Not for the fact that I already witnessed what happened, but I would have advised you not to rely on Ethereum alone that time if you must deal with it. Ethereum and Bitcoin would behave almost the same way, I've always known that and that's why I've ended my purchase of them since last year. It is no longer a good investment when the price is somewhat high enough, not that you will still not gain but you should be sure that what you will gain will be little, that's my plight and discouragement. Owning to this, what is the point if there are alternatives that can still behave better? This is now evident with how Ethereum and BNB performed this year already, you should have gained more if it was BNB you opted for, or at least diversify your portfolio with the two.

Although this is always practical, but I wonder why some people do not often realise it. Well, it is another lesson now again, and I hope that you eventually go for the BNB. If you did, by now, you will be smiling to your wallet account. It hurts so well when you have a crypto asset but the alternative is the one performing, which would give the person a headache and get him frustrated.

To avoid this, at least, on average, diversifying our portfolio is the best. Even if we do not want to buy so many coins, we could limit them to either 2, 3 or 5 coins/tokens. They would still do the trick.

My true assessment is that, since Bitcoin moved in multiples over the past few years, people believe that it is what could be compared exactly with Gold and will always perform well without any challenges. But I see it differently. Bitcoin is still finding its path to survive the test of time even though everything seems perfect, but Gold is way old and has done so well and been used for virtually anything you can think of as an asset and it survived. It is a safe-haven asset which is why it was able to overcome all odds and hurdles, especially during the time of war. For the fact that Gold is one of the common commodities that has not failed people, people/investors prefer to keep their money in it, and not fiat currencies that the war may affect hugely depending on the devastation meted on the country spending the currency during the war. After the war, the currency could have devalued so much.

But with Gold that has no certain government/country control/dependence, it remains the same, and could even be reviewed higher in price since more capital would be injected into it. If the world war happens again, we may see Gold reaching the moon indeed, especially as the population of the world is higher now, and so will the value of its liquidity and price. Well, I would have said a little same for Bitcoin but I can't because it is still young, and most importantly, it is not a safe-haven asset. It is a risk-on asset just like other major fiat currencies. It also has the limitation of internet dependency, which makes Gold even more unique during war. Because, if the war is bitting and the internet ceases, Gold can still be used to make transactions, which makes it more valuable at that time.

The two casinos you pointed out here don't even have the characteristics of such scammers I pointed to above, they might have scammed a lot of people but still they are operating. Those I pictured are worse, and are true scammers, they are are practically no where, and they can't have that high scamming intention from the beginning and still be able to function to this level of the casinos you called. These scammers are big-term scammers, they are faceless, have no address, phone number, or nothing, they are just anonymous in everything and have planned it from the begining. But still, they come as a casino and people are gullibly registering, sending their details/data and sending their money to them.

Who won't know such are there all for the money they want to steal/scam? This is also what I fear most with the no-KYC casinos, they can easily hide under this to steal people's money and even data. Also, I've always said that asking for KYC is not a certain means to trust you, one should still do the thorough investigations. Howveer, the risk of dealing with a no-KYC casino is higher than that of dealing with the KYC casinos, because all what the no-KYC casinos claims it is may not be true since they are answerable to no one. But for the KYC casino that means business, it will easily get them exposed if they falsify their infomation.

Yes, I consider this as a gambling game but not the typical one. For the fact that you use your money to play it, and you are playing for the purpose of what it will give you in return, then you are taking a risk for something which is gambling. This is the kind that little children can even participate in as well, and as a matter of fact, they are doing it. This may just be when they and their parents visit such a mall with such a facility, they may go there, put their coin and try their luck. It is so joyful to these children if they win something in this arrangement, which is why I can term it as light gambling with a possible little attachment. It's a way to have extra fun at malls aside from shopping.

While playing this kind of light game, do not create much importance to it than for the fun for the moment. And as for me, I see the chance here to be 50/50. You are just trying your luck, but in a light way, nothing is to be taken seriously here. It is not a place where you can hit that Jackpot.

