This is rhetorical question though but I will look at it as normal naive question that need some answers.

I don't think we have large number of people that made bastard money from gambling to make a decision on going for retirement. I have only know a couple of gamblers that has made huge amount from gambling but they didn't quit but had an establishment in other investment. They do their gambling on daily basis and still find time to check through their businesses as they don't manage it, other people does but they look out for other things and they are still active in gambling and with that, as long as people win in gambling, they will play to their satisfaction and nothing like retirement.

Our lifestyles differs, we don't live in the same country, the same cities and the same standard of living. An amount you consider to be very large may look smaller in to another person. If you live in New York, you don't expect to win $1M and have plan to quit provided that you still know how to win in gambling, that money might only take younto survive for a year and you will be broke and might go back into gambling again.

However, with that amount of money I will take an undertaking to get me arrested if I ever think of gambling again if I have such amount of money. I will have different business to my name and will live like a king from my own side because the standard of living is cheap compared to other cities.

Jesus!!!   
How did you win this game man? January is not half yet and you have been blessed by the new year, I pray it continues to favour you and please take caution after this win. I know the feeling of having won a game but you and I know better how gambling is, this might trigger you to bet more of your money or even bet more than you can afford to lose. Don't go beyond this initial and keep to that bank roll. Don't ever make the mistake of having doubt like "if I have known, I should have stake big amount than the ₦3k, it's a suicide in gambling, please keep to your ways.

By the ways, I'm not trying to advice you how to live your life but don't you have more other things to buy, I'm concerned that buying such a big TV without other accessories will make you want to be eager to have more money to do the complete set up, you should have go for 50 inches which is lesser than that amount. The last time was around ₦270k. You would have save a lot to buy other stuffs but anyways congratulations. Don't mind to share your winning details, are they over or under options?

They qualified to the UCL on the courtesy of Tuchel, where is he today? Chilling in Bayern Munich and they are roaring killing games even though there is Leverkusen ahead of them, he is a happy man and to tell you that he is better place than before, man is striving to stay in the top unlike when he was here in Chelsea fighting to stay top 4. You can't compare his performance to the three coach's Chelsea has had since his live. Graham was a mistake, Lampard was a disaster and Pochettino was a control damage, I'm not sure if there is something good that will comes from that team any time soon in the Premier League.


I didn't expect more or less from them in their FA cup match because what is Preston North End? Like seriously? What were you expecting. If the lose that match against uncommon team that is even struggling in their domestic league, then Chelsea is doom for life and the might not make any good again. The main work they need to do is to make sure that they are doing well in the Premier League and not some irrelevance trophy that belong to some groups

Hy shasan. I have sent $601 USDT as promised. Please check your wallet to confirm, this is an internal transaction( Internal transfer 15159117125).

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There is nothing that comes close to determination and achieving your aims but calm down, crypto trading is more than the way you view it, looks more harder than the testimony you hear out there. I have a question for you and they are:

• Do you want to trade with the capital as a real trader or you simply want to buy and hold till when it's profitable to sell them. If you want to buy and be holder, then you just need to ask and do your own research(DYOR) on some coins and invest in them but if you want to be a trader. I have another question for you
• If you still have experience in trading, then I guess you know what to do next, get your shot together and try again
• If you don't have any or you probably not interested, then buy and hold instead, that's the easiest way I think you can safely invest in crypto or trade.
  

Don't forget to not get greedy this time. Stop drinking, this is 2024, it will help you a lot.

I want to believe you are joking right or you answered OP to fill up the post quota? You are here since 2016 and has been posting since then, I don't know how you were able to survive crypto till now and you said you are new to crypto or perhaps I should assume you have been here and has never bought and this is the first time you bought and hold a coin, right!

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To OP, I have some bitcoin I have managed to hold till now and I'm holding tight, I'm compelled sometimes with life challenge to sell despite having some profits already but I'm still holding expecting what the future hold to bitcoin this time. I want to see how far we are going this time and what is going to happen before the halving and after the halving, specifically the fees that are now object of manipulation and discussion. I want to see how everything will go this time around and be part of the journey.

