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2481  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: So far so good with Bitcoin adoption on my side but I have question on: February 01, 2023, 03:11:08 PM
It depends on the type of investor you are nurturing your students to become. If you stretch more about long term investment in their lesson notes, they won't be afraid to buy, regardless of the current price. So, saying the buy now decision is wrong, you may not teach them, and that can lead them never to buy bitcoin. They should be aware of the losses involved in bitcoin even before asking question about the digital currency, I'd say that it's their duty to invest a bearable amount of money; what they won't need in few years. That way, they'll experience the profits and loss in bitcoin market and not get worried or bothered. However, If its something they can handle, passing through the bear bull market, buying bitcoin at any price won't be a long term decision.

But, you seem to be the type of teacher that'll encourage them to wait, what if bitcoin doesn't drop to 17k again? You'll regret they didn't buy now when the price hits 30k. Just click on the positive idea, what matters is that they own bitcoin. It's important to be kind than to be important.
2482  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: am now a bitcoin investor(first purchase) on: February 01, 2023, 11:39:54 AM
It's recommended to try new things while in a violatile market like Bitcoin. And your first step looks encouragable for a starter, but it seems like you are testing the waters. I'd advise you to pay for more bitcoin when u have the funds. Hodling remains the best instruction in the market, yet holding enough amount of BTC yields the best reward. Always strive to gain bigger amount so that your profits would be impressing to your portfolio. All experience matters keep buying Bitcoin. Shares!
2483  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / I didn't know IP addresses was used to send bitcoin on: January 31, 2023, 02:08:56 PM
Recently doing some research about the end of using IP addresses to generate public keys for bitcoin transactions and it seemed that Theymos was not in support of it; from the long argument it resulted to in the forum. Though, others had seen it as an insecure means of transacting BTC, it makes no difference keeping the IP address method. It's my first time of finding such tech about bitcoin, and I don't think the method stood the test of time before it was removed from the network.

Found it from a rare picture of bitcoin org website posted on twitter by Rizzo. And to know that bitcoin was also sent using the forum as a vehicle or wallet intrigued me to say that it was just a small amount of people that started the journey of bitcoin, and bitcoin has seen lots of changes in the technology.  




https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=9334.0


2484  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: We lose on the long run through return percentage on: January 31, 2023, 12:38:54 PM
yet my point is that no casino offers 100 percent payout
Isn't it?
That there is no casino or gambling site that gives 100% payout is true because they are business institutional and one of the goals of making it is to get profit and profits are obtained from taking a certain percentage of each player's bet. But why can gamblers still lose all their balances because they can never know when to stop and be patient to start gambling again and greed is one of the reasons players end up with nothing.
sometimes the gambler's mindset is wrong when he thinks that gambling is a place to multiply money. there are lots of cases like that in several countries. there must be a lot of gamblers who have that mindset and in the end, coupled with greed, it will be even worse.
if we understand, especially in slot games, usually in every single game we usually get an advantage, even if it's only a little. if we keep away from the mindset of doubling money and being greedy, surely we will stop for a moment to save the win and come back the next day to get another profit.
but gamblers prefer to start pressing the spin button continuously hoping for bigger profits, even though previously the bookies had already provided a small profit and in the end the bookies didn't want to lose and we would be defeated.

Such gamblers can be considered stage 1 gamblers, at the end of the day, they end up believing luck is not on their side. Contrary to your response, top gamblers make a living through gambling. What do you think of such players? These are some experts who have been gambling for quite a long time, and have studied the program behind every machine. While not everyone should see gambling as a place to multiply money, people are definitely multiplying money from gambling wisely. So, I think not all work fits all men, most gamblers may not make a living from gambling but they play because others can make profits through gambling. It's a matter of time such people can level up to understand how gambling works.
2485  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Being Lonely drives you towards Gambling....! on: January 31, 2023, 12:25:48 PM
Learn to schedule time for gambling, put some money aside for gambling in the morning, afternoon and evening. This way you won't only enjoy gambling, but save more time for the entertainment. It's not super interesting to gamble all the funds at a time. Added with the profits you made, it would have been wise to stake your profits and recover the initial monthly savings. It's too risky to continue making such mistakes, especially when you need the money for health issues. Health is happiness and don't gamble with it. Besides, my sympathy for your mom, stay strong and learn to manage time and money when gambling. Also, try to get a hobby, it'll help you battle with loneliness. It seems the pleasure to gamble better hijacks your self concept when you are alone. The best solution is applying self denial to a point. And soon you'll be on the drivers seat of your decisions.
2486  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: This is a gathering of many hopeful people. on: January 30, 2023, 04:01:29 PM
I find that the people on this forum who have bitcoins and believe in bitcoins are one of the most hopeful individuals on the planet. I have this opinion because how can people here have so much faith in bitcoins especially the early users on this forum in bitcoins even when more than half of the world then did not believe. How come people on this forum are still encouraged to buy when things do not even look good. I am happy to be in this forum, in the midst of many people who remain so positive about bitcoins. This hope carried in this forum is infectious and for any one who had doubts about the future of bitcoins but manages to come across this forum will be very encouraged. Thank you for sharing HOPE bitcointalk.

