If the account was unlocked as the representative of the casino said, it took around 3 weeks to investigate. In that case It's fine. A little on the long side, but still good. 3 weeks to check a suspected abuser is OK, but if the account was locked for that long and eventually cleared of any suspicion, I'd at the very least expect an apology from the casino. A smart business owner would also include a small bonus to keep the player.

It might be too late at that point

People and their attitudes vary, so you can't simply say that we should quit gambling, period.
Some people can control themselves and others cannot. Like, if you said someone who's a pro poker player to quit because it's toxic, he'd laugh at you.
It's the same with people like me who bet on sports from time to time. I like MMA and boxing and I sometimes bet to make the game more exciting. I don't do it often, maybe once or twice a month.
My friend buys more beer and snacks, I buy less and use the money to bet. We both have fun our own way.

That's how he's showing he's desperate, but you don't have to give him any unlawful ideas. Just focus on those ethical ones.

I say, you can be happy without money. Try to find someone you like doing and do it. If you have a family to take care of, consider moving abroad to a country where it's easier to make money.
If you're desperate try a country with good social services, so that if you lose your job your family will have nothing to worry about.

By the way, OP's forum account is from 2017. It's really hard for me to understand how someone like that doesn't have a decent bitcoin stash at this point.

It's all arbitrary... I always ask people who say that what is money, because is bitcoin money, or just another medium of exchange unrecognized by the governments. There was a time most countries treated bitcoin like a collector's item, not money. They would not protect investors in any way and also not demand anything in return. So, is obfuscating a source of the Internet data money laundering?

I'll give you an example. If you wanted world of warcraft gold and were selling nude photos of your sister in exchange for it, would that be a financial transaction? If you then mixed that through various game accounts to make it harder to find, would that be money laundering? Years go when I had bitcoin and wanted to buy something for it nobody cared and the government officials were laughing at people like me who live in a dream world. Now suddenly they all want to know how much I have and from what sources, so I say fuck them.

We're talking about miners generating enough to heat your home, or your water, right?
A typical bathroom water heater uses 2kW. A Bitmain S19 uses 3kW, that's more or less the average AC unit. Nothing your house can't handle, especially if you used electric heaters in the past.
I don't think that there's a significantly bigger fire hazard if you replace your 10kW electric furnace with 3 S19s. You'll get similar heat from them and generated bitcoin should allow the miners to pay for themselves.  


The same effect? And that's bad? Would you like people to have free heat from miners and also reduce the risk of fires?
If someone was able to burn his house with a water kettle, he's not going to become more careful with his miners. Some people are just like that and they'll blow the house up with a gas grill and electrocute themselves with a hairdryer.

That's a very common argument. What you're saying is: we know better what's good for you, so we'll decide what you know and what you do.
The Soviets were using it all the time and I give you a good example. When Chernobyl blew up, they did not evacuate Pripyat and did not warn the world abut the disaster. They did not want people to panic, because they knew better what's good for them and for the Soviet Union.

They did the same exact thing when submarine Kursk went down. It was possible to save the sailors, but keeping everything a secret was more important at first. Would you like such people to decide for you? Would you want your child to die because the government doesn't want you to panic, or wants to keep being seen as a superpower where accidents don't happen?

There's nothing wrong in trying to find gaps in the law that tries to limit your freedom and rob you of your hard earned money.

That said, doing it blatantly is dumb. For instance, buying a house and saying you won't pay taxes for it is just dumb, but there are ways to avoid it. For instance many people decide to build houses that aren't permanently attached to the ground. In most countries if your house can be moved (with a crane or a bulldozer) and isn't put on permanent foundation, you don't have to file for permits to and pay taxes. It's treated in the same way like if you had a cabin, or a large trailer. I recommend this smart way of tax evasion.

Are you for real? I'm asking because this reads like a joke. Your TV, fridge, AC unit, computer can also overheat and short. What about wood or gas furnaces that most of us have? What about solar panels?
That's why you follow safety rules. For instance, you can put miners in a dedicated room, where there's no furniture around them and nothing to catch fire. You also makes sure there's a smoke detector in that room and that you have a fire extinguisher in the house.

The miners mentioned by OP are submerged, so there's low risk of fire, unless you somehow reach the temperatures where mineral oil or whatever fluid they have in there ignites, but that's well above boiling temperature so a mining unit would need to keep heating up the coolant in the tank until the whole thing starts boiling and then beyond that, to the level of ignition, so something above 150C. They'd get alarms all over the place well before that.

You can google it, OP. In case of US lotteries it's usually 180 days to claim the money. In some cases it's 90 days, but no less than that.
In the UK national lottery it's 180 days and in the EU it's the same.

