Welcome to the forum. Bitcoin has brought joy as well as sadness to a lot of people. And you might say bitcoin has transformed lives but i don’t know about bitcoin inspiring people to quit their jobs. Perhaps you could share some of those articles with us. Bitcoin hasn’t inspired anyone that I know of to quit their jobs. On the contrary, people are sourcing for and getting side jobs to earn more so as to comfortably purchase more bitcoin and of course to relieve the burden on your pockets due to the constant rise in goods and services.
You mentioned you’re new to bitcoin. I hope you won’t get so excited reading about those testimonies that you would get inspired yourself to quit your job.

I’d like to add that you shouldn’t believe just everything you read online. Especially on blogs.

It would have been safe to say that about 60-70 years ago. It’s no secret that men gamble way more than women and that is due to the fact that in the ancient times, women mainly tended to the home while the men worked and had time for a drink or two and a game with friends before heading home for the day.

It probably was also frowned at by society when women wanted to do anything fun for themselves that didn’t entail looking after the home. The discrimination that went on in the past has now led to the wide gap between males and females who gamble.
Times have now changed and women could literally do anything they wanted. It’s now not a rare sight seeing a woman gamble but you wouldn’t expect the number of women who gamble to suddenly become comparable with that of the men any time soon.

 

On the contrary, I think bitcoin is for everyone. Understandably, not everyone would be interested in bitcoin or some people may have the wrong notion about bitcoin that would have them totally uninterested in bitcoin. I myself once had the wrong notion about bitcoin and wasn’t interested then in bitcoin. It didn’t mean bitcoin wasn’t for me, as I’m now very much interested in it and thankfully, bitcoin is still there for me.

Obviously, it could be a tedious task trying to convince someone ignorant and swimming in misinformation. But there are also people out there with curious open minds who after digesting the truth and facts about bitcoin, would eagerly embrace bitcoin.
When I do try to talk about bitcoin to someone that’s skeptical, from our conversations, I would try and access how open minded the person is in learning new things and leaving his misconceptions aside.

There are people who may need a little more nudging and there are some that would willfully remain ignorant. It’s left for us to choose who to engage with the gospel about bitcoin.
You mentioned bitcoiners standing for something and eliminating central authority like the government lol. What actually do you propose?  An insurrection?

I would say there are both positive and negative effects to a country’s economy when marriages/couples produce a lot of children.
Admittedly, in the past, people may have actually given birth to a lot of children so as to have hands who would work the fields as things were mostly done manually and wouldn’t require payment. A full belly was payment enough. Another reason was perhaps due to ignorance and lack of family planning.

Today, people are more enlightened and having lots of children isn’t as trendy as it seemed to be back then. We don’t actually need a lot of people working the fields anymore as difficult tasks then have been made easier with technology. It’s now also expensive having and properly bringing up a lot of children. A family that’s managing with an average income and a large family, there would definitely not be enough to go around. Thanks to inflation

Today, People are somewhat still ignorant and don’t know or care little about family planning end up having lots of children. More than they could possibly handle.
An average/lower income household that produces a lot of children that end up having little to no education and probably no skills too, would in most cases add to the negative effects of the country’s economy.

If the government of a country can’t efficiently manage its resources to adequately suit the needs of the general population, reduce the poverty rate and generally make life better, it should start with aggressively educating its citizens on the need for family planning, as well as the importance of skill acquisition. An idle society could quickly become a crime ridden society, also adding to the negative effects to a country’s economy and growth.

Of course there would still be bitcoin and perhaps other alt coins as well. I think the government, seeing how bitcoin has and is still going on strong despite some strong measures that has been put in place in order to prevent its adoption and usage, decided to create these CBDCs perhaps to rival the dominance of bitcoin in the near and distant future.
If/when the era of printed money is nearing its end, then perhaps citizens would then be mandated and left with little choice than to adopt the use of these CBDCs for their financial transactions.

Well, it’s a good thing that you had quickly reconsidered your options to borrow money in order to invest in bitcoin. Borrowing money to invest in bitcoin is a no no for me. Generally, borrowing money in my opinion to invest is not really ideal. Keep aside for a moment the interest rate on the loan taken out, investments could also incur losses and what do you do after you’ve incurred heavy losses after borrowing?

When Investing in bitcoin as well as other investments opportunities, it’s always important to use your own money kept aside for such ventures. So you alone would incur either losses or profits from your investments and won’t have the bank or whoever coming for your collateral.
Save up some money and invest if you want to. That way, you won’t have to worry about paying anyone back.

I think having cold hard cash is far better than CBDCs. Admittedly, both are more or less the same but with CBDCs, you literally have very little to no control over your funds. The control you think you’ve got over your money is the one the government allows you to have. And even that could be revoked at any time as the government could decide at any time to disrupt, end or limit your purchasing power.
I wouldn’t fault anyone that’s seemingly “wasting time” on CBDCs. If the apex bank of any country in compliance with the government decides to implement CBDCs as a mode of payment, citizens of the country would just have to use it.

While some may argue that his performance has probably started on the decline, I think he’s still an energetic player. There may very well be a lot of clubs that had been vying for the signature of Mane but I bet no one could really match the amount of money offered by the Saudis.

I don’t know about the deal being easy enough cause Ronaldo is playing at the same club wanting Mane. Mane may have actually chosen to make the move cause of various of other reasons. I hear money can be a really motivating force.
Well, no doubt he probably would like to play alongside with Ronaldo as well. I know a lot of player would. 

I see and understand your logic there. But I think it would work more in the premier league. Haaland might just continue to score more goals for Manchester City. Defenders would be automatically drawn to seriously mark him as he’s an obvious threat and capable of scoring goals. Well, so are almost if not all the players in the first squad of Manchester City.
 