Most men who succeeds in life are always happy and hopeful, and treats the smooth and rough side of life alike. Same is applicable to bitcoin OGs they didn't give up on bitcoin even when the market fluctuated, or the price dropped. That's why most of them are successful men today, happily going to their daily businesses. The forum is a good example and like you said it's contagious, I think only for people who wish to follow the same route as the OGs. Nevertheless, the early birds ain't out of the game, they're still with bitcoin despite the previous ATH and the bear market that just happened. So, members of the forum still buy bitcoin because older users of this forums weren't discouraged to buy bitcoin when it was a year old. They're many bitcoin elites who emerged from this forum and members of this forum today believe that we are still early. And it's the right moment to garner more bitcoin.
2487  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Hit And Run Gambling - Can The House Be Beaten This way? on: January 30, 2023, 03:41:34 PM
Isn't spending the money betting on casino better than lodging in a hotel and going for music concerts with the money? What's the probability that the business will thrive to making the person more money. Gambling is everything in life, buying a bottle of wine is like gambling, the difference is that gambling sometimes pays us back for having fun. You'll see people happy for having the best weekend vacation, and sad for losing $100 in gambling. What's the difference? Gambling is not a place to secure fast money, once a person starts seeing gambling as OP suggest, they may end up being frustrated by the house. Because the house knows what they're doing. So, running away with the profits makes no difference, nothing stops the person from starting a business while gamble at same time with few bucks to test the waters of luck.
2488  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Tom Brady's Gambling and HUGE loss. on: January 30, 2023, 03:32:14 PM
I agree that 70 million can't be the reason why they got a divorce, I mean it could be as in the sense that they could have a big fight because of it, but it wouldn't make them a poor couple, they could make that money back in a year if they work, they both have the names to make that a possibility. This is why I believe that it wouldn't be a financial reason.

Just because they are still rich, doesn't mean they wouldn't fight though, either for this reason or for another reason, anyone knows that couples fight and when they fight, the smallest thing could become huge and that could lead to divorce. In order to stay married, you need to want to stay married, and be willing to work on the issues, if you don't do that, any reason could be a divorce reason.

With their status in life, it is not the financial reason why they are getting a divorce.
Actually, I believe, with their kind of status, the last reason why they will separate is because of money.
It is more on piling up their emotional stress and pride to compromise with each other.
As Bundchen wanted Brady to retire from his sports, but Brady continued to do what he loves to do.
Depression among many other things, they got separated, a lucrative divorce for some people with names.
But of course, they are the ones who will know the real reason of divorce.

It's hard to find the real reason of divorce, women are generally known as emotional managers and men careless about being emotional. Such things as upbringing could lead to divorce, maybe the player has got no time to discuss with his wife on things that mattered to her; their marriage. Well, his story is not quite unique from other mistakes made by gamblers. But, one of his steps that intrigues me to think that we get riskier when we get richer is betting on his marriage.  That's a wrong move, he could've staked his house instead. And he added to his mistake by trusting a cryptocurrency firm, out of being blinded by the friendship he got with SBF. It's just not a good time for him, but he'll get back on to his good living, maybe get a new wife.
2489  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Are you finding a virtual assistant as a Campaign Manager? on: January 30, 2023, 03:01:20 PM
OP sorry you made a mistake that led to a sad experience. To stay happy, you must accept whatever life offers you, and don't worry about the things you don't have rather think about the big things that keeps you happy. You've got lots of meaningful skills that can declare you a self made individuals, if only channeled the right way. Amongst the skills on your list, I'd say SEO is the hottest, and you should use other skills on that list to promote the SEO skill. IG ads, and FB ads are good ways to reach out to some audience that'll need the SEO skills, all you'll need is a good CV and portfolio. If that's in place you've solved your problems halfway. Now, I'd predict you don't have much funds to power the ads as it requires big budgets. For you to get some bucks, the service section is a good start for you. Always put the past to shame and focus on your next objectives. Within a few months or two, you'll get used to the journey you're about to begin.
2490  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: We lose on the long run through return percentage on: January 27, 2023, 12:55:23 PM
The way I understand this is as follows...

