If developers focus more on making  prediction/betting market acts as a solution to important problems rather than a place for the greedy and gamblers to converge then such sites might end up becoming really useful to societies.

Hope he is did that for good reasons rather than just to make quick money from the bull run.
Good reasons to be doing that could be for diversification sake, to use Bitcoin as a store of value, etc.
Hopefully he has done his risk assessment and is certain the amount is worth investing

Man, those things can be boring to read... I mean replies that quote lots of comments on a single post.
I never really like posting that way. I try to make my replies and quotes as short as possible for easy reading and in order not to bore readers. I hardly even read lots of the long post with many quotes, and I try to avoid creating them. Even a long reply without any quote can sometimes be boring to read not to talk post with many quotes.

Maybe 2-6 quotes on a single reply is ok?

I prefer not to spend all the $100 for active trading at once. Will simply keep it ($100) in a stablecoin and probably use a small part of it (maybe $10-$50) on daily/weekly basis for buying significant dips. If price continues to dip significantly, I would continue buying. When it start moving up again, I will probably start selling some gradually. This (buying significant dips & selling significant highs) repeated many times can easily earn you significant profit every month.

Ofcourse.
There are other ways to make money online without getting involved in Crypto, but when you realize that you don't have much control or say over the system, crypto becomes a more attractive and safer option.

Swimming seems to be fun way to have long exercises without the body easily getting tired, unlike other ways of exercising.

My favorites kind of exercise these days are exercises that involve solving problems via physical hardwork, which helps keep the body fit at thesame time.  In my opinion, it's better to spend that energy efficiently on exercising the body while solving other problems at thesame time  rather than just exercising the body.

One of the main reasons Bitcoin is safer is its Ideals/features, which seem to be opposite of the ideals of "traditional currencies".
I think they can exist together though, especially if the traditional currencies are still useful and can be improved in the future.

You mean like also running a Blockchain from USB drive, or just storing an entire Blockchain on USB drive? Something like that should be possible, I will be surprised if the former hasn't been done already. Sounds good and doable.



If you are worried about the harddisk getting damaged by water, you probably should water-proof it with additional covering... I wonder if such covering exists in any form? I remember watching videos of people spraying some sort of "liquid" substance on their devices to water-proof them. I don't know if that really works and is reliable.
    Or you could search for water-resistant external storage device to see if that too exist and is affordable

Never a good idea to allow financial bets on disease/problems worsening in the future. Predictions like that should be done by  trusted and reputable people. Unfortunately, human judgment is not very reliable and can't be trusted...unless GOD uses a human.

Interesting.   This is part of the reason I think it's better for bettors to do their own research rather than completely trust given odds.
By the way, the bookmakers estimations/calculations may not be intentional... could be unintentional wrong calculations or estimations.

Did you mistakingly placed bet from one site to another while trying to withdraw 1.8 Litecoins  or you just unintentionally placed bet on a casino through a different site?
I think if the site has provided the service and the coins you sent to the casino for the service is the actual amount they charge for such service, then the casino did nothing wrong by not returning the money to you. And if casino didn't decieve you to unintentionally place the bet then it did not wrong you.
This now depends on whether the casino has gone through the case (which you said is unintentional) and know whether you are telling the truth or not... And maybe consider you alittle. But if the casino decides not to go through the case, it is still within the owner's right.

I think the 1%(or whatever percentage) should applied to traders who make consistent profits betting on the price of crypto... Or people with strategies that can be overall profitable when repeated multiple times.

In regards to the bolded, that will probably mean little to no incentive for people to do what is right, unless maybe you're paying just the victim hospital bill (no extra reward for victims to spend on other needs like how those without the disease will spend theirs)... or you're paying the disease-free ones more.
 Reward doesn't necessarily has to be monetary.. You could get people to accumulate/lose points for doing what is right/wrong and the good points can be used to improve their reputation in mostly health related areas, or the points could earn them more values/privileges when they're accumulated to certain level.
I think the reward system will need to be rule and evidence based. You find someone/people taking big health risk(or breaking important health safety rules) in public places, you capture them with special anonymity-friendly/privacy-friendly camera, you earn some points and the ones breaking rules lose points.    Better to do this in decentralized manner in form of Citizen Cams or something.

I guess the political aspect is part of the reasons fiat is what it is today. If competent people are allowed to run/manage national currencies the way money should be managed, money will likely be fair for everyone. If money is allocated to the wrong areas, or used wrongly, there will always be consequences which affect everyone or most people depending on the money system.
This is why I think the right money system should be transparent, open, decentralized, immutable, rule-based, Merit-based, etc to prevent/discourage misuse.

I read that alots of the miners depend on clean/environmental-friendly energy sources. I think it's important to know how true this is and whether most of the miners rely on clean energy sources. If they do, then I think the price wouldn't matter much assuming the hardware required for mining doesn't keep increasing in size and in energy consumption without commensurate or sufficient increase in the usefulness of Bitcoin or without sufficient increase in the "value" Bitcoin is generating for the world/network.

Been trying to understand what problems they really want to solve with coins like that... Is it to keep price "stable", lower volatility or something else?
I think a less complicated and more effective way to maintain the stability of a cryptocurrency(assuming that's what they are trying to achieve) would be to pay people (in another coin/token) to hold when supply of the main coin increases while demand decreases. And you could get the holders to sell at a set price when demand Increases while supply is low.
Participants coins could be automatically locked during decrease in price of the Coin and you pay them in another coins. Locked Coins can then be automatically unlocked when price of the Coin is going up to cross a targeted price range.
This is repeated always to keep volatility moderate.

Exactly. That is one of problems. There will definitely be people who will be happy making money off people's pains and misery with their wins.

I'd be happy to see people bet on what kind of drugs, treatments, safety measures etc will be the most effective and safe. Will be good idea to have bets tied around solving problems with good solutions.

Wish they use a self-custody approach that let bettors bet and lock their funds on smart-contract and never have to worry about something happening to the fund during the period of the long-term bet.

Really sorry if that makes you feel bad. I wrote that to let others understand how much I care about my ambition. No amount of money will make me abandon it. I wonder what life will be without fulfilling it. 
I prefer the family part to be private matter.

I would simply invest the $100 long-term and forget about it... then use additional fund held in stablecoin for gradually buying dips/lows, and probably selling high. This method usually turns out profitable especially on established crypto like Bitcoin... And it's not that difficult to learn.