Latest posts of: Casdinyard

Quote from: alani123 on January 31, 2024, 06:04:02 AM

This is another form of scam I've seen being promoted heavily.
So if you have even the slightest interest towards sports, you're likely to follow some teams' or atheles' social media accounts.
Instagram tends to freely share your personal information with "advertisers" which often just means scammers.
So this scam is often targeting sports fans through Instagram and Facebook.
And if you or your friends follow something related to gambling or sports you're likely to be targeted by such ads promoting this scam.

So let's examine what this scam is about.
If you click into an ad promoting this type of scam, you'll be prompted into a Telegram channel where supposedly information about fixed matches is provided.
As you probably already know, scammers love telegram.
The room will be populated with a long history of highly polished messages about supposed information and past success stories.
However, what matters most is the most recent message in the channel.
This message will mention the exact score of a supposed fixed match.

What's the catch?
Well... This match doesn't exist. Perhaps the teams will sound a little plausible, but then they will say [U23], which means that you can't bet on such a match anywhere.
The whole allure of this scam is to actually put your money in THEIR recommended bookmaker because it's going to be the only one accepting bets on this otherwise fictional match.
And then you'll be met with the harsh reality that this bookmaker only actually takes deposits, no withdrawals!

The above is a rating someone left for this fake bookmaker called SpaceXlife. It appears that this scam operation has been running for 2 months.
Probably once the scammers feel like they've made enough they'll just switch to a new name and website.

All this might sound too obvious to you but people unaccustomed to online gambling could easily fall victim to something like this.
It's sad how social media has made the process of scamming so streamlined actually...

Honestly, it's kind of on these people who get victimized by these types of tongue and cheek scams if they got scammed. The jig is so obvious and everyone who has half a brain's gonna realize that this is as shady as it can be and even if it's real, it's too good to be true.

Let me paint you a picture, I got insider knowledge about who's going to win in the next few games, and somehow instead of collecting the profits for myself by making sure that less people know about the advantage I have and betting on legitimate sites to make sure I really earn the profits, I reach out to some nitwit on twitter that I find is keen on sportsbetting to pool the bets and give them insider information for free. Doesn't sound as "smart and convoluting" now when I put it like that doesn't it?

Every piece of scam on the internet requires some basic level of understanding in the field that they are operating under to be able to spot on and avoid. And I'm pretty sure everyone who's got their ducks in a row within sportsbetting isn't going to fall for this obvious honey trap. I get the intention for this post and honestly I appreciate it cause at the end of the day some idiot on twitter's gonna fall for this shit and blame the casino and the industry for their lack of preparation but I reckon that anyone who's worth protecting in this industry's already secured in the first place, so it doesn't really add anything of value to those who are veterans for that matter.

Quote from: lombok on February 05, 2024, 07:15:47 AM

I often run out of funds due to gambling that is too blind in terms of placing $$ on every bet I make and ends up losing. I do multi-bets and single-bets, every time I win, sometimes I forget myself and use all my $$ on the next bet. This sometimes gives me big wins, but if I'm unlucky I can lose all my funds and this has happened many times.

I started to realize and change my habits. Now I use $$ from the profits from the previous bet to place the next bet and save my initial capital.

What do you think, is this good and can help me overcome losses that will occur so that $$ remains safe and can be used in future betting? Are there other unique ways that you can use to grow your money in gambling? feel free to comment. Thanks

I think you shouldn't start looking into jobs or ways for you to really afford a ballin on your gambling sessions. Why? Well simply because it's not funding that you're having issues with, but the proper way of managing such. It doesn't matter if you got a million or a nickel, you're going to lose all your money from gambling with that kind of attitude. So, how do we solve it? Well, first let's introduce you to min-maxing/managing your bankroll. You have to separate it from your dedicated financial wallet so you don't end up using your food money to gamble. And yes, if you can't afford to dedicate a gambling budget then that's all the more reasons for you to drop gambling. Now that you presumably have a gambling wallet funded well enough for you to facilitate a couple of games in a row, the building of discipline never stops there. You also have to learn about loss mitigation and win preservation.

Loss mitigation as the name implies includes strategies and techniques that would ensure you don't lose incessantly when you gamble. On the other hand, win preservations ensures that every win you bag is secured, no matter how small that is.

Personally I incorporate a 3 on 3 win-loss limit whenever I gamble. Which means I automatically quit gambling for the day/week whenever I hit either 3 losses within the session, or 3 wins for that matter. in theory this will either ensure that you don't lose as much money since even if you're unlucky 3 losses is so recoverable, and every win you get you're able to secure the most of.

Lastly, make sure that your gambling expenses and living expenses are held separate. You do not use a single dime of your living budget to support your gambling sessions, and vice versa. This ensures that you don't depend upon your money when the money gets tight, allowing you to build the discipline to gamble responsibly.

