I agree. Children's minds are like sponges. But instead of soaking up water, they soak up experiences that they see from the actions of adults. Especially when it comes to actions of their parents. Gambling, drugs, alcohol, smoking, swearing and all bad character traits could become a permanent component of the childs personality, later on in life. This is because their brains are still growing, and the neural network is still forming. Anything that disturbs this process could end up permanently altering the child for the worse.

But then again, hiding the truth from the child to the extreme also does not work. If you pamper a child too much, they will grow up without necessary life skills, and something like that can be just as damaging to them, later in life.

I think that blaming this on the Bitcoin incident is dumb. Obviously something was wrong with that relationship long before Bitcoin got involved. Perhaps the Bitcoin investment was simply an excuse to have a fight, which got out of hand.

I do not believe that Bitcoin should be made into the scapegoat here, which the news article is obviously trying to do. In such an unstable relationship, eventually this would have happened one way or another. It was just a matter of time.

Also, Bitcoin investments only become a loss if you sell during times when the price of Bitcoin is lower than your buying price. Should have kept hodling. But I suspect that he invested money that could not afford to invest because they needed it for other things, because he hoped to get rich quick.

I would like to add that if someone does decide to go for a KYC enabled casino, it would be a better thing to do the KYC before depositing any funds. Because either way, the casino will, at some point, demand KYC. And when this happens, they might take much longer to verify your KYC documents because they do not have any time limits on how long they are allowed to legally freeze your account (as far as I know) until the KYC procedure is done. This might leave you waiting to withdraw your money. Depending on your situation, this can become a big problem. Especially if you have to wait months.

So that's what a crypto launchpad is?

1. I am not sure what you mean by "blend in" or "this space". Are talking about the Bitcointalk community or the Bitcoin community? You should be more detailled with your questioning.

2. My journey in crypto has been fun. Although to be more honest, it was rather a journey into Bitcoin, rather than into crypto. The crypto part came much later and has been sometimes disappointing but sometimes amazing.

3. The advice that I would give to a newbie is to never give up.

4. I used to have a quick-rich ideas and phases but I was mature enough to not follow them through.

That all depends on whether or not the casino that you mentioned allows that. You can go to the terms and service of that casino by scrolling down to the bottom of the website and clicking on "Terms and Conditions" or "Terms of Service". Sometimes the naming can be a bit off, but they are usually very similar to each other. Although similar does not mean exactly the same. Nor should you misunderstand it as such.

Read it through carefully and be sure not to break any rules, otherwise your account and your funds could be in danger of being frozen/confiscated, depending on the transgression, of course.

Women do have different motives for going into the world of gambling, I believe. I mean if you were to look at the entire matter from the perspective of a biological standpoint, then men have developed to become more risky as when they were hunters back ages ago. Women stayed in a shelter, waiting for their risky mates to return with food. But that is not all women did. They developed raised and protected babies, made social bonds and shared information between each other, which was vital to the survival of the human species. We are a herd-like species after all. We cannot stand to be alone and together we become stronger and more likely to survive.

So going by that, obvious the more risky counterpart (men) will be more prone to risky things with tempting rewards, like gambling. Women are more risk adverse and would rather enjoy the gambling community than the act of betting itself.

By the golden rule, when Bitcoin goes up so do the altcoins and when altcoins go up, so does the price of Bitcoin. But then again, sometimes these altcoins do not go up as high as Bitcoin. Or somebody sells a large chunk and drives the price down hard so that while the Bitcoiners made a profit, you are left with the same monetary value as you had before.

Altcoins are a shot in the dark. But I suppose if you were to trade them, the best time would be during a bull run, when all markets are in the green. Hodling is always the superior option, though. But that only goes for Bitcoin. I cannot vouch for altcoins since they tend to die out, get dumped, become rugpulls, get hacked or other.

First of all, if you can avoid it, never store your money long term on gambling sites. Make sure that your money is in your own wallet. Not on any third party wallet (casinos, exchanges, etc.).

It does seem like a shame if your casino has high withdrawal requirements, so anyone gambling small amounts can just leave them in their casino wallet. (I gamble with small amounts so I do not care about my casino fund safety too much. But big winnings should be withdrawn)

You can never know when and where the next hack, scam, etc. takes place. Even the most trusted casino is ultimately a centralized entity which has full access to your casino wallet and your money. We should not forget that.

I am, honestly.