I don't think this is something new. The market reacts in different ways for many reasons and one of this is anytime a traditional financial expert says something about bitcoin, it's always the opposite that happened later, Jim Cramer is always victim of this actually. However, I will say that this was a coincidence and I don't think his statement really carries a heavy storm to make bitcoin fall like this, I mean more than $5k loss in a single 15 minutes candle is not something Jim Cramer is capable of pulling off this time most especially now that the bullrun is fuel by halving, I think it's a coincidence.

This has something to do with ETF, don't you think? There was speculations that ETFs were likely to be approved this week on Wednesday which was yesterday, that was what was circulating in December but now it seems they are been shifted for reasons known to them and that's why bitcoin fell off but if you observe when some start saying it will SEC is going to sit and have a meeting with ETFs applicant, suddenly the market started going up and that's why think this is nothing but ETFs game of throne between the applicants and the Security exchange commission.

A comfort zone is nothing but a trap that makes you think you have achieved everything until you start realizing that you haven't achieve anything at all. It shouldn't be confuse with peak zone, if you are successful, a time will come in your life that you don't have nothing to do but to watch and enjoy the rest of your life but been comforted when you still have a lot to achieve is what some people don't know how to avoid. I have one of my friend that was working with a mining company and he was been paid well( he could save and take care of his need) and was offered another job by another company but he refuse to go even when the pay was huge giving excuses that it's far from his city, recommended the job for another and not long he was dismissed from mining company for reasons better known to them. He later got another job but pay less than what he earned over there and the guy he recommended is doing more than him today.


Stop borrowing over little problems, it reduce your standard. Not saying it's bad to borrow if you have a problem but stalking people over small amount of money makes you less of a person and less respected. In addition, stop hazing ladies in the name of pressure, you will go broke before you know, if you have a girlfriend, be committed and face your business or husle.

White-collar jobs and blue-collar jobs will forever have a price difference, if it were that easy, everyone would have an engineer, a lawyer and a pharmacist in their house but it is because there is a speciality and things you must undergo before you become one. You pay for lectures and school fees, you struggle to pass some courses, you struggle to pay for textbooks, you struggle to write final exams that may only graduate a few and you think you want to compare them with any craft person who can learn vocational courses and open shop, it doesn't work that way even though they are important in the society. What are you going to call a medical doctor and a processing engineer? If these two people alone stop their work or do a bad job, half of the world will die under a year. Last year when we had coronavirus, if not for the aid of medical doctors, the world would probably be dead now, don't you think?



Disrespected in what way, maybe you can say some people who don't value their craft and work but there is nothing that is useless IMO, respect is reciprocal when you treat anyone well, you get treated. Without Carpenter, there wouldn't be a roof and I'm sure he charges everyone according to the type of service they need, without cab drivers companies such as Uber, and Bolt wouldn't function, they make good money from what they do, some even earn more than some white collar jobs and we have seen cases where some people with white collar jobs do bolt in their free time. There is nothing like disrespect, there are cases where CEOs or head of companies disrespect their workers, so there is nothing discriminate in what you are saying.

Every living been you see walking and breathing has an underlying one health issue or the other but not necessarily be a heart ache issues, it could be liver, kidney, eye and other organs of the body, sadly many of us don't take care of our health or go for check up until they see symptoms or even become worse. Some is because of bad health care system, no money to take care of their self. While this should not be an excuse, we should always study our body and go for regular check ups to know the status of our body system.

It is rare to see someone young collapsed unless they have heart problems but if the person is a old person, there is likely such to happen. You know as we age, we tend to develop one or two health issues and hypertension is one of them, a person with a heart problems tend to collapse quickly when they are overjoyed or over excited, nor reason why old people should stay away from anything that will lead to such. If you have one, it's better to you avoid too, not gambling is not the end of the world because even loss can make one collapse when you lose a significant amount of money.

