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.

It is Joa' felix intervention that made the difference in the first 45 minutes at the camp Nou tonight. It has been a fierce battle tonight as Barcelona took the lead in the 28 minute after a lovely pass from Raphinha to jao felix to put Barcelona ahead in the game though Barcelona have lost a couple of good chances tonight

 but I think they are looking great tonight as they keep creating more chances in front of the athletico Madrid goal.Athletico Madrid have also done well tonight by not allowing Barcelona increase the deficit tonight because that would have been a disaster for them and would thrown them in chaos, as it is right now they still have a chance of coming back into this game and that's what's gonna make the second half more interesting.

Tottenham seem to be engaging a defensive technique due to constant pressure from Manchester City which I think is good for them right now because Manchester City have good players at the wings that can cause havoc for Tottenham so all they were able to do was to try and stop Manchester City from scoring more goals thereby reducing the deficit in this first and if that had happened then the coach would have gone back to the drawing board and maybe introduced fresh legs into the game to strengthen his side and see if they can try to get themselves back into the game. However it was an equal share if point for both teams at the end.

Chelsea did a nice job playing with a 10 man team against Brighton especially with Mitoma exhibiting his talent on the Chelsea's defense with turbulence. Am glad for the blues on this win all 3 goals being a debut goals from Colwill and Enzo Fernandez. However, Gallagher has to keep his cool he's been too aggressive with the tackles hardly play a game without receiving a card, his red card almost nick the team the 3points and consequent his absence makes a huge loss for Chelsea when they meet Manchester united next weekend.

At Anfield it was an incredible performance by Liverpool against Fulham coming in from behind 2:3 to win the match 4:3 it was astonishing and quite an entertaining match with the way the goals were coming in.

Manchester City vs Tottenham game is already underway with City leading 2:1 in that game in just 36 mins of play...

The first half of the game has just ended and it's quite refreshing that your expectations are near reaching with Arsenal already leading with a 2:0 score, and in my opinion the goals might go beyond 3goals as they return in the second half.  

Wolves won't be giving arsenal much trouble than they could handle in this their game, arsenal has an excellence front line this season that can breakthrough any defense it may take time but they always find way to break in and get the required goals and I don't see wolves stopping them today from claiming the 3points.

The Newcastle vs Manchester united game is very dicey to think of the possible results as right now even Newcastle has dropped a bit of a form though playing against an inconsistent team like Manchester united with a dramatic goalkeeper. All I expect from this game is a draw.

It's all about fans banter so you shouldn't be surprised, after all you also said similar thing calling Manchester united a rubbish team. I won't be shocked to know you are a Chelsea fan

OP I understand you are not a professional and you giving people a crypto professional advise on what altcoin they should instantaneous invest into. That's not fair and risky not only for those that will take this advise and put it to immediately action but also you op as all blaming fingers would be directed at you should anything goes south. Don't forget that's an altcoin.

It would have been preferable you had made the post  appear in a way that suggests that you are only bringing in an altcoin idea you think might do well in the future and that any person that feel interest should also do their own research about it and think of the next action to take based on how they also observe it. Instead you make it sound so sure and that investors should troop in immediately and invest before they miss out.

My candid piece of advise to anyone is that, if you have to invest in altcoin invest a very amount that won't hit you hard if it happens that you lose it, and always DYOR.

Bitcoin investment is not hard to understand and follow through with, aside from having the capital to invest which is not enough because you will also need the knowledge too to navigate the market , without the knowledge as a newbie you can invest wrongly and start blaming that it's a scam.

With the proper knowledge you would know when it's the dip and how to take advantage, it's surprising to note that there are newbies that can't in clear cut distinguish the dissimilarity between technical analysis and fundamental analysis, for all they are focused on is making profit not knowing that the secret to making profits in cryptocurrency is knowledge. Which is why they have to learn first before all else.

Probability, prediction, luck, chance, likelihood, presumption etc, all these words are summed up in one word - gambling! They all are words that expresses uncertainty, lack of assurance and reliance in every sense of it. Is that what someone should abandon all other sources of income of his to fully focus on? Hell no.

I have seen many gamblers that depends on gambling without other source of income crumble to the ground, professionalism doesn't count and it's not a metric to achieve success in gambling it's all just luck. You can decide to go professional about it but if you are not lucky there's no success, and those that get lucky at it rather attributes it to their being professional.  If you want to be a gambler then just hit the road in a responsible manner and have other sources of income that's how it works.

Not that it's a loss of optimism we should be realistic sometimes even as we express optimism.  The corrections are necessary so  it will put bitcoin price in the uptrend direct by next year 2024 as we all expects.

AFAIK, in this month of December bitcoin price won't surpass 40k because the resistance at the current point is still strong therefore price  will be experiencing a lot of consolidation building momentum for breakthrough either at the middle of January or by the end of January. Let see how it goes anyway it's just a prediction from my end.

Last time I remember seeing a post with this similar question in the gambling section many comments disagreed with the idea of using AI to predict bets in gambling and I also objected to the use because ordinarily it won't be helpful to the gambler as it would to the house who are perpetually with the hedge in gambling.

AI works based on informations loaded into it it's not an independent information user like human are and if human can still be making wrong bets using human capabilities it then makes the AI introduction to bet predictions none useful as it's still humans that will feed it with the informations it will need to process predictions results.