That already harms the privacy of the kid and the OP, but fuck it, unless we're living in 2070 I don't expect all my neighbors to have a grasp of what cryptocurrencies are, let alone what bitcoin is. They might think it's something to mock the kid eventually though, which is definitely going to affect the kid's future in school and studies, so I say and suggest that OP teach his relatives and friends to refrain from calling the kid as bitcoin when he starts growing up. Think of a different name they can use to refer to the kid as cause it's going to be dangerous for the kid to retain that Bitcoin moniker one way or another and I'm not even exaggerating one bit here. I've seen and experienced first hand just how stupid and dangerous people can get when money's involved.

In any case, that's a cute way to call the kid, it lets him know as early as possible of what bitcoin and cryptocurrency is, not that it would really matter cause at the end of the day it's going to be up to the kid when he grows up whether he wants to take upon his dad's footsteps and enter the world of crypto or explore a new realm of passive income that doesn't force him to degen on a stupidly-named cryptocurrency every now and again. But pretty sure 9 times out of 10 early education about all the life skills he's gonna need including financial literacy is going to get him to heights you wouldn't realize possible.

Bro calm down, OP's pretty much just asking what could be the reason why it's dumped like that much over the past few days which is a valid question to inquire whether you're a "boy" as you put it or a "man".

Exactly, just cause bitcoin marinated on the 42k price point for too long doesn't make it any more immune against the tides of the market as the rest of the cryptocurrency market. It's pretty much still liable to follow market mechanics and its behavior regardless of its standing in the echelons. People's misconception against bitcoin makes them think it was this end all be all jesus of the crypto and financial world that they could use to maximize their earning potential with little to no risk involved. The reality couldn't be any farther from the truth. I reckon most people here who stuck until now have lost just as much money on the crypto industry as the biggest winners, if not more.

Understand that things like this are a regular wednesday thing for bitcoin and it would recover just as much as it would lose eventually.

Honestly man as long as you pay your rent you should be good. Plus of course you gotta make sure that your landlord's comfortable of getting paid in bitcoin, otherwise you might wanna run to the nearest exchange and get your bitcoins traded for fiat as your landlord's probably not gonna be so eager as to accept digital money, and will not be eager hearing or learning about it either when they could just get what they want without all the guessworks. Regarding paying for rent with bitcoin and how "stupid" it could possibly be, I wouldn't really say that. At the end of the day bitcoin's a cryptocurrency created to rival the fiat system and with that in mind you should've known that it's going to be used to purchase services and goods. If you isolate bitcoin as nothing but a way for you to increase your profits sooner or later the industry would die down as it loses all the sense and purpose for creating cryptocurrencies when they get stripped down into nothing but profit generators.

So yeah, there's some method to the madness of accepting a cryptocurrency not only as a store of value but as an alternate currency the country could use for payment and purchases, it's not inherently wrong or stupid and it's going to drive profit and economic growth even in most cases.

You're barking at the wrong tree bud.

The main intent of the book is not to babysit you all throughout your financial journey to protect you against every single financial threat on the planet. It's meant to propel you into creating an achievable plan for your financial success. It's evident from the polarizing rich dad and poor dad dynamics, letting you know of how the regular guy thinks and how someone from an affluent background may think in certain situations where you're given the relatable poor dad where some of your habits may resonate with, and the proper behavior which you can get from the rich dad. It's not meant to teach you what to do when your crypto wallet gets hacked or whatever the fuck you're trying to insinuate right here. All it wants you to know is that regardless if you come from a rich or a poor background, the first step to getting rich is not having a lot of money, but having the proper mindset and discipline to get there.

We done now? You good? You still thinking Robert Kiyosaki should've taught you how to peel your eggs or whatnot? Nope? Okay. Let's move on.

Pretty heavy accusation to throw willy-nilly my friend. At the very least you could've provided receipts stating what you're claiming to be the case. I checked on your profile for posts where you got attacked by a Legendary member and I don't see any, so this is either some post you made up cause you see some of them being very vocal about their statements or you're just trying to stir up some trouble in this forum, either way I don't think it's fair to these people that you accuse them of something and you can't back up what you're trying to say.

