when the doom they all had been waiting for fails to materialize but instead they see bitcoin soaring higher breaking range beyond their imagination, next they do is to coin excuses,"oh he just got lucky, blablabla".

Last time I checked many pessimists spreading FUD about bitcoin years ago are now hiding their faces, some have got no choice but to swallow their pride and joined the BTC camp to financial freedom while others are still scouting for excuses to massage their ego.

One thing I know for sure man, it isn't luck that got us this far, it's we doing what they feared and failed to do.

Chelsea has so much problems to combat with and take care of  right from strikers, midfielders and defenders are all without creativity. As in Chelsea had so many opportunities to score many goals in that game but they wasted all the chances like an amateur team. Enough with the experiment's by coach  Pochino it's part of what is putting the players in an inconsistent position as they keep playing out from one different wing to another not allowing players master a constant wing and position. Up till now Chelsea has no first XI team.

This is bad if you let it always get the better part of you. Before we go to gamble we have it in mind that it's either we win or we lose so why let the outcome determine your reaction towards family members or anyone at all.

 It's understandable nobody loves losing money and it hurts when we do but allowing it to affect our behavior thereby transferring aggression to people that don't even have a clue of what had happened to you like the kid that's way out of normal and you should learn to get yourself together.

No doubt our emotions are affected by the  outcome of our gambling results but we should quell the negative emotions right there before we move away from the position we stayed to gamble it will really assist us in making others not encounter from us reactions of  what they know nothing about.

You all in the right in what you have all said. You know, for an addictive gambler to start responding to external supports system he/she must first recognize that what they are doing is wrong and harmful to his/herself and to bear it in mind that whatever measures external bodies are building towards him is for his own good interest.

So first it's the personal will power that count for an addictive gambler before the support from specialist or family and friends come through to compliment it all. It is extremely difficult to give support system to an addictive gambler who sees nothing wrong with his compulsive gambling habit.

As a pioneering cryptocurrency you don't expect it to perform less, therefore in it's leadership position as the leading digital currency bitcoin has been up and doing since it's creation and all other crypto rally around and depends on its growth for that of theirs. The $44k mark is na impressive one and a boomerang of shame to those that were criticizing bitcoin with all sorts of degrading and discouraging articles and discussions on socials when bitcoin price was down to $15k this year. But for those that filtered the noise, didn't sell out of the FUDs instead hodl and kept on accumulating it's now a profiting bullish market for them.

Just this month bitcoin moved from $36k+ to rally around $42k-44k within days so therefore there's a positive propensity that it can go touch $50k by the end of December 2023. The fundamentals has been on the positive side for bitcoin and with the spot ETF approval in focus anything good is possible to happen with bitcoin price right now.

Bitcoin was purposefully created to give users financial freedom and security from the middle man, but some users after owning bitcoin they go on handing it over to the middle through the behavior of leaving their coins in centralized exchanges. At this level you don't have to feel pity for such people they knew the consequences, not that they are ignorant of previous horrid and frightful experiences of others  who were holding their coins in CEX.

The slogan, " not your keys not your coins" is a motto that rarely any crypto enthusiasts would say they have no knowledge of, how much more someone with coins worth  $15k, when exactly will people learn?.  For the CEX it's their home,  they have cleaned up all traces as simple as that and as an individual you'll have no concrete evidence to prove your allegation making any class action a step in futility.

There are people that don't have a strong mental construct to deal with situation of financial joy specially the one that occurred spontaneously with gamble he never expected but out of a first time trial it just happened. Before you know it they get absorbed by the delusion that by increasing their wagering they are going to get a bigger chance of winning big amount.

When we having a conversation with people for the first time or people that it has been long we last saw, we shouldn't introduce gambling in the discussion no matter how interesting the conversation gets, as we don't know what circumstance and situation that person has been facing and probably have been cracking his head to think of something to fetch him money, and now you have brought one up, gambling, and behind you he gave it a test and it was in his favour and you expect him to listen to any advise you have to say to talk him down from continuing.... Hell no.
It would have been better you never chip in the discuss  when you both first met.

