My finances are doing quite well, despite inflation, but for the coming year I wish the forum members good health and good personal relationships above all.

As for money the best plan is slow and boring, little by little improve your financial situation, that's how I have done it and I have done very well, plus without realizing it comes a time that your wealth begins to compose and grow more than you expected, but the good thing about following a slow plan is that you are prepared to handle it, not like lottery winners or NBA players, which in a high percentage end up in ruin in a few years.

I have been investing for years, first in the stock market and then also in Bitcoin, and in the end it is always the same. If the financial asset you buy is good, whether it's Bitcoin or Johnson and Johnson stock, in the end in the long run it always goes up. You have to take advantage of times like this to buy cheap.

Other than that, you've already been given the best advice:

Well, to some extent there is already cashless gambling, the gambling that is done online, but this measure refers to gambling in land-based casinos, to which from the citizen's point of view I see a fundamental disadvantage which is privacy: if you have to pay by card, your bank will know that you gamble, and potentially the government as well. This does not happen with cash. And banks take this into account as a risk when giving loans, if you are a gambler and you ask for a loan, the interest rate will be higher and maybe they won't even grant it.


Yes, I believe this is part of a global plan to make societies as cashless as possible, which was a wet dream of governments and central banks, and still is, but was cut short by the emergence of Bitcoin.

I think so, although we have to keep in mind that this cycle has been a disappointment in terms of expected returns and that probably for future cycles we would do well to think that there will not be returns as spectacular as those of the first years.

That said, I think we are in a clear buying zone, as they say in the stock market, or for those of us who do DCA, to increase the amount to buy if your economy allows you to do so.

If we are clear that Bitcoin is the best digital gold, and an excellent payment system especially for transnational payments and in large quantities, we must also take into account that more than 90% of Bitcoins have already been mined, and that within 4 years we will reach the figure of 20 million. With all this, we must accumulate Bitcoin to the extent of our possibilities because it is an excellent and very scarce commodity.

I want to make my ignore list explicit, something I have seen that sometimes it has been done and also so that no one is surprised if I do not respond to certain people. It is clear that if I do not respond it is because I do not read them.

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I'm going to leave the thread locked for now, although I may open it for discussion in the future, but as of today this ignore list is not open for discussion, as it has no implications other than to make my forum experience more bearable. My feedbacks are, because they have implications for the people to whom I have left the feedback. In the hypothetical case that I have to review a negative feedback to someone I have on ignore, I could temporarily remove them from ignore.

I don't know, the news is strange to me and I have tried to access it but in order to read it you have to be a subscriber, to have a paid subscription.

On the one hand, I think if it was something that intruded on my privacy, I wouldn't sell it for $50, but on the other hand, as paxmao and avikz comment, we are sharing data anyway.

I imagine that this company has an idea of monetizing that shared data that they don't have access to, because even if google has it that company does not.

Lol, assuming what you say is true, your case is exceptional.


What motivated me to learn poker was to make money, which I did. Not huge amounts, not enough to quit my job, but for many years now I have been making extra money. In the case you mention, casino games, the money you can win is punctual, in some sessions, but you lose money in the long term.

I think this is something I also think, and I think you are not the first to comment on the forum, but with 19,246,875 Bitcoins mined, some millions of Bitcoins lost, and the holders that we have, I think that if that were the case, the influence they could have on the price would be less than with gold, although yes, they could influence.


I also think so. Without knowing for sure, Bitcoin purchases could have started.

Well, I guess my case is different, because I think I do not have many shitposters on ignore, some like cryptoboss and such, I rather usually report shitposters but those who have years of experience in the forum with certain knowledge as franky1 or Timelord2067 I put them on ignore and I have never regretted. I think that the ignore is a great tool to avoid messes and headaches.

In my case it's not a matter of giving them a second chance, it's giving me the opportunity to have a more bearable experience in the forum.

If you're going to rely on halvings and theories that say Bitcoin cycles tend to repeat a similarity based on them, you might as well say that all the years of the previous cycles that were like 2023, i.e. the pre-halving year, had positive returns, namely 2019, 2017 and 2013.