It's practical my friend, no skills will help you win more, you only have to rely on luck. Just like casinos, the system of this machine has been structured in a certain way, it is only luck that will deliver the winning in this regard.

But it is a pity that some parents do not care about this, some are just insensitive to the future gambling influence on their children, and they live their lives anyhow. Such parents need to still be under their parents, but it is unfortunate their children are now looking up to them. At times, if one parent cares, the other may not care, nevertheless, the children can be using the good guide of the other who cares to overlook what the one that doesn't care is doing. You can imagine, that some children would have to go through all that, but this is still not an automatic reason for them to do adult things like gambling at an early age, some children are naturally cultured.

Most of the children I know who are victims of this do not follow the path of their parent(s), especially if they know what the parent(s) is doing is not good. Also, even for the fact that the parent(s) are doing that, they strictly forbid their children to do it, which means they know that what they are doing is not good. But it is best that parents avoid this entirely for the best interest of their children. Also, in case the environment they live in is not encouraging enough to avoid this, they should be strict and thorough in guiding their children on gambling and let them fully know the evil in it when they expose themselves to it at such an early age in order to scare them.

Lady luck? Who is that if I may ask? We better not deceive ourselves, no one knows the lady luck you are referring to, that is why the gambler may choose rightly or wrongly in this regard, the risk is too high. This is like you are gambling within gambling itself, you are just on your own here. There is nothing magical here as well unless you are a magician or a seer who knows the right outcome in the spirit realm to choose rightly in the physical realm. But if you are not, I do not encourage anyone to take any guesses on this, losing a whole 1 BTC due to a useless guess will be hurtful. Because the chance of losing the money is unreasonably high. I would rather walk away with the money and call it a day, but rather do a reasonable business/investment with the money that sooner or later would yield good income for me.

And to get to that level of your gigantic winning, you must be willing to wager gigantically and also risk gigantically with the option you go for. This way, you will get to be persistent about the risks taking because gambling is not what we can control but just rely on luck, and before the fateful day of luck would come, one has to be persistent about the risk-taking. By this, I am certain that you would have wasted enough money, which I can only believe is necessary for you to achieve your gambling big goal. However, all I narrated is for those who are expecting that big miracle like yourself, it is actually possible but you must be an aggressive risk taker at the same time.

This is why advise you to perish that thought, or else, you might hurt yourself a lot before it happens, unless you are such that just wish for that Jackpot but did not make any moves to actualise it. There is nothing as good as taking gambling easy, that's the way we can enjoy it, and the moment we start attributing the importance of making money and also making it big to it, the more it becomes increasingly boring and challenging for us. So, to avoid wasting money, let us take it easy and zero our minds about it, which can encourage us to wager moderately and steadily, and one day, who knows, that fateful lucky day may come without pushing ourselves too hard.

If I go by the way you narrated gambling here, then I will not bother myself to think of the concluding part you wrote, because what is the arithmetic that will make the gambling you claimed is 90% luck-dependent to hand you success when it is obvious that you can't control luck? This will be a tough task indeed. But in my own view, I like gambling to be reviewed as luck is 100% needed in some aspects of gambling like when we play in the casinos, because anything skilful you know here is invalid to hand you the winning since it basically works on some algorithms that weren't planned to favour you easily.

But surely, when it is sports betting, it is 50/50, which means that you have to rely on 50% luck and 50% skills, and not that all gambling will be 90% reliant on luck. I do not agree with that. This calls for us to choose what we play carefully especially if we are gambling for the money. Experience will never help us in a certain aspect of gambling no matter how we try. It is smartness in choosing and playing that will be able to help.

Well, for me, it depends on your definition of land-based casinos because it is not all of them that have those features and functions that will be so different from the online casinos to warrant us calling them better when it comes to entertainment/fun which are the Extras needed in gambling. In my country, and particularly in the city where I am now, you will hardly see a street where you won't see at least 3 physical casinos. But these casinos are just small structures, they serve as alternatives for those who do not have access to online casinos for one reason or the other since these casinos also have their presence online. It's just a means to bring them closer to people.

