would be to take as many free spins as you can get, just don't rely on them to make profit. Rather look at them as bonus you can get for your usually games. I am wondering now if anybody has won big with the a free spin.

Right now seems like a difficult situation to switch jobs. I would be careful to quit my current job if something new is not 100% save and makes financial sense to switch. As long as we are not being laid off and there are no concerns about the company going bankrupt I would stick with my current job and wait for a better time. In case we are getting fired than it's something completely different. It depends now if we are getting some government benefits or not. If there is some insurance for 12 months to help us find a new job than I would take that. This would be a good time to try and increase our investment and see if we coukd live of it. Without any support I would go for the next possible job. Paying bills every month is difficult with the rising prices and going straight for an investment job is no guarantee that we are going to make a profit each month.

Stay strong and believe in crypto currencies. As a 9 year veteran you should be more optimistic, right now we are just in another bear market. Crypto will survive as it has in the past. Up and down cycles are part of any financial assets and as long we are not selling at the moment we should be fine. In my opinion this is good time to buy, rather than selling any of our coins. Look forward to the world going back to normality. The war in Ukraine has to end eventually, inflation can't stay in double digit territory forever, economic growth will come back. Once we beat the recession everything is going to look much better again. In a few years people who have up on cryptos and sold all their coins will feel terrible. The long term trend for cryptos is still upwards, a few bad events are not going to change that.

Moin, ja spreche Deutsch  und stimmt bin nicht so oft hier im lokalen Forum unterwegst, mehr als Mitleser und nicht so oft als selbst Schreiber.

War ziemlich überrascht mal wieder was bei einem Raffle zugewinnen, ist schon lange her dass ich mal Glück hatte. Kenne mich mit den physichen Coins so gar nicht aus, wird meine erste. Was wäre dann euer Tipp eher DIY oder Buyer Funded Option wählen? Selbst zusammen basteln stelle ich mir etwas schwierig vor da ich nicht so geschickt bin, und mit meinen Woschtfingern gibts auch eher Abdrücke auf dem Barren. Das Problem wäre nur wenn es schon zusammen gebaut ist wie sicher der Private Key ist.

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Wow it's been a long time since I won anything. What a nice Christmas gift. Thanks a lot MrMojo

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