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1  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: (Odds discussion) Would you still stick in your favorite casino if....? on: June 10, 2024, 07:50:45 PM
Would you shift to the sportsbook with bigger odds or would you stay?

If the difference was as small as you're showing it, so 0.05, I wouldn't bother.
It would cost me more to move my money elsewhere, create a new account, risk going through KYC there, pay all the transaction fees, wait and check if it arrived... That's hours lost that I could spend elsewhere doing something I actually like doing.
also, I don't bet a lot so small difference in payout would maybe be a few dollars if I managed to win. Still less than fees cost.
2  Other / Off-topic / Re: Is it possible to inherit a gambling debt? on: June 10, 2024, 07:13:46 PM
Well, yes I think debt can be inherited from parents or relatives, depending on the person that is very close to the debtor or the person that stood as a guarantor for the gambler.


Talking about debts that must be paid, if the debtor has died then the heirs are obliged to pay and pay off all the debts left behind by the deceased, because no matter what, a debt is still a debt even if it is a debt from gambling profits, which in essence the debt must be paid and paid off.

It's not like that guys, at least not in first world countries. You can either accept the inheritance or not. If the debt is higher than inherited assets, you refuse to accept any of it and get nothing, but don't have to repay any debts. Should you accept the inheritance, you also accept the debt and have to pay it, sooner the better because it's going to keep rising as debtors can add interest.
It doesn't matter if you have the money. If you make the mistake of accepting inheritance with large debt, you have to pay it back even if you're a teenager and have no money.
3  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Manny - Pacquiao VS Chihiro Suzuki Exhibition Match on: June 10, 2024, 06:53:37 PM
Why this young kid Suzuki looks like a teenager from boys band on this poster? When Pacman is a true killer Cheesy Just look in their eyes. Nevertheless, that article about the fight made me laugh. So we have Pacman fighting against a good MMA fighter, undefeated in last 9 fights, a champion, bla-bla-bla, in an exhibition fight under boxing rules.

https://i.imgflip.com/5h6sm5.jpg
So we have one of the greatest boxers against a guy who only trains boxing. I would not bet my money on Suzuki Cheesy

I thought the same, although I saw Suzuki fight and he's not very technical. You can watch his fights on youtube.
First of all his style is kickboxing with a bit of grappling and choking, but he prefers to stand. He's rather aggressive, sacrifices defense for offense, often takes hits, but just takes them as long as he can hit harder. He doesn't jab much like a typical boxer, just goes all in with hard punches and kicks.
Also, 13-3 is not really a great score. He's going to get a painful lesson from Manny.
4  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: BC.GAME Sending emails with the title, ''Withdrawal Notification'' on: June 10, 2024, 06:42:57 PM
I guess it was a mistake. The email could have a title like lottery ticket instead.

More like a clickbait if you ask me. They knew people would click it if they saw withdrawal because they most likely did not order one, so seeing this immediately makes you think you're being hacked.
A title like this is going to make people click and read it carefully, and then realize it's just an ad.
I hate aggressive advertising like that. Makes me think the company is treating me like a brainless bag of money and think after being tricked like that I'm going to take part in their stupid lottery. On the contrary, dear BC staff. The way to deal with this is to withdraw all the money you have with them and block the email.

5  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Have you lost the money that you where supposed to withdraw from online casino? on: June 09, 2024, 08:08:26 PM
have you experienced a thing like this from any online gamble site that make you to lose the money that you wanted to withdraw?

They may be suffering from liquidity problems, being unable to process multiple withdrawals from one and the same person, there's many reasons for them asking you to wait 24 hours and none of these would make me think that they want me to keep playing with that money and lose it. Most games give you something close to 45% chance of winning, so they're taking a risk as well. What if you bet that all at once and won and then they'd have even greater liquidity problems. They can't know what you'll do with the money and since you've won before, it's likely you know what you're doing and will win again.
The fact that you seem to believe that they made you lose the money by asking you to wait 24 hours, makes me think you're an addict.

