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With the recent outbreak of coronavirus (covid19) lot of sports game are being cancelled/postponed especially the NBA
While, there are also lot of people from different country that starting to lock down and stay at home for home quarantine.
So,
Decrease of sports games.
Increase of people that will stay at home (probably no work/less work to do, e.g  work from home/totally no work)

So what do you think the effect of it?
Can we experience a high volume on every cryptocurrency gambling website?
Since major payments are cryptos, so need to go to any bank anymore, in short more on online transactions.

I think it's very difficult times for crypto and traditional gambling websites. There is almost no active sports competitions left, so volume in sports betting will be close to zero.
And I doubt that people will start to gamble more. It's very difficult situation in the world and I think most people prefer to save their money because we don't know what will happen soon, there is lot of doubts about future and possibly upcoming recession. I think it's not worth to expect groving volumes in gambling industry soon.

I think we might expect that scenario but as what LTU_btc said most people will also thinking it's better they save it rather than gamble it. On the other hand, gamblers can't be stopped especially those who gamble sports betting they'll more likely will find any alternatives. I think it's more likely neutral in a sense since world is in turmoil with this pandemic.

I guess small timers in gambling will have a break in gambling as you mentioned, they will prefer to save the money for necessary items. But for those high rollers who don't care about money or don't have problem spending money even with this pandemic situation, they will be in online platforms and maybe discover crypto online gambling websites. This will increase crypto users in gambling...Maybe..For Sports bettors, they will look for alternatives but maybe most of them will park their gambling activities.

The effect of Coronavirus is people will stay at their home if they don't have urgent things. I think there will be a new type of sport that people can do while they stay at home, and there will be a competition between them. I imagine that there is a battle between one player against another player, and the audience can place their bet and choose who will be the winner.

Since we have the technology, I think that a new type of sports will easy to grow among the people, and perhaps, they will like it because they don't have to go to other places.

Or perhaps, we will see a growth in the cryptocurrency gambling website because we know that many people like to gamble in the casino so they will search another way to play gambling.

In my opinion the gambling industry will be devastated not only in sports betting but also in other types of gambling, because people will think of saving money to buy food in this difficult time, because there is no certainty when this will end precisely what we hear and read in the media is the increasing number of countries that do lock down which increasingly shows that economic recession will be possible in the near future.

In my country, the offshore gaming operator are been force closed by the government because of the COVID-19. There is a community quarantine in my country where many business establishments are closed because of the fast spread of the virus. The whole gambling industry are affected due to the COVID-19.

That's a huge possibility we see many new gambling sites now maybe this is the positive impact in the online gambling industry, gamblers have two options now, gambling online or play online with bets, but between the two I'm pretty sure gambling online will be the choice of the majority.

Sport events are being cancelled though. NFL, boxing and MMA are just few. UK also stopped the horse race, what we can do right now is just the casinos from dice, blackjack, baccarat to poker. They are readily available in most bitcoin casinos.

For gamblers in the physical casinos, its time for them to go online to see that there are more to online casinos than what is in the traditional casinos.

The volume of people who prefers online gambling will surely increase as the virus is continuously spreading. Online transactions are safer because it doesn't require you to touch or hold any tangible money. It is also faster and easy to use because in just one touch/click, you can pay something with your account wallet. That is one of the advantages of crypto in our economy and in gambling, you can play without money on your hands, you will never be hassle to withdraw money, and most importantly you can't get the virus as you don't go outside.


But the problem in the community quarantine is that workers can't work hard to have money to feed for their money. How about those poor people who is relying on their work just to feed their family. The government should make a solution for that as they implement community quarantines, most especially if most of it citizens are not in a middle class. Vendors are not allowed to go outside, worker can't go to their office, beggars are left behind in the streets. Government should allocate some funds for those people who can afford to do self-quarantine or feed for their family.

As we can see right now that there are so many business who has been closed for now just because on the reason that the coronavirus has been transmitted so fast and very easy so the people are currently announcing the suspension of the work days because on this bad phenomena. It is really has a lot and big effect to the cryptocurrency gambling because of this virus there are a cancellation of games that affect e the cryptocurrency gambling.

