Actually there is and that is so that they can go back to reality and know that gambling was made for the casino owners to make money. This is why for me a good gambler is someone who have learned their lesson and stopped gambling completely. Sure, some might be able to set their limits of how much time and money they are going to spend in gambling. But to me that's just them justifying their bad habit which is gambling. There are gamblers that say they are gambling but it's completely fine because they can stop whenever they want. But to me it extends from being able to stop gambling, to being able to use that money and time for a better purpose. You have the capability to stop the bad habit, yet you are not doing it. Thus, the capability is wasted.

I don't think what you're describing is necessarily a good gambler at all. I think that's just a gambler who's aware of the risks and chances and are ready to face the consequences of it, which quite frankly is almost every gambler. Right when they deposit the money, they know that sooner or later they are going to lose it because they know, from experience and from theory, that they are going to lose.

A good gambler is aware that gambling is nothing but a way of losing money. They are the ones who understands the gambling industry so they have already left.

And sometimes it's not always about psychological things. It's about missing out on the world as well. Sure, as you were able to gamble for 24 hours and then pass out to bed for a couple of hours after that, you were able to avoid reality for a while. But I mean, you could have used that time for a lot of useful things like addressing the problems that are the reasons why you are gambling. I used to do this. I used to "fast forward" the time by keeping myself busy with TV Series. Most of the time I'm not even enjoying it. It has just become a habit just so I can stop seeing reality for a while.

People are so fixated with the losses that you get from gambling but that's actually the light part of it. What's heavier is that you're losing time from it, which is this world's only real currency. After I have watched this video from Freedom in Thought's youtube channel, my eyes were opened: "This is How Short Your Life Is" It's sad to see people being addicted to online games, gambling, and having themselves so isolated from the world, living the same day over and over again. Wake up, prep for work, go to work, eat at the same restaurant you've been eating in the past decade, go home, gamble. Why do we even gamble? Most people say that they are gambling to relieve stress, then I guess the right way to do that is do research on how to relieve stress. Gambling is just believed to relieve stress but does it really?

So to all people who are gambling excessively out there, it's not too late to turn your life around. You might have lost so much time from that, but it's not too late. You're still alive. Watch the video that I have included and you're going to be using your time better.

People who are gambling as a profession are getting paid just to play. Those who see gambling as a business are the ones that owns a casino or an online casino. So what happens to the rest of the players? Since gambling is a zero-sum game (i.e. while you win, somebody is losing), other people should be paying these people, right? It's us, the unfortunate ones, that are paying for these people. Our losses goes to them. So unless you're smart enough and you put enough time to become a professional gambler, or you are business-oriented enough to establish a casino and have it funded by people, I don't see how else are you going to make money from gambling.

You basically make money from the losses of others in gambling. But in the end of the day, if you want to make sure money from gambling, you're going to do work. It's not just about getting lucky all the time. Others see gambling as a sport wherein you can have a strategy to play with. Others see gambling as a business that as long as you're able to offer a good service to people, people are coming to you and you're going to be making money.

No worries! It's good to see people suggesting good stuff in here.

Performing in the streets sure is legal but graffiti isn't. For this to have a high traffic, the graffiti has to be done in a public place where a lot of people can see it. The artist of this probably either owns that wall or had the permission to paint there. There's no way he could have painted that in minutes and not be able to be found by the police.

I don't think he actually made the graffiti for the money. Obviously there will not be a lot of money coming to him because not much are using bitcoins. I think he made that graffiti because he knows that it will be viral and will be talked about in forums like this. He knows that it will raise more awareness to the people and it will reach even the people who weren't physically there like us. And perhaps the QR code was just placed there so when someone might wanna tip. Leaving the QR Code is really smart since he can receive the money without having to be physically there.

Unfortunately for him, his QR Code can easily be painted over by someone as well as the painting overall. It would be nice if someone can translate what's written on the upper-left part as well as what's written on the paper money the guy is holding. It says "debt" tho maybe he's trying to say that we're all doomed to have debts in the fiat monetary system.

