My friends can be so much helpful in sharing updates, theories, leads and even codes of their own bets, all of that can actually help reduce the stress of starting from scratch to do your own research and predictions but yet, without them, I can still cope and do better but it's going to make me put more work in searching for helpful leads that can contribute to a solid prediction. If you make your to only depend on your friends help, that means it will cause a disaster for you when they are not there or no longer helping you. I can't be in such situation.

Despite that sports betting seems to be some how better than many casino games that only depends on luck and not strategy, betting also depends on luck, no matter the logic used in making predictions, you will not win all the bets, as a matter of fact, you could even lose the bet that you are very sure should have played according to your prediction. Just like the match yesterday between Chelsea and PSG, so many people lost a lot of money already in that match because they bet on PSG to win Chelsea, while some people bet that PSG would score more than 1 goal, but they didn't. You can win in sports betting for the will always be losses.

Leverage training is something I fear most, I would rather buy and hold. Wynn saying that money isn't real makes me think too about the money that traders usually make from the leverage trading, where is the money coming from?

You are very correct Joeboy, trading should be about risking what the person can afford to lose, not to risk so much capital that they can not bear the lose. Some losses will not only cause a sleepless night but can even cause a heart attack, depression can lead to a critical situation, high blood pressure or anything dangerous. I watch a traders interview and he said after he started trading, he was designed of HBP, so it's real.

I believe anyone can explain it in a way they understand it or what it mean to them. Being a good Bitcoiner is understanding many things about Bitcoin and especially the investment aspects and possibility of utilizing it in the best way it was designed for. By investment, you should know that Bitcoin is a two seasons coins, bear and bull which are very significant period for Bitcoin, you also know that Bitcoin is a volatile asset, price can be influenced by economic news and price can dip out of your expectations but doesn't mean that it won't pump again. If you don't know all of that, you can not be a better investor or holder. The right utilization of Bitcoin, is knowing its decentralized nature and respecting it, not like some people that says that there should be a Bitcoin centralized bank.

Now that the price of Bitcoin has reach an unexpected price in this month of July, no body is talking against it, everyone is happy now, especially holders. In my last speculation where someone talked about Bitcoin getting to $150k, I said that we are still far from reaching $150k unless we cross $120k, which honestly I was not even too sure that we were going to see price surge to $119k this month despite that price was looking bullish, we know that anything could suddenly come up to interfere with price uptrend but glad it nothing stopped price from trending. Now, we are almost half way to $150k and it going to happen this year. Now that everyone is happy, we should not also forget to own up to it, when the dip starts.

Money and resourcefulness, both are needed, they share same relationship, I will explain. Let's say you are creative and being resourceful, you can use what ever you have available with you to start something and with that little startup, you can turn it into something big, likewise if you also have the money to do what ever you want, you can just go straight up to using your money to start building more money and wealth.

 If you have a lot of money, you can move faster that who is just resourceful but you also need to be intelligent to do that because if you are not resourceful, someone who is very resourceful can use the little they have to surpass you that thinks you have more than them. That why I said both both is needed for a person to be in successful, having the money is good, very good, but knowing the right thing to do with that money is a problem to many people who are not resourceful.

Thank you for sharing your experience, it's an experience worth learning a lesson from. Speaking of account flipping, from a small balance to a huge amount raised by accumulation of profit, it is a difficult stunt that can never be pulled off by a newbie, it can not even be pulled off by someone that just have one or two years experience in trading (although there can be difference in personalities) but those that can do the flipping are professional traders that has been trading all their life and have experience the market for more than five years. Flipping is very risky and an easy way to lose your money because you apply so much risk to make the profit in a short time space.

OP, the forum is flooded with too many post of what you are seeking to know, you just are not familiar yet with the forum, I guess so. If you are familiar here, you can use the search button on the home menu of this forum to search for anything you want to know or you can explore the different boards of this forum pages by pages and you will find topics are can be helpful to you. If you don't want to go through with exploring every board's pages one after another, you can simply ask the question of the knowledge you seek and if there was a topic on this forum where the knowledge have been discussed before, the active member of the forum will provide you link to those topics like some members already provided you with links here.

In slot game, it's very possible to turn $0.2 to $10k which is really a massive jackpot but it very difficult to have such a win, only in rare occasions. What's easily achievable in slot gambling is turning $10k to $0.2, it's very very easy and not as rare as winning the $10k with such low amount. In sports betting, it's even very rare since there's no 1 game that can have 50k odd, except you are gradually betting on different game, accumulating and doubling the bet until you are able to reach such amount. It is still a very difficult task.