It wouldn't just affect the Sports betting but also the other online gambling games as well.
They might not feel it but there would be less gambler for sure because of this corona virus they would try to save their money instead of risking it just like what I am doing.
But I guess we couldn't be so sure since some sports bettor would try out some other gambling games.

Covid19 is one of the worst happens in 2020 and I hope this problems will be solve.

In the effects on the cryptocurrency gambling we don't know if it's have a good effect or bad effect because many countries lockdown so possible also that they play gambling because their in home but the problem with that is what if they don't have online banking to buy crypto so they cannot play gambling.

There might be. But then we also know that when it comes to cryptocurrency gambling sites, many of the top ones are sports betting sites. In which case, since most of the different sports matches are either moved to another date or postponed indefinitely or even cancelled, the volume of bets will certainly decrease. I guess more than an increase in volume, there is a decrease.

That's right many cryptocurrency gambling sites are offering on the sports gambling so there are really a huge effect of the COVID 19 or the coronavirus to the cryptocurrency gambling as we know that it is currently a major problem because most of the sports right now are cancelled or suspended due to the effect of the virus that are occuring right now.

I don't think that we are going to see bigger volumes.
As you said, many people are not going to work - they have stopped working - so their income is decreased. Having said that, they do not have enough money to spend on their leisure activities such as gambling.

Instead of gambling, people should donate their money to the people who are homeless because they can't work on their own during this crisis. As cryptocurrency can be converted, we can help people using our cryptocurrency so that in this simple help, people can know the advantage of cryptocurrency in our lives.

On the other hand, it is true that the most vulnerable citizens here are those who are in a lower class, those poor people, those who are homeless. They are just relying on the environment that they have because the government have nothing to share to them. They are much focused on the people who are in the middle class, people who can feed their family with their salary, people who can protect themselves from the virus. I don't understand how people endure this problem seeing our fellow people who are suffering while the virus is everywhere. If they will make a community quarantine, they should consider these homeless that have no money to support its children.

those who has only limited Budget?i dont think they will choose to gamble than saving their money right?and that is practicality ..

but those Big gamblers?surely they will add income to the gambling site,and will also help the market grow again even there is a pandemic in most part of the world.

People would be gambling online, obviously.

Though I don't really gamble in casinos, I think people will all be going to gamble online. We don't know if they would be using cryptocurrencies but in my case, I just use the cryptocurrencies I have. Some people would prefer online transactions from the bank or debit. I think cryptocurrency users will use cryptocurrencies and fiat users would still use fiat. The only thing that will change right now is the fact that they can't go to casinos and they are stuck gambling at their homes.

It's not like people have nothing better to do than gambling. Especially with the quarantine on, most people would probably find ways to go to their works and would most likely spend more time thinking about those things compared to when they were able to gamble. The issue here is that the quarantine gave time to those people that are students (mostly), but for those in the workforce, I think it actually added more load to them, since they have to think of a way to get to work while being safe from harm of the virus. And even if they did work at home, that's another issue altogether of time.

Additionally, spending money on gambling right now may not be the best idea, especially since you don't really know when something could hit you. You get the virus, supplies ran out so you have to buy it farther away or buy it at a more expensive cost. Stuff like that.

I have doubts that total gambling volume would increase. Because although people will stay at home as some countries even lockdown their activities but everyone thinking about real cash that time. During global crisis we need real cash really and most of peoples are thinking buy their needs in advance. I think so, although I am in abroad but I gave instructions to my family for buy some needs especially foods. So I think very likely gambling volume would decrease instead.

We can't expect that the volume of gamblers will increase just because we are quarantine at home.
Let's look at the big picture which is our economy, the economy is down, people are panic, so they will ensure they have funds for their basic needs than the for the entertainment like gambling or sports betting.

However, if we compare to other industry, i guess crypto online gambling is not that affected much as they can still operate and people are still entertain for their gambling needs and maybe this is the time that we can introduce crypto gambling to people who are used to going in physical casinos.

I think the volume will be decreased since they all need to be prepared for a global economic crisis.

A lot people not going to working doing a social distancing, spend money, especially at gambling without getting some income.

Exactly the same as you, I would even say that the volume might be decreased since most people are busy IRL as the effect of this global pandemic. Even though people are staying at their own home, it does not mean that they will have more time to gamble as most of them are struggling for their life especially those who live in the most affected countries.