It's called Virtual Private Network (VPN). In China, famous social media sites are actually blocked. There's a documentary about this and all they do is use a VPN. The only downside is that VPN slows down the connection a lot. People don't want to miss out with what's going on and will always try to find out what the government is trying to hide to them. So when all crypto websites are blocked, people will be curious and try to find out 'what's behind the wall'.

What I see as a solution is people selling their bitcoins in exchange of Paypal funds. It's a digital currency and you don't have to put the money to your bank account. The money doesn't have to be seen by the government. This is a very easy solution to the "government banning bitcoins" problem. You get your Paypal verified. You do a P2P transaction with someone from a different country. And then you spend the money on Amazon, eBay or whatever online shopping site that you locally have. They are accepting Paypal funds. I used to use an unverified Paypal account but that's prone to being frozen when there's so much funds going in and out of your account. You don't want that to happen to your account, it takes 180 days (6 months) to get unfrozen.

You can also just use Purse.io so you can buy something from the Internet directly with your bitcoins. They are even giving discounts (15% discount) to bitcoin users.

Honestly there's a lot of workaround and the government will be just plain dumb to ban bitcoins. Bitcoin greatly helps some individuals and that makes the economy grow. As long as crypto isn't the reason why the economy is so messed-up, I don't see any point in banning it. They are just missing out. Bitcoin users are mostly tech savvy people. They are always in front of their computer and the workarounds that I have mentioned can easily be done by anyone of us. The ones that don't know how will be forced to learn it.

I don't think phishing works like that. You get phished by a phisher by making you log-in to a website that looks similar to a particular website. I have Eset on my computer and I can still access phishing websites. So what it comes down to is the gullibility of the user since your computer can't autofilter all of these websites. My advise is to not login or signup to sketchy websites. There's also another way of getting hacked and it's by signing up to a particular website with your email and a password similar to your email's password. It is not advisable to have similar passwords. Of course over time we will be needing to sign up in multiple websites and if we were to use different passwords to each, we might forget about them. What I personally do is write them down or I just recover the password through email everytime I log in but that's actually very inefficient.

No one is, by default, technically smart. Everyone had to learn and everyone had to do their part. You can never be tech savvy if you never expose yourself to this type of things. A tech savvy and a non-tech savvy have the same circuitry in their brain so there's no reason as to why someone wouldn't be able to operate a VM. They just have to study how.

Here are some links I have found to be useful:
*What is a virtual machine? (Youtube)
*Setting up a virtual machine (Youtube)

And if you prefer reading them instead:
*Quora.com: Virtual Machine in Layman's Terms (Layman's Terms would mean that someone who has zero knowledge about the subject should be able to understand it, so I recommend checking this out)
*How to create and use virtual machines (HowToGeek)

Moving to a different country is a lot of work and not everyone is ready for that. A person who used to live in a third world country may be a millionaire and is living the life in their country but when they finally move to Canada, things can be different. The expenses are a lot more compared to how it was. The world's cheapest electricity as of now is in Mexico according to this article. You have to compute all the expenses. Will it be worth the cheaper rate? How much would it cost to move to a different country? How much would it cost to rent a building and would there be stocks of the GPUs that you're going to be mining with? There's a lot to consider and you can't just simply move abroad and then figure out once you're there. I, myself, is considering moving to another country (for other reasons outside crypto) but I haven't had the time to analyze it and find if it is indeed feasible.

I can only imagine how much money someone has (for capital) to be ready to move to another country just to mine bitcoins. Take note that it's a cold country as well so ventilation cost is lowered.

I agree. It will greatly affect the economy of one's country if the majority of their money has been converted into bitcoins. Of course there's also the tendency for bitcoin's price to skyrocket and that will make their economy grow, but the government just don't want to risk it. It's a good move to me as it changes nothing. Zero risk, zero gains, zero loss.