Plus I don't think I have ever seen someone here scrutinize someone for their personal affiliation just yet, and even then if they did that would be grounds for account bans. Feels like you're just butthurt for those who got called out by legendaries for subpar content, or for what I think what you think is them being very harsh on lower ranking members when the truth of the matter is that they're just being very personalized with their way of conveying their thoughts. Either way not inherently bad for the forum all in all.

Thing is wherever you go there will be people who won't agree with your shit, let's just be real on that. It's how you react upon these people that would determine whether you're really cut for this forum or you want those echo chambers where they keep patting themselves on the back even though they knew with 1000% certainty they are doing the wrong thing.

Which is why I think an economic crash is nigh and necessary at this point. And while it's definitely gonna cause a lot of death and starvation amongst those below the poverty line, I see this as a reset that would allow people to have the same amount of purchasing power as our forefathers did in the past. See, the wage gap is increasing yearly and there's nothing that we can't do about it. House prices are skyrocketing, making it impossible for us to even dream of owning our very own houses. The final straw for me is the fucking payment arrangement pizza where you can pay your pizza in installments, at this point I'm sure we're already in the end times of the economy. Soon as a crash happens houses will be dirt cheap, jobs are going to be easier to come by and would pay comfortable rates, and so on.

I don't mean to be the end of the world guy of this forum but as it stands today it seems as though that's what's being laid in front of us. The good thing is that if we make it out alive we're going to experience one of the most fulfilling economic times in the history of man. So I guess it's those instances where you use radical solutions for radical problems lol.

These are massive honeytraps if you'd ask me. Looking for no-KYC of anything that is.

I've been like that in the past cause I find the process of giving them my ID and my identity a massively-cumbersome process, until I happen upon a site that doesn't ask you for shit and I thought I hit the jackpot. Turns out, I lost all my money cause the site banned me for some shit and is not allowing me to withdraw all my money. Which means I got scammed. Expensive lesson if I do say so myself.

I'm not saying this to fearmonger and say that you shouldn't look out for No-KYC sites anymore as they are dangerous, I'm pretty sure there are still a couple of them out there that legitimately service their users with 100% trust and honesty, finding them is the hardest part. If you're willing to go the distance and possibly get scammed on your way to finding an exchange that's not gonna swindle you out of your hard-earned moolah, then by all means go for it. But if you wanna stay safe, then stick to trusted sites. Pretty sure this forum has a bunch of boards and threads talking about such trading platforms anyway so you won't really have to scour the edges of the interweb to find the right trading platform for you.

Pretty sure there are still a few thousands of them who are not getting paid either because they want to, or because no signature campaign wants to take them due to posting habits, merits, or previous flags.

Ahh Sir Sceptical, if only these anti-sigs thinks the same way as you do.

Signature campaigns have been the forum's bread and butter combo but as it stands the hate for signature campaign members seem to just grow by the day, and I'm not sure if I'm comfortable about it anymore. People stating in their posts that the quality of the forum's gonna shoot up if theymos stopped allowing signature campaigns from happening and the likes have bugged my meta feed for a while now and frankly I just don't understand the hate directed towards people who are given the chance to get paid for doing the same thing they would otherwise do if they aren't.

Matter of fact and this is a keen observation of mine, most shitposters in here aren't even from campaigns, they were those no-sig mfers who push out content shat by ChatGPT or stolen from the bird app to get merits and rise up the ranks, possibly to get signed up on a signature campaign, if they want to shoo shitposters away from this forum I think they should look into that instead of directing their hate against people whose posts are weekly audited and observed for quality.

Tell me you know nothing about bitcoin without telling me you know nothing about bitcoin. Seriously though, until now I don't know scat about Jamie Dimon lol.