Quote from: adultcrypto on January 27, 2024, 02:36:49 PM

Being addicted to gambling can be a thorn in the flesh. We have heard many bad behavior from gambling addicts that shows that gambling is a serious concern requiring serious efforts at curbing it. Many casinos also include in their disclaimer "gamble responsibly" and this shows the danger of gambling addiction.

However, I'm wondering if addiction can make someone become aggressive to the point of leading to domestic violence. Has there been any known case of it happening? Lets know what you have to say.

People who are already predisposed to assault their family members often resort to illegal and detrimental activities like gambling for enjoyment. Some of them even go so far as to cheat on their wives/husbands because in their minds, the abuse that they subject their partners to is justified and the happiness that they get from other sources plus the catharsis that they achieve from abusing their partners and even possibly their kids is something that they need. Total sickos if I do say so myself.

So with that being said I can firmly believe that it's not gambling that pushes people to be hurtful creatures for that matter. I say they are already like that to begin with before they even knew about gambling, and their unhealthy gambling habits along with an abusive lifestyle just brought the whole beast out of them. Gambling isn't anything but a way to enjoy yourself after all, so how is it going to cause people into thinking that they should beat their wives when they get home after a loss? It just doesn't make sense.

One thing that you gotta keep in mind is that people who abuse other people aren't activatable via switches or something. That kind of behavior takes years and even decades to develop and be reinforced. Which means they're already fucking sick in the head to begin with.

Quote from: Hewlet on January 26, 2024, 03:05:07 PM

I have read a lot of thread on this board talking about the need to gamble responsibly and suggesting that gambling is meant to be done for fun and not to be seen as a means of livelihood. While this is theoretically alright, in the reality so many persons actually gamble because they want to get some financial top up from the gamble.

What is mostly common in my neighborhood and that I mostly do is soccer betting and if I am not exaggerating, 90% of the people that do soccer betting do do because they want to win money.

They can watch the match for fun but as long as it involved them paying money before gambling, most persons don't normally see it as fun and this is the reason why after placing a particular bet, if the game isn't successful they continue betting hoping to get a win along the way thervy being seen as addict.

Do you really see gambling as more of fun than a means to a financial end?

how much can you put into gambling before it removes the fun aspect of gambling out of it?

I mean, there's definitely a discussion to be had regarding this topic, and as someone who strictly plays for fun (although of course I still find joy and excitement from earning money while gambling) I think I have a good say about this issue.

There's a fine line between "earning money while gambling" and "gambling to earn money". In my opinion the latter is dangerous as it eventually subjects the user/the gambler into a situation and a downwards spiral that leads them into revenge gambling and eventually, gambling addiction. After all, they make earning money the whole point of their gambling session, and if they couldn't earn the dollars that they are looking for on the first try, they'll try and try until they lose all their bankroll within the day. It's quite stupid and it's fast-acting too.

Now, what I'm really advocating for is to find ways to still have fun even when you're not earning money while gambling. Set entertainment as the primary directive of your gambling and make earning money in the process as nothing but a nice bonus that you can get every now and again. If you're successful with this you're going to still have fun and enjoy yourself even while losing, eventually making sure that even in red days you got your bankroll secured, and you're beyond and arm's reach of gambling addiction.

Quote from: Oshosondy on February 05, 2024, 12:31:12 PM

Tesla initiated the last Bitcoin bull run? Rubbish.

I saw this on Twitter yesterday. You can see it yourself: https://twitter.com/rovercrc/status/1754146791576985665?t=oYWn43cKg08NR--EAR3gDg&s=09

Bitcoin was at $3800 in March 2020. It fall abruptly from $8000 to $3800 in just an hour or so and increased back to $5500 not quite long. 2 weeks to halving 2020, bitcoin was around $8200 and its price was not far from that after halving. After halving, bitcoin later increased over $19000 and fall back to $16900 or so.

Michael Saylor, Grayscale, institutional investors and retail investors all played their own part as some people also continue to fomo. No Tesla until the price of bitcoin increased above $43000. Tesla bought bitcoin around that price and bitcoin price increased above $50000. Later it got to $63500. Before bitcoin get to $63000, Tesla accepted bitcoin for payment.

Elon Musk later said Tesla will no longer accept bitcoin for payment and the price of bitcoin deceased below $46000. He later said Tesla will accept coin that is using 1% of bitcoin energy for mining. We all knew he was manipulating and only wanted to make people know about doge. He accepted doge. He only manipulated bitcoin price.

Later China banned bitcoin mining and bitcoin got below $30000.

Like 6 months after, bitcoin increased to $69000 which was the all-time-high of no Elon Musk influence as it was before.

