In my country gambling is only illegal in public places. There are the right places where you can gamble but you're not allowed to just gamble on the streets. I think the same thing is what's going on in your country since there will no physical casino if gambling is totally banned. I think it's the government's way to accumulate all of the taxes from gambling instead of having to go through small scale gambling casinos.
While that is true and that will definitely allow you to bypass the government, being an anonymous owner of a gambling site will raise so much issues. There are players that are looking for the details of the casino especially when it's online. But the ones that will expose your lack of license and that gambling is illegal in your jurisdiction are online casino review sites. And that will take away a huge portion of your players since why would they want to play in a gambling site that's run by an anonymous owner when there are thousands of other gambling sites that are similar to you but have a license.

The players like staying anonymous but they don't like the owner staying anonymous. So it wouldn't be as easy as you thought it would be. It's one thing to open up an online casino but it's another thing to make people play on your casino.

Shit ICOs actually have shown the technology but the people don't really take the time to understand it. They just kinda agree to it and think that the company is as legit as Google or other established companies that they just take their word for it. Literally ICOs are just startup companies that have zero credibility, at least most of them but people think otherwise. And since people are lazy, they promise that their ICO will return this amount of money in this amount of time but almost none of them are actually fulfilled.

The thing about cryptocurrency is that it actually gives you money but not in the way that people think. People think that you buy bitcoin and then you simply wait for the price to go high. You can do that in trading but trading requires skills and research. In cryptocurrency, you're going to make money out off taking jobs and being smart at something. You have to make money from signature campaign, from trading, mining, or any other micro jobs that you can see. And then, if you're lucky, you get to hold your coins for a long time and be able to ride a price pump.

If what they believe is true, that you simply buy crypto then your money will multiply at some time, then crypto is nothing but a ponzi scam. Fortunately, it is not like that. There are market pumps and dumps. Something as good as a market just pumping is too good to be true.

Bitcoins and altcoins are all there is. What do you mean? LOL Did you mean all of the coins are the "best" cryptocurrency to invest? How is it the "best" when all of them are?
But the thing is though, you can't make money from the past. Coins can do so well in the past but then die right after you've invested. What you should be focused on is the future since that's where you'll be making money from and not the history. History doesn't always repeat itself.
First, I want to say that people wouldn't think the coins are scams if they don't look like they are a scam. They can be not transparent with the token sale transactions and the coin itself can have a scammy nature.

I really wouldn't say that "you can never go wrong with bitcoin" because the most part of it is about holding. Just imagine those who have bought bitcoin at its peak, $20k. It's been months since they have been shaking their legs asking themselves if they have made the correct decision. And once they are in need of money, they are going to have to cash out at this significantly lower price. They could have been better off with just holding their money as it is, as a fiat money. So to sum up, if you're going to invest in crypto, you have to be sure that it's okay for you to hold that money for years.

Is it really the case, though? When sending money, it's not really "easier" since both bank transfer and bitcoin transfer can be easily done with your fingertips. They both have mobile apps. I wouldn't say it's "cheaper" since bank transfer doesn't have fees as long as you are using the same bank, at least that's the case in my bank or in my country. Both are safe for transacting as well.

In real life, it's easy to take out a fiat out of your pocket and hand it to the seller and it is to take out your smartphone, open your data connection, scan a QR code, and send the money. They are both easy. For the fees, paying with fiat has zero fees and paying with bitcoin has, but it's so insubstantial that it's almost zero dollars.

The safety is where they aren't a tie. Let's say when you were taking out your fiat from your wallet, your wallet got stolen. It's okay since you can always just bring enough money to survive the day. You can bring as little as possible and wallets cost about 2$. But let's say while paying with your smartphone, your phone got stolen. Even when the bitcoins there is very little, the phone itself is very expensive and is pretty much what the snatcher is after.

But if you're saying "safety" as in "security" when sending the money.. Who got harmed by simply handing over a fiat? And who got hacked by simply scanning a QR code and sending money? Both are secured.