Due to covid-19 outbreak, government in different countries imposed lockdowns and community quarantines that lead to cancellations of classes and even work. Staying at home has been required by the government to help prevent local transmission thus, resulting to work from home and no work at all.

Conferences and sports games are postponed for precautionary measures that take away the entertainment of some.

In this times of this crisis, there are two people. The one that will prioritize their needs over cryptocurrency gambling and the one who’ll continue to do cryptocurrency gambling.

Those people who are privileged enough can still manage to do crypto gambling without worrying for what food to place on their tables if ever they’ll lose. On the other hand, those people who are affected by no work, no pay policy might not be able to do crypto gambling and instead prioritize their needs in this trying times.

Some people doing crypto gambling might stop for a while and some may continue. I think it depends on what societal status they belong at the current situation and their priorities now.

we are in the 5th day after the Big dump yet it seems that there is no big effect in gambling company,this corona looks like let gamblers have a break and stays keeping their money because of no one can go outside to make sideline or other option of profit.

but Lets see for the next days if we can see the great advantage of this CONVID effect for the gambling industry in which will also reflect to the Bitcoin Price and altcoin of course.

Still possible but with the global crisis that we are experiencing right now? I think that the gamblers will choose to save their money and buy supplies and needs rather than using it for gambling. The economies of large countries are crashing down very hard because of this virus so I don't expect that much increase in volume on gambling sites since people will just save their money and they have other priorities in life too than just gambling their money.

This is what I'm saying. They have other priorities in life than gambling and for sure gamblers are saving their cash right now so that they can buy other things that they need like foods, masks, alcohols etc. The revenues of casinos right now are going down this quarter because of the virus but for the online gambling sites, there is still a decrease in revenue but not that much since there are many stubborn gamblers out there who choose to gamble even though we are experiencing crisis like this :X.

Come to think that people do rely into their 8-5 jobs salary.If majority of those gamblers are on a place where  being community quarantined
or locked down then they would surely be affected.No work then no pay, then what funds they are going to use? Unless if they are rich enough
which doesnt depend on their salary or do have their own business then they can play online if they want since physical places arent still available.

We cant conclude that this situation will give out online gambling benefits specially here on crypto space knowing that there are still lots of
traditional fiat gambling sites.

Possible, because there is no assurance that people will play and gamble online even though, they have more time to spend at home, and most of the transactions are made possible online. Remember, there is a limited source of income right now meaning to say that more people will consider to buy necessities instead of gambling it online. On the other hand, there might still be persons who couldn't stop themselves in playing despite of the situation.

That's true no assurance that there would be an increase volume of playing online gambling. This pandemic happening it has caused a global crisis to many people, for some working at home with pay and for some no work no pay. So I don't think an effect increase in gambling rather people will think of saving more money to buy necessities than playing in gambling that may lead to losses.

Sports betting are surely affected by the current outbreak and the lockdown but people tend to more when they are "working from home". I've seen a rise in gambling volume in online casinos in last few days as many of the countries closes school and offices and life comes to a halt. People have already stocked for the next month or two and are with family on quarantine without any trouble.

There are a lot of ways to know the virus will continue to show its bad effects over the next few months or not. The gamblers should feel better due to the alternative choices in the online sites, the other professions still live in trouble which can't be solved easily.

Yeah, most of the sport games are being postponed, starting from NBA to soccer games. This is because of the corona virus. Thus, people can no longer place bets on these games using fiat or crypto currencies. Again, most of the countries have placed man on mass gathering or crowding around. Thus bars, restaurants, schools and even casinos are now temporarily shut downed. Now, if people still wants to continue gambling, they can use crypto casinos. They don't have to deal with the banks, nor they have to go through several complexities for online gambling.
So I guess, yeah, it has increased the volume of bet placed on crypto casinos.

- We are in a pandemic right now, gamblers needs to prioritised things if they want to survived in this crisis specially for average joes.

- Traditional and land-based gamblers will not find pleasure playing on-line. Those players wanted the ambience of a physical casinos that online gambling site obviously doesn't have.

