But I noticed about all games is that it is good to use just little amount of money to gamble because all these betting sites are existing to make money from their customers. Staking before match begin, virtual betting, live betting, casinos and others are just done by the gambling site with odds that are not favoring the gambler. That is why you will see gamblers more likely to lose than win.

There are many live bets that are going on and you may be selecting many of them one by one and staking them one by one. If you also stake on live bet, it may take just few minutes sometimes when you would have won or lost. Live bet may not necessarily take 90 minutes.

I wanted to try it in the past, but I looked for ways that arbitrage can make me make money on gambling sites but I was unable to find it profitable. I do not know if their are some sports that it can be profitable for as for the ones that I have used to gamble before, arbitrage gambling is not profitable as I have read about it online.

If you want to do arbitrage in gambling, you do not have to use the same bookmakers, you have to use different bookmakers for the different odds that you want to choose. With this, all the bookmakers will not be able to notice anything.

This type of a way to scam is not new but common. People that have been into crypto since would have known about it that it is fake. People like Elon Musk, Vitalik Buterin and other crypto celebrities fake video with fake speeches has been created before which has been used to scam people that fell for it.

In this world that we are now, we need to make findings before we should believe that something is true or not true. But a type of ways that someone will ask you to pay money that he will double it for you, that is definitely a scam. It is not what we need to make any findings about becuase it is distinct that it is a means scammers can use to scam people.

You can not compare sport betting sites to an exchange. They are different. On an exchange, assuming you want to trade on an exchange, their is a percentage the exchange will charge if you make profit or not. The exchanges are not making money from your profit or loss but instead from the trading fund that you are using to trade. Unlike gambling sites that are making money from you directly.

Let us say you have $50 to trade. If an exchange is charging 0.05% and you trade, the exchange will charge you $0.025 which is 0.05% of $50 to open a position and another 0.05% of the money when you close a position. The exchange does not care about your profit or loss. On exchanges, traders are losing to other traders and making money from the loss of other traders and not the exchange.

But if it is gambling site, they charge you nothing but to win or lose the $50 while gambling. If you win, the gambling site will use the money they have profit from other gamblers to pay you. That is why gambling sites can not like arbitrary in gambling.

To gamble with certain amount of money that the person can afford to lose is what you are talking about, not just to gamble with certain amount of money because certain amount can be any amount. For addicts, the right words is that they should gamble with little amount of money, like 1 to 5% and not more than 5% of their weekly or monthly income. This is because they can be wrongly proving that they can afford to lose high amount of money, but until they are in losses would be when they will see how gambling can depress them.

With what I have noticed, some of these people that you are talking about are excellent posters with one of the most quality posts on this forum. I also noticed that some of them hardly visit this forum except few times which they give answers to a post and leave again and not posting. Another reason can be that they are no more posting. Another reason is that they are knowledgeable, the few merit they give are given to those that have knowledge like them.

I will say no. Theymos knows the way he is checking the merit circulation on this forum. He can create new smerits and which he is doing monthly. No need to decay the smerits of people that are hoarding it.

You are wrong. They earn the merit and they can decide to send it to anyone or not send it.

This is what I do hear from most sport gamblers. They will say they can analyze and make the right prediction. But if you ask them if they are winning more than they lose, they will say they are not earning more. Gambling should not be about looking for ways to earn but rather to be an entertainment. This is the mistake some people are making.

There are times I may not see a match to gamble with. There are times I may want to have the fun and gamble but no sport that I wish to stake some money at the time. Unlike casinos games which are available all the time throughout the week.

On sport betting, you will see unfavorable odds. It was sport betting a friend of mine bet with $100 because of 1.02 odds of a live matches that he would win. He won several of them but when he lost 2 times, he came to borrow money from me. Sport betting may not be seen as dangerous until you find yourself in losses and realize that it is also gambling.

It is true that 2022 was bearish for bitcoin, but opposite was the case in 2023 becuase the price of bitcoin at the beginning of 2023 was $16500 but ended with almost $45000. Which means 2023 was a bull run year.

Even if 2003 was a typo, no new bitcoin was released or created.

Bitcoin has always been superior. But if you mean that bitcoin will increase more in 2024? Just hold and not sell, bitcoin price did increased after halving in the past. If spot bitcoin ETF is approved by United States SEC, this can also be positive for bitcoin.

It is better to send all your merits to the quality post of an inactive account than to send merit to the post of an active account with useless or spam posts.

Example is the founder of this forum. His is not active since 2010. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3

But you can see how people continue to send his posts merits: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=3

There are other members like that.

The main mixer rule is to never wear the signature, avatar and personal text of a mixing site. Before January 1st, all the mixers have even ended their campaign on this forum and some moved to Altcoinstalks. I am not talking about coinjoin but only those mixers which thrymos was referring to. Because everyone is obeying the rule, no one is punished for no offense.

