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201  Other / Off-topic / Re: Can family members help a gambling addict? on: March 30, 2024, 11:34:46 AM
Many people are going through gambling addiction but they manage to keep it a secret from their families and loved ones. The only people that know about their gambling activities are their close friends. In the event that you are one of those close friend to a gambling addict, do you think it is right to tell their loved ones with the intention that they will be able to talk to him and help him overcome his addiction? Can the advice of loved ones even help? What is the most effective way of going about gambling addiction.

Advice from a friend can help to some extent depends on the severity of the addiction, while it's indeed to let know about the loved ones as soon as possible about the struggles can help to relieve from the battle that he is fighting inside his head on the other hand it can jeopardize the relationship with that friend but in my opinion it's better to save someone from their addiction and lose their relationship if that's what cost is better than watching them lose themselves while being around.
202  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Is playing poker online better than offline? on: March 30, 2024, 07:16:26 AM
I often watch poker videos on YouTube where the player have very good acting to hiding his cards through his flat face. I have seen them being able to win with very bad cards on their hand with a good bluff, all in his chips. So I imagine, and often play poker online, I am very happy if I get a good card and I can't hide it well so just go all in all my chips. So what do you think?, how do other players know when I have good cards when playing online?, Is by check and don't call the bet they know we don't have a good card?, I'm not good at hiding it, sometime when I have double AS, I always all in at the beginning.


When you go all in or don't make a call makes it obvious that you call depends on your cards which will let the other players to find your strategy even while playing online so you need to have certain skills of manipulating the opponents by your move still the poker face is not relevant while playing online that reduces the chance of exposing yourself to some extent.
203  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: [Apply] Post Improvement review on: March 30, 2024, 06:04:25 AM
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204  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: My DIY Seed Storage on a soda can Inspired by Pmalek's Guide on: March 29, 2024, 04:20:39 PM
I feel DIY secret seed storage is kind of complicated probably it's due to the lack of skill in DIY mechanical works but how many of you guys actually prefer this way or any other way than simple write down seed on a paper and secure in a safe box?

Good job explaining it simple, good to try by everyone but make sure you got enough practice in encoding and decoding the words before using it as primary way.
205  Economy / Economics / Re: What is The Negative Effect of Inflation on Household Savings? on: March 29, 2024, 03:44:17 PM
Inflation hit pretty hard at the middle class people than anyone, and this is being the major contributing to the economic value of a country still their salary doesn't get into the same rate as inflation which forces us to reduce the consumption or work more hours to meet the same needs that we usually have. If the inflation rate is not under control then more people will struggle as above that results into domino effect and worsen the economic situation of the country further that is why it's important to keep the inflation rate under control to have stable economy.
206  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: What is the #1 rule you live by in sports betting? on: March 29, 2024, 12:30:28 PM
Don't go by the odds because it's delusional in terms of results and any result is still possible irrespective of the previous results from the same team. Apart from this the rules are same whether sports betting or on a casino platform, never bet money that you can't afford to lose and don't chase the loss cause it will lead to more loss than you incurred.
207  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Going all in and losing the bet on: March 29, 2024, 06:29:27 AM
The probability of recieving ace card or any card is just same so whether we lose or win the probability remains same that means we just have to conclude that it's just a coincidence which you didn't want to happen. This is part of the gambling and I understand there will be a slight suspicion in our minds when we go all in because we know the money is not that easy to make.
208  Economy / Gambling / Re: Duelbits.com | Casino & Sportsbook | VIP | Instant withdrawals!|ARGENTINA & AVFC on: March 28, 2024, 05:06:41 PM
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Restrictions can come from the gambling site itself or from the game providers. Generally, a gambling site has its own global restricted areas and it means all games on that gambling site will not be available for their restricted area list. After that, there are extra restrictions from game providers and a person who lives in a specific nation is allowed to play game A and other many games from a game provider X, but is not allowed to play games B and some other games from a game provider Y.

It's remarkable that despite so many restrictions many millions of people still find a way to gamble online when they want. I think maybe it's because people need it. To play those games, I mean. Not to make money with them, of course, but to relax from stressful life. People need it and that's why restrictions must be removed, in civilized world at least.


