You're right that the cryptocurrency space is often plagued by survivorship bias where only successful stories are shared creating a distorted view of reality. This can lead to unrealistic expectations and a lack of awareness about the potential risks and limitations. New investors need to have a balanced understanding of both, the possible benefits and drawbacks of investing in cryptocurrencies. They should research thoroughly beyond just success.

Secondly, stay up-to-date with market trends and developments. Diversify their investments to minimize risk. And lastly, be cautious of unrealistic promises or guaranteed returns. Your advice is invaluable, acknowledging the limitations and potential pitfalls new investors can make informed decisions and navigate the cryptocurrency landscape with greater wisdom.

Well, it's suspicious, obviously, but there are certain things one should consider before concluding. If these matches are being recorded, and if there are casinos or sports betting platforms providing betting opportunities for these matches, then there is a high chance that the match was fixed, but if there is nothing of that nature, I don't see any reason behind fixing a match in an under-14 league where even the prize money for the winner wouldn't be very high. From the tally card, I am seeing there are two teams with same level of points which means they might have tried to fix this match for reputation reasons. This is just an assumption and nothing more.

Then again, if we look at some of the recent matches and the points table, there haven't been a lot of matches with this many goals, if many matches had the same results or all better teams were scoring a lot of goals against weaker opponents, this wouldn't have been considered odd at all, but that isn't the case here.

I don't really like judging people but I think I can give exception sometimes, especially on that place. Many people lose there and they are now finding ways on how to have a capital to go back playing again. I don't really get that Timesharing scammers you are telling but I guess they are like the ones who we talked about earlier, so the same measure we will apply and that is ignore every stranger we came across or trying to get our attention.

The only difference of Vegas is they are a gambling capital, so I think it feels incorrect when you say "make the most of his experience" because that sounds like he will need to spend more money playing gambling there which is definitely not recommended.

I read somewhere that few casinos in Vegas got bitcoin ATM. Obviously gambling must be one of the highly contributed industry on adaption of bitcoin hence Vegas casinos must be having some favour for bitcoiners for sure.

As long as you don't stop right after a loss, there will be a time that you will get lucky, except only if you are sticking on a scam casino of course. Provably fair games are normal in crypto because I think it is related with the blockchain. I don't have a deep knowledge about it but what I only know is that we can verify our results by pasting some values in a box, while if you mean about the games, then they are the same with other casino games where all you need to do is to place a bet, push that button and watch how the action goes in your screen.

Honestly provably fair games are not capable of bringing any changes in my gambling activities; I mean I am facing same kind of loses at the end of the day. Moreover, there are no specific games to start since the goal in gambling is only to enjoy but you can go on what you truly like the most. Good Luck .

For me, I think it was the other gamblers or those who don't care at all (E.g. losing, strategy, or everything...). There are still who continue playing because they are mostly up and they believe it is because of the strategy that they are using but like you said, it's only a false belief. In other more popular terms I think it's called as fallacy and I think fallacy is the same as placebo.

A sports fan is different from a bettor, so there's truly people who can have fun watching a sport alone, then there's also who can go throughout the day by simply betting and not watching a sport even on the ones where they bet on. Sports betting is literally different from casino games and this is why each has its own set of customers, but indeed that whatever type or game was it, all must be taken moderately/responsibly.

For us, 'yes' it's the luckiest and others can only believe it is once they start winning too but I think it's still worth the try because who knows right? I still believe that some casinos are only soft and some are hard. If we think we are on that hard one, I don't even think we will stay longer there but we will keep looking for that soft one.

Maybe it's true that luck and faith are related but I think luck is not single and it can occur a couple of times. I don't think that if you are meant to win it will happen on any site because not all site are legit but even if it is, I still think there will be a special place for us. Jackpots are sacred and elusive, so yeah we should not mind it shall we? As we can only lose our minds thinking of it. If it will come, it will only come one day, we'll see .

When it comes to list of lucky casinos, I think I saw one before. It's like written on some section of a gambling review site although yeah, they can be biased with this. On some gambling sites that I visit and play, they have a list of jackpot winners and they can also partially reveal their names but we aren't still sure if they are 100% real or not.

This is quite fun, I feel like people will focus on gambling as much as they can for as many times as they can without caring about the amount because from what I see you didn't put a minimum amount, correct?

