Most people need to struggle to grow at all because they are unable to even go beyond the most basic primal programming that humans have. That is the key, which means that most people are making huge errors in the modern parenting which then has spillover effects into everything once these children start joining the adult world and we are already there. You literally have Gen Z adults that are illiterate in the western world. 

What kind of fucking weaklings think like that? Seriously, they need to get therapy if they are unable to get out of such nonsense. Building a house in steps is the right way to do for anyone who can't build it all at once, and whether it is the right decision should be a purely economic calculation and not a emotional decision.

This is a sign of primate behavior and savage humans. These decisions should be based on rationality, analysis and financial calculation and not on emotions as I said above. Think and act like everyone else, stay savage, or grow up and advance -- everyone has to make this decision for themselves. We know how many people decide though.

Moving from city to city, or place to place in search of better opportunities is in no way related to the inability to buy a permanent home. In reality, in most cases where the move relates to accepted opportunities, it improves the chance of the people to own a permanent home. Those that are stuck in shitty jobs at shitty pays, that accept shitty pay during job negotiations and whatnot are those that are hurting everyone else with their decisions -- in the topic of opportunities.

False. Learn what the word "control" actually means. Providing another way to buy Bitcoin is not any kind of "control".

No, that is not what it does. Even if it were possible to control how people acquire Bitcoin, which it isn't, it does not provide any power that is similar to the power of actually controlling the protocol. Stop hallucinating with AI and using retarded shitcoiners for your thought process.

Why does anyone do anything differently than what you do? Ghee, I wonder how it is possible at all that anyone does something else than you. Obviously there are only 2 big groupings that provide an answer: Good reasons to do it and Bad reasons to do it. If someone buys it for bad reasons, what is it to you? Why would you care about this particular error of theirs when you are ignoring thousands of errors of you, your friends, your family?  For the good reasons, you need to educate yourself before you pose questions with false assumptions. There are many entities that could not buy Bitcoin at all without the existence of ETFs. We have ETFs for a reason, and that reason has nothing to do with Bitcoin.

False, don't make up shit. That explains only a minority of the ETF buyers, and as such is irrelevant to this discussion.

The extent of this is not possible to know. Either you believe in existing institutions that govern this or you don't, but if you don't then you have to question a lot more fucking things except paper ETFs. In the EU, every single institutions is practically corrupt and being exploited. Depending on the bias that one has about the turd called EU, they would think that the SEC is either less or more corrupt. 

Preferences as an excuse are bullshit, there are right and there are wrong decisions. Most people are cowards and when they do something wrong, say gamble the wrong way and get exposed or confronted with it they will make up all sorts of nonsense to justify their errors. The right thing would be to admit that you are wrong, but most people won't do that that is why they stay poor and dumb. I'll upgrade your statement to: If you want to bankrupt yourself, use big bait.

If you are limited with discipline, that does not mean that everyone else is limited. If you are not able to control yourself and stick to a strategy, that does not mean that everyone else has the same issue. The reality is that sticking to such betting is trivial in the effort required and everyone who is unable to do so is already halfway addicted to gambling. There is no reason to raise stakes "more and more" unless you start becoming delusional about the possibility of profiting in gambling.

Completely false and fabricated nonsense. Just because the majority of humans are obese or overweight that does not mean that this is the normal state of human beings, use your brain for Christ's sake.

There exist no such people. There have been occasional one-off big winners that have managed to retain the money and not lose it again, but that huge win came after a lifetime of undocumented losses which can easily amount more to the total "large winning". Some idiots on this forum will find some exceptions to this rule to try to invalidate the claim that you can't get rich by pure gambling, see 1 guy on the internet allegedly did -- they do this precisely because they are delusional idiots. A few exceptional cases does not defeat the rule, they are outliers and can be ignored. The only way that you can make real money is by becoming a top competitive, professional gambler like in poker. Anything else is an illusion.

Random number that you pulled out of your ass and has no basis in reality.

This does not mean that their life has changed, it means the exact opposite of what you wrote. They won, ruined their opportunity, and continued to be the same poor idiots as before.

There is not more than a handful of people that are making 20% annual returns, and for sure there is not a single one on this forum. It is even an insult to suggest the possibility of some returns. Having a one-off return of 20% for one year, is not equal to having 20% annual returns. Anyone can get lucky, doing it once is meaningless. Only if you can sustain it, which you can't, can you call it 20% annual returns since it is plural. 

Nobody here is making profit in gambling let alone 20% annually in a consistent way, so let's not entertain the delusions of people who do not know how gambling works. Raising your bankroll to satisfy delusions only leads to large losses and a sure path towards bankruptcy.

False, anyone with even a drop of responsibility should be following such rules. If you are not, then you are not a responsible gambler. The rule that is proposed in this thread is trivial, following it is so easy that it is almost boring.

I was just giving an example of what else should not be allowed with an explanation of why it shouldn't. Clearly, not all networks are properly configured yet otherwise this topic would not exist -- these measures would have been done ages ago, but they weren't so the banning of such websites only comes now. Limiting the speed and banning most gambling websites is very similar in the effort needed to set it up. There is no good reason for anyone at all to protest a measure like this at least not for reasons that are limited to the measure itself and its point, other concerns such as what I am talking about with SRF10 go deeper into other topics and issues.

