I believe this is not the first time that we experienced a congested market and see the transaction fees crazily surging its price. So the best solution I think is learn to minimize your transactions while transaction fees is not cheap. You can do it bimonthly or monthly to save some fees. That way, you will not be much affected with how spike in fees are currently happening these days.

However, I'm still confident to say that bitcoin concept has not changed at all. It's still highly volatile and profitable. Only the transaction fees are not right these days but eventually it will be back to normal as soon as the issue is fixed.

There's no other remedy to combat the fear but to accept the challenge wholeheartedly. Once you go out from your comfort zone and face your new challenges, your own fears will start to vanish slowly and replace it with high motivation and confidence. This is already proven by those who succeeded who started from the scratch, as they never let their fear manipulate them but dare to conquer and beat them.

Same thing when applied to a newbie in bitcointalk. If you don't start learning and gaining knowledge, you will continue to be your old self who is less knowledgeable and less experience in the market, because you chose your fears to control your own self when you should be doing it the opposite way.

That's why I was too earger in taking a higher spread for a higher odds. Now, I'm kinda regretting, I should have taken higher than what I took for an odds at least 2.00. So now, another 7-0 run, I think this night belongs to the Magnolia backers.



Thanks, appreciate it.. and don't worry if DYIP will have a run as it's not new to us gamblers, but hopefully not tonigh.

Keep holding @bisdak40, we got this!

We are on the same boat here, the only difference was I go for higher odds with -14.5.

So far, I can say that the decision was right because Magnolia is currently leading by 12 points already in the first quarter.  I know there's still more quarters to be played but its always fun to witness our team that are having a comfortable lead early.

This is a bounce back game, I'm sure they won't give this away.

As a newbie, I should say that one should not focus on earning merits in the first place. What you should do more is to gain unlimited ideas while exploring the forum so you can be knowledgeable just like those people who consistently gain merits because of their wide knowledge in different topics. If your goal is to earn tons of merits just like them, then be like them. Learn a lot and experience a lot so you can have something valuable to share in the forum that will make other members to benefit from your varied posts.

Earning merits is not the goal why we engage in the forum, but it's to establish our concrete knowledge and develop our skills through wide opportunities that this forum may provide for us.

It doesn't look good if they will open a rehabilitation centers of addicted gamblers as it will only imply that addiction has already become rampant.

Gambling is controllable by the government, since they regulated it, they have the right to ban it, or consider it as illegal. However, seeing the money that flows to the funding of the government, they can't make that kind of decision to stop, so it's really unto us now, either we become responsible, or be on the other side and experience the effect of addiction, after all the government doesn't care about us since gambling is not a necessity.

He is not really into professional sports or wants to become a champion. Jake Paul is just being smart, using his influence in social media to match with his interest in boxing, and boom! easy money.

As per my research, here's what he made already in boxing, but I think it's probably under reported.


https://www.sportingnews.com/us/boxing/news/jake-paul-net-worth-purse-history-career-earnings-youtube-boxing/htcxfgjhd7mmshflxcjguvlx

He is still on his prime, he's good in selecting his opponents to improve his ranking, most likely that millions he already earned will significantly increase overtime.

Only him would know if he is already addicted in gambling. Playing daily IMO has no problem with me especially if it doesn't bother my job, you know, we all wants to have fun and gambling is really a fun activity as long as you are in control all the time. However, I think no one really gambles on a daily basis, if we take a break on our job which is our priority, then for sure break also exist in gambling.

The thing bored could have different meaning to me.

You're bored because you aren't doing any, and you get bored because you are doing the same thing over and over again.

While it's the right thing to focus on learning acquisition and keep learning every single day, the hunger for quick merits has also become a necessity for newbies. Probably because they want to gain immediate profits and consistent income, just like those who have been making a good amount in the forum. And for that, I come to understand them but still, we should not jump into getting merits but focus first on learning the basics in the forum.

Just like in life, we also need to take a break from trading when we think it's not healthy anymore. Once it's not working already according to our plan, we need to think a lot of times if we'll still continue trading or just shift into another career that suits us better. While others have the desire to consistently trade until success is achieved, some just think leaving trading for good is a wiser idea. Not only because it's not healthy and profitable anymore, but also because trading has already become a calvary on your part.

Knowing when to stop from trading is not an act of being fearful, but rather it's an act of being responsible on your choice when you think it's not going to work anymore.

