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741  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Sports betting strategies on: November 13, 2023, 04:34:08 PM
Well, it's nice to know i am not totally heading on wrong direction with my strategy. There are several suggestions that i live by like not losing more then i could afford. I just thought that there might be clever ways to use

Like "handicap", "set" and "total" markets etc.. Because it''s hard to me to grasp how can i utilize those efficiently.

I've been recently trying live betting, with a strategy of betting for winners after a quick evaluation of how is the game going, and how much of it is left to play. I am accepting even smallest multipliers like 1.05+ if i am quite certain i would win. I've done many of them for few days now and so far i've been happy for my system, and i already have 3x my initial starting bet.
It will only encourage you to use huge amount of money and a loss after several won matches will still be a loss. I just want to let you know to be very careful. This has been my strategy and it is not as good as it seems.
I thought it might not be, even though it's currently working for me. Eventually i will lose.

But i can't help wonder if i am making some noob errors that come back to bite me later. As i know that there are no 100% safe winning, i think i will start losing at some point, and with small multipilers, all it takes is few losses to get back to where i started from. I am quite noob at this so i am probably doing every newbie mistake.
If you do not gamble often, you will likely win more. But in-play like this can be addicting
This i didn't quite understand. Do you mean that if i play often, i will take unnecessary risks? As i know that i am not supposed to reach and try to risk more just because i want to gamble more.

Which sport are you trying to bet on?
I've done the same from soccer to tennis. It works for a time betting the crowd's fave even that 1.05 you are saying. It is a tiresome approach and it only takes a few losses to take those winnings away and you are back to square one. If you are like this then probably you are not watching the games as well.

And then once again reminded about the thing they are saying only bet on the sports you are passionate about. Take that advice, minimize your bet, and watch the game. You'll realize when you enjoy the game, it doesn't matter whether you lose. You enjoyed.
I gamble on everything i know basic rules about, like how log each round, set or game takes? How much points there are even possible to make and in what time. And in overall how fast can games change and for what reason. But i do lack some basic knowledge about some sports. Like cricket for example. And i am not touching that until i read the rule book no matter what the odds are. Odds to me are pointless unless i know how i am risking my money. Just like i am not gambling with all the betting types that i don't know anything about.
742  Economy / Gambling / Re: ✨ Shuffle.com | The next generation of crypto casinos | Sports, Casino + token on: November 13, 2023, 12:43:07 AM
I don't have an opinion about the public sale, that's apparently happening with SHFL as well, because i don't have enough data on that, but i feel that's a little iffy, and i don't get why they would need to do this. If they indeed are selling them against crypto.

And it's not like everyone would be dumping at once. These 3 reasons are enough for many people to hodl or even buy more. Especially buyback and burn with fixed supply sounds juicy.

One utility of Shuffle token is profit sharing from the casino through distribution to token holders. The team also announced that the token will be listed on exchange which means they need money for liquidity pool to absorb airdrop tokens that will potentially sell or to have a trading volume.

It’s understandable if they do a public sale to cover for liquidity since they will share their profit to token holders. I believe the airdrop is part of rewarding loyal customers.
Either you misunderstood or i am missing some key information here. To my knowledge they aren't distributing any profits for tokens holders, but they are using profits to buy those tokens from the market and burn. Which is actually way better and way more legal method.

And yeah, i do get the liquidity pool part. I just don't agree that raising money that way would be a good idea. Token sales clash with regulators all the time, because they are often marketed illegally.
743  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: A gambler's family action. on: November 13, 2023, 12:11:33 AM
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Just two questions here:
1. Dis the family of this young man went too extreme in trying to help stop their brother from gambling addiction or not?

2. Assuming you are this young man and you had to run to a distant location to carry out your gambling as you are allowed to gambling within your neighborhood and luckily you won huge sum of million dollars. Would you share that money with your loved ones who were barring you from gambling or you will just stay off from them and live new found wealthy live alone?

