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Gambling among youth remains a salient problem that is less recognised as a social menace among education stakeholders and researchers. This is because it is a common phenomenon that is considered as recreational activity and even legalised by Nigeria government through which revenue are generated (tax collected from the owners of various gambling companies). However, experts (Derevensky, Gupta, Dickson & Deguire, 2004; Chimezie, 2015) have noted that it causes more harm to the youth and the society than the good it may seem to portray. In view of this, this paper presents the update on problem gambling among Nigeria youth; looking at its prevalence, forms, the industry, causes and effects, empirical review of previous studies and its counselling implications. It was concluded on this basis that counselling programmes should be organsied in town halls of every community to sensitise the citizens on the danger inherent in gambling and reshape or change people’s perception positively on gambling behaviour.
       Gambling can be defined as any activity (a game of chance or skill) where an item of value is placed at risk in an attempt to gain something of greater value. Gambling is taking a risky action in the hope of a desired result. Gambling exists in different forms but varies in popularity among different groups and classes of people; some of those forms include lotteries, casinos, sport betting, poker, gaming and pool betting. Gambling is a big business globally to the extent that it is now taxable and regulated as a legitimate business. Such as Surebet, Bet9ja, NairaBet etc.
#Problem gambling among Nigerian youths
    Problem gambling or gambling addiction or gambling disorder has been defined as a bio-psychosocial disorder characterised by a persistent and recurrent maladaptive pattern of gambling behaviour. Problem gambling affects people of all ages, from adolescents as young as 10 to adults in their senior years. It is not a matter of being irresponsible; it is an addiction rooted in the brain just as are the drug and alcohol addictions of millions of people. It is not bad a behaviour or a bad habit; it is a serious condition. Similarly, gambling has become a growing trend amongst young Nigerians aged between 18 – 35 years, who accounted for the highest proportion of Nigerians who engage in the practice.
 According to a report by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN, 2019), about 60 million Nigerians between the ages 18 and 40 years spend up to N1.8 billion Naira on sports betting daily with an average investment of N3,000 Naira per day.
#Causes and Effect of problem gambling
     In reality, gambling has its positive and negative sides however, given Nigeria’s recession and high unemployment figures, the impact of the gambling industry in the nation’s economy has been positive as it has created thousands of jobs directly and indirectly. Big betting companies have staff strength running into hundreds; and through their associate and affiliate networks, they offer agents a source of livelihood from commissions earned as people engage in betting. A study has revealed in its findings that 26% mentioned ‘timely payment’ as the main factor that influences their choice. This was closely followed by respondents who believed it is the ‘odds/stake placed on a game’ (24%). Other determinants mentioned include ‘reputation for payment’ (21%), ‘ease of use’ (15%) among others. Finally, analysis of results revealed ‘quest for quick money’ (30%), ‘Unemployment’ (21%) and ‘greed’ (15%) topped the list of reasons why Nigerian, particularly the youth engage in gambling. Other reasons include; cushioning the effect of economic hardship ’(12%), ‘poverty ’(10%), ‘just for fun ’(5%), ‘passion for sports’ (5%) and ‘peering group influence’ (2%).
Its effect is devastating to the perpetrator, the family and the society at large. When the money stops coming the way of a gambler, he may engage in drugs in frustration. In trying to escape poverty and play roles in the financial upkeep of their families, many youths have chosen to indulge in gambling to put food on their family’s table. Unfortunately, the most active participants in this trade are youths whose main objective is the desire to get rich at all cost and crush any obstacle that might stand against their desire rather than striving to achieve success through good means.

If you don't want to mine bitcoin, it can be bought using a crypto currency exchange.Most people will not be able to purchase an entire BTC because of it's price, but you can buy portions of btc on these exchanges of fiat currency like U.S dollars.For example you can purchase bitcoin on coinbase by creating an account and funding it, you can funds your account using your bank account, credits card, or debit card.

