I think that quote only meant you can't "directly" buy happiness. It's quite because how rich people wanna act ungrateful of the things that they have so they would seem troubled. They always think, "I'm rich but I have no one." when they could have been donating money to the less fortunate ones and become happy. People put their happiness on material things such as iPhones, or whatever the popular culture dictates you to buy and then wonder how they are unhappy despite of having so much. After hours of research, I learned that you don't really need a romantic relationship with someone in order to be happy. You can be happy by simply helping other people and seeing them become a better person or survive for the day, all because of your help. Without this, you can never be truly happy.

Right now you're thinking that you're going to be genuinely happy once you got all those money and be able to buy the things that you want. You're excited because you haven't experienced it yet. But at some point those things would become rather normal to you. You will get used to that certain lifestyle and you'd notice that nothing has really changed about you except your possessions. There are other ways that you can be happy because of money and it doesn't always have to be because of material things.

And because the losses have piled up so much, their wins are basically just a recovery from the losses that they had. A long-time gambler who have lost 2BTC in total doesn't even deserve to celebrate when he hit the jackpot and got 1BTC for it. He could have enjoyed 2BTC by just staying away from gambling. The crazy thing about this is that most gamblers don't really recognize their "wins" as just a recovery from losses so they spend the money so easily. They're thinking that they "won" it when they basically just got a portion of their lost money back.

Trying to recover from losses is what makes gamblers stick to gambling as well. With this, they finally have a "mission" that they feel they are compelled to fulfill. During the process they end up having more and more losses, so they feel more and more compelled to recover them. It's a loop that you can only get out of when you do the conscious choice and commit to that choice forever.

But sometimes we never truly get to know people. Someone might look perfectly capable of enjoying gambling but become addicted to it. Stop taking the risk that the person can enjoy such thing and redirect them to other fun things like online gaming, sports, and art. There are other things that people can enjoy without risking themselves in getting hooked to it and lose so much money from it. The involvement of money is what makes gambling enjoying so there's really no such thing as "gambling only for fun and not for profit". Imagine a casino where there's no money involved and there's just tokens. Eventually people will give the tokens equivalence to real money. If they are unable to do so, they are going to leave. Playing cards for nothing is unenjoyable. You can at least punish the loser by making them do silly task, at least, so there will be some reward going on for the winner.

It depends on the person, really. There are people who can be satisfied with just an hour of gambling while there are people that finishes until the next day, all just for gambling. Same with gaming. There are solo or offline gamers that just play just to pass the time while there are hardcore gamers that can play for 16 hours a day. Others even take adderall just to improve their gaming performance. It helps the player's focus, according to them. It all depends on the person, there's no such thing as time requirement in both gaming and gambling since both can be as casual as possible.

That makes no sense at all, for the criminals to gather in one place. The casinos would have been busted already. I think known criminals hangout elsewhere. Those that you are describing are those that aren't wanted persons. They have possibly done crimes in the past but never got caught.

I really wouldn't say that such things root from gambling. Gambling roots from something else which is greed. Everything's rooted from greed. Everyone wants everything. The ones who don't want to do something illegal will give gambling a shot. It's why everyone's so crazy about the lottery. Everyone's hoping that one day their lucky day will come.

It's a messed up world. Everyone's consumed by greed. The new luxury these days is being genuinely content and happy with little things.

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If that's your impression of gambling sites, then you sure are gambling in the wrong websites. There's so much gambling sites that are provably fair and have been running for years already. Stop gambling in new gambling sites that promise you new things like free bets or money backs. Online gambling is safe and fair if you take the time to find the right gambling site for you.

Visiting an actual casino might not be a choice to some. Some likes gambling in background while they are working in their computer by running an autobetting script. Some are far from the city and casinos are pretty much inaccessible to them. Others simply have no casinos because it's illegal in their country. While most simply likes being in front of their computer gambling at the comfort of their homes while sipping some beer and munching some junk food. There are also the introverts who naturally don't like associating themselves with other people let alone people who are in casinos. The constant loud sound in casino, people cheering/yelling, and the sound betting machines make might overwhelm introverts.

At the end of the day, it still depends on the individual's preference.

And once it is mentioned that gambling is a zero sum game, the person who got rich from gambling will be overwhelmed by the amount of people that had to lose money and even destroy their lives, just to have it possible to win that amount of money. This will bring guilt to the winners. Oh well, they still deserve it though since they got lucky.

