The reason why I'm not addicted to gambling is because even before I started to play gambling I already understand gambling and its addiction, and my understanding has helped me on how to follow up gambling. Sometimes I ask myself why do people get addicted to gambling, is it because they have no understanding or awareness about the addiction of gamble.

 I think majority of people who are addicted to gambling is because they do not understand gambling as beginners, the rules and the side effects of playing gambling excessively.

I think if gambling companies can help to giving beginners to understand gambling and addiction it will help and reduce the rate at which people get addicted o gambling, I mean good lesson for people to get understanding.  Or do gambling companies benefit from gamblers who are addicted, which the awareness of getting addicted can affect their business?.

Their are lots of investment platforms where people save and lock up their money, and they feel comfortable with it thinking that is the best place for them to keep their money. An investment account or online banking can get hacked and it will be gone forever,  some people make mistakes by saving all their life earnings in an online bank and investment account.

Usain Bolt reportedly missing $12.7 million from investment account in Jamaica, this is his life earnings that has got missing from his investment account.  It would have been better if this money was invested in bitcoin in a safe hardware wallet.

Don't trust online banks or any investment platforms, it can be hacked by scamers at anytime.

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/19/sport/usain-bolt-fraud-allegations-jamaica-spt-intl/index.html?utm_source=twCNNi&utm_medium=social&utm_content=2023-01-19T19%3A31%3A04&utm_term=link

Most crypto beginners starts their journey in a wrong way by not considering crypto education as the first investment to go after. The worst decision anyone can make is investing in something you know nothing about,  not just in cryptocurrency but anything else. In cryptocurrency their is a chance of making good gains and also a chance of making huge loss. It is easy for beginners to loss big, expecially beginners who don't have better knowledge about cryptocurrency.  Beginners who starts their crypto journey in a wrong  way normally have funny reasons to trade/invest in crypto.

Types of crypto beginners with bad beginning

Beginners with agenda to get rich:  these beginners are just so desperate to make money from crypto that will make them become rich, they have no idea about risks involve in cryptocurrency . Beginners with the mindset of becoming only understands crypto be an investment that has a big return as quick as possible.  Crypto investments is always interesting when it is long-term.

Beginners starting the journey with wrong projects:  these beginners have no direction,  they feel all cryptocurrency is about making  profits not knowing investment in crypto it is important to consider reliability and safe it is. Beginners who don't know good projects to start with can easily fall into the trap of scammers in investing in the wrong project.

Beginners with mindset of taking crypto as job opportunity:  some beginners thinks crypto can cover up the space of getting  a job. It is wrong to plan of making cryptocurrency a source of income as a beginner.  It is important to have emergency fund while Investing in crypto.

 Bad beginning never end up in good result ,rather  it ends in regret, waste of fund. The problem why some beginners starts investment in a wrong way is because they are too busy and think knowledge is time consuming.

Scammers are very smart on how to get peoples attentions and they are also smart in inventing new strategies that can be so real to easily convince people . My worries is about beginners who are coming up, and if you make research most beginners in crytocurrency and on social media were once a victim to scammers and till date some beginners still fall for scammers.

To me,  the social media would have been the easiest way to fight against scam, to make beginners get aware "the strangers  you meet is at own risk ". This can always be in the mind when one encounter a stranger who want to offer free money or do business, one will have to think how real can it be.

Beginners don't get awareness of scam on social media,  some mostly get aware of scam with personal experience.

Have you ever or come across friends/ family members feel regretting of not buying land property in an undeveloped area that later turned  a city after some years, houses/land property becomes very expensive.  Time without numbers of have always heard many people how they gave histories about some areas when it was coming up land was sold for a very little amount of money,  then they had opportunity to get land for a penny but not interested of it because it was bushy and not developed.  

After some years the place gets developed  by people who endured and quickly moved in no matter how it was bushy and undevelope. Most of the people I meet making complain like this never had opportunity again to afford a piece of small land again because of much responsibility of life.

It seems very painful because of the amount of money spent for renting a house annually.  Do you think buying your first landed property in a bushy area is a good investment for the future.

