It might look off-topic if someone reads just this posts and not the ones that led to this conclusion. Drake did 2 things that are officially a no no for politicians. He gambled in public and won which will probably lead to many young people who look up to him to trying their luck because if he could win then it must be easy, right? He also used bitcoin which is this fake currency trying to undermine the position of the Dollar, the currency used by drug lords on Silk Road. The currency that people use to scam and launder money and he told all his followers on social media that it's good and you can make money betting it.

Since we don't see a big backlash of politicians comparing Drake to somebody who was caught beating a child or drowning a puppy, it must mean they're afraid of losing too many votes. Afraid of ending up as memes for young people to laugh at. It must mean they have more to lose than win from this one. Maybe Bitcoin is becoming stronger than we think.

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If they want to make that narrative they can. Governments switch stances as they go. One day they like and support a country, the other they're against it. They support a law, they vote to remove it. In history you had a lot of these cases. Weed was legal, then illegal, now partially legal in some states. Distilling alcohol was legal, then completely illegal, now it depends on the state.
Gambling is legal, when they are making money on it. They would make crypto illegal if so many politicians and their friends weren't making money manipulating the market.

It's so funny that GoFundMe actually means what it says. The site tells you to fund them because any money deposited on their site can be stolen by the owners. By running a fundraiser you are getting funds for the site. They said they aren't going to keep the stolen money but are going to spend them on charities. How does it make it better? If I steal from you and then donate to the homeless shelter everything should be fine, no crime done.
I hope these centralized sites keep doing it so more people wake up and realize what's going on.

There's of course room for improvements but it's not in the original protocol. Segwit gave us an improvement, lightning was an improvement. That doesn't mean we are going to undermine the idea by adding a way to retrieve someone's private key from the blockchain or increase block sizes like BCH supporters wanted. The majority votes here and in this case the majority wants bitcoin the way it is. If you want to build on top of it you ware welcome to, but until sha-256 is enough to secure addresses we are good to go. The first improvement we'll probably see is some kind of increased security to fight supercomputers.

For me it's all about the results. If I got really drawn to these games, I'd keep playing regardless of trust that I have towards the people who run these or audit them. You can always test these by playing with small money and stick with it if it keeps going your way. From my experience most people choose the games they like and the games they have results in before they do their research about the site that runs them and all other small details. That's why lottery tickets are so popular despite very low chance to win and the government taxing the shit out of big winners.

Fiat is not serving the same purpose as Bitcoin, which is more of a store of value, a kind of easily accessible investment, one of its kind. It's like gold, but gold you can actually take with you wherever you go and pay with it in case of emergency when you have to access your savings.
If you want examples of how it's better than fiat just read what happened to the money raised for protesters in Canada. The site stole them because it was centralized, so they begun raising money using bitcoin, because that can't be stolen by authorities.

There's no best strategy because your expectations affect the way you trade. If it's a source of income and need money every month, you're going to have a completely different strategy than a person who has a job and treats trading as a way to get more bitcoins without spending more fiat.

For me the best strategy is to wait for big moves. I was never interested in grabbing every 5% move out there so I never sell at the first sign of green and buy at the first red. If you're trading Bitcoin and have patience, wait for it to go up or down at least 30% before you do anything. If Bitcoin is down 30% from its high, start gradually buying. If it's up 30% start gradually selling. It's called selling into the strength and buying fear. You want to sell when it's overbought and buy when it's oversold and the price doesn't really matter. For instance, we had the last ath at 70k. A drop below 48k would be a signal for you to start slowly buying. With a bottom of 33k, a move to 45k would be a sign to slowly start selling, ant that's what many people are doing. It doesn't mean this is the best thing you can do, because Bitcoin will probably break to 50k in the next 3 months, but in general Bitcoin destroys impatient traders. If you don't see it go your way don't panic, take a break.

We may still be in a bull market. This one is much different than the previous ones because we already had 2 pullbacks within this bull run and the second top is a higher high (64k-> 69k) and the bottom was a higher low (28k ->33k) This still looks like one big bull run.


Maybe it was actually for the best. Many people lost money in the Gox bunkruptcy. If you had coins at that time chances are you'd have them on Gox and lose or you'd buy somewhere in the bull run and got caught with your pants down when it went down 50% in a few hours. Many of those who did not get stuck on Gox sold at a loss back then.

I don't like multibetting. Had a few times where it backfired on me. For instance I had 3 out of 4 right and was almost sure the last bet and of course the team failed miserably and lost against all odds.
I prefer to take home a small win than get my hopes up having some right and then losing 1 bet and feeling like it was all for nothing.

Russia is a funny country when it comes to policies.
Here's some retrospection for those who don't remember or weren't here in 2017-19

Oct 10, 2017
Putin Condemns Bitcoin, Calls for Russian Ban of Digital Currencies
https://cointelegraph.com/news/putin-condemns-bitcoin-calls-for-russian-ban-of-digital-currencies

President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday crypto-currencies were risky and used for crime, as Russia’s central bank said it would block websites selling bitcoin and its rivals - a change of tone from a month-old promise to legalize the market.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-cenbank-bitcoin/russia-turns-cold-on-crypto-currencies-idINKBN1CF0RF

Jun 10, 2019
The Russian State Duma is considering imposing administrative responsibility for mining cryptocurrencies.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/russian-parliament-considers-imposing-fines-on-crypto-mining-by-end-of-june


First they banned it in 2014, then tried to ban it again in 2017 but the bill did not pass, they tried to launch their own centralized crypto but ultimately didn't, then they tried to ban mining, now they're trying to legalize it.... It seems that if you live in Russia you never know what the day will bring. You may be operating a legal business one year, the next year they shut you down and put you in jail, and a year later they let you go because they changed their minds.