I second this. The way you can do that is create a wallet in a freshly clean-installed Windows (or whatever OS you want) that has never been connected to the Internet. Pretty much the first thing you do is run electrum on the device by putting it in a thumbdrive so that the computer will be able to remain offline. Once you have generated the wallet, write it down. Printing it might open a vulnerability as other viruses are able to go through the printer's cache memory. The address is okay to be there though. After generating the wallet and writing down the seed, you can then destroy the thumb drive (if you wanna be EXTRA safe) or just format it. For the computer, reinstall Windows. This way, you're going to have to format the drive and there will be nothing left there.

It's a long process and others might be saying that it's too much work to do, but it's the only way I'm seeing you're going to have a perfectly safe bitcoin wallet. Only time you're going to import it to a computer that's connected to the Internet is when you're ready to spend it (like what fuding12 said). I don't recommend hardware wallets that much, tbh. Something like that can have an exploit and there's no guarantee or insurance from the company you got it from. I'm not even sure if you're allowed to sue them if their devices turned out to have an exploit and your funds gets stolen.

I have the same experience as you. I used to bug people off about bitcoin back in the days because I want them to earn money as well because we live in a third world company. Basically, I want people around me to succeed together with me. I was telling them that we should do it together. That it's going to be fun and worth it. But all they did was look at me, then smile. It's like I was trying to convince them to sign-up under some multi-level marketing. But of course that didn't really stop me from learning more about bitcoin as they aren't really relevant. I'm not dependent on them, I just thought it would be good to learn something together with other people.

Fast forward, I was able to buy the things that I need and want. I started being able to afford lunch outs (students can't really afford fastfood, they can only afford the cheap ones that are around campus). I was able to buy more gadgets for my family and they started asking me why am I so busy even during vacant hours in school. So I explained it to them. Now, some of them have more bitcoins than I do because they focused in trading and was able to buy good coins in the past. It's funny, really. Although I'm in no way jealous of their success.

This day, I'm the total opposite of when I was a beginner, knowledge-wise and attitude-wise. Before, I would bug off people to learn about bitcoin. Today, I don't even want a single word about it. I'm just done with it. It's nice to know that there are other people around you that has the same interest as you but it gets repetitive at some point and it's just annoying. I think most here are like that too since we're always focused on bitcoin so we want to talk about something else. Something less techy and less about money.

Perhaps it's their fear that the price of bitcoin will not come back up? They have no way of looking to the future and so they are frightened that the current price might actually be the best price to sell and that bitcoin will never reach that 20k$ again. It's not like it's guaranteed that bitcoin will be a success so there's nothing really to be impatient about. To me, it's a matter of not depending your happiness to the current market. This market is already a good market if it appeared a year ago. Yet, here we are, very ungrateful of the bitcoin's price. You don't have to always feel sorry about yourself just because you missed the peak price and wasn't able to sell at that price. After all, most of us are in profit even if bitcoin's price moves down a couple more thousand as most of us started out when the price of bitcoin was still just 3 digits.

Actually, the best thing we can do today is to accumulate as much bitcoins as we can. Once the price of bitcoin has grown so much because of the mass adoption or because of SEC approving the ETF or because of bitcoin halving (or just the price growing in general), then we are going to be earning way less bitcoins but in the same amount when converted to dollars (i.e. let's say you earn 0.015BTC a week in a sig campaign, that might become 0.01BTC but will both have x$ equivalent at the time). It's good to stay positive about the market but the best will be to be realistic and you can do that by doing research about bitcoin and reading news related to it. You can't just stay positive all the time since there will always be bad news and when bad news comes and you're still positive, then that is called, rather, being deluded.

Investors usually don't really care about what's going on under the hood but for an investor to react that way, that's childish. Investors would know if it's time to pull out their investment and move on to a different investment. They aren't going to cry because they know that bad investments happen all the time and they know they can grab a good one any time soon.

The type of people (or investors) you are talking about are those who have heard of bitcoin from a friend then rushed into investing just because people around them told him it's a good investment. Pretty much a copycat investor but sadly they copied their friends instead of successful people.

It's good to think that those who have PTSD and those who were once an addict are those that are helping those needs help. It's nice to think that the people in the medical field are the ones who once needed the help, was helped by someone, and now they are devoting their lives to helping other people.

