Africa is a dubious continent, they can be aware that a functioning development are in good helping services to their people but would always crave on standing against it and that is why the African countries are being so backwards in developments and acquiring of the advanced technologies and lacking developments all just because their leaders who are already worthy before resuming office are rulling to get richer while the youths and the poors are crumbling for hard times of living.

Due to the decentralization and non-custodian policies in the digital system, I doubt if any of the African countries would humbly accept it as alternative for their financial transaction payments. Although there had been the legality of bitcoin and the Crypto currencies there in some African countries such as my country Nigeria but where individuals and the private sectors can accept and trade with it while restricted from the government sectors accepting it.

Anyways... If there would be any of such we OP has insighted whether the information is authenticated or not but in as much such future streams about Bitcoin in African would come through then it is also a welcomed development for the countries.

The basic fact is that if you can not resist the negative influences across your homies, it is better of you cut them off m already it is said that negative aspirations corrupts good manners.
.so if your friends are not having you the vibes and energies required for your quest then it is better of withdrawing from them but if you can keep being who you are despites their influences, then it is better off playing fool to them while you are anonymously chasing your goal.

Gambling did not originate from my family dude but  my gambling life originated from that one family gaming where stakes are involved. Lol.

I got to know about the online gambling based on gambling advancement here on my country because the , it was mostly about skill based gambling such as the chess, cards, checkers, snookers and the rest of it.

First I learnt about it online and I was  interested about it but had no ideal on how it is played and could not give it a try on my own because I would not love to have my money wasted on the activity I did not enjoy or gained profit. Thereafter I met one of the old folks back in the days whose present reminded me how we do the game stuff as well and it happens he was alright in the advance World of gambling in the online and I was looking so awkward to the system to it. Haha.

Anyways, in all simplicity thatbof my friend took me all through in learning about the online gambling and then, I become a generous one after boarding in this forum that a friend also introduced me to.

I can vividly tell you that I was surrounded with gamblers in those days.

You are right. I also think the guy got a generous friend in that of his friend who returned $10 out of $190 lost on the stake because it was strickly a gambling supposing to be that looser looses it all and the winner wins it all and just so, everyone would still stay unpanick and friendship continues.

If he was in the position to win, I doubt if he would have had that empathy to have to return up to the requested percentage to that his friend and with all to my observation, that was a payback day to him because that his friend told him that his own time would not be different.
Meaning to say when this winner formally lost on the stake with his friend, he only returned him with the same percentage that is to say the $10 returned was equal to the same percentage instead of this guy here requesting for a 30%.

Just as you sighted, if he had found the 30% more valuable than the rest of his lost, then he should not had afforded to have it stake on the game.

We are in this country together and it is obvious that the office jobs were formally overhyped but not this time.
The caused of hyping of the office job which every graduates has been chasing after and also those who are still schooling were admirable to hesitate in rounding up with their studies and then jump into the labor markets to secure an office job with their certificates.

This was also one of the famous encouragements that has attracted most of us to study in the university. It has really been working so well all the rumour speculates but the number of the office job hunters become enlarged more than the job vacancies meant to be occupied by the graduates as professional jobs.

Time just goes by where the system changed by everyone in the offices tends to secure vacant positions for their relatives and loved ones which others who are fitted in for the job are left stranded and idle.
Hence this has opted for entrepreneurship and production creativities where ambitious people who are talented in one way or the other happen to create other amenities for themselves to also survive because it was timely to say see that the government does not care about you if you are not related to them or having one highily influential personality by your side

This has inspired the aspirations of abolishing the insightments that office job was no more the best features to attain great height as ever been and yes, I can bet it that there are even illiterates at now who are doing productively and financially well than those occupying the office spaces.
It is also quite unfortunate that the office job holders are also alternating their sources of income with the non office jobs such as investment and trading.

Right at the moment the office jobs are no more being treasured and attracted as before because there had been several means one can attain survival in becoming industrious and also playing influential roles within the societies even more recognizable than some persons in the office positions.

You are talked relatively with facts here @Maus0728 because right in the first place, I don't think if there was an emergency situation reported that some individuals committed criminal offences with their mobile devices which would warrant those security personells to do such stop and searching of people's Privacies.

In such situation, I do not think if they were really searching for any crypto related apps or infos rather they could just be some sorts of personells who are fond of exercising their powers against the masses with either false or untold defaults.