The return to player (RTP) are configured by the third party Slot provider and cannot be easily changed, but some casinos have their own original games with very good RTP. (They can alter the RTP very quickly on their own games, with the push of a few buttons)

Now for us to determine what the configured RTP for a Slot are... is almost impossible, because you need to do over 1 million bets to determine the RTP.... and they might have changed the RTP, while you were doing that. The cost is also very expensive to do that... (say you do 1 000 000 bets of $0.10 each, then you might spend almost $100 000 for that test)  Roll Eyes

The casinos have to make profit or they will have to close their doors.... but we need to have some cheap and fast option to verify their RTP. (Total transparency are needed)  Tongue

I think the third party is the casino, and they program some slot machine to pay out as they've written on the slot machine, but we must be careful to determine, which slot pays out our desired RTP. Some gamblers don't stick to one machine, in real casino, hoping to find the best machine, and it's the wrong practice. What matters is that we would lose, and jumping from machine to another to determine how they're programmed won't help anybody. So, instead of testing with $100,000, focusing on enjoying the game with 100k would help us stay longer or gamble responsibly. The most important part is scheduling our money in a way that'll it'll carry us for longer periods, not throwing them all in one sitting.
2491  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: we always regret once the price go up on: January 27, 2023, 12:42:22 PM
No matter how early, it's always too late to regret. Many people have little patience when the price of bitcoin is dwindling down, which is not a bad idea. They've got the right to sell or hold. Assume bitcoin was centralized such that when it gets bearish nobody is allowed to sell. Nobody would have loved bitcoin, but the profit rate would be higher than what we have now. Hence, bitcoin is not designed this way, and nobody should regret for not being able to control themselves. I mean after different experiences of how the market works. And, I don't see why people are afraid of watching the market, such people indeed don't want a return for their money. So, when they see their wallet or assets going down, its simpler for them not to hold, because they've not read about the market. Instead of profiting they lose out money, as they'll buy more bitcoin at higher rates.
2492  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Paypal are scammers like the FTX bitcoin exchange on: January 26, 2023, 09:30:41 PM
One problem people have with Paypal is their strict rules. It would have been better to compare PayPal to a crypto gambling site than FTX exchange. FTX doesn't lock people's account for six months and ask for their card details. They were just unfortunate, things went wrong. However, Paypal is guilty of what you claim they're. I've seen multiple complaints about PayPal ever since Elon Musk was in that company, and I think he made his fortunes from seizing tens of thousands from people's account for boycotting some rules. One bit, never in my journey of online trading did I like PayPal. Thanks to bitcoin I would have been uncomfortable buying and selling with PayPal. Hence, a major part of the reason why PayPal locks people's account has to do with the kind of transactions going on in the account. Keep trying, OP, you could get lucky!
2493  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Bitcoin is imagined as a Crush Queen on: January 26, 2023, 09:16:00 PM
It has become increasingly popular in recent years as a digital currency that can be used to buy goods and services online. The concept of Bitcoin is often likened to a ' Crush Queen', as it has the power to make people fall in love with it. It is seen as a viable alternative to traditional currencies, as it offers low transaction fees, quick transfer times, and anonymity. It is also seen as a potential hedge against inflation and currency devaluation.



You cracked me here, qualifying bitcoin with crush queen is incredible! No wonder bitcoin attracts more of men. However, the motive and aim of bitcoin is to bring freedom to the financial world. That's why it possesses all the features you listed above, but those features can be twisted anytime soon to suit the market. For instance with low transaction fees they may not be a quicker transfer times; if they're plenty of transactions to process people may no longer depend on low transaction fees as they'll want immediate transfer of their funds. And the anonymity is not fully covered, they're some loopholes in the anonymity which the crush queen claim to possess. But, aside these I love bitcoin for some personal reasons and it'll be bad to share my love story to the public; I'll be heartbroken if everyone knows my private keys, she strictly advised me to keep it secret. And I crossed my heart. 
2494  Other / Serious discussion / Re: Why do gamers hate crypto games? on: January 26, 2023, 08:55:46 PM
interesting read on this topic:
"Many casual gamers are still reluctant to play games that use blockchain tech, but gaming execs believe one good game could change that. "

https://cointelegraph.com/news/casual-gamers-a-critical-audience-for-blockchain-games-gamefi-execs

