There's still a lot of older people who want to feel the thrill of playing in a crowded place again. It reminds them of their youth, when in the 60s and 70s Vegas was booming place, filled with lights and sounds of slot machines. Therefore, I don't believe physical casinos will close in the next few years, but they'll keep losing money to their online counterparts and eventually more than 50% of all gambling around the world will be done online.

Maybe the recent pandemic shutdowns affected the business? Physical casinos might be losing ground to online gambling and crypto gambling is taking a large share of that as well.
This might be the perfect time to sell. With over $200 million a year, the buyer will need a sound business plan and a lot of money to risk. If I had 200m, I wouldn't consider it at current state of events. 

Quantum computers are an unknown that can induce chaos, just like war or a natural disaster are that unknown for every investor. We could call them black swan events for their respective environments.
 

Altcoins increase the value of the market. It's great that people are trying to build something on the idea introduced by Satoshi.
Altcoins that fail are like failed experiments. Do you think that we should stop experimenting?

You won't find his wallet because it's most likely not a single one. Corporate investors aren't like us little people. They don't hold millions of dollars on their laptops, although there are some pretty neat air gapped laptops. Unless Elon decides to disclose all the info (which he won't because he will not want the whole world to know when he decides to sell) you won't find his addresses.

Some analysts speculate that even 0.2 will equal big wealth in 10 years because there's no way for bitcoin to be mediocre. It's going to be big or it's going to disappear and be forgotten.
Taking the above into account, it's stupid not to at least try to get that 0.1 BTC because you have 50/50 chance of making a deal of a lifetime when Bitcoin hits 500k USD and what do you have to lose? If you bought last year that would be less than 2k, that can be worth 10k this year and 50k in 2030.

Does this mean that when your (hypothetical) daughter tells you that there's a boy in her school who always follows girls into the ladies room because he thinks he's one of them, you'll say it's all fine because he should be allowed to be who he wants to be?

Great to see him get what he deserves. He lied and cheated, sold his support to shitcoin devs for a few hundred dollars. He knew what he was doing and he has the money to get good lawyers. People aren't going to start "free McAfee" campaigns or anything like that. He's a selloff with no dignity and that's all I can say about him. I liked the guy when I first heard him talk about Bitcoin, but greed made his true nature manifest itself. Better that it happened sooner than later.

Does that mean that if a person goes into an argument with someone about predestination and to prove that there is none jumps off a cliff, you'll also say that it was that person's destiny to argue about predestination and die on that day? Maybe it's weird to me because I'm not religious, nor superstitious, but I don't know people who would believe in fate. We all have our own free will and that's what matters. I can go gamble now, after reading your post, or I can go watch a movie. It's my choice after all.

Buying it in 2017 and turning 1k into 40k wouldn't improve it? You must be living a pretty good life my friend.

Are we talking about crypto or Bitcoin here? Bitcoin is not that volatile. Worst case scenario one month you'll be buying a new car and next month you'll have to settle for a used one.
Altcoins can be pretty volatile but Bitcoin with its 5-10 % moves?

I guess that means you believe in predestination. I don't. Our life is not written when we're born, there's no higher power pulling the strings, there's no fate.



If you die of a heart attack after winning, it means you had a weak heart that you did not take care of. You should work out, eat healthy and if it's already too late for that, medicate and visit a cardiologist once a year. That person who dies killed by a train is not predestined to die but not careful enough.

I agree. It's a matter of perspective. If you buy something and its value increases over time, you will feel better about it, become more confident, happy that you made a good choice. It's a pretty normal thing, don't you think? If you bought a house and that house became famous in the city with people asking you to sell it or rent it to them, wouldn't you be happy? This means that every good purchase is a positive thing that can make your life better.

I had BTC before the 2017 bull market and held through it all. I had coins worth 1k USD, then 20k USD and again 3k USD after about 2 years of holding and I did not feel too bad about "missing it" like many people at the time. Life goes on, money is only money, although I don't regret joining this community and buying bitcoin. It was one of the best things I did with my money... scratch that! It was the best thing I did with my money.


He forgot he was on his alt account

I don't see any reason for splitting coins that yo are holding. You should only split if you have coins that you're holding for long term profit and coins that you're moving every day for purpose of trading, gambling, or spending in any other way. You should have your holder wallet and your daily use wallet separated so that you can keep your bigger, more important wallet offline for as long as you can. It doesn't really matter how much you're holding. I have single addresses, each containing more than 1BTC in one and the same wallet and I don't feel like it's a vulnerability as long as the wallet remains on a safe, clean machine.

I know it's stupid but for some investors their pride and stubbornness is more important than common sense. If I saw that a CEO of a company that I'm holding can thing outside the box, I'd be even more confident. I'm a guy who likes to see positive numbers, no matter where they come from. I'm not a guy who would judge a company based on whether they portray themselves environmentally friendly or not, but I can understand why a clean energy freak who spent 100k USD on his electric car and another 100k on solar panels would feel betrayed by Elon who is now investing in Bitcoin. People are strange and irrational most of the time so a bold move like that could scare them.

Gambling is all about increasing your odds of winning, unless you gamble out of boredom and don't care about the money. Knowing the spot, he teams and their past performance and other small things like player transfers, increases your odds. Sure there are people who rely on predictions and follow the way of more experienced gamblers and there's nothing bad in that. Some people bet on sports they never watch, which for me is strange, but if they like it it's all good.

It depends. The impact of the stimulus package can be seen on bitcoin right when people get a hold of they freshly printed Dollars. There's a theory, backed by surveys, according to which a large part of stimulus giveaway to end on Bitcoin exchanges. We'll see how it goes but if I were a person who has enough money to go by, I wouldn't hold stimulus under the mattress but try to invest it. Some of the poorest will probably spend it, but the middle class is going to go for stocks, gold and BTC.

In short yes, but big wins can also prove to be unlucky for the winner in the long run. There was a research made among US lottery winners and most of them were bankrupt after 5-10 years. Many paid for their wins with divorces or car crashes. Having money isn't always a good thing, especially if you come from a poor family and suddenly have more than you can handle.

That's a pretty normal thing if your daughter isn't tech savvy or doesn't come here or read r/bitcoin. In general there's 2 groups of users and this is the same in every single thing. One is people who just want to use something. They come home with a new purchase, unwrap it and plug it in. The second group reads all the instructions, posts pictures of their new purchase online, want to research some hacks and hidden features, find out ways to make that thing even better. That's why you have people who know everything about their car and people who after a few months of driving still don't remember on which side the fuel filler is.

We do not price Bitcoin in dollar because we want to. It's just the most universal fiat money that people around the world recognize and know its rough value. I price everything in EUR, but on this forum I use USD pricing because I know the value of EUR in USD so I can quickly go from one to the other in a conversation. I know that for people from Asia and Africa it's much easier to price things in USD and for Europeans both fiats are pretty similar, thus I talk about BTC using USD pricing.
USD crash is going to happen one day, but it won't make American switch to BTC or anything else. It will surely make BTC price explode, but it won't change people's habits and the way they see things. For them their morning coffee that used to cost $2 will now cost $5, but it's still going to be $.

You're right but the question is, is it getting better or worse because we know the problem exists for centuries. I feel like we see much less of it than we did in the 70s or 80s. It's easy to test competitors for drugs and it's not like you can throw a match easily with all the cameras watching you from different angles. Digital banking also makes it harder to hide some sudden changes in income.