6  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Arizona moves to repel abortion ban but Trump could make it US wide on: June 09, 2024, 07:54:26 PM
This is a warning of what is to come for all women in the US. Your body will no longer be yours, Trump and the Christian radicals will own it and force you to have children whether you want it or not. Even if someone rapes you, you will not be able to take a bus north to a democrat state to avoid having that children.

Guess it's back to the good old herbs that Native Americans used.

Think carefully about what you want for you and your daughters - this ends up with them finding an illegal abortion clinic trying to scratch their uterus and probably leaving them without any possibility of having children in the future. You are in time to stop the madness.

In the EU we have pills that you take a day or two after the "accident" and that's legal, but in many member states aborting a pregnancy is illegal, which in a way is smart because they're preventing women from having second thoughts while they're 6 months in. There's a difference between removing an egg, or stopping it from becoming a zygote and killing a fully developed baby. I'd allow abortion up to a time, for instance 3 months, and then ban it, unless the mother's life is in danger.
7  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Team strength as the main predictor. on: June 09, 2024, 07:38:08 PM
This is very hard because injuries are one of the most telling factors, but if you look at some FIFA World Cup matches, countries that did very good in previous season sometimes fail in the next one, despite having almost the same roster. Also, I've seen very good teams lose matches in which they were favoured. Often times teams from the top 20 lose against opponents from places above 100.
When it comes to injuries or last performance, you can be sure that other bettors and bookies will know about that and lower the payout based on that. Making scoreboards and keeping tabs on team's performance will not make you win more.

8  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Online gambling increases computer education. on: June 09, 2024, 07:15:17 PM
Necessity is the mother of invention. Wink
In its own strange way this is a positive aspect of gambling. Yes, people become educated when a need arises. They can quickly learn new tricks, especially when they crave something. For instance drug addicts learn advanced chemistry, thieves learn to pick locks and run fast and car thieves build electronic devices that make car think the key is inside the cabin. Is that really a good aspect that someone is learning something new to later turn it into addiction or to break the law?
9  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Converting altcoin profits into Bitcoin? on: June 09, 2024, 06:59:47 PM
If I were you I'd exchange all my altcoins to bitcoin ASAP. The only thing I'd hold (if I had it) would be ETH because of the approved ETF. There's a chance it will get a new ATH, just like bitcoin did this year, but be aware that holding altcoins is gambling. They can go to 0, or be reduced in value by over 90%, which bitcoin simply cannot do. It can fail, it can lose value, but you will never see a total 90% meltdown over the course of days or weeks, but you can see altcoins do it, just like Luna did and many other well known scams like bitconnect and all the bitcoin clones. For instance Bitcoin Gold lost over 90% since launch in 2018.

You have to take risks in this game to make life changing money.

I was never going to make life changing money this past 2 years and the coming year just by buying Bitcoin but I can do with the altcoins I am holding.

I repeat , most of my altcoins are in the current top 50 and only have 2 that I consider real gambles - they will either go to zero or could 20x or even 50x my money over the next 12 months. A risk I am willing to take.

We have seen a mini crash in the last 24 hours with some of my altcoins down around 20% but some only 5-10% - they will quickly recover.

Only if you don't have money to invest in. The less capital you have to invest the more risk you have to take. In my case I came in early, bought bitcoin when it was worth less than $1k. At that time investing $20k + into this felt really risky but you have to decide if that was big risk or not. Right now the risk is much smaller, but the capital needed to invest to make a change in your life is exponentially bigger. You need at the very least 1 bitcoin to benefit from bull market, so you need $70k all at once. When you buy altcoins it feels easier, cheaper, but the chance of losing it all is pretty high.
Would you rather risk $70k to gain double that, but with a chance of going to 0, or safely invest the same amount and get maybe 0.2 - 1x in the next 12 months? I'd always choose the second option.
Look at some of your top 50 altcoins. Most of them are in constant downtrends since the inception.
10  Other / Politics & Society / Re: money buy happines only if you are a female on: June 08, 2024, 06:50:18 PM
as for female you know that female has 4x less brain cells than male, a


There is evidence that women have more grey matter in their brains. Grey matter contains cell bodies that help our bodies process information in the brain ..