There's this saying that if overconfidence makes you stop learning, it can also fail you. That is to say that no matter how confident you are with that strategy you are making profit with, never stop learn about the strategy, learning about it will still continue to improve the simplicity of your trade, you don't have to be too comfortable with something and not prepare for the situation of "what if it fails me? " If trading is very simple, every would quickly learn it and start doing it but because of how unstable and inconsistent it is, that why a trader that is already making profit should not stop learning.

How many days holiday does our local banks take and does the bank stop online banking services during those holidays period? Just the way Bitcoin transactions can be done online,  so as bank transactions can also be conducted via data connections, you don't have to visit a banking center before payment. If you choose to accept Bitcoin in your business, it's just to enhance the business and also stand a chance of benefits from Bitcoin volatility, not really because of bank issues. If you ask me, I would say Fiat is working perfectly fine but should business adopt Bitcoin, yes but at will.

Knowing when to stop gambling is very important,  for a gambler to still be in luck while gambling it only means they won't stop until their luck is up. The gambler can stop at very time that they start to lose but that will be determined based on how smart or greedy the person is. If it's a smart gambler, he will know when to stop and cashout but a greedy person wants to continue rolling the dice hoping to win more and for the same luck to come back, that's why they get busted because of greed. What you said is true, many gamblers have losses after winning big and didn't cashout. The problem is greed and lack of discipline to stop at the right time.

If the cause of the problem has already been identified to have resulted from promotions and ads that are done by celebrities and influencers, then the government should just ban those celebrities from running ads for those casinos instead of banning gambling. What I think right now is that, banning gambling will force gamblers to look for other possible means to continue gambling and yet the revenue income will not go to the country. There are many countries that has not banned gambling and the level of addiction some of those countries are on the rise but yet the government did not ban gambling. If gambling is banned, a lot of desperate gamblers will  do everything possible to gamble.

Nothing will happen if the network get too big and from what I observe, the network also keeps increasing every year, I don't think it's always the same number of transaction every year. I don't have too much knowledge about Bitcoin tech but with the little knowledge I have, what can slow Bitcoin transaction speed is when you pay a very low amount sat as fee, miners will select transactions with high fee and process them first before that of people with low fee, I read that somewhere. If transaction fee is normal, then speed will not be a problem.

Those that doesn't like Bitcoin and therefore criticized it will not give a fuck about this sudden surge, except they are now convinced in one way or another to have a rethink of investing, else they might not still give in to praise and support Bitcoin because it is pumping now, what they would say is that, Bitcoin will still fall regardless of how it's pumping now. It's also possible that some of them can be secretly bagging some Bitcoin but they are criticizing it in the public as if it mean nothing to them, all of that is just an act to deceive people, do not buy to it.  Let's talk about the enthusiasm of investors right not that price is spiking, it feels good to see our portfolio increasing in profit.

The first comment explained it already, hence there's no attack on the Bitcoin network with the ordinals and the other coins that are mimicking Bitcoin network, which are  normally used to make the Bitcoin network become congested, there will be no spike in transaction fee. If anything of such begins now, then fee will spike but it might not happen this season.

This is a kind of rhetorical question, every one should know the answer to this question and everyone should also have the same answer to this question, no? How did you feel on your first win in gambling? Gosh... Was I suppose to feel bad about winning, is anyone else supposed to feel bad for winning? Winning is the attraction in gambling, it's what makes many gamblers wants to continue gambling, it's what's makes some people chase losses because they want to win by any means. I felt happy winning.

Let's leave its performance to be determined by the hand of time but for the main time, anybody that is interested in the project should only invest the amount they can afford to lose. What many projects has done in the past has thought a lot of us a hard lesson that can be difficult to forget. Many projects sold their coins to investors at a very high amount and they listed the coin in the public market at a very low price, with such behavior, what is the essence of buying during presale? That's why you need to invest with the amount that won't crash your future if the investment doesn't go good.

Those people that have a business that is running on Bitcoin transactions from daily to monthly, volatility is really beneficial to them.  Volatility is also very important for traders that are shorting and longing Bitcoin to achieve fast profit but they trade on leverage which expose them to too much risk but there are also other types of traders that are just averaging with reduced risk needs volatility. The reason why Bitcoin is a speculative asset is because it's volatile and the volatile nature of Bitcoin is really an advantage to many people and also a disadvantage to some people.