Infact this 28% is low excluding old and children. The reason why I said this is that this is the online statistics. People bet offline, on land base casino. People gamble in their compound, in the neighborhood apart from casinos and it is normal in Nigeria. Some gamblers gamble till dawn. Like someone said, I will say that it is like a tradition down here because even before the economy got to the level, people have being gambling and using it as a means to double their funds.

The youths now don't have anything that they do with their money but to gamble and hope to win big, because they have seen people that have won big in gambling. There are sportbet outlets in my neighborhood and all the time it is filled up. They see losing as something normal and they hope that someday, they will win big.

OP, I agree with you on whatever you choose to call bitcoin because of the way the price is pumping now. You will sleep and wake up and see that bitcoin price has pumped and to you it is like magic right. I call bitcoin the future digital gold and some persons calls it a safe haven, and so on.

The fact remains that bitcoin is a volatile assest and this makes it more profitable when you invest for a long period of time. There is still time for one to buy and invest and also do regular DCA, so that you can benefit from it. Bitcoin has a great potential and that is why you are carried away and call it magic internet money but the truth is that the decentralized nature is what makes it more unique.

You have zero chance of changing your  username and if I were you, I will just forget about this my current account and act as if I never had it. Next is to go and create a new account your your preferred name and this time make sure you have finalize with the name you want to use, if not it will be a waste of time for you to be jumping from one account to the other.

 Register a new account and ride on, after all your account don't have any reputation nor merits, so it is very easy to start all over again. On the other hand you feel you are not cool with our suggestions, then you can write to theymos and try your luck but you have to wait for a long time that is if your request will be granted. It's your choice to decide.

Milan started the season as if they will never lose points in all their matches but as we all know that there must be difficulties when a club faces a club that is well prepared for the game than them. It was Inter that started to make Milan lose points after they met earlier and Juve has also reduced Milan's point.

I think that their defeat in the champions league by PSG was what affected their performance. They were still in the shock before they played Juventus. I think that Inter has a better chance of winning the league because they are still consistent with their performance even though they are playing in the champions league. Juventus has the chance on winning the league if they don't decline in performance and remain consistent, because they will me focused only on Seria A

It is only the government that can uplift people from poverty and not bitcoin, this is because anyone that want to really benefit from bitcoin must take a long time before he can see his profit, since bitcoin is a long term investment for you to make profit from it. You don't think that the poor ones that hardly eat well in a day will be able to invest into bitcoin and wait patiently to reap their profit when they don't have what to eat.

The people that are making profit from bitcoin are traders and people that earn in bitcoin and I don't that a poor man can go into trading that is very risky and can make one loss all his bitcoin if he makes a wrong decision. It is unethical to advise newbies or people who are managing to invest in bitcoin to jump into trading without any skill because they will end up at loss.

Mining is very expensive due to the cost of electricity and it needs good capital to start with, and if you are not careful, you might run at loss. Hodli needs patience and you must have cash reserve or cash inflow in other to be successful as a hodler, if not you might end up selling when it is not at your will.

Trading shouldn't be something that should be advised that newbies should go into. Majority of traders run at loss because it is hard to predict bitcoin price movement correctly, and trading involves so many skills and charts stuffs that will make one so stressed up when trying to beat the market. The fact remains that, there is no amount of profit that a trader will make that will be as big as what he will make when a hodli for long because bitcoin value increases with timeline.

Trading is for people that are after little profit and only after today, while hodlers are people that invest for their old age when they will no longer be strong to work. Professional traders run at loss but a newbie hodler will not run at loss when he investment in a long term and increase his bitcoin porfolio with regular DCA. As for me I see trading as a waste of time because you might think that you will make profit but end up running at loss. Bitcoin investment is not for short time gains because the market might not move in your favor and there are some wrong decisions that you will make as a trader that you will end up living to regret. Just Hodli and save your investment from loss.

I don't understand Eric Ten Hag new pattern that is making winning very difficult. He needs to try his best to make sure that the performance of the team will not decline that this, if not it will be a worst season for him and the club. Manchester will not finish on top four this season and they will not be playing in the champions league next season, because their performance is too poor to meet such target.

 I don't know what brought the change in the players performance too, they are not as smart and sharp like last season. Something needs to be done fast in other to put the team back to a good form before it is too late.

I don't see bitcoin to be risky, if can discipline yourself and stick to the investment rules of bitcoin that says, you should only invest in a long term and increase your bitcoin investment portfolio regularly with DCA so that no matter the level of price that bitcoin is, you can buy to cover up further price increase to balance up with the risks and benefits. No matter how risky, you think bitcoin is because of the price volatility when you are in a long term  plan, you will overcome the risk because bitcoin price keeps pumping with time.