I checked the rules and it didn't said anything about putting a minimum amount, so whatever the minimum amount that the game allows me to gamble then that would be my minimum if that's the case. In which case there could be a lot of very rich people, who would just put it on automatic to keep on gambling and just leave the PC on, which will definitely allow everyone to have a different approach to it, and we should probably consider this as something that will get a lot better for them, whales almost always wins these but I will try.

The problem is that there are a lot of competitors out there, you are not the only one trying to make a project and that means you are going to end up facing a lot of other people who are making their own projects.

I personally believe that the best way to go would be just focusing on your own project while ignoring everyone else. If you do not have funds to start one, then first figure out how to get that, if you have zero to start, then you can't even make something that can be put on launchpad, you can't even get audit, so you need money, a capital, to start, at least a few thousand dollars if nothing else, to get all the audits and everything ready, and to be listed, then you need some more for marketing and building a great project as well.

If you do not do that and try to spend as little as possible, then you will not make a dime from it. This is a basic thumb rule of internet and fortunately applicable even for crypto space as well.

If I'm not mistaken it composes of different sports right? I only like a few of them mostly the jumping and throwing ones but what I like the most are the extreme sports like Skateboarding.

Between Jamaica and US, I wouldn't wonder anymore on why Jamaica can win more in Track & Field events because their appearance tells it all. I'm not insulting them but I mean is they look exposed in the outside activities and this gives them an advantage. Boxing is an intense sport but I am not really a fan of it. For me, I can enjoy wrestling more, lol.

Congratulations by the way for your country and champ for bringing a pride and honour. I wish you guys a good luck.

That is already his problem but despite of it, he is still here trying his luck. This is not the first service anyway that I see and for sure this isn't going to be the last as well. Maybe they only need a better presentation and they better post a solid proof in their thread, not that they will hide it.

Their shady approach has nothing to do on why a sports betting site ban players but the last thing that you said is the true reason for it. Maybe skilled bettors only came up with a service like this because this has no restrictions and they can earn unlimited amounts in here if they get lucky compared to when they bet. They will only get frustrated there.

I really did not know about this and someone who is madly in love with formula series, this one should be something that will peak my interest. I have watched the first video now, and I think it's quite clear that the situation is not improved yet, it's nowhere yet.

The idea is that eventually maybe cars will have an AI in it that could be better than human drivers, but right now the AI can't even put the track temp into play.

Most of the cars spun out at the same place, because that corner was hotter, and the more cars spin, the hotter it got, and worse for next cars up, no AI figured out that beforehand, a real driver would know and react accordingly and would have taken that corner slower than usual to fix the issue. Nothing that can't be solved, it just requires some time and to be fair some money and this could be quite entertaining.

I think there is actually a massive decline in Stake's weekly and monthly bonuses.
To simply have a high rank is not enough but it will still boils down to your wager amount for the specific period. Other casinos might offer rakeback alone but you should get them immediately, while in order to get a rakeback on Stake you will first need to reach the first VIP level which is bronze and it's not easy for a small player because the wager amount for this is $10k.

The only way to get a welcome bonus on Stake is to register via a gambling review site. Old or new casino, there must always be strings attached on their bonuses because if not, then that is going to be a disaster for them.

Honestly long term holding is definitely something that gains a lot of people a lot of money. I have seen people get so much richer in bitcoin thanks to that, and sometimes alts do help with that as well, there isn't really anything shocking about alts, it's true that we end up seeing big improvements on that part as well. But at the same time, altcoin's future is not clear when bitcoin will be testing $80k or $80k or $100k levels. I mean most altcoins are going to down when bitcoin goes up.

The greatest thing we could do right now regards to bitcoin would be just keep buying as much as we can afford and keep hold of it. Selling for short term gain makes no sense, and selling because it went down in the short term is even more wild, we should keep buying and not really think about anything else. We need to keep it improving and we need to keep getting better results which long term holding allows us. By learning from the past, I am sure that more people will become long term holders which is the best thing for all in bitcoin ecosystem.

It is no more a thing as long as your government has not not banned cryptocurrencies. Unlike a decade ago, now you can freely announce that you have bitcoin because now bitcoin is just another investment thing that you can have in your portfolio. In my country, now I am seeing every stock analysts started speaking about cryptos as part of their routine market analysis. Here, portfolio managers suggest to have bitcoin up to 10% of your total networth. It all means that mass adaption of cryptocurrencies is happening right now, so being a bitcoiner is no more an unique thing.

Basic precautionary things are always recommended. In late 90's, ATM card holders were attacked in lonely streets and their cards were robbed. Such things are still happening but in less number compared to cyber attack and phishing. So, being careful in real life and online is always recommended and not just because of being a bitcoin (I agree that this is country specific and places where we live).

