Honestly, why would you want to take a 40% tax cut working for corporate America and paying Uncle Sam top dollar when you can get a 1099 as an independent contractor in pretty much any industry/trade as an agency and utilize tax write offs on basically everything you spend money on. I mean not everything but most things you can write off. Stretching your dollar as far as you can within the legal tax code is how the rich get richer. Mostly utilizing real estate, and tax savings vehicles like life insurance cash value policies, etc. Does anyone have any great tips or tricks for maximizing your tax returns? American income tax is complete bs.

Perhaps it is better to insure the Bitcoin/s instead. This would be very challenging due to the volatility in the price but honestly wouldn’t hurt. I’m sure there could be ways for insurers to do this. If you insure it just like a life insurance policy some way, maybe this is something we will see insurance companies starting to do with all of these scams happening lately...

Will anyone on here betting on tennis? I am planning on attending one of these matches next week, perhaps I will make a bet. I found this insight online: https://footballpink.net/delray-beach-open-odds/

Its wild to think that so much can happen in one week. Someone that was near and dear to me passed form a fentanyl overdose, which is just so wild to me and i'm still in shock. Someone who I thought had their ish together too. On top of that I unfortunately was laid off from my job on Friday.

I have a very unexplainable peace in this time. I feel like most people might not feel the same way that I do about all of this. Of course I am crushed by the loss of my friend, Justin. The best way I can describe my relationship with him is also found in scripture in the bible, "Iron sharpens Iron" RIP Justin I know that he is with God in heaven now. He gave me more encouragement and spoke so much positivity into my life, more so than most of the people that i've known, and in such a short amount of time. May God be with his family and loved ones.

As far as my job, I knew it was coming so this did give me some time to prepare. As far as the future right now, it is very uncertain. What I will say though is that I do believe that it is a blessing in disguise. I really didn't love my job, I hated it actually. What tied me down was the money, of course. I have a family to provide for. But now I have applied for unemployment which will give me some time to figure out what I am going to do. Maybe start a business, or find a much better job with better pay. Certainly I will be selling some life insurance on the side, since I have my license to do so. I also have things that I can sell, so thats good. Its just a job. There a soooo many jobs out there, so I'm not worried about that.

Mostly I just want to do something meaningful, something that I love and care about. I'd love to do it with people that I also care about and can form deeper relationships with. That is what is most important in this life. Its not money, its not the job. Its about being happy and forming amazing relationships with people you care about. Hopefully, if you're lucky you can manage to kill two birds with one stone and find your dream job working alongside your best friends. I know its out there, and i'm searching for it.

Lots of emotions have been felt this week. Leaving a career of 7 years, and losing a dear friend all in the same week. It really puts things into perspective for you. Don't let your job define you because it can be replaced, also you're not promised tomorrow! Wild ride. But now is just the beginning of a new chapter, a new journey. And I am excited, I am ready, and I will be looking forward to whatever the future holds. Please wish me luck as I continue in my job search, and morn the loss of my friend.

Lets make every day count this year in 2023! Remember anything can change in an instant, and today you could take your last breath. So don't waste it. Thats all I have for now, but thank you in advance to anyone who read this. I welcome all thoughts and comments. Please be respectful. Thank you.

Cheers,

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Strictly for Bitcoin, is there a list of the best online gambling casinos and their corresponding pros/cons of using?

I am asking because I don't quite have all the experience in the world and the people in these threads seem to be the most savvy on this.

What have you found works best? What does not work? I guess I am looking for a sort of "cheat sheet" if you will. If that even exists.

Have a great night everyone.

Cheers,

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How exciting to watch though!!! What a great giveaway, thanks for putting this on  Good luck to everyone!

Welcome back! I am a big fan of the slabs, particularly those Alpen 1,000,000 sats the gold one and the 500,000 silver series but of course the Kialara is classic and the creme de la creme of the bars. Also of course the Cass ones, i've seen the microsoul ones that look in credible.