So I don't think that there will be surge in crypto-currency just because physical casinos are shut-down.

well indeed because sports gambling such as soccer and others have postponed the match because to secure the condition of the players so as not to get infected with the corona virus which is currently being spread very ferociously.

The development of this virus is indeed increasing every day in several countries. That is certainly very influential on sports betting, but for gambling games such as dice or other gambling games. Then it doesn't really matter, I keep gambling dice now.

Another thought just come to my mind;
Since this Corona Virus (COVID19) outbreak and most of the people are either working from home or no more jobs at all.
So, there are still possible that the gambling volume these days will lessen? Since they got no more money to gamble since some the people already no job at all? Not unless they will gamble and take risk their savings to be able to make money after they got out of their job which is extremely risky at all.

Well, there are many gambling sites that is not affiliated or connected to any sports or e-sports. There are gambling sites that uses other way to put a bet like dice and roulette. I think that type of betting sites are the ones we should patronize for now. I think some of the site offers a high value yet need a very lucky chance. Just bear on the situation because it is very dangerous.

Yes, the gambling volume will reduce, and that happened in the other industry. The casino owner cannot deny that they are lost much money because of this pandemic, and they cannot do anything except to shut down their business temporary. I think those people are not getting out from their job, they only stay at their home, and some of them can work from home. But yes, some of them lose their job because they cannot go anywhere. I don't think they will take the risk of still playing gambling because they need to survive in these situations, and money will be the important thing they need to have to buy their daily needs.

It will definitely affect the cryptocurrency gambling because there will be a lot of people who will stay at home because of the pandemic, but we should not expect a skyrocket increase in traffic because there might be people that aren't keen on online casino unlike sports betting.

I think it would depend on their situation if they have enough money then they don't really need to take a break.
I mean not all of those small time gamblers have a tight budget there are some who only prefer to gamble with small amount even if they are loaded with money.
So I guess not all of those small time gamblers would take a break and some might only lessen their gambling expenses.

The only gambling site that will be affected are those based in sports betting types. But for online casino's it will be business as usual, in fact as you might said most people right now are vacant. So they'll surely look for alternatives to keep them occupied such as online casino's, these will actually benefit them.

The cryptocurrency gambling sites will not have any problems.
Most of those sites have other games to play such as dice or plinko so gamblers can be focused on those games.

dice and plinko are enjoyable  . both of these games are my favorite more than anything else especially plinko when i want to past the time and enjoy  , and dice if i want to earn a profit  .

crypto gambling site mean its still compose of sports betting and classic casino games  but sports betting sites are the one that is affected the most  .  offline casino are also being closed  but the good news is that there are online versions of a clasic casino   . this is the perfect time for offline gambler to try online gambling too    .

I think he meant gambling websites that focused only on sports betting. Since whole sports industry is currently experiencing hard times due to the cancellation of many major sports competitions, it becomes difficult to bet on anything interesting. However, rest of online gambling websites are going to get some increase of online from gamblers locked in their homes because of quarantine.

I think there would be really more people who will be more active in online gambling sites, while the authorities have ordered to avoid going out in public places like casinos, and they are sports events that had been cancelled and postponed that we should be staying inside our homes or houses.

We may not have the right figure or the stat but we can feel that profit coming from online gambling will be much higher than the previous months because gambling casinos when they are lock in their home can either play with their friends and family or play online but of course they prefer beating the online casinos then beating their friends.

I don't think so. There are two major factors. First of all, gamblers who visit physical casinos regularly may not be comfortable with the online casinos. Many of them are middle-aged or elderly, and they may not be very excited with the online version. And secondly, the economy is in a meltdown state and even online gamblers may have to scale back their expenses and bets.

but I guess, a gambler is a gambler. So they will find a way on how to pass time these days. so high chance that they will check online gambling sites. and what's in it for them. But for those who really can't afford to gamble in this crisis, I think they will stop or break their habit up until they see some green light again. and I hope, those small time gamblers should not follow their gambling habits if the money at stake is for his family's needs. not really a smart decision if he will do so!

The media is used for promoting the physical casinos in real life and the online casinos have started to apply this idea in related websites since 2010,AFAIK. The average person doesn't get the same excitement in online casinos and the effects of slots don't give the same effect like in real life. The expense cutting is not case here, because the online casinos have the lower limits compared to the physical casinos.

