That is exactly the reason why I think women are better gamblers than men. They are less likely to become impulsive, since they are risk averse, so there are less chances they are going to become problem gamblers. To be prone taking risks isn't an assurance of being a successful gambler. In many cases it just means the person can't self-regulate himself and don't know when to stop. That is actually a very dangerous trait someone carries.

Women can be successful gamblers just by being long term players without compromising and losing control over their personal and family's finances. Successful gambler isn't exactly who achieves profit, otherwise we could consider only a very small percentage of gamblers to be successful, rather a successful gambler is someone who manages playing casually, but never exceedind the limits stipulated by them before the gambling session started.

To work decades of your life for an average wage retirement once you reach your 60s or 70s years old doesn't look great either, but that is what is disponible for most of us, and besides this alternative there is none. Gambling isn't an alternative, anyway. As you said, it's nearly impossible to achieve retirement through gambling.

Yes, someone on his 20s or 30s years old is very likely to waste not only his days, but also his whole patrimony attempting to grow it through gambling for a retirement along the years. I've also seen some people who are now around 50 years old and have never built anything solid in their lives, because all the money they make goes to alcohol, drugs or gambling at local shops. They may complain about several factors and aspects of their lives which prevented them from going further, but the reality is that they didn't even try to change for better.

And I really believe these people have tendencies of thinking they would win big from gambling at some point, and that would be a life changer, but for most people it won't happen, so by watching their examples, we have to adopt more solid and concrete decisions for ourselves, sticking to a regular 9-5 job and trying to make investments along the years, so we can boost our retirement later.

As I understand the concept of marriage and mutual trust which it involves, I think there shouldn't be secrets between husband and wife, especially regards activities they are practing in their routines. I think you would be bothered if your husband was doing something in secret and you didn't know... So the same is valid for him regards you. "Don't do unto others what you don't want done unto you"*. Treat them as you wished to be treated. Think about it and you will reach the answer you are looking for. It's already inside you. Just need to find it now.

*Confucius

Results are random, having their legitimacy ensured by provably fair mechanism. If the casino doesn't have this feature, avoid it. However, there is something else you must take into consideration: casinos also have a house edge playing on their favour on long run. You are never playing with equal chances against them (50% vs. 50%), rather they are always one step ahead, usually with something around 51% or 52% against 49%-48% for you. For that reason, you might have the perception results aren't random, because they are always profiting on long term. Results are indeed random, but the house edge factor prevents you from making long term progress at casino games.

Well, if a gambler doesn't know how casinos work, especially from the mathematical point of view, it's not casino's fault at all. The requirement for every activities you are going to execute in your life is to, first and foremost, understand how it basically works, what you can expect from it, what the risks are. You always have a choice, you aren't forced to gamble. So make your choice wisely based on concrete evidences and decisions which you won't regret later.

The question is, does he have money to gamble everyday? Won't gambling everyday compromise his finances, daily expenses and long term goals? If the answer for the first question is yes and for the second is no, then he can gamble everyday without any issues. However, his personal situation isn't shared by every other gamblers in general. Each person has their own limits, and these limits must be always respected and taken into consideration when deciding to gamble or not.

I don't think to gamble everyday is a good idea, but that is from my personal point of view, considering what it's good for myself. For others, it might be benefical to gamble a little everyday, who knows... In your friend's case, I don't think he should do this in a daily basis, because clearly he is deluded by how gambling works, since he believes the more frequently you play, the more chances you have of not missing a lucky winning day.

Luck doesn't work like this. Actually, we don't know how it works with assurance. So don't put high expectations on it, neither spend a long time of your life persuing goals which fully or mostly rely on luck to succeed.

Is it too early to say Palmeiras will win once again?

Betting houses are considering Flamengo as the favorite to win Brasileirão 2024. Palmeiras comes in second place and Atlético-MG in third. They might know something we don't, but it seems unreasonable to put Flamengo as favorite when Palmeiras remains unbeatable and getting stronger season after season. There aren't significant changes in Palmeiras team to consider they shouldn't be the favorite anymore.

They have proven to deliver a stable performance even in very unfavourable and uncertain conditions, like it happened last year with Botafogo dominating the champioship for a long time. Despite this fact, Palmeiras didn't get unsettled and bounced back in the end.

It happens because this is a volatile environment, which connects the whole world together. At same time there are many earnings opportunities involved, there are also many risks like scammers, security flaws, manipulation, speculation, besides a wide variety of coins and tokens to invest, what can make very difficult the decision of choosing for which of them to go. Also, the greed factor plays a big role, since investors seem to never be satisfied with the profit they have already made, so they keep risking for more. Inevitably at some point they end losing everything, especially when investing in uncertain altcoins which promise high unrealistic returns.

Even the experienced investors struggle in this market, because there isn't a certain recipe to follow in order to achieve considerable profits. We are constantly risking ourselves in a daily basis here. It's a wild land, like a gold rush, where there can be treasures in the end, but there can be also death and pain. We never know what is our fate until we reach the end of the line.