How is Tesla the cause of the bull run? It is just rubbish to praise what manipulated bitcoin price when it is even not what that started the bull run.

I think they played a part. After all they bought a lot of bitcoins back in 2020, which pumped the price of bitcoin drastically. Whether you think they caused bitcoin to pump or not you gotta give credit where it is due as they played a role in bitcoin's rally 3 years ago, although of course, we know they only did so because they were trying to manipulate the market into choosing Dogecoin or whatever the fuck Elon's siding himself with during the time. Personally I'm not a fan of him as well, and I hated how he did Twitter dirty all cause he wanted to profit off of it even though the previous formula worked for the site anyway, among the stupidest things he did trying to claim internet points and cementing himself as the cool meme man.

But at the end of the day, they bought bitcoins, they considerably increased bitcoin's value when the people's just about to regain their confidence in the crypto market. They marketed cryptocurrency through their social media and allowed crypto payments (which they then redacted anyway but whatever) so they still did something. I agree with you in the fact that they weren't the cause for the bull run as it's rarely the case for crypto to pump in value over a single reason anyway, but they deserve the credit in this one and I think you should hand it to them.

Quote from: Broly46 on February 03, 2024, 09:20:41 PM

i cant help. but seeing everything is in the rapid decline, I'm not know-it-all immortal being, but the rate of declining is insane. everyone treating life as YOLO, like the VIDEO GAME, where you can reset and replay the GAME again!

it is not real! the system clearly is getting glitched and out of control, I dont know what better words to describe this phenomena, education is on the rapid decline to a point it is like a city where simon quest occured, and the town is ravaged of gossip that is not true but a big LIES, such as "dont look at the death star or you would die!" the fittest survivalism is going full throttle, it is unbelievable some global power must be behind this insane decivilization, idk how they did so, they doing this virtually undetectable. can this be made into a film or into history chapter?

Or none of you have aware of what I'm talking about? it is scary moment I'm seeing something totally abnormal around me.

there is nothing I can do in real life, got totally silenced, this is where I can even sound my concern.

what I fear most is the lifespan would soon decline to cowboy age where average life of the peasant is about 30yo due to the poor healthcare and knowledge, also based on barbaric cowboy beating each other on street trying to impress girls.

As dire as things go right now, we're still living in one of the most peaceful times in the history of the planet. So it's not like we're fucked sideways. Can't say much about the economy however as we're living in one of the worst economic settings in history no thanks to the rampant decline of the world economy and the fall of capitalism. Now, are we going back to the stone ages? I don't think so. We have proven time and time again that humans could rise above adversity and if in any case a global threat does come around pretty sure we'd be able to pull through just like what we did in the past. I don't think fearmongering is the best thing to do at the moment considering how salvageable the situation is, and it's not like we're in the midst of a global war as well so there's no real threats to our lives at the moment besides the microplastics in our blood lol. What I'm trying to say is we're pretty much still safe regardless of what you think, so stressing about it is going to cause you even more problems than what we have to begin with.

Focus more on self-building and becoming a better version of yourself. Cause one thing's for sure, the world could burn down and everyone you love could leave you, but you will always have yourself. If you can't even stand to get up from the chair you've been sitting on cause you've fattened yourself up so much you couldn't even get out of the house without gasping for air then you're fucked royally. Financial buildup too, cause if the two world wars have proven anything it's that those who have money before the war would survive, and those who do not would die.

Quote from: The Sceptical Chymist on February 03, 2024, 04:57:41 AM

Quote from: Casdinyard on January 28, 2024, 11:21:52 PM

Signature campaigns have been the forum's bread and butter combo but as it stands the hate for signature campaign members seem to just grow by the day, and I'm not sure if I'm comfortable about it anymore. People stating in their posts that the quality of the forum's gonna shoot up if theymos stopped allowing signature campaigns from happening and the likes have bugged my meta feed for a while now and frankly I just don't understand the hate directed towards people who are given the chance to get paid for doing the same thing they would otherwise do if they aren't.

I might be blind as a bat, but I haven't seen much more vitriol directed against sig campaigns lately. It used to be really bad a few years ago before the merit system cleaned a lot of garbage created by account farmers and whatnot, but has there been a call to end campaigns and/or an increased amount of posts directed against shitposters in campaigns?

As far as the reason for the hate....well, I used to be a part of the group of members who were sick and tired of the campaign-driven drivel that polluted and still pollutes many sections of our beloved forum. Maybe I've grown used to it, maybe the garbage pile has shrunk, I don't know but from what I can see things are a hell of a lot better than they used to be with respect to post quality--overall, I mean.

