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.

The fact that the crypto casinos are paying several individuals who are influencers of many outlets which includes social media, websites, big platforms like Google, Facebook, Ticktok, X and many more, they can be exonerated in this. This is because they do not know how the platforms and the influencers they paid are propagating their information in most cases. All that matters is for them to get the work done. These platforms and individuals that want continued patronage by paying casinos may go to any length to make sure that more audience receives their adverts, and through this, the underage may be privy to it as well.

For this, naturally, responsible crypto casinos will not target the underage population, but I do not think that they can avoid that due to the huge amounts they are paying for marketing. It is now left to the underage to do the right thing because as underage which is below 18 and 21 years of age depending on the country, they should know their limits. At that age, they should avoid gambling entirely, but still, some of them would open an account, and lie about their age. So, I don't know the fault of the crypto casinos here. It becomes their fault if they plainly detected that an underage person opened an account but turned a blind eye to it.

Anyone can gamble for whatever reason, nevertheless, one thing that is certain is for such person to ensure that they gamble rightly, at least try their best even if they will fight for luck or are not just serious about it (luck). There are skilful aspects of gambling that you would not be able to deny the expertise needed and if is done wrongly, it will be a serious problem. The same thing goes for the other aspect, you will have to rely on luck no matter what you do, so it is all about the aspect you gamble and the purpose you gamble. However, if one is gambling for the fun, all the best to the person, but one thing I am sure about is that such a person may be relying on the casino aspect of gambling and not the sports betting, because there is nothing funfilled in the sports betting but to show your gambling skills.

If you want to get the fun here, just focus on the game itself and not the betting thereof. Except one would want to make money from it, which I term as the fairest means of earning in gambling. Above all, let's know what we want in gambling, find the means to do it at best and also manage our portfolios and psychology properly.

This is still gambling but within the market scope, and I must say it already exists, only that more casinos are not looking towards it for the reason best known to them. And you are right about the winning possibility, it cannot be helping us to win more than the existing casino games with the way casino betting is offering it now. With the way the few casinos offering the market-linked prediction taking it in my experience, it is not just so palatable.

This is obviously an option trading, but they've modified it in such a way that will increase the risk and will make it difficult for the gambler to win. The one I visited recently was just annoying, it is better to resort to good online broker that are offering the traditional option trading than to go for the casinos-kind of options trading because they've already modified it. Those who are new to this kind of betting way would naturally think it is the way it is, but practically, it is not, they only cause it to be more difficult.

So, if all casinos are following this style of betting that is linked to the market with higher difficulty, what is the good point about it to their customers?

Let me first say that the bull run being expected by us all is not automatic. What if the market surprises us and does otherwise? We should be extremely careful and let our trading charts guide us.

However, I am not just familiar with the casinos' tokens and among the three stated ones above, the FUN rings so much a bell in my head a little. Nevertheless, we have to be careful here, as tokens like this will have two driving forces which will always be attributed to the; 1. The performance of the casino and 2. The overall FOMO brought to the crypto space by the expected bull run. If the bull run did not happen as expected and the whole crypto market turned bearish, the casino token would follow suit as well.

Above all, let us hope for the best, but be sure that the token you bought has a place you can check, analyse and monitor its chart for effective guidance.

What I can only say here is that people are taking this far, there is nothing different between the two of them, they are certainly the same words that you can use interchangeably and that are best fitting in a particular sentence better than each other depending on the construction of the statement. There are places you will use gambling and it will fit better, and the same thing goes for betting. And if you use them interchangeably in these places, they might not sound perfect just for the right English structuring. That's the only difference I see with them. But for the meaning, reason and purpose, they are the same thing in all ramifications.

Also, we should forget about the luck and skills here, whether the gambling aspect we are dealing with requires skills or luck, this can't still eliminate the fact that we are betting and gambling in them. Once you gamble, you are betting, and when you are betting, you are gambling because the outcome of what you bet for is not known, so you are gambling on that.

