people with greed for free money online are the common victims of these scammer aside from those that fall out of mistake due to a security breach. If you want to survive and stay out of loss to scammers in the crypto space you have to learn to exercise patience and do a research about the authenticity of any offer you receive or see online from strangers, if possible resist or ignore all DM's from strangers offering some financial deals that appears to good to be true, better to ignore than test the waters you might not be able to stomach the loss.

Just like on telegram I have been receiving frequent strange messages from strange groups unknown to me about some token splash with a provided link that I should visit and follow the registration process where I have to deposit certain amount of cash for some newly listed token and later earn back in higher profit 3x of what amount I deposit.

Now how does this make sense to someone like me that's sane and abreast all round about this schemes. An unpopular adage says, when a snake bites you next time you see a black rope you will run.

I had always played this local whot card game with my woman whenever she's around for the weekends because she's not always around due to her kind regards of job and the location far from home, so when she's around we play that game together for fun and entertain ourselves you know that lovebirds kind of thing. And I haven't seen her play any other game cause the purpose she plays that with me is not for money making but fun between two lovers.

It is when he two couples/lovers introduce money into the game making it seem as a  challenge between the two that's when you have got to be worried if she can be capable of holding herself together going forward from falling into addiction , because what I discovered is that people that gamble for entertainment rarely fall into gambling addiction compared to those that gamble for money making.

with all due respect, I don't know what exactly op is thinking by considering the use of a thanks button when there's a merit system that is on ground and running. As cheap as a thanks button could be if used it would also be enormously abused and less valued.

As a newbie you might find the use of certain features in the forum difficult for now but with time you will come to appreciate their usefulness and purpose, making provisions for a like button to posts/comments would make the forum look like one of those social media platforms like Facebook where everything goes with a like(s).

I kind of hate to say this but as a price stable cryptocurrency the reason why we have many people still making use of Tether USDT despite it been centralized is by virtue of it's custodian trust the users have on it when compared to other pegged cryptocurrency (decentralized or centralized) and being pegged to the US dollar a fiat currency that is strong in strength to other fiats and serving as reserve currency of many countries globally.

But centralized institutions will forever behave as centralized institutions breaking you when you least expected it in as much as their interest has to be intact by whatever means necessary.

This gambling strategy mostly happen with casino gamblers mostly on slot games it's as if the gambler has gotten to a point where he has lost confidence on his own ability and  skills in using it to gamble and decides to summit his totality to fate/luck to take it course, the closing of the eyes usually takes place for a gambler as the last resort to getting a lucky win.

As a sport bettor I more often see gamblers doing this when I seldom visit one particular casino in my area just to have a feel of different gambling away from sports betting, for me I really don't believe it does have an effect to change any course as what's gonna be is going to be be it you close eyes or not.

Traditional casinos and Sports betshops are less addictive compared to online casino and sport bets, I will tell why it's so;

Online gambling is with ease and simplicity in carrying it out as a gambler with just a click on your gadget screen in your comfortable position you can gamble as much and long as you want and there's something about comfort and less noisy places while gambling, you get carried away that you end up gambling beyond how you had planned to,

but for in-house gambling only the distance covered to the gambling house can be discouraging some times particular under a hot weather and you just decide to cancel your gambling for that day, even the noise from within other gamblers and machines in the house can make you uncomfortable that you don't have to spend much time as you would comfortably gambling online within your closet.

Another argument is that, online gambling gives privacy to gamblers specially to those gamblers that seek to keep their gambling habit private. And there are many found under this category, etc.

The tradition comes in second position from what I have explained above, notwithstanding all patterns of gambling are addictive and people should consciously fight to resist any form that which the addiction can be gotten.

This is very sadden to know that Chelsea are willing to sell out one of the best player this season in person of Gallagher seeing how they have been struggling with inconsistency in their performance this season we expect they retain their better players like Gallagher who have been of a positive influence to the team's few wins this season's in all games he had fixtures.  while they use the January transfer window to bring in new players that can fill in the loopholes and lapse the team is experiencing. Why sell out your best player instead of those not really doing fine in the team?

