There's no impossible thing in terms of scamming, they will do everything to pretend that they can do that and they are able to make money with those picks that they are sharing, a very good way to attract followers and a possible victims, and like what most of the replies here said, it's much better to play with your own knwledge instead of following or believing with those so-called experts.

Take your time and learn the process, don't look for that quick profits scheme most of them are just a scam claim and will just messed up with your money.

$50, is a dream money for me, and imagining someone to just stake it for a spin is mind boggling, I guess it'll probably be nothing to the super rich, it'll be to them an amount that they can afford to loose. $0.5 to win $420000, seems a reasonable risk amount for am average income earning gambler, because he'll probably not consider suicide if he loses such am amount on gambling. The conclusion is that every gambler should bet the amount that they can afford to loose, and the amount can sound enomously crazy or ridiculously funny to others, but so far as the gambler has no qualms about staking it, then it's all good.

I agree, not withdrawing right now is a good approach and should be considered as the best thing to do at the moment. I agree that there are some people who are fearing what may happen, but I think it would be quite good to just let it be, I feel like that would be an ideal situation. I am not saying that it is going to hurt us on the long run, but that is still a good thing and we need to let it be and not sell or not touch our coins and just hold and wait.

If we can do that for about a year, then we are going to get a lot more profit, and I am not sure how much more, but I bet that it is going to be way more than what most people assume it would be. I believe that in a year, we are going to peak over the ATH price and will do amazingly.

Most of the votes in the betting are yes the SEC approves the ETF, but you are right that no one knows when this decision will actually come, whether the approval of the Bitcoin ETF application comes this month or when.
It just that many people, including investors, are waiting and they hope the SEC will approve it in the near future.
But betting on something like this will be much more difficult than other bets such as sports betting, I personally don't have the desire or decision to be able to take part in betting and I would much prefer to use the money I have to bet on sports because the opportunities are more visible and the results will be exactly as scheduled.
But for those who bet on options like this, it doesn't matter because this is quite important and of course the approval of the Bitcoin ETF application could have very positive impact on the future development of Bitcoin.

We now live in a world where we are busy making money and making ends meet. We have to in order to survive. The competition is so high that sometimes we lose ourselves in that process. We are busy making a successful life so that no one related to us won't suffer. Having a decent bank balance, having a property or having a car. Working to the extreme to make that dream come true.

But in that process, are we giving enough attention to our surroundings? People close to us or our loved ones, are we giving enough time to them? When we are gone, what will they say about us? Or even if someone left us forever, will we have enough memory to remember them?

Earning money and being successful is important in life. But never forget who you are and the people around you. Money is not everything. It is important to survive but make sure to take some time to bond with people around you. It will also help reduce the anxiety or stress that you are having because of all that work.

Trust the process, you will be successful one day for sure. But never lose your own soul in that process.

Money matters yes but I disagree that Manny is only up for this money. The dude can't just forget boxing and he's even still in shape to fight in a professional match. There are lots of short interviews before on his post-retirement where he mentioned that he's still doing his usual regime in boxing-related training and he misses coming back again in the ring that's why he's here in the exhibition match scene.

Mayweather is the only one up for the money.  But is that what the exhibition matches for, right? Money is included in the scene. It's also hard to arrange exhibition matches between legend names. Let's also add that this exhibition match between Pacquiao and Mayweather will happen not on their too much old age.

Mayweather retired in 2017 while Manny in 2021. And just imagine a few years later they will be in the exhibition match. Surely it will be a good treat for those people who can witness the fight live as it might not happen again in the future.

The two of them just held a press conference in Japan

*BREAKING* PACQUIAO vs MAYWEATHER 2 IS ON! OFFICIAL PRESS CONFERENCE and TRASH TALK ~ANNOUNCEMENT!~
They are both promoting the fight and agreed to do it not only is Pacquiao doing it, but this press conference shows the character of both fighters, Floyd keeps insisting that he is the best while Pacquiao is all thankful for the opportunity, I hope Manny shut down Floyd so he can stop bragging how great he is.

This is a great opportunity for both fighters to make money in their retirement, people are still interested to see both fighters although they aged they still have the same form as when they are still active.

And to be fair in the world of crypto, it's usually justified as well. I have to say that it's going to be quite difficult to handle something that would go down when you think it will go up. However, in the world of crypto, over course of few years, it always goes back up and that is the most important part, I believe that we are going to end up with something that would benefit everyone all the same.

As long as we give it enough time, bitcoin will go up, that is not just optimism itself neither, that is actually a fact that has been true so far, we have seen it go down as well at times but we have always seen it go back up ,and that is why most people believe that it will go back above ATH again eventually, no matter how long it takes.

Taking risks in gambling when under pressure is never a good idea, because you start acting irrationally, lead by impulses. Consequently, you get outside your initial planned budged to take risks you shouldn't. These risks end bringing losses you can't afford to lose. Losses you weren't expecting to face when you initiated your gambling session. In other words: the situation gets out of control and escalates really fast. Once you notice, the mess is already done.

So, avoid getting under pressure while gambling. When you see it's happening, just stop before it's too late. Nobody knows you better than yourself, therefore you are the one who must identify the symptoms anxiety and pressure are increasing deep inside, and once you spot it happening, in the beginning yet, you have to tell yourself it's time to give a break. Close the app or website, take some breath outside, drink a cup of water, talk to someone close to you, refresh your mind for a while... Don't give up to the temptation of continue playing when, rationally, you know you can't!

The pressure won't last forever. If you follow the procedure above you will see it diminishing slowly within time.

