He doesn't see this as a big deal because Bitcoin have not much value at the time but at the same time he is too careless, he has a reason for storing those Bitcoin, why give the same hdd to a stranger.

Looking at the value of bitcoin today must have affected this person so much, because the value is already enormous, compare to the year 2012, he can't even blame the tech guy, he was just smarter than him, this numbers of Bitcoin was never stolen from the owner, it was the owner that give it away by himself.

It will cost legs and kidneys to get that amount of Bitcoin back today, he will have this regrets for the rest of his life, let's hope he learned from his mistake but this is one of those mistakes that time can't heal, it will always stick to the heart.

We are all gambling to make money and I am not ashamed to say it, as I see that so many people are not bold enough to say it out loud, well here you have it, I gamble to get lucky and make money, that's why we are all here, but the only difference between I and others is that I don't have high expectations from gambling like they always do.

Just because I am gambling to make money doesn't mean I must gamble all the time or risk a lot of money on gambling, understanding matters here, I know how unsafe it is to be too involved in gambling, you can leave the important things behind and go for gambling, only to end up regretting later.

I do gamble to make money, but I do it when I have the amount that I won't be needing for now, the amount that I am ready to lose away in gambling, and most times I keep on learning new things, skills based, that will help me to make better money in future, I don't believe in gambling that much.

Alot of gambling sites that are not available on this forum are probably scam, who is to be blame if not you? How are you looking for the next gambling site to try out?/because this matters a lot, and this have gotten so many into trouble, stop looking for gaming site using search engines, they will lead you to the bad and scam ones.

I am glad you find this forum, we don't dare promote any scam gambling platform here, as you can see yourself many members are promoting reliable gambling platforms on here, I am promoting fortune jack and I am a active gambler on the platform itself.

I hope you already learn something here, start trying them out one after the other or just stick with one, fortune jack and stake are my favorite, if you want you can give one a try after the other, just don't forget that winning on a casino is luck, so make sure you are gambling with what you can afford to lose.

It doesn't make sense, I haven't seen any drug addict trying to do anything with their right manner and mind, they are always so toxic and they behave like mad men, someone that have lost their sense of self respect.

How will people like that be in their senses when gambling? I believe they will do everything wrong and still lose their money, this is not a solution to gambling jackpot, you have no choice than to avoid getting rekt when gambling, there is no safer way than this.

Gambling is controllable like what @Dzigie said, but that's what every addicts thought as well, until they lose their guide, you should not rely on your control over gambling, nobody is in control of gambling, the only way is to keep reminding ourselves about the dangers of taking risks when gambling.

The more days you spend gambling the more money you will spend on gambling, if you have been risking $100 in two weeks of every month, you will be spending double of this amount for every month, and the truth is you won't win more compare to your old style of gambling.

This is what gambling want you to think and start doing, believe me, it's more than many think, gambling is like a lollipop made on a kitchen knife, you are meant to start licking and licking until you cut your tongue and you will probably lose your life in the process.

It's easier to be a gambling addict than anything, and what is normal and better always take time, always remember that you are simply trying to take a short cut to make money, it's never going to be normal, that's why I keep telling people that gambling is like the devils tool to easier manipulation, if you let go of your awareness, you will be long gone, deep into addiction before you realize.

You can never win as a profit taker, all you need to have in place is good profit taking strategy, I sold some altcoins willingly today because I am in huge profit, like over x10, I believe that's a good gain already, and I am still holding some, I plan to use this money to invest in some early start up projects, it was how I found the x10 project anyway.

I have many alts that are up in massive gains, and taking profit in this period of time is not what I always do, I prefer holding until bitcoin makes a new all time high but the gains are just too much, and k started feeling like a bigger correction before the upcoming Bitcoin halving is likely.

It's always those who got greedy that keep missing out, anything from times ten of your initial investment is already good enough, I mean you can't even make this from bitcoin investment in a massive bull, so it's not bad at all to take profits.

The highest amount of money is too small for me to talk about it, I am already aware of the dangers that awaits every gamblers that plan to gamble, most times the money you take out of your pocket isn't coming back ever again, this is why I only risk small amount of money every time.

I've also won some money using small amount of money, and there is no other better feeling like it, I was always careful and I was able to still make some money, it's the best feeling to me, knowing that it's very hard to win a casino most of the time, I don't have the balls to start risking money as if its bitcoin investment.

