Poor people should NOT being gambling in ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM.  The sad thing is I'd be willing to bet that the majority of lottery players and scratch off ticket players are those whom are living in poverty of at least below the "middle class" line.  It's the same type of thing when I see people taking their change to Coinstar machines (which give you bank notes in exchange for your change, but are charged a fee...something a bank would do for free), it's typically those with less means and sadly often less education. 

The chances of changing your fortune via gambling and the lottery are highly against you...so putting money towards trying to strike gold in a barren wasteland is simply not smart.

I can hardly even get my friends to try and understand the advantage of online gambling in combination with using bitcoin, I can't imagine trying to teach my mom or my grandmother how to bet online.  Now they are two completely not tech-savvy people but even still.  I also feel like a lot of the older folk enjoy gambling for the atmosphere that being in person brings, just as much as the actual gambling itself.  So, not sure how many would like to adopt online vs in-person.

Lulz, I would image you'd get a real nice payout if there was a prop for wearing a pink shirt AND eating a hot dog.  Imagine if they threw like a hot dog with Ketchup only in there...some serious degen shit there!

When I first saw the lines open up it was at 2.5.   Even though I THINK I'd rather see the Niners win, I feel like the Chiefs are going to take it down.  Now of course since I plan to bet on them, they'll lose lol. 

I'll probably do a combo of ML and +2 on the Chiefs plus some other props (outside of Taylor Swift stuff lol)

Man so cool !!  DM sent. Will make a great addition to my collection!

Rare buggers you got here! I’ve got S1, been looking for S2 for quite some time. If you ever decide to sell separately let me know.

Cheers

The biggest solution for those whom are poor, live below the normal comfortable standards of living etc would be solved or at least for many nations would be solved if we stopped going to freakin war!  That would solve a lot of issues with this world.

On the other hand, people need to be educated better of the special resources available for those whom are in need. I know here in the US that's a major issue, poor people just often don't know what's available in terms of help and how to seek it.

Well for those who've been around long enough, I think it's important for those whom haven't to understand what we've been though.  There was and still isn't a guarantee that bitcoin is going to blast off and continue with its climb up north.  So for many of us, selling our bitcoin when we've been up a few thousand percentage points, not knowing what the future holds, you can't really blame yourself.

Same thing goes with Laszlo and his 10k btc pizza.

Lulz.  Right wing media taking things a bit far when it comes to taylor swift, travis kelce and this who pentagon asset nonsense. 

Honestly as annoying as this all is, it's not her fault at all.  It's completely the media and the NFL's doing and I think she's really starting to get sick of it all.  Well, I think she's been sick of it all for some time.

Lot's of crazy prop bets for Taylor like what color shirt will she be wearing, if she'll be shown on TV eating a hotdog or not, etc lol.

This sort of topic comes up all the time here on this board and it's really the same discussion answer across the board with these types of topics.  Anyone who's addicted to gambling should seek help so that it never gets as far as you're actually willing to sell your property just to keep your gambling addiction alive.  What's next, robbing people?  Seek help for sure!

I appreciate everyone's responses here.  I haven't had time to go through all of them yet, but the few that I have, have helped me to be able to understand things a little better.



Yeah exactly, I'm wondering how it can ( or can't ) be proven if the Casino is cheating you or not.  It feels like they have been lately, hence why I've asked this question lol

As an American I want to first state that I'm not your typical American who thinks "USA is number one!!"...I more so see myself as a citizen of the world, and I do NOT think the United States is the best country in the world, not by a long shot.  That said the US does have the best economy in the world HANDS DOWN.  What other currency is back by such a strong nation that could take over the US dollar as the worlds reserve currency?  China with their shady communist ways and the Yuan?  Russia and their dictatorship ways with the Ruble?  Nah.  There's a reason the US has so much debt from other nations..because it's the most trusted debt in the world.

"Hello from the other side" ..have you passed away or ? In all seriousness this is a decent topic and there's on main thing I'd like to add.  Everyone needs to keep in mind that bitcoin is inherently NOT an investment.  It's a currency, and I wish more people saw it that way.  To me, and I know there's plenty that disagree, but to me bitcoin will only succeed if it become an easier and cheaper to use form of money.  That's just me, and I do feel pretty strongly about that.

Has it become an investment just like all currencies are, yes..but make sure to keep this all in mind when "investing" in bitcoin.  I do wish more people cared about it's tech and why it was created.

So I've been playing a little bit of roulette on a couple different gambling sites online.  I've been throwing a few satoshis on playing Poker (Texas Hold'Em) here and there as well.  Mainly focusing on Roulette, how can I be sure that the site is provably fair? I've heard this term used before by gambling buddies on here, but I've near really learned how you can know or find out if a sites games are "provably fair"?

I think you could consider gambling an investment if you know what you're doing to at least some extent.  If you have no idea what you're doing, I would probably classify it in the same realm as like buying a lotto ticket.  I'm not sure I would consider that investing.  I mean for me, betting on NFL games is really not all that much different than taking a gamble on individual stocks. 

I have no idea what any of that means so I will definitely be reaching out to you on like Discord (probably easier to chat that way than on here).  I really appreciate it!



I've heard of stuff like this.  See I'm all good otherwsie.  I pay a billion dollars a month for YouTube TV..okay more like 90..which is insane since the whole cord cutting thing (getting rid of cable) was supposed to be a big money saver.  Then if you want "4k" which is not real 4k BUT does look SO much better, you've got to pay 15/mo and only Fox offers "4K" games in the playoffs.  So this was the only game I needed help with all year.  Even Thursday night I can stream from Twitch since the past two years the Amazon Prime games have been payed on there by Amazon..I doubt this continue to last but we will see.

I just came across Leo’s thread and am just in a way I can’t explain. I didn’t know Leo, but I know our paths crossed a multitude of times. Largely just remembering him by his unique user name and someone who’d randomly show up on threads I was involved with and always adding a positive contribution in some shape or form.

Incredibly saddened. I sent Leo a PM to thank him and bid well wishes, I just feel terrible having just now seen the thread and not being able to comment since it’s now locked. He may never see my PM or comment but I know he understands how much he meant to many here.

Farewell Leo, whatever’s after this I hope our paths cross again one day.

I’m glad it was a disaster. I’m embarrassed to admit it but I got malware’d trying to find a damn stream. I ended up getting malwarebytes pro from a buddy so it kinda worked out lol.




Gatorade is always a popular prop. That's a dangerous bet I feel like it’s always the one the least amount of money was put on. No conspiracies it’s just tough one.

I make my biggest bet of the year for the SB and I’m never confident. Niners are a better team overall hands down, but KC is legit all around plus they got that 1 QB which makes a bit of a difference. Might was well flip a quarter.

Lulz, I gotta stop smoking so much while listing my auctions. So unfortunately no, this will not be the longest auction in forum history  

Hi bid:

(I also dream of BTCC. Just such great collectibles all around. But, bills unfortunately have to be paid sometimes).

Making smart decisions like this can go a long way for peoples financial and economic situations.  I have never been a smoker, sure I've had them many times, but it's probably been 10 years or so since I've even taken a drag.  I was in the gas station the other day and just blown away by how expensive they were.  So good on you for making positive changes in your life like this.