How can someone rely his own life on a volatile asset like Bitcoin, which is unpredictable on short run? In order to live from Bitcoin investment, this individual has to count on frequent increasements in BTC price, or daily trading. Daily trading is like trading, and Bitcoin doesn't fluctuate only upside. So what is he going to do once Bitcoin suffers a correction?

Everyone needs a plan b, to diversify funds among different investments, so once one of them stops working, there will be others to supply the needs of the investor. It's a basic guideline of financial market to not put all your eggs on the same basket.

I can't see a considerable growth in my country since I was child. It's relatively more or less the same thing. The same challenges and problems persist. Technology (which came from foreigner countries) helped in some aspects, at same time it's used to keep people alienated.

I don't feel more or less secure. It's the same thing since I can remember. Of course it will depend on the region of the country where you live, as there are some which have been worsening along the decades.

I would choose more trust in people, but that is something impossible nowadays. To just wish isn't enough.

Everyone wishes to win when gambling. However, to play only with an amount you can afford to lose means that even though you lose the money put at stake, it's not going to cause a major prejudice over your finances. It means money you would spend with entertainment or hobbies. When the gambler is betting an amount which impacts him at the end of the month, he is going beyond his financial limits, or in other words: playing with money he can't afford to lose at all.

If the losses are really being that harmful, the gambler will have to get aware sooner or late about it being a mistake which has to be addressed as soon as possible.

Nostalgia in sports is common among fans who are also bettors. They remember the good times of their clubs with determined players in great enthusiasm, so they develop an emotional bond with that athlete, imagining him as a super hero who can save the club on the hardest moments. However, it's important to have an accurate and neutral understading of the athletes, clubs and leagues when betting, so you don't fall for nostalgia and emotions in general.

For those who can't do this, I believe it's better to just avoid bets which have sentimental attachment to them.

Of course. There are many gambling events and games where you have 90% winning chance, however, the money you put at stake will guarantee only a small amount in case you win. On long term it's not profitable anyway, as the house still overcome gamblers, because for each loss you face (inside those 10% chance against you), you have to win another 10 bets just to recover the lost money previously.

You may have 99% winning chance and it will still be gambling, and potential profit will be always proportional to your winning chances. The more winning chances you have, less profit you will potentially make.

Jhon Arias was a very important player for the team. Without him, Fluminense has zero efficiency on their offensive plays. I watched their last match against Palmeiras, and in the beginning of the game Fluminense was doing an excellent job, although they didn't manage to conclude any plays.

And after the penalty which was guaranteed to them, they lost stamina quite fast and were overcame by Palmeiras from the half of the game on. Also, it's worth mentioning the mistake of goalkeeper Fabio, who shouldn't let the first Palmeiras' goal to happen.

Highlights for Solteldo from Fluminense too for his excellent performance. Unfortunatelly, there wasn't anybody else to play cooperatively with him.

If it was profitable to solely bet on the favorites, it would never be boring, because it would be profitable, and where there is profit, I don't see boredom!

The point is that safe bets don't exist, and by placing bets on the favorites, sooner or later the gambler will start facing major losses, with little recovery chance, considering the low odds provided by such bets. Let's say that for each bet on the favorite you lose, you need to win another 10 in order to recover the loss. That isn't feasible on long run. And instead of feeling bored, the gambler must feel regretful after all...

That is how soccer industry works. Nobody remains for too long on the same club anymore. It's valid for players and coaches. And I don't think it's about pursuing better or fairer life conditions anymore, because payrates are already quite decent nowadays, despite not being in an european or arabian league.

The point is that people are constantly wishing more and more, in a greedy way. They can't get satisfied with 1$ million dollar wage. They have to accept the next 2$ or 3$ million dollar offer they receive from another club right after, as if 1$ million weren't enough already...

Loyalty doesn't exist in soccer anymore, with few exceptions. And people don't even other about it anymore. For most fans it's normal and acceptable, while also claiming they would act the same way if they were on the players' shoes.

In my case, mistakes have helped me to improve my perception and stance towards gambling. I consider to have grown up with my mistakes, so even though they had a negative impact over me in the past, they have helped me to reach a wiser state of mind. In general, that is the impact mistakes should have over our existence. If they can't help us to identify our flaws and to improve ourselves as individuals, what is their purpose, after all?

You can always learn with your mistakes, and by doing so, it means you are going to break noxious behavioral patterns in your life. Be attentive to that!

More general results regards gambling activity in the world:

Countries That Gamble The Most

And from my country, specifically:

Brazil Gambling Demographics: Who Plays Casino in Brazil

On the second link you can find several details about local gamblers' motivations, genders, how often they play, age, socio-economic levels, region where they live, educational backgrounds... However, each research regards this theme uses different mechanisms and data collecting tools, so it's natural there are different results in the end. That is something you can't avoid when looking for data on the internet.

