I used the money won from another prediction event to wager and reach that amount, its pretty easy to play on card games like blackjack which are my favorite and then bust the rest on a game of mines or dice.

I think we can all do that much or just pay some from our own pockets and try to participate in these prediction games. They are free and the owners are being generous in giving out such prizes and you dont see such games running for long.

I do try to give back what merits I earn to this section of the forum. However getting merits in from the global sections everyday is tough and not having a merit source dedicated to the section sucks even hard.

Good to see @pakhitheboss coming back, I was starting to think they had left.

Money laundering might be one way to explain why the person would have done it. Or it can be that someone told them that it was a rate collectible and they would have to spend so much money to get that. The person paid that 33.3BTC in FIAT money and then the person who is misguiding them converted it to BTC to for that the EPIC sat and went their way.

Bizarre indeed, but there seems to be more than what meets the eye. We dont know the other side of the story.

That amounts to a little more than 3 BTC at current market price of 63K USD and I would rather hold that bitcoin and invest in some casinos bankrolls to allow the money to grow. Mining itself need a set of miners, cheap electricity, maintainance and other costs. If you dont have access to such cheap ingredients, then the recipe will not work out or give the best "taste"

Hence dont mine, rather buy bitcoin when it becomes cheap again.

But the games and the UI are built to keep your addicted to the casino and its natural to play on the risks. If you falling prey to those, you have to correct yourself and not think of gambling but what bad it can do and henceforth stop.

Having a rules or strategy to keep the addiction in control is good but stopping and taking breaks, doing some other sort of work to keep your mind distracted is another method to cope with the addiction. These types of things can be productive and you might end up with a new hobby altogether.

Indeed it is possible to keep a balance between the two, but managing the bankroll is tough.

Nope, everyone out there is mining on ASICs and that is what you should also use if you intend to mine anything at all. Gone are the days o GPU mining on laptops with cards.

If you are planning to mine, you need to have a working knowledge of how the machines work, how the PSU works and how to manage the cables among other things. These are not difficult and can be learnt as you are working with them. The forum community here is also very helpful and you can learn a lot from the YouTube videos too if you spend some time on them.

Similar statements were made when computers were coming out newly in this world. However so much down the line, nothing really changed, the same people learnt to use the computer and they are still working.

Machines have been in use for a longer period of time, just that they dont appear as the "Robot" appearance which is ingrained in our brains from pop culture. Similarly, AI has been used to run prediction algorithms and recommendations in many sites, this is nothing new. Just that the commercialization is new and that is why it is in the news now.

Just continue what you had been doing, but learn to adapt, no robot will replace the human, but having such thoughts will only worsen your mental health.

Second prediction - $68247

Although the halving did not see much of a price change, investors will be as they wish to be. Some are in for the short game while some are in for the long. Hence the halving is just an event to them, they are concerned with the money they get in investing. Fund managers are often juggling the assets as per their profits and they are often the culprits who end up moving the market to a bear run after a expected bull event that did not happen - like what is happening now.

But we have to keep our vision clear, collect more bitcoin and hence wait for the bear run to set in with fiat ready at hand.

I still remember the days when the base prize on the faucet roll of freebitco.in was around 300sats to start off with and then we would go to the casino attempting to multiply it and go bust. Bitcoin was in the range of 600-700$ at that time and everyone was talking about Ethereum and ICOs at that time with the forum beginning to boom with ICO based signature campaigns.

It has been a long way from that over the last 8years and indeed this site has shown resilience as other faucets have shut down long time back but they changed their strategy and ran nicely.

Thing is that the luck even if 0.01% can turn the entire bet upside down and you skills will go down the drain. Gambling always has a luck factor involved and any skills or knowledge end up being inferior to it when it strikes. This concept is more theoretical than practical but regular players can make sense of what I am trying to convey.

So dont make gambling a regular thing, you will lose due to the luck factor often creeping out of the blue. And for EV- games, always play with money that you can afford to lose.