And we really can't control that. The only solution is to require the government to have a transparent record of each and every single transaction that they are doing with the taxes no matter how little or how big the transaction is. We need an accessible record that shows where did the funds go from start to finish as well as a picture of the output. For example, if they made a building out of the funds, they have to show us how much the steels cost, how much the cement cost, etc. They also have to show us a picture of the building so we're sure that it's not just a made-up building or just a picture of some other building. It should also be in forum style so that there will be people that lives near it that can confirm the existence of the building and if it's actually operational.

Funny thing is that this has been proposed in my country but they started with the smaller government which is called "barangays/towns" and a lot of them declined having transparent records which they are going to post in their town hall. With just that scenario, them declining the proposal, you already know that something fishy is going on in that particular town and they don't want the people to know it. There's no reason for them to decline if they aren't using the funds for something else, right? It should be the government's responsibility to show to the people what are they doing with the people's money.

It has to work if you were good at bluffing because that's the point of doing it, being able to make those who have good cards fold because you are betting too much that they think that you have a sure-win pair of cards. You have to scare them down that they end up folding. Even with good cards, they question themselves and go like "This guy probably has really good set of cards." This works especially when there's an obvious possible flash or straight in the combination right when the 3 cards are put down. For example, there are 3 cards of the same sign or the 3 cards' numbers are near each other.
But is betting high with good cards can still be considered as bluffing? Bluffing, according to Urban Dictionary, means "saying you have something that you don't ..." And you basically 'speak' and pretend that you have good cards by betting high or even going all in just to scare them off. Bluffing, when you have good cards, would mean that you're not raising high, you're just going with the flow. You're just going to be checking/calling with the bets faking that you only have relatively good cards and that you just wanna see it through the end.

I think they are just kidding around. Online, I also talk like that to my friends but we know well that we're just fooling around and we're doing the same thing to each other. But that doesn't mean that we're actually mean to each other. Anonymity gives us power and shy people can also have their time online since no one can see them. You even see shy people being famous online because they get to interact with people without having to show up, without having judged. It's all just in text form. Thus, shy gamblers can just be powerful when gambling online.
I'm not entirely sure if that CCTV monitoring thing of each person is an actual thing. It's just so much work if someone's going to remember everybody's faces and then rig whichever table they go to and not rig the ones where newbies are playing. It's so much work that I don't believe it entirely but for the discussion, let's suppose it is. Doesn't it make perfect sense to just go to different casinos instead so you're always going to be a newbie? After gambling in a casino and noticing that it's become hard for you to win there, just gamble on a different casino and then voila! easy winning bets again. Rinse and repeat.

But then again, I don't really believe that you easily win at first and then it becomes harder because they are rigging your table.

Everyone's worried about OP getting scammed but is anyone worried that OP's going to be the scammer? He's asking for your personal details, basically. We don't know what else will he be asking you. OP, better specify in your post what are the details that we should be willing to give to you because otherwise there will be people like me who will be very skeptical especially that money is involved here. OP hasn't presented us any of his gambling sites stats. Pretty much this thread is just about a Newbie account asking for favor for people with no proofs that he is actually the person that he's claiming to be.

On a different note, I doubt that this will work for OP's side either because yes, they can start small and build trust from thereon. But once the bet is so big and the profit is so big, the person betting for him might be eaten by his greed (which is human nature) and doesn't send OP's funds. There's no contract involved, just pure trust for the other person. It will be so hard for OP to do legal action especially if the other person lives in a foreign country. So pretty much OP's doubling the risk, one risk for the gambling itself and another risk if the person betting for him will send the money back.