And most especially if the fight will end up Jake Paul being the winner. For sure this will be an automatic trilogy, and again, another huge money will be coming. I think they should work on this as both has been active after their fought, so they are on their prime and the fans would really appreciate if they'll bring a fight that people would not think it's another cherry picking strategy by a fighter.

The first one was close, it was a split decision, so I think Jake Paul will be more motivated and probably more confident than the last time they met.

Not much pressure from Jake Paul now since he's not undefeated anymore, so I like to bet on him if that fight will be materialize.

That still falls on DCA. That would be the best strategy so far that mostly works for everyone. While some can afford all in investing that indicates higher risk but majority still follow doing DCA as the risk to lose can be likely controlled.

You can chose if you want weekly, bi monthly or monthly, that depends on how often you make an income. As long as you do it consistently, you can easily maximize your investment portfolio and make you instant multi millionaire after long, indefinite years of hodling.

Most of them just trying to influence gamblers to sign up under their referral program. Perhaps there are few that show up their winning bet slips but not on a consistent manner, that means they are just happy and just want to share their success to their friends. However, these people that are consistently showing their winning, we should be doubtful with them as we already know what they are after of, they want to rake money from you by a convincing you to gamble, and of course since you are the one who would experience, you'll know if it's really possible to make money or not.



At least you believe that it's possible. Other bettors doesn't and yet they are still gambling a huge amount of money. Some maybe just doing it for fun, but eventually they'll get bored with small bets and would think of increasing it, so it's better to be realistic or if you believe you can make money, don't doubt so you'll be able to make a strategy for you betting journey.

Brunson really showed up well on a team that he has been the star player, however, it would still be fine if he wasn't traded by the Mavs as I think he is a better team player than Irving, and more healthy as well. On that game, I was thinking that the Suns would win and would cover the spread since once again the big 3 were playing, but unfortunately, Bradley Beal was injured with a possible sprained ankle, so the Suns would have to rely with Durant and Booker once again.

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Good job Spurs, finally the losing streak is over!

Don't be too obsessed with earning merits. You will get there once you have established already your knowledge about bitcoin and on the forum as well. For now, just enjoy your stay in the forum and post on the topics that interest you, and of course on the topics that you are widely knowledgeable about. If other members will find your post meaningful and useful, you will earn merits gradually.

I suggest you visit more on bitcoin discussion. You will learn a lot there as long as you also open your mind to different insights and ideas. Filter those posts that you don't like and focus on the posts that creates an impact to you, that way you will have gained limitless ideas.

I know some people who hve that kind of attitude, these are the people that doesn't know how to accept their losses, or they want to be right all the time. Other people are those influencers who promotes a gambling site using demo money that they gamble and claim they won, it's a marketing side of gambling and we should all be aware of that.

What we can only do to minimize the risk in gambling is to be real or to be true with our experience, we don't need to lie just to impress people as it's normal that we lose since the winning percentage of a gambler in the long run is probably just 1%, so don't convince people that we are exceptional when we are not.

This strategy is more to be safe in gambling. As what everyone sees, gambling is a high risk type of entertainment, because there's a possbility that we lose control and we would spend more than we can afford to lose. This "do not spend what we can afford to lose" principle doesn't state how many percentage we should only risk, however, if that's 1% of your income, that's very safe, the only risk here is we won't be able to consistently follow it.

Trading will always be harder if you keep on expecting trades will end up smoothly. Obviously, that is not the nature of trading. One should experienced prior mistakes and losses because that will motivate yourself to grow as a trader and give your best to stay trading in profits. Although trading is not a bed of roses like what everyone says, but once you achieved the peak success in trading, you will always have the reason to live your life like bed of roses.

Well, as long as you have spare money to invest in bitcoin for long term, then investing anytime of the year is very welcome. But I should be honest to you that it could be a lot better if you enter the market while bitcoin is cheaper so you can maximize your initial purchase and expect bigger profits when you decide to sell them during bull run.

But if you really want to invest early next year, then that is not really a problem. Just be patient always so you won't be tempted selling when the price drops so badly and end up seeing you in losses.

I agree, the number 2 scenario is more painful to take because you shortened your games because you were chasing your losses. Most of us who were in that situation in the past probably have regretted our careless decision, if it wasn't part of the game plan, then it's certainly due to our lack of control which as we have seen would likely end up us regretting.

But how many times we really make the same mistakes before we learn?

I also ask this because personally I didn't make that kind of mistake once, maybe more before I finally learn to control myself and avoided that.