I'm a neuroscientist. Here's how gambling can change your brain
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·February 2, 2025zoklet-enjoyer
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To be fair, one can often profit with shitcoins if one knows what one is doing and if one puts thought into it. A gambler obviously won't. It takes a philosopher. The point is that it trading shitcoins doesn't have to entirely be gambling despite their potential to dump significantly.
zoklet-enjoyer
The night shift crew at my job would go on poocoin, watch new contracts drop, and then try to get in and out with a profit. It was crazy. It did work sometimes. But then when they were up a few thousand dollars it was too much of a confidence boost and they'd try it again and end up losing.
Also, a correction, they were on Ethereum and then BSC, not Solana. This was before the Solana shitcoins took off
I worked with a guy who used to be addicted to cocaine. He got off the drugs and switched to gambling. It started out with buying shit coins on Ethereum, and then Solana, and then online casinos. He'd be so distracted at work just playing games, gambling away his money. Eventually he got back into the cocaine and got fired when he showed up to work noticeably high.
I wonder how much overlap there is with drug and gambling addiction.