The thing about this world is that we think that gambling is bad. There's that general idea but that doesn't affect us as much as what we see around us. When see our parents gambling and we are doing just fine in life, we would think that "gambling isn't that bad, why do people say it is?" But if our parents are gambling while we starve, we're thinking that "gambling is bad and I will never become like my parents."
And what does maturity and being able to take responsibility do to you? How does it help you at all? It helps you accept your losses and that it was your fault all along but that doesn't really take out your losses and you still have the same chance of getting addicted to gambling like any other person.
The thing with gamblers is that they think they have the potential to become the next *insert gambler's name*. Gambling gives us that illusion. We mimic other people's gambling habits because we think that's what made them rich and if it's even remotely working, then we become happy and get the illusion again.

Everyone has the potential to become a professional gambler but that doesn't mean that everyone will make it. If 99% of the gamblers didn't become rich in gambling, what made you think that you belong to that 1%? The potential to become a professional gambler comes with the potential of you ruining your life because of gambling addiction, is it really worth the risk? You can do something else with your life. You can gamble in a different way.

Yes, and to my knowledge they weren't delayed with the payments lately.

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Reason for red asterisk was unresponsiveness of Paractor (still is quite unresponsive in a way that he says they are open but doesn't really take participants in/doesn't reply to applications) and his ban evasion which he later on admitted here:

Except if it's pure BS and has no source? I looked up Samsung Galaxy X10 and there are no relevant results. You shouldn't just believe people's posts in here. You have to look it up so you wouldn't be misinformed.

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And 8x Galaxy S5 costs? It costs way more than a standard desktop computer. And to think that you can only get them in secondhand, it's going to die rather quickly. Why do people keep on pushing the mining with Smartphone idea when you can just build a PC for mining if you wanna mine bitcoins? I mean I get the idea that it's cool to mine with something that we already have but even if it's become possible, it's just not worth destroying your phone for something that you think is cool.

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Actually they kind of already have that. In a way, Samsung Pay and Apple Pay are like that. They are both digital currencies just like cryptocurrencies.

But is investing in altcoins really diversification? They are both parts of the cryptocurrency market and they can be affected by the same news (i.e. the government not allowing crypto in your country anymore). In trading, you can see that whenever the price of bitcoin moves, altcoin's prices are also moving since bitcoin is the base currency of cryptos. I'd say that you should invest your money on other things like real estate or gold.

It can even be a startup business which is totally a better option since you get to manage it. But of course just like other investments, you're gonna have to do your research before you invest. You have to learn about business first and know if the business you want to setup will work out and will make you earn money. The difference is you have full control. You have the power to market your business and hype it up or maybe even do collabs with other businesses. You also have the control to expand it or to sell it out depending on the state of the business.

But the thing is though, in real life, there aren't much merchants that are accepting bitcoins. I guess they can give you a discount when you use bitcoin since you're not going to need to pay for VAT while they don't have to pay for taxes as well. Basically the merchant can sell you the commodity for its real price and not the taxed price but that might be illegal in some places although it isn't really different when you're selling something to your friend. In both scenarios, you didn't pay for the taxes since it's not recorded (same reason why online shops are a thing). But since you can't buy something with bitcoin irl yet, you can start by educating merchants about it and maybe one day you see a local merchant accepting bitcoins.

In the digital world, though, we have purse.io. I have never tried it but they have good reviews. Basically they allow you to buy things on the Internet using your bitcoin instead of Paypal or bank transfer. They have discounts too so you might want to check them out.

Visit their website and you will see this:

Like any other coin, they had good hype in the beginning but then eventually died. This time though, it's the whales that have hyped it up because they know they will be the ones who are holding the most coins. In a way, it's really helpful since we get coins for free and you can sell it for a decent amount. I never really believed what they were saying before about the coin itself since we already have bitcoins and the fact that people are hyping it up for their own benefits wasn't exactly a good sign.
But other than that? Most people take advantage of the free coin but never really try to understand what forks are for because they never really felt the need to do so.

