Yeah, it's a bit ridiculous that one would think that you would receive free money basically, to gamble it without any tradeoffs. The business owner wants something out of doing that, so it's understandable that there will be ads. If you are annoyed by ads, there always plugins to use, but I would recommend against those since if everyone used adblock no business would survive.

I think not even a link works if you are a newbie, you get the "you can't use a proxy" sort of image, the one with the white background and red font.
He has posted a scribd link, shouldn't have any risks, but if it's a pdf it actually can have some risks, so I will pass on clicking there.
Im interested to know if this is legit tho.

Dude did you ignore the Lightning Network part?
With Lightning Network we will scale to worldwide levels at cheap transaction volume and without a centralization as fatal as centralization of nodes. LN is actually more decentralized than raising block size would ever be.
There is no problem with adoption thanks to LN, even right now there is no problem, fees are a million times cheaper than any other alternative, but people still don't see a point in using Bitcoin to buy coffee cause they already got Paypal, so let's not turn Bitcoin into Paypal because that's shooting in your own foot.

I think we just need to wait for additional layers like lightning network to appear so we can deal with insane levels of instant transaction volume, until then it's not a really good idea, but it's a good business in my book, i think someone sooner or later will do this, or an arcade room, something like this that runs on Bitcoin.

True, I added it right now. I should actually have made a poll so people can vote, but I don't think I can create now a poll within an already existing thread so people will need to state it in a comment by themselves.

We gave various modalities in gambling

1) Slots
2) Dice
3) Roulette
4) Poker
5) Betting (usually sports betting)
6) Blacklist

Those are the dominating "disciplines". If anyone wants to say their own, then drop your comment and explain what has been the most lucrative and how much money have you've made thus far.

If you can manage it accordingly, I don't see how doing some innocent gambling from tiem to time could bring anyone any problems of anxiety. If you are not betting a ridiculus amount of money, there is no chance of anxiety, because anxiety only happens when you start betting way too much for your pocket.

Yeah, 30 is maybe pushing it too much. 10 is more realistic. So I would still say that 21 BTC is the way to go, we can still achieve this if we keep buying monthly while the price is under 4 figures, which will not last for long but we must hope that the price doesn't explode soon.

I wish I didn't ignore it back in the day when I had the opportunity to get early, but I was too ignorant and I just didn't had a clue about it, it seemed like some sort of ponzi scheme or scam, and I didn't understood concepts like decentralization and whatnot back in the day, so I didn't buy a single bit.

Yeah but this is pretty pointless beyond a collectable item or something. The main point of Bitcoin is to have property and value in a decentralized, digital way. Doing this into physical coins has no sense, unless the materials and design is cool and like I said before, it has an extra collectible value (the Casacius coins are way more expensive than their equivalent in actual BTC). For example 1BTC Casacius coin is more expensive than 1BTC to buy.

I predict Barca will win in the super classic. Real is again gaining some traction after firing Benitez and getting Zidane. Apparently Benitez was not that liked in spain even if he was spanish himself, but Zidane is remember as an idol and players love him. I think the players will no start feeling more comfortable and will give a tough match to Barca, but Barca should remain the better team. It will be very close anyway I think tho.

Bitcoin goin UP and DOWN, that's what Bitcoin does, but the overall picture is always up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbZ8zDpX2Mg

As you can see, holders always win, no matter how much you have to wait, if you buy now and wait, you eventually win a lot of money, the more you wait the better.

Between 5.000 and 20.000, too hard to estimate. Of course mega fudsters like Mike Hearn will always be around to temporarily crush the price but in normal circumstances as we can see, the price tends to go up again and recovers quick. We are heading now towards 4 figures again.

Well I guess our favorite FUD poster had a really lucky day as Mike Hearn posted his FUD on the new york times and the price crashes to sub 400. If this didn't happen, it would have never happened, therefore ducky had an insanely lucky strike. Well not really lucky as he has been announcing this a ton of times until it actually happened.

I agree with this view too. We are right, Classic is a disaster, but Theymos has now fame of being a grumpy mod, the populists can use this to gain followers for their Classic, XT or whatever they call it takeover. I understand the frustration that it must be to see Bitcoin reddit being flooded with Classic/XT stuff tho, and a lot of it is paid to influence people. What should be done is to inform people, banning it probably gives you a more dark image which is exploitable by the enemy.

This guy has been living the dream for so many years that he is out of touch with reality. He thinks he can stop anything, because he has so many millions on his bank account. They will fail to kill Bitcoin, just like they failed to kill BitTorrent, otherwise why do you think BitTorrent exists? It's not because they are nice, it's because they can't do shit about it.

T be honest I wouldn't be able to enjoy gambling if I was worried about philosophizing if what im doing is wrong or right. Gambled is supposed to be a game, something you do some times to test your luck, that's all, everything else is delusional religious bullshit.

A lot of people that think martingale is legit are just casual gambles or newbies that have seen it in some movie, and they think they can suddenly become George Clooney in Oceans 11 and start racking up mad gains on the casino, but if things were that easy we would be all rich already, and that's not how it works.

All those idiots that sold will get back when Bitcoin is back to 450 dollars in a couple of weeks or next, they are the idiots that always lose money, they sell high and buy low, because they buy in all the FUD. This time was Mike Hearn, next time will be the Bitcoin Classic cancerous shit, it never ends, all of those events shake the idiots holding Bitcoin.

Well, I would like to consider that you are right, but look at the support Crapssic is getting. If Bitcoin Crapssic wins, Greg Maxwell, Peter Wiulle and the rest of people that actually made Bitcoin work, will quit, therefore it's game over, but a lot of people want to centralize nodes by voting Crapssic, so we will see how this ends.