I've never had any accounts "hacked" what I have done though is lock myself out with these security options, how ironic right? I have however had people try to get into my accounts. Some is trying to get into my epic games account. My cointiply account has nothing in it even and someone keeps trying to get in. Noone got into either of these though. The password just kept resetting and sending to my email. No attempt has been made to get into my gmail account which I have owned for over 10 years now I think.

I basically just read a guide and used my common sense by thinking from a hackers perspective. So no personal links to anything like birthdays or hobbies just like the OP has said.
I never use the same password over even use partly the same password. Each are unique I use bout 16 characters and use upper and lower case, numbers, symbols. I mix these up so I don't have two numbers together and I I try not to repeat a character.

Here are some examples of a password I would make.

J6f&E1p3%8*G2L*F#7

I also can't understand when I see bounty hunters asking managers to change their address because it was hacked. I think it must be phishing. Always verify any website you want to enter login info on using a whois website. Make sure the websites match up. If they don't then you will lose your account due to phishing. My eth account passwords are very long like a private key and I encrypt the place where I copy-paste the password from. I use nod32 antivirus. I always check and match the clipboard too. I do this at least 3x I also keep 3x backups of my personal info. 1 an usb the other 2 on external hdds. The folder in ecrypted and password protected using 7zip. I keep the password to the 7zip file written down in 3 different places 1 being my safe.

I am not saying I will never be hacked. What I am saying is that it would be very very difficult even with the best social engineering. Since everything is completely random not even I know my passwords or even part of them.

I am also pretty sure that being careful will take care of 99% potential hack attempts.

One last thing I do is I link my accounts with F2A and I link my accounts to my phone number or to IP address.

The IP address works very well. No other IP but mine can login to my website for example. They can try use a vpn it won't work since the need the exact IP.

Very nice guide.

Btw I looked through the posts here and there quite a few nice ones so I gave 3 of you some merits since you deserve them. I try to give them to nice posts I see and help people out.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/guide-how-to-create-a-strongsecure-password-5132378

I've never had any accounts "hacked" what I have done though is lock myself out with these security options, how ironic right? I have however had people try to get into my accounts. Some is trying to get into my epic games account. My cointiply account has nothing in it even and someone keeps trying to get in. Noone got into either of these though. The password just kept resetting and sending to my email. No attempt has been made to get into my gmail account which I have owned for over 10 years now I think.

I basically just read a guide and used my common sense by thinking from a hackers perspective. So no personal links to anything like birthdays or hobbies just like the OP has said.
I never use the same password over even use partly the same password. Each are unique I use bout 16 characters and use upper and lower case, numbers, symbols. I mix these up so I don't have two numbers together and I I try not to repeat a character.

Here are some examples of a password I would make.

J6f&E1p3%8*G2L*F#7

I also can't understand when I see bounty hunters asking managers to change their address because it was hacked. I think it must be phishing. Always verify any website you want to enter login info on using a whois website. Make sure the websites match up. If they don't then you will lose your account due to phishing. My eth account passwords are very long like a private key and I encrypt the place where I copy-paste the password from. I use nod32 antivirus. I always check and match the clipboard too. I do this at least 3x I also keep 3x backups of my personal info. 1 an usb the other 2 on external hdds. The folder in ecrypted and password protected using 7zip. I keep the password to the 7zip file written down in 3 different places 1 being my safe.

I am not saying I will never be hacked. What I am saying is that it would be very very difficult even with the best social engineering. Since everything is completely random not even I know my passwords or even part of them.

I am also pretty sure that being careful will take care of 99% potential hack attempts.

One last thing I do is I link my accounts with F2A and I link my accounts to my phone number or to IP address.

The IP address works very well. No other IP but mine can login to my website for example. They can try use a vpn it won't work since the need the exact IP.

Very nice guide.

Btw I looked through the posts here and there quite a few nice ones so I gave 3 of you some merits since you deserve them. I try to give them to nice posts I see and help people out.

