Congrats for your launch. I'm really impressed by your announcement thread. This is probably one of the best looking announcement threads on the forum. The website looks really nice as well.
Semi AI generated predictions? Can't the people just use AI chatbots like ChatGPT 4 and Google Bard to make sports betting predictions without having to deal with GOSU Betting?  It's like trying to cut the middleman.
Are you going to pay the competent tipsters you just want to get their services for free?
Anyway, good luck with this project, OP.

Does your friend know Michael Jordan personally? Did he just read some gossip article about Michael Jordan being a gambling addict?
I don't hear any news about Michael Jordan going bankrupt because of his gambling addiction. This probably means that he keeps his gambling behavior under control. He's rich enough to spend lots of money on gambling and still maintain his wealth.
The same question applies to Drake and other rich and famous people, who spend lots of money on gambling. Are they addicts?
I would say no, because their behavior doesn't affect their overall wealth.

1.Nobody "owns" blockchain technology. The people have ownership rights over the BTC in their wallets and the crypto miners have ownership rights over their mining hardware. The governments can confiscate the BTC in their wallets and their mining equipment. Nobody can tell when will the governments decide to confiscate the mining hardware or to ban BTC/crypto trading and mining completely.
2.I think that the saying was "If you are born poor it's not your fault, but if you die poor, this is definitely your fault."
3.Bitcoin isn't some miraculous magic financial tool, that will make you rich(even with education and hard work).

I've had negative experience with them as a publisher. The earnings were close to absolute zero.
I think that a-ads.com is a very crypto-oriented advertising platform, so any non-crypto ads will perform very poorly.
Their overall traffic is relatively small, so targeting specific countries will bring low traffic.
The only thing that I like about A-ads is their transparency when it comes to the Ad campaigns. They even have an affiliate/CPA platform and some crypto casinos like BC.game are paying for advertising on A-ads. AFAIK, BC.game have an active sig campaign on Bitcointalk.
I've tried using Bidvertiser 8 years ago(2015) and wasted 50 dollars on advertising with zero results. Maybe my ad campaign wasn't optimized, but I didn't have a good experience with Bidvertiser.

I can assume that by "fast-fashion shopping apps" you mean the big Chinese platforms like Aliexpress, Wish, Temu, Shein and a bunch of others. I don't know where did you come up with the term "fast-fashion shopping"? Do you mean impulsive buying?
No, I don't think that they are hurting the local economies, because if you want to buy the same stuff and it's manufactured in your local economy, the price would be higher. There's a reason why those Chinese platforms are selling cheap stuff. All this cheap stuff has been produced by using cheap labor and cheap raw materials. Labor exploitation and slavery are the hidden problems of China.
Those apps are really good at marketing. Temu is brutal, when it comes to getting new customers. They seem more like a ponzi scheme, rather than a shopping website/app.

Those are not "strategic prediction measures". This is pure superstition. It's funny how some gamblers call superstition a "strategy".
Closing your eyes before playing the slots doesn't change anything. Maybe your mind is playing tricks on you and you have some weird delusion, that closing your eyes or staying on one foot will bring you luck. I have never believed in such weird tricks. I remember that we used to play such games as kids "if you do something weird, you will get this result". This was totally childish and I wouldn't try it on gambling games.

I can't see a direct correlation between the Bitcoin price and the "ords infecting the mempool".
Do you really think that a 70-80K USD Bitcoin price would miraculously lower the transaction fees on the blockchain?
A higher price means that the short term demand for BTC increased, which means more BTC transactions on the blockchain and more transactions mean higher fees and longer confirmation time. Off chain solutions like the Lightning Network still can't get mainstream adoption.
Removing the ordinals from the blockchain would most likely lower the amount of transactions(and the fees), but the miners want higher fees and more revenue.

Very easy opponents for Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, PSG and Manchester City. I don't think that the favorites will have any problems against Leipzig, Copenhagen, Lazio and Real Sociedad. Somebody would think that the draw for the elimination phase was rigged in favor of the big and rich teams. Arsenal might be facing problems versus Porto. Barcelona and Napoli are both in bad condition, but I expect lots of goals in the two matches between these teams(and Barcelona would probably eliminate Napoli). Inter vs. Atletico and Dortmund vs. Eindhoven seem to be the most unpredictable matches in this round of the UEFA Champions League.

So you think that real estate is debt economy, but BTC, gold and fiat currencies aren't a debt economy? Really?
Many investors borrow money to buy BTC or gold. Isn't this debt economy as well?
Fiat currencies are based upon fractional reserve banking, which is debt economy in a nutshell.
Capitalism is based upon loans and debt. Crypto is simply another form of capitalism. You can't take away debt and loans from the crypto industry.
I agree that mortgage loans help for artificially pumping the real estate prices. The problem is that no government in the world has the balls to ban mortgage loans completely. I guess that North Korea is the only exception.

Are you under 18 years old? Can't you just earn some money and buy Bitcoin yourself? I would be embarrassed to ask my friends and family for money. Especially for money to buy Bitcoins(or any other cryptocurrency).
I can also assume that the 2024 Bitcoin halving will build some hype and pump the Bitcoin price, but you shouldn't have enormous expectations.
Do you expect the BTC price to hit 1 million USD or something? I think that the BTC price could hit somewhere between 70K and 100K USD at best. This means that your 90 USD could turn into 200 USD at maximum. Not a big deal, if you ask me.
Buying BTC isn't the same as buying a lottery ticket and expecting to win the jackpot.

