That's what the OP has mentioned although it is old thread being bumped by someone who felt they should share their own story and while I am not a fan of bumping old threads but this thread is actually worth bumping as more and more gamblers who are slowly falling in trap of gambling will find help from the mentioned facts in the OP.


I must say gambling addiction has to be among the top 5 most dangerous addictions because unlike other addictions it does not affect you physically and you feel like you are doing good and your family would never notice any difference but gambling addiction actually destroys you internally and you go through a sea of emotions and obviously hurts you financially as well.

Controversies have always been there and in fact I remember there was a big controversy where some players were actually mining bitcoins in their PC that they were supposed to play games .

Now coming back to point, I am huge follower of League of Legends and my personal favorite of all time is - Faker the movement god!

E-sports to me has a huge future because the audience is already incredible in countries like Korea and China and it just needs more attention globally. Anyone who does not watch e-sports all I can say is that you are missing some serious fun.

He was seriously as guarded as possible. I mean look at PJ Tucker and Harden, they were literally on him when he was shooting, even moving him mid air when they collided but it went in so I guess it wasn't really a foul. The only minor thing was maybe PJ Tucker shouldn't have swiped near but just stand in front but it was still an amazing defense, he just scored without really caring about defense since he had to either shoot or lose so he shot without caring about defense.

Your determination will not help where luck is the primary key in deciding your success. I mean you might be having all the determination about achieving big things in gambling but that may help only up to the level of continuing your gambling but not in the final out come of gambling.

I believe same attitude of determination is required while thinking about stopping gambling on the both case of temporary and permanently. I mean strong determination is required for stopping gambling as well.

All the controls and discipline you have mentioned for a gambler to have will definitely help them to realize what is there in gambling like whether to continue or not. I mean if you have control on your gambling then you may not continue it when you are facing frequent losses. Gamblers must take time to analyze why they gamble. If they find it is good for their heath and funds then they continue. But, I doubt how many gamblers are doing self analysis once in a while.

How long you are a gambler. I ask this because no gambler may know themselves as an addicted or not. They do think themselves that they are not addicted to gambling but the way how they gamble and how often they gamble will show that they are actually addicted or not.

If you are too conscious not to lose much then you opt to stop right after a winning but most gambler may overcomes such factor of fear as their greedy emotion will be stronger than the fear factor. I am also thinking about to wrap up for a day after winning but I go continuing as I do not want to miss out my lucky day without a big win.

Stopping after a loss is not an optional most of the times as I am enforced to quit as there will be no bankroll left after a big bust during my martingale attempts. Also, I never go back with new funds to try recovering my loses. I may start gambling again after a break only.

I was reading through and was wondering the same and you probably said almost what I would. I would just like to add the fact that if you are talking about loosing streak on a expected cashout at 2.00 odds then I can tell you that you may even have bigger streaks than 15 because it's similar to dice and I have seen streaks of 13-14 often at primedice and had a streak of 9 myself not so long ago.

For years, people are researching about how to overcome the continuous losing streaks and unfortunately no one is coming up with any possible solution. It shows, it cannot have any solution but it is the solution for houses to beat us when try to beat them through martingale.

Indeed as it does for a lot of people.

For me bitcoin never helped me financially initially too much but certainly helped me in long term as I was lured into various altcoins and I will not lie that I made some handsome profit too with initial investments in alts. Now a days most of them are thrash I know but earlier it used to be very good the market as a whole.

I consider myself lucky enough to get into bitcoin early enough that I was one of the early adopters into altcoins.

Okay maybe I am just an idiot, so please excuse my lack of understanding simple English written rules . But, I wanted to ask some vital stuff about this before I go into betting and testing for the future ones myself. I am not a big sportsbook guy in the "very detailed bets" type of dude, I gamble on regular money line wins instead of playing like "who will win the coin toss" type of every single thing.

Reading the requirements on stakes forum, it says "place a multi bet on these matches", what does stake mean when they say "multi bet", is it playing multiple bets on the same game, or is it playing multiple games from that list? What does it mean basically? It also says "you can't cash out bets" which I assume there is an option of cashing out while game is on the way afaik, just warns us not to use that. Rest is pretty easily understandable and no issues. If anyone could clear these two parts, I would love to participate in the future.

You summed up the current market situation perfectly and that is the reason why investors are not so successful now a days because they still want to see bitcoin going up by 20%-30% every week.


True again but I actually still believe that anyone who invest in bitcoins even today will be in much more profit than any other business if they can hold (or as we call it HODL) their coins for another 3-4 years because when bitcoin was introduced the value was considered in bitcoins. As time went on, mBTC was given the respect that earlier was given to BTC and in coming time, I am quite sure uBTC or even satoshi would be the equivalent valuable unit.

