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
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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.
Did 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.
"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.
Re:The Bitcoin Lottery
by siegecraft on Tuesday May 17, 2011 @02:24PM
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If you don't want to rely on luck you can use a pooled bitcoin mining service (there's lots of them).
So you can tell in advance what any given currency will be worth tomorrow, next week, a month from now? Your money is always "gambled"
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.