Speaking of rectangular crypto related objects those Cardsmith cards are so fun! I bought a bunch of packs off of MJ when they first came out and had a ball opening them, such beautiful art and holos. Was lucky enough to pull some numbered cards, and I love the chance at hitting a crypto redemption card. I ended up selling a large set of the common cards and just kept all the holos for myself in my card binder. I'll look forward to the series 2 as well. Need to get my hands on some more of series 1 before they sell out!!

Agreed! But true bitcoins are really in it for the long game anyways, savvy? It will take time, and at times it will be brutal, and other times it will be epic. If you play the market right you can make money both ways, but i've never been one to do that. Although I wish I would take a chance with that. I think its just anxiety provoking doing that moving large amounts of funds to exchanges or elsewhere in hopes to trade and make a profit. I have always stuck to the HODLing approach and steady stacking myself. Nothing wrong with a little wishful thinking though. Of course, there is no guarantee that this will ever happen but I will say that it surely will be one crazy ride if it does!

Yeah, should have been a big win and taken the chips, but I was young and stupid and didn't know that my luck would run out as I was so inexperienced and it was my first time. I was on a hot streak with doubling my money and I remember thinking after I lost it all in one foul sweep that I should have stuck to the $40 bets after I got to the $160 range to have more chances to increase the money. Hindsight is always 2020! But even though I lost, I really only lost the $10 I initially took from my dad's wallet. I'm sure he would get a kick out of this story, i've never told him but now plan on it. I also still owe him $10 hahahah The first doubling from the $10 to $20 was the most fun part for me though. It was one of those coin machines that you drop the coin in and there is this moving horizontal bar that moves back and forth pushing the coins up and they fall over into a bed and you try to move the coins in such a way to win the cash prize that's sitting on top of all those coins. Hopefully you know what i'm talking about that, I want to find another one of those machines that was so much fun haha

See that's just it, it was greed that ultimately won that day. But not winning the money actually saved me a lot because to this day I have not ever had a problem with gambling, nor have I sought out to go and gamble at a casino. Maybe here or there once in a blue moon I'd buy a $1 or $2 scratch off ticket, or drop a few bucks in a slot machine in an airport or something. Really the only gambling I do now is with Fantasy football but even that is no more than $100 a year.

I'll tell you mine. I was 16 on a Royal Caribbean cruise with my parents. I took $10 from dads wallet and went out on the town   I stopped into the casino on deck, worked that $10 in to a $20 in the coin machine. Then I went to the roulette table and doubled my money 3 times and got up to $160, then I bet it all on black and lost it all! Or wait, was it red? Oh I don't remember hahah. They did come around and bring me plenty of drinks. Luckily I looked old enough to be in there, was even 6 feet tall back then, athletic, football player. I made the cut. Fun times! Learned a very valuable lesson there though. This is why I don't gamble. What's a good gambling story that you'd like to share? Hit the comments section! Thanks guys.

Cheers,

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That year-to-date BTC chart looks gooooooood. Really good. Loving this run up boys!

Lets keep that heat going we are just warming up. Maybe crank up the gas a little bit!!!!

Throw some shrimp on the barbie!!! Lobstas , Kobe Beef, the NY Strip, get all the good stuff!!!

We are all going to be hosting our own parties soon sparing no expense because Bitcoin is going parabolic!

$1,500,000 per BTC soon. Its coming, by 2030? When maybe 2045? Who knows!? But I believe that it is coming!!

I'm very sorry to hear about your loneliness OP, and especially sorry about your mothers hospitalization. I will certainly say a prayer for you and your mother. I hope that you can find some hope in the word of God, AKA The Holy Bible. I have found that through a course called Life Essentials that gambling is a form of addiction that comes from some sort of brokenness in our past. Perhaps you should go back and hash out some of what your past and what you have been through and that will help, I know it helped me, albeit I will warn you that this is a painful process but it could possibly help you? Not certainly doesn't seem like a time to gamble, especially when there are medical bills that need to be paid, etc. I hope you figure it out!

Well said m8. I agree, a will is really all that is needed here. I think it is also note worthy the importance of having the proper executor of the estate who is trustworthy to distribute all assets accordingly.