Quote from: Casdinyard on January 28, 2024, 11:21:52 PM

Matter of fact and this is a keen observation of mine, most shitposters in here aren't even from campaigns, they were those no-sig mfers who push out content shat by ChatGPT or stolen from the bird app to get merits and rise up the ranks, possibly to get signed up on a signature campaign, if they want to shoo shitposters away from this forum I think they should look into that instead of directing their hate against people whose posts are weekly audited and observed for quality.

If a shitposter isn't in a campaign, they're probably looking to rank up and get in one or have some other nefarious motive for cranking out generic, zero-value posts. That's always been my view, though I don't have any data to back it up.

Honestly could just be me generalizing all the hate anti-sigs have thrown over the years. Although earlier this year I saw quite a couple of those Anti-sig propagandists make posts about how the forum would be better without signature campaigns or something along those lines. So yup. The hate still exists, but you may be right Sir Sceptical, since the topics they have made so far aren't really as hostile as they were back in the days. Just some 'food for thought' stuff although you'd smell the propaganda from a mile away.

As for the shitposter content to rank up and be merited, the thing is that's counter-intuitive. You wanna get merited and rank up so in theory what they should've done is push out great content and focus more on the quality rather than the quantity, and I don't think they're getting merited either since I personally keep tabs on some of those mfers and I haven't seen anyone of them go past the Jr. Member rank. So it's not like these people are getting what they want.

Quote from: KingsDen on February 05, 2024, 01:02:19 PM

Quote from: Casdinyard on January 28, 2024, 11:21:52 PM

There is a group of sh!tposters you guys are missing in your analysis. I have just seen that type recently in the project development board. A newbie account will drop a project they developed (real or scam), but likely scam and you will immediately see other newbie accounts as the first first to ten comments praising the project and testifying how they made alot of fortune from the project. Probably only one person has those accounts. That is another type of spam that non signature campaign participants generate.

This is correct. Probably just missed to mention these as I have seen a couple of them as well. I stopped checking the Project Development board months ago because of this as well so I haven't kept tabs on these clowns who scam people as much as I check on the newbies I suspect of using ChatGPT and shitposting. I don't think they're getting what they want as well, it's not the first rodeo for most of us so it's not like we're gonna get scammed.

Quote from: Bitco55 on January 31, 2024, 03:44:52 PM

So, I watched a video recently where the guest speaker said, that if he gets the opportunity to advise teens in high school he would tell them not to study economics, and it made me scared because I'm studying economics. So, it was like... ' Did I make the wrong choice or something? '. Moving further in the video, I realized that what he was saying and explaining had already been said by my economics lecturer before.

"Economics is a day-to-day practice and is an easy endeavor made difficult for study reasons", he usually said. Watching the video to the end, I asked myself, "If I had the opportunity to go back in time would I pick another course to study? " And the answer was ..." No". And if I have the opportunity to advise any high school student about courses to choose... I'd say "Economics". The more people learn about even basic economics, the better the economy of countries.

So, if you had the opportunity to advise people about courses to choose In University, what would it be and why?

Thing is there's no definitive gauge to determine how "worthy of studying your course is" cause as long as it doesn't talk about how profound Taylor Swift's music (and I shit you not the top university in the Philippines is somehow offering a lecture/course on this fucking deranged concept) is there would be a market for your area of expertise. More so with the economics world. So in that regard I say your course is worthy of studying and grinding for the degree on through and through.

Plus the job market changes drastically from decades to decades. Once we thought of the internet as a cultural fad that would fade off in a few year's time, now we're at the cusp of a new age completely run by the internet of things, opening job opportunities for people who specialize in this degree (except Comp Sci graduates) who are once called nerds or geeks by the people who doesn't understand shit. There's a huge chance that in the future your economics degree could land you a good spot at a firm that needs someone well-versed in the cyclical history of the world economy or something along those lines, don't ever question just how much important or relevant your degree is just cause your dad wants you to be a doctor or an astronaut or something. Do what makes you happy and fulfilled. At the end of the day we study not only to prepare us for the future job we're landing, but for the sake of our mental health as well.

Quote from: MorganaX on February 02, 2024, 02:23:58 PM

We all know that bitcoin was earlier stolen by James "Jimmy" Zhong
James Zhong is an American man who was convicted in 2022 for stealing over 51,680 bitcoin (then worth about $620,000; value as of 2023 approximately $3.4 billion) from the online black market Silk Road between 2012 and 2014.He was also involved in the early development of bitcoin,he found an error on Silk Road that allowed him to withdraw more funds than what was initially deposited. This was activated by repeatedly double clicking the withdraw button, and further abused by using multiple accounts on the website. Zhong managed to conceal his identity and elude detection for nearly 10 years. He lived a luxurious lifestyle, using tools such as cryptocurrency mixers to obscure the origin of the bitcoin he spent. In 2019, he made a mistake by transferring a small amount of stolen bitcoin to a cryptocurrency exchange that followed know-your-customer rules. The IRS's criminal investigation division then tracked him down.
Source link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Zhong#

It turns out that Bitcoin stealers target not only big companies but individual users with modest amounts in their crypto wallets.