Gaming helps attract more people to use blockchain, and such games that attracts gamers includes, but not limited to war games, gangster games or soccer games. And they're hardly found on the blockchain games. For instance, GTA has multiple players around the globe, if similar games are integrated on the blockchain gaming niche, it'll be of great influence to players. And they can earn through the time spent playing games. Another fascinating games are peer to peer games where people connect through the internet and play with other players around the globe. I think Web3 would facilitate the integration of peer to peer games. We should also look on investors for the gaming projects, if PES or FIFA invests into crypto games they'll be a change and more players would join the train.
2495  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Trying to steal our Bitcoin or simply hatred for Bitcoin? on: January 26, 2023, 05:57:38 PM
It's funny he doesn't know much about bitcoin, he is trying not to be dumb or stay silent about the Bitcoin question tailored to him. The blockchain which he acknowledged as useful, is not under Satoshi's control. So, calling Satoshi a con person that'll take billions of dollars out of bitcoin when it completes 21 million bitcoin is just a proof of misunderstanding. He is bullish on bitcoin yet he threatened back in 2017 that any JP Morgan trader caught trading bitcoin would be sacked. I don't see any reason to bother about his thoughts on bitcoin, considering that it's quite difficult for him to understand bitcoin. Like someone said he must have lost some funds in bitcoin, the story will change when he makes profits.
2496  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: We lose on the long run through return percentage on: January 26, 2023, 09:32:51 AM

I just googled the return percentage of online casinos and saw different percentages that doesn't seem real. A slot machine can be written to pay out 98%, but its programmed to pay 90% and it's publicized that way to attract more people to play using that slot. Though one slot could be paying out that amount in the casino, yet my point is that no casino offers 100 percent payout that means if a slot pays out 94 percent for every 100 dollar bill spent on that machine the player losses 6$ to the casino. That is if you play longer times you'll lose, and we can almost never stay atop of the slot machines after long period of plays, unless we win a jackpot. Even if you win a huge amount, you can lose. They are numerous stories of people who won the jackpot and ended up spending the whole money back on the casino within a short period, 1 or 2 years, they lost the jackpot.


Isn't it?

Inspired by Jean Scott - Frugal Gambler
Sometimes I wonder how those who won such huge jackpots still gamble everything away, this has become a popular occurrence lately and I don't know what caused that,  we are all aware of the fact that casino game machines are calibrated in such a way that house is always a hedge above the players and even if the house loses their still gain or chargeback through their backdoor mechanism, so the best way to avoid losing to the house is never to take into account how many time you play and lost only gamble what you can afford to let go, and once you hit a jackpot, give a break and spend the money on some other things aside from gambling within the period.

I think it has to do with their self concept, psychologically a person cannot handle more money than they expected. The jackpot will burn a hole in the player's pocket, he'll try as much as possible to spend the money down to the amount he was expecting. These things happens to almost every human brain and requires self discipline to control. I'm indeed impressed with the responses on this thread, they're quality and I learnt so much from them.
2497  Economy / Gambling discussion / We lose on the long run through return percentage on: January 25, 2023, 09:47:34 PM

I just googled the return percentage of online casinos and saw different percentages that doesn't seem real. A slot machine can be written to pay out 98%, but its programmed to pay 90% and it's publicized that way to attract more people to play using that slot. Though one slot could be paying out that amount in the casino, yet my point is that no casino offers 100 percent payout that means if a slot pays out 94 percent for every 100 dollar bill spent on that machine the player losses 6$ to the casino. That is if you play longer times you'll lose, and we can almost never stay atop of the slot machines after long period of plays, unless you win a jackpot. Even if you win a huge amount, you can lose. They are numerous stories of people who won the jackpot and ended up spending the whole money back on the casino within a short period, 1 or 2 years, they lost the jackpot.


Isn't it?