I think Chelsea would be making a great mistake should they let Gallagher leave cause as it stands many EPL clubs have shown interest in him come January as Chelsea chose to send him off.

My two cents is that if you want to grow and develop in whatever field of life you find yourself then you just have to do away with fear. We should always try to dare what other think it's impossible for it's within the impossible that possibilities are achieved a d hero's are made.

It is not bad to have fear but don't have the fear that makes you avoid doing and trying new things. The fear we should have should be that fear that guide us to be careful and critical with what we are doing to avoid making errors and blunders buy in the course of it all even if we never succeed in what we try doing for the first time we didn't fail we only gained experience and another way of doing it differently.

Many but not all, no casino owned an exclusive right to a color but only the name so it's actually not illegal or should it appear weird when we see different casinos apparently sharing almost same outlook and that shouldn't be big problem for anyone, what we should be concerned about is the quality of games they provide and their reputation how long they have existed in the industry.

Those are what we should be on the lookout for when chosen a casino to make use of and also their popularity based on the reviews from previous and existing customers. Some of the casinos we have today in the forum copied their interface or outlook from other casinos that were in the industry before them, it's not bad to imitate it's just for you to make yours look unique away  from that which you imitated from.

At this point now with all the good news we are getting all projecting towards 2024 I think everyone now is accumulating heavily against that time of the year when the halving will start because it's going to be a massive high for bitcoin and I won't be shocked the price hits $100k+. I don't know how you mean by a crash but from all indications 2024 it's a year for a bullrun so a crash isn't visible from my own lens.

Lucky you stepping in just in time to the halving, 26% isn't that much still not bad for a person that had just started not quite long. I have always said bitcoin accumulation is not a competition and people should always accumulate based on their financial strength.

You should have gotten a plan before starting off, was it a long term like 2-4 years plan or below. It's with a plan that you can know how to go about with your investment on when to take profit or not. So think again mate.

Whether anyone agrees or not it doesn't change the fact that the altcointalk traffic can't be compared to half the traffic of bitcointalk community has despite mixers now operating in the altcointalk with members here teleporting over there.

There's an adage in my local parlance that says, "if you are big, you are big", so bitcointalk is a big active community and in as much as Bitcoin sits as the leading cryptocurrencies anything associated with altcoin will always have the status of altcoin in the face of bitcoin in extension to bitcointalk forum.

Even with the signature campaigns allowed day-in and day-out people are still leaving the forum and that is how new people are also trooping in too, maybe as a newbie you are ignorant of that, do your research about it.

About everyone having a signature code, that's isn't entirely true, not everyone in the forum is with a signature campaign code still they are happily contributing their knowledge to the forum. AFAIK, signature only serve as a motivation to frequently be active 24/7.

If you're observant you will without been told know that the attack on mixer that led to it's proposed ban in bitcointalk from 1st January 2024 is an attack targeted on bitcoin of which this forum has been instrumental to bitcoin popularity.  Else why is the government not having issues with mixers been continually advertised on altcointalk but are against it been continued on bitcointalk.?

Read the writing on the wall mate, the attack is indirectly on BTC popularity and not just about mixers.

Yeah, the January transfer will determine a lot of changes in many teams in this round of the UCL and one of those teams in my list specially that I feel might be affected negative could be Brussia Dortmund for they have been known before now of selling out their better players when tempted with a huge amount of money.  As for Barcelona they are in one of their bad form this season as they have failed to win their three last  consecutive matches in the domestic league and if they carry on this way without making for better replacements in their squad this January window Napoli will definitely make a mess of them like Bayern did years ago.  I am confident PSG will make it to the round of 8 real sociedad can only make it a tough battle for them but eventually PSG will humble them at the end, it's if PSG will survive to the next round after round of 8  that I can't say for now. One thing for sure the January transfer will definitely make changes in many of these team's.

@op that sounds impressive to hear from you that you're almost done with your project with a one or two months to completion.