I don't understand what you mean, how the volume could decrease if more people spend money for gambling like you say.  ??? There is a contradiction no?

The statement might not be properly written but if we reconstruct it:

"A lot of people will not go to work as they practicing social distancing. They won't consider spending their money especially on gambling because they don't have a source of income."

I just hope that's what the user meant because if not then the statement is contradicting.

but now the condition of coins in the exchange has begun to improve indeed sport gambling still cannot be fully used but with other gambling games we all can still get a lot of profit, at least these gamblers still leave a little balance to do gambling so that they still have the opportunity to make money even though the condition is not good.

I'm not sure about that. If they don't go to work, they've more free time so they're more likely to spend money in gambling. I understood his statement this way, so I think he just wanted to say "the volume will increase" instead IMO

Those people are pretty smart and I guess they are doing right thing by not playing all the time with huge money because in this way, the chances of losing hard earned money decrease. I personally prefer trying gambling for fun with small amount of money because this will not let greed ruin all the fun.

We are badly affected by this pandemic virus. Most of us are now looking at how to survive from the market crash and also the way of living in which food and supplies are in the limit. Then, thinking about gambling? I think it was not the priority of the people at this time but instead, they are focus on how to budget their money of this crisis will stay longer and no money coming in to replenish all our expenses.

Maybe we could think that online transactions would likely increase its volume but something we don't see it, in fact, it decreases as well. This means that nobody would like to move their money but instead to keep it for future use if the situation get worsen.

The effect of corona virus to cryptocurrency gambling is not much as gamblers can still gamble in an online crypto casino. As of now, esports won't be able to continue their betting platform since e-sports, sports and online tournament games are either cancelled, postponed or move to another date to continue the match. In sportsbook sites the bettors will likely stop betting and start playing in an online crypto casino games.

As far as that context is concerned, I think of another way around.

I don't know to other countries but when the lockdown started here, work suspension at some industries immediately implemented. It's basically "no work = no pay". It means that doing gambling will surely not be considered even these people now have lots of free time to spend. Plus the fact that it's a matter of survival during a lockdown, budget is limited and should only used to basic necessities and important matters.

Unless these people are rich and have lots of spare funds to throw even in a situation like that, then yes they might continue gambling. But it will only be limited to casino games as lots of sport betting events are canceled.

Can not blame about it at the time of the pandemic, some consider it can still gamble even online at home, but also must be able to survive at a time like this due to lockdown they do not have the full job because even though work at home income will still decrease and will difficult to get food for stock later on, but we must understand because in the current situation people are more selfish and family than gambling.

Gambling at a time like this is only part of what they do maybe people addicted to it.

I am 99% sure none of the professional players will ever get a huge trouble unless they are careless about what they do or not get tested and so forth. I mean these are people who are probably the healthiest among the public by being in top shape physically and they train and take care of themselves like crazy so they have to be super super healthy plus on top of that teams pay millions of dollars per year for the best medical team available for them as well, now normally it is sports doctors who are experts on sports related injuries but they are still doctors plus they can afford for experts outside as well.

Combine all of that together and how players are young, I am 99% sure it would be just a bad case of flu for them and they will get back to healthy without any trouble.

Corono Virus has a huge effect specially on physical gambling casinos because here in my country they are implementing social distances.
However COVID19 only have minimum effect in online gambling specially because they are using cryptocurrency.

You're right, physical casino players has still an option to gamble even there's a lockdown on their area. Sports betting might not be the same as before due to postponed games but there are other alternatives that we can play if you are really eager to gamble. Currently because lockdown is implemented here, card games are our past time to entertain ourselves.

The sports betting industry is in huge trouble in my opinion. All major leagues and games are postponed and no one knows when they will resume - or if they have to end the leagues at the current state.

Good/professional sports better usually bet at games in sports and leagues they know and understand in detail. It is very hard to switch to another league (imagine a better who usually bets at games in the German Bundesliga who has to switch to eg. an Australian league) and even way harder to switch to an other sport (tennis -> cricket eg.)

