Yep it's only 10% gain, people are expecting more if they invest in Bitcoin. $150k is a good number because it increase 50% than the previous milestone ($100K), that's why if Bitcoin cross to $150K, we will see many articles and people are talking about Bitcoin.

$150K is make sense I think, not too big and not impossible to achieve in the current bull run.

The next step is shutdown internet connection in your country, because even they completely ban gambling, people only need to install VPN and voilaaaa, they can gamble again.

It's already too late to forbid gambling, many people are smart now and they can use AI or google to find the solution, the current generation might already teach new generation how to access casinos.

Which mean, it's useless.

Surprisingly the fees still low, it's high likely big companies buy Bitcoin in bulk and people who have Bitcoin didn't want to sell it. It's make sense though, we know the peak of Bitcoin after supercycle are on months 10-12, now it's not yet the peak.

I think we would see the fees spike during that three months.

Welcome to the forum, Ybets.

I'm surprised to see an established casino who have many games, licensed and many followers in telegram, not even have account on X.

Anyway, why there's Messi picture on your ANN and casino? are Ybets partnered with Messi or Inter Miami? but I didn't any news related to both of you.

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That statement is not only partially true, it is completely true for countries with average incomes below $100/month. For example, income in Burundi is only $20/month, Central South African Republic is only $40/month...while bitcoin price is trading above $100k. Obviously, investing in bitcoin is really a luxury and expensive thing for them.
This will become more and more obvious in the future when bitcoin is worth millions of dollars, and then bitcoin will be only for the rich.
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Even mining fees would hurt them, right now the fee is just 50 cents, for us it doesn't matter because we move more than $100. But if we use Average Joe in Burundi as the example, it's 4% of their monthly income. Can you lose 4% of your monthly income just for paying Bitcoin fees?

If they want to invest in Bitcoin, they high likely will end up in centralized exchanges.

Congratulations all the winners, big thanks to icopress and GazetaBitcoin for run this wonderful contest.

I'm happy to see the votes from cheaters are being excluded, although I believe it's more than that.

Anyway, overall I'm happy to see the winners, but few of them I think... other pizzas way more deserve it, they just lack of votes.

I hope the next contest will be more fair.

Pumpkin carving I guess.

Different person will define winning in different goals.

One can say they won if they have completely stop gambling.
One can say they won if they hit a jackpot or highest multipliers.
One can say they won if they're in profit.
One can say they won if they able to control themselves and being responsible during gambling.

Winning isn't everything about profit, but it could be achieve the biggest thing or you simply master it when the average are fall to addiction.

Changing strategy only make you feel you win, but it's actually the luck happen after you change your strategy.

When you try to repeat your winning strategy, it doesn't bring the same results and after you change your strategy again, you win.

Which mean the strategy is always changing the strategy

But, I don't think it will make you profit in the long run.

Bitcoin is neutral, but the holders aren't.

That's why whenever there's a global crisis, events or politics, it would affect Bitcoin because some holders are making decision depends on global events.

Bitcoin is really censorship resistant, if you don't believe that, try to fly to country where Bitcoin is banned and try to send coins from there. I'm sure it's possible, but I don't know your ending, you could be get caught by police.

I thought it was a story where a boss caught his employee who're gambling during office hour, fix your title @OP to "Proof that gambling money may ruin any career when greed takes over".

I have few stories:
A police who ask for money for him in order to make people not getting traffic ticket.
An administration staff who buy a product for the company use manipulated bill in order to charge more.
A manager who ask money to every employees with a claim the company needs it, but the company never ask it.

Gambling can't be blamed here except the company/boss don't like to work with gamblers, that's it.

The government only want to show if they're working to public, personally they don't care whether the citizen are gamble or not. You know, most people treat gambling as a bad habit, banning gambling will make the government looks good.

Remember that many citizen are gamble even though they live in strict countries, it just the countries only catch big/popular gamblers because those people have more money than Average Joe.

Definitely, I will use martingale strategy because I know, in the end I will win!

Most companies will choose to make their workers work in company because if there are workers who free, they can be used to work for another task/help other co-workers.

What? if the companies focus on results, why they have to care with the gender and personal life? I don't find the logic in this case.

Those people who can work at home have a privilege, either they're high skilled worker, cheap or have a specific limited skill.

There are still people who want to work in warehouses, delivery, driving trucks etc, as long as they offer higher salary, people will want. It's not about they want to sit comfortable in cool office, but working in such jobs have no career path.

Do people want to deliver packages in their whole life? nope.

If you work in a company, you will start as a junior, staff, senior staff, supervisor, manager etc depends if you want or not.

Isn't it should be two choices?

The first thing got you and what make you stays could be different.

Mine was the example, the first thing got me into gambling was social influence, I see my friends gambling and he let me try it. Then after that, I continue gamble because whenever I'm stress, gambling is one of my stress release.

I'm sure it will survive.

Many "losers" aka middle class and below mostly spend their time on social medias because they don't have enough money for entertainment and lazy, scrolling and watching videos on cell phones are cheap and effortless.

But, even though this niche can survive, only few content creators can survive from the beginning to present because content creators mostly depends on hype/trend/algorithm.

I heard Philippines government are like shit, so banning gambling won't solve the issue to make people stop gambling.

I'm sure they will gamble on online casino, the government might aware if there are local online casino and their citizen make deposit through banks.

Most people gamble with a purpose to make money, Philippines is a third world country, that's why many people are addicted to gambling. Instead of banning gambling, government should find a way to make the citizen life better with minimum amount of salary.

Kalshi looks bigger and safer than polymarket.

I don't see polymarket offer betting for each football match, polymarket only list big competitions.

In the long run Kalshi will beat polymarket, they just need time to make people recognize them and make their brand popular.

I think it's better than make gambling as something that is forbidden.

Usually kids like to try something that aren't allowed in order to fill their curiosity, if they're introduced with those thing and let them to try, they might not become addicted. Although it depends on each person, but somewhat I can agree.

They need education in order to know before doing something, education isn't always yes and no, but by explanation.

Pretty sure the economy in your country are fucked up because banks want to gives 21% APY.

Usually banks only offer around 3%-4%, even worst they only offer 1% if the inflation rate is low. Although I didn't find the information, I think 0.6% monthly is make sense, investment in most of countries usually offer such amount.

Even though your banks can gives high interest, better to invest in global assets.