Gambling is one of the most done activity on the internet apart from *orn so it's not a wonder we see casinos crossing millions and billions bets mark in just a couple of years. The restrictions based on the legal status of gambling in a region so if people from banned region wants to gamble then they need to enforce the ruling government to make it legal. And in some countries it will not be revoked no matter what because of religious beliefs. So having a world where gambling is possible from every corner but atleast everyone can experience once in a life time when they move to other regions.
209  Economy / Economics / Re: The benefits of risk taking on: March 28, 2024, 04:25:02 PM
Risk is when a person is exposing him/her self to dangers, possibility of incurring loss or misfortune
So many people run away from business opportunities just because they fear they will run into loose and didn't want to take such risk
I have come to the realization that the word risk is part of life and that it is better you take part in it than not
From history it has been said that the great entrepreneur and business men/woman where all risk takers when you take risk you throw your self to the real of possibilities

I am the one who took risk and failed which costed me a fortune so what will be my State of mind take risk or just let it be and live the life with what you have got instead of ruining everything.

Risk taking is part of life but you don't have to do that mandatory and risk taking depends on individuals and their tolerance level which varies based on their financial status and how much commitments they got to do.
210  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Does gambling excites you ? on: March 28, 2024, 02:44:49 PM
Hi,

There are always things that we are passionate about doing, such as video games, football, basketball, and sports in general, meaning that everyone has something that excites them and makes them want to do.
Like others, I get very excited when I sit down, take my phone, and start my bets. This does not mean that I am addicted, but rather I find it more comfortable and I have more fun.

Does gambling excites you? What motivates you, winning or just the fun in it ?

It excites me when I am winning but while losing I can't say I am excited. Cheesy

Nature of gambling is engaging which is what makes people to fell in love doing it and later they feel like getting addicted or actually got addicted to it which depends on how the individual manage their gambling urge.

Money is the obvious factor that motivates me to gamble but I have clear idea that I have less chances to make it which keeps me under the radar.
211  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: User experience Trends in Online Gambling: What's Next? on: March 28, 2024, 12:18:49 PM

If it is with KYC procedures then it would be a bit of a problem for the casinos especially those which are registered and those which are just following orders from authority. Many of us know why such procedure is being practiced in many platforms; avoid money laundering and accessibility to minors. I personally have no problem about it since I am doing it for years and fortunately, nothing happened so far which could put me in danger. Again, as I always say, choose the right gambling site that would lessen your worries while gambling.
Regulators doesn't dictate when to ask for KYC rather they just mention it is mandatory for everyone who withdraw money from the platform but the casino decides when to ask for verification. As I said how many people will be interested in completing KYC straight away when they register or would love to try the site and if the person feel it's worth getting verified then they will go ahead so as individual now which you prefer?
212  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: User experience Trends in Online Gambling: What's Next? on: March 27, 2024, 05:01:19 PM

2.No sketchy policies like "perform KYC before withdrawal". KYC should be done before depositing money, not before withdrawing money.


Thank you. That's so right. My thoughts are also for KYC verification to be applied at the top-up stage. I think that this kind of practice would improve the user experience and be a win-win for both sides.

This can be a welcome addition that everyone will appreciate but its not so hard to understand that when KYC is mandatory we will be asked to get verified when we want to withdraw because that is when the gambling platform is responsible to avoid AML and asking up front just reduce the userbase because people want to try the platform first and get familiar before providing their personal details to the platforms.
213  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Monitoring sequence of btc transactions on: March 27, 2024, 04:02:13 PM
Me and my partner want to engage in a sequence of Bitcoin transactions. The first transaction involves me sending $400 in BTC, and the second transaction involves my partner sending me $900 in BTC. To establish trust, both of us are willing to deposit $900 in BTC into an account, which will be returned to us after the completion of the transactions.
How should we proceed? How do we find a trusted intermediary?

Using a trusted third party as an intermediary is just going to add extra cost to the value of your transaction which is a loss that can be saved if you can make a trustworthy trade partner and engage in dealing with him.

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214  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: cruel level of addiction, causing harms and still keeping it up on: March 27, 2024, 01:30:19 PM
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Where I am confused is that why won't he stopped already? Those that are addicted to gambling that i knew get to this same level of losing everything and they make a U-turn in the end, what is keeping him imprisoned ? His mind? or he is already crazy? Or even a spiritual attack?

Addiction is a cruel thing that can make you forget everything and urge you to do it depends on the level of severity that needed to give the satisfaction feel. The root cause of his gambling maybe anything that needs to be identified if we want to set them free but obviously it needs professional medical help and probably rehabilitation to detox his mind and get him into the right mindset where he can differentiate what he is doing and why he shouldn't do it.
The first effort that can be made is to raise awareness that what ruins an addict's life is gambling. it will build the mind to force the addict to exercise control over his gambling activities.
This cannot be done instantly, the process must be quite long and gradual. support from family and those closest to you is very important. For anyone who has someone who is a gambling addict, don't leave them and try to support the addict within certain limits.