Those who have been in a similar situation in the past as the patient, they are the ones who can truly empathize. It's also more believable to them. To the patient, it's like finding a person who's in the same specie as him. And he can think to himself, "if he was able to survive that, and so can I."

Sadly there are those who work in the medical field that are there for the money. Some are there because they are a family of doctors and he was basically forced to follow his parents' steps.

But why does shyness have to be addressed by meeting people in a gambling casino? There are tons of ways to overcome it and if you overcome shyness in a casino, then perhaps you're putting yourself in a box. You might end up being not shy in a casino but very shy in a different social situation. This might raise a question to yourself, "Have I really overcome shyness or have I just become confident inside the casino as I'm now familiar with the people?"

There are things you can do like challenging yourself to talk to 3 strangers a day or maybe get yourself one friend at a time.

Tell me what is their focus then. We have established already that it wouldn't be fun when money is not involved anymore. So what is it? Kids are playing cards or poker using fake money. Even if it's just play money, they are still getting that hit of dopamine because they were able to feed their greed even with a fake currency. Some are also playing cards and then the loser have to face the winner's chosen consequence. It usually a truth or dare but sometimes the loser gets punishment which is as simple as getting lipstick painted on their face. Ultimately, the winner is feeling more superior than the loser as he was able to give him punishment.

So without these prizes, without the money, where do the other gamblers focus on?

And did you know that there are people who just made a million dollar as I was about to post this? Yeah, that's right, but just because people like them really do exist, that doesn't affect us at all unless we work hard to become like them. Professional gamblers, when you watch their interviews, are really really smart. It's not just about luck. They know everything about the game and they know exactly why they were able to become a professional gambler. They have read tons of articles. They have conducted their research. After all, it's a profession.

I've been reading more stuff about gambling lately and it's said that even losses doesn't affect the overall experience of the gambler in a casino. We all know that we are doomed to lose in the long run. And sometimes, multiple losses make our wins even more rewarding as we have less expectation of winning. I suggest that you read this article from BBC: "The Buzz That Keeps People Gambling" as they go in-depth with the explanation backed by research.

What gambling does is that it promises you the jackpot as long as you keep on playing. It makes us think that eventually we're going to be millionaires, we just have to keep doing what we're doing and so far we're doing. It's the same reason why there are people who never forget to put a bet in the lottery. They're thinking, "What if today is the day?" and so they push themselves to bet even at the point that they have become aware that they are never going to win.

Sex, drugs, alcohol, and gambling, they all have one thing in common. They give you dopamine rush whenever you do them. Our mind wants to experience that dopamine rush again and again. One day we're good but after a couple of days our brain misses it. And the thing is, our brain slowly needs more and more dosage of it. It needs to have it more often. At some point, your brain becomes reliant on that just so that you're going to feel normal. This is why going cold turkey when you're addicted to something is really the hard way to do. Your brain is going to have withdrawals. It's missing the "drug" whatever form it may come (e.g. sex, drug, gambling).

Addicts didn't know that they are going to be addicts. They kind of just do their vices. They kind of just let it take control. They weren't aware that they are needing it more and more. So in their point-of-point view, it "kind of just happened".

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There's a reason why people are poor and why people are rich.

Poor people keeps on gambling because they are hoping that one day. Some of them keeps on gambling because they simply have nothing better to do. They gamble just to let the time pass. They gamble because it's an entertainment for them even if the money they are losing could have been their lunch tomorrow.

Rich people, on the other hand, has tons of things to do. They are busy socializing with other rich people. They are busy building their own empire. And they do not feel compelled to gamble simply because they know how money works, and they know how to make money work for them. I've talked to a lot of rich people and they all seem to be very busy. They are very competitive and in order to be relevant in their field, they have to always be active. They literally have no time for gambling. They'd rather sleep and relax instead of gamble.

Now that you know this information, would you rather gamble or would you rather use that time making the best out of your life by being the best version of yourself? Gambling's a waste of money and time. Most people are not even having fun when they are gambling.