You brought this out from a nice angle but I wonder if these manufacturers, importers and sellers have unions, why is the government not engaging these unions as well so that they will not indirectly create a monopolistic market that will affect the country negatively? For the record, for me, the government is just clueless, because, naturally, people will always be selfish here in Nigeria, be it individuals or unions, that's why the government should always be prepared, and in this situation create some policies that will weaken their monopolistic control.

Also, I believe this issue is beyond the union, though it is a contributory factor. I've seen people selling the same product from the same manufacturer in the same city as they like where you would go to 5 different places and the average difference of their goods could be about N7,000 for the goods that were formerly sold for N9,000. I believe if it is their union that is emboldening them always, the price difference should not be that much. But it shows that people are behaving as they like, and has continued to influence the economy negatively. Now that we have seen a notable increase in the value of the Naira, we should have seen a notable decrease in goods too, especially with phones and gadgets that are dollar-dependent, but these people will rather prefer to hoard them than sell them at a cheaper price to reflect the market reality.

It takes good souls to change the narrative, but since the mind of an average Nigerian is selfish, it continues unabated.

Let me start by saying that the first point of the OP in which he talked about the redesigning of the country's currency is certainly not valid because it shows the lack of understanding of the benefits of what is an international practice. But for the second point in which he talked about the corruption through infrastructural development, of course, it is so valid and it happens in many countries of the world. But still, corruption comes in different degrees/forms and infrastructural development might not be the case in some countries if such country is the kind that is strict with auditing when it comes to project allocation and execution.

Nevertheless, as you said, let's assume that such is the case, or generally, we are talking about the corrupt government that is making living difficult for the masses, well, the social medial is power and it's another good medium for people to reach out to the government, only that people do not take it seriously.

Social media attacks have been productive in the past, because that is the way many people can make their voice known, unlike the physical activism that demands your presence, more money and ruggedity. In my country, I've seen the government changing their minds because people called them out on social media in many cases. Even social media is a place where a petitions to be signed by the masses for appropriate bodies to know for subsequent action and sanctions would be known by connecting people to it for a redirect to the petition page. This makes petitions gains more popularity and has helped enough, even to let the powerful people and the highest sanctioning bodies of the world know about what people are facing in the hands of the government and private companies/individuals.

What I can simply infer here is that you are trying to be at the top of your games and are managing your risk as well, which could have helped you better over the years. Also, it shows that you face challenges in this kind of gambling style regardless of how best you believe you know it, which also buttressed one of my points of last week where I pointed to you that though you might be good at what you do but it can't be flawlessly easy, and that we can never erase the challenges that may arise in it (those were not the actual words).

You see, I love to read success stories about gambling, but at the same time, I like to advise people to take it easy no matter what they believe about it. Gambling is never easy and for someone to have that belief to the point of depending on it solely for living is not so convenient and I believe that you are agreeing with me on that now.

This is a true practice of scammers, they must have intended it from the beginning and they are using the cryptocurrency system to get their evil perpetrated. This is why I always tell people that I will never join them in signing up for the no-KYC casino. And even if I had to sign up for a decentralised casino, I would have thought it through for a long time and would even resolve to choose the old ones only. This will also be happening if my trusted casinos fail me, which I do not see coming for now.

With the way I see it, it is easy for the so-called decentralised casinos to scam if they are not truly decentralised. And these days, I wonder if their Dapps are open-source to make people truly know that they are capable of the independence preached for all parties. In the absence of this, they can do unspeakable evil in the guide of the decentralised system.

That aside, don't you think that judging by the level at which the government is controlling the centralised businesses linked to the crypto space, soon or later, they will start clamping down on decentralised ones?

Are you telling me that it is by force we deal with a crypto casino? Heck no, it is a choice. In the bid to dodge the KYC, if that is the right approach to do, why not? This is even better for some people to bet with their local casinos because they can make deposits and withdrawals almost free, wager with a very ridiculously low amount and also continue to gamble without having to go through the stress of the KYC which is the contention here. I see nothing bad in that because money is money unless you want to prove it otherwise that fiat money is not money again but something else.

