I might not be sure that I know of the guy you are talking about or which country he lives in but as far as I know, in most countries once something lands in the landfill, or even the trash container, that particular something, along with the trash, lawfully belongs to the city at that point? So why would the city not just take it as their own? If they could find it? Did they ever say how much BTC that guy lost?

If I made such a mistake I would be beating myself over it for years to come  

Well yes and no.

Your argument that it is easy to save only applies to people who are single AND earning a decent amount of money with which they can save 1/3rd for investing. But the truth is that most of the time, people, even single people, earn way less than that and are forced to spend almost each and every penny for food, rent, clothes and so on. Most of us have families we have to take care of and extra expenditures that we have to pay. Furthermore, its better to set aside some savings for emergency reasons rather than investment opportunities.

So really, it depends on where you live and how much you earn.

The "bear market" is a subjective view of the current market. Depending on which angle you are looking from, it could look bad but it could also look good. Thats why I always look at the prices from a yearly chart perspective. If you invested 1 year ago, would the current price be a profit to you? If yes, then the bear market is not as bad.

We have seen worse, scary dips and dumps in the past. The current corrections are very slow and can be avoided if you check the prices at least daily. Back a few years ago you would need to keep an eye on the price every second hour in order not to lose half your money in a surprise dump.

The market is not as bad as it used to be. Certainly not as scary.

You know there is a place in this forum where you can make speculations about Bitcoin price... It is a sub-forum called Speculation - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=57.0

feel free to post your price speculations there. Although without a more in depth analysis explanation I doubt that anybody will take your prediction very seriously. I would recommend you add charts and serious sources as well as explaining your logic in a more detailed fashion.

Having said that, I strongly believe that Bitcoin will be over 100k in the near future. A lot of people here think the same and they have even provided reasons why it will be so. My favorite chart which points towards 100k is the logarithmic chart.
 

Well if you take the history of billionaire criminals into account then he will probably be a free man within weeks or months, even if he were to be convicted lawfully (as he should be). Justice usually fails when bribed.

Worst case scenario for him: he will spend a couple of years in a luxury prison which cannot even be called a real prison, or under "house arrest". He probably has some money hidden away in some obscure accounts/addresses that nobody knows even exist.

He deserves way way worse. He is a thief. A rich thief. All the evidence is there but nobody prosecutes the rich (as long as they are "rich enough")

Up until now I have never heard of anyone losing their money through some "dormancy fee" on any crypto gambling platforms. I am not even sure if that is entirely legal? Why would the gambling casinos get to confiscate somebodies funds just because they have not been active for over a year? 10 years, maybe 20 seem like a reasonable option but even then its theft, basically. Really disappointing.

A fee is one thing but taking ALL the money? Thats not fair nor justified. But then again, I am against storing funds on a centralized platform in the first place. Whether a crypto exchange or a crypto gambling casino, they will always try to sneak your money away from you for complete nonsense reasons.

Oh please. He is obviously the wrong person to listen to when it comes to where you should or should not store your crypto. He advocates for a centralized exchange. A concept which is backwards and should not exist when it comes to decentralization. I certainly will not be listening to him or any other CEX CEO in matters concerning where/who I should or should not trust with holding my money.

And where did he get the number 99%? Not only is it obviously wrong, its also manipulative. As if he actually did the math on that instead of pulling a number out of his behind.

Never trust an exchange with your money!

I get that everyone is all giddy and excited about the latest news of a breakthrough (getting more energy output than input in nuclear fusion) but we are still far from anything feasibly self sustaining. Lets not forget the two main issues:

1. Perpetual, uninterrupted fusion without melting the inner workings of the reactor and/or creating byproducts which hinder the fusion process. (Because it gets hot. Really hot.) We used to count the seconds, now we count the minutes. In the near future, reactors will be able to run for hours.

2. The fuel required for fusion is not that readily available to us in abundant quantities, (unlike fossil fuels or radioactive ore) and we can't get more energy out of fusion than we put in. Thats just basic physics. (If we make the fuel then we are putting the same amount of energy into the process of making the fuel (at minimum) as the energy we are getting out of the fusion itself. So that won't work.

The current hope is that we can mine the Helium-3 on the moon and use that for fuel.

As far as the question of investing turning people into gamblers goes, I think it seems very possible. But not just because of Bitcoin but rather the action of investing into something. That action alone is very similar to gambling because it has unknowable risks of losing money but also a probability of making money. Especially if said person starts trying out Daytrading and then trading derivatives... But the same can be said for investing in regular stocks. So bottom line the answer would be yes and no, you could become a gambler if you enjoyed the risky feeling of investing. But no, its not the fault of Bitcoin.