I think it's important to tell people why we should be recording our expenses. There are times when we don't know that we're overspending, overeating, overtraveling, over-going-out. Whenever you record your expenses, you become more conscious of what you're doing with your money and how come there's only that amount of money left in your wallet. I have an app on my phone called Bluecoins and you can just put your expenses there and label them. It also has a widget. You can see how much have you spent in last 7 days, and in the last 30 days. It's much easier then to track if you're spending more than you should.

What I would suggest that we add to the list is that we have to keep in mind what are we saving for. Are we saving for emergency bills? Are we saving for our children's education? Or are we just saving for the sake of saving? People, since the beginning, are saving just to save money and that's not a good idea. Money is meant to be spent. If you die, then you don't get to use your money (since you're dead) and people around you wouldn't know what to do with it since you never really had a reason why you were saving money. Having a reason to save keeps you from spending as well. Before you spend your money, think about the reason why are you saving money in the first place.

I think you meant GPU card (Graphics Processing Unit)/Video card. VGA (Video Graphics Array) is the port that you can find behind your computer which is used to connect your computer to a display (monitor). Here's a picture of a VGA port and I'm sure you're not going to need good amount of this in order to mine crypto.


Even with other crypto coins, you have to calculate if you're going to make money from it or are you just destroying your phone and just wasting time, and pay electricity for it, even.

I didn't know RAM is what you use in mining. So what is the processing speed of your RAM?

I already read an article last month about Jesus coming to my town but I didn't believe it. Not everything published is true. You don't have to believe everything written on the Internet. Just think about this, it's almost impossible to hack a Smartphone. But now that hackers were able to do that (assuming so), they are just going to make your phone mine bitcoins when it doesn't even have that much power? That doesn't make any sense as they could have accessed passwords and bank accounts using the phone. Smartphones' processing speed is so low that it will take tons of hacked phones just to have a mining power as a single GPU. Hackers surely don't think like that.

I find it hard to believe the people that says they are interested in getting into crypto but never do their research. It's like they are just announcing that same phrase in the room over and over again and hoping that God will send an angel for him and educate him about crypto. People always want to know things but would set it aside until they meet someone who knows a lot about it. Why bug people when you can do your own research, right? After all, an individual wouldn't have the time to educate you about something fully. There will be things that you're going to learn only when you do your research. You wouldn't always be welcomed with open arms whenever you ask people about crypto, you know, unless you're paying them.

Budget? Since when did you need money in order to learn about crypto. I don't remember having to pay in order to access bitcoin related websites. I don't remember paying someone so that Google will include bitcoin in my search results. I'd say it's just people and their poor excuses. You can learn things if you truly wanted to. The era of spoonfeeding information to people has already passed. Everyone has to do their part in order to learn.

Is that not a good thing, though? Once the government have thought of a way of how they can barge in the cryptocurrency world, then there will be laws about it and the tax when cashing out might even became ridiculous. Let's actually take advantage of this scenario. It's better to have no regulation and be in the gray area rather than have bitcoin as a legal thing but have the government knowing all about your crypto activities.

I never really watch the news ever since I hit teenager. It just doesn't make sense that a small screen can give you so much information, and make you frightened and stressed. What is being broadcast will not always be 100% accurate, right? Plus, why does the news concern me at all? As long as it doesn't directly or indirectly affect me (which is honestly just news about storms), I wouldn't bat an eye. And when I do, I do my research through the Internet where everyone can have a discussion about the matter unlike in news where they are the only one who can speak. Letting go of watching the news would mean releasing yourself from the daily stress that they are bringing to us.

Now, with bitcoin, I'd say that they are trying to spread FUD. That's what they've been doing ever since, anyway, even in other topics. The news are always not accurate. In everything they say, there's always something behind it. Will it really be possible to tell everything in a couple of minutes? Remember that there's tons of topics to be covered by them. The news have been known to publish tons of inaccurate and biased articles ever since, why should we be believing this particular one, the one about bitcoin?

In my country, when something's said to be a bad thing, everyone follows. If people knew I've been earning bitcoins, they will think that I've been going around social media and scamming people off which is untrue.