Honestly, something like a BTC or Crypto Insurance Policy though wouldn't be a terrible idea for people who hold $$$ on exchanges, even temporarily in the event of a sudden hack. More so, exchanges in general should have that insurance, although i'm sure its very difficult to get if they can even get it at all.

I literally just laughed out loud, I just posted something a lot less loud in the subject line but its basically along the same lines ahhahha

The answer is simply that he is tolerated as the old grandpa who hasn't got a clue where he is. Joe is controlled, he is clearly in the early stages of dementia

Forget about Uncle Sam, have you heard of Grandpa Joe? LOL

Seriously though, its embarrassing as a Nation to have a leader who doesn't have a clue where he is half of the time!

Say all you will about Donald Trump but at least he is cognitively present, Joe is wearing Depends!!!!!

Look, lets all just agree on one thing. Ron Desantis for President 2024, can I get an Amen?

Congratulations on selling out! I am very pleased with my chip set, thanks for the two extras that MJ sent me! Love them! Great work on these and can't wait to see future items!

Its all in the name really "Simple Machines" you see it every time you login. I know that this would never happen, but could you imagine if BTalk had an application on your phone? Now, would that throw a good wrench into the current ad rev or a bad one? Simply for the notifications and keeping track of responses to your comments/posts would be much easier IMO. Would it help the forum to grow? Or would it be a very useless add on to something that already works pretty dang good just in and of itself. Probably the latter, but I'd be interested to see/know more about what has been done to make any changes, what's been done but hasn't worked, what is currently being worked on from a developmental standpoint. Is anyone aware of any significant changes that may be taking place in the near future? Just curious. I'm going to guess what's not broken won't be fixed, but again, what is there to really fix?

The forum has a considerable amount of Bitcoin Under Management (BUM) I wonder what else Theymos has planned - right now it pays the salaries of the administration (Mods, etc.) at least I think its a paid position might not be salary but they get some sort of stipend or the likes of that. It would be EPIC to see some larger investment from the forum into something that would make bitcoin stronger and benefit strictly bitcoin, or its users. I'm sure they're working on a lot of things.....

Going to be a huge bowl game here, I heard Rihanna is doing the half time show (ooooooo aahhhhhhhhhh) thats always fun to watch. Also, the Kelce brothers are competing against eachother! Can you imagine being at the peak of your career headed to the superbowl and be playing against your Blood brother on the other team? What a wild game it shall be! You HAVE to bet something on this one!!!!!

Saw this article from the NY Times today: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/30/sports/football/super-bowl-odds-line.html

A short excerpt from that article that popped to me:

"To bet on the money line — a straightforward wager on who will win the game — Philadelphia backers must bet $130 to win $100, while Kansas City supporters bet $100 to win $110. This translates into Philadelphia being given a 54 percent chance of winning the game against Kansas City’s 46 percent chance.


Depending on where you look, the over-under on the game is around 49.5, so bookmakers are looking for more scoring than in the A.F.C. (43 points) or N.F.C. (38 points) championship games, or indeed more than in any of the divisional round games (which produced a combined 31, 37, 45 and 47 points).

If you are impatient, you can bet over-under for the first half (24) or even the first quarter (10).

What’s next for the betting line? While there might be a little more movement, the major action is probably over. “I doubt the line will flip again, but it could creep down,” DuBreuil said, perhaps settling at something closer to Philadelphia by 1 or 1.5 points. The biggest moves of any line, he said, happen early.

Unless there is disastrous news, that is. If, say, it were announced that Mahomes would miss the game, a 7-point swing would not be a surprise, DuBreuil said. In that case, the Eagles might enter the game as much as a 10-point favorite."

Hey guys!

So I am super pumped for B23 Miami! I know that there are a lot of other fun crypto themed events in the Florida area. I'm trying to figure out if there are any others that anyone else is aware of on the East/ West coast - even central FL as well. Is anyone aware of a similar post that has already done all the homework / another website that keeps track of all these events in any given region?

Cheers,

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