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Argentina is about to launch bitcoin education in their curriculum,  this is going to take place in 40 High schools with about 4,000 students.  This is  an Interesting news many  bitcoiners have been waiting for,  I think this won't just end in Argentina,  other countries will take this same good  within a short time.

Argentina  is the second highest  bitcoin  adopter in Latin America,  I the reason for the innovation is to make students  know  the importance of bitcoin. The economy of Argentina is suffering in the hands of hyperinflation.

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/bitcoin-education-launches-in-argentina-for-high-schools

Despite no serious bull in the market for sometime,  I am thinking to buy more because the price at which bitcoin is right now I can be able to afford it. I planned buying when the price was at 40$ , the amount of bitcoin I planned to buy is a small quantity which if the market eventually go dip i may lost 30% of it. But now I feel even if I buy and it goes dip it wont go dipper the way the price is now.  What do you think about my plan?

Bitcoin is good and has transformed many people financially who believe in it. Those who are benefiting from bitcoin can't hide the goodness of bitcoin to themselves,  people need to know the truth that the traditional currency (fiat) can't  add any value especially when money is been saved in the bank for a long time.
One important thing we mostly don't do whenever we preach bitcoin to our friends , we fail to make them understand the tough part of bitcoin  when it goes dip which results to the loss of some bitcoin at the moment.

We forget to tell them investing in bitcoin also need patience to wait for the market to rise during the dip, all they think about is if they should start investing things will go smoothly and it' will be all about more  gains.
It is better to tell friends and family about bitcoin properly to know the good side and bad side of bitcoin,  so  that if they pick interest to invest in bitcoin and eventually meet the tough side of bitcoin their wont be anyone to put the blame on.

It will be nice to tell people about bitcoin,  but not to force/pressure them to invest , because if investing goes wrong sometimes it is funny to see the reactions of people when money is loss, the loss of money is a case that has ended many good friendship and misunderstanding between family members.

I Have been observing the way price of things are going up right from 2013 up till this time , add to  the pandemic in 2019-2020 that caused high level of inflation to the world. Things are getting more expensive everyday both the rich and the poor are complaining of it and it seems the price of things will keep on getting higher.  I'm thinking how will the world cope with inflation in 50 years coming 🤔,  instead of price of things to come down a bit but it keep on rocking higher. I think the best thing to have in mind is to expect more inflation and to prepare how to tackle it in years coming.

This year is making bitcoin about 13th years and their are a lot of transformation and advancement about bitcoin throughout its 13th years of existence. Bitcoin is not about trading and investing but it is also about knowledge and understanding.  Without having knowledge and understanding about it, even if the money is available to trade or invest it won't make any sense. As far as bitcoin is concerned what matters first is to have understanding about about bitcoin to control it.  From the first day one starts operating with bitcoin ,seeking understanding everyday about bitcoin shows that such person is growing along with bitcoin.

Understanding bitcoin is what gives you all what you need about bitcoin as it grows,  The understanding you have concerning about bitcoin that's what bitcoin offers you back.  Understanding will change the mentality of seeing bitcoin as money making machine.  Get the understanding and grow.

I'm a man that always talk about bitcoin, and also believes in it  because have seen people who have achieved from bitcoin and I also made a decision I must benefit from bitcoin.  When I first heard about bitcoin all my thought was that I can benefit from it immediately.  Later  understood it takes patience and good understanding to benefit from bitcoin.
  I'm a laboratory scientist I don't earn much from my salary but I have always invested in bitcoin to help me to be financially stable, I have been doing this for longtime patiently waiting for my gains. Part of the payment for this property was gotten with the help of bitcoin I have been investing. I'm the luckiest person to have embrace bitcoin, if not for bitcoin it would have take me a longtime and so much  stress to accomplished this project. Thank you bitcoin.

Teachers are nation builder. Teachers are professional who are trained specifically to train pupils, students from kindergarten  to the terminal of education in any part of the world. Teachers are builders who psychologically and educationally trained to understand  the mental ability of every child to be what they can do best in pursuit of education.

