The sad reality of life is that not everyone will be rich though even when richness is subjective to people. No matter how you guide and write books about ladder to success, some people will do what is going to make them happy rather than running after richness not to talk of being wealthy because having a wealth is totally different from being rich and being rich is different from average life and that is also different from been poor.

Your number 2 is also subjective; we have people who rely on a single source of income and make a lot of money, but their job takes up almost all of their time, so they don't have much time to pursue other sources of income. People who work in oil companies, particularly the top guys, devote their entire lives to it and it is their sole source of income, yet they make nearly all of the money anybody could possibly imagine since they are paid so highly.

Is that all the reason that justifies why investors should hold Coinbase shares? I don't and I will not hold their shares because that is not concrete reason enough for me. First of all, Coinabase is nothing but a centralized exchange, they are not different from Binance, Okex and others but because they are situated in the US and fully regulated, they couldn't launch a token like other centralised exchanges so they decided to go the traditional way to launch shares which were circulated among the top venture capitalist, only a few was given to the public, that said.

Coinbase is holding ETF Bitcoin because they are experienced in the games and the ETF companies don't want to risk any hack attempt and this is just like Binance and Kucoin holding user Bitcoin, is there any difference between this and the custodial platforms that we had already? They probably have more Bitcoin in custody than what Coinbase will hold with this approval, so what's new here? Nothing my friend.

Congratulations on finding out that gambling is a scam but you went ahead and still played it many times, I guess it is safe to say that you are the scam here, you know how it was structured and never designed to really favour those outside the house and yet you are crying like a baby crying for a milkshake to cool down the temperature, next do a due diligence about something about it before going fully on it. Again, the fact that you mention jackpot makes it more that you want to use your small balance to win a big amount, the money you never worked for, get work next time.


It's not like gambling is a place where money is guaranteed to be made; in fact, many casinos and gambling platforms would have closed down if the system had not been designed that way. The player's money is what fluctuates between losses and profits; otherwise, there would never be any casinos left today. Because of the way entropy operates, gambling is primarily reliant on luck. For this reason, I prefer to wager on player performance in sports like basketball and hockey rather than casino games, where I can make more informed decisions based on player performance than just pure luck.

You don't tell people what they want to do with their earned merit, if they find your post worthy enough, I'm very confident they will give you without thinking twice. It's true that some people don't send out their Smerit and that could be for some reasons. It could be that they don't see good quality posts, it might be that they don't write in English frequently and they are more active in local board than the main board, it might also be that the person doesn't like you, this might sound harsh but some people have their favourite people they check their profile and give to the posts they think they deserve it.

I want you to know that we have more than 20 merit source in this forum, if one active user doesn't give you, the rest will give you and if you are active in doing things that deserve merit, not only the merit source will hive you, even normal people that engage to post will give you merits. It's depend on your efforts and how active you are in the Forum and how valuable your posts are to the public and don't expect to get merited for all your efforts, you might even do quality things that deserves merit and you wouldn't get that moment but when anyone comes across it, they can give you if it's worthy and deserving.

If we call that silly mistakes, what are we going to call people that keep coins on the exchange? I mean why are you going to keep all your coins on another exchange? Aside from the KYC complications, people has normalised centralized exchanges where to keep their coins. Maybe they see it as a conventional banks they use daily but they don't even know that the purpose of bitcoin is to minimize or even eradicate that from people but what do you expect? Almost everyone now are after where to profits and not to look on why the things they are buying and selling even exited.

What people don't know makes them doubt and it will be impossible to track or follow you. It's only when you leave traces on the internet it become easy for people to know. Why will you live your coins on centralized exchanges when you are not even a trader? Why?. I just think that no matter what you say, people will do what gives them comfort and that's centralized exchanges.

People still gets disappointed from Chelsea performance, I have remove them since first week of December from my favorite teams for gambling. I don't pick them to win and I don't their rival to win because I don't know them again. The last time I check their standing on the table was the same early December and I check and then they remain where I left them, 8 win 8 loss and 4 draw, damn Todd Boehly is a calm man. If I'm the owner, my hot temper would have sent him a sack letter to live my fucking club for his incompetent.

How can you have 70 ball possession and can't make a simple chance, all their shot on target were useless and conversion was poor. Been in Premier League is a privilege and hardwork, when a team of Premier League has a match from another team from other leagues, it shouldn't be ground breaking thing to do, more like a soft work but Chelsea made it look like impossible miracle. Maybe the next time they start having less fans coming to watch the team matches, the owner will become proactive person.

Good picks I must say but as easy as they sound, the reality is different and here is my reservation about your points.

If you want to avoid this, try as much as possible to gamble what you can afford to lose. This arises most often than not when you gamble with the money you needed badly and when that happen, the next line of action that comes to your medula is "I need to get back that cash".