However just as @virasog has clearly said, you will be having some challenge with regard to your rank reputation in the forum but if you can give a good presentation about the project when completed which it will be great and convincing too if you add images and other necessary links when do so. Am sure some investors out there will be moved to give a shot.

Good luck to you.

Ever since I became a member of the bitcointalk community I discovered something, that there are two sets of people that are found in the forum - the theoretical and the technical. And between these two the former is simple to get knowledgeable with in no time even with a blank slate head about bitcoin before getting into the forum provided you're serious and ready to learn.

For that if the technical aspect of bitcoin it get less difficult in assimilating the technical terminologies and registers of this aspect of bitcoin if you before now have a prior basic background knowledge of computer sciences and other related field. Without which you are bound to face difficulty in getting a smooth understanding.

I'll advise you pitch your tent on the theoretical aspect of bitcoin as you're just taking flight in the industry as a newbie, drill yourself in it no need to rush towards the difficult side so you don't crash, with time and with the knowledge you would have build and equip with theoretically you can start carefully on the technical which may seems less difficult by then than you find it now.

For the technical these are the boards you can regularly visit for your build up.
Development & Technical Discussion
Bitcoin Technical Support

Don't know if I should refer to this as a fairly drawn pairs except for the pairs between Inter Milan vs ATM, and Napoli vs Barcelona all the other draws in my opinion are of unequal pairing. And Manchester City seem to be the luckiest of them all.

At least with this draws we now know to an extent those teams that will survive to the next round and those that their chances of survival are very slim except the unexpected events as we have before now seen in football does happen. Can't wait for February 13th, 2024 to watch the live actions from these UCL  games.

I thought same thing to myself when I saw that he doesn't seem to look like a new person in the forum counting on his time in the forum and number of posts numbering about 800+ and yet asking these questions that newbies are known for here.

Or, perhaps he had been around this long but doesn't visit neither had time for anything regarding to gambling in the forum but just picked interest now and decide to acquaint himself with these questions to help him know which casino he can start with based on whatever feedback replies he gets from those of us using these casinos.

Altcoins has a special feature customized to alts alone which is, " pump now and dump later".  And that's what makes them not suitable for long term plan because they are a hit and run project which makes investment in altcoin no different from gambling.

Not more than two years I started doing DCA in bitcoin I can attest to how much of a portfolio I have been able to accumulate with the confident that come rain or shine I won't lose in as much as I keep holding throughout the raining times (bear) that at sunset (bullrun) profit will abound. This confidence is what altcoins can't guarantee you when it dumps due to a long bear market.

Answering op question I have observed my gambling behaviour I don't see anything to consider in myself as a problem I am encountering as a result of gambling.

Gambling is just what we make of it individually. I take gambling as an activity of fun and entertainment that is attached with financial reward for passion for that reason I don't dare take it personal. While you on the other hand take gambling as a source to make money and that's where the problem of gambling addiction starts from, because when you don't start making money from it but rather losing money to it, like a magnet, it attracts lose chasing and this can affect your financial control, relationship and other areas of your life. That's why I said gambling is what we make of it.

What do you make of gambling?

You made a really good point here, but you need to consider the absence of most of their top players like Haaland and kelvin debrune, no team will lose such top player and don't feel their absence, but I know that in due time, when they are back, they can beat any team in the world.

Just that if they continue like this, before they will realize their self, they will be far away from the top, which will make it very challenging and difficult to defend the title. Injury is one occurrence in football that is out of team Manager's control and it's so unfortunate when we see teams that are supposed to doing great in the league suffering behind due to injured top players absence.

If you have been doing some reading from time to time and still finding difficulty in understanding how everything works then maybe you should change the pattern of your learn. People learn and assimilate easily in different ways and if you are doing it in the form that is not your own way of easily understanding then it can make the learn-to-understamd process a difficult task.

Op why not look for persons that also have interest in bitcoin and also have knowledge too about it engage in a regular small circle discussion where you guys can be asking and answering questions in a about areas of bitcoin you're finding hard to grasp. There are sets of persons that learning easily by a round table discussion than they do with just reading. You can also find such groups online, maybe on YouTube.