So no, in my opinion there are no alternatives to stopping your sports bettings in my opinion :)

There are still casino gamblers that are not aware of the existence of Cryptocurrency based online casinos because they are concentrated on gambling physically that they are not aware of its existence, and the data could be higher but this time is the best opportunity to invite them to play online using Cryptocurrency.

More than 90% of the countries affect the COVID 19, But few only affects this issues so secret gambling casinos are available in my country. In reality we never concentrate the casino gambling, I think many online sports gambling also stop the betting so we must concentrate the day to day life surviving. I hope everything will normal on next month end because of medicine will solve these issues.

IMO.. only people who understand and believe in cryptocurrencies will gamble with cryptocurrencies.  online gambling is sure to increase because of the boredom that occurs when people are unable to do normal activities or go to a traditional casino but an increase will occur in online casinos that offer deposits via credit card or fiat transfers (majority of people still do not understand about cryptocurrencies and even believe)..

The traditional settings of gambling platforms will be hut harder than we think because of this recent pandemic happening around the world. These settings will be shutdown for further notice from the government, in my country right now, they have issued a notice about the importance of shutdown of places like event centers and gambling centres, even worship centers.

The only surviving gambling platforms will be those online casinos which can be done without anybody coming in contact with each other. This will be a business as usual for gamblers around the  world even though there's pandemic.

True, offline gambling get the most impact since many people are in isolation where they are not allowed to do what they used to do in real life. Social distancing makes offline casinos has no gamblers who are able to come and gamble.
On the other hand, the effect for online gambling especially crypto gambling is not that huge. We do not know whether the number of wagered amount on crypto casinos is increased or decreased because of this pandemic.

Ambiance is a big thing for many of the gamblers. And in addition, they would like to show off. All these things won't be there, if they sit at home and gamble using cryptocurrency. I would disagree with you on one thing. I am pretty sure that most of the gamblers have a good idea about Bitcoin. Because it was extensively covered by the mainstream media in 2017. The question is only about the preference.

Definitely there would be an effect in cryptocurrency gambling for those who believes indeed and aware on how to do gambling online. Even there is a global crisis happening there are still people has the urged to play online. Some thinks first the priority of buying the needs for the family and some focuses on entertainment and cannot resist on playing online gambling.

It is true that most people in this world are staying at their home or indoors but it doesn't mean they have to go towards gambling sites for their entertainment purpose and actually it is really not good at this kind of situation. People who are new to it might end up addicted easily because they have lot of time to spend.

I don't see any increase in gambling sites activities, maybe in a few days, we may witness gamblers across the world might invade gambling sites to satisfy their gambling needs.

That's what I think too, online gambling activity will increase but not entirely with crypto gambling.

Others are confused between online gambling and crypto gambling not knowing that there are lots of online casinos that accept fiat deposits through bank accounts, credit cards or other payment processors.

Not all are a fan of crypto and we just think that everyone will go into crypto gambling because we are here in the crypto community.

Online gambling as a whole will see a massive spike but I am sure we will see only a very small - if any - increase in online crypto gambling due to corona.
Gamblers who played in classic offline casinos/gambling bars/... usually play with fiat money, because such casinos and bars dont accept cryptos. They will stick to the habits they have (size of the stack, amount of money wagered, ...), chances are very small that they will change the way how and where they play completely.

The effect of COVID-19 is experienced over the global market. This way our gambling network with cryptocurrency acceptance isn't an exception. In my belief the gambling network grew high as well as marked increase in the users whenever there is high money flow. Now due to the pandemic virus the economy around the globe keeps shattering.

Majority of the countries experience drop in the economy. To retain the growth takes time, until then the gambling network will also experience market change similar to the external market.

For sure because the adoption of crypto is still very low compared to what we are expecting which is the global adoption.
We are quite bias here, we didn't look the big picture or the entire market, of course its billions of money being lose now that physical casinos have closed but that does not automatically means that all of them or major portion of them will gamble online using crypto.

Maybe that people will search for the gambling site using fiat first, so when they found that site, they will try to play online gambling. But soon, if they want to search for the other website, they will see ads about crypto gambling, and that will make them curious and visit the crypto gambling site. I think that can lead them to register in the crypto gambling site, and if they found that the crypto gambling site doesn't require verification process like the traditional gambling site, they will like to stay in the crypto gambling site.