Women's brains are about 11% smaller than men's, in proportion to their body size. Smaller brains allow certain features, such as a slightly higher ratio of gray matter to white matter, and a higher ratio of connections between, versus within, cerebral hemispheres.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/03/210325115316.htm

Where did you hear that women have less brain cells than men?

Also, have you ever considered that the fact you are poor doesn't make you an alpha male in the eyes of women? Men don't care and if they like you they will respect you, but women often look for clever men who can make money and provide for them. You don't have to be rich to grab their attention, but you can't be poor either.
11  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin is Helping Me Set Up A Fancy Restaurant in The Ghetto on: June 08, 2024, 06:35:46 PM
Do you know how fancy restaurants in poor neighbourhoods end up? Usually broken into, devastated, tagged by gangs and their owners extorted. If you're lucky you will just go bankrupt from lack of clients.
There are many similar real life stories. They even made movies about some of them. One that comes to my mind was when a guy wanted to build a school for children in Africa and local gangs were stealing from it and threatening him. There's a reason why poor people stay poor and bad neighbourhoods almost never change, or go from bad to worse.
12  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Converting altcoin profits into Bitcoin? on: June 08, 2024, 06:23:20 PM
If I were you I'd exchange all my altcoins to bitcoin ASAP. The only thing I'd hold (if I had it) would be ETH because of the approved ETF. There's a chance it will get a new ATH, just like bitcoin did this year, but be aware that holding altcoins is gambling. They can go to 0, or be reduced in value by over 90%, which bitcoin simply cannot do. It can fail, it can lose value, but you will never see a total 90% meltdown over the course of days or weeks, but you can see altcoins do it, just like Luna did and many other well known scams like bitconnect and all the bitcoin clones. For instance Bitcoin Gold lost over 90% since launch in 2018.
13  Other / Meta / Re: [Voting 2024] Bitcoin Pizza Day on Bitcointalk 🍕 on: June 08, 2024, 06:14:28 PM
I wish I could vote for more because there's (at least) 20 pizzas here that look like people took their sweet time with them. I wonder how much time it took to make some of them because they're shining with effort and there had to be hours dedicated to making them. Congratulations to all participants.

Anyway, since I had to pick...

Code:
I vote for: #19, #22, #62, #103, #111
14  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Gambling is a fun activity but it has some potential to be profitable sometimes on: June 08, 2024, 05:52:01 PM
You're right OP, it can be profitable. The problem is that the casino will not donate its own money to you. All the money that you're winning is money lost by someone else. Today you're the winner, tomorrow you'll be the liquidity provider for the casino. Never forget about that. It's always you against other people and each of them wants to win and has dreams and goals they want to accomplish.
I haven't won big yet, but I don't bet a lot because I like moderate risk. The risk I feel like I can control.
15  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Tell me the unexpected problems you've encountered in a casino? on: June 07, 2024, 09:37:53 PM
I've never been banned or lost money in a casino due to hacks, scams, glitches, or them not wanting to pay out. I've read some scary stories though about people who won and experienced delays on the side of the casino because they were trying to create so much hurdles that the player would eventually give up. Probably the worst was a situation of a guy who was asked to do KYC, but they demanded everything from him including his documents and utility bills translated to English by a sworn translator, or told him that a bill from a few months back was too old. He played there for months and wasn't asked for all that until he won big. The worst thing you can face is the casino trying to scam you.
This is one of my fears about using an online casino, that when I win, they'll ask for documents just to delay or, worse, discourage me from withdrawing my winnings. It may look legit on their side, as they'll explain they need to implement all the necessary measures to ensure everything is checked before the winnings are released.

However, the moment they start asking for documents, you comply, and then they ask for another, it's already a good sign that our chances of claiming our win are getting slim. I don't know how we can handle this situation when it's just between us and the casino, with no third party to determine which party is telling the truth or lying.