Fun, but at what cost? The more you bet, the more fun you're going to have. Let's say that you're betting with 0.01$ per round and you won a 100x bet. That required tons of luck and now you have 1$ from it. Was that fun at all? That's no fun at all since you can easily take out a dollar from your pocket. But, if you bet 100$ and you won a 100x bet, you're going to have 10k$. Now, we're talking, right? Tons of money for risking an amount of money tremendously smaller than the winning amount.

The thing with people, they like to imagine that this type of thing happening to them and that gives them hope. Hope gives them motivation and motivation makes them bet nonstop. And of course motivation eventually wears off that's why the only thing gambling sites have to do is refresh it. That's why they put charts/boards of people winning high. You see someone just made 1BTC and you go "I can be that guy!!" so you start betting again after months of losing money from gambling.

The thing is, there's a tendency that you get tremendous amount of reds/losses so you're going to need a bankroll that's enormously larger than your base bet as your bets are increasing exponentially. Any strategy will only work with unlimited bankroll and unlimited bet amount. This is simply impossible because no one has unlimited bankroll, for one. Secondly, most gambling sites have a limit on the bet amount but then again someone can't have unlimited bankroll, thus, no unlimited bet amount.

It's just not worth betting with so much money for so little gains while exposing yourself to the tendency of losing it all once you've hit the maximum losing streak your bankroll can cover.

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And you know this because? You have watched him on TV, right? The things that you see in TV aren't the same things in real life. Competitive poker has so much cut so that what they are going to air are interesting rounds. In real life, they fold so much until both the opponents have good cards and are ready to play big. You can be right, that you can earn a living by playing poker. On the other hand, you are not a professional poker player and you don't get paid to play in a casino. You are just a regular player holding on nothing but luck and strategy.

They got lucky. Why does someone have to work day and night in order to deserve something? Why does people have to go through hardships and struggles just to earn something? Let's say someone invested in stocks and have earned money because he invested in something that skyrocketed, does he not deserve it too? It's the same as gambling, it didn't require much hard work but only luck.

On the other hand, a gambler who have made fortune from gambling didn't learn much. Someone who had to work their way up have experience, skills, and the connection to people. They know how things work and they know why they are in the position that they are in life. Thus, someone who have crawled his way up will most likely to maintain his position while a gambler who knows nothing about handling money and business will easily lose it all. They have different perceptions of money since they got it in different ways. This is why you see lottery winners losing all of their money as quick as they earned it. Simply getting a financial manager or the like will help you a lot if you really don't know what to do with your money although it's really likely that they are going to rip you off. They know money more than you do, hence, they can play you if they wanted.

Nonetheless, both deserves the money.

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For immediate funds, I would like to increase my dollar (fiat) so I wouldn't have to sell my bitcoins to have fiat. There are things that I have to buy but they are too expensive so waiting for bitcoin to rise is a more advisable thing for me to do right now.

For long term funds, I would like to increase my bitcoin. It doesn't really matter much which one should I increase because I can live without having more fiat money since I can live for a long time without buying new things. I only need necessities/maintenance. So increasing my bitcoins will also be a good plan so I can ride the next bitcoin price pump.

Sounds like you have to sell some bitcoins, mate. It will always be risky to put your money in one basket even when it's something as big as bitcoin. You should always have backup money so even when bitcoin dies or your wallet gets hacked, you will still be safe financially.
Even with the corrupt government, we will always need tax because it's how the country sustains the country's needs. The help might not reach you directly, but the government is using tax to fix things and offer services for free. Although it's really sad to see that not 100% of the tax goes to the people but some goes to the government officials themselves.
I'm not really sure if anonymity was ever a thing since exchanges are requiring you to verify identity (KYC) in order to exchange your bitcoins into cash. The government will just ask for the list of users from an exchange, and they already know who are the crypto users in their country. At the end of the day, our money will still have to go through the exchange because it's how we convert our bitcoins into fiat money, sadly. No matter how anonymous we tried to stay online. Although of course there will always be ways to bypass this like selling your bitcoins to people directly or have someone else cashout the money for you and have it named for someone else.