Just like in trading where we have individuals we refer to as professionals same applies to gambling. A professional gambler must not bond to gambling to be referred to as professional, neither is he an addict. They're  preferably seasoned gamblers that know when to to quit  when he observes a red flag in his luck for the day, never desperate by having to  throw in money meant for other projects regardless, and understands that gambling is a game of luck no matter how many years you have put in it doesn't mean you will always win.

OP this post is a real burner not just for newbies but every member that's seeking for guidance and directions on how to grow so well not only in ranks but also in knowledge of the resource the forum holds. Am impressed by this, and among other things OP has addressed I would like to shed  more lights on bounty participation by newbies subsequent to the quick cash that bounty hunting offers with no ranking restrictions.

Not to condemn bounty hunting entirely but a waste of energy and time for someone that dreams big. Why settle in catching  small fishes when actually you can put in a little more efforts and start catching the bigger ones with less stress afterwards. Bounties wouldn't make you look productive to the forum, whereas it's the more productive you become the more you earn merits that ranks you up.
LEARN not to settle for the less!

Literally speaking, I didn't mean that the matter is quite a difficult one per say, but rather that the times are difficult to putting trust on people so easily as we don't even know who to trust nowadays and that preventive measures should be taken in all situations irrespective of what others may think. For the decision to restrict newbies from engaging in the lending board should be viewed as a necessary preventive measure.

The ingenuity of your recommendation is something commended and like other members I do align with your idea. Like how reasonable does it seem having someone join an organisation and starting up with a request for a loan from the organization without having contributed in anyway to the development of it. For it therefore entails that your obsession for a loan is what drove your membership interest and nothing more.

There are some other child boards that newbies are restricted from participating with the idea of avoid trolling, spams and the lending board shouldn't be exempted anymore.

It's true the forum wasn't created with the intention of restricting members from accessing certain areas of the forum but unanticipated issues may arise that demands such decision. Like the popular saying goes: difficult times demands difficult decisions.

With the market volatility it's possible for a rise to occur that could raise price to $60k above on the grounds that if more investors key in within the next remaining months of the year. One thing amongst others I observed about bitcoin price movement this year 2023 is that it takes a falling step backwards and double step upwards after a few moments. For anyone that have been following up the patterns there's a slow but steady increase this year and it's possible price can go beyond $60k, not forgetting that it tested around $31k  days ago before going down to it current price of $27k and I wouldn't be surprised if we experience a rise in price beyond $31k to about $34k thereabout before the end of May.

One bitter-sweet way to save newbies from scams in the "crypto verse" is to let them learn from a first hand experience of being victim of a scam. Many may disagree on this ideology as been illogical but we all know that when you get a fire burn experience on maybe one of your toe or finger, when you see anything that looks like fire yiu will be the very first to escalate, avoid or distance yourself before anyone else would it.  And OP haven falling a victim of scam has a better understanding than anyone else around him, of the benefits of avoiding any social media, YouTube or online platforms with enticing crypto giveaways.  So at times it's a good thing learning through the hard way as it may save us from bigger victimization in the future.
The easier ways to learn:
1. From other people's experience story.

2. Always ask questions on things you lack understanding about, don't be too quick to engage (FOMO).

3.Stay away from greed as crypto and greed don't go well together.

Well Yes! Your prayers did came true as Arsenal are currently back to the top of the table but very well not for long as their closest rival Manchester City are closing up with them edge to edge with a two outstanding matches yet to be played. Chelsea we know have had a very bad season for the past months and currently with a coach that have lost five of his games making it six for tonight's game against arsenal, so the victory for arsenal in tonight's game was expected.

Two points ain't enough to keep City away from lifting the EPL trophy this season back to back. So therefore, arsenal should should forget on winning the EPL this season as their hopes on winning it was dashed right from their three consecutive draws thereby dropping points to the advantage of City.

I may not from Hawaii but I know about the game you're talking about. It's an interesting game no doubt but it's kind of viewed as a child's game and as such crypto enthusiasts of matured minds wouldn't gain interest in expending their time and money on it and that's why you just haven't seen it on any crypto casinos, cause they understand it won't give them the kind of market they need. In other words, it wouldn't be good for market.  So OP, stick to the ones you have over there in Hawaii and play it for fun not more nothing less.

Since 2021, that's almost about three years now, enough time to have being acquainted with lots about the community and every basics you feel you need to know right now. The forum is more like a social gathering of persons from different walks of life and location and no one is here to impress or be impressed by anyone.

Such feelings as yours usually stems from a low self-esteem personality which eliminates all believe on yourself that you can give out  something worth reading absorbing intimidation into you that have mad you stayed away for since 2021 you created your account.