Now bitcoin is one of the safest way to invest digital currency. Because of its new and improved security system it makes it hard for hackers and thief to access

So now the question is bitcoin safe from hackers?, can it be stolen?

Thing is the media sensationalizes large-scale bitcoin thefts when the amount of small-time bitcoin robberies amount to millions of dollars each day. But to their credit JZ was a top-tier criminal for the lump of lard that he is. Only thing is that he doesn’t really outrightly hurt people by the stealings he committed, but instead Silk Road itself as he steals their treasuries collected from customer funds through them, so when shit gets going Silk Road’s left to top up how much he had taken from them.

There’s a part of me that wanted to be sad for the guy too. He pretty much stated that he’s bullied all his life for how fat he is and the only gratification he got was when he got rich from the stealings. Then the government swooped in when they saw him for the big fat sweaty and oily dollar sign that he is, arrested him and threatened jail time on him until he relented and gave them the keys to his million dollar net worth. What a sad story of a guy bullied all his life only to he bullied again by the internet and the government.

Oh well. Of course this means bitcoins can be stolen, but unlike money, anybody with an access to the transaction hash and an internet connection capable of running a toaster could track who stole the bitcoins.

Quote from: Lorence.xD on February 04, 2024, 08:27:00 PM

Would be in huge profit for sure but I still won't blame them from doing so especially that time. We also have the regrets simply because we already saw how it showed the potential of of it. If you can take back time, what would you do? Take note that it's value before is not as big as with the others. Therefore, they simply disregard the potential this industry is having. A man selling his pizza for a or in exchange of his holdings that has nothing much if a value before. But since by now we saw already its peak price increase based on previous market price milestones. It might be too late for other investors but for me nothing's too late. The price is still below its previous all time high which should create enough validation with things that we could still ride the tide. Sometimes it is not only with one's silly decision, give him the benefit of the doubt that he had a strong reason from doing so. That's his money by that time in the first place and for sure he is one who have learned from it at the present. For now, Wait for the right entry point 'coz right now consolidation and demand are around and there are still tendencies for another price correction which we should be waiting to happen.

The main point of his post is not how to build profit by monopolizing the economy and the supply but to actually see how whales could disrupt a thriving economy such as bitcoin’s in the past. Imagine earning almost a quarter of the total economy to yourself. You’d literally have so much buying power that the whole crypto world will depend upon you not selling a single cent of your held supply otherwise a crash would ensue and you’d kill the industry, especially if you did it in its early days.

Now imagine just how much more devastating the effects would be if the sane situation befalls crypto. The implications would be so disastrous every single bag holder here’s gonna have to make a back up application to McDonald’s cause as soon as you sell your position, everyone’s cooked, that is if you can sell your position at all.

Decentralized economies such as bitcoin’s work best when the supply is evenly distributed among its users. Sure we’d get a few whales here and there but it’s not so major that the economy’s gonna be affected for years to come soon as they sell their spot.

Believe it or not there actually is a reason for why the government seems to not give people the means to start their own business and once you find out what it is you’ll understand why people shouldn’t also be given money willy-nilly.

First off. Let's assume you live in a fictional country where people give you the benefit of the doubt. Let’s call that country crypto land for the sake of simplicity. In crypto land people are given money by the government once they pull out the “I’m gonna need the money so Ican start my own business and change my life” card. So much so that even scammers and addicts used this very phrase to dupe the government into giving them free drug money. Soon enough the country stopped giving a fuck and everyone stopped working and producing for the economy since their government could give them money anyway once they say the magic words. And so economy crashes. Crypto land is no more.

The other scenario is pretty much cut and dry. 90% of businesses established by small entrepreneurs die off due to the fierce competition in the market and sometimes human error. When they do go bankrupt the money that they were supposed to use for capital just goes back to the richest 1% fattening up their wallets even further. So governments and banking institutions made it a point to screen all the people that would take up a loan on them to make sure they’d use the money wisely and most effectively.

If I may add, I could also stand to include instant ramen index here, as well as the Pizza index.