The only way I see that there are no positive returns at the end of 2023 is a total break of pattern, so who knows what predictive models are established, because this cycle, while keeping a certain similarity with the previous ones, has already broken some schemes, such as the maximum that has only been 3.5x and the minimum, which is already months below the previous ATH.

How is the ATM bitcoins issue in the UK? From the way you write I understand that you are from there.

What I would do would be to install a wallet on my phone, like Electrum or Mycellium, which are free, withdraw from the casino to your Electrum or Mycellium address and if you want to change the funds to cash, the easiest thing would be to go to a Bitcoin ATM and change them for cash there, although some time ago there was a crackdown in the UK Bitcoin ATMs and I do not know if they are operational now or if they ask KYC, but for low amounts it is usual that they do not ask for it.

Learn poker strategy, as well as bankroll management and psychological aspects and you won't have to worry about that. When you've been playing poker for years like me to earn money and earning it, playing poker is just another job. Well, a side hustle, because it doesn't give me nearly as much money as my main job, but it gives me a nice extra income. The bad thing is that you lose the excitement, except when you level up or something like that, but in my case it gives me constant and regular extra income.


Very early on I used them, and I think they are positive. So if you think they're good for you, well done.

Without getting into technical analysis, I have been following the Bitcoin price for a few years now, and I have the feeling that we have either already hit the bottom or we are very close. I think it's a good time to accumulate more. Most of the leverage and junk has disappeared, and if we look at the hashrate, for example, it is doing very well.

Without being fortune tellers, we can be sure that the current levels are very good purchase prices if you are going to keep the investment for a minimum of 4 years, even if we are going to have volatility and downturns along the way.

I'm sure that's the case as well. Even more if we think that what many casinos say in their ToS is not true, like that if you go over a certain amount in bankroll or wagered, they will ask for KYC and in reality they don't ask for it, or that if you live in certain countries you can't bet there and in reality they let you. This sometimes gives problems because they do ask for KYC or block you for playing from a certain country when you have won a large amount, but of course many do not implement what their ToS says in a strict way.

My lowest point was the 2007 crisis. From one day to the next I found myself without a job and without savings, without money. Since then it happened to me like in the movie Gone with the Wind, I promised myself like the main character that it would never happen to me again, and I kept my promise. At the moment I have 4 sources of income, savings and investments. I was almost unaffected by inflation. I have seen prices go up, but since I had increased my purchasing power, I have been able to pay with the price increase and still save and invest more.

It sounds to me that this has already been discussed several times on the forum, and the answer is no. You have a gold coin with which you buy 4 loaves of bread and you divide it into 4, so instead of buying 4 loaves today, you go each day you buy 1 loaf. Is that inflation? No. It is a subdivision.

Yes, well, a manager who himself has 6 neutral tags changed from negative and who seems to care so much about neutral tags that he disregards them when accepting people into his campaign:


For me it is more a question of ego, of someone who is overflowing with ego and runs $100 a week signature campaigns now, so his ego is even more boosted. I'm curious to see if he wins the antihero award, as you have to think that people who get paid from his campaigns or think they might do so in the future are unlikely to nominate him for that "award".

At the moment he has quite a few votes.

So it is not censorship. Censorship itself has a political component: you ban other people's opinions because they express political ideas you don't like, and that is non-existent in Bitcointalk.

I agree with previous comments that point out that this is a generalization that we cannot take as true. I would say that it makes more sense to apply it not so much to those who are poor as to those who have a poor mentality. Normally the two things go together but there is a small percentage of poor people, which I do not dare to quantify, who try to improve in their work, to find another job, and with that extra income, they can save and potentially invest. These people, even if their starting point is poor, have the mentality of the rich and actively try to get out of poverty. This is for industrialized societies. If you are poor in a desert area of Somalia, you probably can't do anything.

It is difficult to convince those who do not have that mentality to change. Maybe the only thing that can motivate them is to see examples around them whose starting point is the same as theirs and they make progress.

I see many stories like this on the forum, from African countries but mainly from Nigeria, which is the largest African community we have. Sadly, it is not representative of what happens in the rest of the world, where Bitcoin is mainly acquired as an investment, and although there are sites to pay with it, people rarely do it. But anything to help expand the knowledge and use of Bitcoin is welcome.