Now that you have taken the bold step to make a difference, I think you should start with reading more of others posts in the forum than being in a hurry to makes yours, as in that way you will be guided on how to create quality post and contribute to the forum
In as much as many would wanna bear with you in your building up. Flee from plagiarism and other related issues against the forum rules as I don't think there would be anyone who will be ready to bear with you on such erring.
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The market volatility that played out this past days is psychologically related. What I mean by this is that, just like the bitcoin price drop down to $26,942 on 23-04-2023 and later pulled up to $30,036 within a few time. This action  action by the market price must have triggered some fears in the minds of many trading during the price fall, especially for those that  might have bought when bitcoin price was  $19k - $20k around March, and seeing price going down again after some few rising, out of fear some might have been forced to close their trade within the little profit position to take a little profit.

And that's exactly what the  market wanted. The volatility is just a test of the strength of the market psychology of many traders. A technical way to make more profit in such situation is to DCA,  and that was exact action I took immediately I observed a double bottom chart forming, because the volatility from my observation is a positive sign on the market price.

For a 100 times I have being to the mall I can say I have for 80 times bought a few more items I never budgeted for before going for shopping. And that's because my debit is handy,  but you don't expect me trade my convenience for the sake of the believe that I might save more if I have to go with cash at hand instead of my card.

There certain times that having the card could be a life saver where your cash is exhausted and you just remembered you needed to get something very needful at home.  One just have to discipline himself to spend based on scale of preference be it with cash or card. Simple.
Practically disagree with this part as there's no way you can't have knowledge of your password or card number offhand. No way, except there's a memory problem somewhere.

Shopping with a list is another wonderful form of mitigating unnecessary purchases items in the market. It's like a roadmap, a route already set to be followed and digressing becomes a bit difficult except in rare cases.

Gambling is an art that's meant to be followed with pure discipline and self set rules of limitations without which a gambler is bond to take up any act to making sure he or she stays in the game no matter the consequences that may follow from such action. Primarily when a gambler lacks a discipline in himself towards gambling habit then he is heading forward to addiction and the resultant effect is such as this one with the case of kidnapping to raise funds as to keep up with the gambling addiction.

As gamblers we should learn how to express ourselves to our close trusted friends and relations on what we're passing through indulging in gambling as this can be helpful when we learn to share a struggling addictive lifestyle before it gets worsen.

The type of alternative you're looking for in supplant of stakes depends on the features you are looking forward from any other platform. Like do you need an alternate that has a sport betting plus casino games platform or you're looking for something with just casino games or much more than that. Reasons is that almost all the gambling platforms provides same gambling services with a bit of a little difference in their features, except for security, KYC (privacy), better odds, and reputation that makes the much difference.

Simply put, mining could be described as a process of verifying transactions on a proof of work blockchain and creation of coins through some mathematical puzzle with the use of special computers. And it's advisable to use ASIC miners for your mining https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3469416.0
To get a more rich explanations in additions to the ones other members have given, I'll recommend you move your thread to mining board.

For the past three years Manchester City has been dominating the EPL and the EPL it's likely going to the way of the "farmer league" as a result of this continuous dominance over the years, and it really doesn't show competitiveness as we obvious know of the EPL title contenders within the top four teams.

And my contention is that if they are that strong enough then they should win the champions league as anything short of that,  simply implies that the other clubs in the EPL ain't good enough as we think them to be

Poker is like a game of chance, whoever has the best hands on the table is predicated to winning the game. And ChatGPT can't possibly pick or be in the knowing of which cards in particular shall fall in the hands of either of any player, except the game is manipulative.

In my opinion, using Chat GPT in poker is assume to be another form of collusion (cheating) which is yet to be viewed same way by others. But I don't see in any way AI is going to outsmart human intelligence even though they're believed to makes tasks easier and fast achieved.

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In the first place you guys shouldn't have merged into Russian board knowing some day you would be requesting for your own Ukrainian board. Having Ukrainian participating actively in Russia local board eliminates any need to create a Ukraine owned local board.

Like what is the possibility that if given the board at this moment that almost all Ukrainians actively participating in Russia board instead of your local thread would wanna resort to using the local board when currently they aren't showing convincing participation in your local thread but rather flooding that of Russia. Have you considered the activeness of Pakistans in their local thread and others compared to that of Ukraine but are yet to have a local child board of theirs.

Am not against anyone requesting for a local board but from your statement it's obvious your idea was borne out due to the ongoing war between the two warring countries. And we're hopeful this war is going to end very soon for normalcy to take it's course. But then the war shouldn't be a locus point why you should be demanding a local board of yours. When the timing is ripe am sure @Theymos in his discretion would definitely see to it's ratification.

There's flinching nuance that makes the difference between trading and investment, and this nuance is only but a function of time. Mainly when you hear someone telling you he's trading, what comes to mind is that it's just something of a matter of few minutes, hours or at most few days stuff, but unlike investment, immediately you hear the word the first thing that comes to mind is long-term plan. So there's a difference in time set between the two but still they both demand strategy, analysis and experience all for profit making.For anyone to choose to trading or investment, it all depends on what their prospect seems like.