I think maybe when everything is well balanced out. Just look at the mining of Bitcoin for example, you will see that there are lots of miners located in China than every other part of the world. My research once shows that around 75% of miners are in China, that’s really huge, and when started their crackdown on Bitcoin it was sure going to affect the price of Bitcoin because they are big part of the community.

If it was just a small part of the community, and let’s say that their miners were contributing somewhere around 5% to 10 percent, it is not going to affect the market badly like that. We have seen other countries that their governments took similar actions against Bitcoin, but nothing happened, if there is, we didn’t even feel it.

I am not sure if it is smart move considering they could have played him as well? I mean this guy definitely worths more and it can help your team as well so why give him away for 2 million? Did he not wanted to play in Chelsea at all? Because if he was willing to play in chelsea then you can use this guy a lot, even if it is just cup games he still deserves more money whereas Milan will probably keep playing him whenever Ibra is injured or even more than him, Ibra is quite old I am afraid so it wouldn't be a shock. I just have to say it wasn't a good deal for Chelsea to sell him.

However I understand that the contract was over and they signed up a bit more to sell him and that is a smart move, that part I can agree with but the reality is that if they kept him they could have benefited from him more than 2 million if you ask me, it was still cheap transfer.

I fully understand that entertainment or fun is the main motive behind gambling but I don't understand how can one have fun during losing sessions. I mean yes I don't gamble to make money but obviously, you cannot enjoy it when you are losing. In fact, when I bet on sports and my team or player loses, I often times stop watching the game itself. For example, if I bet on Djokovic to win 1st set and he loses, I won't watch the whole match in frustration of losing the bet. Not because I am addicted but I am upset, simple.

Yeah and unfortunately some sections have become garbage because of spamming but thankfully this section still has some good interested and like-minded gamblers who are actually interested in talking than just completing their quota.

It's good that you understand that strategies will only make us feel like having a better chance of winning but actually it's just an illusion and yeah some strategies might last longer while others could be explosive and burn your bankroll in minutes or even seconds.

Now coming to the strategies there is obviously that world famous martingale but there are few others I use of which I don't know the name so I will list them and hope they help you.

1- Win chance, 66% odds: 1.49 or 1.5 and increase 3x after every loss. This works well but the problem is that 3x quickly eats the balance if you get a 5-6 loss streak.

2- Win chance, 90% odds: 1.1 and increase 10x on loss. This is very explosive and I suggest at least keep 4 losses ability like if you have $100 then start with a $0.1 base bet. Still explosive but works well at times for me.

Apart from this, you may do pre-rolls (small bets) and once you lose 2-3 bets you can make a big one randomly.

If you’re going to be looking at Bitcoin as a source of income that you can steady rely on, then you’re making a mistake. Bitcoin is like my third source of income lol, and I don’t rely much on it because I understand the risks, and this is how everyone should see it. Bitcoin is not steady in bringing profit, and it is not a source that you can rely on to make income like on monthly, weekly, or daily, because you’re not sure what would be the outcome. Unless you’re trader, but even as a trader you stand a risks of losing your money when you’re trading Bitcoin.

Lol I have seen or heard of a thing like this. For me it is totally wrong, and it shouldn’t be allowed in any country. Any government that allows such laws in their country is trying to encourage corruption on their country.

Imagine countries where government officials are embezzling money and then using this means of paying tax to whiten it lol. That’s not good, such rules must have been set by a corrupt government so as to escape the consequences of the actions that they take. It’s nothing new that all these government are so corrupt and any single opportunity they see, they use to steal from the country’s wallet. So setting rules like this means that they are trying to encourage such things.

Well I can’t really tell you for sure that the market will be bullish or not at any time soon. There are some movements that I have seen in the market and thought that they were signs of the market being bullish, but at the end of the day, the market even goes down and I come to realize that they are not.

The market has been quite stable since it dropped from that $60k price to $40k and $30k. Maybe the market is done with the bull run and will stay down and stable for sometime now. But that’s not a problem, you will even be happy with yourself to buy at this current price and hold for the future bull run.

I don’t see anything wrong with being a Bitcoin maximalist. I’m more of a Bitcoin user, although I wouldn’t say a maximalist because I have tried out other coins, but just a few of them which are Ethereum, Cardano, and Tron.

And as for Ethereum and Tron, I used the two of them because I am always using Bitcoin for transactions almost every week and the fees for transaction got really high, so I had to look for another cryptocurrency to use for transactions, and I moved to Ethereum, but when Ethereum also started getting high transaction fees, I switched to Tron. But my major investment goes to Bitcoin, though my usage of it has kind of reduced, I now mostly HODL with it, but that’s where most of my money goes to, because that’s what I love.

First of all I don’t think that the price of Monero (XMR) has anything to do with the government and whatever that they are doing. Personally, I don’t think that a lot of people are after privacy coins, a lot of them will prefer to invest their money in bitcoin and wouldn’t put it in all these privacy coins.

But, that doesn’t mean I am trying to say that these coins are not good, because they are very good. These days I hardly hear or see anything about them at all. It’s been a long time I have seen anyone mention ZCash, and I have already forgotten about it until I discovered.

I was just going to say that before I decided to go through the comments to see whether someone has said it or not, and here it is. This is how the founding members of a cryptocurrency usually make their own money from it. When they create the cryptocurrency they mine to an amount that they are okay with and then they store it in their wallet and when the project becomes a success and the value increases, they make their money.

