I am really tired of this type of accusation.

I have been into bitcoin and this forum for more than a decade and had many business deals with lots of people hence sending/receiving bitcoin did not prove anything, not sure when you people understand this.

I would say that you should wait a bit more. I think the drop is not over yet. Why do I think like that? Well we are not that far down yet, we are only 50% down and that is nothing in a bear market.

I think there is one more big fall before we can go up, we had a few falls so far, one big, and a few small ones. I am expecting another small one. Not to much, but under 60k and staying there. Somewhere around 50k is a great place to buy, I would say wait for it to go under 60k first, put a buy order at 50k, buy there if it reaches, and if not, buy at 60k when it recovers. That would be smarter.

Not really unexpected when you consider that Spain has been winning for 30+ games, they are even close to 40 games right now. Being unbeaten for that long is very basic proof that they could be very good and successful and should not be really shocked to see this.

I understand that other teams were good too, France and Argentina specially looked like they may have a chance. But at the same time we need to realize that it can't be just those, Spain could have won and that is what happened.

To be fair the people I know that are gamblers, or more like gambling addicts, all do it because they are afraid of the life they have and they are worried that we can't really do this and can't be considering this as something forever.

If you live a life, where your economy is so shit that you are ending up with bad results then you are not going to get any better. But if you gamble, the worst is you will get even worse which is of course bad but they accept their faith there, and they hope to make a lot more money by gambling to get out of that terrible life they are in.

How would a casino survive if we all won? It wouldn't, that means at the very least "some" of us have to lose. The reality is, aside from a few lucky people who won a lot and just cashed out, EVERYONE loses money that's the math behind it.

If you ever try to find anything but 4 on a 2+2 just to be quirky and think that you are special, you will fail, and just be someone who is wrong. This is math, gambling makes you lose money, that's it, nothing shocking about it, if you keep gambling, you lose, it's not a questionable thing. Only way to profit, would be making it big once, and leaving forever.

I would say 10% isn't bad? I mean I do not get why it is being considered as "low" when the return is 9.64% or whatever, that is actually a good return in like less than 2 months or something. It has been what, a full month or so since it started?

I think that is very important because if you had anything in your life, that gave you 10% per month, you would be crazy happy, right? So we are assuming that with the final game, that is roughly like 1.5 months, not exactly but give or take. Even if you said it took 2 months, that's still a lot.

Yeah, most people who wins big, depends on how big of course, will just simply end up with using that to do nothing at all, and should be considering how this could be a very different situation overall for all of them.

I think it is clear that they are going to chase some more wins. If you turn 100 dollars into lets say a million dollars, you will say "this is how far I have come, it must mean I am good, and can make more" and they will not stop until they lost it all and won't have anything left.

THAT is exactly the problem. People see Mourinho as a seasoned coach that can change something, and while they may actually end up doing good, if they do, that would be because they made some amazing transfers so far this summer, and they may still yet get Enzo as well.

So if they do fail, that would be because of Mourinho, who might be a seasoned coach but he has failed for ten years now, even with Roma when he won conference, he was never top four at the league and ended up getting sacked as well.

I did not know that gambling could be banned from a companies rules, that doesn't feel like it's legal. If anything can be banned, by a company, and threat is being fired, then they have the right to ban anything. Just because it is seen as unethical, or dangerous, or whatever, then I am not sure if they have the right to do that.

While I understand that a worker there may have access to information, how do you make sure that they do not gamble on it? I do not think that it's public info that I gamble for example.

Six teams in the quarter finals, only Morocco and Argentina not European. And now Morocco is gone too, so first place at semi finals is European. 2 more is guaranteed, so we are going to see 3 out of 4 teams from Europe as always, and the other is Latin American as always.

I am pretty sure that European football is just fine, there is nothing that we can do this to change it, we should realize that it is not going to be something that is all that complicated for them, and it is clear that we are going to end up seeing a finalist European yet again too.

In the current market situation, I don't even feel comfortable buying the top-20 coins. It offers no assurance, I feel, and chances of growth are just as good as Bitcoin, so why not simply buy BTC?