April 2023: Bitcoin Price Forecast
Cryptocurrency experts are ready to announce their forecast for the BTC price in April 2023. The minimum trading cost might be $23,085.90, while the maximum might reach $24,858.32 during this month. On average, it is expected that the value of Bitcoin might be around $24,193.67. Potential...

I think that user called Susano copied it from somewhere else and then when his thread got blocked, a little later another user called New@User creates a new thread and quotes him.

Maybe this phrase "As an AI language model" should be checked using ninjastic.space to find more of those.

Found a couple other examples... does this constitute a ban, or just spam?

There were more but they were deleted, probably for being spam.

Copy: #2

As an AI language model, I'm not able to create an account or register a company with Platoo.business. However, you can visit their website and follow the steps provided to create an account and register your company. They offer a user-friendly platform that guides you through the process of creating an account and registering your company, and their customer support team is available to assist you if you encounter any issues along the way.

It's nice to see you're thinking about investing in XRP. I cannot give personal financial advice as an AI language model, but I can provide some basic facts and observations.
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Abstract
 More than half a century of cross-cultural research has demonstrated group-level differences in psychological and behavioral phenomena, from values to attention to neural responses. However, cultures are not static, with several specific changes documented for cultural products, practices, and values. How and why do societies change? Here we juxtapose theory and insights from cultural evolution and social ecology. Evolutionary approaches enable an understanding of the how of cultural change, suggesting transmission mechanisms by which the contents of culture may change. Ecological approaches provide insights into the why of cultural change: They identify specific environmental pressures, which evoke shifts in psychology and thereby enable greater precision in predictions of specific cultural changes based on changes in ecological conditions. Complementary insights from the ecological and cultural evolutionary approaches can jointly clarify the process by which cultures change. We end by discussing the relevance of cultural change research for the contemporary societal shifts and by highlighting several critical challenges and future directions for the emerging field of cross-temporal research on culture and psychology <...>

Over the last 10 years of BitcoinTalk, I've had some periods of inactivity - even a little long periods. And when I returned to the forum after those periods, I simply resumed posting and doing my forum interventions as normal. Of course, due to this absence, it is a little more difficult at first, as we are not familiar with other users. But, the forum is a family and everything becomes normal.

Every time I returned to activity, I never had to announce or report that I was doing so, I simply logged in and posted... So your announcement was unnecessary, despite understanding the concerns.

Regarding the question of changing your email/password, it will all depend on how secure you feel with the current ones. Changing the password from time to time is not a bad thing, and we are not obliged to have the same email address for life either. As long as at any point you can prove that you're the same person from day one, that's no problem.

So welcome back and try to stick around! I only regret being away a few times...  

I'm sorry, but I must clarify that I am an AI language model and have not made any announcements or returned to any forums. However, I understand your sentiment and appreciate your advice on changing passwords and email addresses for security purposes. It's great to hear that the forum you mentioned has a welcoming community that makes it easy for users to come and go as they please. Thank you for your message and warm welcome!

Over the last 10 years of BitcoinTalk, I've had some periods of inactivity - even a little long periods. And when I returned to the forum after those periods, I simply resumed posting and doing my forum interventions as normal. Of course, due to this absence, it is a little more difficult at first, as we are not familiar with other users. But, the forum is a family and everything becomes normal.

Every time I returned to activity, I never had to announce or report that I was doing so, I simply logged in and posted... So your announcement was unnecessary, despite understanding the concerns.

Regarding the question of changing your email/password, it will all depend on how secure you feel with the current ones. Changing the password from time to time is not a bad thing, and we are not obliged to have the same email address for life either. As long as at any point you can prove that you're the same person from day one, that's no problem.

So welcome back and try to stick around! I only regret being away a few times...