It is those people that think that bitcoin is a get rich quick scheme that invest in a short term and they want massive profit, they will run at loss because that is not how bitcoin should be venture into, since nobody can predict the price movement of bitcoin right. Other assets has high risk and can't be compared to bitcoin in terms of risk and benefits.

#3. It helps us to take risk.

This is the part that I loved and I have never thought of the positive side. Since gamblers are always taking risk to make profit. It means that it whatever business or goal that we are planning of, taking the risk to venture into it is worth it just like you don't know if you will win the next game but you have the hope that you will win it.

If your venturing into a business take a bold step and believe that it is worth to take the risk to succeed in it. Same with you goal don't get discourage even when you have fallen the first time, just as gamblers don't give up, they come back and gamble tomorrow after today's loss. Gamble responsible in other to enjoy the benefit in gambling.

You are right, it was back in 2015 like you said that faucet is worth giving time because then it pays well, but as time goes on it became very small that I presently see it as a waste of time because before one can claim bitcoin from faucet, you must be a patient dog since the transaction fee is something else.

Exchanges are very funny people because they are always bringing figures that are not in their reach to make people feel that keeping their funds with them is safe, when you will know that it is not true is when that exchange crashes, they wouldn't be able to refund all customers their funds at once. Another way to know is when there is a massive withdrawal from the exchange, you will see that the exchange will now deprive their customers from withdrawing and also place a withdrawal limit on customers so that they wouldn't know the truth.

 Same with traditional banks, have you ever thought that what id all the customers withdraw all their funds at once, the bank will never accept many withdrawals and they will put a withdrawal limit. This has happened to me and I need the funds for an urgent purpose. Not your keys not your coins. The moment you deposit to an exchange, your coins becomes a business coins, and not yours anymore, it is only when you have withdrawn it that it becomes your again.

Why are they saying that bitcoin is risky than other investment like gold, stock and bond, or real estate is simply because if the volatile nature of bitcoin, especially for people who are in a rush to sell their bitcoin. When you invest in a long term, you have overcome the risk in it. This is why you must invest in bitcoin to complete your knowledge on bitcoin by experiencing the risk attached to bitcoin investment and hodli. I can take 5yrs to learn bitcoin but still don't know the strategy on investing and grow my investment. Only practical can teach your how to go about your bitcoin journey and which accumulation strategy that will suit you base on your income.

Some newbies can't differentiate their right from their left in cryptocurrency, I.e they don't know which is the best and how to start with their investment, and it is these kind of people that will invest into the wrong coin or will listen to influencers and invest into altcoins, and that is why we need to tell them the difference of bitcoin and altcoins and also guide them to the right direction. When I just came into the forum, I never knew anything about cryptocurrency and I thought that they are all the same but the forum changed my thoughts abs clarify me about the difference. It is the same thing with diversify, I have seen so many forum member think that diversify into other assets means buying altcoins.

Bitcoin is here to save the poor from hardship through the opportunity that it has offer for one to invest into it. Bitcoin is a different investment from others abs only need little capital to invest. Anyone that understands this will gladly assign some fraction from his income to invest, or look for a way that they can increase their income, if what they are earning wouldn't be enough to take care of their responsibilities and also invest in bitcoin.

Some people thinks that they must have a good income or a big capital to invest and they will keep wasting their time waiting for that right time, of which they don't know that it better to start investing with the little that they have now and plan to look for a means to increase their income. Bitcoin is seen as a safe haven in future when you invest in a long term with regular DCA to increase your bitcoin, and if a newbie believes in this he will definitely invest.

 What I am saying is that it is our duty to look for a way out to make sure that we are accumulating frequently and hodli for long with a proper plan that will not make us sell when it is not our will to avoid regrets. Invest now at don't wait till you are very comfortable financially. Lack of planning of keeping funds for basic needs and emergency can hinder your progress when investing in bitcoin, so you should have cash reserve for those expenses, if not you might not be successful in your bitcoin journey.

Damn it mate, you must be a rich guy. This money is big enough to change the life of a poor man to become very rich down here in my country, and you just lost it in one session, gush. I have never used up to $100 in a session because my income is not big, and I only gamble with 5% from my income.

What got over you that made you to gamble with such amount, you should not be influenced by those wealthy gamblers that stream their gambling activities, because they have more than enough to throw away. Gamble responsible and don't live to regret your actions later.