Not at all, you got the whole of it wrong perhaps since you brought this out of an excerpt. I was just explaining what happened at times when a running campaign that was formerly CFNP becomes OPEN again where the campaign manager might need one or two participants to fill some space up. In this campaign having opened it again, I do see enough good-quality posters applying but since there was a limited space to fill up, the CM would have to choose the needed few. This is even as shitposters could be many in that campaign, and fine, good posters will surely get another campaign sooner or later after then.

However, the gist is that if the CM is fully aware of the shitposters with their plainly annoying posts, just because more quality posters applied upon the reopening of the campaign, he would have had the chance to replace them easily. This is just to clarify that it is not always about the scarcity of quality posters at times but the overwhelmingness of the CMs just as I indicated in my first post.

You made the whole thing look as if it was that easy. Profiting through gambling is never easy and the casino's section of it that you mentioned is more difficult to warrant the person having that mind of doubling the money. For me, it is better we are neutral in gambling to avoid psychological issues when the plans are not forthcoming.

Well, I am not among those who do that. What I do is have my gambling budget and plans and know the maximum session I can spend gambling to avoid excesses and wastefulness. This is irrespective of the money gained or lost but calculations and timing. Also, in sports betting, I try as much as possible to bet on the team with odds of at least 2.0, though slightly lower and higher odds are also welcome. With this, I know I could double my gains, but I have never viewed it in your way.

My only dependable winning strategy is in sports betting where I know the information of the two teams to bet the winner among them. My betting is about 90% inclined on this as far as sports are concerned. Though the big money is not there, it is a way to earn decent money in sports betting if it is well managed.

Lol...You know what? One thing I've learned in life is that, at times, the more you look, the less you see, and the more you seek, the more you confuse yourself. Why not take it simple, for you not to get yourself confused? Next time, I advise you to visit your dictionary for the words that are misleading to you, and not Google to avoid random and unverified teachings, except you would use Google's dictionary, which will still serve the same purpose.

Frankly, betting and gambling are the same thing, there can't be a controversy here, because Betting is a form of Gambling. When you gamble, you bet on something, and when you bet on something, you are actually gambling. The two are even more than synonyms, they are the same thing that fits a sentence or write-up differently. Do not let sports betting and casinos deceive you, it's not a big deal to silence the betting in casino labelling.

As a matter of fact, gamblers are betting on games of choice in casinos.

I believe the answer to the question you asked is always in front of you. The citizens have always shown their dissatisfaction through various means like activism, protests, suing of government, and reporting them to international bodies and allies among others.

However, the right question is, are these working? The answer may be a capital No in most countries. Naturally, if a country has good leaders, there will be no need for the citizens to go that length but to engage the government with constructive and creative ideas that can move the country forward for the common good of all. This means that it will be for the benefit of both the government and the citizens even if the government is bereaved of ideas.

Sadly, irresponsible and corrupt governments will continue to find excuses and get more advanced in how to steal public funds, even as they turn a deaf ear to the cry of the people.

I must have skipped this reply of yours, I was expecting it. Oh, nice, sports betting is the best option in gambling as far as I know and it is such that the house does not have any advantage over it. If you predict well, you earn well, and if you can take higher risks, you earn more. One thing that is best about this is that no sportsbook can change the result of any game, which makes it fair in all ramifications. We should only try to be a better predictor, which is the only way that will increase our chance of winning. Luck is also important here, but first, sports betting is the betting aspect I know that luck is not so required but how best the gambler is fully informed and uses what he knows to bet right.

Notwithstanding, it is not as easy and convenient as you made it look. I am also a good forecasted when it comes to sports betting and I have earned a decent income in it. I am good to the extent that I could risk it for a living but I will never do that because it may cause unforeseen financial issues through the desperation that can result from total dependence. It is better we are betting and also working, after all, if we are good, it will only be a passive income for us. We should never forget that sports betting has its own challenges too and we should not neglect that for any reason. And when the challenge comes, you will ever wish you never quit the job for it.