Is there supposed to be a correlation between LN's growth and the Bitcoin price growth? I don't know why Sam Wouters is searching for such correlation. LN is supposed to be growing in times of high transaction fees, when the BTC blockchain is congested. There was such time frame(due to the Bitcoin Ordinals, I guess). The Bitcoin price and the online searches about BTC has little to do with this.
5000 BTC being locked in the Lighting Network proves that there's no actual growth of LN. It's just a bunch of channels inside LN, that are transacting more often between each other.

What connection? Both Bitcoin and Gold can be viewed as a store of value, but that doesn't make them connected.
Bitcoin value has grown over the years not because Bitcoin is a store of value, but because Bitcoin is a speculative asset. Gold isn't a speculative asset. The Gold investors don't buy gold because they expect that the Gold price is going to hit absurd levels. They buy gold in order to protect the value of their capital from various risks(inflation and market crashes). That's why gold was called a "safe heaven" asset.
 Bitcoin is being bought mostly because everyone is expecting a new bull wave and a new ATH price level.

It makes sense if you are a mobster and a "loan shark", and you want to make the gamblers your lifetime debtors. Gamblers can be easily exploited financially. That's why many mobsters, who owned casinos were offering loan services at the same time.
I could give a loan to a gambler, only if he can provide more than 150% collateral for the loan. Giving a loan to a gambler without any collateral is pure madness. I don't care about how good a gambler actually is and what are his skills and experience. I just want collateral for the loan.
Skills and experience means nothing in the gambling world.

The people, who are HODLing Bitcoin only for the sake of waiting for another ATH and selling aren't real Bitcoiners, if you ask me. They aren't using BTC to buy and sell, they use it as a speculative investment asset. Don't get me wrong. I don't criticize them, but Satoshi didn't create Bitcoin for this purpose. Even I can consider myself to be one of the HODLers, which means that I'm not a true Bitcoiner.
Anyway, what's the problem with waiting? If you can't wait, just sell at the current price and move on with your life. I don't expect a new ATH by the end of 2023 or in 2024. There's plenty of time to accumulate enough BTC before the next ATH in 2025, even if you sell all your BTC right now.

How much will it cost to launch your own "computer institute"? You will have to buy or rent a building and spend money on renovation.
Do you have any capital or budget for launching such business? I'm sure that such private education organizations would need some sort of license from the Ministry of education. Do you have such license?
Can't you just create paid online courses on platforms like Udemy and Skillshare. The setup costs will be way lower in comparison to a "brick and mortar" business. The problem is that you will have big competition. Lots of people around the world are tech savvy and have sufficient knowledge in IT and graphic design.

I don't know should we pay so much attention to Manchester City. The Premier League has other teams.
I came across an analysis about why Tottenham is capable of achieving something big in this season of the Premier League.
1.The new manager Postecoglou really motivated the players and Tottenham demonstrates attacking football with lots of aggression.
2.The transfer of James Madison from Leicester is a success. Madison has two goals and five assists so far.
3.Son Heung-Min is doing just fine without Harry Kane and keeps showing top performance.
4.Tottenham has great wing-backs, who help a lot in the attacking phase. Destiny Udogie, Pedro Porro and Emerson Royal are in pretty good shape.
I really hope spurs to become the big surprise in the Premier League.

9 years ago means 2014. I've joined the Bitcoin world in the summer of 2015, so I don't remember anything about this FUD drama.
I do remember that the Bitcoin price was a little bit above 300 USD in the summer of 2015 and it increased to 425 USD by the end of 2015.
I wasn't paying close attention to all the drama around the Bitcoin/crypto community, because I was a total noob and I didn't knew anything about blocksize and all the conflicts around it.
This BearWhale guy is one of the many people, who sold BTC at the wrong time. Who knew back then that the BTC price will hit 20K USD after two years and 59K USD after six years?

So you suggest that the banks/government should simply start giving away money to the people for free, without any interest rates, requirements for repayment and collaterals? The inflation is going to hit absurd levels, if such thing happens.
Are you trying to invent a new economic theory or something? All the people are complaining about fiat currency devaluation and decreasing purchasing power and yet you suggest the governments to print more money and give them away to the people, which will lead to more currency devaluation and lower purchasing power. This doesn't make any sense.
I'm waiting for a politician to promise something like this. He will be elected for sure.
"Let's shower the people with newly printed helicopter money. Everyone will become a millionaire and the inflation won't hit 100000%. I promise."

I don't keep any records because there's no reason for me to do so. Keeping a record will remind me how much money I've lost via gambling, which will frustrate me. I know that the money spent for gambling are more like money spent for entertainment purposes, but it still kinda sucks, when you see how much you have spent on such unproductive hobby as gambling. Viewing my losses every day would make me wanna recover them, by gambling more and trying to get bigger profits. This leads to bigger bets, taking bigger risks and it seems more like a downward spiral towards developing gambling addiction.
What gambling games are you actually playing?

OP, your post seems vague and you have to answer some questions.
Where do you live? Turkey, Argentina, Venezuela, or some African or Asian country?
Where do you convert BTC to fiat via P2P trading? Bisq, Hodlhodl, Localmonero, Agoradesk, Bestchange or somewhere else?
What kind of obstacles are you facing for getting your money to your local bank account?
It seems that your employer has to convert fiat to BTC in order to pay you your salary, and then, you convert a part of your BTC salary back to fiat. This doesn't seem effective to me. Can't your employer just pay you in USD instead of BTC? Will your local bank accept USD transactions? There's no proof that you are getting a BTC salary. What if you are simply lying in order to get some merit for this post?