There are no Extras here, nothing, it is almost the same experience as that of online casinos. You will go there, give the agent your preference/choice, the agent will then input it, collect the money from you and you wait for the result or you come back for the result as the case may be. How boring is that? Why not do it at home at your convenience yourself?

This is of course different from some big physical casinos where you will get virtually everything called Entertainment. But such casinos are not just located anyhow. You will hardly find them in every place to warrant people going there all the time to have fun and gain that Extras needed in the casino. There is no way most people will not opt for online casinos since they are the closest to them when most of the small physical ones can't offer the Extras needed.

Gambling is not child's play but the issue is that people often take it lightly, and hence the reason for the ugly experiences most times. "Forewarned is forearmed," which makes education about gambling priceless, but it's unfortunate that most gamblers take this for granted and they pay dearly for it. If beginners know of the issues ahead of them in gambling, they will plan better about it to halt the issue and will never be desperate towards the money in gambling not to mention of being addicted to it. They would have known the issues of some gamblers in the past and used their bitter experience to avoid issues for themselves. But gamblers often start without any knowledge, and if they are not naturally cautious and wise, there is no way the issue will not be pronounced against them.

We should continue to be better gamblers whether we are new or old, it is never too late. Gambling has to be approached politely and responsibly. We should use the right amount of money and never allow desperation for the money to affect us. And if we need money indeed, gambling is not the right door to knock on, and I must say it is one of the reasons people often fail through it when they turn to it for the money. Gamblers must also acknowledge that it is a place where luck has a very high stake, so it is not an automatic way of making money like businesses and investments. Due to this, the protection of the account of the gambler and their psychology are so important among others. These keeps gamblers going if their expectations are not fast coming to light.

We all gamble but our purpose and mindsets towards gambling vary, so it is this mindset and purpose that determine our motives for gambling and what we derive from it as well. If you want fun in gambling, there is a way you approach it and the losses incurred in it will not be hurtful, especially if you are such that is wise enough to plan the risk effectively. Those seeking fun in gambling might just gamble about $3 in the whole session, so by virtue of this small amount, they are not hurt and the losses may not be an issue. This may even be viewed as a means to access the funfilled service directly.

I do this a lot and it is fun indeed. But if it is about the money and the money is not coming forth when the gambler is always losing, this can't be funny and such a gambler will surely frown his face at the situation. However, with both the fun and money-making in gambling, addiction may occur. whereas, many mistake the addiction for fun derivation, but in practice, it may happen if you make gambling your hobby and you don't make any effort to be cautious about it or control it. Of course, it will control you.

Education about gambling is not to scare people away in my opinion but to let them know the impending danger of not gambling rightly. This education is even advisable so that the gambler knows what to face ahead and plans towards it. If many had been educated about gambling beforehand, they might have not been victims the way they are today. They would have been more cautious and believed that it is not the place to seek desperate money like many do which leads to desperation and addiction that are frustrating.

What the OP wrote that made me so curious is the Spirit part, how is that even possible? Well, our countries vary, and so do our traditions and beliefs, but still, it will be nice if we stick to the physical realm so that we do not relate what is not there as though there. Well, I will not deny that I'd thought about that in trading many times too until I found the right means of doing it better, nothing is spiritual here. This is why I would like to encourage anyone going through a tough time in gambling to also look at the two important points, which are; 1. They need to locate the rightful skills that will be strong enough to deliver the best to them, and 2. Access gambling as what it is.

In the first part, one can go for the best learning and get to keep their trading psychology intact and also manage their trading portfolio. These are doable and such that are within their power. So, they should be done rightly even as they are cautious about gambling. But for the second part, it might be beyond the limit of the gambler most times. For accepting gambling as it is, we can't eliminate the fact that luck is important here. Can we control luck? That's not possible, that is one of what we accept as a fact but use management to cover for some excess in case the luck is not forthcoming as expected.

