Most people always end up losing because the house always has the edge (more chances to win than you do even if only by 0.5%) so statistically, you always lose.
The only way to win is to make profits, and know when to stop, and use those profits to generate more money by investing in something.

Most people are too tempted to keep gambling with the newly won amount of Bitcoins, instead of taking the profit, and if you really want to continue gambling, keep gambling small quantities, but most people will be too tempted to do an "all or nothing" moment with freshly won money because they feel as if that isn't really their money.

Damn im happy I ended up not betting because I was late and the bets were already closed. Real got beaten and Ronaldo was not in a very nice day, he had so many chances but none of them where effective to outplay the goalkeeper. I think Zidane is going to start being hated and end up the same as Benitez.

I still use Primedice the most for dice because it is one of the oldest sites ever for Bitcoin and I made a lot of BTC back then thanks to Stunna's fantastic signature campaign rates, he spread so much BTC back then to poor people like me that was starting with nothing. I think some people was making 0.4 BTC a month with Primedice campaign if you had Hero Status (unfortunately I didn't have back then but I think I was Sr).

Damn, I wonder with how much BTC Stunna started the business to see how much he has really done, like what was his initial investment to start Primedice... for a site like that, it shouldn't be too much as far as I know, you would only need to pay coders for the site and a server, then you can expand as you see profits.

At first I think I would pull a Sia and bang my head against the wall, not before getting drunk and sleeping for 48 hours, then I would wake up and start getting as much BTC as possible. Having 1 is better than having 0 even after losing 10,000.

Oh yeah the /btc/ nutjobs are at it again. They are saying now that Blockstream is part of Bilderberg group, the same people that will tell you you are a conspiracy nutjob if you point at the fact that Gavin Andresen has ties with the CIA, but that's perfectly ok!
They don't know what to do anymore to keep FUDing, they are so in denial about the fact that Classic has been another failure.

There are a lot of weird people with a lot of BTC out there OP... we will never find a logical explanation for that. Maybe they are reading this thread right now and having a laugh at your confusion, and that's why they do it. Or maybe they are just simply and legitimately moving coins there because they all belong to the same owner and he wants to store all the coins on the same address which is pretty stupid specially when the address is so recognizable. Yeah I cant find an explanation.

Yeah I think Primedice is the king of Bitcoin gambling, has been around for a lot of time. I think Satoshidice is older, but not as successful as Primedice.

Stunna was a great guy, I remember he always had the best rates for the signature camping and always payed quickly.  sad that he stopped promoting his site in the campaigns except for staff members. I guess the campaigns were a big success and he has so much traffic that he doesn't need advertisement anymore.

I think the match is really soon, maybe in 3 hours?
I think Real will win Athletico because players are very motivated thanks to Zidane, kicking out Rafa Benitez was the best idea to get everyone feeling good again and I think they will win them. Maybe not get a super 5-0 performance but I think 2-0 is not far fetched, maybe 3-1 as well. Those are my bets  for today.

Those are the mos extreme cases. Most people will never have any problems with gambling, it's pretty inoffensive for most people, they just do it on special occasions like you go on a trip to Las Vegas and decide to gamble a bit just for the sake of it, but the extreme cases are rare.
If someone moves to Las Vegas I personally start thinking he might have some problems.

Im not sure how it works, but making a "slow node" less useful than "no node at all" seems like a very crappy way to deal with things. I would assume that the devs know this, so maybe we are not understanding how this works. I just don't believe that is the case at all. The more nodes the better network, or at least thats how it should be.

You should avoid all those payment platforms or whatever they call it (like Coinbase, Bitpay and all that crap) just accept Bitcoins directly with your own personal address generated in your personal wallet.

There is a problem with this tho: People will know how much money you are making... this is something that needs work ASAP and I believe gmaxwell is very aware of this problem that's why we will have Confidential Transactions as soon as possible.
We also need something like BIP47 to be able to receive payments on a public address that is attached to your real name in an anonymous way.

I don't think all those technologies that monitor biological traits like your fingertips to unlock your phone and whatnot... will never be as safe as a strong password under a strong algorithm like SH256. So personally I will never risk that a doppelganger of me steals my Bitcoin when the password is good enough.

This is a fantastic way for newbies to get started with using the command console if they want to use the more obscure options of Bitcoin.
I would still like to see an "advanced" menu where you click and then you get all of the options in a clickable way and at the side an explanation of what the cvar does.

Some people will never reach enough control because they are screwed up on their brain at birth, but most people will be able to get around it. A lot of people confuse addiction just a phase. I for example have come "addicted" to slots for some time, but I became bored of it, I no longer do slots or much gambling for months and dont feel like it, I just became bored. Real addicts never stop.

Like I said you gotta do it in a smooth way, not just quit gambling all of a sudden and just start a new hobby, you gotta grow interest in something and gradually shift it towards here and start losing that stupid fascination with gambling overtime.

I have used the network window to show you the speed of download, I opened Bitcoin Core and I left it running for like 20 minutes to finish syncing, so what you see is 20 minutes of performance, and on those 20 minutes I only downloaded 29mb! very bad, so this confirms that my problem is very bad download speed.



I didn't try deleting Peers.dat, i will try next time before I open it again to sync. But I still don't like the fact that I can't really see the download speed, just the graphic which is very vague. I would like real time download/upload speed number, like when you download something  from Bitorrent etc.

Well, considering that most Classic nodes are fake ran over VM + VPS I can see them wasting time to do stuff like this, instead of actually developing code. I guess life is easy when all you have to do is rip off the Core's code and then change a couple of things.

What is often overlooked is the fact that number of nodes is irrelevant if all nodes are run by the same parties, this is why it's crucial that the nodes can be run on people's personal computers at home, at their offices, and so on. "Specialization" of nodes, would kill Bitcoin as we know it (as a decentralized currency), this is why there is a clear agenda by some people to raise the block size and make Bitcoin nodes end up as centralized as mining is right now.