Instant Ramen sales shoot up during economic upheavals and crashes as well as during expected disasters like typhoons and hurricanes, as people see the benefit of eating a hearty meal that would fill them up for hours for 10 cents a pack. As the economy becomes better however, less people buy it to be consumed immediately, and more to pack up for the stormy days. Incidentally this is also going to decrease demand around instant ramen unless you're a broke college student down to his last 4 bucks. Pizza index on the other hand is pretty linear, people will buy less pizza and more pizza stores are going to close during economic crashes (not to be confused with the Pizza index that a lot of restaurants figured out correlating pizza sales to upcoming issues around safety within the US borders). I saw this happen to most of my mom-and-pop pizza places within my area when lockdown was at its peak and people couldn't get out, as well as the economy crashing to the ground no thanks to COVID-19. It's quite hard for people to splurge that much cash when they are in hermit and saving mode so instead of opting for pizza, they might choose more sustainable options like healthy vegetable meals cooked inside the house. It's also worth noting that Pizza sales dwindle and may even become zilch in some cases when there is an economic crash, making it one of the most definitive ways to figure out if the economy's on the shitbox or if it could still recover.

Quote from: tyz on January 30, 2024, 10:05:49 PM

Not a day goes by without a tech company announcing major job cuts. Today Paypal and Block (both payment service providers) have announced a total of 3500 job cuts, and recently Salesforce, Microsoft, SAP, Google, Ebay etc. have also done so. According to https://layoffs.fyi, 25,000 documented tech jobs have already been cut this year.

What do you think? Is it just a shrinkage and normalization after the strong build-up of the workforce during Corona or a long-term trend that will accelerate through the use of AI?

Computer Science is receiving quite the heavy beating in the corporate world, with it being one of the most vulnerable tech careers nowadays. It's gone so worse that even my friends who were comp sci graduates regretted that they ever listened to people who said it's going to be one of the best careers in 2 years time, cause now they're stuck in a rut where they're given what's basically the art degree of the IT sector.

Also sucks that major gaming companies like Activision-Blizzard and Riot Games have started laying off a large portion of their workforce. Riot Games being the most talked about as it started to let go of 11% of its total employees, some of which are actively involved in the production of their games and some of their future titles. Future's not looking bright for the tech world unless you're from the webapp development industry in which case I don't think you should be worried as the industry's still going strong. What I would really suggest to people who were under these situations right now and are worrying about their job and financial security is to learn new skills related to IT, not because you're going to drop Comp Sci or whatever, but because it will better equip you and provide you with the tools you need to still stay afloat even when the rest of your world is burning. Makes total sense yeah?

Quote from: tread93 on February 03, 2024, 08:26:00 PM

I know that there are probably rules, somewhere that I haven't looked. In general I feel like noboby has really posted Rules to Chat GPT. Of course I know its foolish to use it direcly as if you are the one who created the text/thought but what about quoting? And What about as a research tool? Chat GPT really helps to you skip the learning curve if you know how to use it correctly. It has helped me loads with simply understanding complex thought that I didn't undertand. I just made a post quoting Chat GPT and I don't even know if that was following the rules. If we can't avoid it which we definitely can't, that means that Chat GPT is veriy similar to BTC in this aspect lol. What do you guys think about Chat GPT? I'd love a Btalk Bot that has kind of like a chat GPT engine but geared direclty towards helping the users/ newbies with literally anything. Would love to see this THEYMOS! I wonder if this has been discussed? Huh

Besides "explicitly stated" Chat-GPT Topics like: "AI's opinions on yadda yadda", I don't think there's a good reason for you to quote a language model that fetches data from other people's efforts. Even less reason to put it up as a research tool when we can't even use Wikipedia as a reliable research source for studies in the academe.

Personally the reason why I think ChatGPT should be outright banned is it removes the effort and the ingenuity in creating posts that come from you all in all. Especially if you're part of a campaign and you're getting paid for it. And at the end of the day, no one's gonna want to interact with a site ran by bots, which is what effectively would happen if we're going to allow ChatGPT here. Not to mention the fact that this site was made in the first place for the sole purpose of providing educated opinions on certain topics, and debate upon those that need debating. Incorporating ChatGPT here will effectively make bitcointalk's main directive a massive flop. It's going to drive even less productive and contributing topics into this forum (I can only imagine what's gonna happen to the gambling discussion board when ChatGPT gets accepted into this forum) so all the more reasons for theymos and the gang to not really allow that in our forum.

Quote from: bitzizzix on February 01, 2024, 02:48:04 AM

Quitting smoking has two big benefits, and I've been doing it for over 3 months. And both can be said to be long-term investments, apart from long-term health, the money used to buy cigarettes can also be used to invest and I invested in Bitcoin.
In one month I can spend approximately $90 to buy cigarettes, and the price of the cigarettes I buy is around $2/pack for one pack a day and sometimes more than one pack.
And by quitting smoking, I was able to increase my regular monthly Bitcoin purchases from a portion of my monthly salary as well as $90 per month in cigarette money.
And I definitely felt a difference in my health and also saw a difference in my Bitcoin holdings after increasing my purchases, and I wish I could do it forever. Honestly, even though I don't do it, sometimes I am still tempted to want to smoke again when hanging out with friends and also at certain moments.
And the strong reason I stopped smoking was because my wife likes to nag me if I smoke at home because I have small children, and over time I decided to stop smoking. And previously I tried it several times but failed, and now I haven't smoked for more than 3 months and I hope I can do it forever because it has two extraordinary benefits. Health and can increase my investment.

