I think most of the time, it is not enough. The desire to stop should be really strong and actually the best thing to do is keep busy and keep your mind out of gambling and concentrate on better things. A supportive environment is truly a good thing too. So to do this, you must admit to yourself and to your loved ones you are addicted and you want to be better.

This should not be in the gambling discussions but in the gambling section as that is the correct place to make threads about casinos offering bitcoin as a way to play with. The gambling discussion section is indeed that, to discuss about gambling and not about announcing a particular casino. So your recommendation is totally incorrect, so OP please move this.

For me we should just stop. There would nothing be good coming out of people chasing their losses, there is a greater chance that you will lose than win all those back. There have been countless stories talking about these situations when they tried chasing their losses and miserably failed to do so. They all ended up with more debts than money.

Why do you even do HYIP investments? Those are scams obviously and you still support them? Yeah it profits you big amounts of bitcoins but generally they will only pay a small amount of what they receive and if you're lucky then you'll get something out of it. But its not something that is consistent and sometimes the site will likely run away on the first few days ultimately locking your money forever and will just remain as a number on your screen.

If you're investing in a shady one then don't do it. There are a lot of well established casino sites that accepts investments like cryptogames, yolodice, safedice, and kingdice. All of which are promising and doesn't looking like sites that will just run away with your coins. I guess you're correct that you should research first, but that is already a given as something an investor should have as his own due diligence in investing his own money.

The thing is that gambling in freebitco.in is not ideal for any gambler! The amount of house edge is too high there! 5% house edge is just plain highway robbery for a gambling site. There is a super slim chance you will win the games there. So I don't recommend anyone gambling there for the hell of it. Anyway, there are so much other gambling sites that are far better.

Yeah, I read somewhere about this site. There was an issue they were cheating their players. That's something to be wary about the site. I would not play on a site that has a bad history even if it was just once. I would avoid it all through out even if they were able to do something about it afterwards. The problem is that they have some sort of tendency to scam.

I guess that's true, only rich people gamble this much. But there some people that believe their bet is a sure win because they studied it well or they think the bookies made a mistake or that they have some sort of insider tip, but in the end they lose. Because of the advantage they think they had, they bet a big amount and just lost it.

There is still a ponzi section to be honest. The investor based games are all ponzis, I don't think there is one there that is not a ponzi.

About these topics, I just find it unorganized to see so much of these threads on the gambling discussions section and I feel that it is actually ruled by these threads because of the fact that the first page is filled more by these threads.

Another point to consider is that it would be better if they have they own subsection so that people actually looking for these would have a better time finding them in their own subsection.

I think this is still pretty high considering the upgrades on the bitcoin system, but problem is nowadays the fees are going up again, not sure if someone is artificially buffing the amount of transactions in the memory pool. But usually when the memory pool is empty a price of 0.2mbtc is pretty high in my opinion. I would say that when the memory pool is empty a fee of 5 - 20 sats per byte is already enough.

I would say that just don't do it. It involves a lot of effort to achieve such a goal in gambling. Chances are that chasing losses from his own pocket will result to more losses. That's the usually thing in gambling, so the best thing to do is to just hodl it for the long time and probably you'll get back the money lost.

I would have to agree, gambling is totally different but there is some element of gambling in trading. However, that doesn't mean they are the same and can be considered as a way of gambling. Gambling does only involve pure luck whenever you bet. Poker doesn't rely on pure luck, but it highly does. In trading, there is a chance you lose and that is when the prices go down, but you haven't lost yet since you can sell it off early.

I do this as well. Since I always convert my fiat to bitcoins whenever I am gambling, then I always convert it in my mind whenever I place every bet. So this ends up to be that I am gambling with its fiat equivalent. I don't really gamble as much but whenever I do, I just set a limit like $1 per bet is the max I will do. I've stuck with this and really just keep doing it and not really losing a lot.

I posted a while back a thread about this, somewhat not similar to this one as it is asking about whether you guys think these threads should be move.

Now this thread is about the situation here on the gambling discussion section. I believe there are too many of these threads around here and I think it's flooding this section. I see about 10+ of these threads on the first page everyday.

Probably now is the time to create a new subsection for these topics. Since I think they are a class of their own and should be grouped into their own place.

Likely the site blocked people from the US. This usually is the policy of most online gambling sites, since the US has strict online gambling laws and they have really good implementation of the law which could potentially shut down the operation of these online gambling sites. That's why probably they blocked US players. Just use a VPN though, it wouldn't cause you any problems, I think.

Usually slots have basic graphics and usually they have a game provider. That means a lot of these sites that offer slots are just basically the same since they all have the same game provider for their slots. Which is kind of boring sometimes, and a lot of them are pretty old. Though, I don't like slots anyway, so I don't really care. I prefer to just play other games like dice.

In my opinion, there are a variety of reason why, some of them are:
1. Bragging (bragging rights if it is correct, and just go away if it isn't)
2. To ultimately sell their service (if it is good then people would want to buy the tips)
3. Just to keep record (like a diary of sorts)
4. Just for fun (some has so much time to even have fun at posting tips)

Because people can and it is a freedom everyone should have. Why hasn't the governments banned alcohol? It's a drug too. It's actually far more dangerous than marijuana, a lot of studies have already concluded this, but why? Because the governments are profiting from these things and the big alcohol manufacturers are constantly giving big amounts of money to officials.

That is yet to be seen, if all bitcoins will fall, I don't think all the altcoins will die as well. I think that because they are all independent of each other they would survive, the only connection bitcoin has with most of them is that they are all pegged at bitcoin's price. If bitcoins die, I think something else will replace it and life will go on. It's not like cryptocurrencies all in all just revolves around bitcoins.

Oh so this was a promotion for the website, but very well, it is still a good topic to discuss.

Anyway, I do not think they are copying bitcoins or anything. But I think the future will be digital, so will be money. Hence, the governments will find a solution to changing money into digital currencies. Maybe indeed a good way to do it is to create cryptocurrencies that would not only transform money but also will be secure. However, if this happens, hackers will likely want to hack this more than any other thing in the world as it will involve a lot of money.