We can provide support but the one who is addicted may seek or deny the support which really depends on every individual and by that time we may get tired or don't know what to do further that is why it is mandatory to seek medical support as soon as possible when you feel that person is resistant to any other forms of detox his gambling nature. And once the person is in the rehab that is the period it is very important to show your support whether it's a friend or family that will help to shift his mind to new things and get himself off the hook from gambling addiction and this applies to every kind of addiction as well.
215  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: cruel level of addiction, causing harms and still keeping it up on: March 27, 2024, 12:07:53 PM
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Where I am confused is that why won't he stopped already? Those that are addicted to gambling that i knew get to this same level of losing everything and they make a U-turn in the end, what is keeping him imprisoned ? His mind? or he is already crazy? Or even a spiritual attack?

Addiction is a cruel thing that can make you forget everything and urge you to do it depends on the level of severity that needed to give the satisfaction feel. The root cause of his gambling maybe anything that needs to be identified if we want to set them free but obviously it needs professional medical help and probably rehabilitation to detox his mind and get him into the right mindset where he can differentiate what he is doing and why he shouldn't do it.
216  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: How to track lightning network payment? on: March 27, 2024, 07:07:04 AM
I want to use lightning network because of the cheap transaction fee and fast transaction that it has, but I do not think it is possible for third person to trace it which will let me to use the normal transaction that can be tracked using txid.

Even lightning network transactions can be traced via hashes which are unique id for each payment but to track the hashes you need to provide payment channel information and hashes but it's never been as simple as pasting txid on an explorer and seeing the inputs and outputs since LN txs are offline transactions.
217  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Disable and hide gambling videos on Youtube on: March 25, 2024, 03:54:05 PM
Your method can stop gambling ads but not completely and unsubscribing every channel related to gaming and gambling can be a lot of work or atleast for me so my recommendation will be just logout of that Google account in YouTube then login with another account that you haven't used to login, if you don't have just create a fresh one then subscribe to some channels that is related to music or others then you won't get gambling ads until you search gambling related videos there.
218  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Private miners, a ticket to getting faster transaction confirmations on: March 25, 2024, 01:32:44 PM
You need to understand no matter how much hash power we increase on the network the probability of finding the block is still gonna be random but on an average miners find a block in 10 minutes and this will remains same no matter what so your suggestion is not going to help anything but waste the mining resources.
I once had a transaction that took almost a week and was never confirmed, then I successfully got acceleration service from viaBTC and it got confirmed in less than an hour, now please educate me, isn't that a private mining service that got my transactions confirmed at such a limited time, and if this private service which I sent my transaction hash to included mine to their mining block at such limited time, is it not worth implementing locally to help host of others on the network?


Every miner can include whatever transactions from the mempool in the block they find but generally miners prioritise the TXs based on fee used so the waiting time depending on the fee used for the transaction and mempool status. What you did is not private mining, viabtc holds decent amount in the hashrate so they just gave 100 free TXs per hour to be accelerated and this also done just to promote their paid acceleration services.
219  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Private miners, a ticket to getting faster transaction confirmations on: March 25, 2024, 11:00:42 AM
People are not ready to pay in Bitcoin because the confirmation time is unknown.

Your suggestion to resolve is to increase the miners on the network so block can be found soon, is this what you are trying to say right?

You need to understand no matter how much hash power we increase on the network the probability of finding the block is still gonna be random but on an average miners find a block in 10 minutes and this will remains same no matter what so your suggestion is not going to help anything but waste the mining resources.

The actual suggestion can be adopting the LN so payments can be instant and cheap as well.
220  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Can we still truly achieve anonymous gambling in crypto? on: March 25, 2024, 07:47:42 AM
Crypto has been known for anonymity. During the early stage, we like to promote it using the words "decentralized" and "anonymous ", and it's the main reason why a lot of gamblers have chosen to gamble using crypto to gain full privacy, but it seems like things have really change a lot now as gamblers are looking for a casino that are licensed while some casinos who promotes anonymous gambling eventually act like a fiat casino that requires KYC.

What do you think about this one, where is are we heading? And can we still consider crypto casino different from fiat casino?

The nature of crypto remains same as it was but since more people are using cryptos now governments and regulators drawn frameworks for operating a casino and this is why KYC is becoming mandatory on every crypto casino too but still it can give privacy not anonymity which is different from one another but we don't need to worry that much when you choose to play and get verified in a casino that took time to build it's reputation.
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