There's a really famous remark amongst smokers who call people who call them out for smoking, it goes like this: "You keep telling me that I could save money if I stopped buying smokes when you can't even save money on a healthy man's diet." To which I say true. But it's even better to rub it off of people when you hear this shit and you're able to save money while you're still smoking lol. Although of course, healthy living is the key so if you could quit smoking while saving up money because of the fact that you quitted then why the hell not right?

Quitting on something that does you more harm than good on the wallet and in the body doesn't just apply to smoking. I've seen people save up as much as 120 bucks on quitting Netflix yearly, substituting it instead with cheaper subscription services or outright pirating the movies and shows since none of these people care about us at the end of the day, and then using the money to invest it is an even greater example of this thing you're talking about. As we're getting even more tied to technology we get these unnecessary subscription programs that chip away at our monthly budgets without us even knowing which when compounded amounts to a large amount of money we could've used to invest in crypto or anything else.

I'm not one to sentimentalize over parasocial relationships like supporting a team or a certain player. After all at the end of the day unless I out myself as their superfan and I get recognized for it I reckon none of these people would even bother learning about my life let alone grieving for me when I finally die. So I don't really care for betting against my "favorite team". If I realized the opponents could give them a hard time and they could lose the game on a concrete and unbiased basis then I'd see myself betting against them. After all it's not bad to win a few games here and there even when you're gambling for fun. I'd argue that it's even more fulfilling to bet against your favorite team and then be proven wrong afterwards when they win the match. It's going to give you that sense of satisfaction knowing that you shouldn't have doubted them in the first place, or at least that's the case for me. For others this may vary, but the bottomline is that there's no tangible benefit nor harm to betting against your favorite team/player, so why bother going so overboard with fanboying/fangirling that you wouldn't even bet against them when there's good basis to prove it anyway?

I say the only thing you should really care about when you gamble is yourself, and how much you're losing. If you put in even more factors to consider it's just going to complicate things and you'd end up losing more money in the process. Set things straight and make your betting as concise as possible, even if it means "betraying your team" lol.

But the thing is that you're going to win the same amount of games regardless of if you take them or not. And this doesn't mean I don't believe in destiny or anything but casinos have a specific amount of win-rate that they have set, so regardless of if you take the game or not, you're going to have the same amount of win and losses when the cards are laid out and your win history is tallied. You could argue that the same can't be said for sportsbooks but even that would still apply to this same logic. Most games after all are essentially 50/50 with both teams whether they're the crowd favorite or the underdog having the same chances at snagging that victory as each other. So when you bet more or less it doesn't really matter, at the end of the day you're going to still lose the same amount of money at the same frequency of events.

Plus if maximizing your bets and bet counts is what works for you as a gambler, why would you stop? Gambling isn't about winning or losing anyways and it's all about getting that itch at the back of your head scratched that begs to be sated with some bets placed. If you're ridding yourself of the chance to enjoy your gambling sessions then are you really gambling for fun anymore? Or are you just looking to earn money which I don't need further explaining, is a one way ticket to destination fucked?

I think so too. The fact is that most casinos out there are basically cookie-cut from the interface up to the way they cater to customers. It's like they have this formula to a T which is kinda good but it stagnates progress within the casino industry, this is one of my biggest qualms for new casinos on the market. For veteran casinos I think the same thing goes, most of them have stagnated in providing users with a really enticing and rewarding perk that would leave them telling people about the casino so those people could try it out for themselves as well.

Ultimately, most casinos have cheaped out on providing viable customer service. Most of them don't offer real-time CS assistance and even if they do it's either someone who's untrained to do their work trying to assist you when they don't even know what they're doing, or an automated system that's just as annoying as it is unhelpful. The thing is that problems don't come every now and again for gamblers, every single day there's a gambler out there who's locked out of his account or encountered a bug which renders him unable to take what he should've won and casinos turn a blind eye to this instead of providing exceptional customer service. The best way to really make a customer feel taken care of and important is to make them feel your presence when the going gets tough. Not having this very important feature is a massive blunder for me.