The corona virus outbreak and its consequence of lock-down and work-from-home will lead driving more traffic into online casinos. Already movie streaming services are reporting about congestion in their band with and I'm afraid that online  casino also may experience the same kind of situation in coming days. At the same time we cannot underestimate the capability of long-running crypto gambling houses because they must be setting up enough servers to withstand against multi-fold of gamblers compared to what they are doing for years.

Anyhow, physical casinos must have been experiencing their tough time already. Only a complete cure for corona will open doors for them again. Some medical forecasting study indicates about survival of only one third of the world population but not sure what is going to happen. This is really time for praying to God to save all of us.

There has been varying pump and dump trades not just in the crypto space but on the whole global  markets. Recently we have seen a huge decline in AUD/USD markets and CAD/USD markets as well. Not just these, but many of the traditional fiat has fallen against USD. Similarly stocks sees record lows this week and all these panic situations has been linked to the worsening of the current COVID 19 situation in USA and all over the world. I don't see an end for this until people stop roaming all over the country. Many of the gamblers have moved on to care for their own selves and we are currently experiencing this forum as a ghostly town at times.

If some of the investors are safe out there and they have ample money to invest in these hard situations there are higher chances they might be having good returns in the upcoming days. If the gamblers tend to play the game and win, they should probably leave with those money and stay safer at this condition. Again, if you are safer this is the perfect time to buy the dips and have good returns.

There is a saying going around in whatsapp groups that I am not entirely sure about the correctness because you know how misleading whatsapp groups could become most of the time.

It says that even if you are fine after getting corona, after you survive your lungs have a permanent damage, it is not deadly nor it will not hurt your or anything but your breathing "may" change a bit, even if not change for regular days, if you are a person who likes to go for a run in the morning you will feel the difference. You think that is true? Because, if that is true that means players who got corona might have some troubles, think about the football players who run for 90 minutes per game, that might be really troublesome for them. I couldn't verify if that is true or not tho.

The whole world has stopped in a sudden, Everyone is in uncertainty, In my country, we are locked down for the last one month the foods that was stored is almost over still do not know where the end Now the only trend of all is to keep the money for imminent danger. Everyone is in a lot of fear, no one has the mindset to gamble.

Same goes in my countries situation where everyone is on fear and it is understandable that gambling activity is sure on pause somewhat here on my side.
I wont be surprised if it do happen on any part of the globe not only on gambling industry but also in other sectors as well.

Of course online gambling will prosper at this time because many people have to stay at home. Some do because they are quaranteened and some do it of their own will because they fear infection.

People get bored when they have to stay at home. They play computer games, watch tv, get drunk and gamble. Crypto gambling won't be affected as much as fiat gambling because there's avery limited number of people who own cryptocurrencies.

Online gambling, whether the player uses credit card or crypto is definitely the safest way to gamble in this present time. No way I'm going to a land casino during this pandemic.

This is the worst virus pandemic that has happened in this era and it has caused everything to be shutdown, postponed or cancelled. There is too much negativity around everything. I do not feel the mood to gamble anymore,.

The worst has happened to sports based betting with everything getting cancelled or postponed. Those event that have been postponed will eventually get cancelled if this virus is not contained.

So many people are dying and so many are still in denial mode. The world is in havoc.

Stay safe and stay indoor.

Yes, you are right. Fortunately, we gather in the crypto world so we can find the crypto gambling site, which will be the way for us to playing gambling. We can prevent fro the pandemic because we are staying at our homes, and we don't go out to the land casino. I don't want to go to those places too because that can be dangerous. And besides that, the places have been shut down temporarily because of this pandemic.

In fact we can enjoy on a daily basis if we choose to, with the big number of casinos in the crypto space, surely we will not get bored while we are under quarantine at our respective home. As for me, I am not using credit cared in gambling, I prefer crypto as it's easier and cheaper to transact, hopefully we will attract fiat online gamblers to try the crypto casinos platform.