And you think once your child starts gambling he/she will be sincere with you all the way? You must be joking if that is what you think. For a child to be so sincere with the parent after starting gambling is so rare, and of course, depends on the relationship you built with the child. When it comes to money in such a way that it is also affecting the life of the child negatively, that's when they start keeping it from you to avoid you believing they are bad children. But if you are such a very caring and supportive father, maybe the children will open up to you, but this is in rare cases. However, if you already know that your child is gambling, maybe you should once in a while request for his gambling slips and apps, it could be randomly done after 6 months so that you will be able to bring in parenting advice for a guide.

Nonetheless, as you are doing this to curb excesses, why not also try to keep giving the child financial support and advice that would make him/her know that the real success of life is not in gambling but in real-life activity and successful career-building elsewhere? Gambling is just a way to earn passive income but also an activity that is dangerous and damning. If a child knows this from the beginning, he/she might be cautious and conscious towards it and build a good foundation that will make him only see it as an extra way of life and not the main one. This will not cause some core attachment to it which often leads to desperation of seeking financial breakthroughs through gambling. With this, such a child will always look elsewhere to build a career.

@danadc has said it in the very best way if I must say, and a gambler who thinks and acts like him will hardly have issues in his gambling efforts. In summary, what I read from him is that a gambler should be mindful of his gambling exercise, and do not think highly of himself, but lowly, neutrally and cautiously since no one is sure to win in gambling, and the gambler must be sure that he pursues it slowly with self-control and management. I do not think a gambler needs more than that to play safely. To you, this might be easier said than done, but mindset matters here, even as good advice has been issued already, it is now left to anyone reading it to do it or not. If I must say, he actually narrated my mind towards gambling and that is what I actually do. So it is not only easier than said as you claimed, it is doable too.

It all takes a good and informed mindset to start with even before the gambling starts at all. In the beginning, if a gambler is not too self-believing and does not care about winning big money in desperation, this advice is actually easy to actualise unless the gambler is only pretending. Above all, it is our choice to do the right or wrong thing in gambling, the emotion and other evil in gambling are there to cause issues for us, and so are the good things that can be done to avoid the evil and even be managerial and proactive gamblers. The choice is ours and I fully support what @danadc advice if one can do it.

You are wise my friend, having the mind of doubling our money in gambling can only put us in trouble, and you can imagine the OP, this is to be done in every session of his gambling, is gambling that cheap? This mindset can even increase our blood pressure if care is not taken, as it is not the way to maintain a calm mind especially when the gambler has started the quest but over time was losing, which will increase his anxiety, and that will lead to desperation, the desperation will become a frustration and that can't end in a good story like depression which we never prayed for. I love to keep up with the right mindset of neutrality when I want to gamble, and if it is the physical casino, I do not plan to win, I only plan to try my luck.

This mindset alone helps me to limit my gambling risks so that I will not get there and behave like a superhero who knows it all. In the end, such people are always regretting when it comes to gambling. And if it is on my gambling platform, I make sure that I wager my regularly divided amount of money based on the whole funds in my account to keep my mindset of gambling cool. This is because I gamble for fun in my casino betting and for the effort to make money in my sports betting, so I must maintain the plan with a calm mind. This helps me to be mindful of the session and plan I want to use for me to gamble proportionately based on my plan and the calculated risk and management. This also includes the budget per session and the plan on the maximum amount I can afford to lose by session.

This is better than believing I can always double my money in all gambling sessions. That must be a very perfect gambler's mindset which does not exist.

You are on point but I would rather label this stupidity rather than overconfidence, the two are not the same thing even though they still fit in this context, only that one outweighs the other. This is what I can only resort to in this context as I think of it over and over again, because that guy could not afford to lose the money, nevertheless, he went on to gamble it, so that's stupid. Gambling is not as bad as many think about it but the gamblers engaging in it are the unwise ones doing unspeakable things that make people label gambling bad. Gambling is never a do-or-die thing, so why try to believe that it is your last hope?

