Forget about the past failure and loss is not enough as if you want to continue your investment, you must learn from your past failures and mistakes. If you can not analyze your past failures and find anything wrong, can not figure out ways of improvement, you should stop your investment journey and find something else beyond Bitcoin investment to do.

Keep calm, don't try to instantly revenge the market. Spend some time off the market to refresh your mind, then do things as I wrote above.

Regret is a basic human instinct when we lost something, miss great opportunities in the past but life is irreversible and we only can learn from the past, live in the present, make plans for the future.

If our experience in the past can help us building up good strategy and plan in the present and for the future, what we spent and lost in the past actually worths. Bitcoin is here and Bitcoin market will continue its growth, so we will have a lot of time and chances to get profit with intelligent investment in Bitcoin.

Security of their bitcoins, their fund and privacy as well as anonymity are different. They maybe don't care about privacy and anonymity but they must care about security of their fund and their bitcoins.

If they store their bitcoins on centralized exchange, their fund security is unknown and they can not control what is doing by the exchange with their money there. It's not their Bitcoin private key, it's not their bitcoin too.

About investment profit, let's say you only can get profit if you can protect your initial capital and don't lose it. If you store your fund on a centralized exchange that scam, exit and disappear or hack and die after that, your fund is lost and not compensated. In that case, you will not get any profit from your investment even Bitcoin price has grown a lot since your entry.

Everything in life has luck factor and with sports, gambling the weight of luck factor is bigger than in other things. I agree that in sports, you can use available data, head to head records and possible available human resources (called players) for the match, or fitness status of athletes in order to make your bet decision.

It's good to analyze all of these based on data and make your decisions like data-driven, but there is luck factor and unexpected, unpredictable things will happen that can make your bet as a lost one. It includes manipulations from sportbookers or dark networks in gambling industry that you don't know and can not control.

With gambling in general and sports betting in particular, let's bet responsibibly. Avoid to be over confident and bet all money you have in any match.

When just started or in early phase of your investment and portfolio building, bitcoin accumulation, you will not want to sell your bitcoins. With time, your portfolio becomes bigger, and you also get profit from it (at least on paper before you cash it out), and your finance becomes better, you will have need of spending your bitcoins or cashing it out.

It comes to time for thinking of and even practicing DCA withdrawals.
JJG Sustainable Bitcoin Withdrawal Strategy.

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You can sort it with replies, views and others but in general, it is still messy. I guess that there is a fixed transition time before those locked and moved threads with leftover messages will be automatically moved to trash can. If OP want to propose something, it can be reduce that transition time and those threads will disappear after one or two hours or immediately after moderators moved those threads to other boards.

If security comes with dependence on anyone, any party, any company to provide that security to you, and you can not control it with your practice, I see it is no longer secure but in fact it turns to be risky.

You can store your bitcoins on centralized exchanges and think they have their big companies with security resources so their platforms are more secure than your own computer, laptop, phone or wallets. It's dangerous as their exchanges can be hacked and it's not strange if a centralized exchange has hacks in its history. When hacks happen, your fund can be lost forever and without compensation from that exchange.

It's not secure if you have a vision for the future while security of your bitcoin only can come from open source, non custodial wallets and cold storage methods. You can do this, control this by yourself in very secure ways.

Their country has many nation-wide systematic problems so Bitcoin can not fix all such systematic problems and help El Salvador become richer, safer or whatever better aspects. Nayib Bukele actually has governed and led El Salvador to a good direction and this country has been changing positively but it comes from combined initiatives, not solely from Bitcoin. Their economy can not be improved only by their national investment in Bitcoin or legal regulations like Bitcoin legal tender.

El Salvador has tried to build up things around Bitcoin after realizing Bitcoin potential and knows that if they succeed to make their country as a heaven or at least one of most favorite destination country for Bitcoin users, investors and companies, their economy will get benefit from it.

They have been in this industry in several years and already shown their great dedication on the casino development, from its infrastructure, security to products and customer care over time. Their flash bet is only one of many good products and features they have built over years and with their ambition as well as professionality, they will not stop here but continue their business and product developments.

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You bookmarked this thread but forgot to check it and the drama of Ratimov.

Rather than his empty OP now, you can bookmark another one and use it for guiding newbies in the future.
[Mega resources for newbies] Check here, find most of your need, before asking.

Newbies can find many things for learning there but they can need to search for more resources, then they will need
[Guide] Searching effectively.

You are as same as many other people, cay say about it very easily and think like practically it will be smoothly and easily too. They must buy bitcoins - that they can do easily - but what they will do next will decide their exits and results. Even in a bull market, there are a lot of fud that can shake weak handed investors out and it's harder in bear market with price falls over months and along the downway, there are a lot of fud which appears more often than in bull market.

You can see how the market reacts with fud in a bull run to imagine how they will more negatively react in a bear market. Holding is not easy with most of people and this means people who got profit by holding have both good knowledge, strong mentality, and very good strategy as well as discipline.

Different people have different financial beginnings so their rich definition would be very different. I see it is more reasonable to consider that if two investors got same ROI for their investment, they both succeeded similarly even investor A got $10k in profit and the investor B got $1M in profit. Their ROIs as said are the same and only profit figures are different but it comes from their different initial investment capital.

