Well math will be obviously slightly against you in long term betting in a long term, otherwise casinos wouldn't be profitable for their owners.
My way to gamble (if i play with slots) is to play few big bets and quit. I always decide the number beforehand. In other words, i am trusting my luck. And i know my luck is going to run out if i try some tactic where i try to outsmart the casino and play the long game.

So i either win or lose, i don't need to bother myself thinking if i would have lost or won the next bet when i have set my limit beforehand. I won't be chacing the jackpot. It will come to me if i am lucky enough.

I don't think you understand how different other cryptocurrencies are from CBDC. Sure, people can use that to send money, but it's not like it would be store of value. CBDC is just fiat money in a new form. It will be better and cheaper form but people won't be buying it like gold and speculating the value would rise. And depending on the platform it could end up being a farce. Although i am certain they will take their time and not push out product that isn't tested and ready.

And it wouldn't be money of the people. Also transactions are going to be reversable for that contract. That's goes without saying.

When everyone can just create their own money making machine it would be naive not to think that every scammer out there wouldn't take advantage on that.

But obviously this is not about NFT. They are just new vechile for the most popular scam in crypto. I find it weird why people are focusing on NFTs and not Bep-20 on this when when we have actual numbers about other crypto scams. Solidus Labs said that 350 new 'scam tokens' were created every day this year.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/350-scam-tokens-were-created-every-day-this-year-solidus-labs

How can you give money you just lost to anyone? And it's not like you knew you are going to lose it beforehand. And if he doesn't sell the bottom he most likely make insanely much more in the bullrun again.

Better question would be just "why doesn't elon just give money to charity". And he has said he does it anonymously. I am not saying i believe him but it wouldn't be that weird if he spoke the truth, and i don't even like the guy.

And he has given it publicly as well, guite big sums actually: https://fortune.com/2022/02/15/elon-musk-5-7-billion-donation-weeks-after-asking-un-world-hunger/
Skeptics would say he is doing this to get tax cuts, which he obviously gets, but i think that was the single most coolest thing i've seen Elon done ever. And still elon makes me cringe when he tries to convince people he knows what he is talking about.

I don't even have to go further than this. This is the reason why people buy altcoins. You can only get high rewards by accepting high risk. Higher the risk, higher the possible rewards. There's obviously also higher risk to get rekt with them but that goes without saying.

People investing in small caps and mid caps also see that there must be a top when it comes to future marketcap of bitcoin.
It just can't keep up growing and growing. That wouldn't make any sense. They see more room with altcoins to grow. That's why many of them like to use terms like ETH killer, to point out how much they can still rise. And it's way more possible to find another 1000x altcoin then except that bitcoin would rise another 1000x any time soon.

More oversight. More forced transparency from exchanges. This is just a matter of time and will happen in a whole different scale. Only thing prevented it happening until now was lack of interested to fund manpower for it.

This is whole another issue. Would i like to use isn't really the issue. When CBDC takes over fully, there's no other option to transfer fiat money. Or if there is, it will be so much more unreliable, slow and expensive compared to it. Like writing checks compered to current system. When CBDC comes. It isn't really up to you if you want to adopt it. You will. Just like you did wireless transactions and visa.

Then i stand corrected. I only saw the first one and i had mined enough tokens so i didn't pay attention at their promotions after that. Giving payment in BTC would be a whole different thing and i definitely would support that way. Not that they would need my support to proceed . And i don't think i would join the signature before i would know about their future plans but not giving any more BFG tokens to dilute staking would be a good gesture.

That's not how scientific method works, that's how faith works. In religion you need to deny the new evidence to preserve faith. Unlike science, religion never adjust views based on evidence. That's the difference. In scientific method we would gladly change our views on any "gods" if there would be any evidence pointing at them.

And funny how you pick one magic book from history to follow. Why not greek religion? Why not Hindu? Why not Gilgamesh, Quran or Kalevala? Why not apocryphal texts from the bible? Why not ramblings of Charles Manson? Just random pages chosen by few ancient religious leaders. Funny how you don't see those as "evil elite". Even with their violent history and what they done with children. If you defend those actions don't claim to be any better then the monsters doing those acts.

You need to recognize that all scientific evidence points out that this never happened.
And you can't try to use reasoning based on some illogical magical book or a religion that's based on denial of obsevation and inability to change its views in front of evidence.
There can be no reasonable dialogue until you want to talk like an adult and choose reality.

Dictators like Erdoğan are not too fan of freedom of speech but I find it kind of worrisome that one guy who is using his constitutional rights to protest (no matter what you think of his actions or politics, protesting is his right) and that's the reason Erdoğan is using to ban Sweden from NATO.

It's now just a matter of time that one Nato-hater or Erdoğan-hater goes and burns a quran in Finland and we are in the same exact position as Sweden. I am amazed they haven't already done that. Or maybe they haven't been covered by press. Political cartoonists in here are already using their right to mock Erdoğan (Not muslims though, they just hate Erdoğan).

But i guess we don't need NATO as much as Sweden. USSR failed invading Finland before and now we are way more prepared to defend our nation.

This is something i wouldn't recommend anyone trying for even a laugh. I have a history in training self defence and i have been in rough situations. Even in "friendly" combat i've gotten head injury, broken ribs, bruises, broken joints and so far in those everything has healed.

