I never understood why people have kids tbh, it's lifetime of maintenance and subjecting kids to life's randomness (maybe reading Schopenhaur has given me this mindset — but I did find his reasoning logical).

People who are into crypto from poor countries earn in crypto, so they don't care about fees much, cause earning from crypto in first place outweighs this little cons.

Those who earn in fiat there, and transact in crypto, would feel the burn of paying fees, and possibly would be short time participant in crypto ecosystem.

I am of the opinion that, your knowledge of the sports you bet on matters most in your success in betting and I don't think this knowledge can be 'learned'; people who are passionate about sports, they simply keep up with sports for love of it, and with that 8t heh are able to predict better.

You can't force yourself to watch sports you have no interest in, expect to make good predictions.

I am surprised with BTC fees these days too, I didn't expect BTC fees continue to be under couple dollars when it's worth above $100k and having transactions confirmed under an hour.

I am not sure, if brc20/ordinals were the deffo cause of network congestion, because in 2017/'21 fees were bad as well, and back then brc20/ordinals didn't exist.

I mean let's be real, it's different thing to shell out hundred thousands dollars because you are still seeing potential compared to back when it was cheaper,  you could throw away few hundred bucks back then and forget about it, if it worked out, excellent if it didn't, it didn't put dent in your life.

Currently, it's completely different ball game with amount of money involved.

I don't understand how shoutbox would breach the privacy!? Users here comment/pm, the same way they would be chatting? Plus, fwiw, there was this feature on forum I was on years ago where if you would chat by having, "/private" as prefix and that chat would remain private between the two users chatting.

Can you explain things you mention more elaborately? Like how did you become wiser with gambling?


That's pretty close to adult, they can take their own decisions.


Nothing to do with you anymore, as I said above, she's an adult. I think you should still advise her though that she should play responsibly; people do stupid shit at this age and get themselves into trouble, some guidance keeps them safe.

My weakness was, 'chasing losses' — it's recipe for disaster, you'll likely create more and more losses when chasing losses, it's like a hole that never ends. Overcome? Don't chase losses, whatever happens in a day, call it a day, and next day is fresh start.

Better regulated, bans just get whatever thing is banned under the rug.


That's a good quote. I live in one of most corrupted country, here we have plenty things banned, but every single one of them runs under the rug.

I don't think this is about gambling, it's only about greed as rigging game is only about getting huge payments, and yes I agree such greed can destroy careers, I have seen that happening in cricket.

I haven't been to prison but lately I have got this ability (I don't think, it's right word though) where I am able to understand why people do what they do so yeah, I can deffo understand people gambling in prison, I mean with boredom they probably have there, they have to find some activity.

Even at home when we have rain and outside activities are stagnant, we friends gather and play cards.


Gambling with nothing at stake shouldn't be prohibited, is it?

Are you saying that even with infinite money, you'll be able to entertain yourself with gambling?


You get it sir.

I think you missed the point. If you have infinite money, you wouldn't be feeling anything, so no entertainment.


I think you missed the point too, with infinite money, what fun you can have since that thrill of putting money on the line is no longer there?


Then we'll finally know how long can losing streaks can go 


This is good response. With infinite money, there would be better places to have fun than gambling.


That makes sense. For vanity purposes one may continue to gamble — Look, losses doesn't affect me cause I have got infinite money!


Thanks for explanation in second para, because I was shouting as I was reading first para — investments, tax saving for what?


Nah, I really meant infinite money, imaginary scenario.

Gambling includes plethora of games, various sports to bet on but doesn't it all boil down to money in the end? More the money involved, more the thrill.

Suppose, as title says — you had infinite amount of money, would you still gamble?

Personally, I can't see myself giving two fucks when I don't care for money in first place. Would you?

I have seen several bans in my country, but people always found a way to get 'banned things' one way or another, so yeah it's true everyone eventually finds a way, bans only make things go underground.

BTW, article linked in op is behind paywall, 12ft don't work, don't really care that much but if you know workaround, quote me.

Some people really hate to be wronged (even if that could be mere assumption and not a fact) and will go to any way to take that revenge.


Where corruption rules, money is the king. I live in third world, you can get driving license itself without knowing how to drive, or knowing driving rules.

As long as there is demand, there will be produce. So, content creation will continue to thrive as long as there is demand for consumption and I don't see this demand stopping, rather it continues to increase with easy access to Internet.

I have tried content creation, I actually started my crypto journey with content creation by creating content on Steemit, also I tried YT thing as well — I was really happy when I got 2 subs there, I also have this weird satisfaction when I read/watch my own content.


I like this comment, I'll give you merit when I have one.

I wouldn't know because I don't have degree, I dropped out.

I don't know if I attained 'sucess' but let's just say, things worked out just fine largely due crypto, without crypto I might have tried my luck on blogging and YT. I find that I have learned more from Internet than anything with education, even though I don't have certificate to show for it.

Today, I don't care about degree at all, and don't have regrets about not completing it. I see people with degrees, doing their jobs — some with good pay, some with not so good pay, but I am just glad to be not part of it.

Lol, Mulder, he had chance to have his name etched into history books but he did stupid. Such 'generous' acts never helped anyone, I have watched some Virat's videos, where he willingly competed to make his hundred, that's how he got more hundreds — it's record that counts at the end of day, and this retarded act will be forgotten soon enough.

I have observed that if you increase your needs, the new 'increased need state' becomes your new norm after a while. For example, if you didn't have car before but then you purchase it, use it regularly and then when you don't have it anymore — you'll miss your car, you'll feel like you can't live without it even though you managed to live without it before.

Do you agree with this observation? Would you agree that it's better to not increase your needs in first place?