Yes for me too bitcoin made me realize how it was possible for hackers to demand ransom from clients after cracking up their system. Its not that bitcoin is at fault if it is being used for wrong purposes, I am just saying that now I am much more knowledgeable about how decentralization works.

Moreover if you ask me how bitcoin has changed my life, well it certainly has because earlier I was someone more into physical life I mean I was more involved with people around me and now I am someone who keeps learning but online and gets to learn new methods about earning. My life has changed from an idle offline person to an active online user.

Exactly as many of the ICOs also target such exchanges because no matter what your coin is about, if you can pay their fees they will list you. I remember a few exchanges listed Flux coin which actually was a total flop and investors lost their money I believe.

That's why there is a huge gap between reputed exchanges and new/regular exchanges as the reputed ones would never take money and list just any coin.

But that said sometimes these small exchanges do help because a new exchange cannot get listed on Binance directly and need some hike from small exchanges first.

You don't have to be a self-sufficient country but at the same time when you eliminate the corruption in the politics you could literally make ANY country in the world get better as well. I am not talking about something magical here, think about all the corruption and all the bad management by the politicians and remove them out of the question and you have a nation that is instantly better, how could a nation be any worse when you remove corruption?

It is impossible. With all of that gone and with more money and taxes used more properly you could definitely start to invest into farmers, than invest into factories that could use those farm products and start to sell to other nations. That is not being a self-sufficient country, you could still buy stuff from other nations but at least you will be in less of a debt.

Look at Germany, they have excess amount instead of a nation debt in the past 2 years. That is what nations should be aiming at, which is not impossible. Not being self-sufficient, but try to have less debt by removing corruption and using it for betterment.

For me gambling is all about process as I am a sports betting fan and I have to analyse various charts such as the last performances of the teams/players and there are several other aspects like the injury, current form and recent head to head. So whenever I am doing gambling I am very much involved as any sports betting guy would agree with me that at times we get charged up when our team is doing good.

I remember recently I made a over 2.5 goals bet on an event and there was no goals until 70-72 minutes and I was very tensed and ended up winning as the final result was closed down as 2-1 so yeah I am personally very much involved with the process rather than just the outcome.

You’re right, Ethereum Blockchain has given people the opportunity to just start up any project they want without plans at all. Even scammers are now misusing because it makes things easier for them and they can just start up as many projects as much as they want and use it to scam lots of people. Such a situation has discouraged a lot of people from participating in new projects and people now sees ICO as a scam because scammers have made it seem that’s how it is, which is very bad.

I don’t know how this problem will be solved, but it is up to investors to be smart and avoid bad projects.

Yes you’re right. I have read news about it that they will soon start selling cryptocurrency to people. But I don’t know if they have started offering cryptocurrency for sale. According to the news there have been some who are against the idea. I am looking forward to other countries doing the same, they should start allowing people to buy and sell cryptocurrency using banks, that will be really cool and will help in the adoption.

Although before this time, I have seen a lot of e-banking platforms that have been allowing people to make use of cryptocurrency and even buy and sell it at anytime. Banks such as Wirex, located in the UK, has been doing that for long.

Actually the globe is getting digital. Cash payments are traditional means of payments but now, they are been overruled by several online applications which of course are centralized and gives the ease to the customer to pay with just a few clicks. PayPal might be the one of those digital platforms which have made payments easier.

Use of such digital wallets should first dominate the markets and after this era, we could start implying crypto payments into the monetary systems as people would come to know that being digital in terms of sending and receiving payments can actually be easier and beneficial. Let the world first experience this with the centralized digital wallets.

What people might care about is their security and assurity that their funds would not be stolen or hacked. There are a number of exchanges out there but not each of them is secure to transact. There are only few exchanges which offers us complete security which are chosen by the people.

Most of the people would not even care if it is a CEX or a DEX if the exchange is giving them benefits, they would join in. What people needs is benefits. They are with trading only because they need to earn a decent amount of money and hence they would only go for exchanges which might show them unique but best features.

A dump might be approaching which might make a lot of investors to wait before they could buy the above mentioned coins but yes, holding these coins would be highly profitable because in few coming months, their prices would rise up at least by 10% giving us excess profits. Even some of these coins already have been experiencing some minor pumps which would end up in a major pump after the halving.

Most of the big whales are waiting for the halving to proceed so that they could see some of the major coins on their dip which would be the point for them to enter the markets and make it grow to the next level.

Libra coin would actually be good for the people who carry forward their advertisements over facebook. They can easily pay for such advertisements with libra coin and hence they might seem using libra more suitable for them. I think this is the major reason behind why facebook is launching it's own coin. They want a payment method to support their internal financial monetary affairs and libra coin would be a best selection in this case.

Investing in Libra would not be beneficial for us as traders but for those who want to gain benefits from the most grown platform like facebook by promoting their products/services onto the network would surely find it beneficial.