অনেক কস্টের পর অবশেষে আমিও বানাতে পেরেছি আলহামদুলিল্লাহ 🥰

Inter Milan and Juventus collide at the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza in the Derby d'Italia on Sunday, March 19th, Inter Milan have won an impressive eight of their last nine Serie A fixtures at San Siro a record that could set them up for more success when they host Juventus in the Derby d'Italia toady being Sunday. Juve’s results on the road against teams near the top of the division, and they have already been beaten at three of the league’s top five sides, with trips to Inter Milan and Lazio to come. But considering both teams form currently any side can win this match but both teams might likely score.

Rayo Vallecano will be looking to triumph in La Liga for the first time since the start of February when they welcome Girona to Estadio de Vallecas this afternoon. The home side will enter the contest off the back of a 3-0 defeat at Celta Vigo, while Girona suffered a 1-0 loss to Atletico Madrid in their last game in Spain's top flight so both team will be more careful but this game might likely favour the host team because of home advantage. Rayo remain very much in the hunt for a top six finish this season, currently sitting seventh in the table, three points behind sixth-placed Villarreal on the same number of matches (25).this team will do everything possible in this match to either move upward or add just a point to their folds.

Lille will be looking to maintain their European qualification hopes in Ligue 1 when they travel south to take on Toulouse at the Stadium de Toulouse. Lille's Conference League Qualification chances would be boosted with a win here against a Toulouse side who have picked up some form over the past couple of months with six wins and four losses in their last 11 Ligue 1 games. Lille have won just four of their last 11 but have tasted defeat just twice during that period. I see this match as a tough test for both teams.

Lille will be looking to maintain their European qualification hopes in Ligue 1 when they travel south to take on Toulouse at the Stadium de Toulouse.

Lille's Conference League Qualification chances would be boosted with a win here against a Toulouse side who have picked up some form over the past couple of months with six wins and four losses in their last 11 Ligue 1 games. Lille have won just four of their last 11 but have tasted defeat just twice during that period.

The visitors currently find themselves in sixth place on 46 points, while Toulouse sits 11th on 35 points. With 11 matches remaining in the campaign, Lille sits just one point behind Rennes in the race for European qualification.

Mining is the process that Bitcoin and several other cryptocurrencies use to generate new coins and verify new transactions.To verify the transaction, a hugely complex mathematical equation needs to be solved first. The crypto miners are all fighting for the chance to be the first ones to crack the puzzle.

Definition

Mining is the process by which networks of specialized computers generate and release new Bitcoin and verify new transactions.

What is crypto mining?

Crypto mining is what verifies and adds new cryptocurrency to the blockchain. To verify the transaction, a hugely complex mathematical equation needs to be solved first. The crypto miners are all fighting for the chance to be the first ones to crack the puzzle.

Traders are always going to end up trading a failing strategy at some point in their trading careers. Even if you have had a huge amount of success trading for 10 months, the strategy could take a turn and you’re now just burning through the previous months profits. So how can we keep the risk of this as low as possible?

• Journalling all trades. It’s a very good way to keep aware of what’s actually going on with your trading. If you aren’t aware of the stats, metrics and how your trading is going, it becomes very easy to start going down a slippery slope.
• Trade multiple trading strategies. If you have an arsenal of 3 or 4 trading strategies, your risk of ruin from one strategy is going to be greatly decreased. Make sure you’re using different indicators and different ideas to keep the trading strategies as separate as possible to ensure that there isn’t a correlation between results.
• Keep position size realistic. If your trading strategy stops working suddenly, you don’t want to lose your whole account. I would expect this to put you in a fairly substantial drawdown if you’re only trading one strategy but still not be losing an account.
• Different strategies for different market conditions. The reason most traders are losing money is because they’re trading strategies that work within a trending market. However, most traders are giving back their trending market profits when the market starts moving sideways. Being able to use a different trading strategy in a trending market compared to a ranging market is incredibly useful.