The fact of the matter is that as soon as bitcoin was launched Satoshi's got no hold of its technology anymore (I think) except for the few thousands of bitcoins at his disposal. He relinquished his role as a core dev way back in 2012 and since then we haven't heard of the guy, and I don't know about Jamie but when I relinquish shit I don't go thinking I could still take advantage of it on the side lol, plus Satoshi doesn't paint himself as someone who's going to do that anyway.

It's just these people throwing out weird circumstances that are remotely possible but highly improbable to either throw people who aren't decided if they wanna go the crypto route or give those stupid fearmongers more fuel to hate on cryptocurrencies. I personally wouldn't worry about this kind of shit since it's not gonna do anything for the crypto industry anyway but every now and again a stupid motherfucker's gonna have to speak up and a couple smart fellas from that industry's just gonna have to shut him up.

That was intended by the moderators in here so as to make sure that those who are able to get to higher ranks duly deserve it. Not to take the spotlight away from you but if I'm not mistaken it took me quite a long while as well to actually get to the Hero Member Rank, and now that this account's my account's almost 10 years now I'm still a couple hundred merits away from getting the legendary rank. I don't intend to push for it to be hastened as I want organic ranking and I'm pretty sure as you progress to the ranks you'd wish it was that way as well.

The best thing to do right now really is have the patience of a saint, consistently drive content and improve upon your posting quality and habits. The statement "great effort in bitcointalk goes unmerited" is not as true as one might think, as we have a couple of great merit sources here who would gladly take up a look at your account and posts and grant you merits based on the quality of your posts.

All you really have to do at this point is not be discouraged that it's taking so long for you to reach the Sr. Member rank, push to get more content out but don't be spammy, be helpful to people and give them valuable insights/opinions, be honest and create a positive impact in this forum and I'll bet you my bottom dollar you'd get the Sr. member rank eventually.

And this goes for everyone, as for you, just keep posting and pushing out content, the activities here are update on a regular basis anyway so in no time your rank's gonna be updated. The more you wait for it the longer it's gonna take.

I mean I take it upon myself to never miss a thing now that I'm still able to work and actually earn money for my investments. And in regards to my investment I make sure to always leave a foot on the door to make sure that I don't miss out on what's the most profitable venture out there. But putting so much pressure upon someone just because they're still young is a little too much yeah?

Picture this my friend, the average lifespan of a regular human being's around 70 rounded up, you have 18 years to spend growing up, and afterwards you're legally an adult in most countries. Do you think that's enough years to pressure someone into becoming rich? I get preparing for retirement and being very prudent with your money is a thing and I mostly do that too, but there are some of us who are young adults down in their luck cause opportunities couldn't come their way even if they wanted to. I personally wouldn't fault them for it cause I've been like that in the past as well and I know just how helpless the situation is.

So for any young adult in here, don't pressure yourself. Find a job that you're comfortable with first, set your finances straight, and only then do I suggest you go out there and invest. Don't fall for motivational retards on the internet pushing you or forcing you into thinking that just cause you couldn't get a lambo at this age you're a fucking failure altogether, you still have years and decades ahead of you. Make the most out of it.

I'm not so sure what to prepare myself for lol. China's economy's been largely isolated and kept amongst themselves so it doesn't really matter that their economy is going down the sinkhole when the whole world doesn't depend upon them for anything. However, what I could envision and want to happen in all actuality is a domino effect of the housing bubble crashing. China's been on the gutter lately because of this and it's not gonna take time before the rest of the world catches up with this. Airbnbs will be sold for cheap and the housing market's gonna be purchasable among Gen Z'ers that we're able to buy land just like how our ancestors did in the past. Way to stick it up to mfers who hoarded houses.

Besides that there's not much to prepare for really, the threat of a global pandemic is still nigh but it's been stated that it wouldn't come from China once again and could come from somewhere else, every country's busy with their own failing economies that they couldn't really care about the state of China's, and we're at the end times environmentally-speaking as we're nearing CO2 emissions that are stated to be "irrecoverable" while our kids are gonna be born with microplastics in their bloodstreams. So yeah, I don't think we should prepare for China, I think we should actually prepare for the rest of the world and the end times that are nigh.