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It does not prove that you are free of the virus! The vaccine doesn't make you immune. You are still going to contract it with or without the vaccine. What it does is helps you fight the virus once you're infected and your chances of dying are much lower. Just read about the situation in Israel. Almost whole population is vaccinated and people still get sick, just like in any other place in the world, so a piece of paper showing that you're vaccinated doesn't mean you're not a carrier.

Wrong again. You get vaccinated when you want to increase your chances against the virus. It doesn't make you safe!

Here's the thing, you shouldn't need one. It should be your personal choice, just like when you're sick, you can take a painkiller or not. It's up to you if you choose the hard or the easy way, how well you cope with the pain, if you're allergic, and so on.

It's not how it works.

Here's some data from Austria:
99.2% vaccinated with 2 doses, 32,6k infections, around 20 deaths every day. Vaccinations are mandatory there, but when they were not, like in October, they were averaging at 10 deaths per day and only 2 in July.

https://graphics.reuters.com/world-coronavirus-tracker-and-maps/countries-and-territories/austria/
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/austria/

I think there's something to this news. I could find more sites that claim the fight is going to happen on a later date.
http://fightnights.com/event-3236


He won't go down easy, especially with the time he has to prepare. If the fight gets postponed it's even better for Murata I guess.

Most likely it's going to be returned. If the money came from an illegal source it also wouldn't be dumped. It would be treated like coins from Silk Road and put on auction. These auctions usually fetch similar or higher prices than current market value so it's never worth it for people to dump it right away. An auction is one of the safest ways to get a lot of coins at once because you get them all at the same price. If you wanted to buy 100 million of btc on an exchange you'd end up pumping the price and paying more.


As for the alleged hacker, I think this picture posted by someone on her facebook page speaks a thousand words about the situation:  

Personally, I don't even believe in luck. Luck is just a way we explain certain unknown things to ourselves. It's all math and probability.

Congratulations for your epic win.
What's the maximum win amount? Were you able to get 10k out or more?

It's basically a question if when you get drunk, get into a fight with friends, puke on your girlfriend and wake up the next day feeling miserable, you should drink again to kill the pain and forget about it. No, this is the dumbest way out. Drinking to kill the pain, taking drugs to manage other addictions, contemplating suicide because life seems hard- these are all the dumbest possible ways of dealing with a problem. You can deal with it by fighting it or lie down and give up. Taking drugs is giving up, tell your friend to man up and deal with it, unless he wants to be a junkie and live in a cardboard box under a bridge, or in prison, because that's where this leads.

Yes, thanks for asking. You seem to think that if I had no casino in my signature, I would've sympathized with your situation or ignored the thread, which isn't true.
Do only people with no signatures have the right to answer in this thread? If you don't like what others have to say set up a moderated topic and delete their responses.
Like with gambling, the choice is yours.


If I had to use their self exclusion I'd set it for maximum and make sure my account is locked for good. The moment you have to block yourself from gambling for a while is IMO the moment you should go to rehab. Instead, you gamble, then self exclude for 24h and in a day you still gamble again and blame the casino for delays. If you really gamble that much it really doesn't change the big picture if you lose the money today or next week, you will eventually do x number of rolls anyway, be it today or tomorrow, but you don't get this. You feel like stopping the streak at this very moment will save you.


So you play on Stake, then self exclude and go to another casino, play there, self exclude, go somewhere else... When you click self exclusion, but it doesn't happen immediately, you take that for a good omen and keep playing. Maybe God wants you to play, and if not, there's always the casino to blame, right?


You are here to make a statement and if anybody has a different opinion they can go fuk themselves, fukin' spammers!

To defend Willy, this guy was saying that we'd go to a new ATH soon, when Bitcoin was trading in the 3-5k range 3 years ago. He's a permabull but a permabull that actually was right for many years about us reaching new highs, back when not many people were bullish. If some of you listened to him, you won't be here on the forum complaining about prices, but thinking how to spend your 10x profit.
I like how positive he is, that's for sure. He can be wrong of course, but what if he's not? Can you actually afford not to own bitcoin right now?

IMO every single person in the world should invest 1% in BTC because there's a high probability that it will go another 10x from current price. If it doesn't than what's the worst thing that can happen before you're able to react? -50%? That's half of your 1% gone. You can take it, any of us can. What's the best thing that can happen? $300k bitcoin after next halving? Show me any investment that can offer comparable results.

Personally I'll always prefer to take a chance to get 700% or lose 50% over a steady 5% a year. It's not an investment for going all in, but at the same time not something you want to ignore, especially if you're a young person starting your career.

I don't get it. You were complaining about them having no self-exclusion option, but they do. Once it was shown and explained to you, you started arguing that it should be 10x better and that another casino is doing it better. Also, you are aware of blocking software being available, yet you refuse to use it.
Maybe all you want to do is get your money back and that's what it's all about. You play like normal, but when you lose, you complain that it was because you're an addict and they should have not allowed you to play in the first place. Would that be the case if you won or would you take the money and keep all of that addiction rant to yourself?