Might sound like a broken record but still to date, holding BTC is perhaps the best way to make money from crypto. Yes, you might make more money from trading BTC or trading altcoins, but there's a good chance you just lose everything as well. With holding BTC, one thing is certain: if you can wait and wait longer, you will eventually come out profitable. I don't see any reason why BTC would be under $100k after 2 years from now.

So from what I gather, it is at 10% profit rate, meaning if you started with 1000 dollars, and wagered on 76 games or whatever, you would have 1100 dollars for now. The reason why most people do not do it is because one bad streak and it's all gone, so while it does show a good chunk of profit for now, it was very touch and go and anything could have happened.

This is why we should be careful about it and not really realize that we are going to end up with anything good, we are going to have some trouble if anything goes wrong but as we can see, it may do well too.

Saudi Arabia was not a team that normally wins the world cup but shockingly got knocked off from the group stages this season. They were never that much of a great team and the fact that they did joined world cup only to fail at group stages is around where people assume they were, best case they would lose at round of 32, but that's about it, who expected them to do even better?

So I do not understand why the fans are mad that they failed? I mean did the fans suddenly started to believe that they could do much better?

Depends on what kind of person you are. I have friends who bet on games that they do not even watch, like tennis or whatever, they are not fan of it, they are just gamblers and they do it anyways. However, I have friends who watch every single game of their team, like literally every game, even early cup games against lower division teams, and yet they do not gamble at all.

This means that purely watching doesn't make you a gambler, but could it have a contributing impact if you are already leaning towards it? It definitely could. Do not blame watching for your gambling, if you are going to gamble, you can gamble even without watching, if you are not going to gamble, then you could watch 50+ games a year and still not gamble once.

It is us, people who control the price of bitcoin. We can't identify the exact points where price might go up or down but we can all draw our own assumptions to make profits accordingly. Bitcoins were highly volatile in the past. They are gradually losing their volatility which is making them a much safer asset. We do not see sudden pumps or dumps nowadays as it pretty rare. It makes bitcoins a much safer asset to invest in for people like OP.

OP, you are making the right decisions about investing in bitcoins and also about starting this topic. You need to make as much market research as possible before actually investing real money. This thread can give you good insights but also make sure you make your own research later on.

I vote for #2, #24, #43, #110, #124

This is the thing, if I get banned from one casino, I will just go to another casino, and if I get banned there, I will go to another. There is no shortage of casinos, we have millions of them around, some are very legit, some are not, and we should not be worried about it.

This is why getting self banned or straight up banned, is not really a solution and doesn't change a thing. We should be considering this is not going to help or benefit anyone at all, it is not going to change a thing.

Aside from losing purchasing power, there isn't really anything else, that's literally it. Grocery store prices go up, food prices go up, oil prices go up, education prices go up, utility prices go up, rent prices go up, everything goes up and if your salary doesn't go up as much as those ones, then you are getting poorer.

I mean, I am not even joking, last year, in 2025, I was poorer than 2015 even though I was making more than double the money, in fact it was probably closer to quadruple? Something like that, and the reason was the inflation was even higher. Thankfully this year all is looking much better for me, because my salary got higher.

And in all honesty, casinos want you to play those games :/

They know the player is addicted to Crash, for example. So, they will always want you to come back and lose money over and over again. Allowing special bans for providers will hurt their business.

The only reason casinos even have self exclude is that they are strictly required to have these by the license provider or the government, or both. Don't forget that these casinos are there to earn money and that money comes from you so don't expect them to help you out.

The fact that Cristiano Ronaldo only has 8 goals in 23+ games so far is funny as hell. People still think Ronaldo is better, and whenever there is a new stat coming up, you see Messi breaking that record and Ronaldo not being anywhere near that lol.

The biggest lie that Ronaldo fans ever told was making comparisons to Messi man, Ronaldo should feel honoured that he was seen even remotely close to Messi at any given moment. Messi is scoring hattricks and winning games at 39 years old, that dude is an alien.