I was discussing with my friend that works in a physical casino yesterday evening. He lamented that his work environment has exposed him to gambling excessively that he hardly saves enough, if at all at the end of the month although he sees good funds from the tips he receives regularly from his clients that clinches wins. He also receives a manageable salary at month-end, but almost everything goes back into gambling.

He stressed that working in a casino exposes you to irresistible desires to gamble and you can do little about it.

I told him that it's possible to save part of the money and gamble with the rest and this was my strategy.
I asked him not to gamble until it's 6pm in the evening and by then he should divide his daily tips into five places, then go straight to a money collection point tho deposit 4/5 of the funds, then come back to gamble with the rest, he agreed to try it out from today and I'm yet to hear of his success as at now. We also agreed that he'll open a fixed deposit account where his salary goes in and remain untouched until every 6 months as his main savings since his tips are enough for his daily expenses

This got me thinking and I decided to share it here, is it not possible to work in a casino and not gamble?
Are there other behavioral patterns that could be employed to reduce gambling excessively while working in a casino?
Let me have your thoughts on this.

What if there was a legit gambling school that teach responsible gambling for maximum benefit in nearly every country that have gambling citizens, will it help to make gambling a profitable career or investment for potential new and old time gamblers?

Also, will the study or reading of books on gambling theories and strategies help to brush up one's understanding of how games are won, more than videos and podcasts would?

Amidst bitcoiners interest on the section 5 of the strategic bitcoin reserve bill ( The bitcoin purchase program of 1,000,000 btc) many had to send out letters to their local senators. A few days ago, about 2200 letters was sent and today nearly 3000 letters have been sent. I don't know if this will be of any effect, but I think that the recipients would feel they're been spammed.

Reading through this reddit post, I could say that not everybody would be able to draft out an appealing letter. When I went through the site where those letters are being submitted, I also noticed that a premade letter is on the site, as a template. But, people may send similar letters and senators will be receiving same type.

However, the community needs this in the sense that US buying bitcoin as a hedge against monetary instability can lead to more countries having bitcoin reserve to strengthen the financial condition of their nation.

I had to go through the strategic bitcoin reserve bill by Ms Lummis and noticed that nothing is decentralized about the concept. The secretary of treasury has more authority over all the private keys locations.

And from the look of things they'll be a collaboration with the secretary of defense and secretary of homeland security to help secure the physical locations where the cold storage equipment would be kept. Although in a way meddling with the funds would be punishable by law.

If it's passed, we'll watch how they'll be able to hold those btc for 20 years without amending the law.

Those who wish to participant in this scheme here is the site https://satoshiaction.quorum.us/campaign/strategicreserve/

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I have seen this happening in at least three recent movies where main characters are refusing payment in crypto and additionally calling it scam/bullshit.
In one of the movies (can't remember the title) "hackers" told they don't want any crypto bullshit scam, they want payment in gold (LOL).

Below is an example from The Instigators (2024) I have watched yesterday (movie sucked):

Example:
https://i.postimg.cc/J7Yh08vF/1-m.jpg

Aren't you going too far with your hate towards him? Are you trying to tell us that Trump is worse than the president who lied about Iraq threatening the US with nuclear weapons and sacrificed lives of US soldiers to get cheap oil? Or maybe he's worse than the president who sent US forces to Vietnam? He must also be worse than the guy who took US off the gold standard.

Of course... he's more nasty than the president who inserted a cigar into his secretary's vagina and ejaculated on her dress...
You Sir seem to have a very short memory, or maybe it's the fault of poor education or young age.

We only need ordinary people like you and me to start using Bitcoin in any way each person would like.

Bitcoin is a movement that attracts "The Cabal" to where the people are. Currently, we now have Black Rock and the largest asset managers having investments in Bitcoin, and Trump and other politicians talking seriously about Bitcoin. Ten years ago suggesting that that would happen would be laughable.

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>>They are so many misconceptions about Bitcoin, if I should start mentioning I could end up being bored while typing. The list goes on and on.
I had an argument with a friend just yesterday, who seemingly believes that Bitcoin is being controlled by a single entity and Bitcoin is not secure.
He said a lot to back his claims which although I can't remember his pin points though.
I knew once that he doesn't really know much about Bitcoin so I decided to back out of the argument.
Misconceptions like this are merely caused by lack of education (Bitcoin related) and sometimes education in general.
There even might be people in this forum who have similar misconceptions, the question is how do we tackle this misconceptions?