There actually isn't not much point in becoming rich from gambling if you do not have any background in finance. Why? Because you would have so much money and have no plan on where to spend them. This leaves you in a scenario where you just spend your money just to spend your money (i.e. buying whatever things that came remotely as a "need"). It's the same reason why there's no point in becoming famous on Instagram. Since you're just a regular individual, once you indeed become famous on Instagram after posting half-naked pictures, you're not going to know what to do with the fame or how to even handle it. The fame will just be wasted and fade away in no time.

Sudden increase of money will easily go to waste. The ones who are able to stay rich are the ones who did the effort to build the foundation bricks from bricks. They know what's up and they know the whole process. They know how they got to that financial state and so they are able to maintain it. The opposite is what happens to those who hit the jackpot in gambling. They got rich and have no knowledge how to maintain the wealth. They end up having a grand lifestyle and lose their money in maintaining that kind of lifestyle. And yes, there's financial advisors but sometimes they are the ones who would rip you off.

I've never met a regular gambler who only spends $2 in gambling, really. It's going to blow up overtime and the time spent in gambling will also increase especially once the person has started to use gambling as a way to cope with problems and avoid facing his suppressed emotions. On the other hand, you can also spend money in online games and honestly it makes gaming a lot better. You might start buying better graphics card for higher resolution and higher frame rate. You might also buy an IPS monitor with high resolution and high frame rate to match the graphics card with. What I'm trying to say is that we really can't say that one thing is better than the other because both have the tendency to eat your money and time when you get hooked on it. It really depends on the person, his environment, his issues, his stress level, lifestyle, and the coping mechanisms that he developed.

Plus, based on your judgment, you had a priority of time while others might have a priority of money. Pretty much it's subjective, is the better word. What's good for you might not look good for others and vice versa.

One major reason why drugs was declared as illegal was so that the tobacco companies can take over the world. There's no immediate effect to one's health and the majority of people are addicted to it. Some are even dependent to it. They deal with problems with cigarettes on their hands. How is that different from people who are using substance at all? Sadly cigarettes and drinking is more socially accepted when drunk people has made more damage to this world than stoned or baked people. They are pretty chill people when you meet them. They have intention in harming other people. They just want to relax and so they need drugs.

There's a stigma in gambling for as long as we can remember. As kids, we were taught to not gamble because it's an unhealthy habit. The only real way to rid the world of this stigma is for everyone to be open-minded and admit that they are being hypocrites for dissing gamblers (alcoholics, druggies, and stoners). We're all destroying ourselves one way or another. Some things are just more socially accepted. Others are addicted in debt. They buy everything using their credit cards and end up with a blown-up amount of debt. Isn't that just the same as other addictions? Someone with a lot of debt is also prone to steal from others and their lives are pretty much over. They can work all their lives but still be unable to live a decent life because of the debt. Credit card addiction might even be worse since the consequence can't be removed, it has to be paid with money which you can't get, they're stuck. Yet, here we are, living in a world where people who have credit addiction are disrespecting those who have addictions like gambling just because of the social stigma around it.

And honestly the government wants more people to be addicted in debt because large companies are making money from it. Plus, it gives pressure to people to work harder and stay longer in the office.

But isn't burning your money in exchange of some fun is already a sacrificial act? It's bad that he's in that situation, that he feels like he needs to gamble in order to stay sane. Honestly, it's not a necessity to him at all but rather a habit that he got used to. Regardless, it's his money and people have their own ways of burning their money. Others burn their money buying expensive phones, clothes, and designer bags. Others burn their money through gambling. It's not that it's not wrong. It's just not our business. At least we are aware that it's wrong hence we're not going to do the bad things other people do.

I have this new way of looking at addiction. As long as the addicted person isn't interrupting or harming another individual, it's okay. The moment that they steal from someone or take advantage of someone, that's when it becomes wrong. What's legal and what's illegal doesn't determine what's right and wrong. People choose to do those things and they are indeed free to do that. We don't have to mind their business at all. And I think with this new attitude, you get to not care about the world. It saves you from the stress. It's the same reason why I choose to not watch the news as well. Other people's wrongdoings shouldn't be a concern of us unless we are involved.

It's quite easy to figure out why. Casinos are where rich people (and those who are pretend-rich) socialize with other rich people. Seeing someone in flip-flops might disturb the casino's mood. Plus, who goes to a casino in flip-flops? People wear shoes even when they are just going to buy a grocery and most people are always wearing shoes. The only time you wear flip-flops is at home especially in the bathroom. The guard was probably confused about how OP made it to the casino looking like that. Plus, someone who's not even able to afford shoes (since he's not wearing a pair) would probably have not much amount of money to bet anyway. The guard was just doing his job.