This is similar to the first one, as you think of profits, think of loss to avoid disappointment.


If you have a financial challenge, gambling should be the last thing you want to think, avoid like a plague.


This is what gambling is about but is this what it's in reality, is like telling person that smokers are reliable to die young but they love it more despite the health implications. Gambling is for fun but it's mainly money driven, people hardly even look at the fun of it but that's what it's all about.

It's all about strategies, I can choose to play more of it everyday if I'm not running into loss but that is going to be how free I'm that period. As a gambler and sports guy, I can play 3 different types of games and this is going to be different leagues and my allocation are going to be the same even if the risk are different. Let's say for instance, I have $3 as my bankroll, I will split the money into 3 games with a dollar on each and the first one will be have high risk of accumulated odds but will be well analyzed and pick. The next one will be lesser in number than the first and third game would only be just 3 simple games that will have to recover the $3 dollars, doing this will give high chance of making more and even 70% chance of making back my bankroll incase everything went bad.

The disadvantage of this strategy is that leagues don't play all the time, anytime they go for international break, you have to join them and rest and if you try to force yourself to bet, you will regret it because some leagues are less competitive and you might not be as good as you think.

Banks are run through deposit and withdraw, when net withdraws is greater than deposit, they have to restrict customers because the banks doesn't have money on their own, most of the liquidity is from customers deposit which they lend out to companies to make more interests. You can't ask for more than what they have and they can't go to the central bank to ask for what they are using as insurance as some countries does in their policy, if the bank don't do this, they might close down one day.

Another reason why banks do this is because of Government, the government can play the books of restrictions to conserve the people, the market and economy. They might do this more various reasons but that's major reasons I think they do. The idea of banks not having money on their reserve is impossible, the bank can never go broke except for the ones that have trespassed and go beyond principles of banking.

Good creativity but that's going to rubbish the economy. Where do you place the indigenous currency of the country? The Naira that is weaken already and you decided the country to use Bitcoin as legal tender? As much as I like Bitcoin, this one will not work for a Nigeria because right now we are facing a heavy transformation due to lot of changes in policies which might take time before the economy settle down.

However, I don't mind if it's legalized or been accepted as a legal tender and it can be voluntary for any one who wish to pay his staffs ad workers in bitcoin and that again should be on the request of the employers if he want fiat for his payment or bitcoin for the payment, it's as simple as that but I think there might be a little problem with the ongoing transaction fees war on the bitcoin network. The fees that are used to pay transaction fees on the bitcoin, if converted to fiat is more than the minimum wage, how do you expect that work? Bitcoin will be very hard to implement my friend, maybe not for now.

1. I haven't noted the advantage of vIP in the casino that I played but for those that does, is to get access to some important features of the platform and I think you can bet with any currency you like but some casino allow people to pay using their native tokens, that's what don't get as a normal person that loves casino games

2. VIP program doesn't guarantee anything in casino, you may choose to.have a vIP program and if you don't know how to gamble responsibly, you can lose everything Witt one wrong push.

3. I hardly even check if they have anything like that, the only thing l look after is look is how to win the next game I have in mind, period.

In anything you do whether you like using VIP benefits or not, make sure you understand gambling because I don't even know why anyone would be running to get that when can play and win but perhaps because I'm just an ordinary sport person.

The same Aston Villa that beat Manchester City yet you think the closet ally to compete with the Premier League is the same Manchester City. Arsenal might have been disappointment the past weeks but what is even there differences with Arsenal when the both share the same point. The two team team lost the same games just that Arsenal failure is just starting now but Manchester City has had their rough time some months ago but Arsenal still.has chance to recover.

Arsenal has more chance of winning their next match against Crystal palace than Manchester City facing Neecin their next match but my problem is that Arsenal has fumbled, they weren't supposed to lose much than they did and if Manchester city win Newcastle before they recover, then they have more work to do else that table will slip out of their fingers and it's going to be painful considering how they have given many people in the beginning of the season.

This question is not well phrase, it should have been which strategy do you play and how often does it win and lose but I get where your question is pointing.

Gambling is 99% luck no matter the level of your predictions in skills, if it's were skill that people use in winning gambling, then my yesterday predictions that made me win should be enough to give me the same winning but gambling doesn't guarantee that especially if you are the type that loves sport betting. You can decide to play not double chance I.e teams in every match will not draw in any of your matches and it will come, try that th second day and you will get disappointed.

What I play this days is draw or over 2.5, but this are mostly from Premier League matches, I know very well that matches there are tough and when you select such option, when a team score the other one tend to equalized and then the next one try to score so they don't draw and if they score indeed, the other will want to score too, this options is the least tough I have been doing and my losses are minimal.