In my country, the Inspector General of Police (I.G) publicly said it that non of his men(police) has any right to search anyone unless there is a search warrant.
Meanwhile.... Before the IGP could raise search alarming information, he has heard on several occasions of how his men (police) has been harassing and extorting the masses falsefully and how they were being bullied by these so security agencies.

But the truth remains, there is no second life after a dead one so saying out of what would linger these harassments would always be better for every individuals just as you have said, even if the OPs story was uncalled full with the security operatives, let that serve us with lessions and keep our Bitcoin holdings secretively secured and unidentifiable by a second party even if they are accessible to our devices.

Most times preventions is better than cures.

I also have slightly been following up the US election but have not been this so observant as you OP so I can not force in to digress to that.

But if actually your observation is authentic then apparently I would not believe that Bitcoin is being decentralized as emphasized from the Bitcoin whitepaper but to believe any of those two have regulatory conservative influences on Bitcoin. But for now it can be argued since it is not proven or maybe we can now keep eyes to that since you have dragged in our attentions.

Be careful with the people around for the society can influence and thwart your intentions.
I went to visit a friend in the students lodge and there I came across some guys making mockery fonds of another who take a month before he could consume #40K on his feeding and smokes.
Meanwhile they are being busted that it takes them not more than a week to exhaust such amount of money.
While the mocked guy was consistent to say he knows what he is doing and why he is managing his finances, one of the guys amongst them making fond of the other guy said something like.... I remembered those days when I was on money, this #40K is not even enough per day expenses for me when friends comes around. There i understand this guy on his speech had been in an attractive financial opportunity before but failed to utilize it.

There is something I came to understand in our societies today which is that when people knows about your earning values and you are not living up to the standard, you will be criticized for enslaving yourself that even when you have the money to live an expensive life.
They expects you to live a #1Milion life salaries if your earning value is figured out up to that.
Without realizing how they were liable to missing opportunities to take advantage of their present against planning for their future, later on they would always have this words "Once upon a time In recalling their formal standard of living in a regrettable output.

Do you believe when you are disciplines with your finances, the society would always feel you are greedy to yourself? Or do you believe disciplines has as balancing relationship with greeds when chasing after your financial freedom?

I agree with you because I was just thinking if Is it assumed one is taking bet for a professional by going back to learn about it and spending all those times in playing demo just to check your gaming and prediction capacities. How weird it sounds.

So I as assuming if would that system eliminate loosing on stakes? Because as much as it is, gambling is a game of luck that nomatter how expertise one may claim about it, the system of gambling and winning remains a game of luck so if your winning can not be guaranteed after those while going back to relearn again and passing through those processes while it makes of luck chances changes then it is not worth it.

Lets understand that lending can be of two different reasons which is either you are lending to help someone out to solve their issues and expects a repay without an interest of profits or you are lending and expecting returns with an interest of profits.
So in this case of lending without interest of profits returns, we can lend only what is obtainable to loose because it could be assumed that there is a little familiarities between you all, do conciousness of fighting with some familiar to you at the cause of inability to payback should be observed not to bridge your connections so, it is early better you lend what is affordable to loose.

But on the side of expecting an interest profit returns, it could be assumed that it is a source of income for you do, basically you do not only lend what is affordable to loose but also amount you find treasuring because it is assumed you are bearing the risk of chasing profits but to be on the secured side of it not to get your valuable lost if impossible to repay back, then you can always demand for a collateral to defend your treasure if not able to get back your returns.

And then borrowing to the family, you can always help them out with as much as your ability can bear without a significant of borrowing because it should be assumed that it is your responsibility to help your family members at things they lacks which you are in position to help.
But while helping family people, do not let to be override and be watchful before your kind giving hearts makes your life miserable of helping ungrateful people and where it could affect your finances from stagnations.

This whole discussion is like I will always say that... The will of man is not the will of Bitcoin.

Let's just assume we are making wishes here because most especial discussions we have pertaining Bitcoin price are just unassured predictions.
But anyhow, lets be some little sentimental with the market condition in this case.

So, I am standing with the continues rising of the market price because it feels emotional to had made count of $73K and still returns back lower. My thought was if the halving can be boycotted and let the market just keep rising until we approaches the bull-run and the new ATH.

OP, talking about how to sell you Bitcoin before the halving as a systematic way to justify your holdings by accumulating to the best as you wanted, you know... I can tell you that no investor would ever reach the actual height of accumulations they have ever wanted instead they either pauses or stops at the highest point they can go.