You just hit the nail straight on the head, keeping an open mind in this game is what both club's fans should hold to heart tonight as both teams has been so inconsistent that when you expect them to win a game that's when they lose woefully.

But let me try to be bias here with a few sharp ends about Chelsea this season. From all the clubs they have lost points to it has all been  average teams that could be refer to as underdogs in the premier league but when have been able to pose a strong form on bigger teams either winning them or a draw, and tonight Manchester united isn't an average team but one of the most top four teams in the EPL history, therefore my bias tells me that Chelsea might rise up fiercely to the duel against them as a big team and this game could probably end draw. But that Ben said I still want to maintain an open mind.

Op thank you for this piece, to be frank this is a right information at the right period and at the right place. And I'll like to extend my thoughts from where op stopped. For the past days I have been receiving similar links in my WhatsApp from my WhatsApp contacts in respect to the purported #25k that the FGN reported to share among millions of Nigerian households, although from what I heard some persons have received theirs recently even a close friend of mine received his last week.

But that is not the concern, my concern is how these fraudsters and scammers are taking a drastic advantage of the news to create fake sites where people are required to fill in sensitive data about them such as NIN, phone number, email address and password, after which they will ask you to refer the site link to other social groups/platforms as part of the registration eligibility process.

It's quite unfortunate that people still fall for this infantry pattern of scam because they act greedy and also fail to do research about the integrity and genuineness of any link and forms they see online before taking further action on it. All this naw we go direct am to the hunger for the land abi?

Let beware, avoid link and online forms you don't know and sure of.

I concur, filtering the noise is one basic psychological strength to hodl for long.

At this epoch as an internet savvy person and,
 you don't own bitcoin still questioning it's a risk,
hey bro, the risk is all damn on that person not owning BTC

Bitcoin is in my opinion 99% of practical and 1% theory, every bitcoin informations we learn from the forum or any other platform are practical experiences of bitcoin users so if anyone is taking them for granted it's to ones disadvantage. Let drop one or two instances to consider:

1. Wallet hack and phishing prevention: when we learn about preventive measures to consider in protecting our bitcoin wallet from been hacked and against potential bug vulnerability we put what we learn to application because having your wallet hacked with your funds stolen isn't a theory. Maybe such people should wait till it happens to them.

2. Trading and investment: Does crypto trading sounds theoretical, maybe they should give it a try and experience the theory that's there in losing money. Etc.

People need to be careful in handling their private keys the importance of your private keys is equivalent to that of your funds as it's the only means to ownership of funds in a non-custodial wallet and should never be taking for grant in terms of it's security/safe-keeping.

At the moment a loss of private keys is a total loss of funds and there's no way for recovering it maybe in the future as technology develops developers might create a tech that can be use to brute-force into wallet with lost keys and gain access to funds.

Being a fresher to gambling and losing your bets in your first time at the casino or online gambling is to me an essentiality that every new gambler should experience as a caveat that will caution them to know and understand that gambling isn't a game of roses, you are not here to win but make losses however should you get a win at any point in time just take it in good faith.

But when a fresher starts with getting winnings in his bets as he gambles he would be leaving the casino with the reasoning and a frame of mind that that's how it should or would always be as he gambles moving forward. Such persons as they start experiencing losses they find it difficult to control their emotions and action regarding their losses and as @uneng rightly posit they will start chasing the losses and we all know where it all ends when a gambler start chasing a loss.

Till date I still appreciate my first time of gambling, for about two months of more  I never had a single win, days I bet in favour of my favourite team (sport betting) that's when they will lose a game, I was never happy at the experience though but today when I think about it I just smile because that experience made me comprehend that gambling isn't a game of roses.

I will never blame myself for not investing in bitcoin in the first place or been part of those that invested in it when it first started with a very low value 8-10 years ago. The opportunity didn't doesn't have to come to everyone all at ones, some others might not be moved to invest immediately it got to them because they didn't had indepth knowledge about it and to play safe they had to spend time doing research about it.