Sometimes I feel like I have had enough, that's when I keep losing my small amounts many times over, I will erase gambling from my schedule for few weeks and I will try when I feel like I have missed gambling, I strongly believe that this should be the way to become a gambler, it's all about luck, always remember this.

In a country where the economy is very bad, it's possible to start seeing more females getting into gambling, this is currently ongoing now in my country, once upon a time, women are the ones talking against gamblers, but today they are also gamblers too.

Even now that online gambling is available, the true numbers of female gamblers will likely remain unknown, it's just that it's becoming noticeable that many people are losing too much money in gambling and the government is already starting to plan how to reduce gambling attention in the country, I don't know how this will work out, I am just waiting to see what they do.

The truth is there is no data to show the exactly amount of women that are into gambling, I can only talk about my vicinity, and from what I've seen, the suffering rate of people around my town is the reason why females, young and old are now considering gambling, and it's bad.

It's not always possible until all of a sudden it becomes a reality, trust me, there will be many people buying bitcoin at whatever price it will be in the future, but this bull season, we will never see such price per Bitcoin, maybe 150k max and anything over this is dangerous.

It will get to the point where there won't be many Bitcoin around, the scarcity will be so big that value will hit bitcoin like never before, there will always be late comers, those who fold hands today, still thinking that Bitcoin will crumble, they are the people that will fomo into Bitcoin because they just can't take it anymore, they won't have any choice than to buy then..

To get your hands on 0.23BTC will be extremely hard as the value could be worth 1.5BTC of today, that's the problem, many people focused so much on today, instead of the future, even if the future isn't guaranteed, nothing should be stopping us to hope for a better future.

Honest gamblers are able to remain honest because they risk what they can afford to lose, your point is very accurate, gamblers can only become frustrated and unhappy when they keep losing everytime they use some money that in hope they want to make some more money back.

The only way a game can remain fun is you not expecting to get rich with your bets, you did it for the fun of it, and such money that's worth calling fun should be very little in amount, the type of money that you can give away to someone without feeling at thing.

I know this is probably hard for many gamblers, because they are into gambling to win some good amount of money and use that money to do something big, I myself decided to only gamble when I feel like and not make a job out of it because this is not why gambling existed, it's not a way to get rich or a source of income every day, understanding is all that many people failed to get about gambling.

Where is the link of the website? How do you expect me to believe that the website is just like you described?

There is no way anyone can shut a casino website down, if it's not regulated and you are about to know that it's not, then there is no reason to start using such platform to gamble.

If you are looking forward to start gambling on a online casino, make sure you pick through this forum, it's not safe looking for one on your own, many fake casinos are all over the internet now, and some are using non-kyc to attract some people that like privacy way of gambling.

Don't even bother to stress yourself, there is no need to start doing research on if a casino is regulated or not, you can use stake or fortune jack, and others that are available on this forum, if they are not reputable no one will promote them.

I am very certain that right now he must have learnt his lesson that gambling is not a way of making a income, they learnt this lesson because they hide it from you, they knew what you are going to say already that's why they are avoiding you, things like this have happened to some people I knew too, they always learn after they refuse to listen to your advice and do their thing.

For the $1000 as a money for starting a business, I think its very small, I don't know which country you are in but this amount won't do too great in my country, the rent for a store alone will take a lot of that amount, the major problem is where you plan to rent for the business, it's so much that I've even decide to build a bigger store in front of my house after this bull market is over.

People who don't understand that gambling isn't any way close to investing in real assets will only learn the hard way, just like these friends, they must have believe that they are the smartest ones.

When you said holy week I believe you are talking about the fasting period? Both Christian and Muslims always stop their bad habits in this period of time, drinkers, smokers, gamblers, they all stop and go holy for the weeks or months, but after this period is over they return. 

You are to stop your gambling activities if you want to participate in the holy activities, and when the holy period is over you can return, mind you, I believe we are just deceiving ourselves, if you are a real Christian you won't go into anything that's forbidden by your holy book.

Going back to gambling makes me believe that you knew what's wrong and what's right, meaning you are a fake Christian, you are just deceiving yourself, there are millions of people like you, all in the name of God forgives you are intentionally going against his words.

Gambling is a perfect fit for those who are not religious, intentionally going back and forth is making your sin massive.

I do like watching football but I don't have enough time to start doing all those important analysis, I have a home to take care and I have a business that takes most of my time per day.

For someone like me I just take risks that I can handle if anything bad happens, I do get your points and they are correct, if one choose a sport that they are so into, it will be easy to figure out some things that others can't.

