Make I join others to give you a warm welcome and to congratulate you say you are welcome to you the ground of great learning,  one thing I always advise newbies I a co. E across is to always be focus and put in the effort to better enhance your knowledge of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies,  and one of such way to this knowledge will help you is in the area of security of your coins and how not to trust third-party systems and how to avoid any project that is highly centralized in nature.

One other thing that this forum will help you to solve is the misconceptions that surround Bitcoin and the entire cryptocurrency industry and how to differentiate between Bitcoin/crypto coins from a Ponzi scheme, what to trust as an investment and what to avoid as a scam,  this understanding will help shape your mindset and knowledge and the reflection of that knowledge will be seen in you financial actions.

I also advise you to not give up on your dream,  even though the road may be tougher than you expected but will be strong resistant and long-term focused you will shortly arrive at a destination that will amaze you,  I don't have much more to say to you but hope this comment fine you well and serve as a motivation for a long term Bitcoin journey.

There use of AI in trading has gained a lot of momentum lately and quite a good number of exchanges are beginning to allow the use of AI as a trading tool that can help their customers both newbies and except alike to help them trade smarter,  I have heard about an artificial intelligence trading tools that make up to 90% trading success and record loses only once a week and the remaining tldsys all becoming profits,  this has helped newbies to trade smartly and take profits,  compared to trading by self.

But more also we can't tell how long this trading success from AI will last,  since as you rightly said that exchanges are on constantly upgrading of their systems to meet up with current demands and AI as one of such may not have the upper hand in trading,  but what will help AI to succeed more in trading is one aspect that I noted earlier in one of my comment which is the trade vs who the other trader is.

In a sense that,  since trading is done by an individual that is to say when a trader needs to lose for another to gain,  so trading is between traders,  and the exchange make its revenue from the trading fees and other commission,  so at that exchange may not take any precise actions since AI activities don't affect their own commission.

Unlike in gambling where the gambler plays against the house in some cases,  so at that, the casino will try everything possible to keep AI or other bots' activities under check constantly.

I won't argue with you on the fact that sportbet have such a low rating on trust pilot because most of the site that have such low rating on trust pilot have a great rating on other review sites,  and even on this forum,  and some other platforms that have tons of positive reviews on trust pilot how low review on other sites and forum where trust are measured by individuals in form of review from real users,  e.g such examples are casinos like 1xbit who's trust here in the forum is bad due to several resolved accusations against the casino and how there have paid little or no attention to those accusations thereby leaving players with no other choice than to leave a negative trust review for the casino.

More also,  most of the rating sites have hard records of irresponsible and inaccurate rating because most of their rating scores are bought since platforms or scan casinos can easily pay their way to receive positive rating scores, I don't know how Trustpilot rates or grade their review but being the most popular dating site on the Internet,  there should be at least accuracy with public opinion and the rating should be decentralized enough to allow users reviews to count at all time.

Back to the ops point of view,  seeing stake on the top list is also something that is undoubtedly true and should be a source of motivation for many of us that promote the platform here in the forum,  and from my personal experience on stake,  I can say that the casino is top notch and deserves to be at the top of the list.

First let me commend your efforts to pen down your personal assumptions and speculation pf what the local board is and what the impact of the Nigerians community in the larger Bitcoin talk forum,  but more than that is the fact that the Nigerian community may have suffered a lot of setbacks just as you already mentioned the challenges facing Nigerians at both the local board or the main forum boards,  more also is another fact that Nigerians make up a large amount to the active members of this forum.

But as we all know that some weren't built in a day,  so is the Nigeria local board community here on bitcointalk,  and this is something highly commendable as we keep fighting for the admin of the forum to create more subboards and moderators with a couple of merits sources to keep the merit cycle in this Local board rolling.

Back to the topic of discussion which borders convention which to me is a bad idea and against the ethics of what Bitcoin stands for which is privacy,  so just as you rightly said,  not many will be cool with such arraignment

No mate,  I excluded good team's from the list and such clubs like Real Madrid and Manchester city,  both are champion leagues titles holders and Manchester City have won UEFA cup multiple time so both of them are excluded from the list and the list only includes clubs that are still coming up in their performance and willing fo make it totop 5 of top 3 but not first or second either ways,  it is left for just speculations and how the clubs mentioned could possibly perform in this coming season haven't made good use of the transfer market.