Yes I agree that it is not limited to gambling & porn, but why do you think that has happened in China and Iran and some other places? Suddenly the government woke up one day and decided let's do this? No, it is the other way around. The stupid people were distracted and careless for a long time, failing to protest and block measures at key moments of the timeline. Using examples of activities of recent history as demonstrations, they were more concerned binge watching the next shitty Netflix show than they were with protesting key measures at the time when it was possible. In effect this is the way these things go:

• 1. People misbehave in all ways, abusing all sorts of things that are available (such as the example in this thread, gambling on public networks like degenerate addicts). This is not only limited to criminal behavior, most people do this.
• 2. The government starts preparing the first round of restrictions or measures, which may come under some pretext whether self-induced terrorism attack, CSAM bullshit or other nonsense.
• 3. Instead of boycotting and rioting, people watch Netflix, spend another useless weekend with their useless family and whatever other nonsense they got on.
• 4. Fast forward some steps, time, and measures.
• 5. Now you have the Great Firewall, congratulations.

Who the fuck do you think is at fault here? In each place where there is such a thing, the population is extremely docile like sheep, brainwashed and out of control. The Chinese for example care more about getting good deals during shopping holidays than they care about the transgressions of their own government.  Place the blame where it is appropriate, the people -- especially the individual person. FYI, Gambling is out of control currently in most countries of the world and most people that are part of the problem refuse to admit that they have a problem. 

Most application of blockchain technology are shit, you are wrong and there is no discussion here.

Bullshit. You do not know even the basics of why ETFs need to exist because you live in places that do not even have basic legal systems working properly. Such countries are stuck in the stone age as far as the legal systems are concerned. There are many legal entities that are unable to buy Bitcoin directly, they can only do so through vehicles such as ETFs. Educate yourself about the basics of modern legal systems before you write nonsense.

Furthermore, not even 1% of 3rd world pajeets have adopted Bitcoin or crypto in any real capacity. There are just here to pillage and get fiat out of it. ETF holders, including those that hold pure paper Bitcoin are incomparably bigger Bitcoin adopters than any of these pajeets -- in this forum and outside of this forum. 3rd world savages continue to behave like 3rd world savages, there is nothing surprising about them. A daily poop in the Ganges river after shitposting is not Bitcoin adoption, thank you.

That is just temporary, and if you are not involved in business building or trying to gain funding of anything right now you will know the full picture of what is going on now. If you want to get funding to create a new kitchen pan, you will be asked why you are not adding AI to the pan and will be rejected funding without AI. That is how ridiculous it got, while 99.9% of AI applications are shit. The pendulum will swing back in many ways, don't forget that the next hype will be funding quantum computers that are "able" to unlock Satoshi's coins. Charlatans move along these waves, and inevitably as soon as crypto regains some more popularity again so will emerge again "innovative" applications of blockchain.

If a person is wagering "whatever amount feels right", they are not following any single strategy or any kind of discipline relating to gambling -- they may delude themselves that they are, or that what they are doing is right but their approach is completely backward. Do not play this way, this is a way towards bankruptcy, addiction, or a little bit of both. It is precisely this kind of playing that creates lifetime losses in hundreds of thousands of dollars or even millions depending on where you are from and what your income is. I've seen people put $100k bets after a massive win because "it felt right" and then they lost all they won and more.

It is absolutely trivial to apply this in practice. If you are unable to follow something so simple and relaxing, then you do not have any discipline of any kind and you have issues. I would suggest getting your act together, and you can do that by following this very same strategy that you propose here. I stick to a very low amount, sometimes even 1%. I am not here under illusions of making money like many users are, I play for some entertainment, sometimes. If my wins are very small, who cares? The fun is in playing, both winning and losing, not in the money.

That is an important distinction to make, because the most common cited misinformation about this topic that surfaces is that Satoshi owns 1 million Bitcoin when there is no proof of any of that. It could have been some partner, it could have been a system that was dumping keys soon after mining and all sorts of possibilities exist in relation to the "Patoshi" theory. We can speculate, but what we can not speculate on is that there is no proof that Satoshi mined 1M Bitcoin -- which there isn't. Therefore, let's try to be clear on this in every thread where it comes and try to dispel misinformation that many users here are sharing and on other places. There is no need to place a target on the back of Miss Satoshi, especially not if she really does not have the Bitcoin.  

How about you read some posts here before you write some generic shitpost? It is more likely that my pet snake is satoshi than fucking useless Len Sassaman. Stop playing favorites using nonsense reasoning.

Do some basic research first next time, and stop spreading misinformation by hiding behind the "opinion" bullshit.

The addictiveness of various behaviors such as gambling is increasing and becoming more widespread, surely it is not just limited to Philippines. We see these trends in many other countries, although this one might be suffering an above average negative effect. Measures that combat these things should always be utilized, and people who are against such measures should be silenced. Humanity does not need to listen to every twisted individual that is simply a parasite in society. Many measures are objectively good, and as such they should be ubiquitously welcomed. Public internet should actually be the most restricted kind. Here is one example: Should someone be able to do massive downloads of whatever content using the public internet? Of course not, why should they be given this privilege? Why should someone else pay money so that some retard can download things that he believes he can't go without? Public internet is not free internet, it is paid by the taxpayer, and the taxpayer should get the best for his money -- hence why it should be very restricted of focused on useful and important things.

And even if there was an ulterior motive, so what? If you can't learn to fucking behave yourself, you should be filtered -- it is the consequence of your own actions. You are all surrounded by at least some gambling, porn, or other addicts. You get what you tolerate, and consequences are coming for various things because the average "adult" is not able to fucking behave better than a 3 year old toddler. There would have never been a need to introduce this ban in the first place if people knew how to behave -- which they don't. Most (but not all) things come as a result of idiots who are in adult bodies, the more you tolerate shitheads and their behaviors the worse the world gets.