Only thing with those who are on a winning streak and going out of the casino after hitting a jackpot, they get killed or the money gets stolen from them by the same people that he won it from. It's no-brainer if there's a group of people who are paid to just casually hang out in the casino and just do subtle signals to send a message saying "This guy just hit the jackpot." Then the guy will be followed outside the casino. It has to be a substantial amount tho before that will happen since criminals wouldn't risk getting caught just for a couple thousand bucks.

I can only imagine how little would that person's gambling site's bankroll is if having a casino worked from scratch to finish seems expensive. Not sure about that "find an unfinished code and then find someone to complete it for you" because the coder would have to study all of the codes first before he can make the changes. It might be easier for the coder to start from scratch. Plus it will be a whole team and just not one freelancer. A single freelancer would probably look for templates but not an unfinished project. Templates would only work on basic dice sites, though. If you want a unique website with a different game and a different layout, you're going to have to build it from scratch. Keep in mind that there are still other things to consider such as the responsiveness of the team with clients' concerns. Online gambling is not just about gambling.


Bitcointalk's open for all discussion, though. If that's what he thinks is right then he's free to post it. You're free to say why is it not a valid answer tho rather than just simply telling him it's not a valid answer.

I'm assuming that by "salary money" you meant the salary that you get from day jobs since you mentioned that you get it every month. There's no fixed salary when you're earning bitcoins.

I'd like to start by mentioning that the salary in other countries aren't that bad. In Australia, people are actually good with how much they are making. They are even allowed to have time for vacations and they sure do have the money to have one. They are able to afford insurance as well so they don't worry about their house burning down or an appliance breaking down since it'll be replaced by insurance. There's health care as well. Pretty much people from that country are paid so well that they are so chill. Their life expectancy is higher than other countries.

On the other hand, there's the third world country which I'm assuming where you live. There's a reason for the low salary, and it's so that everyone will be stuck in the same loop no matter which generation you're born in. Only a few people gets past the poverty line because of this. Even after working for decades, you wouldn't be having anything good, you wouldn't be having that great health care or insurance since you're not able to afford it. After time, the mindset that you have to work very hard in order to be rich has become the mindset of most people. And that's how you build an army of workers working for the capitalists and the government and never for themselves. The only ones that aren't affected by this are those who have parents who were able to beat the system somehow and managed to become rich. If you're not part of that, you're pretty much doomed unless you work abroad, which you don't have the money anyway. So yes, a loop.

Bitcoin allows us to communicate with first world people and since we're doing the same thing with them, we get to earn quite remotely close to what they're earning.

You know what that never really made sense to me. For me, you have to spend all of your money to your kids. You have to enroll them in the best school that you can afford, feed them the highest quality of food (take note: high quality foods aren't necessarily expensive; an apple is already quality food), go on a vacation with them, live in the best neighborhood that you can afford, etc. There's just no point to save for their future but then leave the present half-ass funded. By the time that they are 18, since they had a good education and they have a well-developed brain (because of the high quality food), they can fend for themselves already. You see incompetent people aged more than them and the reason for that is because they were never given good education and their foods aren't that nutritious. But this is just my opinion, of course. Give everything to your kids today, not in the future.

I mean, would you rather have a child with no money but has great education, and has high IQ or a child with funds (from your savings) but has mediocre education, and an immature brain? I'd rather have the former.

(But of course I'm not saying you should not save for emergency funds, I'm just saying that you shouldn't save for their future. Work on their present so in the future they will be able to survive and make money by themselves. I'd like to add that wouldn't saving for the future of your kids would mean that you know for a fact that your kids wouldn't be able to fend for themselves in the future, meaning deep inside you're thinking you are not raising them well enough?)

Honestly no matter where you spend your time on, you can be rich from it. All you have to be is objective. Objective enough to dig deeper rather than simply enjoying the thing. For example, if you like wearing clothes to look good, you can be rich from that by studying how to become a model or how to create your own clothes. As long as you stay objective and you don't stay as a consumer, you're going to get somewhere. Same with bitcoins, you can spend time just being fascinated about this technology but if you're not going to have the objective to dig deeper, learn from it, and eventually make money from it, you're not going to be rich with it. And people only become objective when it comes to something that directly involves money like bitcoin but that's just quite wrong. You can make money from so many things.