Quote from: Slow death on February 02, 2024, 03:44:25 PM

The only casino I saw that offered a birthday bonus to its users was stake.com casino and I don't know if they still do that. but without a doubt it was a good thing that stake.com did, I believe it was a way to encourage people to do kyc in a more fun way without pressure. I haven't managed to get this birthday bonus yet, even though I'm a verified member, but honestly I don't care much about it, because my goal is to play at the casino and have fun and profit if I get lucky, if I don't get lucky I won't either I will be sad that I was unable to make a profit. I understand very well that gambling is not something to make a profit, so with this thought I am aware that I shouldn't worry about things like bonuses

things like dreaming about big profits. the only big bonus I received was when my account was upgraded to another level, other than that I don't remember getting a very big bonus, probably because I'm not a big player and that's why I don't get big bonuses even when it comes to monthly and weekly bonus. When I can increase my betting amount, then I will be able to get decent bonuses, but I only plan to start betting with decent amounts when I make profits on my trades. For now I just make small bets. I very much doubt that there are many casinos that are giving birthday bonuses to their customers, because they would have to be giving bonuses every day to many customers and the casino would go bankrupt because many customers would play with little money while the casino would be giving them a lot of money. of bonus

Exactly what I have in mind. Far as I know they don't offer this anymore and I don't know the reason either since it would've been a real good way for stake and other reputable casinos who require KYC/AML to entice users into signing up with them. And personally I would've really loved getting bonuses like these as I think there's a good number of us gamblers who stick only to one type of casino regardless of the situation (besides getting banned of course).

Perhaps it's got something to do with campaigning and how it just doesn't hit as much impact as getting instant sign up/deposit bonuses? After all you're going to have to wait for a long while (sucks to be you if you're born at the end stretch of the year) so I think this is one of the reasons why casinos stopped offering these types of things. And to add up it doesn't necessarily incentivize users to really play games and become their patron as it only requires you to stick around for a good while and maybe pop up and login on your birthday so you don't lose the bonuses. If the lack of birthday bonuses paved the way for other types of even greater bonuses and perks to be given to users, then good, but if not then what the hell lol.

Quote from: EluguHcman on February 03, 2024, 07:29:47 AM

Some persons says gambling is not an investment due to its risky levels but a game of entertainment while some persons says investments are likely to be gambling because you don't foresee the future and can't predict the later outcome.

I think I am exploring in this gambling spaces of risk bearers. While being aware about the techniques in the Ponzi Schemes of attracting the audience to invest lower amount and earns higher, the Investors runs greedily out of their emotional controls and then Invest more than they could afford to loose just because they are attracted by the returns of interests.
Now I am one of the audience (investor) who accepted to face the risk too with my own technical contrast that if it works as thought it is assumed that I won but if it doesn't, then it is assumed that I was late and has lost it.
Now, introduced to an ongoing Ponzi Scheme which I got interest on but then, I tends to know how long the platform has been lunched and the number of participants so I would know the risk level I could be, then I learnt it is about a month launched with about 200+ participants.
Drastically, I feel they are not closed to hitting the scam (platform cashes) button yet because they have less number of participants with minimum of funds in the platform yet which determines the factorizations of them considering to hit the scam buttons.
Now, the platform is programed on daily interests accumulations which can be withdrawn on daily basis depended on individuals decisions.
I already invested $20 on two of my accounts which I have also made a total of $26 in less than 3 days through the daily withdrawal methods and yet my daily interests keep accumulating and I am up to make more cashouts. Lol.
At this level, I hope if anything compromised maybe they finally hits on the scammed buttons I am of no lost but has profited. So, I awaits them to do their worse. 😆.

This is the level States of mind this gambling space has inspired and aspired me to risks bearing. By so doing, I undertake this circumstances to be an investment because it has the potential to yield incomes and otherwise, it is accompanied with a gambling system because it comes with some analytical mindsets with indictments of greeds if not in control of your emotions. So, you either not invest with what you can't afford to loose or you faces emotional breakdowns.

This is my exploit and diverse in gambling of chasing profits.

Congratulations for earning handsome money through what you're doing and I hope you keep at it cause to me having a reliable passive income avenue's one of the best things you can give yourself. But let me just tell you straight that this is not considered investing.

For it to be considered as something along the lines of an investment, this has to be a somewhat generally reliable way for people to earn money, and I reckon not a lot of people like you are earning money through this method. So this alone disqualifies it from being considered an investment method. Plus what of the people who sees gambling as not a way to reliably earn money? I think it's only fair that they think so cause for the most part you can't really earn anything out of your gambling journey besides a few screws loose and probably a crippling debt if you're not careful. And the fact that this is a Ponzi scheme makes it even more exploitative as it literally depends upon the people who are under you for it to work. Soon as they realize that something's awry and the jig is up this system's gonna be toast. And what are you going to do by then?

Let's just put this to rest, you can't make money out of gambling, and if someone tells you they could and you should try it you're probably getting duped into becoming a bottomline for their ponzi scheme.