Poor Cadiz and Granada, these two relationship with relegation are inseparable, one always goes or sit close to the fense while Cadiz neither do make it to top 4 nor made it to top 5 or 6 place in the standing. However, I think Cadiz is having more reservation in performance to win Granada. Too much loss is what make a team glue to relegation zone and that is exactly what Granada is doing right now, winning a single match to draw 7 and lose 9 is too much, not personal but will be good if they go relegation before the end of the season.


Mallorca are babies to Real Madrid, they have been in good form in their recent matches so does Real Madrid and the fact that Real Madrid is hosting them in Bernabeu will make them not let Mallorca has that free space to perform the way they plan. Not even in their last 5 meet up Mallorca was able to win them all, the last one they luckily escape was when Real Madrid was having a rough reason but this time is going to be different.

Erik Ten Hag will be quick to accept the deal of Sancho not after what has spark between them this season. I will say that it's even better to remain where you are and appreciated than get maltr in another place. When players live Dortmund to English Premier League and other Tier A leagues, they represent well just like we have Haaland but I think so far, Dortmund has been the perfect place for Sancho, if the deal can be fast done, he better live for the transfer than get trash and warm bench everyday in Manchester United that doesn't look like going to the Champions League next season.

January transfer season doesn't have much available players like when we have many in the end of the season because many teams are been careful with how they sell their players, most of the time they don't sell good players except for less reputable clubs that do need money to see good ones that end up turning a new leaf in theit respective new club, I hope Erik get but this wouldn't change anything for them.

These are very insightful and brief but the more you look into these, the more you find out because there is a high chance you will do every research on crypto and end up been a victim of bad team, bad community, low security that can harm the project by exposure to hackers and many more but Dyor is essential to overcome the basic challenges.


This might look underrated but it's one of the needed one, avoiding this one will help you a lot because this drain wallet faster than anything if you are not careful.


Most of us don't value privacy, if you can hide what is beneath you on your cloth, then you need to hide your investment, your bitcoin is yours and not for you public to see and view, chain surveillance are everywhere watching you with their automated bots looking at the input and outputs of your wallets which is very bad practice.


Giveaways are trap, we have many ways of wallet poisonings now across different chain, if you stamp on any of them, your balance is as good as gone.
There is nothing as trusted friend, with decentralized exchange you don't need any trust, only centralized makes you want to trust them.

It's not like they don't know that phishing exist, they know or must have heard one or two. There is two possible reasons. It's either they are bot contended with what they are have and looking for cheap means to get freebies which often as a result of greed or when they clickbait on a trap by hackers. A scammers will either make you believe something to be too good to be real or they set trap for you in places where you don't expect and when you lose guard, you get phished under a second.

Scammers always modernized their ways into their victims and most of than not is when there is a trend. When Defi protocols were the new thing, they used that to plug lots of money, when it was NFTs, we had many of them her and when meme came, same happened. Even Bitcoin was ones a trend, there was a time when a young boy hack into notable and influencial people and request for  Bitcoin and many of them sent the bitcoin, even Barack Obama account was use to scammed back then. Scammers are always ahead of people, talent they are supposed to use to be creative, they chose to steal instead; isn't that pathetic.

I will go with accumulated bets, not because of greed but the chance of recovery of losses from the previous. Let's say for instance: Newcastle is having a match against Manchester City and then because of the form of City, you select a straight win X2 with odd of 1.3, if you bet that game with $100 and it win, you will win $130 in return and if the next time you place another bet on Manchester City with another $100 and they lost, you will have nothing and will be left with $30. Your initial $100 is gone and you are left it $30 and to make back the initial, you will probably need to gamble a lot to get back that money before even starting to think of profits.

Now, if you have $100 on 10 odds with 7 games and all won as you predicted, you will win $1k right and you can bet another $100 in your next game, even if you lose you can still have $900 left in your account and with more strategy, you can win more if luck shine on you. The only challenge I see here is that the more you accumulate games, the harder it becomes to win because there is every chance a single game from that accumulated games will make you lose the bets.