BlackRock is part of participants in Bitcoin Spot ETF application wave in 2023 but they are not a main factor for their first time ever approval for Bitcoin Spot ETFs from SEC. The main contributor is Grayscale with their lawsuit against SEC and they won it. This success of Grayscale signaled that SEC can not refuse Bitcoin Spot ETFs and they only tried to delay it but time was counting down especially after that lawsuit with Grayscale.

BlackRock would have not joined Bitcoin Spot ETF if there has not had such a won lawsuit from Grayscale. BlackRock deserved to be appreciated with with their participation and contribution for the approvals but Grayscale certainly are deserved to be recognized too.

Security and privacy are biggest concerns with many people but if they want to have good security and privacy, they must learn first in order to have good knowledge then practice.
Bitcoin security resources.
Bitcoin privacy resources.
Cryptocurrency scambook.
Security checklist.

It's hard to believe you after seeing you got accusations of AI plagiarism.

Find resources to learn there
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The chance of don't know about risk of the practice is bigger than knowing about all possible risks but don't mind to do proper practice. Most people knew of risk, and recommended safe practice but they decided to do what they feel most convenient.

They only start to be woken up, and perhaps thinking of changes when they already fell into scams, hacks, fund loss but if they practiced like "putting all eggs in a single bag", they will not have any second chance to restart with a new practical method.

Warnings and recommendations are abundantly enough in books, open source online resources for everyone to learn and improve their practice. For example.
Bitcoin wallet basics. Many resources for reading and learning, only whether people are ready to read and learn.

Use no KYC exchanges or true Peer to Peer platforms like Bisq is good option if you care about your fund safety and privacy.

https://kycnot.me/?categories=exchange&currency-mode=or&currencies=btc
Why KYC is extremely dangerous – and useless.
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[GUIDE] How to buy and sell Bitcoin using Bisq.

Your money only is safe if you lock it, and don't use it for anything.

In contrast, if you spent your money for something even as an investment, you already took risk and there is probability of losing that fund, either small part of it, most of it or all of it. It depends on which thing you invested your money in, then possible probability and severity of loss can be different.

Amongst many activities, gambling is one of the most dangerous activities and when you already deposit your money to a casino account, ready to use it for bet, you must afford to lose that fund for risky bets. It's fact and you must bet responsibility, but before that manage your finance and gambling capital responsibly and properly too.

The first Bitcoin Spot ETF application was submitted in 2013 and it's about 10 years before first Bitcoin Spot ETF approvals announced in January 2024. One year before that, Grayscale won a lawsuit against SEC that opened a bigger gate to Bitcoin Spot ETF approvals and BlackRock smelt that great opportunity, then took advantage of it to submit their Bitcoin Spot ETFs.

The remaining things are famous, BlackRock enriched their successful rate of their Spot ETF applications and Bitcoin community and market have first ever Bitcoin Spot ETFs in the USA.

Gates have been unlocked gradually over time, from first physical peer to peer trade (bitcoins for pizzas), first centralized exchange, first Bitcoin Futures, and first Bitcoin Spot ETFs. We will witness more Bitcoin adoption growth in the future, I am strongly believe in Bitcoin's bullish future.

Gamblers do this are responsible gamblers and they practice gambling resonsibly so they are not addictive gamblers. I don't know from which sources you got this figure or it is only your guess and even I don't have any source to prove this, I believe that most gamblers are addictive more or less and only minority of gamblers can bet responsibly and are able to manage their bet action, bet capital and finance well enough.

I believe that the figure would  be much lower than withdraw 85% to 90% of their winnings as irresponsible and addictive gamblers would reserve all or most of their winnings to continue betting.

People can try Bitcoin blockchain with curiosity about its technology but with investment reason, I believe that many Bitcoin investors don't mind about its technology. There are people who look at fundamentals that include many things, not only technology, before investing their money but not all investors do like this.

Some investors simply invest because they see Bitcoin grows up in price too exponentially and want to join the party, that's it. Perhaps later they will see something great in technology but it is not first reason attracts them to Bitcoin. Intelligent investors surely care about technology as it relates to security and safety of their bitcoin portfolios together with other fundamental factors.

Bitcoin can be used by anyone from individuals to companies and governments. It's only if they are interested in and have deep knowledge to see great things they can get with Bitcoin blockchain and Bitcoin transactions. While Bitcoin can provide many great things, it is different than it will become a financial infrastructure and replace governmental, central bank systems in any nations or globally.

Bitcoin will have more developments technically and it will expand its adoption more but cheap transaction fees is not main reason to make Bitcoin becoming more popular since 2009. There are altcoins with cheaper transaction fees but people dislike altcoins and choose Bitcoin with solid reasons to do this.

There is Sidechain Observer - Bitcoin L2 Projects & current state of development.

Bitcoin is not altcoin and token so it has no interest with tokenization progress.
Bitcoin is not fiat currency and it has no interest with development, test and launch of CBDCs.

Available time for investment position and holding your bitcoin depend on your own conditions which can be different than the other investors. No investors are the same as the other investors so what you said can be wrong with some investors. They only can afford to invest money in bitcoin for 1, 2 or 3 years and it does not make their investment practice is bad.

They only have to know that by investing in Bitcoin in 1, 2 or 3 years, they might have higher risk of getting loss than getting profit. If they can hold their bitcoins for four to five years and longer, risk of loss would be very small or almost eliminated. This means they will almost have profit by holding their bitcoin for four, five years and longer.

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