Bitcoin is a bigger deal than it was when it started.  It has taken a few hits along the way, but it has continued to grow.  I expect it to continue.  The decentralized Bitcoin market (such as OpenBazaar) is still in the early stages, but it already works, and it will become better (and anonymous) in 2 or 3 years, maybe less.  

I used to play the wrong games, with the wrong idea about gambling.  I eventually learned my lesson.  Now I only gamble against other players, and I am selective about it.  I look for impatient and reckless players.  It made a tremendous difference.  The difference between night and day.

Yes.  I know they play internet poker.  And they are frequently good at it.  They can be patient, observant, and deceptive.  They learn the rest quickly.

Yes.  Definitely.

I frequently go all-in when I have the best possible hand based on the board.  But if the opponent has not shown strength in the hand it does no good to go all-in, so a smaller bet or raise is appropriate then, so that they will call it.

I sometimes go all-in when I am in a hand with a player who has previously demonstrated a willingness to call a large bet when he only has a draw.  Of course you must be observant to have concluded this, and you need to have a good hand.

And all-in in poker is not every bitcent you own, it is what you have in front of you on the table.  Experienced players do not put all their money on the table.  Just a fraction.  They are self-insured.

That is the right idea. 

Follow the path that rewards patience, observation, and discipline.  Cultivate those characteristics in yourself. 

Women recognize and appreciate activities that reward their strengths, and where they will not be at a disadvantage. Bitcoin and an internet connection can help them achieve that.  I know some who are doing it successfully now.
  

My plan is:

• Play Bitcoin internet poker on a site with very low rake
• Be patient
• Be disciplined
• Be observant
• Identify players who are impatient and undisciplined

If you have a computer, an internet connection, and some Bitcoin, you can learn to make more Bitcoin for retirement or any other purpose.  It helps to be disciplined, observant, and patient. 

Poker is the only way I am aware of.

Yes

In my opinion, SwC needs to create some buzz.  Something for people to talk about and write about on the internet.  A reason for people to come check SwC out.  And what do they have to offer?

• anonymity (no ID required, no banks, no credit cards, taxes)
• access by and access to U.S. players
• very low rake (and create a promotion of one random rake-free table at all times)
• the biggest pot in internet poker history would eventually happen there (heads up).  Create a promotion, "winner of current biggest pot" gets 100% rakeback for as long as he holds the title of "winner of the biggest pot"
• anonymous celebrities playing (anonymously of course!) at SwC

That was not wasted.  I got it.

Sam Harris describing consciousness:

If it’s true that consciousness is being run like software on the brain and can – by virtue of ectoplasm or something else we don’t understand – be dissociated from the brain at death, that would be part of our growing scientific understanding of the world if we discover it…

But there are very good reasons to think it’s not true. We know this from 150 years of neurology where you damage areas of the brain, and faculties are lost… You can cease to recognize faces, you can cease to know the names of animals but you still know the names of tools…

What we’re being asked to consider is that you damage one part of the brain, and something about the mind and subjectivity is lost, you damage another and yet more is lost, [but] you damage the whole thing at death, we can rise off the brain with all our faculties intact, recognizing grandma and speaking English!

The 2 minute video clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Juriylw7B0g

I do not agree.  There is no soul.  Our thoughts and our memories (everything) are electro-chemical processes in our brain.  When the brain is deprived of oxygenated blood it dies very quickly.  Consciousness and memories are lost.  If the damage is localized, people may lose the ability to speak, move one arm, etc.  It is called brain damage, and if extensive enough, it leads to death.  After that, your "life energy", "spirit", or "soul" does not float around (because those are invented concepts).  People who try to tell you otherwise are often trying to "sell" you something, like "eternal life" in a religion.  But I understand that many people believe some version of what you wrote.  And some of the people surrounding the creation of Bitcoin believe (or believed) that they can eventually be brought back.  As far as I know, Satoshi never expressed such a belief.

The 20k freeroll is back

That will help.

If you can keep a reasonable fraction of the new players who actually deposit, you will grow.

If you can create periodic attention-getting promotions, many of your players will post about them in various poker forums.  How about some StarsSucks™ incentive for PLO players, for example?  Consider creating one rotating, rake-free table.  Sometimes high stakes, sometimes low stakes.  We will make it famous.

We want you to be successful.

That happens.  Random Acts of Kindness™ amidst an ocean of depravity.

It would not normally make your balance 3x higher, but rakeback, and table starter rakeback were paid yesterday.  Check Cashier, Transactions.  

They have a very strange philosophy about public relations.  Are they from another planet?