Bitcoin is interesting cause its currency, but also can be investment for the future. Nothing is sure, but everyone here agree that bitcoin have potential. That means that one day bitcoin can worth much more then now. While some people wait that rise, other enjoy in spending bitcoins, paying bills with bitcoins, and other things. Bitcoin is one of a kind, and everyone can decide what to do with bitcoins individually.
Gold is gold, people use it to show how rich they are. You can`t cash out gold easily like you can bitcoins, how to spend gold around. Bitcoin is easy to use like any other currency.

When we talking about this topic, we need to be aware that it`s not just porn, everything on internet will be much easier to pay with bitcoins. For porn people always look for anonymity, so its reasonable to assume that they will adopt bitcoin maybe faster then others. Bitcoin can provide them perfect cover and users just need to get more in touch with bitcoin, to see that bitcoin is not some "online scam".
People are always suspicious about new things, same is with bitcoins, sooner or later bitcoin will overtake porn industry on the internet.

Only way to really quit gambling is to stop playing. When ever you get a wish for gambling, even a little, move your mind from that and do something else. Addiction is when something is pulling you, so simply you pull on some other side. Tricky is to find something interesting, something to occupy you mind. Many times said is family and girlfriend, they can help you a lot, cause with them you can talk. Be opened and tell what is on your mind to people close to you, when is hard they will be there for you.
After some time you will see the results, you need to be strong and survive first weeks. I also suggest sport activities, that can help with stress and nerves, it will relax you and its healthy.

Like others I also didn't hear about sport betting site with faucet. You can catch some free bet here and there, but its more like promotion and you don`t have it all the time.
Faucets are for fun, and they are good for checking some site. How it works, place couple low bets, etc. You can`t gamble with faucet, you can`t win nothin with faucet. I tried, so many times.. and its just a waste of time and nerves. You start with some amount and you need to gamble for hours to make a dollar, and to that dollar you get one in 100 times maybe. With dices its funny cause you make that amount for hours, and you lose it in couple seconds, or couple bets.

Nice question and topic, I also was in situation where people asked me how we know that bitcoin is safe and secure currency, and I didn't know what to tell them.
I like second comment, simple explanation and very easy to remember. Blockchain is technology for the future, people should be aware of this fact how bitcoin works and that its not easy to make a copy of bitcoin. It's good to know how to explain to someone new, I think this is perfect way, but I bet there will be more good comments here.

Lets make it clear, OP headline was investing in mining. I think its good to invest in mining, if you live in place where electricity is cheap, if you have fast access to mining equipment, and money to buy all that.
Cloud mining services on other hand are like gambling, you give your money, and all you can do is wait. If you have luck you will make some profit, if not site will crash, and you will lose all you invested there. People should stay away from cloud mining, in the end they will disappear with money. That is the truth about all cloud mining services. Just the lucky ones in beginning have some profit.

Common sense should tell you to not open this kind of thread. All cloud mining services are profitable for the owners, and people who get there first. And even if they get there first their profit is not guarantee. Pyramid works like that, people give, they get something in return in the beginning. but how things going forward they have more and more people and just in one moment they disappear with all that money people invested.
Here you are to inform yourself a bit, maybe you will find something interesting here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_scheme

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme

I agree that bitcoin is simple, with no chargeback that made him more secure then paypal in my opinion. This are good reasons why someone should decide to move his business on bitcoins, but most important is that bitcoin has a potentially great future. Fiat will stay where it is, but bitcoins and blockchain technology can make a great things in future. Maybe for some businessman that is big opportunity to start something before others do, and that is good advantage for some business.
We speak mostly here about future, bitcoin can make great things, but that doesn't mean that bitcoins is not good now, its perfect. Just people across the world need to find out that.

I joined more then a year ago, when bitcoin was around 200 dollars. In that time I saw many threads about price drop, bitcoin crash, death and similar threads. We are still here and alive, everything is working good, people are joining, sites accept btc as payment method, idea is bigger and bigger. How strong we are as community is hard to say, I think bitcoin head some problems in past and everything finished good. What doesn't kill you, make you stronger, I think same story is with bitcoin.
I think bitcoin will be more stronger each year, that is how that works. Before couple years nobody knew about btc, now people are using it, and have much more places where to spend it then before.