C'mon man, you gotta do better than that. If you really couldn't control your urges get yourself admitted to a rehabilitation clinic and get treated not only for your gambling addiction but for your depression as well. I have a hunch that you've become addicted to gambling as a result of your depressive episodes which lead to you secluding yourself from the public. And whether I'm right or I'm wrong matters little cause at this point it's either you quit cold turkey and swear not to enter or touch any casino ever again, or you find a way to do so, with the most effective being that you get admitted to a rehabilitation center.

And I don't mean to downplay you but I don't think it's as "uncontrollable" as you're trying to put it my friend. The fact that you're still able to find the time to do stuff instead of gambling is a clear indication that you can steer away from it even if it's just a matter of hours or minutes. I have a good hunch you can pretty much quit cold turkey and substitute gambling with a productive hobby instead like going to the gym or finding a job that suits your skillsets. That's pretty much what you can do at this point which wouldn't rid you of access to your phone or devices. Or maybe reach out to family members and crash into their place while paying some of their rent. You need company if you want to quit gambling, that's the only effective solution I could really advise you right now.

Pretty sure you can't blame gambling on this one, and the guy's already had histories of being very abusive and self-centered that he's willing to leave his kids with no food or supervision to indulge himself. Which is why you people should choose who you're going to fucking marry and have kids with. Looks doesn't matter at this point anymore, you gotta find someone who will put up with your shit and would be able to support you all throughout holistically.

Again, you can't blame gambling for this cause no one in their right minds would have the balls to leave their kids alone in their homes just so they can splurge money that they probably shouldn't even be wasting in the first place. This is textbook abuse from the father and it's good that they got the bastard arrested already. Not sure what kind of dad he was in the past but I can say with high certainty that he wasn't a supportive father to begin with. This couldn't be the first time he did this and he might've even done even more heinous things in the past to his family, or maybe idk, I'm just getting high off of the emotions at this point lol.

I don’t know if someone already said this in here but the odds you play with relies only and depends solely to you and your specific playstyle. You can take all the advices this forum could give about managing your risks and wins but if betting all in everytime’s the thing that keeps you going, by all means my friend.

There are certainly people who gamble on a tight risk system, myself included, and there are people who are willingnto splurge their whole bankroll and act a la Drake when they gamble. But at the end of the day if that’s sustainable for you, and also something that you find comfort and enjoyment in then there’s nothing wrong about it. But of course there’s a fine line between doing what makes you happy and actually falling into gambling addiction. If you see yourself revenge gambling one game after another and getting the shakes from gambling so much then I suggest you wuit gambling right then and there and find something else to be busy about.

Risks are always going to be present whether you gamble or not. It’s just much apparent in this industry, but that doesnmt mean you can just rawdog your whole life away without being mindful of your mental state. Being careful always pays.

Addiction is the problem, it’s not the cause of problems. You only think so cause you see the domino effect it makes when someone who’s already off the deep end decides to do stuff that is just flat-out stupid and dangerous.

Gambling addiction doesn’t have to affect a person’s family members to start being considered as a problem. Soon as someone is already burning money for their vices without care on the world and regard for the people around them or their future at the very least, that’s when action should be taken. Often people will consider helping an addict when he’s already far gone that attempts to help him are rendered futile, and that’s just stupid in my opinion.

You don’t have to be kidnapping people or robbing gas stations for cash to gamble and burn for people to start considering you as a problem. As soon as you’re starting to show signs of being addicted you actually should be given the help that you need. And this is also why I always advocate to letting your loved ones and close reatives know that you’re gambling, so they could act as s viable support system for you when stuff gets rough and you find yourself becoming addicted to gambling.

Saw the massive decline in people's opinion about Keith Thurman lol. I honestly think he'd be able to win this fight.

For instance, let's talk about that 1 loss record against Tszyu's 0. At a first glance you'd think Thurman's loss completely tarnishes his record, but when you realize that he lost to Manny Pacquiao, arguably one of the most powerful boxers of our time, you'd realize that people aren't cutting him that much slack. You have to realize that's Pacman. If Tszyu's put in Thurman's place in my opinion he wouldn't even be able to hold a candle against Pacquiao as good as Thurman did (and the guy was folded like a chinese food menu).