If you want to start betting on a sports game, make sure it's your favourite, the type that you are so into, love watching the most, don't follow a game because your friend is making the best money from the game.

And mind you, always risk only what you can afford to use, don't say because you now understand the game very well, so you can risk any amount of money, gambling has no guarantee.

Many still won't agreed that gambling is just to have fun and good time, since a friend of them won something good, they also want the same thing too but gambling relies on luck, what happens to a friend in gambling won't be the same with your story.

To fix your broke self, you need a business or rather, a job and you should start investing your money in assets and keep having a good life till your money brings in very good ROI, you can't get the same in gambling.

When you are known to be a gambling addict, people around you will likely leave you and you will end up losing your relatives like what the guy said in OP, some families will stay and help you fight the addiction but if there is no changes they will stay away, before you get your senses back, it could be too late already, the best thing you must do is don't get addictd to gambling.

I have seen the recent capabilities of these AI stuffs, I saw the ID generated by AI and also a video too, so it possible to pass KYC using AI generated ID, but the fault will be on the crypto exchange, as they can't tell the difference between the AI generated ID and the original, which they should be able to.

There are ways to know that an ID is fake, especially through live Video, it will just make the process longer than before and it's better, because criminals might start using this to hurt crypto platforms in future.

An AI won't work through live video verification, even if a fake human is been generated there are things the customer care can ask them to do in the live video that's impossible for AI to do, I pity those that are buying such IDs online, you can get away with P2PB2B like exchanges but some will just end up seizing your money in the end.

It's only the government of a country that deserves to ask a casino for identity and license, not the gamblers, this is the first time I would hear such from a gambler, most are only concerned about how they will be treated by the customer care and how lucky they can get.

If you are using a popular online casino you won't need to worry about identification, it doesn't matter to gamblers, like I said, only the government agencies have the right.

Do you even know that it's unsafe for casino team members to reveal themselves to the public? A place where people come to try their luck and lose some money?what if they got angry and decide to take some actions against the team members? Or you think it's not possible? What if a gambler is a triad member? Will you know? Think.

Some days are bad days for so many people, if they are those who are always aware of themselves, my advice is to stay away from Wednesdays, it's just your type of being which doesn't go well with gambling, it happens.

Wednesday is the most favourite day for some people, some even sees this day as a breakthrough day, when they have some business appointment they will choose Wednesday as the day but who you really are is the most important here.

I choose Tuesdays and Saturdays as my gambling days, I've always noticed that these are my best days in the week, I mostly get lucky on these days in most of the things that I do, even at my business haven, it's always a profitable days for me, so my dear, nothing is wrong, if you believe that Mondays and Sundays are the best for you then divert your attention to these days only, avoid Wednesdays.

There are many couples today that get married after two months of dating, so even if they are just dating and not married yet it changes nothing, let's just pretend that they are married, what happened will still happen between them, many homes are broken because of money, when you don't relax very well before jumping into a marriage anything is bound to happen.

I have seen more marriages collapsed because they don't get to know each other every well before the get married, few even lead to murder cases, I am not saying that those who have been dating for more than two years don't end up breaking up too, it happens, even those who have dated for over 5 years still break up, but the majority that happened here are those who dated for very short period of time and get married.

Some people are so good at hiding, you will never know the true them until several years later, you don't know what a fellow being can turn into once money is involved, you just can't predict how they will react, only God knows what truly happened between these two, and now the woman have the right to some percentage of the money, if they are legally married I believe, correct me if I am wrong.

I believe that who gave the money isn't the winner here, because the partner might have decide to spent the money on drinks and waste the money away, the winner is the person who bought the ticket, it's like borrowing some money from you and I immediately went into a casino and I won the jackpot, will you claim that since because the money I use to placed the bet was yours makes you the winner? No way,  I took the risk, I only owe you want I lend from you, but people will always be people, that feeling of entitlement, sigh!

Well, this is something that's too good to be true, you can't blame the readers for asking questions, you OP and few people have make some unbelievable posts on this forum, that's too strong to believe, why not back it up with some proof?

A screenshot would erase all doubt, because it's crazy for even a scam casino to do this, I am waiting for the name of the casino at least, can you provide that? I bet it will be some stupid casino that nobody knows.

I still don't understand why people blindly trust anything they come across online, like why should you trust a platform with your money when there is no reviews online or when there is no single reputation that the casino have build in time, you need some answers to provide.

Tell your friend to quit that casino now, because even if he wins there is no way he will be able to withdraw because they are already making him lose with false betslips, what is he still doing on such casino?