Gary Gensler posted a cryptic message trying to warn people of their investments some less than 2 hours ago that was what spark the bitcoin candle to shoot up by $2000 dollar, man is trying to be pro active trying to warn people because he knows that he has no choice but to accept the ETF ese he go to court which everyone knows that the court is going to win and they will later be approved, he's trying to serve himself the medicine he always serve people saying bitcoin is this and that but we know he doesn't care at all.

Let's this be approved and let's see what institutional investors are going to do with this hype, they should buy all the bitcoin they want, there is something I want to really check badly and that is their influence in this market, if it is going to stop this havoc and crash we do have from some group of people or they are just another people that we should avoid like FTX and the rest we had in the last 4 years cycle.

Since I have been into crypto, I have only seen this madness only with altcoins trying to reduce the supply of tokens to a burn address and because burn addresses are wallet address without private keys, it is impossible to spend the coins in the wallet but now that I'm seeing this on bitcoin, I'm really confused why anyone will choose to do this madness with such bitcoin. Not even a drug cartel will use his bad money to buy bitcoin only to waste it on a place where he wouldn't have access to it or was it trying to cover tracks?  There is more to do this madness to be honest.

This can't be a mistake a mistake because if this was a Trojan or keyboard hijack, when he pasted the wallet address, if th hacker wanted to have the bitcoin, he would have change the wallet to his own address but instead to a dead wallet which was even obvious from the prefix, the bitcoin was sent from bc1 to 1 prefix, this is not cool but it's what is, the owner would understand better.

I hope this is not another PR  The casino will feel this though because $42M aren't ice cream money.

I'm not in any capacity to wager $50 for a single bet because where am I going to get the next money if I don't win anything after the result? However, if I'm ideal and capable, I can do it but for a second, the person must be really big with heavy pocket to try this. I can't imagine number of times he would have lose to able to be able to win this much, this is will be on the record for them to announce this for the public.

If I'm to be honest, this game is nothing but luck and luck, there is nothing about been expert here, even the player that won this will be shock to seen him win this.

Gambling has an big time addiction but I think we overstretched the discussion sometime. I gamble and not even my close people tell them until one day I showed them my winning ticket and they were like, so you gamble, questions like how can you have sure games and you didn't inform us blah blah. I gambled very well in the month of December during the holiday season because I didn't visit anyone nor go out like other people did but January I reduced it because work has resume and I didn't even feel the impact of going back nor anything missing from life.

I think addiction comes with idleness, if you don't have anything that takes most of your time and you gamble madly everyday doing gambling and trying to make a living from gambling will make you look like a loser, you will think of anything in life other than gambling and gambling and that's how I think addiction and relationships get affected especially from people that are closer to you.

Didn't you see how frustrated the woman is.looking? I don't have the heart to see any elderly person in that manner because obviously it's look that she lost and her money is gone and worry how to get the money back. I saw her video on X some days ago and I was bothered, elderly people should have something more to do other than just gambling. I read here how someone collapse when he won a game from gambling and from the discussion, it seems old age was one of the factors why collapse.

Online or offline, I will not allow them to bet but if money is not involved, then I will let her be and do her thing for the fun. There was one old man that was addicted to gambling to the point where he was using the monthly money sent to him by the children for gambling and this is just one of the ways that lead to such. Addiction with old people is always embarrassing and I wouldn't go through that route.

I was expecting this match to be tough after their last encounter that ended as draw but it seems Arsenal are locked in rabbit hole this second leg of the Premier League we are right now. I didn't expect them to win but I expected a goal from Arsenal atleast because of their recent performance, nothing good so far about their games. Forward is not given, midfield is weak and defenders weren't properly organized. Arteta is beginning to look like the old Arsenal, it's early to start this drama with the way they have come so far.

Klopp has not been making noise, I hardly see him make any strong comments that send a message but lowkey, he is winning and Liverpool are stronger every match with good performance. Arsenal was ahead of them with 6 points sometimes but now, the table has changed Liverpool leading with 5 points from Arsenal and I'm sure if they are going to leave that top of the tree anytime soon.

There is this African proverb that people says, 'What an elderly person see, even if a young boy climb the tallest tree, he will not see it'. This is not about tree, child and elderly person. It's about what you see that those guys are not seeing. They see gambling as a Place to runaway from poverty when it is meant for fun and makes little change for passion; they are running from poverty to become homeless.

I did not only read this online, it's something I have experience personally from people that gambles all their life. They love gambling more than they love their stomach, they are ready to sacrifice their last money to gamble, they see every opportunity to  double their money and gamble, from look of there appearance they even look unkept and unhealthy and they will never listen any advice you give them.

Sometimes, I blame the government about there ways of gambling but this is not about basic needs, we have even the rich that have this character in gambling, they have went from been rich to becoming nothing.