Your opinion is justifying how the typical rich and poor tend to gamble but I think it's more of individuality. You can have a gambler who is rich and gamble irresponsibly or doesn't even know how to gamble and incur many losses and there could be a gambler who is poor and basically understand everything you think the rich will do be it bankroll incheck and also maximize profits. But ideally, rich men are very good in management and that is why they don't get emotional and make decision that a poor person will make.


The house edge depends on the percentage they give and it different when you check different casino provided that they make it public and if that's true. A poor person can have a small amount of money but expect a huge amount in return, this is who they lose even without starting because even in an investment, you can't invest a small amount and expect something huge but they will bet $1 with 100 multiplier while a rich person can wager the same game with $100 with 2 multiplier and they tend to have high chance than those with huge multipliers.

I will go with blackjack, not a fan of it but you need to be smart and step up your game to be able to come out hole but as for sport, you need skills and you need to know your ways in analyzing but not too deep analysis, you need the basics to win sports games. If intelligence is a measure on how gambling is won, I don't think even an illiterate will win but I have street hawkers, Bikemen and other people that does all type of sophisticated odd job and they win big amount of money through sport betting.

However, each of them has need intelligence to survive particularly when it comes to things like managing Bankroll. You can roll a dice a single time with a big amount of multiplier and recover the money you have lost for the whole weeks, even in sports betting but if you are not intelligent on when to walk out and call it the day, the casino forces will take all from you and would have to go back to genesis, this is where I think intelligent is necessary in all types of gambling.

Most of the time altcoins pump is after before the halving and after the bull run but things change, don't follow the historical moves of the market but you can use them as a reference and get prepared just in case before they start. As you can see as the halving is approaching, some altcoins have started to peak and recover and even Bitcoin mempool experienced more transactions, don't be caught by whale manipulation because usually, bitcoin prices don't pump on the halving day, they pump before the halving a month before it happen.

The moment halving concludes, that is when you see a particular trend in altcoin and start shooting up because they are usually the low caps that start such run and then others follow and you will most likely see that the rest of the existing coins will rebrand to the same trend just like we had Defi in the last bull run, none of the existing coins were doing anything like defi not until Uniswap was launched and others follow the trend and some of them lose money, so be careful of the type of altcoins you want to buy and sell.

Nice suggestion but this is limited to people that use exchanges like Binance and other exchanges that do internal transfers. Some people don't like exchanges like Binance, they prefer decentralized exchanges where no one will have access to their private keys and seed phrase but only them. I still think we need a permanent solution to curb these BRC 20 tokens but the network is a decentralized place for miners, they will mine them as long as huge fees are allocated to the transactions so they can give them higher priorities and live less fees until they are done before they process the rest. 

Another challenge is that if Person A is sending Bitcoin to Person B through internal transfer, Person A will not be making any fees to the transaction which is cool but the if the Person B want to withdraw the coin to an external wallet, he will be charge more fees than if it were to be from 1 input to 1 output. Binance withdrawal fee right now is 0.00062BTC to make a withdrawal which is around $26 but if you make use of an external wallet, you will spend less and Binance will not send out your transaction alone, they will combine it as a singe transaction with multiple destinations and will pay less fees because they will charge all the people involved that same amount, Binance is business right!

If there is no addiction with a gambler, there will always be a point of pivot and stoppage either as a person that lives online platform or a physical place but if not for been illiterate of phone, why you would you go and stand in a public place to gamble when you will become an object of the people to see everything you. However, if you have an addiction in gambling, be it offline or online casino, you will always find a way to gamble, it's not about money available, you will always find any means to fund your addiction.

Risk can be reduce with physical gambling because as an online casinos, even in the night you will fund it and s gamble but as for offline gambling, you wouldn't be able to play because they probably wouldn't be available and they also have time they open. This is the only way I think risk and gambling can reduce even if you are not an addicted gambler.