I used to go for superior winning chances, and therefore, smaller odds. It worked nicely for a while, but ended becoming a complete disaster... In gambling chances don't mean very much if you are a casual gambler. It's better to rely on luck instead. So, if you are to be lucky, you will be among the small percentage of winners who hitted the jackpot and managed to "defeat the house".

Yes, it's directly related to anxiety and excitement levels. Similar effects can be experienced when you are triggered by a videogame, especially when there are grinding mechanisms involved. Achievements or rewards are directly connected to feeling pleasure. The more rewards we get, more pleasure we feel, through dopamine being released in our brains.

Drugs can enhance that effect, but aren't necessary. Even without drinking or using other drugs, we can still feel triggered by gambling in high proportions, leading as consequence to lack of sleep and increasement of brain activity.

I agree with you. Latin american countries are poor and still manage to deliver skilled soccer players to their national teams and clubs around the world, including the european ones. It means soccer is a priority for citizens from those countries since a very early age. They play soccer in a daily basis on the streets and on the schools.

Gym discipline, for an example, summarizes 100% in soccer matches at many elementary and high schools in Brazil. At same time, you have wealthy asian countries like Japan, which despite its efforts, has never achieved a remarkable global soccer title.

Well, I needed a tiny amount of POL to transact my USDC around. As I needed only a tiny amount, I thought I shouldn't buy it, but grind through fauceting.

Thanks for your suggestion. Later on I saw I could swap coins at FaucetPay.io, and that is indeed a better alternative than using a single faucet and hitting minimum threshold in order to cashout POL.

Hmm, that is a hard one, because both scenarios look pretty bad. I guess to change the set of numbers just to see it being the correct numbers of the next draw is the most painful alternative in this case, because you were close of the winning, and somehow it slipped away from your hands so close of touching it. It's worse to deal with the fact you were almost achieving something than having the perception it has never been close to you at all.

Maybe in previous years the assumption of OP was right. But what I see nowadays, after online betting platforms got extremely popular, is that people gamble as a last resource to achieve wealth. They don't have a decent income, they have lots of expenses and little time, so they gamble in despair trying to overcome all those difficulties immediately.

Add this to the fact people nowadays are immediatist. They can't wait too long for something to happen. They want everything for today, and that is a consequence of accessible internet and smartphones, which bring information and pleasure in real time (which are also addictive, just like gambling).

Just to finish, add one more element: social medias bring the daily life of successful people, so the average subject keeps consuming that kind of content, wishing for himself the same he watches on the social medias. The more he consumes this content, the more he will compare it to his personal precarious life, getting more and more desperate to find a magical trick to rever this situation. Then gambling looks plausible.

I don't think it would work in my country. The government isn't even crazy to do this, because they know people would revolt on the streets and cause urban chaos. However, it doesn't mean the government here doesn't try to raise recipe over ordinary citizens. It just mean they do this through more sutile means, such as creating new taxes or raising the existing ones. Then people pay without questioning, because they don't understand it very well, besides the taxes being hidden behind products and services' costs.

The system will always act like this, instead of cutting their own benefits and wages in order to save money to pay the national debt.

It's too risky, because the platform where you are staking can go rogue anytime, disappearing on the internet with your money. Even if it's a registered company, hardly ever you are going to be fully refunded in case something goes wrong. And that isn't an uncommon thing to happen in this industry...

Also, staking stablecoins must be similar to investing dollar with your local bank. And on this aspect, traditional banks are more advisable, because the law of the country can assure certain guarantees. Here in my countries, for an example, investments by R$250,000 (local currency) are protected by credit guarantee fund clause. What means if the bank goes bankrupt, you still receive your funds back.

I prefer to just draw long term plans, like for an example, telling myself I won't touch my coins until determined year or determined event happens. Then I just have to be disciplined enough to follow the initial plan without falling for temptations along the way. Personally, I've never feel tempted to sell before the right time, so it's not an issue for me to hold for long periods of time. And that is probably due to the fact I know where I want to reach, and if I sell earlier, I won't be able to reach there.

That is why you have to develop goals you want to achieve and keep them active on your thoughts or on the paper. Without long term mindset, nobody reaches too far... And ends wasting money for any and every banal reasons.

That is normal and expected in slots machine game. You are just hitting the so feared long term gambling. The more you try, the more you are going to lose. That is the fate of overwhelming percentage of gamblers. If you aren't enjoying the game anymore, why don't you stop? Maybe it's time to explore another games or to simply quit and enjoy the profit you have already made.

Remember, gambling isn't a source of income. You were lucky once, what doesn't mean it will keep happening in a frequent basis.