Share your thoughts!
I am not sure where in the world this happened but it certainly wouldn't fly in here. Those gambling places would basically be holding an illegal register, even if the register contains one person.
Not even bars can have pictures of banned people, they will just have to remember them. Also it's far from effective, and might have worked 100 years ago when regulations were looser and moer people used to know each other in the same village or city.

Like you said, all you need to do is change the scenery and play in somewhere else. Or just play online. If the person wasn't grounded and offline, there's only so many ways to restrict them. Better way would be convincing them not to gamble, and find them something else to do. Something else to fill their time with.
744  Economy / Gambling discussion / Sports betting strategies on: November 12, 2023, 11:40:16 PM
I've been recently trying live betting, with a strategy of betting for winners after a quick evaluation of how is the game going, and how much of it is left to play. I am accepting even smallest multipliers like 1.05+ if i am quite certain i would win. I've done many of them for few days now and so far i've been happy for my system, and i already have 3x my initial starting bet.

But i can't help wonder if i am making some noob errors that come back to bite me later. As i know that there are no 100% safe winning, i think i will start losing at some point, and with small multipilers, all it takes is few losses to get back to where i started from. I am quite noob at this so i am probably doing every newbie mistake.

So i wanted to ask from experienced gamblers here, who make live bets; how do you choose your bets and what kind of bets are you preferring (other then betting for winners).

Also are there some good tips on how to make most of from those? Because to someone less informed like myself, most of the other kind of bets seem like shots in the dark. I am assuming that there are more profitable strategies. Like what kind of other bets are worth looking into?
745  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Raising children in this current society on: November 12, 2023, 10:11:03 AM
How the society is now one has to be extremely careful with the way we bring up our children and then no body can raise our children better not even their teachers who spend most time with them
In this jet age they ( children) learn very fast from as early as zero years..
Parents needs to be alert with the activities of their children until they get to adulthood
But in all prayer is the strongest weapon
It's about educating yourself on raising children, and not being a main character of your life anymore. You sometimes need to put your life on hold as it was and focus on what's important.
When you get your first child, your priorities and some of your values will shift. You should put more focus on practicality and psychological well being rather than delegating your work to some spirit, or what ever you believe in.

You can pray if you want or not to pray if it suits you, but that doesn't really affect the outcome, especially if you are trusting solely in praying. It might relax you as a form of meditation, but don't count that as a parenting. You need to do parenting yourself and not trust invisible dad from the sky to watch your kids. There's an actual physical parents that child needs to be present and noticing them in order for them to grow up as emphatic, and balanced, good human beings.

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The next thing to do is to change your signature on any current BCs of your children. Change it so that the 'non-assumpsit' words are added to it. This may be difficult in some States, but it can be done.
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You don't need to worry about that. BD-level of crazy is whole another scale and government will take custody of those children in no-time.
746  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Do you use bitcoin when gambling? on: November 12, 2023, 12:09:58 AM
What ever is cheapest and fastest to move. I rather not gamble with stablecoins as i just need more crypto. And when crypto is moving up i feel like i am losing if i am not making more then the altcoin gains against usdt.

I might use usdt if prices are moving down i can send it via fast L2 like arbitrum, polygon or bsc. But i rather not because that doesn't really differ in anyway from playing in normie fiat money casinos. And i feel we lose something important ideologically, if we move away from real cryptos to stablecoins and fiat money.
747  Economy / Gambling / Re: ✨ Shuffle.com | The next generation of crypto casinos | Sports, Casino + token on: November 11, 2023, 11:10:39 PM
Well, I am not very sure, but I think I saw a countdown to the halving somewhere in binance and from the information there, the halving is expected on April and not may as you said or suggested.

Anyways, aside this one, I think alot of altcoins projects are also waiting on the side as well, for the halving and possible bull run to commence so they can start or begin some actions that will capture the attention of investors, this possibly the reason why almost everything pumps during a bull run, because it's hard to know or differenciate a coin or token with good utility and one without any utility but driven by pure speculation.

And this is also why I would always say that the bull run is the worst time to buy or invest in any project, wise investors do their research now and invest in good coins or tokens, when bull run comes, they sell while others are buying, many people end up with sh*t load of altcoins bought during bull run, and most times end up selling it at a loss after the bull run is over, or possibly hodl it to death.