To raise our success chances, we have to stick to Bitcoin investment, holding our coins in safe hardware wallets and hoping prices to skyrocket on long term. Again, it's not the assurance of success, but it's a strategy to maximize our chances, even though outstanding profitability is unlikely to happen again futurely through Bitcoin. That is, it doesn't look feasible for BTC to return us something like x100 or x1000 anymore. On the other hand, altcoins are, if you pick the right ones at the beginning, before they get hyped. What should be understood is that slight chances of high profits come followed by huge risks...

When we talk about blockchain games, the most important factor we must pay attention to are the games themselves, and not exactly the technology or cryptocurrency operating behind them to make the financial transactions involving the games.

You may have a top notch crypto project proposing to revolutionize the gaming industry, but if nobody is willing to play the games they promote, it's just not going to work. Games have to be addicting, exciting, popular and bring some innovative concepts in order to encourage potential players to join on long run. To make ripoffs of popular mmorpgs will just work (probably) on short run, for hype and speculative reasons, meaning it's not revolutionazing anything.

We have already seen this before with several blockchain games. On the other hand, I believe the opportunity of making something new and bigger always exist and it's pretty possible it comes from a crypto project, because many people nowadays resumed their lives to playing computer and smartphone games. Their lives are passing, and they are spending (or wasting) their whole time on this activity, so naturally it's fair and desirable they make some income from it to survive...

Games aren't solely entertainment hobbies anymore, like they used to be decades ago, when people seeked games to relief from daily stress. Now they are integral part of people's routines. Actually, that is how the gaming industry revolutionized the world. What comes next is just a consequence of this revolution.

That is what I observed and thought intriguing. Personally, my first assumption when following bitcointalk forum and observing the userbase of crypto related sites, my conclusion is that Bitcoin is much likely to be stronger and more popular in African and Asian countries, because there are lots of people from these continents around, while even though I see people from American and European countries present on the community as well, they seem to be less in numbers. However, when we check businesses which accept BTC as currency, the reality is the opposite.

Now I don't know anymore if it was just my personal impression, or if the point is that Africans and Asians are really more into crypto industry than everyone else, although they don't have where to spend their coins and tokens at local businesses.

Bitcoin Adoption: Number of Merchants Accepting BTC Payments Surged by 174% in 2023

Regulations are claimed to be helping to increase Bitcoin adoption by businesses as payment method around the world. Is this for real, or are regulations just forcing such businesses to officially accept Bitcoin, although they could be already accepting it informally before the approval of such regulations?

Despite the raised percentage being really expressive (174%), it doesn't translate in great numbers when we conclude there are only 9926 businesses accepting Bitcoin as payment method in the world.

In your opinion, why do you think more businesses accepting Bitcoin as payment method are concentrated in American and European continents?

Yes, the only way to take advantage of the casino's algorithm would be through a vulnerability on the system, meaning the person would have to explore errors, glitches and bugs found on the platform. I believe OP's question could have been made more explicity regards it already, because there is no other way to predict the algorithm, since in nature it has to be random to ensure legit results and fair play.

In every cases, instead of exploring algorithm vulnerabilities, it's advisable that every gamblers report such errors spotted to the platform. Besides ensuring the service's good functionality, they may also be rewarded by the casinos for their honesty and contribution, instead of being punished, banned and considered cheaters in case they try to take advantage of a failure in the system.

I believe the "I don't have enough" mindset can be useful as a boost to encourage you acquiring and working more to achieve better results futurely, although as you said, moderation is one of the best traits to be practiced by humanity. It means we should know how further we can push ourselves, while respecting our personal limits, and once we reach them, it's time to replace the "I don't have enough" mentality by the "I have enough, under my current conditions" mindset. I believe the conscience of having done the best we could have is what really matters in the end. That is what brings inner peace, fulfillment.

Those who persue the maximum, the pinnacle, the supremacy end only frustrating themselves and prejudicing their mental health, because there will be always someone one step ahead of you, and someone one step ahead of who is above you...

For me it's normal to see an elderly woman gambling. My concern would be only regards the environment she is in. There are gambling shops which are mostly frequented by men where I live, so I wouldn't feel comfortable seeing an alone lady there, especially when the shop isn't solely focused on bets, but it's also a pub. So the environment is really heavy and sometimes vulgar. Not the kind of place I would like to see my mother attending to.

It depends what kind of gambler she is. If she is familiar with gambling since a long time and has never showed any addictive or harmful behaviors to herself, I wouldn't bother she is gambling as part of her distractions. There wouldn't be any reasons to worry about losing money, since she has her budget for that reason, and negative emotions are unlikely, as she is a long term gambler and gambling has always brought her exciting and joy emotions.