Buying gold is very  easy. But the problem is when it comes to selling. The process of selling gold appears to be much more complicated.
You have to find a buyer...then you have to find a buyer that will give you a good price for it. Good luck with that.

Then you have to deal with the logistics of physically delivering the gold to the buyer, how to receive payment, etc.

You and the buyer have to meet to make the exchange, which can present security issues.
But if the buyer isn't near you then you have to deliver the gold by mail or shipping service.
But does the buyer pay you first? Or do you send the gold to the buyer first? The risk of getting scammed is very high for both buyer and seller.

The risk for the buyer is how does he know he is getting real gold and not fake or diluted gold?

In the US the fastest and simplest method of selling gold is to go into your local pawn shop but who will give you less than half of what its worth and you end up losing a lot of money.

By comparison, bitcoin is extremely quick and easy to sell with a few keyboard clicks on your computer or phone app.

Many persons here never believed that bitcoin would ever go back to $50k however to everyone's suprise it didn't turn out that way (like $52k damn ) everyone seemed to have been thinking bitcoin was already past the $60k mark unfortunately it hasn't I was able  to confirm this from a couple of users including  The Sceptical Chymist (lol)

For persons who trade many would check out on charts and be of the opinion that the market is dipping to likely mitigate some fair value gaps and Order blocks left behind from the most recent bull runs.
For alot of persons, including those who are new to bitcoin, panicking is inevitable and if you really want to HODL I think it won't be necessary.  Don't let FOMO put you in a position to panick and sell off your coins instead take this dip as an opportunity to HODL more coins by buying from scared HODLERS (be a smart trader lol I mean be a SMART HODLER ) .
 I Suggest you sit back and watch the dip fade off.


DON'T FORGET TO KEEP YOUR KEYS SAFE   

The upcoming US election has been the greatest thriller movie for me as I have followed it since this year. The chance of Trump becoming the next President is very high after Biden drops out of the race. Meanwhile, the Bitcoin community has extended its support to Trump and invited him to the Bitcoin conference in 2024. He had assured the community at his speech that he would and I quote below


Yesterday in an interview he gave a new statement which I am quoting below.


Source

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What do you think is he bluffing with the statement above or is he deceiving the community to gain vote and become the next President of the US?

Trump Jr. has announced that his family will be entering the cryptocurrency business:

https://cointelegraph.com/news/donald-trump-jr-launching-crypto-platform-take-on-banks

Although the details are still sketchy (which is how they do everything), it's clear that Trump is making a big push into crypto personally.

I have sometimes been called "alarmist" in these forums because I have made predictions about what Trump would do if he wins the presidency. I predicted that Trump would introduce a competitor of Bitcoin, and then use his control of the US government to prop up his platform and pass laws to denigrate existing crypto platforms like Bitcoin.

Well, it looks like my first prediction is about to come true.

Trump already has built-in excuses to come after Bitcoin: he promises to criminalize abortion in the USA, which will require the largest police state created in the USA since the Prohibition in the 1920s (which is how the FBI was invented, for instance). Since Bitcoin and other cryptos can be used to pay for illegal abortions, it will make sense that Americans should be forced to use his "trusted" platform instead of "untrusted" ones like Bitcoin. (And if that excuse doesn't work, they could think of a dozen more).

I would like people to think about what a Trump presidency would mean to Bitcoin and crypto generally.

Trump, a convicted criminal and somebody who has been found guilty of running multiple scams all of his life, will have his own business that competes with Bitcoin and/or the crypto industry, and he will have the full power of the US government to give his own company unfair advantages over competitors. And Trump has demonstrated, over and over again, that he will absolutely use the US presidency to enrich himself at he expense of the American people.

Do you want to compete directly against the President if the United States and his political party with your business? Then by all means vote for Trump.

The greedy was the biggest problem faced by the many of the gamblers,the reason for this was due to their continuous loss in the gambling game.If the gambler had face the loss,he should find the reason for the loss.If they find the mistake in the previous game,it will help the gamblers to make money in the upcoming game.If the gamblers had achieved their desired target,he should end up the game for that day and withdraw the funds.Because we never know when the game will get reversed to the losing.Many gamblers will continue to the next game after the targeted money was achieved in the betting.

