I hate to say it but I do the checking every hour of the day, at least when I'm at home, and awake of course. The good thing when I'm not at home is that my mind can have a little rest from all these price monitoring, changing of orders, and reading of news about crypto. But still I simply can't take everything off my mind. I guess I'm a little bit addicted to this already, just like the rest apparently. 

Bitcoin may not be tangible but it could also be used in some other things aside from just a storage of value. It is primarily a currency, after all. The good thing about Bitcoin is that its value is appreciating faster than gold and other assets. The argument against it however is that Bitcoin is much unlike gold in that it does not have any tangible object which represents it. As other analysts would have it, Bitcoin does not have any intrinsic value. It does not represent anything in the physical world. But who cares about the physical object? The gold that we are also buying and selling right now are but nothing but numbers also, unless one is actually buying golden jewelries and gold bars. 

A ban on gambling will never make any country gambling-free. I am quite sure of it. It will only make gambling illegal, but still present. Not a great step for me. People who would like to gamble will always find a way.

I am a little confused with your response. Banning online gambling will result to possibly 100 percent zero-gambling rate? What about the so many gambling games that are not offered online? Gambling is not only offered online, right? We have physical casinos and gambling bars everywhere. What about them? Moreover, there are so many kinds of physical gambling games outside casinos such as horse race, lotteries, and so on.

Regulations are much better than blanket ban on gambling if you truly want to curb gambling addiction.

Yeah, especially if you are rolling on a 50% chance. Someone is actually asking for a video or a photo about my winning streak. Sad that I haven't documented it that way. It was funny though, because anybody playing dice knows that winning streaks even longer than mine exist. Somebody here admitted reaching up to 15 consecutive wins, and mentioned of a primedice winning streak that went beyond 20.

As a matter of fact, such streak is not really that amazing at all if we also consider our losing streaks. Mine is more than 9. It's just that it was my first time winning that long and I was a bit overjoyed that I made this thread getting curious as to other dice players' experiences. Although same as you, I also got more losses than wins.

Pomp is a guy who truly believes in Bitcoin. The man is simply putting his money where his mouth is. He shows intense passion in Bitcoin but stops short in being too aggressive to the point of appearing disagreeable. I like the way he remains calm and composed all the time in the midst of various tirades against Bitcoin.

Investing at least 50% in Bitcoin is happening to me right now. Let us be clear on it though, I am talking about investment; I am not talking about my net worth. For sure, I wouldn't put half of my little net worth in Bitcoin. That sounds very difficult in my situation right now. But in terms of my investment, Bitcoin holds at least 50% dominance. The rest are diversified not just within crypto but also somewhere else.

There you go. The daily participation is all worth it. Thank you, krogomanhattan!

My turn to ask you something, OP. I know you are serious about Bitcoin and more about fiat as a system of slavery. Which would you prefer, to get paid in Bitcoin or to get paid in fiat but double the amount?

For argument's sake, please do not answer me with I prefer fiat but I will use it to buy BTC.

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More available as in people can easily get access to it, yes. But it is one thing for Bitcoin to become accessible and quite another for Bitcoin to become affordable. People can easily have it in few hundreds or even thousand Satoshis. Before, a hundred BTC is almost worth nothing.

Bitcoin has become more available but less affordable these days.

This should stop! Honestly, I don't think this is going to be justified by simply saying this is culture-based and so has to be respected because we are a multicultural world. We are a civilized world already. We do not take fun from the pain or even death of animals. This should be banned!

I will never bet, much less watch, dog fights! I'd rather watch and even bet big if its the owners who'll fight it out!

You better be investing that amount. You've just been recovering from a recent loss, you better do the right thing this time. $600 may not be the ideal amount for a Bitcoin investment. Altcoins are the better choices. You have ETH, LTC, XMR. Give $200 each of these solid altcoins. Leave them for a while and focus on your business. There is sure profit from it.

If you want to gamble or trade, do it next time and with smaller amounts. Do not forget to save some first for investment. Trading and gambling are not far from each other in terms of risks.

When you gamble soon, try it out at wolf.bet. 

Because they are really threatened today as never been before. Gone are the days when they could simply laugh it out and even jeer at Bitcoin as a nice experiment or a bubble or out of thin air. Today, they are seeing the reality that Bitcoin is unstoppable. They urgently have to say something that will push the USD up.