Thurman also has a higher KO ratio against the Tszyu's. That's something to talk about my friend. I'm guessing Thurman's gonna knock the lights out of the guy if given the chance and this is not a fight to just disregard. And being inactive for almost two year's not gonna do much dent on Thurman's speed and style, pretty sure the guy didn't slumped himself on their couch and fattened himself up like a thanksgiving goose all those months so I don't think there's much concern about that. He's still the same fighter all in all.

Regardless of who wins or loses though, I think both these fighters are gonna put up a good fight and we might see a blockbuster boxing match right here. As OP mentioned both fighters are still pretty much in their primes and they have little to lose this early in their career so we might see these being the new Marquez Pacquiao rivalry of this season if not our era lol.

I say people who places bets on specific outcomes for the sole purpose of entertainment or profit could be considered as gamblers, but even then it would be very vague cause that would mean people who do trading are also gamblers (I mean they kind of are, but not that kind of gambling).

I guess it's really hard to pinpoint what gamblers are at the end of the day, cause you could easily say you're a gambler as long as you're playing risky games either for the glory or for the money, and even then a case could be made for why you aren't. Going to your disdain of the gambler moniker, I say it's nothing but a convenient name convention for people who have wasted their lives in the gambling industry which people saw as an opportunity to make use of. Personally I see through the realities of it and I don't get "offended" as you may have been. Regardless, I can understand why you could be though.

I think the best course of action here is not necessarily find a line to draw to realize whether you're a gambler or not, but to just be smart and responsible with your shit when you're gambling actually. Cause at the end of the day it's not the name that kills you, it's the actions you take while toting that title that defines you, and what you're going to be.

We're dealing with two extremes here, both with little to no responsibilities at that particular point in their lives. With that in mind I say that in average these age groups could have the same level of enjoyment as each other.

Besides the responsibilities and money pressure factor, the reason why I thought so is because of the fact that stressors aren't really present anymore when you're as old as these two age groups. On one hand, you got the world on your hands and you basically have all the time in the world to make up when you fail. If you're gambling as an old person it doesn't really bother you anymore when you lose money since you're going to die soon anyway and if your family's secure financially, then there's little reason for you to really have personal money at this point.

Of course other factors like financial status, could affect just how much someone could enjoy gambling. But in theory if we're just talking about these two age groups and the average experiences that you may have when you're at these ages then the statement still stands, you're gonna have just as much fun when you gamble as an old guy as if you're gambling when you're a kid. Which makes me think, for those who really can't see themselves not gambling, why not delay until you're old and gray, you're gonna have as much fun as if you would gamble today! I don't know man, just food for thought.

Well initially as any other guy who's done this shit for quite a number in his life I feel a little excited every time I go and visit a gambling site or my local casino. It's just the sheer anticipation of being able to play with my own money and possibly win that gets me going this early in the stage.

Now soon as I take a seat and actually get into a game, I try to be as calm as possible, get all that giddy out the system, not because I wanna feel like Scarface or something but just cause I want to take the whole experience in without it being tainted by any initial emotion before I enter the casino. I wanna experience each session with full undivided attention so to speak. Soon as I place my first bet, the excitement builds up and depending on the result, I get even more excited or hungry to take the next bet. I live for the adrenaline rush, and allow the results to provide me just that but not affect my overall mood so I rarely ever revenge gamble.

Once I get my fill, I immediately get up and get all the excitement that I gathered all throughout with a quick walk outside or an hour of gaming. This helps me calm the nerves and be able to take in the whole experience. I never gamble for profit ever since I came upon the realization that I was slowly becoming a gambling addict back in 2020 so I only ever rely upon these recollections to really enjoy my gambling sessions.

And that's about it. It's not really a Roller Coaster but kind of a bumpy ride back home. And honestly I'd prefer if people were like that since it gives you the anticipation build-up without the negative effects.