Even just buying and selling clothes from the thrift shop can take you somewhere. Since you do have the "eye" for good clothing, you can easily sell your good finds. It can even be a better source of income than cryptocurrency if you're able to build a network and a variety of loyal customers. This is why I encourage the people who are coming to me in earning money online to follow their passion instead. Crypto might be profitable to me because I already know what's up in this world but to those that are just going to start, it's better for them to stick with their passion and be good at it until they can make money from it.

There's no law in most countries that determines whether or not cryptocurrency is legal. I think most crypto users just don't wanna be haunted by their past (for being a crypto user) once there's finally a law about it. Currently there's no law that says we have to disclose all of our crypto earnings and by the time that comes, you obviously want to stay as low-key as you can and put as little number as possible because otherwise it might raise suspicions. True that we don't do anything illegal in here but it's much better to play safe. Plus, there's just no explanation as to why KYC should be necessary in participating in a particular ICO. They really have nothing to do with our data anyway other than determining basic information like age, gender, ethnicity, etc.

Also, those that you have mentioned have nothing to do with cryptocurrency at all. All of them are being used by almost everybody.

And just how many crypto that required KYC turned out to be legit, right? They are mostly scams so you're really going to worry about what they're going to do with your data.

There are actually some exchanges that requires KYC so you can do large transactions. On the other hand, there are also tons of exchanges that don't. You can just use a different exchange.

Popular project =/= Legit Project =/= A project that will give you earnings. You can simply not participate in it. It depends on you which is more important, revealing your identity or participating in a project that may or may not turn out to be a scam and may or may not work out.

Of course, but let me tell you this. A lot of people are not in school but are able to make it to the top of the chain. A lot of people are actually considering going to college as a bad move in their career and is nothing but a waste of time. I actually do agree with that. I mean, if you do have the connection and you basically already know everything that's taught in school, there's really no reason to be in school. The only time that you're going to be needing a diploma is when you're aiming for the lower part of the chain and become an employee. Those who are privileged enough don't have to be an employee. They only need the skill, knowledge, and connection in order to become self-employed. As you can see, rich kids become rich adults because they have been trained since their lives how to be and what to study in order to not be part of the lower chain.

The only people who are allowed to use their mind as an excuse for being poor are those that have mental problems. Those who have a perfectly functioning brain has more reasons underlying "stupidity". No one is stupid, only uninformed and misinformed people. Both can be fixed by reading a lot of materials which can easily be found on the Internet. People just like using their economic state as a reason to their incompetency.

In the future, better Smartphones will be invented and they might even have the same computing power as a decent computer GPU. On the other hand, at that time, there will be even more people involved in mining and for bitcoin mining to be profitable, you need to have a much more powerful mining rig than what's required of today. They both are moving at a pace that doesn't allow Smartphones to mine bitcoins and have decent earnings.

Quite unsure about that since websites where you can download movies make money from Advertisements and they are as clickbait-y as they can get. They will use FUD like that just to get people's attention and you will probably redirected in a website that tells you to download a software to 'keep you safe'. Please stop believing everything that you see on the net. Do your own research if you really want to know about that stuff.

And I doubt that there will be a demand for that. Who needs to mine bitcoins on a specialized phone anyway? There's no point in making your mining device portable and it will probably be extra expensive. Pretty much not feasible. It will be so expensive that people will just say that it's better to use a GPU to mine bitcoins and that they don't really need it. It will just be a waste of time and resource for the manufacturer. The only ones who will be buying this new tech are those that are going to make a review on Youtube and get paid much more than what they spent on the device. Other than that, a regular bitcoin Joe will not be buying it.

Which will be quite hard since different transactions have different taxes and it differs in every country. The only thing that they can do is create their own cryptocurrency which is going to be centralized where people have to submit to the KYC policy. It's pretty much just banks implementing the blockchain technology into their systems. No point in implementing blockchain technology right now as the banks are good as they are now. It will only be a waste of resource and will open up the idea of cryptocurrency to everyone. I can totally see the government being very late in implementing blockchain in their system because of the same reason.

It's both hard and easy to hide your income with something like cryptocurrency. It's hard because there's the public ledger and people can trace you. At the same time, it's easy to hide your trails with the right tools that can let you stay anonymous and untraceable.

I can only imagine how much bitcoins you have if that is your solution to this problem. That's a lot of money and time gone. What I can see as a good solution in here is trading your bitcoin in exchange of Paypal funds from a forum like this where there's a Trust system. Only one scam, no matter how big or how small, and the seller's trust rating is ruined.