But, hardships are important in life because hard times are nothing but learning times because you understand the value of money and the value of your talent. I mean yes I would myself never waste my sleep and wake for a 20 bucks specially when I am mentally exhausted but there were times in past when I used to do such tasks and earn money but those times just shaped me as a better person eventually.

Gambling is made for rich I can agree with that but if you actually do a survey you will realize the big percentage of people that suffer from gambling addiction are poor people because they feel gambling is their solution to monetary needs and they get trapped digging a bigger hole slowly and eventually realizing but it's too late by the time they realize it.

Lol LMAO this is true meehn, as times goes you will be able to buy up the whole Pizza in a Pizza store with Bitcoin lol.
The price is really going up and I’m just wondering what’s going to happen after the next Halving that will be taking place on May. The price has been increasing recently after a fall back to around $8,000 price rate.

Today the price has gone from $8,700 to over $9,100. I’m looking forward to further up movement from bitcoin. And then I can’t really wait for the month of May, I just can’t wait meehn, I hope that things happen for the better because know that there are people who are waiting for that as an opportunity to say some trash.

As much as I know there are no companies that are doing that. If you want to buy gold you should sell your Bitcoin and then convert to fiat before looking for where you can be buying the gold you want. The same thing applies to when you want to convert your gold to cryptocurrency, you will have to sell to fiat and buy Bitcoin.

I know a lot of companies that are selling gold where you can be investing in gold but none of them are accepting Bitcoin as payment, the only payment they are accepting is payments to banks direct, and no other. I don’t even think their kind of business is the type that requires have different payment methods, they should be working with banks.

Hey OP, you probably might have come up with the most needed self-assessment tool for this community. Really a good piece of work for this gambling community; still I am not sure how many of this community will be making use of such self-test as they are TOO BUSY with their gambling . You must have done some good work for this community whereas making use of it or not will be up to individual gambler's preferences.

I believe I am at the level of zero because I rarely go to gambling. So far all my gambling are only online even we are having lots of physical casino in our country. The fortunate thing is the religion which we are following; even I'm not that much religion oriented, I never prefer to go for gambling. I believe this is the simple way I do safeguard myself from gambling addiction.

Yes, to get rid off the problems of compulsive gambling, gamblers must realize themselves as the category of "addicted gamblers", only from that point they could make differences into their gambling activities. If they do not take time for self evaluating about their addiction levels on gambling, they will never able to get out of it.

I believe most gamblers do not recognize themselves as a gambler but they do think like they are making fun out of gambling still they do believe they are not the actual gamblers. Before they are realizing about their addiction, most gamblers are getting addicted to gambling severely. From the point when they are doing self-evaluation, I guess changes to their life will be happening.

You might be wrong here because actually when you are playing online you sometime get blown off with the loss and there is no one near you to wake you up before you deposit more and ultimately loose more than what you originally allocated for gambling.

While in a physical casino you always have friends and foes around you and the continuous talk with them keeps you in reality. But everything these are all just a personal preferences and definitely we cannot have any common thing because gambler's preferences are just case to case. We may choose the right one which will be not making us addicted to it; in my personal opinion it will be casino gambling because visiting it frequently will not be possible unlike online gambling.

You must have answered in terms of bitcoin. In my opinion halving must be the biggest feature in bitcoin's economic rules because only because of halving deflation will occur quickly which must be the important thing for making bitcoin as one of the attractive investment opportunity of our life time. Yes, we do not need to bother about any other coin's halving feature because other halving will not impact crypto markets unlike how influentially bitcoin's halving will be impacting.

Simply I must say, halving will be the enough reason for anyone to invest with bitcoins. But do not get mislead by same kind of halving feature for any other coin. This way I believe you might have answered to your friend in the right sense.

There will be no reason for anyone to hate long term promotions when there will be superb rewards for their contribution, or at least "enough rewards" for their contribution. But, as far as I have observed long-term promotions are paying only at the end of their campaign and which will be after few months still the rewards will be less than what weekly campaigns are paying for a week. In that case it must be definitely waste of time, and obviously everyone will start hating such a long promotions.

It must be a long-term request from altcoin bounty hunters for getting paid in ETH or BTC but no devs/project team is ready to listen such requests even they are doing crowdfunds in BTC or ETH. When there will be weekly rewards in BTC or ETH, I believe everyone will be preferring to work for long-term promotions as there will be no room for hating it.

Safety measurements of crypto currency holding has no different from what we are doing with our physical assets for years. I mean to say we must follow what experts are suggesting for protecting them from hackers or from fire or from any other critical situations. Without listening to experts suggestions and opinion, I believe no one could get a right knowledge for protecting their crypto assets.

Before crypto, people must be familiar with online transactions like Internet banking or virtual visa card or paypal/payza accounts. What were the protection steps they have followed for those things, they must follow again given that adding few new things additionally required for the case of cryptos. But it is always good to remind people about protecting their crypto stash by having discussions like these. Good work OP!

I am not hundred percent sure about this, but I feel that Bitcoin would be a really good option for anyone that goes for it. Bitcoin shouldn’t be the only thing to be considering , there are lots of other assets that you should look into if you’re afraid to invest in Bitcoin. Gold has always been another good option to consider apart from bitcoin and some experts have said that gold is a better safe haven than Bitcoin.

