if OP had started a business with his 10BTC back in 2015 (7 months ago) and he could manage to be successful in that business he was already on his way to becoming a millionaire by 2030 but instead he decided to sit on it and not be anything in 2030 apparently!

we are all trying to get rich here, one way or another. and in my experience getting rich doesn't come easily to you if you want to take the easy way, and know that bitcoin price is volatile and getting into it and holding bitcoin with hope that it goes to $1,000,000,0....... and make you rich will not get you anywhere.

try to learn something instead and earn that way. for example if you know coding, or designing that can come in handy. or trading is pretty much famous around here for making bitcoin. but you gotta learn the tricks first.

if that is all you have then do not gamble with it because gambling is risky and you may as well lose it. what i want to say is that you should gamble with what you can afford to lose

and after you set that amount in your mind then you can start gambling, you can choose a simple game of dice with martingale method and start from small bets like 10 satoshi and be moderately safe and make some profit.

if you are in fact earning a profit with gambling maybe you should teach the rest of us how you are doing it and help others do it too.

and also don't forget that one or two times making money with gambling doesn't count but instead if you can do it regularly like very time you gamble if you make a profit (more wins than loses) then that is good not any other temporary wins.

well, i agree that bitcoin as an investment, is at a good place right now so holding it for long term investors is a good idea and in fact it is preferred.

but you also have to spend bitcoin too, because if you only keep it as an investment you are missing out on the full potential of bitcoin which is also acting as a currency and also you won't be helping the adoption if you only hold bitcoin forever.

of course anything is possible but the important thing that you are forgetting here is that the chance of happening a lot of these scenarios are so small that it becomes negligible. so in this case you can safely assume it will never happen because the chance is so small.

there are two different scenarios when people lose their bitcoins. for example if you want to trade you have to put your bitcoin on an exchange even if it is temporary for one day, and that exchange can turn into MtGox any day and you lose. in this case you don't deserve it.

but on the other hand there are people who invest their bitcoin in obvious scams like HYIPs, ponzi schemes, cloudmining that are shady, and a lot more. these people deserve to lose their coins.

that is what makes the difference. to be a bitcoin trader or bitcoin long term holder.

i always say that you have to decide between these two. if you are a trader then you buy on each dip and sell high and take the profit to do this the next day too.
but if you are a long term investor (holder) then you have to buy as soon as you get money in you hands (preferably in a dip) and then don't check the price each day until your time arrives and then sell or do whatever else you wanted to do then. but stop worrying about every little bump on the road.

i doubt that any bitcoin user is panicking just because the price didn't rise. this as Lauda has explained above is just market manipulation by whales. they dump some coins to create a dip and then the other day-traders join in to be able to buy at the bottom so that makes it bigger and bigger until we reach the bottom and then everybody buys back again at cheaper prices and in the meantime newbies who panicked are losing money.

yes dice is a luck only game. but this doesn't mean you can't have a strategy in dice which helps you win. you can even modify some existing strategy to make them better. even using martingale method with a large bankroll can help you make good profit with dice games.

i don't think banning it would solve anything. first of all gambling has been very huge in Philippines as far as i know. and online gambling is only a new thing that came to exist recently. so their worrying about people getting addicted to it is nonsense. so if taxes is the only problem they have with gambling they can easily regulate online gambling sites and take taxes that way because banning it would only lead people to use VPNs and TOR more.

in my experience any kind of gambling game can become profitable if you handle it good, for example with a good strategy. even a dice game can become profitable for you.

but there are games that are considered mostly skill based like sports betting which can be more profitable if you have the skills.

but then again that is not a general thing because it falls on to you and how you are playing those games and your strategies.

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every time there is a slow down or a small dip people start to doubt bitcoin and FUD people start to spread their lies around the forum.

whenever there is a stable price the daily trade volume goes down because fewer people are trading on fixed prices, because there is no change to make profit from. but as soon as price goes up the volume picks up too.

no i don't have a paypal account and i never had an account either.

i was tempted to make a paypal account once or twice in my life but i decided against it because i read a little about the scams that keeps happening with paypal and also the agony of verifying account changed my mind.

i invest in bitcoin because i believe that in the future bitcoin will be used a lot more and it can even grow as big to replace the online money processing all over the world.

and all of this means a lot higher price for bitcoin which i don't want to miss out on. so i buy bitcoin now that it is cheap.

Chinese have always been inside bitcoin from the early days and they have been investing in it for a longer time than any others. and the interesting thing is that this investment of their has only increased over time and they have been investing in bitcoin and also in other crypto currencies so much and that is one of the reasons why this market is so interesting .

in case you are asking about the winning from the faucet site itself i have won a 20000 prize once long time ago when i was claiming faucets.

but in case you are wondering about the winning that i got from a dice faucet and the gambling with that, i think the biggest win of me was around 20000-30000 satoshi and it was on primedice but unfortunately i lost it after a bad luck.

because gambling IS FOR FUN. and yes it is also for money but it is kind of a two opinion kind of thing that people usually don't agree upon.

also people say gambling is for fun because they have reached the conclusion that they can't make money from gambling and in fact they are losing more money.

in case of a crash after the halving i will do my best to gather enough money $$$ from different sources in order to invest in bitcoin and buy as much bitcoin as i can in the dip before the price jumps back and goes to the moon.