Experience is important if you are playing versus another player, you need to have many strategies. A experienced gambler can sometimes see what other players are planning on the game with just looking at the way they react and move their cards.

But in other gambling games/luck based games, experience does not matter as you are playing against the machine and the future of your bets depends on it.

I think that's not a criteria on why bitcoin would replace dollar. 

Governments don't want something that is uncontrollable. It's either they kill it or acquire it. Same as in bitcoin, It will only replace dollar if it is under the  control of the government, probably a centralized one. 

Since you are in a community where gambling is an issue when you play it, I recommend you do not play gambling. It will be shameful if they caught you and mock you in front of many or if not you are jailed because of that.

But since the world is not the same, in other places gambling isn't prohibited and I think it's just fine to gamble as long as you are in the right place and age.

That's normal nowadays, unlike those days where old people in the morning when they wake up, they are already holding a broom or cooking something for breakfast, that is why they are healthier, families of today, in the morning, we are already busy checking emails and worst just browsing around facebook.

I think we should buy gadgets that are only useful to us like mobile phone and a laptop and practice discipline.

Both reasons are the same and valid. Usually those stronger ones wants to shake those with weak hands.  It's all about money making, the more holders panic, the merrier the traders will be.

Lack of knowledge is applicable only to those who are on their early stage of acquiring bitcoin, they panic a lot when they see the price rapidly moves, and forgot to search for the reason why it happens.

It's been a long time now that this problem is existing here in the Philippines and it has nothing to do with other country's problem. What I mean is, there are lots of other nationalities here being kidnapped by those terrorists and they always asks for ransom, and some locals are not an exception in those kidnappings. They usually behead those if their demands are not given.


It is a shame to the international community, but as usual, he would just say "S**t the Fnck up".

It's not so hard, I think if you would dedicate a time on learning how to earn bitcoin, it would take a long time.

but if you would just go with the flow, you learn while you earn,  it won't take long. However, with that way, your earning would mean that it would start from the smallest and until you learn a lot and same as your earning, you'll earn bigger. 

Unfortunately, you can't  do that when your friend is attached to gambling, though you can try, but I doubt that they would listen. They would only listen to you if they are losing too much and there is nothing in their wallet to fund their bankroll.

You should find what he loves to do the most when your friend is not busy betting.  

If you have difficulty in making great money, it's better to save it specially if you are not sure on investments that you are about to try. When it comes to savings, I still prefer saving most that was left from my salary and only put out few for investments.

It's too risky to invest, and the return is not that sure if you are not familiar of the business that you are entering.

No one objects to that. 

But to be honest, I would still believe in fiat today and until the day that our future in bitcoin is not yet secure, as long as we can't live with bitcoin alone as a currency, I will still doubt bitcoin and I will always be after the safety of my future. 

I myself couldn't see any reason on how gambling could make a man smarter.  

I could only see gambling becoming helpful when a gambler wins and what he wins comes to use. But in reality, gambling isn't like that, you don't always win, so I don't see it becoming a help when we are in need.

Disregarding those situations in life as it is different and it is not what OP wants to know, he asks if :


With that, I am certain that he is not asking about those street dwellers or those who are in the poverty line. He is talking about those that are not in the same line as most of us, and not the totality.

All man has the ability to adopt to the situation, when they see that something is happening and everyone else is learning it, they will do the same, just like how we learn those things that are trending in the community. Sooner or later we learn it thru watching them, asking and being thought about it.

Same as in bitcoin, ordinary people can learn how to use it when they see that everyone else is using it.

If a gambler by luck become rich, they don't tell it to others, but rather we could notice it as most of them showed what they got by buying things for themselves. I my self haven't seen people who really made it out of gambling. I've seen one who win a lot and then in the end, he lost it all, and all he told me is that the "winning is not for him, and someone else might be needing that money". 

The goal is to quit gambling for good, so I think, we could disregard the point where we win and lose. With that said, I think being logical, and practical, lets think about our gambling habit, is it going to have a future or not? If we answer that, I am sure we already have reason to start with.

Thinking about what we will do on our gambling to minimize losses or to be in control would just make us stay longer.

Fun is just the result and not the cause on why a gambler become a gambler. I live in the place where many are gambler, and they are not doing it for fun, they mean business when you play with them. They only say they have fun when they are done.

I have friends who are gamblers too, and when I ask them what they got in gambling, it's not the fun, their reason is they are winning money out of it.

Man has no satisfaction, that is why when we gamble, we will bet more and more even if they are losing and even in winning, in fact, we tend to lose more when we are winning, because we become greedy and become uncontrollable when we feel like we are lucky with our bets.

Fun has nothing to do with addiction, winning and losing has.

I don't look at it as a therapy for those who are poor and has a problem in money making, in fact, it could even bring you more problem when in the later part you lose most of your penny in it and those who are trusting you for their next meal are waiting.

Though I don't look at gambling as a sickness, I found it as madness for those people who can't even afford to buy a food and yet gambles like there is no tomorrow, and sometimes lurk around on gambling site when they don't bet, why not just move their asses and find a job?

Gambling is for those who don't have problem in money.

OP said that he is hurt by the way how bitcoin was used by many in their malicious activities. He doesn't asked if it is a good way to earn compared to anyone's salary.

Anyway, it's part of a thing that has value, it is being used as tool to be used either in good and bad. We have nothing to do about it. The only way we could help is to not doing what those crooks are doing with their bitcoin.

Good for you, as for me, I am disappointed, though I did not vote him as President, I am still disappointed. Today we can see the killing of drug addicts, suspected and innocents, now the illegal gamblers, next will be the alcoholics and soon anyone who comes his way.

It's more like his next move will be killing the rights of those who oppose him, that is not democracy anymore.