This is the way those who are risking what they can't afford to lose think and behave, but this must stop to avoid persistent issues for them. We should endeavour to gamble what we can afford to lose, manage our psychology in gambling and also have good management towards the portfolio. But it is sad that many people know all these but will still go ahead to gamble by overlooking all the warnings. This can only happen because of stupidity and nothing else.

This patience of a thing is easy to say but not easy to accomplish, it is such that is a virtue and helpful in a way, but never what will actually help you to gain in gambling. Patience can also be let go no matter how dedicated you think you are, so if we are talking about patience and also want to actualise it, we should endeavour not to slack in other criteria that will help us be good gamblers. I've read enough on this thread hyping patience so well but never helped them since gambling is beyond that, and the way people pretend about this is much. In reality, you would see that they are always abandoning it because it is not a direct means that can earn them money when betting.

You can imagine the gambler who believes he is patient but couldn't win an encouraging bet for a whole 6 months having wagering a sizable amount of money monthly, do you think such can still be patient? Except he is such a person who is gambling for fun or does not just think about the money, if not, such will never be patient having wasted money for that long with nothing to show for it. Owning to this, when we are patient, we should be reasonable with it, we should have good plans on our gambling budgets and management, and we should also pray for luck and do the needful when it comes to the skills needed to win, and that's if it is possible in the aspect of gambling we are playing.

How can this ever be a coincidence? It is a commendable work. Solala ecosystem is now a voice to reckon with in the cryptocurrency market, it was a bounce back of an underdog that was formerly rejected (not so rejected though). I like what the brains behind it did in recent years, the upgrade is good and has increased the scalability to make it a viable rival of other blockchains that were formerly the destination of crypto tokens. I believe that more upgrades are coming and will accommodate more outstanding tokens that will be greeted with good performances.

The better future expectations of developers are the reason why they are trooping to the Solana ecosystem now, and the belief of people that for the diverse projects of ETH and BNB to have been so successful the way they were, that of the Solana which is new will always behave similarly. And since Solana is still very low in price compared to them, there is still a big room for it to accommodate more projects that will perform so well.

I like your first statement that acknowledges the plague of inflation on the retirees, there is nothing good about inflation, except for those who are using the advantage to make more money. Inflation affects everybody no matter what they do, especially times they are no more earning so much from the government or their old employees (depending on the country). In this sense, they would feel it much to the point that they wish they had done things differently when they were young. Even if these people plan for their retirement very well, inflation will devalue the money they saved in decades, which is very bad.

You can imagine in my country, if I view this roughly on average, the retirees who had saved for more than 30 years would have their money devalued by more than 1000 now. This is pathetic and speaks of a country that never plans for its future. Going forward, of course, it would be worse because I have not seen anything rising in price in my country that reverses itself anymore.

We can't ignore the right parenting here, and in your case, whether it yielded or not, your parents tried their best as parents, it is now left to you to yield. In gambling and in life generally, we cannot neglect the importance of parenting, but still, the environment we find ourselves in and the kind of friend we keep matters so well, as they may not allow the effect of good parenting to show. Parenting as we know it is a vast task that many parents err in and I must tell you that it shapes the life and destiny of children so much. It can mould it for the better or for the worse, and if you are sincere, you know that even though you might have been stubborn when your parents were putting you through towards the right path, but later, you changed for a good leave.

This is not because you naturally want to change, but as you get more mature, what your parents had set your mind on as the right path comes ringing in your head indirectly, and this made you choose the right path eventually. And for the conscience playing its part here, you later did the right thing as well. This is a simple trick that helps us to choose between right and wrong even if we do not know why we are avoiding the bad for the good. However, if your parents had done otherwise or had been so bad, you may see the wrongdoing as the right way of life.