Today's world of development call it engineering,  medical,  military,  religion  etc, are the brain work of a teacher. So looking at the human development holistically,  without Teachers the world would not get to where it is. It would be appropriate to say after God, the Teachers should be mark next for the ability to procreate and bring human to what they should be in the future.

In this sense it is up to say that teacher should be well rewarded if we need the best from them, no teacher no development as the case may be.

I always come across people who usually complain how they missed not investing in cryptocurrency,  if they had embraced cryptocurrency they would have made some good profit(HODL). It is very easy to regret and complain about set backs,  the only solution to win procrastination of investment is decision making.
Only decision making can help one to start the train of investing.
The year is getting to an end, most people  find things to start middle of the or towards the end of it.

The beginning of the year can be a good reminder and good start for those who think they missed the opportunity of investing in the previous years. I know starting thing at the beginning of the year is easier for most people.  Don't be left out as the train moves in the new year.

 The best scam protection for cryptocurrency lovers or anyone is to always have a mindset that their is no free money or cryptocurrency that can be earned anywhere. To earn free money and cryptocurrency  has always  been a tradition to scam, especially online.  This  method  of scam strategy  gets increasing everyday.
There is nothing like  "earn free money or cryptocurrency anywhere". Money  can be earned  only by paying a price which could be.
* Dedicating time on something to earn money.
* Earning money through knowledge.
* investing on money or something  else to earn more money.( not ponzi scheme and other fake online  investments).

Sometimes paying price to take risks could bring earning of money. Earnings requires work and time, money are not earn for free, even the government don't give cash for free.

The year is coming to an end. This season in the year it is the time  of love which we express to our love ones, family  and friends celebrating life from the beginning of the year till this time. Celebrating this season is usually done by gifting , we may decide to gift our family and friends some bitcoin for this will serve so many  purposes like the introduction of bitcoin to some persons who have been aiming to get bitcoin and it can also be an investing opportunity to some, which they may invest for sometime to gain more profits.

 

Starting point is a big challenge when it comes to Investment. There are people who find it difficult to start up an investment because what they have is not large. Start your investment with the little you have it will go a long way.

Expectations to have something big to start maybe delayed. Do you know what point you would have reached if you had started with the little which you afford?

This user thinks he can get me due to my last thread I made about trading .
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5361346.msg57999754#msg57999754

The joy in trading is when the money which is been used to trade is owned by the trader. Normally trading is something that is unpredictable, one can't really know or see the outcome if it will be a big loss, small loss or big win, small win. When money that is been used for trading is owned by the trader if there should be loss he may not too feel about the loss, unlike when the money which was been used for trading is borrowed,  in a case whereby the person do not have good source of income.

I know someone who started how to trade about four months ago. He is a beginner in trading, I don't really know how good he is, but to him he may feel he can always make earnings. I think he was so confident in himself, he had to borrow money for trading which he could not make good profit. As a beginner borrowing money to trade is not the best. It is not even advisable to use all the money one has to trade or invest talk much of to borrow to trade.

I come to think everything about the human race can't do without value. From the very first day on Earth all we found ourselves do needs value . Like the physical body, we eat food  to sustain the body because we value the body.  We only archive great things when give value to those things, nothing good comes without adding value to it. The most important thing to value in life is time because if time is not valued it cant be gotten back.

Plagiarism or paraphrasing is a common habit to people who are not ready to learn, all they think is to be so fast to take people's work elsewhere to meet up the standard of members who have paid price and time for years to have a sound knowledge. This members who plagiarized hide themselves in a sheep clothes having the mindset stealing a work from outside they won't be caught in the forum.

The reason I think why people often plagiarize is because they look down on themselves by hiding the little knowledge they have in them, they feel shy about it not knowing that if they express the little knowledge inside of them will make them to know more and help them to grow . I believe what is being practiced  by a person makes the person to be better or perfect. I feel the main reason why people plagiarize they feel lazy, not ready to learn to grow and they want to be in a class or level of people who have spent to get knowledge.