If you ask me, I can tell you I wanted to accumulate over 20million Bitcoin from the total of 21 million of Bitcoin in existence and then you all can stress on with the remaining 1 Bitcoin but it is just impossible so, lets just say no investor ever reaches the wishes to the totality of their Bitcoins to be acquired.

I would had actually love to sell and accumulate again just like you OP, but think about those.... What if naira value befalls so depreciating against dollar before you are set to purchase and hold again, do you think you will accumulate much more than you sold?
This is just my greatest fear because the nature of our economy is answerable to dollar rate which I would not want the situation to bring me more set backs to my holding.
So, I am preferred to keep holding before and after the halving while bull-run approaches.[/list]

You literally made a good point dragging out the words "Examine" and the "Fake money". If you are in the same Iines with me as I may think, let those streamers with their  coalition platforms be thoroughly followed up with a research and authentic verifications to examine if actually yes, what the streamer is aided on the speculations by influencing the audience which basically attracts them to the platforms are reliable and realistic because most of these streamers are only coated on a sugary labels just for attractions but never tasted like one.
It is getting obvious that the so attractive demonstrations they displays to the audience on how to bet and win so easily is never the reality truth of the platforms.

So I am In support to suggest that whoever streamer and their platforms that displays of influences the public without portraying what it was displayed that attracted the audience should be looked Into.
Probably let their be a law guiding speculations that if a streamer streams on influencing the audience and they are not seeing those attractive features, such streamers and the representing platform should be penalized.

Truth be told, there is influential power in streaming which takes wreck controls of desperate and weak emotional bearers.

You have really made a vital and valuable point here @Jawhead999.
This has got me think otherwise that any friend asking the other to bet with money or some kind of valuable that would be hurt after lost just as these guys did is not worth keeping for friendship because there will always that opinion and aiming for personal interests and without conscience of draining your friends valuables while swimming in the pool of joy at the process.

Definitely playing while some kind of tolerable stakes like edible stuffs are staked would derive more funs .
But while gaming with money staked is assumed they see re chasing profits which definitely the looser will always be sentimental with the other friend (s).

So the good memories of the games would only be if there is no team regreting. Infact, when the other Friend wins when edible stuffs are involved, even the looser will still find funs and smile over it all and that is just how the great memories Will keep rolling amongst themselves.

It is not Worth and no accountable benefits in letting your Bitcoin assets exposed to anyone and not even your relatives for safety reasons and that is why I formally made this thread about how sensitively people suspiciously hunts Bitcoin Investors. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5487374.msg63750695#msg63750695.
There was my cousin who got my mobile phone but could not mind his business Instead he began scrolling over and found some Crypto wallets therein and was curious about my relativity with Bitcoin.

Honestly I would sai I made away with that his intension and I will also said that he had some bad intentions for me and so at it stance, I am having him as a threat to me.

The caused of that mistake I did in letting him get through my phone was the bottom point of my mistakes which I was too relaxed believing he was just a brother to me and felt there would be no insecurities between us.

I can bet to it that most postures of threats we have found ourselves is mostly tracks by our relatives. Indeed who knows you  are the most persons to hurt you.

I can not place such bet in such unexcited period when the match has already started and if by means of referee decides to blow the final whistle then it is assumed game over that that just seems my loosing.

I would neither not say that your friend is a foolish one. Gambling is risky game and it is usually said that no risk no rewards and do away with your fears now and face the dividend of the joy tomorrow.
If you realizes the lucky guesture in gambling then you OP would under that just 5 minutes especially in a sport game is enough to do wonders that 1 hour can not perform.
So I will say your guy was just a risk bearer, not that he believed his team will win but he believed that nothing is impossible to achieve if only you understand your potential capacities.

No don't have it viewed that way OP, sometimes it is the suppliers that the retailers and the whole sellers would be pointing hands at concerning how much they sold to them, every vendors and traders do have their own suppliers just as we are customers or final consumers to the retailers.

So they (the shop owners) sells out their good in relative to how much they suppliers sold to them.
And if the suppliers are held responsible, they too would point hands towards the productions(factories) defending itselves that they sold either on a high or low amount based on how the factory also sold to them and if the factory are being hold on to for being responsible for this whole things, then they the factory will spread their wings dragging in to say materials used for the production is too expensive so if they sells at everyone's affordabilities then they being stakes to the point of countless losses.