Then i tried power slap for a laugh with my friend. I don't know why, maybe to probe manliness or impress girls. We managed just to look stupid. I panicked on third slap, turned my face away and my friend managed to hit on my ear. It broke my eardrum and got me loud tinnitus and hearing loss for life. It's one of the few things i really really regret trying. There's no such thing as silence for me anymore. If i had a time machine and one advice to give to younger me. Not ever trying power slap would be high on the list.

From what i remember their signature campaign was paid in BFG tokens and they were actually worth something at the time. Inflation of the price would mean they would need to raise the amount paid significantly in order to get good bounty hunters to work with them, and most likely that wouldn't do any good for already dropping token price. At the start it was understandable to give them as token wasn't even traded and it made people feel to be a part of something.

Other way would be paying with btc or eth. But as they didn't do it in the first place (if i remember correctly) i don't believe they would start doing it this time.

I do it weekly, or when even i have extra money to invest i put some of it in crypto. But lenght of the intervals aren't really important. Important thing is that you are doing it constantly because you see that something is worth investing. That no matter the price now it's probably safe bet in the end.

I have bought crypto since start of 2014 and still keep buying it. Not saying what cryptos exactly as everyone should make their own choices.
But i have also sold it no matter the price really. As i am using it for living. I like to have my wealth i am using tied to crypto instead of fiat money. I am not sure if that's smart and in some cases it has not been, but i am a believer of it and price is comes secondary.

People are saying Cardano has a good technology, some even say that they are more scalable then eth but where they are basing that statement? Are everyone suddenly tech savvy in that level they can review the code? I am mostly listening to the both sides in this argument and while i am not understanding everything, i feel it's pretty obvious that Charles is overshilling and over simplyfying the problems and his statements on the subject aren't meant for other coders but for shilling ADA to investors. Which is a red flag and pretty much definiton of a populist.

I've been betting only boxing and MMA because those are only sports i am really interested about. And i've been doing it exclusively in Stake, and so far i have nothing but positive things to say about that site. With live streaming option in some fights gives you another level to the experience. Crypto betting is fine there and it's the only way i am interested to do any betting. Community is also big and hey have their own forum. You should  definitely check them out at least.

But that's what's happening now. Maybe you want to be more specific.

Maybe people aren't using same definitions

Investopedia defines bullmarket as:
Not i don't know what kind of confirmations people are waiting for but from my understanding they are often very late to agree we are in the bull market. Just accepting we are in the bottom is enough for me. And even after ath some people are waiting for confirmations. That it's a manipulated trap and should be a double top or somehing. Every indicator i have used for bull market has given me green light so i am not sure why people are looking for som magical confirmation. We are the confirmation.

Wow. I've done all of those. But definitely most harmful was "Playing under the influence". Because last thing you need when you are handling your money is too high self-esteem and lack of judgement. It's fun and that's why people do it but it's also the recipe for being totally rekt.

I mean it was funny to wake up next day having ton of money and you didn't know where you got it from. But when the opposite happend and you get blackout drunk and don't remember where all your money went. That's something no one should deal when having a hangover.

Bitcoin model doesn't serve interest of any country so no. Inlfation for fiat money and removing gold peg is done by design. It can help in the times of crisis with short term fixes like .when you can print emergency financial aid. Binance isn't designed to be official currency of countries, it's people's money and storage of wealth.

War isn't FUD, it's happening, it's real and it's affecting prices. It doesn't need fear on top of it to do so. Fear just happens naturally.
But i am pretty sure we have seen the bottom of this bear market. At least my portfolio and charts seem to think so. So far i've been just growing my bags whole year of 2023 (in usd value).

And i have been definitely buying some cheap cryptos even though i am far from a whale. My fiat money stashes are very limited because of the recent bear and expensive electricity, but i've been stacking sats and portfolio starting to look very much like green again.

Maybe putler falls down from a window next or something else positive happens and my bags can rocket back to ath. I am very hopeful about the future atm.

So starting from 2018? I had managed to make more money then before in my whole life in start of 2018. Could be way more if i just holded my btc and eth but anyway...

I didn't see how hard would the crash in 2018 was going to be and hodled most of the coins to the ground. I was quite happy that i managed to buy lots of stuff i needed in the bullrun so i wasn't regretting anything even if everything would crash and burn. I could have saved a lot of money just by keeping it in usdt, but i started investing, which seemed weird totally waste of time in the bear run.

Somewhere in 2019 i bought nfts with rest of the money i got left. It wasn't much but that would end up making me a lot of money. It was a gamble, i know they would be bigger then ico frenzy ever was, but i didn't know what of they would be worth anything.

I had found out my friends were into altcoins too and we changed some ideas and i benefit a lot from their weird new instinct on what to invest.

I didn't worry that i hadn't any money left. I had risen from $200 before and i could do it again because i trusted in myself. And i wasn't wrong. Next bull run took me nearly back to the ath again. But i was spending a lot too. Partying and my expensive hotel lifestyle made sure that i wouldn't have much left at the end. And end of the bull got me by surprise AGAIN. I was waiting for some fundemental events to happen but they didn't matter when the market crashed. I once again lost money. And now i'll make it back again. At least this time i've been sober now and can actually save money.