Lucky you OP, you should be regretting by now assuming, you sent your coins to a dishonest person that wouldn't return it back. This is why you need to cross check the address which your want to send your coins to over and over again to avoid mistake of such that happened.

Scammers can also send malware to your clipboard and if you are the type that is not cautious with what your are doing online, you will fall victim for this. rat03gopoh is a good person with good reputation and that was why we are all saying that you are lucky. You would have learnt a hard lesson by now.

I only gamble once in a while back days when I just started gambling. It was my friends that introduced me to gambling and it was only when we are together that I gamble. This made me not to gamble without them and we meet during the weekend to have fun. I guess this was one of the reason that made me not to get addicted that much.

 I could only remember some years back when I wanted to get addicted to gambling but when I saw how much of my income do go into gambling, I decided to limit the way I gambled, and that really helped me a lot. So what I did was that,I created my own gambling time that makes me not to gamble when it is not that time, and I quit the moment the time elapses, either I am winning or losing.

Trading is very complicated and if you are a newbie, you would take a very long time to learn everything correctly on trading, because you need to know the fundamental analysis, technical analysis and also know how to read charts with coming up with your own risk management to help you, and it is not still a guarantee that you will not run at loss. All these things that I said will take more than a year and that doesn't mean that you have understand it all.

Trading has a very big risk of you losing your bitcoin, instead of you to be increasing it. Hodli and regular DCA is easy and investment friendly, as long as you venture into a long term investment. I will advised newbies to stay away from trading, because the time that they will use to be learning, they can use that time to invest and increase their bitcoin portfolio easily without much risk. Unlike trading that will expose you to loss and will make you regret your actions later. It is had to time the market nor to predict the price movement of bitcoin, and this is what traders need to know to make profit. Even professionals can tell what will be the next bitcoin price after this.

@lamgoat, don't sound as if trading is easy and it can be misleading too. Bitcoin investment is best achieved when you hodli for 4-10yrs and above with regular DCA and you will never run at loss.

I will choose option c. This is because there is no investment or amount of money that will give you the kind of profit that bitcoin will give you when you sell in the next bull run that we are expecting. You can sell all of the during bitcoin ATH and re-buy back the same 20btc during the immediate bear market that follows the bull run. You will take good profit and still have your bitcoin in your wallet.

Secondly, I will go for option e. This is because you can use the profit from that business to buy whatever you want to buy when you save it, and you will have regular cash inflow that will makw  you not thinking of selling your bitcoin because $480k is not a small business. I can buy more bitcoin with DCA and I can also build real estate and buy gold, all these I can achieve it as long as the business is running and my bitcoin investment portfolio is also increasing. Give me twenty years from now I will rich the level of fuck you status.

Crwth has given the answer already, but from your statement it shows that your friend is not thinking much of his integrity but he has seen this as an opportunity for him to have a long term tenant and make profit, it is better that he follows his heart and make the decision that wouldn't make him regret later.

If I was in his shoes, I will give it on a lease to the lotto outlet and enjoy my rent, at least it is an additional income to what he is getting now, and with the way inflation is everywhere, one must make use of any good opportunity to have an additional income. I will rent it out and use it to invest in bitcoin, because from the look of things, is like he is not really in the need of money.

OP, you are welcome to the forum. You should take your time to read more and do your own research to improve your knowledge. Make sure that you don't plagiarize, because it is a great offense here that will lead to account ban. If you must use someone else's work for reference, you should add the link to it.

Take your time to navigate round the forum and see boards of your interest where you can contribute easily on topic discussed. You should also engage yourself in discussions here in the forum. The search engine is the key to whatever that you are looking for and don't forget to ask questions that you are confused about. The forum is a very good place to learn and have new friends. Try to add value and positive impact on the forum and forum members by being creative.

Bitcoin is money and it can be used to pay for goods and services worldwide, as long as it is been accepted. It is not compulsory for you to buy your bitcoin and hodli, you can still use your bitcoin to pay directly for whaever you want to buy either online or offline. I have a hotel down here that accepts bitcoin payment.

You should also know the purpose why Satoshi created bitcoin, it was for an alternative payment method but because bitcoin is limited in supply, as time passes, it started to increase in value and that is why people now see it as an investment and they prefer to hodli rather than using it for payment because they want to make profit from bitcoin. My uncle bought his PC with bitcoin, and we in this forum do business with bitcoin here. In the nearest future, you will understand what bitcoin is. Ferrari just started accepting bitcoin payment for the purchase of their exotic car.

If you want to pay for any goods or services with bitcoin, you will charge in dollar and convert to bitcoin. That is how it is done because every goods and services have their price or fee.

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