Yeah spreadsheets can be fun sometimes, but personally since I barely do any gambling im just too lazy to have a spreadsheet only for a couple gambles a month and sometimes I don't gamble for months.
I don't even have a spreadsheets for the trading of alts I do sometimes.. I should do one for that tho, before the exchanges crash and I lose all the data.

There will always be gambling in free societies, trying to stop gambling is like trying to stop alcohol, it never works. In the long term, there would be an huge underground gambling scene so you might as well have it accepted and regulated if the government wants their cut out of gambling, that's why they sell alcohol and cigs too. They are still stubborn in trying to fight weed for some reason tho. Prolly has to do with weapon business.

I think if you are a casual gambler like me, you should not count your loses, because that would make you stressed. To enjoy gambling you don't have to think about lossing or winning so if you only deal with small amounts of money when gamlbing, who cares if you lose, you will be ok, and if you win, then it's obviously better, so win win.

It's a very simple decision. Look at what both teams have done on their own. Core has done all the great stuff you see nowadays, (SegWit, Libsecp256k1, op_hold, soon sidechain and so on....)

Classic.. what the hell has Classic done?

This is why im not putting my money on developers that have nothing of value to show, so stick to Core.

Yes it would. Technology can be rebuilt, all you would need is to have at least 1 surviving full blockchain copy, to not lose all the record, so as long as 1 intact copy survives, it can go on. It's simply impossible that all copies ever of the blockchain disappear unless you blow the entire planet away, which is a pretty stupid method to kill Bitcoin.

Im still agreeing on going all-in for the halving. Theres tons of hype, and tons of good news. Soon the blocksize FUD will be a thing of the past. We can start a period of FOMO where all the idiots that still don't have any Bitcoin yet would jump in at the same time, creating a big pump, there you could risk losing your position to double your money, but you'll simply need luck to buy back at the right time.

Anything is possible at this point, I have seen so much bullshit that this sounds like a decent theory. I can't believe in /r/btc they are encouraging each other to run fake nodes under cloud services and whatnot.. this is definitely getting out of hand for the Gavinistas.

I think I have never lost more than 0.2 BTC in total, even tho I don't keep track fo my loses because I don't gambel enough for it to be worth making an Excel spreadsheet over it and track all of the ins and outs of money. I just do it for fun very sporadically so it doesn't make sense to worry about it.

People can enjoy casual gambling. I myself enjoy some casual gambling from time to time and Im not sick, I lead a balanced life. The key is self control, and know when you are doing something stupid. Most people always blame gambling, alcohol etc, and not the person. That is a wrong approach.

But he said "many people"
Like I said before, I don't think many people own 21 BTC... in the grand scheme of things, most people don't own ANY Bitcoin, let alone 1 BTC, let alone 21. I think 21 BTC is already elite status in the long term, as the price raises and the entry point becomes more and more prohibitive.

The entry point is already high enough for like 99% of people out there... I mean ask if someone you know would be willing to put near 10k in Bitcoin.
Even if they had a decent amount of money, they would be reticent because they would not know what Bitcoin is, maybe they have heard it a couple of time in some lame headlines. Thats why anyone holding 21 BTC is such a pioneer.

I saw a video of a guy that sold his entire house, all properties, cars and bank savings and went all in in a Las Vegas casino, the video is in Youtube. I think its insane when people go all in with small amounts of Bitcoin, let alone when they start doing some bets that would ruin their life in a matter of seconds. Time to think twice before going all in in the casinos man.

How many people would you say that own 21 BTC approximately nowadays? What % you are at if you own 21 BTC?

I know it's hard to guesstimate since we can't know how many people how X addresses, but maybe there is some way to make a reasonable stimulation.

I ask this because a lot of people have this dream of owning 21 BTC as a storage of value for the very long term (10+ years). I think it's excellent advice, to own this amount on the most important network ever. I also dream to reach that amount before it's too late, so im hoping the price stays where it's at before we break ATH again.

I think the most important feature has to be a settlement network, the "new gold" approach is in my book the one that we have to focus on, before we can pretend to compete against centralized systems like VISA.

If we are going to compete against centralized systems like VISA, we must deliver something that makes it worth using for the average user. I think, the fact that anyone can start sending and receiving money without any consent, is a big advantage we will always have against our competition when it comes to the goal of making Bitcoin a worlwide used currency with millions of transactions per second. The work done by Blockstream in this matter is excellent and im looking forward to it.

I have 1 or 2 IPs that have no "User Agent" and no "Ping Time" information, they show "N/A" (I mean in Core node information)
What are those? They never deliver any information or ping, and they connect back when I disconnect from them. Should I just ban them? I would like to know what is this tho.

Wow dude thats freaking insane. How did you get all that money to begin with?
In any case, about the app, I think this is the type of stuff that ends up getting regulated by governments. There is a risk that they don't like people "playing policemen" so to speak, this is why the software should be decentralized and anonymous.
Just like Uber has all those regulation problems because they are competence against taxi, we may see some problems with this. Overall sounds good tho.

So you have to do stuff? From what I've read, you just have to opened Tor browser and Bitcoin Core at the same time, then you are anonymous.
What you are saying is to see the log, or you have to do this to have your node run under Tor too?

I think gambling with the idea of doubling your money with the up and coming havlening event is a great approach. Beside the halving, we have a lot of good news cooking and all of them will explode during the halving, so there's a lot of hype, I think 800 is easily achievable in the following months, so good luck, im holding.

Have you considered giving other bonuses that aren't poker related for the people that don't play poker? I don't play poker myself, so I can't do much with the free tickets im getting. What about free ticket for slots of free dice rolls or something? I don't know, something else.

Well that video seems old, chances are Bitcoin didn't exist by then and even if it did, I doubt he was knowledgeable enough to do it. In any case, im sure there are way better ideas to gamble that money in the stock market, rather than in some all or nothing stupid casino bet. Casinos are for fun, not for life threatening bets.