If it's true, obviously we can't do anything about it and we might even get accused for doing a violation but if not, we can only hope that our money will still be returned to us. There is still a chance even if we think they are very shady, as I've seen similar cases like this in the past.

It's really funny that they are still afraid that their reputation will get ruined when in fact it was already like that, so they just settle the damage that they have dealt mostly to the complainants on this forum. They know that Bitcointalk is the largest Bitcoin/cryptocurrency forum, so they are giving a respect to it, in the hopes that people are going to trust them but personally I will never turn back to them for any reason. I mean there are people who do change their mind on seeing some big freebies.

There are lots of options for us in this crypto space; so we never to continue on any shady places for any reasons. Once we get any red flag then we need to be cautious and must start switching to safe places to secure our funds.

I have done the same to be fair, about a week ago. Mind you, I am not here blaming freebitco.in with anything at all, I have never faced any issues at all and the website worked perfectly just as it should for me, I have never had any issues at all, and whatever I wanted to do, I ended up doing without facing any obstacles, so the website is still 100% perfect and working and awesome.

I only withdrawn because I was fearing a future impending doom, if nobody talks about the website and nobody cares, then I am sorry but why should I as a customer?

The bitcointalk PR account is here sometimes, and shares like lottery winners etc, whoever uses that account could contact either thequin or wetsuit and could ask them to come back and write just one thing, otherwise it makes no sense for me to keep going.

This is quite obvious, we weren't even at 20k back when the check thing at USA happened, which is why I would assume that having this type of appreciation isn't really shocking. Obviously this only happened in few nations, in my nation nobody gave "free money" to anyone, that really isn't really a concept we are aware of, USA talks about how they are not communist and quite capitalist instead, but they distributed free money to everyone which was a quite big shocker, in the end holding bitcoin would have helped of course.

A lot of people who got that money, needed the money to begin with so they ended up just spending that money to survive, not invest, hence not many of them could afford investing that money to bitcoin. But, considering it was 2020 and not 2010 which means if you would have believed into bitcoin then might have chosen bitcoin for that fund.

The growth % in DCA usually in lower side because you are buying even for the current month and including that for profit percentage calculation. I mean DCA is for different purposes like it is a solution for not having a big money at the beginning itself. So, never need to mind about growth percentage for DCA because sometime it may discourage you if you do not fully understand the percentage of appreciation while doing DCA.

While there were of course some technical reasons, I am on belief that other numbers could have been found, like for example 21 trillion dollars, meaning one million each, could have been 2.1 million bitcoins to 10 million each, or 210 million, for 100k each, who cares. I believe that the real reason is that, it doesn't matter if it's 21 million, or 27 million or 4 million or 100 million, the idea is to make it limited, so you pick a number, maybe at random or maybe you pick something that has a meaning, but the point is to make it limited.

Because currently there is unlimited amount of money in the world, you may think that there is finite amount, but USA could print a trillion more tomorrow, it's unlimited, there is no stopping, so the idea was to make bitcoin unlike that.

Nope, I do not think so. The difference? Banks and investment firms are buying houses all around the world now, which means that they realized instead of giving interest to people to let them buy the house, they just decided to buy the houses themselves, and renovate, and rent them to make a good amount of income, and if they are ever in trouble, they can bulk sale these houses to anyone that has the money to buy it.

This is why I honestly think that the best way for banks to move on would be just keep doing what they are doing, otherwise that doesn't seem like a real issue. During 2008 the problem was that they leveraged their debt, people owed them money, and failed to pay it back, which is fine, but when you leverage that, it became a problem.

I really appreciate your idea of combining charts of last two cycles of bitcoin market. I am also a believer of history repeating itself and fortunately I enjoyed the 2017 bull run by expecting similar growth of 2013 and market surprised me with ~20x growth from previous ATH but when I was expecting similar thing in 2021, it was only ~3x growth (of 2017's ATH). But, comparing both bearish market and bullish market would be more interesting which is the thing I am getting from your chart.

I disagree here. Like I have mentioned before bitcoin is known for surprising us so you cannot speculate about timeframe of ATH and the level of ATH. Because ATH and its time will be fully influenced by market sentiment which is beyond any technical analysis. I am expecting another 10x growth from the 2021 ATH or least another 5x which means we may have some thing between 300k to 600k. At the same time some people here are confident about $1 million as well.