And if you add to this the very ambitious and most probably extremely disrupting grand plan of the Libra project, they must be very scared to the bones that their citizens might suddenly stop using their fiat currency one day.

I don't have a boss. But to many of my countrymen who are employed in a government or private office, most probably their boss does not have an inkling as to what Bitcoin really is. If at all, it is some kind of a scam or something used for illegal schemes.

The grocery stores do not know Bitcoin either.

The best way to do this is for Bitcoin supporters themselves to do the first step. Create stores and accept Bitcoin, hire staff with Bitcoin salary, accept tips and give rewards to loyal customers in Bitcoin. Bitcoin supporters will have to rally behind such business initiatives and flock there. Otherwise, the store beside you won't follow suit.

In other words, it is not gambling in its strict sense. Referral links have nothing to do with betting on a match, dice, roulette, poker, and so on. But if you want to stretch gambling to its broadest possible meaning, then anything that involves risk and uncertainty and which you are spending money on may be considered gambling. But that is not the kind of gambling we are talking about here.

I guess everybody has already contributed to what is missing. Except this one:

6. Don't ever commit the mistake of thinking that you can get back at the house for your loss.

For so many times I have made the decision to come back later or the following day to exact my revenge on the house for taking my money away. Little did I know that in so doing the house has already got the better of me the second time around.

It is funny how people calling themselves cryptocurrency trading experts offer courses and seminars on cryptocurrency trading techniques and strategies. They will explain to you the current price by way of complicated charts and patterns that will look like the price today is something that can easily be predicted days or weeks or months ago.

Everything that happened to Bitcoin's price made very clear sense to them. In hindsight, that is. They can offer crystal clear explanations with conviction to the path Bitcoin's price tread. They would explain to you all the candles, red and green, and the whys of the spikes and the dumps and all the price movements according to the charts.

But they cannot say with significant certainty what the price is tomorrow, the following week, or the following month. They are experts in hindsight but not in foresight.

Beware of all these experts. They are good in making it appear as if the future price of Bitcoin is right there under your nose. And yet they are busy conducting classes for a few bucks per student. 

 

It's not too late, mate. If you were able to buy a good amount of Bitcoin at $13K in the past, you can afford it more today because the price is only around $11,500. You may start buying today with what is left from your savings. You said you only lost almost your entire savings.

I have heard an aphorism that goes like either you made the right thing or you have learned a lesson. It is rather sad though that most lessons in life have to be learned in a negative way. But I hope you have learned something very precious from it. Not just you but also me and a lot of the people in this community.

I guess you need to trim down on your emotion. It has obviously played a major role both in your reaction to the bear market and the decision to just gamble it away.

It is not only Mark Zuckerberg who flip-flops regarding his stand on cryptocurrency. Jamie Dimon has made it earlier in the grandest of ways.

Regarding Libra, it is wrong to just treat it as a mere altcoin along with the rest. It would be more apt to classify it together with USDT and other stablecoins. It is not like many of the altcoins in that its value will not be rising and falling all the time. Libra is going to be as stable as the USD.

The support surrounding Libra is enormous so somehow we can say that this could be the future of the stablecoins. I am not talking about the support coming from the regulators of course. They are the hindrance on the contrary. I am talking about the most popular companies we have in the world right now. Facebook has uber, Visa, Spotify, eBay, and many more behind its back.   

Paps, kung hindi ka talaga babad sa crypto trading, sa tingin ko iiwasan mo dapat ang kagaya ng Bybit.

Tama yung sinabi ni crwth, ang malaking pinagkaiba ng Bybit sa Binance ay margin o leveraged trading ang inaalok ng Bybit at spot trading naman ang sa Binance. Ang Bybit kasi parang BitMEX to eh. Maaari kang gumamit hanggang 100x na leverage sa Bybit.

Ang mahalagang paalala pagdating sa leveraged trading is that it is very risky yet attractive. Maaari ka talagang kumita ng malaki kasi nga may leverage pero mas mabilis din maubos capital mo. Kaya nga para sa akin ang leveraged trading ay mas para sa mga taong gamay na nila masyado yung small movements ng prices. Double-edged sword ang leverage eh. Pero sa mga newbies at low-level traders, mas delikado sa kanila to.

Good luck sa pagpili, paps. Hindi ko alam ang basis mo sa paglipat pero para sa akin you better stick to Binance.

Funny and interesting! From where I live, I have to sleep a little late to wait for the raffle result.