It is entirely possible to make money from gambling similar to a professional income. And there really are players who are successful in the long term in gambling. However, it is worth mentioning that there are very few of them, apparently less than 1% of all players. This is such a small figure that gambling is a rather problematic form of permanent income. In order to do this, you need to have a significant competitive advantage over the bookmaker in sports betting or over players on betting exchanges. What is this advantage? I’m not writing here about risk management, it’s implied. In my opinion, the main advantage should be high-quality analytics.

Government can only regulate centralized exchanges and not bitcoin. This is because bitcoin is censorship resistance due to its decentralized nature, and nobody can control bitcoin core protocols. So if you have your bitcoin in your noncustodial wallet, just keep hodling because it is giving you financial freedom using it in a decentralized way.

It is only altcoins that can be regulated and controlled by the government if they want. With bitcoin, you are free and using it as a store of value/investment over a long time will give you more freedom from inflation.

The reason why you don’t see many people venturing into trading most especially the future trading is the fact that it actually needs two things. One is the substantial knowledge on technical analysis and fundamental analysis, and the other is capital. Trading is regarded as gambling by some and for you to earn from it you have to have your own capital to start off. Just like you said many of those people that venture into hunting for airdrops are those that do not have the capital or aren’t even ready to risk there funds into it, so they result in just investing alone

Life insurance is part of what we should place priority on especially our health insurance. Just like they say 'health is wealth', if ones health status is good, their is still a much hope for such person to be rich. In most case, people don't do insurance out of poverty but out of ignorance and adequate knowledge about it's important. If people really know it's important, I believe they will put priority on it just like we do for other things.

Slots games are completely algorithm based so there is a lot of cheating because you are betting there to win and you are predicting that you will win that bet but you cannot understand or see what is happening in the backend of the game. so it is much higher risk. But those who enjoy gambling do not worry about win loss. But if we see that they are cheating us by using different tricks then it cannot be accepted. I still don't understand that they are cheating somehow. I think we lose gambling because of our bad luck

I believe so but what we have seen is that it was not for making them fun or for their pastime, it has now become one of their necessities which has become a reason for their financial problem due to heavy addiction. In fact, in our place, many of them are in debt because of this and they are working hard, have some money, and gamble which is supposed for their basic needs. It is not helping anymore but it causes additional problems. They are not too young not to know how it ruins their life and needs education, they are supposed to realize it before the worst thing happens.

Honestly speaking as long as gambling is concerned you will always feel motivated when you are winning because while we are placing gambling bet is for us to win and once you're winning it gives you more joy because the main reason while we are playing gambling is to win and have fun, although when you feel bad in gambling is when you are losing, but winning always makes us to be more excited.

Savings doesn't guaranteed you becoming prosperous neither does it adds anything to your life, do you know that if you saved 10,000,000 today in 10 years time to come that money will be worthless due to inflation although it's not all problems it would solve but at least when the money finishes without any business then you are back to square one. The best is save money only for emergency funds or I be used in few months while salary keeps going into in business it could be bitcoin investment or any other landed properties to secure your future, it could be real estate or whatever you know that would generates money for you at a constant basis.

What I know the current hypes in 2024 are:
1. Testnet airdrop
2. Meme coins
Probably I missed other hypes or if you know the another way of making money, feel free to comment.

I also think so, where entertainment is when you gamble just for fun and don't focus too much on getting rich from your gambling activities. Because in my personal opinion, when a gambler only focuses on getting rich from their gambling and forgets the fact that their chances of getting rich from it are not that high, then in the end they will be disappointed because they lose a lot just to get rich. So instead of having to stress and think too much about getting rich from gambling, I prefer to gamble for entertainment - but it's not that I don't want money from it, it's just that I'm not that focused on pursuing wealth from it.

I don't really agree if it really guarantees that you can make money when you buy at day time and sell it at night. The market is not supposed to go up when it's evening, you can barely see the chart and there's no evidence supporting on that because the price not always went up when it's evening. But I believe that it's good to trade in night time because there's huge volume.

I recently came across a discussion about low odds in sports betting. I never believed that using low odds in sports betting could lead to success. And I believed that the reason for this state of affairs was that one loss can cancel out many victories. For me, this seemed like something that did not require proof, until a man began to argue with me, who, according to him, had achieved success in sports betting and had been taking profits from bookmakers for a long period.
 His strategy is:
1. He selects matches with relatively low odds, the outcome of which is more or less clear. For example, when an experienced team plays with outsiders.
2. You should choose many such matches for diversification purposes, so that one random loss does not wipe out all your winnings.
3. It follows from this that in most cases, low odds work out, and random losses are offset by a large number of wins.
 I would like to ask you, what do you think about such strategies? What do you think are the disadvantages of this strategy?

Basically, there are factors that leads to gambling addiction and everyday gambling can be one because whatever you devoted time doing all day is part of your life such that you can't easily abstain yourself from such habit and doing something consistently without any positive results is not good at all. Gambling is a game of free will, you don't get involved always but at leisure and that is the best way to follow it up. It will be an act of slavery if anyone spends most of their time gambling without good results even if you do have positive results but it doesn't mean you should remain glued all the time.

Title.

Whales are going to start selling like last cycle.

Don't fall for the trap. Don't sell unless you absolutely have to!

Bitcoin is freedom. Do not sell your freedom. Hodl it until fiat becomes less popular than bitcoin. Give it to your grandkids if you have to. Do not sell your freedom.

EDIT: Made some changes to calm people down. 🧡

I have seen new investors being carried out by seeing the success of big bitcoin investors. But , this is wrong approach in my opinion. Because, I personally feel that most of the people fail and they will never share their story. So, most of the stories that new guy searches , he will find only good success stories. But that is not correct overall picture. One should keep the limitations of crypto in mind as well. What is your opinion about this ?

Long time ago I was working so hard to buy Bitcoin but I couldn't because I had no job, but starting from this
month of January I have gotten a new job that pays me 5 figures a month and I just use $110 from my salary to buy Bitcoin,so as today is the last day of the month I just bought Bitcoin with part of my salary.
However, I bought it from a 3rd party through the help of a co-worker at my working place.

So, is it safe for me to store my coin there or is there any other wallet I can use to store my coins? I know of electron but apart from the electron is there any other wallet which is safe?.
My profile shows that I am still new on Bitcointalk and I would say with my actions I am very interested in learning more about the accumulation process so I can gain more Bitcoin.