Bitcoin Cash is not gambling.

The issue of people misunderstanding what cryptocurrency represents still surprises me, at this age and time, I want to believe that anyone who uses a smartphone must have gotten the slightest idea about digital currency. There are content about it everywhere available in simple forms for easy assimilation and yet people still go around vomiting nonsense about crypto.

I was surfing through Twitter when I came across a post of Kim Dotcom where he advised Twitch because of how they are influencing the youth negatively, I felt good seeing influential people speak against gambling because it is becoming a norm not just among the youths, even teenagers are obsessed with it now all in the name of making quick money whereas they are subjecting themselves to poverty because they don't know when to stop and they go on losing all, it becomes part of them since they believe they can recover their loss back immediately.

I went on to the comment section to see other users' comments and I got a shocker, lots of people compared crypto to gambling.

Using cryptocurrency as an excuse to lose your money is dumb because people have been gambling even before cryptocurrency came into existence and I take this excuse as disrespect for crypto. Among the opportunities that crypto is offering, why would gambling be the only one you choose when you can trade, stake, farm, and lots more in the crypto-verse. People have lost a lot of money gambling with fiat as well and it looks like the comments came from someone who hates crypto probably because they don't understand it, lost huge to gambling or they are scared of the change it would eventually bring in the future.

I went on to screenshot more comments speaking ill of crypto by referring to it as gambling.

I will make something clear, gambling is a choice and no company would force you into it. Because influential people advertise it doesn't make it compulsory for you to gamble, if you find yourself doing it then it means that you made the choice.

You might think what you want but the fact remains that crypto was made for a bigger purpose. Unfortunately, since the ambition of Bitcoin was hijacked and converted into a store of value, it has been used for different things that weren't on the list of things Nakamoto Satoshi would have wanted cryptocurrency to be used for.

Giving people financial freedom which means having total control of your funds, the ability to use crypto for their day-to-day transactions were the real purpose but a lot of people do not care about those things anymore except for making riches out of it. These things I mentioned in the previous paragraph are what people who understand crypto very well are craving for and that's one reason why they embrace Bitcoin Cash.

Bitcoin Cash has set the legacy and it is fulfilling the dreams of Nakamoto Satoshi which is giving financial freedom to the people. It doesn't mean the BitcoinCash believers aren't interested in making money, they are but what's the point of making money when you still have someone in control of it because it needs to be converted to fiat first?

The BCH community wants to make a massive profit but spreading Bitcoin adoption is their topmost priority since that is the one way to make the world see the importance of cryptocurrency today and in the future, it is set on changing the world and not just a make people rich scheme.

Investing in wrong projects can make you lose your funds which you will refer to as gambling and it is not so for BCH that has lots of potentials which makes it the most relevant in the crypto-verse.

This user testified to the awesomeness of BCH but you can't blame anyone for your addiction to gambling, I also play at the BCHgames and I haven't lost more than $1 because I take my capital first after winning and also know when to stop, greed has been the problem of my losers when it comes to gambling.

Remember that gambling is a choice and cryptocurrency is not the reason for anyone's addiction to gambling.

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