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Re: What the hell is going on Duel live blackjack??!!
in Gambling discussion
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the most popular video on that channel has less than 600 views. I know on some other channels their videos got thousands of views, but it's only because the channels that posted them have thousands subscribers. I'd say that "anyone searching anything about gambling will see their content for sure" is a bold statement. No, not "for sure". Those videos are not viral, even with Andrew Tate in them and shit.

Maybe their official channel isn't gaining attention but I can say their video does for sure, I saw  a few hundreds of them on different profiles and almost every one of them crossed milion views which is something and that is what they are trying to achieve with such kind of stunts.
I would also conclude it is a marketing stunt indeed because there are so many pictures and they are all getting the attention they want from both the broader Igaming and gambling industry to the audience that are finger crossed on what's actually happening and the meaning behind such.
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Re: The Omar Artan situation has drawn criticism to the fifa World Cup
in Gambling discussion
FIFA has confirmed that Omar Abdulkadir Artan will not be part of the officials in the competition due to the visa refusal. FIFA would have sought alternatives like sending him to officiate games in Canada and Mexico only. They said its not possible because there will be a training hub in Miami headed by Referees' chief Pierluigi Collina, which all officials must undergo training. But I don't see it as an excuse because he could still be involved online. I just assume that FIFA is highly politicized and Gianni Infantino is powerless before Trump. 

I saw the same news but it has not been confirmed yet. I think it is best we take it as rumor in the meantime until an official release have been made regarding this situation. Unless you have a link that proves the information is from a legit source.

It is also rumored that a replacement has been appointed. Eventually the name was not mentioned in the source which is part of the reason im yet to take the news personally.
Incase you are looking for where to read the news at besides this place, you can confirm this link as a heads-up.
https://businessday.ng/sports/article/world-cup-2026-somali-referee-dropped-after-u-s-visa-denial/?hl=en-US

Even though Omar was voted the best referee in Africa last year, its disheartening the way he is being treated by immigration officers and the U.S at large who should have well vetted the FIFA officials and players before they arrived and start facing all this scrutiny and harassment.

Any world cup is supposed to unite people not be a source of discrimination and threats to participants.

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Re: Risk Management Mindset
in Trading Discussion
Remember, Risk management is not about winning every trade, is about Surviving every loss.
This is why I don't chase every trade, and I don't chase price too. Once price leaves my territory, I'm not hasty to get in. I wait for a retest of that point of interest or area of interest to go in. If it doesn't return there, I kiss the trade goodbye. For me to even consider it a good trade in the first place to attract my interest it has to be something around 1:3 upwards. I don't do anything less than that. What that simply means for me is that I've to be wrong at least three times for the market to catch up with me. It's a safe distance to keep and that's why 1:2 is a no trade for me.
We certainly don't need a magician to say how discipline in trading is the separating factor between a professional trader and a gambler in this equation of course, because when you walk away most times from the market, it shows patience and your strategy of 1:3 ratio provides enough breathing room for you which is good and protects your capital.

It's bad to chase a high win rate when trading, but instead opt for the safest risk to reward ratio like you did and also opt to preserve your capital as a note of good financial management practice. Even when there's loss along the line, you can still recover and be there long enough for your edge to play out, but financial management practice is the best risk management approach to remain in the game until profit is made.


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Re: Or am I wrong that Bitcoin remains the safest bet
in Bitcoin Discussion
That's yet another lesson about what's most important in this world: the security of systems. That's why Bitcoin has always been audited, and its changes are made surgically, not because it can't expand and improve technically, but because what's being protected is the integrity of what's already well done. We should also take this as a sign of respect for the Bitcoin developers who constantly work on it to keep everything in order and stable. So, we should tip our hats to them and show them respect.
The Bitcoin developers on deck are definitely more dedicated and dutiful and I respect the effort to keep Bitcoin transparent and simple that any inflation or such kind of bug attempts is made visible to all the nodes.
This is why when they say the Bitcoin ledger speaks for itself, it actually means it because it's true.
Invest in Bitcoin and forgot about all this brouhaha waiting to happen, as it did Zcash.