If you win an online lottery, the win is credited to your account and should be available as long as you have access to the account. If the casino is located in any of the above jurisdictions, the time co claim should be at least 180 days, or unlimited, although some sites can have a specific time to claim written in T&C.

Tesla is such a powerhouse for him that everything else is just his toys. He doesn't want to be the CEO of twitter. It's like a playground that he liked to have fun with, so he bought it.
He's probably going to keep expanding Tesla to get the EV market on every continent. The deal is to make cheaper and more reliable cars and you can see the trend here where new Teslas are becoming cheaper and cheaper. I still think they're too expensive for what they offer, but that's me.

I use only bitcoin at this point and I don't touch any other. I might have some ETH and ADA left somewhere on these wallets, but that's dust compared to my BTC holdings.
At this point everything that I do revolves around bitcoin. I buy stuff with bitcoin, earn bitcoin, save up in bitcoin and gamble using bitcoin
I don't care about fees, wouldn't compromise myself on some exchange trying to buy an altcoin and being forced to do KYC just to save on fees. Not worth it.

It's like everything in an enclosed space. Just go to an amusement park where you pay an entry fee for the day. Everything will be overpriced, food will generally suck, you'll pay a few bucks for a bottle of water... A similar thing is with drinks in a casino or a night club. They tend to be more overpriced than in a pub, where people come to drink, so they watch the prices. At a night club people come for the girls, so a drink can be 3x more expensive.
A casino on a cruise ship knows that if some guy is a gambler, he's stuck with them. He doesn't have a choice and can go to another one down the street, there's just one, so stakes will be high from the start and odds not in your favor.

Futures trading is not normal trading. You're trading an index that doesn't have much to do with the real thing. It takes data from exchanges that it partners with and you're betting money on that data going up or down, without owning anything.
When you trade an asset like bitcoin, you own it. When you sell it, you really get rid of it on the market. When you decide to buy futures, you buy nothing, a contract with a company, just like when you send money to a bookie. In this matter futures trading and gambling are very similar.

It could be one of his doubles. He's got plenty of them, recently they were even in two places at once.
I think that real Putin is in his bunker. He'd be in that enormous residence if they haven't leaked its plans and the locations of underground tunnels leading to the beach.

I see many of you want to discourage OP from gambling, but this is a gambling forum! Most of us here gamble or have gambled and most of us advertise a casino, so saying that he shouldn't gamble when he wants to make money is contradictory.

I say gamble, just set yourself goals that are reachable. If you really want to make some bitcoin in a safe way, work for it, sell some stuff for bitcoin and so on, but if you want to try to gamble, go for it. Best way for me would be to bet fiat money and if you sin, pocket the bitcoin profit and move it to your offline wallet.

If these "flags" had any real meaning, what would happen with coins seized by the US government? They would have to destroy it and never sell it.
What happens when you buy these coins from the government, because many people bought seized coins on auctions?

Don't you have more serious things to worry about? Every single day some US dollars are used to buy drugs. Do you worry that you could get some of these and give your kid as lunch money?

Of course, the noobs are the most bullish because in their minds they have the most to lose. When you have very little, every penny counts.
Miners sell bitcoin every month to pay their electricity bills, they aren't top bulls, to them it's just business.
Institutions usually hold their coins on exchanges or with custodials. They're always ready to sell at a sign of failure. Microstrategy is a special breed because Saylor is an extreme bull, but most companies are ready to sell at any moment.
Core developers don't continue to invest. They may hold some bitcoin but they don't stack every satoshi like some people here on the forum.

I do not belong to any of these groups. I'm just a simple saver who prefers to spend fiat and save in bitcoin.

Of course because each country has its own laws regarding gambling and gambling ads. There are already some countries where gambling is banned, but id did not affect bitcointalk, just as there are countries were bitcoin is banned, but it doesn't stop people from these countries from making accounts ere and being a part of the community.
Bitcointalk staff cannot obey every single rule imposed by every single country, because it's impossible, especially since some of them contradict each other.

Someone who is not a member of this forum, but knows a bitcointalk moderator, paid OP to do a job, but forgot to collect it and the moderator doesn't seem to know them either, so OP wrote this story on bitcointalk, so that person, who doesn't use bitcointalk, sees it and responds... I bet only OP understands his motives, but we are all dumb for not understanding and not believing.

It was the Obsidian Order, from the Cardassian Union, but I appreciate the reference.

It was fun while it lasted. I laughed when Putin said that it was a coup and a treachery. I thought it was a special Wagner operation.
In the end Putin said mercenaries can do what they want, they can join the army or go to Belarus, or go home if they want, but he hopes they'll choose to serve the country.
He wants people who wanted his head, traitors, to go home, or join the army... Scared old Vlad...