Inspired by Jean Scott - Frugal Gambler
2498  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Risk of jail for developers. Should you be anonymous? on: January 25, 2023, 07:58:18 PM
Well, there were Covid restrictions, now the war is going on - they didn't ask anyone if we would accept that. Democracy is a dream, it's a ghost - it doesn't exist. Hehe, now the most interesting part... certainly, they can't send every crypto user to jail but... they can do what they did to Assange, Snowden, Weinstein, Tate etc they'll dig up some unpleasant fact from your life, expose it, build their accusations based on that and then you're going to jail anyway.  Grin
But then the entire problem comes from a different direction.  You are used to already believing your freedom is under continuous threat and in the hands of certain people.  And it should not be that way.

Maybe we are too complacent in the situation and with the idea that a stranger who has never been proved to do something wrong is under attack and enclosed in a cage just because some body said so.  If every body cared more about their surroundings, some of the people you mentioned would not be allowed by the society to stay behind bars.  But society tends to be more and more narcissistic.

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 In our society it works like this.  I do not care if you got brutally murdered long as you did not look very hot, were not belonging to an influential family or were not part of my personal circle of family and friends.

It sucks.  Honestly.  We know some of the people above did not do or say something so wrong they deserve jail time, but we silently accept the situation as is.  We silently accept that if you say something and some body decides to take your words out of context, you can get jail time.  Sounds so F ed up!

Finally, at least the people you mention have done something they can build accusations on.  Becoming 'traitors' of the United States, sharing very controversial view points and other stuff that can easily be exacerbated and turned into a reason to kneel and accept your now awful fate.  What does a Bitcoin developer do so awfully wrong they can easily wrap their head around it and find a way to put them down on their knees?  Coding?  Owning a Bitcoin Wallet?  We are talking full time programmers versus people who were part of very sensitive sectors of the society and institutions.  It is not as easy to randomly put them down because they do not have as much public history as a public figure does and they do not own information they can be targeted for.

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Regards,
PrivacyG

You see the sentence that talks about pathological selfishness I quoted on your response is killing the society gradually and dulls the impression of having a growing economy in the society. For instance, a person who is not capable of doing a job is hired to do the job because his uncle is at the top of the company. He'll go and screw things up. It hurts, but humans careless about the impact of what we're doing to ourselves. On the contrary, moving forward to what "serveria" said; about digging up someone's wrong deeds and using it against them just for the sake of being a bitcoin developer is possible, but its restricted to developers whose hands are not clean. That means if the Government should conceal their intentions and execute such actions not every developer would be affected. That's the main reason people should clean up traces and stay clean.
2499  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Please Help, Am Running low on ideas. on: January 25, 2023, 07:37:10 PM
When creating threads, it's not always easy to generate ideas but we can easily research on different sites for a single idea that'll yield more ideas. However, when it seems a bit difficult to develop a quality thread in the forum, look for something else to do; read blog posts, social media influencers, CEO etc. You must come in contact with something new to think about then post it as a question in the forum. Sincerely, this thread doesn't worth your time, a one line questions would have added more knowledge to your reader's brain. Yet its not completely wrong to seek for help. One secret about writing here is that, sticking to creating threads could keep you absent from this forum compared to joining discussions. It's fun to contribute to other people's discussion and read their responses word for word. Those who just create threads rarely go through the replies on their threads because they're focused on finding fresh ideas for the next thread. Simply reading replies can open a fresh idea for writing. Currently my next medium post is inspired by a comment I read on the forum. That's how writing works.
2500  Other / Meta / Re: Why as a community we are not active on Youtube? on: January 25, 2023, 02:58:12 PM


I never talked about subscribers or revenue. This forum is not enough to counter those who are spreading negative information about Bitcoin. It is 2023 we need to evolve as a community and also BTT.  

What then is the forum doing? The forum provides answers to people's questions, give recent information about cryptocurrency, and direct investors towards the right investment; what kind of project to avoid. You are only misinterpreting what content is about. Some YouTubers gets their research from this forum, which is the function of written contents. It's how videos are created. That doesn't mean, you can't create a channel and cover updates coming from this forum there. But, suggesting a YouTube channel for the forum is like saying the forum is not doing enough work using this medium. Most threads rank on Google first page and that's enough publicity for people who seek for help.

However, it's always good to use other mediums, but I've not seen a forum with a YouTube channel, blogs do. We can only use what we have to get results. No much difference between the main stream media and this forum in terms of crypto. Many people understands that the truth can be found here and that most times the main media get manipulated. What matters is the fact that the content on this forum is more than enough and ranks easily on Google like the mainstream media.
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