I honestly do not know about others, but for me, there is absolutely nothing shameful in losing a bet consistently, as long as money being lost is not one that is significant, this is why it's very important for us to always stake only what we can afford to lose.

In the part of the world where I live, pretending to win a bet when you have not won anything could mean incurring more expenses for yourself, because as a matter of fact, guys must hold you and will request that you give them their own share of your winning, you don't have to give them money actually, but you will be required to buy bottles of drinks, plates of pepper soup (depending on how much you claim you won), and this is completely normal because when next someone else in the circle wins, he or she will also celebrate the winning in the same manner.

So, over here, claiming to have won a bet when you really have won nothing can be a very big mistake, and could cost to alot of money if you are not careful.

I think drugs compromise most of the activities in life. Now maybe some people know how to use it properly in terms of dosages and they never exaggerate, but this is rather the exception than the rule. As you said the topic is drug addicts, which implies that someone lost control over using a certain substance. But in contrast to things like caffeine, cocaine really compromises your thought processes and your decision making processes without a doubt. I'd be surprised if someone calls himself a better gambler because of cocaine usage. There might be circumstances where people could theoretically use it to improve their sharp thinking temporarily, but a well trained and healthily nurtured mind should be sharper than a brain of an addict pumped with cocaine.

Some project developers encourage airdrop participants to stake their tokens in order to earn more. That is why they manipulate people and the question is if they are really on aid to fulfill their promise or just to prevent the sudden collapse of the project knowing most scenarios before that when airdrop coins have been released, the drops came next.

And this is not wonder why many people just ignore them because the results are absolutely the same, they'll turn into scams in the end. Because even if the project looks promising but if there is no use case, it still fails.

TON is a hope for me and many project ecosystems that have just been born from this big project, may not yet show any significance at this time. I feel like the bull season will come quickly, the promotion of new projects from the TON ecosystem such as tontogether is currently in process where people who participate in staking tokens up can get a tontogether coin allocation later in February and other projects such as TIA, COSMOS, ETHEREUM, BRC20 are being hyped

A day before, I read a post of Vitalik Buterin and one of the point he mentioned was your portfolio needs to be boring. And you've got one of the boring portfolio which could be one of the best choice when the bull actually arrives. Everyone of us are expecting the ultimate bull that would break the record of last all time high of most coins. The question is not will as this would arrive for sure but when.
You have a combination of established coins which are much safer bets for long term. If your coin doesn't (nearly) die before the next bull, you could buy an apartment. In your case these are tested coins that won't easily die.

obviously Valid coin holders or early investors of Potential coins, are taking extra advantage for current market. Although crypto industry is in correction mode now but earlier investors are still in profit. even that was also the best time to purchase altcoins when op was inquiring cause that time prices were also low. But the fact is, everyone can't afford to invest in earlier. That isn't their fault, and so is for op. But crypto industry is full of opportunities, and many are expecting more correction will happep soon for halving effect. So that time will be also good to purchase altcoins with low price

only time will tell if Ethereum ETFs will also be approved or not. I think the response to Bitcoin ETFs will also play a key role in making this decision. they'll see if Bitcoin ETFs are successful or not.
Also those companies got ETF how well they manage these ETFS and what will be their effect in mainstream market as well as cryptocurrency market will play an important role too.

hahah. a Litecoin ETF would be fun. but I don't think these big companies are interested in that. otherwise they would've submitted aplications for Litecoin ETFs too. don't you think?
maybe with time every famoust Altcoin will have a ETF. how does that sounds?