What about if you hold onto the items or substances producers who sells to the factories to produce final consumables items, I am sure they would point hand on the governments, this is how this differential quotations of  goods and services rates are incured.

Let the government set possibilities of a stable economy first and then we would know if these vendors are playing games on the final consumers or not but for now, let's just say the markets is just right and no one is obtaining the best profit out of the exchange of goods and monetary.

Have you ever been in the situation of asking your friend (s) to go down with you on a P2P gambling just between you as friends?

This happens especially on the cards, Chess and the other skill-based gambling.
I came across friends fighting throwing words at each other one was expressing his disappointments at his other friend while the other was mocking at him.
It was discovered that the one mocking the other asked the other one to step on let them gamble on a P2P and on the process the one being mocked lost all his funds for the other guy. And he has been asking the guy that won the crown to return him return about 30% out of the $190 lost but the other guy told him that there is no return and no compensations in the gamble so if he must give him back some returns it would be based on his own will.

Guess what, after all he ended up returning $10 to his friend.
So I ask, did the friend do well in returning $10 to his friend or the returned $10 was not enough?

To me, in general, that seems wickedness of gambling between friends on a P2P because such friends are not worthy to be trusted considering the sentiments in playing to win.
I would say that is a daylight extortions amongst each others.

Every sectors and criterials in investments do have the encountering of the UPs and the DOWNs which you can only find your emotions normalized and untroubled only when you understands that there is no just short ways to boycott the Down side of it but although you manage the depressive side of it by so tactical analogical rhythms on knowing when to place order for restocking such as the DCA and when to sell off when you realizes you have made profits and then you sells off and strategies to purchase and restock again.

With the above methodology, you are only trying to manage the risky side of it that may bring you lost by eliminating greeds but if you feel your emotions is capable enough to withstand the situations as the market fluctuates being aware that even if the system is not being appreciating at a moment but you are sure that as long you keep holding, there would surely be an abundant profits double folding your incomes to erase your sentimental emotions held against the market when it was not so appreciating.

Hence you know how the system of Bitcoin runs at when it could stand against your wills and when it would stand with you but not guaranteed of the schedules when when it would come up to your interests and when it could go against your interests then I will agree it is proportionally to say it holds some natures of luck because you can not strive on your own and determine that today or tomorrow this is how the market would be but you would just accept it in any ways it serves you.
Although there is an assurance in Bitcoin that as long as you keep on holding it would surely come to your profitablities.

The lucky nature in Bitcoin is sighted by the investors emotional sentiments not really that Bitcoin is an lucky investment platform. Yes too, the volatility of the market is unpredictable just as when we says gambling is unpredictable and a game of luck, just how Bitcoin is but minal to risk for lost of funds because you can purchase one just one time and hodl until the profit term of the market is come and doesn't necessarily mean that you must keep on buying and holding with the thoughts that maybe you maybe benefited from either any of the multiple times you must have purchased your holdings.

It is unlike gambling that you would have to keep up staking and you may be loosing and one or some of your continues staking may earn you winning or not at all.

In a summary Bitcoin can be an investment of luck due to the fact that value in the future market is unpredictable but not one of the lucky days in gambling.

Let us not comfortably sit on casino games that does not offer us those features and pleasures we deserves or wanted while we keep on loosing our funds unpleasantly.
So if you are desired to stay with a casino or whatever kind of game and you have in time observe that you don't get what you expected or their featuring system is not getting advanced in considering what the audience are agitating for then just leave and try others.

Gambling casinos are all in hot competitive marketing and servicing situations to attract and acquire most massive attentions so Op, chillas and make your research for you would find more better of comfortable games.

I do not know what provider you have been playing on so you can give it a try to any of these obtainable ones after my enquires from friends that also plays the pragmatic games.
Meanwhile... OP, you must not that I did not make these recommendation as a professional and besides I do not play the pragmatic games. Be aware. So check these out.
* Chicken Drop, * Wolf Gold, * Gates of Valhalla, * Big Bass Splash, *Chicken Drop, *Peaky Blinders and the Sweet Bonanza.

Does Bitcoin actually have a Dip season? Or just when you are capable to purchase that comes the investor Dip time?
Anyways, let me just say buying at the Dip and holding is the best format to purchase your Bitcoin and accumulate as much as you can while the markets erupts to be appreciated in values.

While we alternates to diversify our investment to the altcoins, I don't think if there would be confidence of reliability to buy and hold for such a long term while aiming for increments in the market value. Believe it, altcoins cans be funny.