I promised to myself that I would never lose more than 0.05 in a month with gambling. By following this rule, I have managed to never lose any amounts of relevant money with gambling, which makes it more enjoyable. At the beginning it was hard because you are addicted and want more and more gambling, but once you start realizing how you don't lose that much money in gambling anymore, you feel great.

Well lol you don't need to start your own casino to play without fear of losing. A lot of casinos offer free credits, so you can play the games just like a videogame and play for score and not risk real money. For example bitcoinvideocasino gives you free credits on all of the games. Once you run out of credits just delete your cookies and try again.

The price will not be stable. The halvening is happening pretty soon, in less than 100 days now I think.. too many reasons to expect a good pump, then correction to establish an higher floor than before, and after than, we can talk about a consistent price, but this is the time of the rise of Bitcoin, no more stability, only moon now.

It's very doable. When Bitcoin reaches the mainstream and can do global transactions thanks to LN, it will have the marketcap of a major payment processor company. And even if this never happens, we are still gold 2.0, this means trillions of dollars of potential metal holders diversifying in the superior Bitcoin asset.

Why would you use inferior software by an inferior developer team? Classic is a scam, all of their nodes are fake and run by VPS just to make it look as if they are anywhere near Core. Please research what you are doing, the whole blocksize debate is a fraud.

People don't give a damn about any of this, as long as they can keep buying stuff and fiat is accepted for what they want to buy, they will use fiat because it's the standard. Our only hope for mainstream Bitcoin usage is that people get pissed off at government getting rid of physical cash, other than that, Bitcoin will remain gold 2.0 and not an actual everyday usage currency.

Fantastic performance, 143$ may not be much for some, but for me it's a ton and specially in only the short timespan of 3 days.
If there was a way to keep the gains this solid, I would quit my job and become a pro sports betting guy but I can't take that much amount of risk myself.

Bitcoin will reach $10,000 and more, it's in fact impossible that Bitcoin DOESN't reach $10,000 per BTC. If you consider that the marketcap is not even 7 billion, you will see the possibilities. The amount of potential is on the trillion dollars that will try to reach a safe place once the governments start stealing not only cash, but golds and stocks from people. Bitcoin will be the only way in the world to have your wealth safe from anyone. It will be the only way to know that you own what you own. Everything else is shit and doesn't matter in the 21 century.

Everyone is desperate to get quick money, and a lot of it. People is tired of working for endless hours in dead-end jobs while others get rich, so this desperation may manifest himself int gambling addiction, where the little you make you put it into gambling in hopes of hitting the jackpot so you can get rich and abandon the rat race.

The big gamblers do it for the thrill not to win some extra money. Big gamblers are already millionaire due their business, they just wan tto have some fun. For them to lose 1000 dollars is like for us to lose 1 cent, it means nothing.

But as far as I know, it's impossible to know any data "by owner", we can only do guesstimating on "by address" and then speculate about who owns what.

There will never be a way to properly know any of this, what do we know is that the distribution is super unbalanced, but as time goes by and whales start getting scared, they will sell and those coins will go to more hands.

Poker is over for the average person anymore. Back in the day you could make a ton of money, but nowadays the average skill is way too high and you would need to put a ton of effort into becoming a decent player if yo want to see any decent amount of monthly gains. Im not sure if it's worth the effort anymore but you can try, maybe he has a gift.

It is not even a discussion. I think that slowly big blockers will come down to earth and realize their mistake on their scaling roadmap. If they realize this and still push for a big block agenda without caring about the side effect (node centralization) means they don't want the best for Bitcoin and they are here just hoping to short and get some dollars. What they don't get is a decentralized censorship resistant system is way more valuable in the long term than a datacenter-run Bitcoin.

This, but there are ways to make more Bitcoin so you are on a better position before it happens. A good method is altcoins... most altcoins have just that purpose, to get extra Bitcoins from the clueless crowd, but some got good fundamentals like Monero, Maidsafe, Ethereum... so buy some of those, wait for a decent pump and get your extra Bitcoin.

It is very special. I don't need to know the data to know that people holding $400k in the world are a small elite compared to the entire planet earth population. Most people have barely any savings, and a lot of people aren't even banked.

People that want to spend 400k on Bitcoin... even harder to find.

Man, your dogs? ... this man is crazy. I hope that you at least gave them to some responsible family, but selling dogs that have been part of your family for years is overkill. You should have sold the car only.
Well, at least you are up since you bought at 350.

The only altcoins that have any potential:

Monero
Maidsafe
Ethereum
Factom (maybe)

that's about it. The rest are all lotteries and I don't see any fundamental reasons of them going to the moon other than pure luck of holding some in between a whale pump.

Mining is profitable, therefore no one would mine. If some people think it's not profitable, the difficulty will drop, and some other people in some other place with a better ratio of electricity/cost will take advantage of the decreased difficulty to start a mining business... Bitcoin network will always adapt, it's a free market.

No other coin is anywhere near being competition to Bitcoin, so sit down and wait because it's not going to die anytime soon.

But what is your plan to get a steady income going monthly? What are you going to do with the 50 BTC? you can't live off that forever, because 50 BTC is roughly 20K dollars right now. That is one year of a pretty frugal lifestyle... can't do much with that to quit a realjob imo.

Yeah I know that in a realistic scenario this wouldn't be a worry on people's mind, im just theoretically imagining if Bitcoin could survive in a scenario where no computers are there anymore to do the calculations for you.
Also, no computers at all and no internet.. in this case I don't see it happening, even theoretically speaking.