I don't underate any of them in whatever way and I hope you understand my point of view and how I made up the list I posted in the earlier comment that you quoted above.

We are already used to the term soon in cryptocurrency,  when a team make such a statement what it means is that there is a possibility for them to make some form of statement regarding the condition of their project but not certain when such information will come up with such information,  and at the same time,  soon could mean wait forever,  so the reality of this statement lays with what the action of the team becomes going forward from this point.

Betnomi use to be very active here in the forum for over a long time, before this current crisis that is rocking the casinos and what the condition of things is because something is definitely wrong with the operations of this once great casino.

I agree with you Gozie51 on the fact that there is no ratio to determine the rate of gambling abuse and what statistics to stand with that make a stamp to be called gambling abuse,  and if you look closely,  it is subjective and peculiar to individuals perception of what make an abuse d activities in gambling,  because what may look normal to you can be branded as an abuse by another person,  same thing with every other activity that requires human satisfaction and grading.

Gambling abuse can mean different things for different people,  but in general,  taking gambling as a means of making income is a bad idea in whatever content you try to view it,  so if you defeat the main purpose of gambling which is for entertainment and dive over into making gambling a means to generate passive income,  at that point you have lost track and you can easily slide into many other negative factors.

The championship this season will be dominated largely by clubs who have put up their front leg in the just concluded session and Barcelona happens to be one of such clubs and this is what most football speculators I predicting based on,  but all together,  football is a highly unpredictable game and at that, some other clubs who's performance may look underrated are also making that attempt to make a big difference in the coming season so most of them are making positive use of the current transfer windows to fish out new players that will better the lots of their clubs and this is why we have to be patent enough to experience the reality and if you ask me which among the current clubs will perform better in the new season will point to clubs like.
: Arsenal
: Barcelona
: Chelsea
:Liverpool

The above list seems to be my most anticipated clubs to look out for in this season,  and also we must monitor their actions and decisions in signing new players before the transfer windows will be closed. 

This season 2023-2024 UEFA champion league will indeed be filled with a lot of unpredictable results that will chuck many spectators.

The ratio of men vs women gamblers is high and aside from the various reasons you mentioned, there is any factor that you failed to mentioned as being responsible for the higher rate of men involvement in gambling vs women and that reason is the risk and responsibility of providing for the family which put man at the higher risk of trying to make enough to care for the family, because unlike the women who's mahor responsibility is on the husband, it then means that the male forks take more risk comoared to the women since gambling is a high risk game, the female forks will be more skeptical about it and i  most cases tend to look away from gambling and focusing more on some othe realistic real life activities.

So this difference have made a limitation to women's involvement in gambling and this differs from country to country and region to region and all the same with the coming of online gambling,  the number of female gambling has increased and more also it is a fact that there can now gamble in privacy which is more inclusive in the region where gambling may be prohibited or banned.

In my country today, gambling in some regions is prohibited but the Sharia/Islamic laws that prohibit gambling also have several other laws that set limits as to women's involvement in public affairs,  and these limits have affected both women and men in many ways which have pause a limitation to the general public involvement I gambling.

But if you as me to make a ratio as to the rate of women vs men give men 80% and women 20% from the total of 100% so this is a pointer to what I mean when I said that the male. rate triple women's involvement in gambling.

Ifs obvious that the ops is just lagging around here, i dont know what his actual aim of creatibg such controversial thread and topic of discussion even thkugh there is a 100% chance for the ops to get negative comments on this and yet he went ahead to drop such a bomb thinking that the forum is made up of uninformed and gullible forks with bags of money looking for where to throw it at

This is an unrealistic quest and ops should be aware of that already, reputation aside no one would ever trust a gambler to will steadily there by offering a 50/50 revenue sharing, this is not realistic indeed, more also the ops reputation shows why he makes such an offer he is already dented with red which is a primary warning to anyone looking to make any deal with the ops at any point, because since gambling is a high-risk activity, it is better to take the risk yourself as to try out your luck, instead handing out your fu d to third party gambler.

It is obviously true that there is nothing like minimal addiction or addiction reduction, an addict is an addict and there are no two ways about that since most addicts are all in 100% uncontrollable habits, and to get out of it, the user also need to avoid it and that is what makes the difference, unlike some others who thinks that they can reduce the force gambling addiction on their behavior not realizing the fact that gambling addiction is something that has total control over individual well being.