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Re: How do you maintain conviction during a bear market
in Trading Discussion
Bitcoin investment comes with having a goal in mind and then following the guides that leads you to achieve that goal, without a goal, you will be going random and that can make you follow FOMO and take wrong decisions but if you have a goal in mind and work towards it, you maintain conviction during any market season. Secondly, you should learn about Bitcoin properly because when you have the right knowledge, you will scale through your journey of investment. When you already set a long term goal, you will just continue accumulating without letting the market conditions to make decisions for you.
To learn how to automate your accumulation process helps a lot so as not to be bothered about the market sentiment and price trackers that contribute to FOMO. To learn about the economics underlying in Bitcoin investment is also a great way to retain and grow conviction when it comes to investing in Bitcoin during a bear market season.
The professionals know that it is best to accumulate Bitcoin in the bear seasons and they don't bother about the noise of the market because they have a long term goal in mind, have the mindset to achieve it and understand how to secure their holdings from malicious issues arising when self custody is neglected even for a second.

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Re: Is it right to introduce your spouse into gambling.
in Gambling discussion
It's okay to introduce your spouse into something that earns you some money even though it's passively as gambling is, but the issue is about addiction. It is also about respect and it is about responsibility. When both partners use their feeding money to gamble on different or same platform and lose, who gets to take the blame? How will the conversation be at that point?

It's not always a rosy walk with gambling activities no matter how lucky one may become from the onset because in the end, we see how the house will always adjust their algorithm to their favor.
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Re: Bitcoin Is Getting Easier To Purchase, But Harder To Truly Own.
in Bitcoin Discussion
Potential Bitcoin investors need to have the patience to learn all that is necessary from the basic knowledge to the more complex ownership details or else be subject to scams or CEX palava that may arise at any given time.
It is in the moment of friction that those who failed to learn the nitty-gritty from the onset actually understand all the point made by our dear OP and it may be too late to think of owning a seed phrase to a self custody wallet when all your initial BTC has been lost somehow.

Convenience is the order of the day today because humans are naturally wired to be lazy and dwell in convenience, hence why the rise of AI and robots are rampant, but when it comes to true ownership of Bitcoin, AI bots can't be trusted with this responsibility and that's why knowledge of true ownership and self custody is the key to holding onto your Bitcoin investment in the long run.
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Re: What would you do in this situation?
in Gambling discussion
20spins is already a high number of spins for a day and for a gambler that thinks they aren't getting addicted already. Well, if you had stopped earlier, am sure you won't have won the amount you did, but as you win such an amount, if I were in your shoes, i would simply cash out a greater part of the profit and remain my initial capital to continue spinning or stop for the day and try another day.
I can't overthink how it would have played out, but I think you recovered both your capital and some extras and you would have lost it all if you left it in your wallet to increase the number of your spins, because that's how greed takes over emotions and sensibility in many instances.
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Re: Why I trust sports betting over prediction market
in Gambling discussion
I outrightly prefer sportsbetting probably because I am used to it and that the predictions market is still a new thing. The predictions market is facing a lot of backlash and lawsuits all in a bid to regulate them under gambling laws, but this they don't want because they believe they have carved out a new initiative for themselves and should go by a different regulation.
However, the sportsbetting market still remains strictly governed even though there may still be exploitable loopholes by the house or the gambler, but it is not as compared to the insider information which poses a big problem to the predictions market.

Until the predictions market have proper regulations governing it, sportsbetting still remains sure for me and I only want to get better at strategies I use to have an edge while I have fun and entertainment betting on my favorite sports.
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Re: The computer/ phone sees every thing on its screen
in Bitcoin Discussion
I mean by that
Who does guarantee that Microsoft , apple, google.. don't steal our secret phrases???

No one can guarantee you that.  In fact, this is exactly why software wallets (hot wallets) on your phone or PC are fundamentally insecure for storing large amounts of crypto.

If you want an actual guarantee, you have to use an airgapped hardware wallet or some other completely offline storage method option.
With what the topic of this post implies, it's safe to see meaning in it and make the assumption that something could be collating data or watching your movements and this prompt the need for better security measures to protect long term capital using offline storage packs like the airgapped wallet and other devices that breaks certain accessible features to everything you do with your online devices.

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