But that is because I only bet very small amounts of money unlike most of you lunatics    

What people need to do before going into an online gambling casino is to first assess their financial situation and use max. 10% of their disposable income in a month to gamble. Divide that number up by the number of days in the month and you have yourself daily gambling funds. Do not become tempted into using more of the funds than the established daily gambling funds. Hold on to some discipline and if you do not have any discipline then do not gamble in the first place.

I see no fun in gambling large amounts of money in hopes of winning "the big one".

Anything that you do can affect your relationship. Even small things that are not your fault and that you have absolutely no control over. I think that if you are a gambler and an addicted one at that, then your spouse should try and help you heal from your addiction. However if all their attempts prove to be fruitless in the end, then obviously at that point I would not be the one to blame them of leaving the relationship. There is only so much another person can do.

As long as one does not drag down the other or hurt the other, that is a healthy relationship and it does not matter how anyone else views that spouses gambling behaviors. It only becomes a problem if it is a problem to the spouse.

But gambling addiction, just like alcohol addiction, does usually become a problem.

I guess. If I found it, I would be asking for the full value of $160 million USD (in BTC). I do sometimes believe that there might be a guy tinkering away somewhere, at a stolen nuke in his garage. How many nukes has the US government lost? Do I want to google that?  

Honestly, I would have to say that I am not tax efficient, at all. At least, not when it comes to gambling.

As far as I understand it, gambling losses cannot be deducted fully in my country (or perhaps only certain kinds of losses but not other types can be deducted... I am not sure about the way it works). I only gamble for fun with small amounts of money in the first place. I do not wish to hire a tax consultant merely to save up on a few dollars. I am not interested in deducting my meager gambling losses from my taxes. It is not really worth the time to me.

Now if I ever win a gigantic sum of money, I will think about whether or not I want to hire a tax consultant to tell me on how to keep most of my money.

Yes, I think that ETFs are going to have a massive effect on Bitcoin, since the largest institutional investors are going to have the freedom to finally deal with cryptocurrency (in this case, Bitcoin) without having to worry about the government screwing them with weird regulations. ETFs are a way to invest in crypto while the ETFs themselves are not crypto. This is the upside-down logic that is supposedly, in the mind of the government, going to bring a new method of regulation over Bitcoin. Somehow.

SEC seems to finally understand the unregulatable, decentralized nature of most cryptocurrencies. Which is why they are fighting back so hard. They know that ETFs are just a backdoor towards supporting the legal legitimacy of Bitcoin as an investment.

The old generation that is not yet invested in Bitcoin, due to being stubborn in their old investment types, will be investing soon.

Banks are investing in large amounts of copium right now.

"It fell off a truck."

I totally agree. If somebody finds that he has the character of becoming addicted, then that is a sure sign that his dopamine regulation system is genetically flawed when it comes to addictions and therefore works against him. But that does not necessarily mean that that person should avoid addictive things. Rather they should think about a way to keep themselves disciplined enough to follow a set of rules which ensure to lower the risk of becoming addicted. Most people do not bother developing any kind of strategy to fight off addiction though. It can be a lot of work. Most people lack the discipline. Those kinds of people should completely stay away from additive things like drugs, alcohol, smoking or gambling.

John White's Black Echo is beautiful and ingenious.  

The "Black Echo" :

Crypto? I am guessing that you hopefully mean Bitcoin by this because I would not vouch for any other cryptocurrency other than Bitcoin when it comes to holding your money. But as I was saying, when it comes to Bitcoin, the very purpose of it is for you to be your own bank and not only that, but a much better bank, because nobody can touch/freeze/withdraw your Bitcoin without your express permission (assuming that you hold your Bitcoin in your own wallet and not a third party wallet like an exchange website wallet).

So in a nutshell: Bitcoin is the better bank because with Bitcoin you are your own bank.

You do realize that Buddy is an AI bot who only posts during good BTC-buying opportunities, don't you?

Depending on the country, it could already very well be banned. But when it comes to addictive substances or in this case, addictive behaviors, as long as they are adults, I see no problem in advertising to them. As far as children go, the internet is a completely unregulated room of full freedom, so they will find worse things on the internet than gambling advertisements. There is no way to stop them except if the parents themselves implement a very strict control over the child. Which, in itself could be debated on whether or not that is a good way for a child to grow and learn.

But lets assume that everyone here is an adult. Why should we demand censorship? Are we not responsible for ourselves? Do we not have the freedom to do as we like? Do we need big brother to watch over us, and tell us what we are allowed and what we are not, as if we were living in China?