If every person on this planet is honest and has integrity, the need to be known wouldn't even be a qualification for loans because if everyone is honest then everyone is going to be paying their loans no matter what but we don't live in that kind of world where if you show a weakness, someone will definitely exploit it. I think that for loans, it's an understandable thing for them to do because they're lending money and they have to have some kind of guarantee that they can get back on their loan after all, no one gave a loan because they're charitable and they really want to help.

That's why I said to acquire some wisdom so they can easily tell the relevant and irrelevant information and easily sift through it, and you can easily gain that by practicing your critical thinking skills, to me, that's the only way that you can gain wisdom or improve your wisdom. Also, I have to disagree with you that not everyone can tell the relevant from the irrelevant, not all information is hidden or needs you to have an in-depth analysis to see what you need and what you don't need, common sense exists in every person so I don't see how it's an excuse.

That's cause at that time that they bought that device was a trend and probably it looks cool at that time to have that kind of storage device where if you're wrong then it's going to lock you out, I think that's still being used by people that are paranoid about their security today and that kind of security will definitely not go out of style imo. The people that have bought those didn't really knew at the time of the purchase that they're going to losing the password to that device so you really can't blame them, being complacent for too long almost always makes someone shocked when the thing that they're trying to prepare for happens. This is just my suspicion but I feel like the reason Stefan didn't accept the help is probably there are other things there that he don't want that company to see or he just don't want to break promise on the first people that have offered help breaking that lock.

Most of their debts are from their own banks so they really don't have to hustle it out to pay those debts and the US government owns the Treasury anyway, I don't think that we're going to see US ever paying those debts.
They've considered that a long time ago, I don't think that the debt will go in the trillions if the government knows it's going to be bad for them. Oh, they're not funding those wars, they're selling those arsenals that they've sent there, it's not charity that they're doing in those warzones, the US is doing business there, what they're funding are covert ops or rebellions because they're cheaper compared to a real war, why release all these money when you already have the weapons that you can rent to them.

That's why I was not on his side when OP said that he plans to invest that college fund into bitcoin because it's a headache for OP's parents and him if the price tanked somewhere between the time that they need that college fund expended. If OP did do it, OP would've followed your advice about learning about bitcoin but the hard way but it didn't happen which is a good thing and hopefully can think clearly now with what to do with all the people that's replying on this thread giving different opinions.

They're only rotten as we allow them to be, if the people that we put in those position are incorruptible then we will probably see a difference, yes there's no perfect justice system but I am sure that every country can create a decent, incorruptible and competent system, it's the people that don't have integrity that exist that's making these system corrupted. I didn't know about the part where SBF has sent gifts to these people of power on both sides, now that I know about it, I am sure that all of this is just a charade until things die down.

How is buying a plot of land using crypto weird? That should've been a normal thing at the least. I think that weird kind should qualify as something that's not normally bought by a lot of people and when bought would elicit a sort of reaction that you normally show when you're disgusted or repulsed, and in based on my definition of weirdness, I think that you OP haven't bought anything weird yet which is the same for me or almost close to 80% of people that are buying stuff using crypto or bitcoin.

Blockchain developer would probably suit you if you want to make a career out of bitcoin or you can probably do this thing where you ask the management or the payroll of your company that you're working on to pay you in bitcoins, that technically counts as you building a career with bitcoin since you're getting paid with bitcoin. So to answer your question, yes it's possible to build a career in bitcoin.

If that was your money, I wouldn't disagree with your hindsight that you should've invested in bitcoin but given that it's not yours and it's for your education. I don't think that you did anything wrong and I don't think it's for the best of you to risk it now with the possibility that this pump is short-lived and followed by a big dump in the prices. You're still young and bitcoin will still be here and even if the price floor goes up in the future, the price ceiling will continue to be broken so you still have time to invest in it.

I wouldn't say that it depends but I would only recommend you to just invest instead of trading, unlike others who wants to say that it depends, they don't want to take responsibility. And with investing, I think that you're better off doing that compared to trading because it's safe and almost risk-free because you're in the bitcoin game for the long-term which is always a win no matter what happens in the short-term which is always unknown to the people and will always be volatile.

