There are 9 matches remaining to play before the season ends and Inter Milan is leading AC Milan, their closest rival, with 14 points gap. Assuming AC Milan wins their 9 matches that will be a total of 27 points. Under such situation, Inter Milan needs to win only 5 of their remaining 9 matches and they will win the league. As can be seen from their performance this season and for the fact that they are out of champions league, I don't see anything that will stop them from winning the five matches needed to win the league on the ground that AC Milan will win their 9 remaining matches. In my humble opinion, we should look beyond this season because it is already a done deal that Inter Milan will win the league.

This sounds more to me like the government indirectly discouraging people from gambling because in a nutshell,  it makes gambling rarely profitable as you will be remitting any profit you manage to make to the government. If I place 10 bets and win only 3 and I'm taxed in the 3 bets that I won, what happens to the bets I lost? Is this not simply increasing the loss of the gambler? This simply means that the government is saying don't gamble and if you insist,  if you didn't lose your money to the bookies,  we will take it from you... whichever case, the loss is on the gamblers and only few will escape.

What happens to taxing only credits to bank accounts? This is the effective way to tax and not to tax individual bet slip.

Merit like the name suggest is a measure of the quality of information contained in your post so when your post is merited, it will surely bring some kind of good feelings such as will make you believe you are contributing to this forum and the Bitcoin community.  This feeling of achievement is not perculiar to newbies and low ranking members who many believe are just posting for the merits,  even Legendary members also feel good when their posts are merited.

If an active member goes for weeks and months without earning merits, he will be overwhelmed by the feeling of frustration. Personally, if I don't earn a merit in a week, I will be so discouraged but I somehow have my way of picking myself up. I don't know if others do it, but whenever I notice my post receives merit,  I will go back to the post and read it over and over again to see why it earned merit and how I can build on it.  Merits truly give a feeling of fulfilment.

You are right Zanab, anyone who can persist in gambling to the extent of gambling with the last cash can borrow to gamble. It could also be a sign that such person is drifting towards addition without knowing. It is a normal thing to see stranded gambler in some physical ambling shops in my area, who begs others after they have lost all they came with to the casino. The surprising thing being that any money they were given to them will still go back into the casino. The gamble with their last cash and that is not a good thing to do.

Thanks for sharing this article as I have also come to learn a lot about betting exchanges. Indeed betting exchanges are the traditional gambling that I grew up knowing; I never knew it has now been integrated into online platforms. To be sincere, I do not like the concept for the fact that I will be playing against my fellow gambler and the progress of one person means the downfall of a fellow gambler. Like I said before, this pattern existed in the past and I hated it completely because most of those who indulged in it then were the poorest and destitute which make me see it as an activity of one poor person trying to steal from another poor person. As at then, each time I see two people gambling using that pattern, the first thing that I do is to run a mental check on what could be the net worth of the gambler and how much I could possibly win from him. The moment I asked myself this question, it further make me hate the entire concept. Gambling should be something that should change my life and not some hobby that will not make any serious positive impact in my life.

It will be hard to know which countries will legalize Bitcoin in Africa and which will not because as government changes, so does policies. As of today Central African Republic has taken the lead in this regards and many other African countries might consider it when they see the successes of CAR over the coming years.

When the new government of Nigeria came on board,  expectations were high that they will legalize Bitcoin following some of their policies like lifting the restrictions placed on accounts of some individuals and enterprises who engaged in cryptocurrency.  Well, the joy among crypto lovers of Nigeria was short-lived when the government began their crackdown on cryptocurrency exchanges which they accused of playing a part in messing up the exchange rates of the country, an action that could not address the worsening economy of the country and which many see as exercise in futility.

Conclusively, the potential of Bitcoin is great globally and even in Africa and with time, we will have leaders that will be able to embrace it rather than stand against it.

What I expect is that a disclaimer be made visible to pass the responsibilities of what people do with the information to them. He style of presentation, who often appear as being controversial, may just be part of his uniqueness even though he seems to go too extreme. I wouldn't hold it on him for another of his follower taking his life, there is really no justification for that. With a disclaimer, followers should understand the importance of maintaining their sanity while consuming the content.

This is not the first time someone is taking his life with even awkward reason. We must not ban people or activities just because people who are sick could not know how to control their emotions. We have heard of issues of supporters of a team being attacked for merely being supporters. Should the team whose supported attack others be banned for the actions of their supporters? Even though these two scenarios may not exactly be the same, I'm sure you should be able to get the message it is conveying.  People should take their mental health seriously, this is the simple truth.

Yes you are right, the risk people take is a proportion of their income. The reason it seems that the rich risk more is that people are looking at the total amount without knowing that $100k may mean to a rich gambler what $10 will mean to a poor gambler. To both of them, they are taking equivalent risk and they are the only people that can show you what those respective amounts mean to them. Remember the story of the "widows mites" where small amount was taken to mean even bigger amounts of donation. In conclusion, every gambler take risk in commensuration to their income, only gamble addicts tends to go over the limits and we all know the impact this usually have on their lives.

Please this is not correct, there is no law that says investment in Bitcoin must be done through the DCA method because the DCA method is just one way of buying Bitcoin and not the only way. There are other methods and even the caption of this thread mentioned buying the dip which is one method of buying that is also great. It is not right to send the wrong or incomplete message out.

I have seen many great investors in Bitcoin who were able to share their story and most of them never used the DCA method, they just bought when they had the funds and were not too interested if price was low or high because their believe and trust in Bitcoin was high so they believe that the investment will not go bad especially as they planned holding for very long time. It should have been clear to you by now that the success of a Bitcoin investor is highly dependent on how he manages the investment than how he made the investment. So being able to hold your Bitcoin after getting is very important and should occupy most of our planning because any method used to get it is fine as long as we make plans to hold it while living our normal lives.