So for me, would have been best they distribute their token now, so they know their price base.
Just my opinion though.
Then again, in the bullrun, people who get the airdrop wouldn't have been invested per se, but there would be definitely people investing. Meaning, like you said, they would be most likely buying overpriced tokens. And i myself wouldn't mind as they would be buying from us.

I don't have an opinion about the public sale, that's apparently happening with SHFL as well, because i don't have enough data on that, but i feel that's a little iffy, and i don't get why they would need to do this. If they indeed are selling them against crypto.

And it's not like everyone would be dumping at once. These 3 reasons are enough for many people to hodl or even buy more. Especially buyback and burn with fixed supply sounds juicy.
 
748  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Do Owners of betting companies bet? on: November 11, 2023, 04:32:12 PM
Do owners of betting companies place bet on their own platform or is there a policy specific policy that restricts them from betting. Do you think that there would be conflict of interest or that it will be unethical if owners bet on their own platforms. These are the questions that I am seeking an answer to.
I am not sure what the conflict of interest would be. It's not like they can affect the outcome of the match. Maybe with large enough bets they could affect to multipliers, but that would be affecting against them. But if there would be a way it would be unethical or conflict of interest, that i don't see, it would be against regulations and these casinos are constantly audited, so it really wouldn't make sense.

And when you take a look how much money they are making i a year, then you quickly notice that making even insane large bets (that would instantly be flagged by auditors) wouldn't even affect the income in any meaningful way. So i am guessing they don't need to gamble.
749  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: A tip for staying resposible while gambling. on: November 11, 2023, 04:21:22 PM
While gambling some people gamble with small amounts which is not very important for them, but for those who are new to gambling and not able to control themselves or play with something reasonable amount.
So I have a tip for them you can stick a real paper money note in front of your monitor which will remind you that money is hard to earn and play responsibly or don't play with big amounts.
the note will remind every time that how you earned that money, and if you are controlled and this tip is not very important for you them you can ignore it, but i found this helpful.
I am certain that there's a group of people that this could help with small amount of money, but i don't think it's the majority of people. In worst case scenario it will have an opposite effect.
When we are talking about enough money, we can't grasp the value just by looking at it. And then there's the fact that you would probably feel like you had more money when you constantly saw it as a cash form. Psychologically it would just make you probably value it less, as that would be constantly in your sights.

750  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Is NFT and virtual real state project the biggest scam in past 3 years? on: November 11, 2023, 12:40:35 AM
NFT tokens and Crypto based real estate project the biggest scam to take place in last 3 years and I have listed the reason why I have come to this conclusion:

What's the use of NFT token in real life? for example altcoins have something to help with in real life and for example XRP has payment system, ETH has smart contracts which enables DApps but what is NFT it's just a digital representation and people wouldn't have invested into it, had it not been endorsed by celebrities and the Hype created. This would be a possible money laundering technique as we have seen some big shots had already bought literally a digital painting which is nothing more than a graphical illusion for millions of dollars which has zero use it's neither a product nor a technology or services.

What concerns me the most is the fact that people are fooled so easily to believe on everything they end up investing in these NFT projects and real estate projects just to life in the virtual world but in real world these has no uses.

If you feel my statements are incorrect then please share your response with a justification.
Nfts have already been used for representing liquidity pools in uniswap. You are talking about that tech linked to some images. They can be linked to anything. Also, i am quite concerned that people are using same arguments about nfts as nocoiners are using about countless tokens and cryptos. That they are a scam and have no real value, except when people decide to give them value. Just like with most cryptos out there. Only difference being that they represent unique assets and are illiquid. But most cryptos out there are illiquid and dead.
751  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Poloniex was hacked (Security Breach Discussion) on: November 10, 2023, 05:50:37 PM
It happens rarely and if people who hack money has good intentions then they will not really target a private so I don't think the user who hacked money will be tempted by offer but the exchange can be more generous and offer a work contract too so that they can convince the users that they assept their security flaw and willing to rectify it no matter what.
I don't know, money from huge heists is hard to launder, and $3M risk free money must sound appealing. But i don't understand why anyone would believe it's not a trap.
That contract wouldn't be binded by law, and paper contract like that would be laughed out from any court if the criminal decides to take it.