It’s just like Satoshi Nakamoto that owns an address with around one million bitcoins. That’s worth billions of dollars at the current rate. So assuming he decides to withdraw it, which most of the other crypto founders has done, that’s how he’s going to make his own money.

The reality is that humanity is evil, and for some reason people do not see that, the more power you give someone the more evil they usually become. Of course there are exceptions to this, of course there are people who are not evil, even if they get a lot of money, but most of the time there are evil all around the world. Sometimes it is evil like Chinese dictator killing Muslims because he can level of horrible evil, but sometimes "I avoided tax because others too and this caused poor in my nation to be even worse" level of evil.

It is cultural as well, in some nations doing small or even big evil things are seen as something okay, in other nations it seems horrible and looked down on, depends where you live. Trump for example came out and defended his 750 bucks tax return and others defended him too, do that in Germany and you would be considered crazy and a psychological evaluation would be done to you. So it is not about money, money just shows the evil inside of you to other people.

Everyone will keep saying the big names, there is no way out of that. Bitcoin, ethereum, bnb, and a few like that will be the ones that will be worth something in the end and you will have to handle that, I know you wanted some other answer but there is no other answer to this question. So just keep your money in those big name ones if you are a newbie and you will be fine, I know it doesn't sound as great because most people want to make a huge return but it is fine to make a little return when you can instead of risking for a huge return then make nothing at all and even lose your money.

Nobody in their right mind will offer you advice that will be risky when you are looking for long term, but know that if you say long term and in 3 months you see 50% drop in price and get scared and sell that means you were not ready for long term, it happens and you have to still wait it out.

He was just giving his opinion, nothing wrong with that. You don't have to mind it too much if you aren't connected with other accounts. Notblox might be onto something though because he said chain tracking isn't that hard so maybe your wallet and other user's wallet were linked to each other. I don't know and I hope if you have issues with stake, they are solved soon.

I would at least expect stake to give a concrete statement regarding the problem so either you know the case is not going to be solved in your favor or you know it's still in process and there's hope.

If anyone wonders what's my stance? Well, I have been able to withdraw decent amounts without any problems from stake but I do understand some players might have problems and not going to take stake's side without knowing all the facts.

I agree bitsler is a good option and stake is even an even better option, in my opinion, because they are offering sports betting for a much longer period and bitsler has launched recently and lacks features like bet cashout and promotions are far less as compared to stake.

Sportsbet(dot)io is another good option by the way but they don't have that many promotions. The plus side of betting at sportsbetio is that you don't have to pay for the withdrawal fees every time, they cover it every single time you withdraw.

I don't think you are allowed to post affiliate links like that, I hope moderators will take care of this.

No one is forcing their decisions and you are right different people have different cases and some might be making more money by mere trading while others may be having the best profits by just holding it. I have seen traders making a good amount of money by short-selling bitcoins when the price is bubbled up and is expected to go down. Then there are some who don't want to get involved in all this because they are not good at reading charts and they just hold and save for the long term.

We cannot expect everyone to have capital big enough to avoid selling their coins. A lot of people are making a living by selling bitcoins so yeah overall the value lies in holding but sometimes we do need to sell them.

I understand it and if you are really adamant about learning and becoming a good trader then you should do it, some people are good in math while others suck at it and same goes for trading as well because there is so much math in trading as well.

I know people who have hard time calculating what is 8x6 and those people can't become traders, doesn't matter how hard they try or how much they study because they lack the main principals requires to be a trader. What I said about buying and holding is for those people, people like me and yeah I do know math a bit more than the example, but I am still not even decent at all and that is why I just buy and hold.

If you know what you are doing, have some math, have some patience, and a bit of money to spend for learning then you can become a decent trader by studying hard, but if you are like me, even after 8 years in crypto I fail at trading so it is not really advised.

It's all because the government wants control and power in their hands while bitcoin is made to give the power back to the people which has been taken away long back by the banks and the banking sector as a whole. China and all the countries know that stopping bitcoins is neither possible nor feasible but because they are losing control over the transactions they are taking such decisions as the banning of mining because it consumes too much power.

It's a pretty cool idea actually. I mean theoretically, if 1million people are given a lottery ticket after they take the vaccine, and let's say the lottery prize is $10k for 100 people then it cost the government around $1M while the cost of enabling vaccine is only $1/person, which if offered directly wouldn't have attracted so many participants, but because the prize is high and everyone wants to try their luck, it should work pretty nicely.

People should understand that lockdowns are not the solution for this virus and the only feasible solution is getting vaccinated and living the life as they used to before the pandemic came out. I am glad someone would win money by getting vaccinated, I thought it would cost people but some people will make money doing it haha .

That's really important and I often times search on google scam with the casino name and these fake complaints show up. For example, we all know sportsbet.io is legit as it can be but if you google sportsbet.io scam you will find a lot of threads linking to bitcointalk which might confuse a new player if he doesn't know how to differentiate between a real accusation and a fake one.

There are players who will lose money and try to bad mouth the casino/sportsbook to get their money back which doesn't work but does bring some bad reputation and may cost the site a few potential players because of these fake reports.

There are more and more fake reports for some reason now as compared to a few years back, maybe some competitor is paying these guys to create FUD against reputed sites.

Sorry to say, then you shouldn't have posted because you don't have knowledge about the topic.

I think codebase might help you because I have heard about it somewhere not sure when and where though and please use them at your own risk. After searching a bit I was able to find another one that is named as consensys but please use them at your own risk and better to find a cheaper or free alternative if possible.

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