u/JobCentuouro

I'm a gambler. I gamble on stake us, sometimes in large amounts over the course of a week . I have money moving back and forth sometimes and I imagine that probably sets off Flags. Vendors started locking me out or freezing my accounts or just not responding to me anymore. I can't use coinbase, kraken , gemini, blockchain.com crypto.com moonpay PayPal venmo link banxa and probably a few more I forgot.

Transak has me on round three of verifying my already verified account. I'm probably on a watch list for fraud prevention or money laundering or something because whatever shared database these guys are using my name is on it. I'm not doing anything, I'm legally purchasing crypto in the US and legally using it on a website I can play gambling games. Everything's above board but they still keep locking me out. Who else can I use? Or should I try to fix the vendors I already have? Are the feds going to kick down my door tomorrow or is this just going to be an annoying thing forever?

does sofi raise a fuss if you deposit a decently large amount of gamble winnings

Last one I think. Turned 1500 to 2500+. Ended up buy a new used phone because it might be safe from compulsive online gambling. Sent 300 to my bank still processing. The rest went right back to the house in less than 12 hours. Stupid. It's always the same shit with me. I know the problem and yet I can't seem to stop it. Sucks. Good luck to the rest of you here

Looking for readers to read the first third (~40k words) of the book or so and let me know how it is. The other two thirds are done, but they're one draft behind the first. Whole book available to read if you finish the first chunk and wish to continue.
Sorry, first time writing a synopsis.

Synopsis:

Rena Conney has spent her life in the slums beneath Lightpool dreaming of escape. When she finally cons her way aboard the legendary flying city Helix Marlessi, the price is enrollment in a classified Crown program testing a dangerous compound that fuses metal to living flesh.

Sea of Sky follows Rena and her friend Abbico as they navigate their new lives as human test subjects, a doctor with a dangerous secret, and a young patrolman in well over his head.

The trials are killing the test subjects. The worst man on the ship is running the show. The Characters are in danger, in prison, in body bags, or just indecisive about continuing to support the regime that raised them.

Sea of Sky is a steampunk novel about the cost of trading one life for another, the nature of power, and what's left of the dream when reality won't stop kicking it to the ground.

Hello, my book has four POVs and a slow start besides. There's stuff going on in the first 50 pages, but not nearly as much as the middle or end pages. I see it as it just takes time to set up the domino's, you can't open every chapter with explosions and car chases or you lose the reason any of the action is significant in the first place.

That said I generally will stop reading a book if it hasn't hooked me in 50 pages. So what's the solution? Keep on with what I wrote? Add an explosions and car chases prologue chapter? Cut all the essential setup? How do you guys handle slow burns?