It's because the terms and condition format is boring and it's hard to read that many when that's the only step that's leading to starting your gambling so you just agree with it even though it's really important that you know about it, the reason why they make it like that so the business owners can slip in unfavorable and exploitative clauses that favors them when the possibility happens which is most likely, that's why some scummy gambling websites can just put in there what they want and when the thing that they're anticipating to happen like a player using a VPN or depositing and withdrawing too fast, they can just easily block them out or make it look like they're in the right since the player agreed with the terms and conditions and it's their fault that they agreed to it without reading. Another thing that makes it a bad thing is that you can't really use their website or complete the registration if you're not agreeing to their T&C.

From what I understand, the investors will pool the money for your bankroll and in the case that it wins, you share the profits right? And in the case that it doesn't you will refund each and everyone that contributed to the bankroll pool right? If what I'm understanding is correct then that means that this is a win-win situation for the investors which means that I do really want to invest if that's what's offered to me, ain't no way you're losing to that anyway because after all you're returning the money anyway when the bankroll goes zero. The only problem with this gambling investment model is that it's really difficult for me to think that you wouldn't just run away or break the promise of returning the investments to the investors so with that kind of risk, it's not advisable to invest in this even if it's a really good offer, maybe it depends on your forum reputation too, are you willing to sacrifice what you've got here after all these years for a small amount that you could easily earn if you work hard and smart?

I blame myself in a way that tells me to be aware of how much money I'm losing when I'm on a losing streak, I don't necessarily hate myself but shouting curses and telling myself harsh words is one way to go when it comes to making sure that I don't bottle up the anger that I'm feeling when I'm gambling and so it doesn't burst out when I'm not gambling anymore and it saves the people that I'm interacting with that I'm not cranky after gambling. So far I'm doing just fine with that kind of set up in my gambling life, I'm all out of anger after gambling and no one is annoyed with me after gambling so it's win-win for me.

There's also the third kind of high roller, the money launderer although it can be argued that it they're also under the umbrella for the second one so I'm not completely sure that they do belong there although I do think so too that they would want that account migration so they're not so similar when it comes to this kind. The reason why they can't just implement this is probably because they don't have enough resources yet to be able to do this or have the money needed to make it into a real thing and from what I understand, they're going to need some kind of planning for this right because they might skew some of the accounts during the process.

It probably has something to do with the budget that a government sets for their whole operation for the year and sometimes those approved budget goes overboard because some projects got unforeseen problems that lead to overspending of the budget and what happens to that project if the fund that's used for it runs out and they can't just pull out money from the annual budget that easy because that would create a cascading effect where you allow one and then you need to allow the others to do the same thing, so you go to the financial institutions that are operating on an international scale to ask for some money because you need to fund those projects so it can continue towards finishing the project, that's how I think the country borrowing money from the world bank works.

Smokers know about that and they really don't care because they're addicted to the nicotine and they want the feeling that the cigarette gives to them so they still do it even though they know that it's bad for their body and that it's not a good thing for them, the thing that matters the most when it comes to quitting smoking is they themselves wanted to change for the better, it's something that's not influenced by how money they can save when they don't smoke, the reason is mostly personal that it's totally unique for each person and they just don't have any way to perfectly articulate that so they tell you other reasons. Also that money that could've is just a could've when it finally happens, it's a little different because when you're not smoking, you might be using that would be cigarette money for other things and I don't believe that investment is the first thing that will come to someone's mind when it comes to that extra money.

Unless they do some marketing with the ETF like how they sell stocks, it's more likely for us to see more accumulation because these companies have been wanting these ETF and I don't think that they're going to lie down and take the L for the hype dying down because they've fought for this to be approved by the SEC for so long so I don't believe they'll let it fizzle out, they might even find ways to manipulate this so they can sell more ETF to their investors. That's a really high number if you ask me, 500k in 2025 seems like a dream but seeing a lot of miracle that bitcoin has showered us before, I don't think it's far fetch to see it go to that price point, the only problem is that there's bound to be a lot of people that's going to take profit when bitcoin reaches 100k and that could be a factor for it to not reach 500k by 2025.

Don't be too hard on yourself OP, you didn't do anything wrong buying a game, you're allowed to have fun and if the net happiness in buying that game is higher compared to investing it into bitcoin then you've got more out of that game than investing and it's not like you didn't make up for it the next day. It's not also a problem of self-control OP, you being aware that what you did feels wrong is a sign that you've got the control and to be honest, if you really feel bad about buying the game, you would've done a refund or just quickly sold it to the market the next day but you've kept it so you're doing good. You don't have to put all your money in invested, it's a good thing for you to have fun too and enjoy life.

The small group that you're talking about are people that are benefiting from all this problem with ordinals and high transaction fees, most likely they're miners and NFT people that don't have anything better to do besides leaving garbage on the network. I don't believe that it's because of this groups refusal that are causing the slow fix for this vulnerability, it's more likely that the devs can do it but they choose not to because they're probably somehow benefiting from this too because the vulnerability is already identified right? So how come they're not fixing it quickly? They probably got a long time already to fix it so what's the hold up right? I do think it affects the adoption negatively but for me, I don't think it's that big of a deal, ordinals are just like an NFT anyway, they'll eventually lose their hype and people will find new ways to get others into crypto.