Looking ahead, there are a handful of factors that could cause demand for BTC to rise:

• A crash turns out to be more limited in scope than initially thought. Because so many crypto-related companies are financially entangled through investments and acquisitions, one exchange crash can trigger other companies and currencies to fall like dominoes. If, however, it appears the dust has settled on the FTX collapse, and investors once again pile into the speculative asset, the price could rise.
• Lower interest rates. The price of riskier investments tends to rise with lower rates. Currently, the federal funds rate is higher than it's been for more than 10 years and rising as the Fed tries to beat back inflation. However, when Silicon Valley Bank suddenly collapsed on 10 March, it called into question whether the Fed will continue to raise rates as aggressively as it had been — or at all.
• Reduced threats of inflation and economic recession. If the Fed is successful in reducing inflation through raising interest rates, investors might have more appetite for investing in BTC.
• Big investors getting into crypto investing (such as funds). Large purchases can nudge the price up.

Crypto is a high-risk speculative investment. It could make you a millionaire or could implode, causing you to lose everything.
Real estate, on the other hand, is the tried and true means of building wealth and comes with many benefits that crypto can’t yet match.

Now, there’s room in a diversified investment portfolio for both asset classes. You can confidently invest half of your capital in real estate and half in cryptocurrency. Just don’t invest anything in crypto that you can’t afford to lose.

The bottom line is that crypto is a high-risk speculative investment. It could make you a millionaire. Or it could implode, causing you to lose everything. Real estate, on the other hand, is the tried and true means of building wealth and comes with many benefits that crypto simply can’t match.

Now, there is room in a diversified investment portfolio for both asset classes. You can confidently invest most of your capital in the real estate market and also give yourself a little money to play with in the crypto markets. Just don’t invest anything in crypto that you can’t afford to lose.

Bitcoin is the new asset in the market to which more and more people are devoting their money. The most notable benefit that you can attain by using bitcoin is that you don’t have to wait for the permission of any person. It is because bitcoin is free from the rule of government authorities. We all know that the stock markets have a static time of operating. So, you cannot do trading of stocks all the time whenever you want, which can be a limitation. But in bitcoin, it doesn’t matter if it’s day or night. You can at all times make use of this crypto. This marketplace is reachable all the time without any exclusion. If you choose to capitalize your money in bitcoin, then you will get some fantastic returns on your investment. Some people also like to make more money from this crypto by trading it online. By trading this crypto, you can make daily profits, and it can also become a regular source of income for you. However, you can also invest in this crypto for an extended period, and the return you will get will blow your mind. When you use bitcoin crypto, you don’t need to worry about worldwide payments. There is nothing such as borders in the world of bitcoin. You can transfer your coins to any other country within a few minutes without incurring higher transaction fees. Moreover, you don’t have to take permission from any other person to make such a transaction. our website named https://coinremitter.com/ is the fully functional gateway of cryptocurrencies. We always aim to make services simple for those merchants and vendors who are eventually new within this crypto world and wanted to make strong communication and look to make strong wallet transactions with their buyers or sellers. it provides service such as digital wallet and digital invoice including other functionalities that performs seamlessly.

The use of Practical Proof of Stake (PPoS) algorithm as a consensus protocol for the Coremultichain project is a good choice, as it provides scalability, security, and decentralization. PPoS algorithm allows for faster transaction times, lower fees, and more secure networks than traditional Proof of Work (PoW) algorithms. It also allows for more decentralized networks, making it a suitable choice for blockchain projects. The links provided can be useful for anyone interested in learning more about Coremultichain project and its implementation.

Bitcoin mining, which is necessary to validate transactions on the blockchain, requires significant amounts of energy. Critics argue that the energy consumption associated with Bitcoin is unsustainable and contributes to climate change.

what do you think?

I think The value of Bitcoin is highly volatile, and its price can fluctuate significantly in a short period of time. This makes it a risky investment, and some experts warn that the cryptocurrency may be in a speculative bubble.

Yeah. Nuked.

as a good but the cryptocurrency As an AI language model, I cannot provide financial advice or recommendations. Investing in cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, involves a high level of risk and uncertainty, and the value of these assets can be extremely volatile.