Everyone is a threat and capable of scoring goals but perhaps some could be considered more of a threat than others. Manchester City is that good. They don’t actually need to rely on Haaland to score goals.
A coach of any club playing a match with Manchester City should know that while Haaland is the striker, center back players also scores goals as well.

He did have a very good run playing for Liverpool. He gave his very best to the club and teammates and helped bag trophies and win titles. Although, I’m not exactly a fan of Liverpool, I appreciate watching good football and also good players. Fabinho played good football at Liverpool.

He’s set to join Kante and Benzema over at his new club Al-Ittihad. Kante is also someone I enjoyed watching while he played for Chelsea. It would surely be interesting watching these players play and win together. He made what he thought was the best move for him and I support him on his decision. Good luck to him.

Well, I think Mane would make an great addition to the squad. Having brought Mane in to support Ronaldo with better and more accurate long passes, Ronaldo is sure to have a better performance and go on to score more goals. It would definitely prove beneficial to Al-Nassr.
Mane is an energetic player and I think he played beautiful football during his stay at Liverpool. He would definitely make a good impact on the club. I think he’s still very much  fit and he’s definitely way more experienced than most of the players at his new club.

It’s always sad to see promising young adults lose their lives due to some addiction of some sort. Gambling should be seen as something of a recreational activity and not as a means of getting money to be rich.
In his case, he used and lost money that was supposed to be used as tuition fees and in a bid to recoup the lost money, he withdrew and stole funds also meant for his friend’s tuition.

You should only gamble with spare funds available and not money allocated for something else. Also trying desperately to recoup your losses would in most cases only incur more loss.
Suicide is seen as the easy way out. But it’s also a cowardly act as well. We should remember and consider the pain and anguish suicide would cause in the lives of our loved ones. People commit suicide in a bid to escape from their problems but in a lot of cases, those problems would be passed down to our loved ones still alive. In the case of this student, I believe the victims family might refund the stolen money.

I really do feel bad for all parties involved in this. It’s a sad tale that is most likely bound to happen again somewhere as more and more people gamble carelessly and irresponsibly.

I don’t know about Chelsea finally signing Mbappe. I’m wondering why they would join the bid to lure Mbappe into their squad and into the EPL. I do not think they’ve got available funds to bring him in. I doubt even the offer rumored to be a combined offer of a player plus money would be enough to bring the player in. PSG may be willing to let him go for a decent offer and I don’t think Chelsea at this point, could make such an offer.
You mentioned it yourself, PSG probably won’t be willing to go much lower than the bid received from the Saudi league and I don’t see Chelsea matching that offer anytime soon.

The Saudi league would continue to survive and perhaps thrive not just for the next two seasons but many more seasons to come. I don’t also think it’s that much of a necessity to bring in European star players in order to survive. True, bringing in well known players from all around would definitely help in making the Saudi league more popular and probably get more people to watch and talk about it. But not having well known players wouldn’t make the league not to survive. It won’t just be as popular and watched as hoped.
Besides, the Saudis probably have enough money to keep signing European players and bringing them in. So you should not bother about the survival of the league. They would survive.

He probably won’t enjoy playing there and that’s one major reason on why he rejected the offer to make the move over there, no matter how huge and tempting the offer might be.
Mbappe playing for Real Madrid is still very much possible and I think both parties want each other. Perhaps Mbappe wants to play at Real Madrid a little more than Madrid is willing to have him. No doubt, Real Madrid like most clubs wants him in their ranks but aren’t willing to dole out or don’t have enough money to bring him in. But there still is a very good chance of Madrid getting Mbappe.

Mbappe has his sights set on Real Madrid and wouldn’t be motivated by the money to move over to play at the Saudi league even if it’s just for a season. Just cause he refused the almost unbelievable offer offered by the Saudis, that doesn’t mean he won’t be at some point be willing to play in the EPL.
I personally think he just doesn’t fancy the idea of playing in the Saudi league and I think he still wants to play competitive football which he won’t probably won’t get at the Saudi league.

I agree. There’s actually no need to keep Maguire on the team. At this point, any good defender would be a better replacement for him. When he was relived of the position of being the captain, he posted what I thought to be a not so happy post on Twitter. It’s almost like he was sobbing while writing it too hehe. With his performance in the club and during games, I was surprised he had the position for that long.
I particularly like Varane and think he’s a great defender.

Barcelona has a chance of course but I don’t see them winning the Champions League title. Xavi has done a fine job in making a good enough team to clinch the la liga title last season. With their recent signings, they’ve added some experienced players to the squad. But I doubt all that would be able to get them the champions league trophy. Barcelona is a strong contender but the chances of winning aren’t that great.
Manchester United is also a club that would be a strong contender but like Barcelona, I also don’t think they could win the title.

I doubt the revenue gotten from selling out verification mark to users would match the revenue gotten from advertising companies that had quit the platform. In a bid to recoup some funds lost due to his poor handling as well as other factors, he dreamt about the idea of Twitter blue and I think even that isn’t bringing in as much funds as advertisers did.
He’s already started doling out payment to content creators on the platform. I think that’s quite innovative as that would make a lot of users to subscribe to Twitter blue as well as bringing in new users to the platform.

You might be wrong in assuming bitcoin was purchased at all either for him or his kids. Politicians irrespective of party affiliation have been proven to and would lie through the teeth all in order to pander to voters. In this case, he may be trying to reach the younger voters by claiming to have bought bitcoins for his kids.

I guess we’ll be seeing a lot of Hunter drugs jokes as long as Biden is in the White House. Besides, why use bitcoin to purchase drugs when you can always use cash?