Chipmixer was used to launder scammed money. Followed by Sinbad. The forum is talked about by one of the regulators or so about how they advertise mixers. If another mixer is used to launder scammer money, probably theymos and other officials might be in problem. It is better to avoid such than when it would be too late. Theymos do not want this forum to be the government's target has been the reason. Those exchanges follow anti money laundering and counter terrorism financing laws but mixers are not following it.

I think old men and women are wiser than young people. There is nothing that they have not seen. They have learned a lot in life. A gambler that later become old and still in earth, such a gambler would have known the right way to follow. It should not be about chasing money for them, but for them to turn the boring time to something interesting. I will not expect old men to risk like that. The bad gambling news that I have all seen and read before are all about young people and not old people.

Gambling can not be a medical advice.

What you mean is that bitcoin price is more volatile to United States spot ETF news. I can remember the news took the price from $24800 to over $40000 now. But just yesterday that we read a news about the possibility that United States SEC may reject the application, bitcoin fall from over $45000 to $40200 until it increased back. That is not manipulation. It is because people having bitcoin are buying when the news is positive and selling when the news is negative. It is people and no just a single person or few people that are buying or selling that makes the price of bitcoin to be much volatile as it increased or decreased. Bitcoin marketcap is over $860 billion, that is more than what that can be used to manipulate bitcoin price.

Discipline on when to take a profit and discipline on when to hold your position is contradictory. Anyone that is trading will understand this.

Assuming you are making little amount of money already and you close the trade. Is that discipline when you think you still need to hold your position? But what if the analysis points towards your direction and you supposed to make more money if you hold your position instead. What if you decided to wait and hold your position but the market go against your direction and you start to lose. Trading is complicated.

The discipline that I know that are most important in trading is to stick to your plan and also to be able to manage your trading capital. The third is to not risk too much but to risk just little amount of money to trade. Some traders are unable to stay on the track to be discipline this way. They will open a trade, they will not know when they will increase the leverage and also increasing their trading capital. After several losses, they will start blaming themselves and not know when they started not to follow the discipline path.

I have noticed one thing in trading, that discipline starts from how you manage your money. If you are not able to manage it well, likely you will not become a good trader.

I can not waste my time on what I do not know when it is going to be approved. SEC has let people know that it is going to be approved but SEC do not let anyone know if the approval day is near or some months from now. There are games I can play and see the result almost immediately, I will prefer to go for that kind of games than wasting my time on bitcoin spot ETF approval.

I want to talk about the confidence part. Do you know that you can have confidence and the confidence will fail you. An instance is when you have the confidence, you analyzed the market and open a trade. After the trade was opened, the market go another side and loss started and continued until liquidation. There are more to trading than what you listed. It is not what you can use a day to learn. You need to know how to control your emotion and not using leverage. The money you put on trading, see it as the money you put on gambling. Let the money be very small and be able to afford to lose it.

If you want me to agree with what you are saying, let us bet $100 each and see what would happen. If bitcoin did not get to $100000, then you will have the money. But if bitcoin get to $100, in 2024/2025, then I will get the $100. I have analysed the market and my confidence is high about this. If you are ready, let me know so that we can put the coin worth of $100 on a 2 of 2 multisig or 2 of 3 multisig. Like I said, bitcoin will get to $100000 in 2024/2025.

If bitcoin ETF is approved or not, the price will certainly get to $100000 in either this year or next year.

Which is the reason we are certain that bitcoin will get to all-time-high and also get to $100000. Bitcoin price is not like fiat that will devalue but its price will increase after a long time. Bitcoin price is not easy to predict in short term, but in long term, it is very predictable and not disappointing.

They are just the same thing. The first that was created was a prediction thread. If you check what is discussed on the prediction thread, it is distinct that the thread is about prediction and discussion about English Premier League. There was no need to created the second thread which is the discussion thread. I remember when I was posting very well on those threads, I only use the prediction thread which was created by Trofo and left all other ones because I do not want to repeat myself.

Hello Sir @ Cyrus, hilariousandco

On the first or second of January 2024, I saw a gambling risk warning on the gambling boards which was about how gambling is risky and how people should gamble responsibly. I said to myself that this is good and an improvement to the gambling boards. But when I was reading some gambling posts as I am not yet ready to post anything, I want to read the warning again but I did not see it. Why is the warning removed?

I do not agree with this. I am gambling and I have friends that are gambling. We focus on winning and we gamble often but we lose more. The more most gamblers focus on winning, the more the house will earn money from them. We have advised ourselves not to use money that can affect our feelings to gamble which is the right advise. That advice alone is because we also focus on the fact that we are losing.