This all sounds great IF you are able to control your behavior. But guess what. Gambling addicts can't control their behavior. That's why they are called addicts. It they could really control their behavior and limit(or stop completely) their gambling habits, then nobody would call them addicts and their psychological problem simply won't exist.
Your advice is as stupid and someone telling a drug addict "Just do drugs 20 minutes a day and you will be fine."
Or telling a porn addict "Just watch porn for 20 minutes per day and you'll be fine".
Limiting the activity, which causes the addiction doesn't solve the problem.

1.Nope. BTC has no "economical link" to physical currencies.
2.Nope. Bitcoin will never replace the traditional currencies. You wanna know why? Several days ago, a had to pay 70 USD transaction fee to move a small amount of BTC to my wallet. That's why. The Bitcoin blockchain can't handle big quantities of transactions and it gets easily congested. Bitcoin will always remain in the form of "digital gold" and I'm OK with that, but I don't expect BTC to become a normal currency.
This is yet another "PoW vs. PoS" forum post. This discussion has ended months or even years ago. There's no point starting it again.
If you like Proof-of-Stake just move to a PoS altcoin. You have multiple choices.

Match fixing is very hard to be discovered and proven with a good enough evidence by the authorities.
In the country where I live, many matches in the football league seem very suspicious, but the authorities don't do anything to investigate.
I don't have concerns about match fixing, because I don't bet on matches in my national football league. I don't think that the regular sports bettors care that much about match fixing. All they care is their own profits from their bets. If they bet on a fixed match and the bet ends up being profitable, they will be happy and totally indifferent towards the fact, that the match was fixed.

Would you mind sharing with us this great internet source of information and articles? Are you going to keep it a secret?
To be honest, I don't care about the anti-Bitcoiners anymore. Everyone has an opinion and you can't change people's minds about certain topics. I wouldn't be butthurt about someone posting anti-Bitcoin articles or even posting false info about BTC. We live in the fake news/fake info era and there's nothing we can do about it. Your donations are voluntary. It's up to you to decide whether or not to keep donating.
The internet is huge. You can get valuable content in tons of online places for free. I wouldn't rely on one news source or one source of content.

I'm not the biggest expert in this area, but AFAIK, three online services are being used by most crypto companies for online verification.
Jumio, Onfido and ID.me(there might be more, but these are the most popular according to my personal experience). I can assume that these three verification services are the ones storing ID and selfie photos and they are required to keep them safe from hackers.
It would be a total nightmare, if all centralized crypto exchanges were keeping sensitive personal data submitted by their own users.
Anyway, I have no idea how to make KYC more user-friendly. KYC has always been a pain in the a*s for me. You can't make the process of sharing sensitive personal data "more user-friendly", because nobody wants to share his/her personal data over the internet.
It's like trying to make the process of going to a dentist more pleasant. Even if it becomes more pleasant, nobody would want to go to a dentist.

Nope. The inflation levels in Turkey have nothing to do with the inflation levels in "other European countries in that region".
The monetary policy of the Turkish central bank was stimulating high inflation for years(because Erdogan thought that low interest rates are good for the economy). Turkey has a negative trade balance(import is bigger than export) and the foreign investments are declining, because the economic situation in Turkey seems unstable. Having a negative trade balance in combination with a budget deficit are two major factors, that contribute to higher inflation.

Robert Lewandowski is getting old(AFAIK he is 35 years old) and Barcelona has to find a younger central striker.
Lewandowski can't maintain top performance at such age.
Barcelona's defenders are clearly a failure at this point of the season, which is surprising. The strong defensive play of Barcelona secured the La Liga trophy in the previous season. I also hear rumors about tensions between Xavi and Barcelona's president Joan Laporta. Barcelona's sporting director Deco is also having some kind of feud with Xavi. I hear rumors that Xavi might be replaced with Rafael Marques.
Barca had a series of humiliating defeats against Girona and Antwerp. There's something going on in the Catalonian club.

It seems that everyone is optimistic about the Bitcoin price and the forum got full with Bitcoin noobs posting meaningless forum threads.
OP, nobody gives a damn about what you sold and how many BTC you have bought. Just do your thing and good luck with your Bitcoin journey. This is a really tiny amount of BTC. Do you expect to become a millionaire overnight by making such "grandiose" Bitcoin investment?
Just keep HODLing your coins and don't panic, when the price crashes(it will crash sooner or later). Don't get involved into any "crypto investment" schemes offering your ridiculous profits and don't get involved into crypto day trading. If you keep this advice you will be fine.

Investors buying shares in crypto coin trusts? Sounds like some centralized sh*t to me. It's like we are back in 2017, or back in the "Bitcoin futures trading era" as I like to call it. Investors don't need financial derivatives, they should buy BTC directly.
Anyway, Google can advertise whatever they want. I don't know about a clear correlation between this change of the Google Ads policy and the Bitcoin ETF approval. I don't believe that some high tier Google executives have insider information about SEC approving the Bitcoin Spot ETF.

I agree with most of these statements. Another thing that contributes to the gambling addiction is a variation of the "sunk cost fallacy" or when a gambler starts "chasing loses". The gambler loses a big amount and he believes that luck will somehow return to him and he will magically get back all his loses and even get some profits. This is pretty close to delusional behavior.
I've always wondered why lottery is being called "a tax for the stupid" while nobody is calling gambling a "tax for the stupid".
Maybe gambling should be called "tax for the delusional". That doesn't mean that I'm anti-gambling. Gambling games exist for centuries and they will never cease to exist. The people should play gambling games, if they find fun and excitement, but they should gamble moderately and with caution.