That's why you need to trick yourself into thinking otherwise, if you can find a way to make it so you're not FOMOing like if you're missing out, just lie to yourself that it's going to go down quickly and it will eventually go to a point where everyone will panic sell, just tell the opposite of what you're feeling at that time and you're going to get the relief from that recent panic or better yet if you want to really not feel that constant anxiety of investing in a volatile market like bitcoin, why not just do it my way of hodling: I buy bitcoin, I store it somewhere and then leave it there to be forgotten and not check the prices constantly, delete all the price checking apps and newsletters and only get my bitcoin price news here in the forum and so far I'm constantly chill with my investment no matter what's happening to the market. Also, it's a pretty big help too if you have a concrete price goal for your investment like what price you're going to sell your bitcoin investment or when you want to sell it, that way your only problem with is the temptation to sell which is easily staved off by discipline.

Don't taint the word science on something that doesn't involve something that's remotely scientific, this is basically the same thing as astrology and alchemy, in that there's no basis to the meanings behind the results that the numbers produces, it's a matter of choosing the obvious options and common bias that's exploited by the psychology of the common people that they don't do any kind of research be it a little research or an extensive to prove that something isn't right, basically, numerology is as useful as horoscopes in that regard, people subscribe to them but they don't really affect our lives unless we want it to affect it.

Would this really shut him up though, I see CW as the kind of guy that wouldn't budge or even shut up until he gets what he wants, you know like a crybaby spoiled brat. Hopefully if this doesn't stop him totally at the least it will keep him out of the hair of the bitcoin developers because they shouldn't even be involved in all this claim anyway, I mean what do they have to do to prove him that he's Satoshi? If he can't even provide the needed things to prove that he is the one and only Satoshi Nakamoto then there's no point going all this way, it's funny that he's still able to go to this length just to do nothing.

I think it's just more growth for bitcoin this time because I do believe that with the institution now part of the bitcoin ecosystem, it only means that there's no going back for bitcoin anymore because these financial institutions aren't here just to play the hodling game, they're definitely going to want results and they're going to be demanding that no matter what, I guess that's the price we'll pay for bitcoin having institutional investors mixed into the market, only thing that we can do for now is to see if we as retail investors be able to catch up with them or maybe even get back in the market after we start selling for profit.

Depends, if you're really good at leverage trading then you can easily do this but if you're an amateur that's hit or miss in leverage trading then definitely don't do it because you're going to regret doing that and at the same time you're going to end up having to pay for that borrowed money for a really long time because let's face it, people have a hard time delivering the borrowed money at a promised time and day.

Sure you can believe that it will go there but the problem is that we've already at February 1st and bitcoin is still not going to where you want it to go, are you talking about the last day of the month? If so then there's a possibility that we're going to see it.

Whoa whoa, slow down with your recommendations, let OP breathe a little, as OP have said already, that they're new to bitcoin. I don't think OP needs to secure that fast when there are more cheaper options like a TrustWallet or a Blue Wallet for Android devices, he's already considering Electrum wallet so I don't think that it's necessary for OP to even consider hardware wallets especially those that have a close source. I'd say that OP should take his time and explore bitcoin and the forum to know more about the bitcoin landscape and see how OP will want to approach things in the future.

Welcome to the bitcoin market OP, enjoy your hodling journey and I do hope that you would find a lot of profits from doing that journey. My only advice to you is to learn DCA or Dollar Cost Averaging, pretty good strategy for long term bitcoin accumulation because you don't want to be not maximizing out your investing opportunities if you can help it.

That's as risky as Martingale strategy, but you're still banking on Gambler's fallacy that you'd be able to win more because you believe that you've got a winning streak and that your chances of losing is close to zero, it's kind of like trying to get more ahead than what you should be but I don't know if it's effective as it is because you're basically pulling out more money out of your pocket to supplement the doubling of the bet from your win which will only get bigger as you continue winning but it will probably end the same way, with you losing more money than you should because you've tempted fate and you thought your win streak is unstoppable. I don't think there's even a strategy in this because it's already a strategy.

Unless it's a physical casino, I wouldn't mind it but so far, I haven't seen any online casinos that are a giving that kind of bonus because birthdays are a personal info if I recall and I don't think that it's a really good idea that they know about that kind of information right? Maybe if they do KYC but I don't think that they'll ever care about that kind of bonuses anyway maybe you'd get some sort of bonus spin or gambling credit but that's not going to help you in increasing your chances of winning.

That's also how Chinese still makes money out of gambling by using Macau as a gambling hub for a lot of people. I think that even if the country of origin of the player is from a country that bans gambling, I think that they should still be allowed because they've got the VPN and in argument, they're technically or digitally in their own country gambling so they're technically and digitally allowed to gamble and that they shouldn't be punished at all, it's kind of weird that gambling industry doesn't care about this part when this could potential bring them millions of players from another country that have a strict laws against gambling, some people out there are itching to spend thousands of dollars gambling but they just can't do it because they live in a country that's not in favor of gambling, the online gambling industry is missing out by restricting players that have VPN from playing in their online casinos.

Just don't believe them if they claim something absurd, we're already on the digital age, I don't think that someone will be missing out on taking a picture or a footage of the winning play so if they claim that they've won this, just ask if they've got a proof or that they've won something or that they've bet on something, usually there's a ticket or a celebratory graphics with message if you've won, you can easily press the Print Screen on your keyboard or the screenshot on your phone for the proof so that's how it's going to be. It's weird to me that people do that kind of thing where they pretend about something just to have something to talk about like dude shut up if you don't have anything to say, it's more awkward once we know you're lying because we'll never believe anything that comes out of your mouth anymore.

Oh they will, don't underestimate the need of fools to go for the big wins in gambling because they'll go to that length and if the odds are that attractive, they'll try it anyway I mean what can they lose besides the money right? I'm sure that there's nothing worthy they're going to lose besides that plus they're a gamblers so they'll risk it anyway. I guess you will keep on wondering if you've never met someone that can do this kind of thing when they're betting they don't mind doing it trust me.