First you need to tell us where you live. Then it will be easier to recommend you some service. You have section here, you can offer to sell it to someone from here. Localbitcoins is also a good place, there you can find someone near you. If you have pay pal or some bank credit card you can sell your coins on some exchanger.
All this ways are good, and people use it depending what is safest way in their opinion. I recommend you to wait a bit more before selling, price can go up before new year,many of us here hope for that.

What to do? You earned that bitcoins, I'm sure that wasn't easy, not to mention that every beginning is hard. You need to decide what is best for you, waiting to make more, or sell it and put fiat in the pocket where you can feel it?
You can try to put 100 dollars into some casino bankroll, and maybe you will have some luck and make some profit in long run.

I don't know much about paypal, I never used this service in my life. And that is all what paypal is service for dollars, as I know they don't support other currencies. They are not evil, just a company for making profit, and in return they provide some reliefs. Don't know why would anyone think that paypal can be evil, people that running that company can be evil, some of customers can be evil.
Also for bitcoin to be less evil then paypal, I need to admit that I don't understand this analogy. This things are here to make some things easier and better.

Amazon is very big company, it is the largest Internet-based retailer in the world. They make a lot of money, and they do business in many countries. Probably they pay big taxes everywhere, and with bitcoins it can be a little tricky. First not all countries have regulation about bitcoin usage, how they will show their profit with bitcoins in country that not have law about it?
I think its not so simply to implement bitcoin such big structure, and that is the only reason why they still didn't do it. But now when New York accepted bitcoin, maybe amazon will offer to people from NY to purchase things with bitcoins, we will see.

Some people here on forum said how they have good profit there. Its also gambling, just you gamble against players in that casino. There you have advantage cause casino have big founds on your side, and with more money you win more easily.
You can try your luck there, for me that is much better then to invest in some shady site. And there is a lot of shady sites around internet, and here on bitcointalk forum. Also there is thread that can help you to decide in which casino you can invest, guy also posted photo of his investments with how much profit he made on each site.

Best is to give prizes to your players to share site on social networks. They will work for themselves if you allow them to put their referral link, also you can pay them directly on their accounts on your site. Weekend promotions, daily promotions is what attract masses.
Of course for better promotion try to spend more, and more you spend more will return too you. Don`t ever feel sorry cause you are investing in marketing, cause just like that you can make profit one day. If people don't hear for your faucet they will not come.

I think this topic have much deeper meaning, its not just with bitcoins, people often have same situations with family and friends. There is no universal answer how to solve this kind of problems, we all live in different cultures with different value system, also everyone is different.
You should do what you think its the best, forget about them. Do what you think its right and never regret cause of that. You can give them another chance, or stay same thing, maybe even cut them from your life. Be with people who respect you and threat you nice, and I think you can explain to your family that with nice words.

There was similar topics in the past, and I think there is no guarantee that you will have profit in long run. I saw here on forum different bots, with different strategies, some require more then 1 bitcoin. For me that is just one big scam, there is no safe profit in gambling. Long run means that you will have money to gamble more every next day, if you lose today, go tomorrow with more money. That is what casino is doing, on long run they have bigger bankroll and that is big advantage in gambling.
I never tried dice bot, we have automated bots already, for me that is enough, I never wanted to download any script or program to gamble instead of me.

I find that is very hard to follow this rules, they are good but how to not be emotional? How to be prepared? I read so much about different coins, how to know is some coin is just a scam, or coin have a future?
I think not everyone can be a trader, analytical mind is needed for this.Mind that can proces million different informations, where are 999 990 informations stupid and irrelevant.

I played online chess a lot before, but I didn't have a clue about existence of this little cheats. How to win easily in chess, well thanks a lot for this nice advices. Now I understand why its hard to make some gambling out of this game. Its very easy to make a scam without any special program, just some good pro chess and that's it.
Maybe with timer there is a chance to solve this problem, who can watch game and in program if there is just couple seconds for that? Maybe we can make some tournament here, with fast timer, so there will be no possibilities for this kind of scams?

I was talking about that before, there is enough space for bitcoins and some other altcoins. World is very big places, with huge markets all around, for me is logical bitcoin to be first and most expensive coin, and others coins to have some purpose. Bitcoin like now will be universal coin, you can trade it for altcoins or fiat.
I don't know when can we expect this price OP mentioned, everything before 15 20 years is impossible. People need to see a lot more from blockchain in order to start using it.