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It's good you decided to distribute your merit this way and I highly encourage you to keep it up. Just like Oshosondy rightly said, the topic belong to speculation since it is about Bitcoin price prediction.

I think the date here is past, that is 22nd of February. If you are referring to this month, then the right date should be 22-3-24.

I look forward to seeing you make the corrections and I will drop my prediction and hope I win.

Who propounded this theory that "gambling is not a place to make money..."? I don't agree with this postulation because people do actually make money from gambling. Losses do happen and there is no gambler than have not gotten a fair share of that but that does not mean that overall that is the only thing that gambling is known for. The sweet thing about gambling is that someone can lose 3 times and win one yet still remain in good profits. It is not about how many times losses happens that determine how successful a gambler can be but the ability to arrange one's gambling activities in such a way that despite the losses that will surely come, one is still able to remain profitable.

Even though there is high temptation not to call traders investors, the reality is that they are actually investors because they invest their time and money with the hope of making profits. The only difference is in the nature and manner in which they go about the investment and what will likely be the outcome of their investment. Now that I realize that not all investors will make money because some investments can go bad as it is with even conventional investments, it becomes clearer that trading is an investment that can go south very fast.

Traders are actually short term investors as they target their profit within a short interval of time. Consequently, the risk in trading is compounded, the reason many people struggle to know that trading is actually investment or similarly to reckless gambling. Long term investment have always proven to be the way to peace of mind and reliable profiting, and many people are toeing that line.

This might seem so true on the surface considering that Youtube is awash with various videos of all the possible trading technique anyone can ask for. The free materials are enough to equip anyone with the necessary skills that can make him a good trader but the challenge with the free materials are numerous. First, it is difficult to put together into a well defined learning process with a target. Secondly, there is very low level of commitment on free materials unlike materials that were paid for. Just imagine how people treasures what cost them money, that is exactly what happens with paid materials or mentorship. So while free materials are good to learn about trading, paid materials are more taken seriously and be extension, produces better results.

With all due respect, it seems that you are simply contradicting yourself. First you stated that "investment' has "profit" as top priority before talking about privacy and freedom.

Second part of your statement above suggested you see people talk more of the privacy and the freedom and not the profits which you already agreed was the top priority. Is discussing price of Bitcoin not by extension, discussing the profits of investors? Fine, lets see the third part as captured below.

After admitting that people talk about privacy and freedom and not profits, why saying that people rarely talk about decentralization and "privacy"? Is this not speaking from both sides of your mouth. I have tried to make sense of your comment but the more I try, the more I realize you just typed them without bothering about the coherency of your statement, a good example of "work done equals zero" in thermodynamics.

If my employee become so reckless in his gambling that it gets to my attention, I will not actually be impressed with that but I'm very sure I will take my decision base on the following:

• Is it affecting his discharge of duties?
• Is it making him to bring bad reputation to my company?
• Are there complaints of him breaking the law as a result of his gambling activities?

If none of the above come out positive, I don't have any reason to sack him, instead I can advice him to seek help in handling his addiction. As a gambler myself, I know what it means to be a gambling addict and I can offer such employer experience based advice which I'm sure will help a lot.

You must not have consistent income before applying the DCA method. Even if you are contractor whose income comes only when you have a contract, @JayJuanGee explained in an earlier comment that such a person can still make projections with the bulk money received upon execution of a contract and should have already figured out, as an estimate, when he will likely have another contract or cashflow. For instance, if he receives lump sum of $10k upon completion of a contract and it happens that from past data he is sure able to secure contract 3-4 times per annum, he can set aside $3k from this amount for 3-4 months DCA, that is if the balance of $5k is able to meet his needs for the time period and also remain like $2k for emergency spending. The point is that DCA must not be applied by individuals with regular incomes, even those with incomes that are not regular can apply the DCA method.

I like this suggestion as it reminds me of wasted opportunities it has been doing some things we did as children and youths. The worst is the mindset we had which is go to school, graduate and get a job... this was the worst advice I received as an individual. It limited me and many others to just focusing on the academic work without expanding our thinking to other areas of life that would have yielded better results today. Assuming that I grew up not fixated on graduating and getting a job, perhaps I would have been better than I am today because as a student, I had access to little funds which if I had invested part of that into Bitcoin or at least saved them with the hope of starting up a business, that would have been better than waiting to graduate and start earning salary. This is not a form of regrets but just a personal reflection and with what I know now, I'm sure my children will do better than me.

Inter Milan did not disappoint the huge fan base they have been able to gather this present season as a result of their exceptional performance both home and away. The took the lead in first half and held on even until the 81st minute when  Juan Jesus said no by equalizing the goal making it a one all draw match. I don't think this is a bad result for them since they still retained their first position in the league table with 14 points ahead of their closes rival AC Milan. I doubt that Inter Milan is still under any pressures as regards to winning the Italian Serie A title, they can even lose as many matches as they possibly can with no fear  of losing the title because AC Milan is not doing as much as it is expected.

Just like I expected it to be, the match is full of actions and entertainment. Although Barcelona took the lead from first half following Joao Felix's 38th minute easy goal and also opened the second half with a fantastic goal from Robert Lewandowski, Atletico Madrid also made several futile attempts at scoring too. The interesting thing tonight is that Barcelona is now playing without their head coach Xavi Hernadez who was issued a straight red card. A win for Barcelona tonight will officially see them crossing struggling Girona even though that will not give them a glimmer of hope at dreaming of taking the tile from Real Madrid who will be comfortably sitting 8 points ahead of them.