There's always that common sense. If they ask you for documents when you register, that's fine. When they ask you for it when you deposit a lot of money, fine. When they ask you after weeks of playing only because you've finally decided to withdraw - that's a red flag because it looks like they want to make it hard for you to leave.
When you provide documents and they don't want to verify you because they don't like that these documents aren't in English - that's a red flag because obviously when you live in Thailand the documents will be written in Thai, and so on.
16  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Can someone take gambling as a source of income to he/she life? on: June 07, 2024, 07:44:03 PM
It's always a bad idea to put your last money on the line. You're not going to be thinking straight when you have that much to lose and it will negatively influence your chances of winning.
Of course you can choose a very simple game like dice and go all in. This way your nerves won't interfere in the process, but you have so much free time, so this doesn't make sense. You don't work, this is supposed to be your job. How are you going to change that time into money if you stake it all and the whole thing will be over in 1 minute?
What are you going to do when you lose? Starve?
17  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Do you think that government can stop Bitcoin? on: June 07, 2024, 07:33:07 PM
Do you think that government can stop Bitcoin?


They blew up Nord Stream, didn't they? It would be easy to take out the power grid.



Cool

They? Do you mean the Ukrainians?
Can the Ukrainian government stop bitcoin? They have more pressing matters to attend to Wink
Technically any nuclear power could stop bitcoin by nuking half of the world. That would disrupt power and Internet at the same time, start a panic and kill a large part of the population. Nobody would care about bitcoin for a while
18  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: 500sat/vb for a transaction? Has the world gone mad? on: June 07, 2024, 07:21:08 PM
I will say bitcoin developers are responsible for all these because they failed to let the fee stay below let us say less than 100 sat/vbyte. The BRC20 tokens and Runes are the cause of this. Bitcoin is created in a way that more of them like BRC20 tokens can still come to existence and also become bitcoin tokens.
You are right about ordinals and Runes and how they spam the network, but the current increase in fee rate to around 500 sat/vbyte wasn't caused by them. That was caused by the big volume of consolidation transactions that were broadcasted with high fees in the past few hours.

Here is an example.
ffcf09aa48a4ea7a2d7650d012316fd84cb18eef3491502c3b209249320185a5

They were paying almost $15k, so no wonder the average fee skyrocketed, but that doesn't mean any of us have to pay that. In the last few months I've been constantly paying below $5 for my transactions and they were always going through. Sometimes it took 30 minutes, sometimes 2 hours, but it was always done pretty fast, especially when compared with banks that don't send transactions on Sundays at all and it often takes them 2 or 3 hours to process a transaction on working days.
Don't pay the average, check what will get you processed within 5 or 6 blocks and pay that, unless the transaction is so important it doesn't matter if you pay $20 or more, as long as it's through within 10 minutes.
19  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Is bitcoin gradually turning away from its purpose? on: June 06, 2024, 07:22:33 PM
Like the title explained it all when sighting towards the speculation or trade discussion section I mostly found out that lots of people are gradually turn away the purpose of bitcoin to mainly investment purposes

So, you went to a section of the forum filled with traders to find out they're mostly... trading Cheesy
Should have also gone to speculation to find that most people do what the name suggests.

Go to development and you'll see people who talk about ways to improve bitcoin. Go to mining and you'll see people looking for efficient ways to mine and I'm sure that you'll find someone willing to sell you something for bitcoin in the Marketplace Wink
20  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: What do you really want from gambling? on: June 06, 2024, 07:10:26 PM
Are you like me? Gambling with no sense of goal, direction?

Yes, pretty much this. I gamble because it boosts my adrenaline level and makes watching a match more exciting. So, when I bet on a sports event and I start watching it I feel that sensation like there's something on the line for me. It makes me more of an active participant. It's similar when I play poker. Playing without money isn't fun because you can fold whenever without any consequences, but when you know there's a blind and every time you fold early you also lose money, it makes the game more interesting. Suddenly people start to really give a shit and care for every hand.
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