Being the one to add the candidate block to the blockchain while mining is what I meant to say there. If you are mining solo, the entire reward is yours to keep, but if you are mining in a pool, then your prize is distributed among the pool members. Some miners are mining solo or with a pool hoping they or the pool hits a block, which is rare and hence the term "jackpot".

For the day traders yes, they might want to move with quick delivery. I am a long term holder for stocks too, reaping the dividends on every quarter and hence it does not matter much to me at this point.

However the government is putting up a very far spectrum simile, crypto in India is not that mainstream yet. Still anything they do good with crypto is good for me.

The biggest mistake is taking gambling as a method to make money while it is actually fun and entertaining and should be kept limited to that only. Unfortunately people who hunting for free bitcoins often end up in these sites following a random affiliate link and then waste money on the games to lose everything.

Go to Vegas once a year and spend some money there but no need to login to casino everyday to attempt that.

This can easily be avoided, but without prior knowledge of how casinos work, this might take some time for naive people.

Many of the currently running casino websites are actually having a similar template and hence we cannot rule out the fact that they are using each other as influence to design the next casino, not just copy it blatantly.

Most of them have a good interface, that keeps the gamblers addicted and makes them play more. Add to it the sounds and colors and you have a heaven for addicted gamblers indeed.

However interface is not the only thing, a lot of work goes in the team, its methods to resolve issues and support. All these when taken together, constitute a good casino.

There are many ways to approach this, you would ideally want to keep spending more on the fiat side compared to the bitcoin side, that includes converting the crypto to fiat too. Because of the possibility of bitcoin becoming huge in price as days go on, you have to limit the amount you put in to bitcoin every month. So you have enough fiat to spend if need arises but would rarely if ever have to touch your bitcoin.

That is enough to lead a happy family while your bitcoins keep growing in their number. Nobody holds their bitcoin for ever, they always need to sell at some point, and they do.

If the campaign does not pay for off-topic posts, then they are not going to counted, very simple.

It does not matter if the original post was in some other section, if the moderation decides to move it, there is remains as final for then. Hence try to evaluate if the thread matter is actually on topic or not, if it is not and your posting quota is not complete, reconsider posting a reply to the OP.

Regarding accidental finding outs of posts having been moved to Offtopic, it generally helps to recheck the posts in the last posting session every two or three days so you can add up more posts if such threads have been moved recently before the deadline is reached.

As an old school investor, I have assets of different classes including most traditional assets and the more recent being crypto that too most bitcoin. Indeed the delayed delivery of stocks is something that is a stark difference with the delivery or cryptocurrencies which is also instant. Delivery of Forex also takes T+2.

But mind you majority of the Indian population are ignorant about trading and let alone crypto, they dont even know how to invest in FD or precious metals. They are spending way more than what they earn, so loan sharking apps are more common. So crypto in my opinion is way less of a treat, maybe SEBI has other statistics to back it up though.

Even then, once they start investing they will go for altcoins --> get washed out and then move back to non-investing states.

Does not really matter because soft porn is still rampant among the smartphone generation of India and is enough to make the rickshaw pullers and autodrivers on the road cream their pants without touching anything. But that is a topic for another discussion.

You see most of these celebs are not married for love or anything, they are in it for some reasons like money, fame or dealings. You will never get this unless you delve into the dirty dealings of the underworld and trust me dont want to go down that route.

Of course there will be end to such ponzis and bitcoin being used in them. For sure no arrest and no case with happen and the case will get another "Tarikh" till eternity.

Whatever events/circumstances that happen and someone wins or loses at a gambling game, does not necessarily mean that one influenced the other. This is magical thinking and is not scientifically explained. While it seem like an easy association to make and attempt to recreate that situation to demand luck from the universe, it does not work like that.

You are either lucky at one instant and unlucky at another - this is not influenced by anything. In gambling long term, the casino is always the winner.