But that is my reality. Maybe in your country things work in different ways, due to personal challenges, difficults and financial barriers being tougher. If for some reason you think your mother or any other woman you love shouldn't be gambling, you have to explain her the reasons why you think so, and rationally you can reach an agreement.

This is a tricky question considering the examples you have mentioned. It's hard to not desire something which in the end you are desiring, anyway, even if indirectly. After all, you want to be rich to enjoy your money, which inevitably has to come from others' pockets somehow, and you have expectations it's going to happen at some point in the future. So by working on it, you are theoretically desiring all the three items presented as non-desirable on your examples.

Taking a more philosophical approach, I believe the moral behind those points are to focus on the process in real time, instead of focusing on final results. When we focus on final results we end prejudicing our performance on the current moment, therefore we don't reach the place we want on long term.

The fun doesn't consist in losing, but on the very act of gambling. Despite the outcomes being profit or loss, the gambler has to have a good time enjoying his gambling session, otherwise it's an activity he should avoid, because it will mean it's not being benefical for him in anyways.

There are several variables of entertainment activities someone can execute for self-pleasure and self-satisfaction. However, not every entertainment activities are suitable for everyone. For you it might be entertaining to watch sports on TV, but for me it can be really boring, so you could easily replace a bad habit which is harming you by watching sports matches, but for me it wouldn't work, because it's not something which I'm going to feel emotionally rewarded by doing.

The same can be said about who enjoys gambling, but don't enjoy other hobbies people usually are adept of. For you it might look foolish to see them losing money and still gambling after all. However, gamblers could also say it's foolishness someone to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars to watch a soccer game at a crowded stadium, surrounded by drunk and sweaty men, screaming, crying and suffering for a match result which won't make any difference on their lives at all. Who is right or wrong on their points of view?

People who gamble, have pleasure on that respective activity, and even though they are likely to be losing money on long run, it doesn't seem to affect them negatively at all. They have a source of income which doesn't rely on gambling, and gambling occupies only a small budget of that total source of income, so it doesn't bring further negative impact over their finances.

ETFs approval would have a positive impact in BTC price on short run, while its disapproval would have an opposite impact, I think we can't avoid that. However, what really matters this year for Bitcoin market is the halving event. This is the most powerful catalyst we have under our disposal to make Bitcoin shine and enter a strong bullish season. When we think about this major event, ETF approval or disapproval becomes a little detail without much influence on the bigger picture. The focus of Bitcoin investment has always been the long term, so there is no reason to get worried or distracted by short term events, especially the ones which are highly manipulated by regulators.

Few days, at least for me. Of course it will depend on how volatile your mood and inner changes, necessities are. Some people are constantly seeking for pleasure and once they finally get it, it seems to not last for too long, and they are already unsatisfied again seeking for superior doses of pleasure. When it happens there must be a lack of self-regulation which is preventing the individual from achieving homeostatic state for a considerable length of time. He is too anxious and impulsive for some reason, and that should be investigated. It might be due to biological reasons, or environmental (external) reasons.

When someone can't be happy for longer than 20 minutes or few hours after winning a nice amount of money gambling, this person must be in deep mental suffering... It looks like nothing can satisfy this person for too long, despite how good and precious things happening for him/her are.

I believe the fact we can't know exactly and even approximately how many Bitcoin holders there are represents one of the reasons why governments are so avid to pass regulations over crypto industry and its enthusiasts. They want to know what is the real percentage of people who are using cryptocurrencies, so they can understand how developed the adoption is, plus calculating with accuracy how much they can profit from them through taxes.

Probably in the next few years we will be able to answer this question precisely, as regulations are advancing fast forward these days in many countries, and the tendency is that every other countries which still don't have a plan on how to act towards cryptocurrencies end copying the same models from another countries which already did previously.

Then the patient is delusional. He is out his rationality to make such statements when in fact he has already lost tons of money on his pursuit for richness, consequently being on that clinic for that reason. For someone in delusional state, I'm not sure if arguments would help somehow, because arguments demand the person to be rational in order to absorb and reflect about them. When people behave like this, the tendency is pharmacology to take in action as last resource.

Personally, I don't like the idea, because I don't think pharmaceuticals cure mental diseases, it just works as a palliative, which also brings lots of negative side effects on long run.

But besides this measure, I think I could only give attention to the addicted individual, hearing what he has to say and trying to change his focus to another activities, in a slight hope he can get out of the delusional state of mind he finds himself.

50$ for a single spin is a too expensive bet which is beyond my current possibilities. With 50$ I can play for several days, so it doesn't make sense to risk all this money at once with a slight chance of earning the 42$ million prize. These kinds of deals are only interesting through lotteries, as the tickets are pretty cheap, so they worth the risk of having only a tiny percentage of chance by your side.

Another idea would be to join a pool of gamblers, so instead of paying 50$, each of them would give 1$ in case there were 50 gamblers together. In winning case, the 42$ million would be split by 50. Through this method I think it would be a good idea and then I might consider joining the party.