The best way to treat addictions is total avoidance of gambling or any substance that got you addicted in the first place, take drugs addiction or alcohol addiction for example, once a user is abusing the aforementioned substance, in other to withdraw from it, the user has to take a deliberate pull out and it must be 100% pull out, that way, the user can abstain totally from such endorsement.

The topic of gambling addiction has become prominent in recent time, times all things are equal, and members here adhere to the various warning, then by now there should be able to know that, it is better to avoid gambling addiction because withdrawal from it addiction is almost impossible.

The thng is that the project  worldcoin has been around for some years now and my recent findings have shown that the team holds a large portion of these coins making them be in total control which is a bigger risk to the success of the project, although the general idea behind the project sounds good, then also a lot of centralization have jeopardized that efforts, instead of focusing on the on developing the project, the team was busy allocating tons of total coins to themselves and this has really slow down the past of the project development.

Even though loads of big exchanges have listed the coin, its value has struggled in the market, which is an indication that the team is really getting involved and interfering with the coin development or market growth, and that practice could have a long-term negative effect on the project and also could affect investors total grows profits since the merging between losing vs profits is wider and holding the coin at any point put you into greater risk of losing than profits even on the long term.

I won't go with your line of thoughts because education transcends beyond the Western curriculum and pattern of learning and getting certificating because a child that is properly trained from home will know the differences between education and knowledge just like the difference between Bitcoin/cryptocurrency and Ponzi scheme, while they're both misunderstood but those that pay close attention have the benefits of experiencing the reality of the difference between the two,

Education is a scam to only those who are not educated because going to school alone is not what makes you educated, but allowing the school to pass through you, also makes you what you become in life, there have been arising in social vices in society right now and the greed in young people have also increased significantly and that have had a bad impact in creative thinking in youths, there have succeeded in pushing illegality to cover the legality lately, I had a case of an 18 years old who was involved in cryptocurrencies scam, all this is what makes the society to have a negative mindset towards cryptocurrency because of the bad event created around cryptocurrency by some lazy elements in the society.

Fivestar4everMVP well the tree is not the responsibility of the community to cut it off since it hacks become  a bigger problem for the society, because the tree was not a community tree but planted by an individual in the community, and since this individual have failed to trime the tree to the extent of it becoming a problem to the society he has to face some charges, but if you are in a society where laws are ineffective, you have to beer with such problems for some time.

But on the other end where you'rementioned how to tackle problems I 100% agree with you that taking care of a problem is like ending the menace the tree was causing since the tree has become a public problem it was supposed to be caught by the root since caught off some branches is like paving the way for the tree to spread wider it branches and also making it to become a bigger problem.

So also we can relate this to gambling abuse which is the main discussion,  since gambling exhibited higher risk in everything, one needs to put a lot of things in check, so as not to become overly carried away to the point that you either abuse the casinos or yourself by getting addicted or lose a lot of money.

I dont know how some gamblers take bitcointalk, do we have a free money-making machine in here?

Nothing is free even in free town, and ops should know that members of this forum are the most educated in terms of risk management and also trust evaluations, this is paramount because gambling is a higher risk and everyone here is warned about the danger of excessive gambling and how unpredictable gambling results can be, so for that how can we risk such a huge amount on gambling not to talk of bankrolling a user that already has red tags on their accounts.

I don't know why some forks just randomly try out their luck, but mostly in a bad way that has triggered a higher degree of danger for cryptocurrency users, unlike the physical casinos where users can freely trace each other using their bank account, in cryptocurrency that is not untenable so ops should have thought of several factors before putting out such and offers to bitcoin talk community.

Trading is like gambling most especially future trading and swing trades that could wipe off your entire balance,  and what I do as newbie trader back then was to trade only in stable coins like USTD so that I can be safe if the market goes against my liquidation,  take for instance,  if you trade in coins that are unstable in price,  their market actions and reactions could affect the amount you hold as an asset and if the trade goes against you at the same time then you lose becomes double and that could mean more loses for the traders.,  but that is when trading in manual ways.

On the topic of trading guides,  books,  and articles,  my thought on them is that reading and depending on them can only help you to gain some experience from the writer's own experiences which could differ from your own overall experience and also more so that,  you tend to increase your chances of getting misleading information relying on the tips being offered by those so-called expert writer's because some of them lack the practical experience since they only write to make sells from the writer of the book than being involved in the practice of what is written in their books.