I would prefer to invest in Bitcoin because I know that as time goes on the price of bitcoin will keep going up. From 2008 that bitcoin was created to now the price has been going up. Every year the low for the cryptocurrency is always higher than what it was in the past and that’s because the community keeps growing. I know that in the next years more people will discover bitcoin and start investing in it and it will keep on growing.

But, unfortunately that's the truth that some guys still believe that there are gamblers who earn money on regular basis from gambling which to me sounds really idiotic and doesn't make sense either. The best someone can do at gambling is follow a particular sports tipster and just bet as they give picks and maintain some profit but even that is not possible because there is not even a single tipster who can guarantee you profits.

I was wondering the same because 9 months is almost like quitting gambling and then getting back to it again because you cannot call 270 days of no gambling as a break at all.

I am really glad someone came up with the point because people are worried that if they speak against the casino they will be treated with harsh statements and if you honestly ask me, any casino that wants to ask ID documents should ask as soon as the gambler registers because if the gambler does loose the money that money should also be count, I mean OP made a valid point as of how the casino can just swallow the money and ask no KYC if the gambler looses or wins small, but if they win big they will be passing through tough KYC process.

This does not make sense to me, either you verify all your gamblers or none. I was reading the thread in scam accusation and actually felt the gambler was robbed but that is just my personal opinion. Some reputed members were on the side of Fortunejack too so we all have different opinions.

But I was wondering since he is the bettor and claims to have money and bookie so basically he is the one looking for that fixed match and want to bet himself and pay the person who gives him that imaginary fixed bet, I actually wonder if this is an attempt to lure people into talking him and then slowly turning the table and getting them into sending him money.

Pinnacle needs ID verification since it is a standard casino and one would be in trouble if they use Pinnacle for suspected matches so I think anyone would rather try sportsbet.io and cloudbet maybe for such things and maybe even stake as now they take sports bet.

Here is an article how Pinncale would void your bets in such cases: https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/2015_Match-Fixing_Scandal

Actually OP wanted to share the house edge involved with various kind of games and it is fair to say that the game with the least edge is expected to have the highest winning chance for the gambler and hence I see why most of the gamblers prefer dice over sports betting and other kinds of games.

I don't want to but I have to agree that some people are more lucky as compared to others and even the law of averages does not apply to them .

I am one of the sports betting fan and feel that it has the best chance to win despite the big house edge because we can analyse data and it's much easier to find why to pick a team/player and why not to.

There is nothing like designing bitcoin, it’s all about the wallet you’re making use of. There are wallets that has simple interface and make things easy for newbies to understand and there are others with complicated design and only good at making things a bit more difficult for them. So, it’s all about the wallet you’re making use of. There are already good wallets that are recommended for newbies like Coinbase. In terms of risk, there is really nothing you can do about that.

But, as time goes on and lots of people begins to join the bitcoin market, the market cap will grow and the market will become less volatile I guess. So for now they can only be investing what they ca afford to invest and nothing more. There is nothing you can do about the risk.

So let me sum it up for anyone reading the thread and scratching their head what happened. I was thinking I shouldn't reply but I felt like I should because of the crazy situation going around.

Ryleys is a scammer as he did not refund the promised amount to JackpotRacer and hasn't responded since 26th Feb

Please respect others and I really feel unfortunate for you because you have been scammed but being such a old member here you shouldn't have trusted someone who just came and asked for money for his picks. It is actually nutildah who tagged him in the end so just because someone calls your behavior in public do not counter-attack them. I do understand being a gambler you must be high tempered.

I really wish you don't pay such scammers because this encourage such scammers to make more accounts and try to scam even more.

Not just due to money flow is shifted into leveraged and marginal trading but there is no attractive investment opportunity available among altcoins. Yes, when ethereum was attractive enough and ICO market was doing very good, we have seen many altcoins are bumping and the entire altcoin market was doing good.

Yeah, we need some good performing altcoin for most other all coins to  bounce back. Because, when people are planning  to invest in cryptos, they must be looking for various options and is they will first invest with the good performing one and then other existing reputed coins. This is how the total market will be bouncing back but this time the leader is missing.

Yes. When governments are rushing for adopting cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies, what you have mentioned must be the most appropriate way for them to easily enter into this market. Government may legalize crypto currencies or may not but definitely they will be preferring to how their own stablecoin which could be their already existing fiats.

I just wonder what are the advantages we will be enjoying by having our local fiat on blockchain. I mean to say what are the privacy issues may rise up due to this and also what will be the exact consequence of such stablecoins by government is going to provide will be my actual curiosity but only time will answer all these.

I don't think anyone ever learns anything in gambling unlike trading where you learn as you make more mistakes.

Gambling is either sports betting or instant games and both of them require luck and while sports betting can be more in control of the gambler as compared to the instant games but then there is a huge edge usually associated like 10-15% edge and the ability to analyse sports matches is almost like 5-10% and the other 90% is mostly luck and hence there is nothing you can learn in gambling or being a experienced gambler gives no advantage apart from anger management and other benefits.

I would not even suggest to trade with other's money because see when you are gambling with someone's money you are under a pressure of earning more in lesser amount of time and it's much better to collateralize some asset and take more time and earn.

It would be an absolute nightmare to take money and promise returns while you are only trusting your luck because gambling is all about luck no matter what strategy you apply to it. Yes, though if you are someone who provides betting picks then maybe just worth to take the risk but I would still strongly advice against such practices. Loan is a sort of pressure for someone like me that it does not allow me to work freely and think independently.