Why would they give hacker anything after that? They would take the money and try to hand the hacker to police.
752  Economy / Economics / Re: Being rich = not looking at price tag on: November 10, 2023, 05:39:59 PM
I often read people saying they want to earn enough money so they don't have to look at price tag of product. Imo, even if you are rich you wouldn't want to spend money on things that are not worthy of price being paid.

You wanna look at product and then it's price, if it's worthy of price, you purchase the product.
Every rich person know still looks at the price tag. That's part of the reason they got rich. Price doesn't prevent them buying the thing, but they will definitely try to get it cheaper from somewhere else.
Also, they don't just buy any products but products that last. Richest one i know doesn't even do fine dining himself. He buys that to his partner though.

But i admit that in the grocery store, it's huge advantage that you don't need to count your money and compromise as you can't afford everything you need.
753  Economy / Gambling / Re: ✨ Shuffle.com | The next generation of crypto casinos | Sports, Casino + token on: November 08, 2023, 11:12:30 PM
Guys at X.com Shuffle there is a MEME challenge contest that will bring you $25 if you win this contest and is valid for only 12 hours from now.

Anyone here who has expertise in making memes in their favorite games can refer to the link in that this, might be a little helpful for you with its creativity in making memes. Wink

Source: https://twitter.com/shufflecom/status/1722037099606516120
Once again missed out because i don't use twitter. I might give up and made a temp new account just for this kind of stuff.

But anyway, i was wondering when their snapshot date would be and i noticed this:



So, first airdrop is 12 month from inception. It took some digging, but i found their first tweet via Nitter
 


Does this mean the snapshot would be would be 1st of April, as that's their official inception day? That would like up with their "early 2024" promise.
754  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Gamefi alts; bull inbound? on: November 08, 2023, 10:33:52 PM
Lately, there has been a surge of GameFi tokens gaining popularity in the cryptocurrency market. Does this signify the return of a bullish trend?

You might want to zoom out. Here's a chart of most popular game token IMX. It's an layer 2 ecosystem build for Gods unchained because at the time it didn't make any sense doing small transactions in ETH, as fees costed more then most nfts. This tech was surpassed by many others, so imx was quickly outdated tech.

IMX



Here's their in-game reward token GODS



Here's axie infinity, one of the most famous gamefi tokens



Do they still look like they are recovering from here?
755  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Do you know about the first public servant paid in bitcoin ? on: November 08, 2023, 10:04:19 PM
His name was Tony Vaughn and he was from Kentucky. He was paid his salary in bitcoin in 2013 , at time when very few even heard about bitcoin. If he would have not sold those bitcoins that he got as salary, he would might have been a billionaire by now. Because bitcoin price at that time was just $1000 a piece , so his wealth would have been about 30 times at current prices.
Far from billionaire, but rich. Although reason people work in the first place, is that they need your salary to pay your bills, buy food and all the necessities, so majority of it isn't invested.
And i remember that fomo time pretty well. After 2014 when it started dropping, almost everyone in this planet would have exited. Bitcoin was new and everyone was laughing at you when you bought ath of that time. I can't remember any media reporting that it would go back up, so it would have taken mixture of crazy and true believer to hold it. Especially when no one could have predicted how high it would go.
756  Economy / Gambling / Re: 🎲BetFury.io| 💰New Bonus System | 💸Get all Bonuses from Rank 1 on: November 08, 2023, 05:58:39 PM
Betfury completely ignores my situation https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5472736.0, they don’t respond to emails and all managers and main support ignore me on telegram.
Is there a reason why you haven't posted this to scam accusations yet? I am pretty sure that betfury doesn't even read their announcement thread.

They already have flag for their affiliate fraud, so i don't see a scenario where you would get your money (mainly because i don't trust them either), but at you can
get more red trust. And since trust is something casinos live with, they will probably regret their decision not to pay.