I can't afford to risk my Bitcoin in trading and if I have to trade then it must be with USTD because for me my Bitcoin is solely for holding for long terms.

A deposit limit is a sure way to minimize deposits when losses occur,  but not all casinos have this feature so I will like to know which casino that is that offers such services,  and this is a good way to protect the customer from going bankrupt because setting a deposits limit,  it becomes impossible for the gambler to deposit excessively trying to chase a lose but this is one sure way to avoid addictions also setting a small limit can be helpful and since the gambler can stake higher than their set limit if they balance is up to that make it more fun for all,  because a gambler can decide to wager along with the proportion of their balance since there can accumulate more balance from their winnings and more also getting a rake back is not also affected by this deposit limit features.

If I am to go for such a feature I will likely will if stake.com should offer such,  I will limit my deposit for up to 30 days and that should be ok in the end and if I may likely change the limit amount for deposits,  I will likely decrease it on a monthly bases until I don't have to deposits any more,  what I will do is to leave a small amount on my balance in the casino after each winning,  doing so,  I won't have to make new deposits at each point.

Nice to have you bring this here,  and as an addition to the ops please include the casino that already has the features in place because we have some members who will love to try this out.

Well said friend,  you nailed it on the abuse of tramadol but note that there is no big difference between tramadol, and beer that you were on while having this discussion with your friend and the only difference is the fact that beer is seen as legal in some part of Nigeria but also illegal in other parts of the country where the Sharia law is in force just like in the northern part of the country Nigeria,  and tramadol is not banned as you put out but have been restricted to be sold only on doctor's prescriptions, and the government also put in measures that make the price of the drug to be so expensive to the extent that those addicted to it can afford it any longer unlike what it was in the past when the price of the drug was so low that it nearly destroyed the life of the youths were many were engaged on the unauthorized excessive intakes of the drug.

Now back to gambling abuse,  I think instead us concentrating on the excessive gambling that leads the gambler into addiction,  let us also consider other facts that have also made up the bigger part of gambling abuse which is the real abuse on gambling systems e.g abuse on bonuses system and how some players manipulate the outcome of the game in some cases,  I know this is rear cases that are not often discussed here,  but then also I believe that it is worthy to note them too,  since the impact on some casino has lead to closer of such casinos example is what happened to Betlucy some time ago where there welcome bonus systems were abused at lunch where there did a no wagering welcome bonus but that the end players abused the system by creating multiple accounts just to cashout the bonuses.

So I think this is the real bigger abuse?

But then also when you talk about gamblers that take gambling as a source of income,  leading them to gamble excessively that means that there already abusing the essence of gambling which is gambling for entertainment,  but then also we must also take note of the fact that gambling winning can really be enticing most especially when you win constantly for some time which also is almost impossible sometimes but then also possibility os there that a gambler can win a big amount on a bet which also can help sort out financial needs but not to be taken as a source of income.

exactly  because bonus hunting have become one of the major source for discomfort for gamblers lately due to the fact that most pf them who run after bonuses always end up in frustration because in trying to meet the wagering requirement that is attached to the bonus,  their end up losing their already winnings and ultimately drain out their entire balance in trying to reach the wagering requirement and this have become a bigger challenge for gamblers and that is why we always advice to you avoid bonuses as much as possible and if you must take any bonus it should be a the with the lowest wager requirements,  let say anything above 1x is already a big red flag to avoid if not you may lose your deposits including winning trying to meet a high wager requirement on bonuses.

The other part where I may not agree with you or not be clear about what you mean is in the last paragraph where you state that looking for a casino with an easy wagering requirement,  the point is that,  no casino has an easy wagering requirement of mechanism different from the general perspective,  but the highest a casino can do is to place a low wagering demand let say 1x requirement is still ok.

I agree with you sir Yahoo,  because the more the game selections the higher the chance that a game will cut the ticket,  I have experienced this before and I came to the realization that multiple games selection is a pit hole for gamblers,  and one other thing is odds,  because some sport stakes follow odd since that is were their rewards come from so some of them get carried away with odds and decide to risk on that.

But in ops' own situation,  I think the number of games selection is what has led to the loss of the bet,  and just as you rightly said,  2 games selections at most for me,  because is better to risk a higher amount to stake and expect something moderate in winning then wanting to win millions with low stake amount and multiple games selection at higher risk of losing the bet.