Whether you invested early or late in my opinion that's not really important, what is important is that eventually you have invested now and should be set to accumulate and hodl for long. It's surprising to note that not all that bought bitcoin 10years ago still hodl till date, some even sold even before the last ATH in 2021, so for me it's not about when you bought it's rather about how long.

Am guessing that's what he meant and more. Therefore we should continue stacking particularly for those that think they've arrived late, however I don't see any significance tops Litecoin hodlers are going to make in the coming bullrun as the price movement lately hasn't been encouraging, but am positive Ethereum will be altered significantly by the bitcoin bullrun  next year.

Many altcoin investors will be disappointed come next year when the bitcoin bullrun takes place as most altcoins would have little or no alteration at all, they would rather dump.

For a long term investment asset like bitcoin having a some other source of income inflow as backup can be helpful in building a good bitcoin portfolio whatsoever lapses that emerges in midway you wouldn't be forced to tamper with your long term investment bitcoin plans as your other source will cover for it.

Technically, if you had to sell a property or properties to get money to invest in bitcoin it then interprets that you don't have any other money left after using all to invest, and should in the process you had to face a financial crisis that entreat an immediate financial response you may either be forced to sell your coins or sell another property again.

Assuming you divided and invested  a higher percentage of the money in bitcoin and diversified  the rest amount into other sort of Investment. Under such circumstance the other Investment can be used in solving your issues that's why diversification is necessary as an investor.

Still reminiscence the physical cash scarcity period at the start of this year between January to march, 2023, it was hell with all other common traditional banks when doing online cash transfers but Opay was a life-saver. While people using other banks had to wait for long, at times more than 24hrs to receive credit alert for transfer with that period due to the congestion of  network
it was a different story with opay. Not a promotion though but I must confess it saved me from those market women their wahala after buying a product where you will have to sit and be waiting for them to receive alert before you leave  

Efficient, fast transfer and reception without transfer fees deduction. Many persons are scared of using Opay or leaving handsome amount of money their Opay account as a result of them not having physical offices networked throughout the country where a customer can work in a lay a complaint, so I think if Opay can make provisions for this to allay this fears they will be stealing many more customers from those other physically situated  banks in no time.
Congrats to Opay for the award, it's well deserved.

Bitcoin, It's not bad choice of Investment against land as it has the potential to appreciate in value/profit within a  shortest possible duration let say 1-3 as the case may be, and particularly now we are having the bullrun in sight, and with the bitcoin ETF approval underway by next year.

Op since you've the knowledge about bitcoin I am  earnestly convince that you have thought this twice over, therefore you know what you doing. All the best with your investment.
There is no missing out really despite that you didn't had this plan sometime earlier. The most important thing now is that you have eventually made the plan. Goodluck with that.

I am extremely shock by this pump 42k, don't get me wrong not that I was pessimistic but just didn't thought december will be friendly so early.

It seems we can wake up one morning this december and get BTC price sitting in the past  ATH before ETF approval. And if it happens to be so I only can imagine what the price will look like when ETF is finally approved.

Hello BTC pls keep the flag flying we all love it.

Actually our financial level are not same and losses among gamblers shouldn't be compared in terms of we trying to be or showing sympathy. If we wish to show sympathy we should just show it and not doing so based on comparison of the amount a gambler had lost to gambling.

I could be showing sympathy to someone that had lost $10k to gambling not considering another that have lost just $1k, unknowingly to me the guy with the $1k loss was the last cash in his possession home and abroad whereas the fellow that had lost a $10k has so much in abundance in his wallet savings.

In all we do as gamblers we should resist the urge of gambling amount of cash we can't afford to lose, calculate your income percentage that you can affordably spend on gambling and stick to it to avoid seeking sympathy from others.

Girona are in a current form that is threatening to both Real Madrid and Barcelona this season, the points gap between the three teams are not that much of a significance though it's an advantage but from what I perceive Barcelona will cling a victory over Girona when they meet as the team is now reawakening from it dull performance Seeing how they played against ATM last night.

Like I have recently stated in one comment previously, Girona might not maintain the momentum and strength of form they are now by February next year what they can possibly do is to fight to hold a spot on the table to qualify them for the UCL next season. The owners of the title we all know.