I agree with that, even though we do things that are said to be small, but if it is for good and leads to something of positive value then it won't be a problem, as you said it is "filling the piggy bank", I think this can be said It's small but this can bring goodness to us, because by saving in a piggy bank of course this will produce a lot of money if you consistently do it. Maybe there are still many people who don't really care about this, but what is clear is that those who already have a steady income I think they must set aside some of their income for savings, because it is also for their good in the future.

That's true, I have also seen my friend who has a side job and manages it well overall, as a result he dared to leave his main job because he was sure that the side job he had could generate big profits, so now he himself has become a boss who has quite a lot of employees, this is motivation for myself, where I want to be like this because I want to bring my friends who don't have jobs, because if I can invite my friends to work, indirectly I have helped them financially. they. This small dream that I have must be able to be developed, therefore I prefer to start so that I can have a profitable business.

Any work we start without understanding the fully basic will first gives loss but if we don't give up and learn from our past mistakes then we could become a very experienced man of the field. Trading is not a complicated task to learn but one thing here is more which is uncertainty of profit or loss. we could just analyse the future market and nothing more than that while market can turn in any ways. Mostbof times analysis work but sometimes we could loss despite of following fully technical analysis. We have to choose a best strategy which minimize our risk and couldn't be panic from intitial loss.

No, they have never helped me while gambling and I will not advise anyone to get invested in it. You can easily find many of those accounts on social media advertising their betting codes and posting their winnings. Many of them deploy tricks to lure their audience in, and some are actually good with gambling with the occasional to frequent wins, but they stake very many games, lots of which are unsuccessful. If you don't have the staking power they do, you cannot follow them up.
Some work for brands, just doing their business.

Find what game works for you and have fun with it. Gambling won't make you rich, or better still the chances of that happening is less than 0.01%

- Jay -

Isn't that normal? you can't expect Bitcoin price will keep increase despite bull run will happen, so small drop is fine, until Bitcoin price keep decrease everyday.

The reason miners send BTC to exchanges doesn't make sense, big amounts transfer is happen for many times, you can check it here https://t.me/s/whale_alert_io

As for Matrixport's article, they could be right or could be wrong, but it's crazy people are gambling in Bitcoin ETFs by put $10 Billion in futures.

There's no such thing as gambling experts who can make 100% predictions they do not exist, if one is an expert and he can make 100% winning all the time when he wants to, he will keep it to himself and will not temp people to challenge him, casinos will ban him because as we all know casinos are profit driven and they might think that the user is manipulating or exploiting a bug.
If someone calls himself an expert he should be brave enough to show his betting and winning history, not only proof of one winning, gambling experts for me are those who can control their bankroll and know when to stop and knows the fact about gambling

the halving gives that sense of scarcity for bitcoin that motivates many people to start accumulating, i remember back then when halving is happening, usually the price aren't increasing suddenly by significant amount but instead the market is turning the direction of bullish trend, the increase was steady and slow at the beginning but later on it goes faster and faster maybe because the presence of institutional investors back then that try to make some big fuss about investing in bitcoin, i remember clearly that tesla is one of the company that invested and when they clarified to public that they are investing, everyone went crazy even other big corporation and companies are also following the same path, developing app for crypto, integrating it to their product and so on, that cause the bitcoin price to go as high as $100k and thats already so massive.
right now we see we are moving towards the direction of bullrun and I think its just matter of time that we see the bullrun maybe in the next year we will see some great change and maybe we gonna have yet another bullrun.

Greetings everyone and happy new year all!

Okay, today I was actually out for a little business and it happens that I almost spent all my time wasted without me even having a smooth deal, but along the line I have few games that I have placed a bet and was wanting to view my games from my phone since gambling is now mobile, what I meant by mobile is that you can access your account at any place provided that you have an internet connectivity you will login to monitor your matches.

So when I logged in, someone close to me easily peep from my left hand side and noticed that I just opened my account monitoring my games, at this point what he said is "ahh you don join dem"? Meaning you have also belong to the groups of people that gambles?

On a lighter note, I just smile and asked him if there is anything wrong while gambling or while monitoring my games and he said nothing but just that few people he knew that are gambling almost turned useless.

This now triggered me to come ask here whether you cares about what people says or sees you as when gambling, I know there are people who don't know you from time or who doesn't believe that you are a gambler and if it happens that you came across such people and their reaction towards you goes other way round would you care about it or you just totally ignore them?

Let's discuss amicably

I think futures trading is a form of gambling. I saw the last six months report of a younger brother who is very close to me. He knows about crypto from my younger brother. He was taught the holding trade. Meaning, he was given an idea of how to trade on the spot. But he can learn about how to trade futures with the help of YouTube. And without informing my younger brother, he slowly started trading futures. After six months, the condition of his family became very bad. He was born in a middle class family. Later, the area was talking about his loss. I found out from his family that he lost around 14 thousand dollars trading crypto. I told him the last time I saw him to buy bitcoins with all his wealth. But he didn't hear anything. Later he sold his grandfather's land and paid off all his loans. Later I came to know from him that he knows about futures trade from YouTube and lost all his dollars by trading without understanding the value of x.

Now my question is futures trade is actually gambling? Or how did he lose all his dollars?

There are different views about Parlay and system bets, but I learn one thing from the experience after staying into chats and other conversations with different punters about this all mostly love to stay with one bet because they feel its good but sometime if we odds issue then they sometime like to have one more but with few peoples those want to become rich quickly and also busted very quickly they prefer Parlay and system bets which have too much risk and many times happen to me as well while we have 5 or 6 teams parlay this busted at the last or second last bet which is more painful, but now I believe going with one bet is much but for fun we can jump into bets with more teams as well.