757  Economy / Gambling / Re: Seabet.io Online Casino on: November 08, 2023, 04:42:30 PM
So isn't anyone going to talk about the fact that topic says seabet.io, and that there's a real site in https://www.seabet.io but OP so linking to url seabet9.io
I am just wondering why anyone in here wouldn't thing that this wouldn't be a phishing scam? Because to me it just seems obvious and there's no way i would link trough that site. Or am i missing something obvious here?
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Ok, i confirmed that's a correct url from seabet.io livechat so i apologize.

But seriously this doesn't make any sense to me . Why would you do this? Don't you think that typosquatting is the first thing people would associate miswritten urls with?

I am just confused on what's the advantage of doing this? Wouldn't affiliate links would be enough? Why do you need whole different urls for it?
Maybe you can explain so as a noob i won't be this suspicious in the future.

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So isn't anyone going to talk about the fact that topic says seabet.io, and that there's a real site in https://www.seabet.io but OP so linking to url seabet9.io

I am just wondering why anyone in here wouldn't thing that this wouldn't be a phishing scam? Because to me it just seems obvious and there's no way i would link trough that site. Or am i missing something obvious here?
759  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: What conditions might cause you to stop gambling? on: November 07, 2023, 11:03:33 PM
I know that many people try to stop gambling or reduce the intensity of their gambling because of several factors such as running out of money, being scolded by their wife, being scolded by their parents, or piling up debts. Irresponsible gambling will make us have bad conditions. I don't hope we will experience something like that because after all gambling is fun and full of challenges

But let's imagine, what kind of conditions might make you stop gambling?
If  desperately needed all my pennies for my family. I mean, not being able to afford food or necessities for a safe life.

Family comes first in my priorities and i am including myself and my needs on that. At the moment i have some to spare, but that's tightly budjeted as well.
And i wouldn't stop for the rest of my life, but just until the situation, (what ever that might be) is over and we are on the safe waters.

I don't get scolded by my wife as i am not married anymore and my parents are too old to care what i do. I am an adult after all.

Secondly, if i would go over my budget i would stop. Not for the rest of the life but enough time for serious self reflecting.
760  Economy / Economics / Re: "I saw my salary on a bottle of perfume today" on: November 07, 2023, 10:42:00 PM
Yeah, you heard me right. Today I was scrolling through some Instagram Reels and I saw a video of a person saying this. I'm still confused. Should I laugh or should I feel sorry for that person? So here's how the whole video goes. The man said and I quote" I saw my salary on a bottle of perfume today. So you are saying that someone out there smells like my salary."
It's kind of funny but also sad at the same time. Where have we come today? There are people trying to live a normal life with what little amount they earn. And there are people using the same amount of money just to smell good.
I don't think anything has changed, there are just more humans and more things to buy. Just because we think it's waste of money, it might be worth it to someone else. And it's not like that money would be out of circulation. It just moves to other people. Who cares what item has been changed for the money?

I don't understand most of the things people buy, but at least that's something real that person bought. In comparison someone paid $23.7 million for CryptoPunk #5822 NFT.

To smell good is a good as reason as any for me.

I bring up this to talk about financial freedom. What is financial freedom to you? Is it about having a certain amount of money that is required to have financial freedom or to have an amount of money which can potentially give you freedom in the future?

To me, I will choose the second one. If I am happy with what I have and I am certain that it will continue to help me in the future too, then I have successfully achieved financial freedom. But most people these days are caught up with the thought of using luxurious thing and being able to continuously use it is financial freedom to them.

Do you agree or disagree to this? Let me know your thoughts.

[Just for context, I am not talking about holding money. I am talking about investments that good give me passive income that will continue to come in the future and give me financial freedom. As long as I can survive with that amount of money and not worry about the future, then it is financial freedom to me.]
No me financial freedom, is basically same thing i value money in the first place. It's a freedom to live your life without being constantly afraid that you or your kids might starve.
Riches won't automatically make you happy, but they create one hell of a safety net. If you have ever been poor, you know what i am talking about.

It's also a freedom to pursue your interests without wondering if you are making money.
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