I have been looking for information and I have seen that in general you can acquire a golden visa with a series of investments in the country, and after residing 5 years but I would like to know what this company means by “indirectly” holding Bitcoin, what happens is that to find more information on their website they were going to ask me for data, like a survey, and I pass.

That happens with poker players. The 24 hours is obviously exaggerated because no human can work without resting as if he were a robot.

But going to what you say, there are professional poker players who play 8 hours a day, as if it were a job, and on top of that, multi-tabling, usually with several screens. Then there are others who may not play so many hours but spend a lot of time studying and reviewing the moves of the previous session, analyzing opponents that they usually find at the tables, etc.

Then, those who spend too many hours, we could call them workalcoholics, because what they do is a job with which they earn money. But this can only be applied to skill games.

Do you mean anarkiboy is an alt account?


Minting sources usually have more to do with coins than with bars, because many coins, apart from the value of their weight in gold, usually have numismatic value. But even in some bars, which are more expensive depending on who mints them, if you sell them they pay you the same for their weight in gold regardless of who minted them.

And whether it is illegally mined or stolen, there is no way of knowing. Nowadays gold is sold in blister packs and if you are going to sell your coins or bars with the blister pack they will usually give you a little more than if you bring the gold unwrapped. But that counts for stolen gold as well as gold that you took the blister off and gold that was inherited or bought so long ago that it was sold without blister.

This is a somewhat theoretical discussion but I am of the opinion that especially in this case it is demand that attracts supply and not the other way around.


If signature campaigns go away this forum will look like a cemetery. 15 years ago people hardly used social media compared to now, and forum traffic was much higher. To think that good campaigns will come back without taking this into account is to leave out an essential part of the equation.


I agree with the latter but not with the former. Nowadays a new cryptocurrency exchange, to give an example, is going to get a lot more customers if it advertises on a Youtuber with millions of followers than by advertising on the forum.

Raising the quality of forum posts will not change that.

Many years ago when I was very young and I didn't know anything about gambling and math applied to casino games, yeah.

What surprises me is that you seem so smart that these things happen to you. But I also remember that you are one of those who believe that with some variant of the martingale you can beat the casino, so I think that nothing I tell you is going to work for you.

But yes, just by asking yourself the question you should stop.

I already said something similar in other threads.


It seems unbelievable you say that wearing that signature and avatar. Supply does not increase demand, if anything it lowers the price. As things are, people are not going to post more, because there is more and more economic incentive, but if they did, and seeing the payments of campaigns that there are currently, as soon as a company comes to advertise it can hire quality posters for between 50 and 80$ weekly. In fact, I've already seen some ex-CMs getting paid that.

I don't see a scenario where companies start competing to take the best posters with payouts in excess of $100 a week and as high as $150 or more like a year ago.

You have done well. A person who has that kind of problem, the only way out is to acknowledge that they have a problem, and that usually never happens before they've hit rock bottom. The bad thing is that you're going to be the bad guy in the story anyway. If the addict finds out what you said, he will throw it back in your face and if you told him otherwise, things would have gotten worse and the brother would have thrown it back in your face.

It's best to stay out of that kind of trouble if you can avoid it.

Just with your choice of nickname it was already clear that you are not exactly the most appropriate to give lessons about dumb people.

What is valuable is valuable, period. A ton of 24 karat gold, no matter if it was mined and produced in China, using Chinese machinery, is worth its weight in gold. This is the same thing.

And how stupid you are, you haven't even noticed that the miners left China years ago to go to the USA. You retard.

Lol. The OP has ranked up to member. I don't want to spoil the party but when I saw the title I thought it would be at a higher rank, like Hero.

In any case, this seems to motivate you and I just recommend that you continue to make good use of the forum, as we have too many cases of people who take the fast (and dishonest) route and end up badly.

Certainly any candidate was better than Biden, who looked like he would either not make it to the election or would arrive in an even more advanced state of dementia. I see that Harris can attract the feminist vote and the so-called racialized vote. I still think Trump is the favorite, but as it all comes down to swing states we will have to see.

It's a bullshit argument based on false premises.


Looking on the internet I see that in the USA, 22% of the population has no savings and 44% could not pay an unexpected 1K.

So I don't even go into the rest. There are countries that are more thrifty than the USA, of course, but they are the exception rather than the norm.

You could have applied it to gold, which is much more widespread in the population, and has not led to shrink the economy (if gold becomes widespread enough that most people hold their savings in it, then it will greatly and permanently reduce liquidity in the financial system).

It does not appear that Trump has Bitcoin, although we cannot know for sure, the one he does have and has declared it is the VP pick.

https://investorplace.com/2024/07/j-d-vance-is-the-first-bitcoin-holder-on-a-presidential-ticket-heres-everything-we-know-about-his-position/

I'm not going to give this much more thought until the rumor is confirmed or disproved. If it is confirmed it will be huge, that's for sure.

This is similar in most countries, at least the developed ones. One thing is taxes, such as income tax, of which a percentage is usually withheld from payroll, and the rest you mention are labor costs, such as social security payments.

But I think the OP is referring to capital gains taxes on crypto trading, so none of these taxes as labor costs would apply here.

What pisses me off is that this is a casino with no KYC and no wagering requirements. Another one that has gone back to the old ways, you know who it is? Lightlord, whose casinos are also one of the few left without KYC. And I say it pisses me off because I am one of those people who ideologically believe that things work better when citizens organize themselves without government intervention. I think that was the idea behind the creation of bitcoin, and that's how things worked for the first few years.

What happens is that sometimes reality slaps me in the face, and in cases like this, if they were regulated casinos in first world countries with a license, they would have had state or regulatory intervention a long time ago.

And that is a good argument for those who argue that the state, not the individual, is the best guarantee that things will go well.

That must be why I have never liked solitaire or games like puzzles, because I am more of an extrovert.


How do we think about what? I don't know, maybe I'm crazy but I don't usually waste a lot of time thinking about things that are not going to happen.


They are not games of chance as such, although there is some chance in how the pieces of the puzzle look after undoing them or the cards after shuffling them.

In general high taxes, not only in crypto, tend to stifle business and discourage innovation. All this in the name of a supposedly fairer redistribution of wealth, the so-called social justice, which in certain cases may work but what it ends up doing is that politicians manage large amounts of money that would be much better handled by free interactions of the private sector and that in many cases are spent with political interest, not in the interest of the general population.

At the moment it seems to be just a rumor but it has already been echoed in several media, so I think it is worth bringing it here.


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I think if it came true this would be huge. But that's a big if. What do you think about it?

It seems to me that there are going to be a lot of fellow forum members who are going to be screwed by what is most predictable: that Trump wins and implements policies favorable to Bitcoin and against CBDCs. All this coupled with a predictable price rally in the meantime with expectations and because of the point in the cycle we are at.

Assuming the story told by the OP is true, it is an exception but a very exceptional one. Good luck finding people here who tell similar stories that are not made up. The most normal thing we've seen around here is someone who makes a lot of money from gambling ends up losing it all and more.

In my case as it is about small regular and stable income it is not the same.

In the end, not only that, but both Lightlord's and FBI casinos were among the few casinos left without KYC. With these actions what they are doing is giving reason to those who want regulations and the authorities to be on top of the casinos.