That's not rich, that's already an excess and luxurious albeit that's debatable. I don't know about you but material possession bringing you happiness is probably the saddest there is because what's that gonna fulfill? Pretty sure that you're going to be ending up wanting more material things. I agree with the last part though, we almost have the same definition in regards to that which is nice.

For me though, the definition of rich is being able to afford something without looking at it's price tag and having the ability to do your passion or the things that you want to love without the worry of where to get your next food or how you're going to pay the bill.

I hope you don't mind me stealing that phrase "word salad" I just find it funny and amusing and at the same time delivers the point. Hopefully won't be using it in this forum as I don't plan to be an authority on what to write but I will definitely use it irl when the opportunity presents.

But if those factors don't affect the flip, wouldn't that mean your second statement should be ignored because it says to keep the conditions identical and those conditions are the factors that I have talked about right? But I guess you're right, it's not like those factors can quickly change unless there's a physical intervention.

Wouldn't the coin itself a factor to this too? Especially if you're not using the same coin to do the same flip on the machine and another factor is the atmosphere of the surrounding area and the hardness of the surface where the coin is going to land, the air resistance is always neglected in theory but in practical application, that's always considered right? And regarding the hardness of the surface, there's also the small grooves if the surface isn't smooth. Am I pedantic over this stuff or those can be considered a factor to the fairness of the flip?

We did that kind of experiment back in my freshmen year in college although it's a programming test where we set the times a coin is flipped and then the computer returns the results of the set times that the coin was flipped.

This topic seems kind of fishy to me, how sure is OP that this bottle flipping craze is all over the country? Because I feel like this game is just too mundane to be a craze in the gambling scene in a country not to mention that it's a pretty simple game that you can easily win if you have the skill to consistently do a flip and besides what you've said, it's a step too far but if we're given more context about this game maybe we will see why this is the thing that's making craze all over OP's country.

This I can I agree and attest, no matter how composed you are but in your games, you're actually losing big time and not making any progress, it will eventually get to you and leave you frustrated because you know that you've been cool the whole time and you've been calm at strategic changes but the win is still evading you then you can't do a thing about but let your frustrations be vented which isn't undheard of, it's just that some people don't erupt that violently when the outburst starts so people assume that people who can keep their cool is a pretty common thing in gambling but you can see it if you're not focused on your own games.

Even if the strictness of AML policy gets even more constricted, I don't think that we're going to see an end to casinos that don't do KYC, like during the time of Prohibition, the alcohol sales didn't really lowered or even the people who drinks alcohol ever go down. The only thing that a stricter AML policy does is make those KYC non-compliant more sneaky. The best thing that they can do in this case would be to get better at tracing or following the money, improving the forensic accounting department is the key to all of this problem.

That's why money launderers love gambling sites that don't do KYC, they can just easily clean their money in there albeit it's going to take them little by little since they want to be as lowkey as much as possible. I think gambling is mostly illegal in Muslim countries but I've heard that there's lottery in some of those countries so I'm weirded out that other form of gambling is illegal but lottery becomes an exception.

You don't understand enough dude because you're blaming them for that problem which could've been prevented easily if the education system of that country didn't forsake them, imagine if there's somewhere along the way of their educational journey, they were taught how to save money and why vices like gambling is such a bad decision, maybe you do understand the other part like it's their only hope of getting out of poverty because they don't know that that's how it's designed, to be a false hope for them. If these people knew how to make manage big money or were wise enough to hire a wealth manager, they wouldn't be facing this kind of problem.

This notion basically defeated the purpose of having to use a mixer but then again if mixers want to help combat money laundering, I guess it wouldn't be such a bad idea. I guess that we have to find a way where the use of mixers aren't going to lay any suspicious eye on the people that are using bitcoin mixers. Damn, the problem of malicious entities is that they're abusing the freedom that the innocent has to enjoy is such a conundrum.