Because after they achieved the target money,the gamblers get the over confidence towards their play.But they should remember they are playing with the algorithm based website.So anything occur in a short period and may leads to the loss of the entire money in the game wallet.So if you had better game on a particular day,you should end up with the withdrawal of that money before your mind would make you start the next game.Share your thoughts based on your experience in the gambling game with greediness.

Whenever I win, I usually feel this strong urge to gamble more and also increase the amount I'm using to gamble. I do fall for this urge most times and the result is always disastrous as I end up losing the money I won with great pain and regrets. The only time I can say I have won is when I make withdrawals and possibly use the money for something else. As long as the money is still in the platform, there is a high chance of using it to gamble more. I decided to create this topic to see how other people manage their winning in gambling. If I notice a better approach, I will switch immediately as I don't want to continue experiencing the pain of winning and later losing the money again.

The use of additional technology is being very questionable today in many types of online PvP games, even in chess accounts are banned for this use of support technologies, poker is not exempt from this, in fact we have had interesting topics on this board like this:

Can Chat GTP destroy poker on-line gambling???
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5449669.0

But only recently the "excessive" use of such technological tools reached the most important live poker event, in fact it was questioned that he cheated or violated the rules of the tournament, which is very specific that does not allow the use of technological support of any kind while playing a hand of poker.

It was $10,000,000 dollars, so the money at stake was important, the truth of the matter is that the use of these tools was questioned.

Some reference items to place them in the context of what is considered the most important event in the world of betting, and specifically in the world of poker
Event #81: $10,000 MAIN EVENT No-Limit Hold'em World Championship

Jonathan Tamayo wins $10M WSOP after controversial pocket queens decision
https://nypost.com/2024/07/18/sports/jonathan-tamayo-wins-wsop-after-controversial-pocket-queens-decision/


Daniel Negreanu

https://x.com/pokerorg/status/1814691779599388983/photo/1

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I shared my thoughts on this thread yesterday. And I said I have another bet is on, and I will also share it if I won the bet. Though there was a cashout of 29k on the ticket yesterday but I didn't cash it out, and I was tempted to cashout the game.
Gamble is really fun when you win no matter whether you are gambling for fun or not. There is this kind of tension that always comes when the last game is on and they are not playing according to how you predicted them. Share your thoughts.
Just want to say lucky me.

Have actually been hearing many people saying that they gamble for fun or enterteinment And not for the money , this has also been My perception Towards gambling If not for the small money I often make Sometiemes But this idea changed this evening when i went To a game house To play some betting games.

This evening i actually realized that some people see gambling as a means of livelihood, i Was At a game house today watching some Guys play snooker betting  And their games where actually funny And entertaining till one of the Gamblers lost all his money to his fellow Gambler And he became very violent And started a fight with his colleaque that resulted the attention of the Police Force. The Police arrested everyone including the owner of the betting shop And insisted that we will all bail ourselves with money before we can go home freely .

This idea gave me the impression that some people can be very dangerous as a result of lossing money while gambling And i aslo learnt My lessons today . However, i Dont know If you have actually experienced such things At the betting shops And If yes How do you feel or react At the situation? .

Wow, I had read about the new VP but did not know this aspect. It seems then that Trump's pro-Bitcoin turn is in earnest. In general I don't trust politicians, and if it's on the campaign trail even less but Trump would be neither the first nor will he be the last to change his stance on Bitcoin (remember Saylor, for example). He also received $2 from the Winklevoss twins. But if the VP has personally Bitcoin it seems clear that if he wins with his policies he is going to be favorable to Bitcoin and all that surrounds it. There are also several big name Republicans involved in Bitcoin and the Mining Industry, like Ted Cruz for example.

You are both underestimating the crypto crowd.

Believe in our power, together we can make a change.

Let’s change it in November, end the establishment,

Vote TRUMP

At one billion usd/bitcoin, it only takes 35k bitcoins to pay off the US’ debt. Do you think bitcoin can’t reach that price?

Limited supply/Infinite demand theory disagrees.