No, I do not separate a determined fund for gambling, I gamble when I feel like, which is not that much, and only put in spare cash available at the time.
Partially, it is a sort of investment in the sense that, you put in your wager (capital) and hope to get return on your investment. But it is mostly based on luck, so I can't qualify it with other investment ventures.
I don't really. I sometimes keep a log of receipts I get from gambling centers, both off/online. But only hold onto this for a short period of time, probably cause I gamble intermittently.

Imo, the concept of hodling for up to 20 years does not explicitly mean one would hodl onto their entire stash for the next 2 decades. It could mean that you would remain in the cryptocurrency space for that period of time. During which you can engage in trading, mining or any other means of increasing your portfolio.
You can also sell a portion during this time, if the need arise. But I doubt any one of us plans on selling out in the next couple of years and leaving Bitcoin and this forum behind permanently.

If you can hold onto at least ~20% of your acquired Bitcoin every month for the next 20 years, you would realize a large sum at the end.

By hard way experience, do you mean they should lose money entering trades their could have avoided if they had more knowledge about how trading works?
Tips are very useful for newbies, and I highly recommend anyone who wants to learn how to trade to inculcate every bit of useful advice they get before going live in trading.

Demo trading helps to cushion the effect of the lack of experience, but it has to be used the right way to be effective. Newbies should take it as the real thing even if they are not making any actual investments, that's the only way they can learn efficiently.

This is good news for Bitcoiners in Nigeria, I for one have not used a Bitcoin ATM to buy bitcoins before and would be stoked to try it out.
Although I fear patronage would be low, due to the lockdown in some states in the country and the current health situation of the world. But with steady expansion and reliability, more Nigerians can be made interested in the Bitcoin network.

The growth of bitcoin in the region would also influence the status of the government on it's credibility.

It is their personal decision to take a pay cut (for those players who have agreed to it), it cannot be forced in then by the club as they are on contracts that span a specific duration of time, and I don't think incidences like a pandemic would be included in the fine print.

So if they personally agree to a pay cut, then they should be certain that their finances would not be hit too hard. While they may be extravagant, they would have investments. In actual fact most of what they lavish money on are investments; the houses and jewelries etc. So I think they will come out just fine.

As a newbie to the bitcointalk forum, I personally think you should hold up a little on starting new topics and do more of reading around the forum (you can even do this before you register an account).
Through stickies and most of the popular threads, one can get a grip of the modus operandi of the forum and this would prevent redundant questions and threads.
Using the search option is for when you have a particular inquiry in mind, but reading should be a prerequisite for any new member to acquaint themselves with this space.

The main issue why cryptocurrency enthusiasts fall for this is less a matter of experience and more of greed. Most if this scam attempts are pretty easy to spot if one is not temporarily blinded by the prospects of some quick and easy bucks, and during this period they are susceptible to scam requests like activation fee to withdraw cash from a website.

The internet is a very dire space and if an offer is just a little bit too good to be true, it probably is not true.

Dependent. There is no single developer who puts out bot apps and AIs, there are a variety of them at different prices and they range in how broad and reliable they are and how they can adapt in different trade situations.
This however should not be your primary interest as a novice to trading.

How successful you can be as a trader is totally dependent on you, even if you have a great bot to work with, you still have to set the parameters with which it would function and bad commands can give bad results.

Do your research. Learn more and explore different strategies and areas.

Restarting the league albeit behind closed doors still exposes a lot of individuals to potential infection. So this action can only be implemented when the virus spread has been efficiently managed and contained within the entire country as football requires travel and lots of contacts. All deliberations is dependent on how the nation handles the pandemic in the coming weeks.

Also class act frow Howe, I hope other higher earning staffs can take similar steps so that the not playing staff can remain on the payroll.

This! I'll appreciate anything that takes he attention away from the current world crisis rather than a joke which has a deeper sad meaning. The news is all over the place, a couple of hours without discussing it won't be a bad idea.

It depends on the rules of the local board you're posting in, and to an extent the purpose of your posts.
Some local boards have no problem with automated translations regardless of the intent behind the post, while others would only allow it, if it's not an obvious attempt to grab merits from that section.

I really just wanted to get the members opinion on this suggestion. I understand It's improbable that the admins were going to implement it with all the projects yet to be implemented.
I don't think there's enough of an overlap to support this. Almost all other boards and child boards I've looked into are currently placed in my opinion except the reputation child board.
But I understand the reservations of everyone on the matter, so I'm locking the thread for now.

7 times

Does this mean if one predicts a higher number than the actual number of times he says it, the prediction would be thrown out? Even if it's the closest to the actual amount?

There are currently lots of complexities around the value of bitcoin as opposed to during the first two halvings, so it's effect may be veiled and it's impact will not be felt much in the market value.

The most important factor is demand and this is controlled by human emotions and influenced by the situations around them. If the halving triggers a recovery, it could become an attraction to the masses and increase the demand for it, and hence lead to an increase in the price.

It depends on financial statuses and the ease of transacting in Bitcoin is ones home country. If I spent my income regularly and there is very little I can get in actual BTC currency, I would prefer to be paid in fiat or a portion in fiat and the other in BTC, rather than having to convert to fiat whenever the need arises.

My decision would also lightly depend on the organizations' relation of salaries to fiat, i.e, if salaries are permanently and averagely fixed in BTC values and would not be adjusted during a pump or a dump, I may consider getting my payment in Bitcoin.

This answers a part of my inquiry. The original trust system was intended for trades only, but with the creation of flags, it now covers much more than that and post on reputation board also now covers more than that, making trading discussion look like a bad fit for the child board.

I don't think a sub board is necessary atm, it would confuse a lot of things, putting it in Meta is also a bad idea in my opinion, would bring too much drama. I would go with making it a board of its own.

I have been contemplating the most suited section for the reputation board for a while now, for several reasons I feel it shouldn't be a child board of Trading discussions which is in the economy section.

The board is meant for threads related to [account] reputation, and it is much broader than the Scam accusation board imo.
Most of the threads in it are not directly related to trades and are rather about forums stuff, such as merits, the trust system, account trades or use of multiple alts.
Also every so often, posts meant for reputation are posted in Meta, until the OP is advised to move it to the more appropriate section.
So basically, Meta is meant for discussions about the forum, while reputation is meant for discussions about the members of it.

Should Reputation be a child board of Meta?
Or should it be a board of its own?
Or is it perfectly fine where it is?

I personally think the all have the same odds, give or take as long as they are virtual games, in which the results is controlled by the service provider.
They may require a bit if intuition from your part, but ultimately follows a pattern which you can not predict or control.
The safest for me, which puts most of the odds in your favour are real life sports and races. There is a little presence of match fixing and elements of cheating in animal races, but I consider it the safest bets for a gambler.

There are a couple of situations that are not stated explicitly to be breaking the rules of the forum, but which you are likely to get an investigation for and possibly a ref trust because you were deemed to be engaging in unethical behavior.
One situation is, account sales and the other is using multiple accounts in one campaign.

The former is not against the rules of the forum at all but poses a problem which the majority of members consider worthy of note and most of the time a red trust. The same rules apply to the latter is most cases.

Don't act on emotions when you lose or win in gambling. Most people get frustrated when they lose and try desperately to recover their loses. This is hardly a strategy and there is a very little likely hood of the gambler profiting.
If you're confident of your next bet being successful then you can double your wager, this should surely be dependent on your assessment and not the desire to recover your capital.