The other way around seems likely too, but on a lesser degree. I doubt investing is as fun as gambling is to a gambler. In fact, investing might seem long and boring to someone who is used to winning/losing instantly.

The only reason why Defi is acceptable in the eyes of most coiners is the fact that its so easy to use to swap for wrapped tokens. That way you can keep your funds out of an exchange and be completely self reliant. No third party is involved in your trades or your wallet holdings.

The bad news is that the underlying blockchain (BEP20 or ERC20 for example) is not as trustworthy or reliable as Bitcoin blockchain. And obviously it is not one and the same thing.

Its like giving someone a piece of paper with "1 Bitcoin" written on it and the person reassures you that that paper can be traded in for 1 Bitcoin at any time, as the piece of paper itself has an underlying Bitcoin reserve value. But its still not 1 Bitcoin. Just a voucher for 1 Bitcoin.

Should the underlying DeFI's blockchain fail for some reason, your wrapped token will become worthless and nobody will trade you 1 Bitcoin for it....

So whether or not you want to trust Defi is up to you. But one thing is certain: DeFi itself is trustless and verifiable. Just not without risk, depending on which blockchain you use.

I think tipping is mostly an American custom which most international people tend to ignore. Personally, I am ok with tipping, as a reward, if they did an extraordinary job or went the extra mile just for you. Otherwise there is no point. And quite right too! Why would you give someone a reward for no reason? There has to be a good reason, if you ask me.

Furthermore as far as live casinos are concerned, I am not a huge fan of them. It seems rather unnecessary and in smaller, unknown casinos a quite risky way to play. A game should be provably fair and have no/as few ways to exploit as possible. Both from the side of the gamblers and the casino owners.

If you are betting hundreds of thousands and have a lot of money, then tipping is not an issue.

I think there is a limit to which games can and cannot be transformed into a gambling version for casinos. For example, you cannot make chess into a gambling game. The reason is very simple. It is a game which can be algorithmically exploited by simple code bots. Thats why computers will beat even the best master chess players in the world. The game obviously needs a probabilistic nature to it. Otherwise how would it be gambling?

Casinos are probably aware of this and are very wary of which games they do and do not introduce to us. 

I believe that most of the scam accusations against casinos are just frustrated gamblers who made a big loss and are looking for a way to vent. And what better way than besmirch the reputation of the online gambling casino which took all their money? Its a bit silly but understandably quite a human reaction. That being said, sometimes there are scam casinos that get what they deserve when somebody exposes their scam. But that happens much more rarely than disgruntled gamblers letting off steam. So you should take any scam accusation, especially those without proof, with a grain of salt.

Congrats to MegaPari for the EG Nordics Award 2023 nomination! I personally have not known about this i-Gaming award but I hope when they announce the winners, there will be some good news for MegaPari

I am a bit confused on your website there is welcome bonus "on your 1st deposit up to 100 EUR" but on the right side it says "register and receive 100 Euro right now".

So do I have to deposit more than 100 Euro or less to receive the 100 Euro bonus or do I only have to register? OR do I register and then deposit ANY amount of Euros to receive the 100 Euro bonus?

This is nowhere near "biggest news of 2022". I did read about this a few days ago and it was nothing special. 15 Million dollars are a teeny tiny blimp and the bank itself had nothing going for it except its reputation of being very very old. So there is absolutely no need to start connecting things that are not there in order to build up a large conspiracy theory which ends up being a giant nothing-burger.

If anything the gesture was symbolic or a bad investment decision. It has got to be one of those two things, I believe.

Live casinos, in my opinion, are less secure than their virtual reality cousins and are therefore more or less heading towards redundancy. I also do not trust a lot of small time live casinos (Except I do trust live casinos which have been audited and offered by big, well known casinos).

Its not that live casino providers "don't gain shit from rigging games" (although, lets be honest, they do!) It just worries me how easy it is to rig live games. We as the Bitcoin community have always preferred to verify over trust. So why should we trust an older version of gambling? I just do not understand it.

Why are you guys saying its a trap pump? If anything this seems like insiders buying in after hearing some good news which is yet to be revealed.

I think you guys mean the Turing Award, not the Nobel Prize? Because there is no Nobel Prize for computer science. It does not exist. The Turing Award is however the "Computer science Nobel Prize" or is at least regarded as highly. If you were to ask me, I would say Satoshi Nakamoto, whoever and wherever he might be, we applaud him for his amazing achievement!   Because computer science is indeed a science. A branch of experimental mathematics, like physics but more meta, you could say. It does not get the respect it deserves due to being a new science.

*Hanged. Hung is what every man wants to be.