1.Solution number 1: The Federal Reserve keeps printing more dollars, which leads to devaluing the US dollar, which devalues the US debt.
2.Solution number 2: The USA defaults and stops paying the debt. All the creditors lose money. The financial markets crash. The economy crashes and we will be witnessing another Great Depression for 10 years or more.
I think that the US central bankers and politicians will choose solution number 1.
There's also solution number 3:The US government cuts 2 trillion dollars government costs and raises taxes in order to achieve a balanced federal budget and get rid of the budget deficit. This is close to impossible.

What makes these crypto gambling platforms "top projects"? You are just mentioning a few relatively new crypto gambling projects, that aren't established yet(maybe except Rollbit). Maybe they are promising, but I wouldn't call them "top projects". Yes, they have their own tokens and yes, they try to implement smart contracts and new features, but that doesn't necessarily makes them top projects.
What's the point of this forum thread? Do you want to advertise those platforms? Do you want to review them(your forum post doesn't look like a review post)? Perhaps, you could elaborate more on your goals with this post.

Is this beincrypto.com website yours? Are you promoting it?
Why would the US government give up on anything? USA is still the most powerful country in the world.
Do you really think that the main goal of the US government is to "control Bitcoin"? I think that if the US government really wanted to control Bitcoin, they would have achieved that goal years ago. Bitcoin(and the altcoins) are still too small to be a priority of the US government.
The CBDC project is having  macroeconomic goals(achieving greater control over the money supply and reducing the ability of the commercial banks to influence monetary policy). The main goal of the US "digital dollar" has little to do with fighting Bitcoin(and the altcoins).

You haven't heard about divorce? Some people had married several times in their lives.


100 sugar daddies=prostitution if you ask me. Can you tell me what kind of woman could handle 100 sugar daddies at once? I want to meet her.


For free? Land was cheaper decades ago, but it definitely wasn't available for free. In which country do you live?

I have the feeling that OP is trolling us with this post.

In summary. Passive income isn't passive. You have to work hard for "passive income". Even the gold diggers and prostitutes have to work hard for their so called "passive income".

Some gambling games are fun even without money. I still play poker without actual money bets. Other gambling games are boring with or without money(dice, crash, slots, roulette). Removing monetary bets would make them unbearable.
You are right. 99% of the gamblers keep gambling because of the faith in their luck and the dream of making the big hit. Most gambling games aren't the same without money. I just don't have any delusions about "making the bit hit" and becoming very rich out of gambling. That's why I say(and write) that I gamble for fun.

The internet has way bigger utility than Bitcoin.
If Bitcoin had the same utility which internet had, almost several billion people would have been using BTC by now.
Let's be honest here. Bitcoin isn't adopted by billions of people because they are perfectly fine WITHOUT Bitcoin. Their lives won't change that much in a positive way, if they start using BTC. I keep repeating the same question. If Bitcoin was so awesome, then why every business in the world hasn't adopted it yet? If Bitcoin is the solution to all financial problems, why every person in the world hasn't adopted it yet?
Maybe the answer is "Because Bitcoin isn't perfect and it doesn't have to be perfect, in the first place."

So you think that "probably fair" casinos should be trusted? Good for you.
I think that ANY technology can be manipulated in someone's favor(in this case, in favor of the casinos).
I also think that making "probably fair" games mandatory by the law won't change anything.
Let's imagine that a casino has perfectly fair games, that aren't rigged. Will this stop the casino from blocking the account of some gambler, who is constantly winning? Will this stop the casino from refusing withdrawals and banning gamblers, who are considered to be "fraudsters" by the casino. Of course not. Making probable fairness mandatory won't stop the shady casinos from scamming their players.

I don't use the Bitcoin symbol so I don't care. I usually write 1 BTC or 2 BTC. This is what I'm used to do.
Is this the most important thing in the world, when it comes to Bitcoin/blockchain technology/crypto adoption?
I'm sure that there are way more important topics regarding Bitcoin that we should be discussing.
You can write the Bitcoin symbol wherever you want. Before or after the BTC amount. It doesn't matter.

It's perfectly fine for the price to get back to 30K USD. The problem is that there's won't be any support for a price pump above 30K.
At 30K many traders and some HODLers will start selling BTC, which will push the price down to 25-27K USD.
A small price pump with 2-3K dollars isn't such a big deal. Bitcoin is volatile and such price pumps and drops are something normal.
I don't expect any major pumps in the BTC market by the end of 2023. The market will be pretty quiet, unless there are some bad news about Binance or another big centralized crypto company goes bankrupt.

I hate generalizations based on gender/sex, but we can't live without generalizations and stereotypes(unfortunately).
Some women are more "economical" than other women and some men are more "economical" than other men. In the current service based economy, it seems to be easier for women to get a job. The welfare state in the western countries is very supportive towards single moms and the women can get lots of money and assets from men in case of a divorce. Life is harder from a economic/financial perspective, if you are a man. The amount of male addicts is usually higher than female addicts(I mean gamblers, alcohol and drug addicts, etc.). Such addicts can't control their spending and have poor finances. Maybe this is one of the factors, that makes some people think that women are more financially responsible than men.