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The gamble. Earning bitcoins is based on -luck-. I don't gamble. This is not some religious thing, but simply because I like to have control over my fate, an
by wccrawford 16y ago
The gamble. Earning bitcoins is based on -luck-.
I don't gamble. This is not some religious thing, but simply because I like to have control over my fate, and gambling takes that control.
- wmf 16y agoDid you think it's ok until someone used the word "lottery"? Would you feel better if it was called a "probabilistic" system instead? In reality the payouts are pretty predictable.
- hugh3 16y agoI don't gamble. This is not some religious thing, but simply because I like to have control over my fate, and gambling takes that control Bu Interesting attitude. But of course you don't have control over your fate. One day you're going to contract the disease which kills you, and you don't have any choice over when that happens or what it is. And between now and then, dozens of major events will happen in your life which you also didn't choose. Maybe you like to have the illusion of control over your fate? Personally I like to keep my life exposed to some randomness.
- siegecraft 16y agoIf you don't want to rely on luck you can use a pooled bitcoin mining service (there's lots of them).
- aubergene 16y agoSo you can tell in advance what any given currency will be worth tomorrow, next week, a month from now? Your money is always "gambled"
- praptak 16y ago"Earning bitcoins is based on -luck-." If you invest serious computing power into that, then there's not enough variance in it to be called gambling anymore. Betting on 6-6 in a single dice throw is gambling, betting on the percentage of 6-6's in a trillion dice throws is boring.
- gburt 16y agoYou could also 'earn' Bitcoins by selling someone something where the transaction was made in Bitcoins? Is this a semantic issue?