I have never used a credit for gambling, and never will. That would be a disaster for me to try using a credit for gambling. I might end up consuming its maximum credit limit if I always fail to recover my loss. Crypto is a nice choice already. I usually make a small deposit and play with it moderately until everything's drained. The good thing with crypto casinos is that most of them have faucets. If you are playing without planning to make money, faucet is already a nice source of gambling fund.

Well, that is not a recommended way to spend one's time at home. I would be busy doing productive things, like, learning good/useful skills, helping others, farming (people who live in cities could try vertical farming in order to utilize small spaces.) etc
If you must play computer games, watch tv, drink and bet... watch good ones, play good games, drink healthy drinks, and bet moderately. Make sure what you do benefit you positively or in good ways.

Even though it is possible for gamblers to turn into online gambling because of the outbreak, I wouldn't think that gambling sites would be flooded by a lot of gamblers because, not all can afford to still play even if they are no longer capable to work because of the quarantine. I think that, a lot of gamblers would be focusing more on their resposibilities and needs in their house because, it is still unsure on when will the outbreak ends.

There is no doubt that it will have a huge impact on classic casinos, they will certainly feel the same or worse as the entire global economy. As for the sports industry, or actually stopping around 80% of sporting events in the world, it will definitely have a huge impact on bookmakers, both those operating on the ground and those online. The fact that a huge number of people are forced to stay home and get bored will make online casinos have a golden time. I think it will be a great time for online casinos and the porn industry.

Yes, every Govt and Private sectors are paused around a month in here. Though, my country is economically strong But if this continues, we will soon find ourselves in the throes of an economic downturn. In this situation everyone is spending as little as possible and saving money to handle with the situation.

Well.. the stock markets have gone down by almost 40% during the past two months. We are going through the first economic recession since 2008. Within a month or so, many companies (mostly airlines, hotels.etc) may go bankrupt and we may see millions losing their full-time jobs. Under such circumstances I can foresee a revenue dip for the online gambling sites, along with all other legitimate business.

aw that sucks man  . this is also the reason why cryptos are also affected too but good thing that online workers and forum workers here still have thier jobs and only/because they are being paid by cryptos  .

 cryptos can just be earned without cash or working outside and owners can just mine it so that they can pay to thier workers   .  only non crypto workers and offline workers are being affected the most , this is still a loss to a gambling site because those people cant play now  .

That is right. With so many recommended crypto gambling websites which we already know, that can be the way for us to kill boredom while we stay at homes. We can play gambling anytime we want, but we should remember that we don't have to play gambling every day, and we should know that playing gambling is not our prioritize now. We should never forget that our safety is the most important thing right now. I am sure we can attract more fiat gamblers to come and join with the crypto gambling website.

Being at home will certainly feel more bored because there are no other activities that are allowed outside and therefore one of our entertainment is currently only gambling online with crypto, of course now many platforms that have sprung up offering various online gambling that has been provided even many people want to try it, but I still only a few old gambling sites that became a recommendation for me during play.

Do not overdo it on gambling because this is not everything we have at home but we must be able to control the gambling we also need to live healthy with what we want.

All sports events that is scheduled are all postponed and cancelled because of this pandemic which brought lockdown being implemented by the government to at least ease or lessen the spread of virus and control the number of cases that is needed to have an immediate medical care attention. With this happenings, we can expect people to stay indoors so traditional gambling which is attending on a casino and sports hall will not be seen for quite some time right now. By this, people who do really want to still continue playing gambling will surely get into engaging in online gambling sites or casinos to still experience playing while staying at home in a convenient manner. Since people are afraid to get outside, and no casinos or sports hall are allowed to operate, then people will be massively get to online gambling (that can be crypto based) themselves which will be another way to kill boredom because of the lockdown.

The Coronavirus is causing land businesses to move online. Some have already decided to do it permanently like Twitter.
https://twitter.com/carlquintanilla/status/1260244906905415681?s=20 (https://twitter.com/carlquintanilla/status/1260244906905415681?s=20)

Regarding Cryptocurrency gambling, the conditions are in place to grow this niche. But humanity is more eager to stay safe from the coronavirus, we are also a minor crypto community.
The disease is certainly serious as some people have had severe complications.
Guys, take care.

Corona virus does not really have an effect on gambling cryptocurrency. Although almost all activities stop including work, sports,
trade and worship. But gambling cryptocurrency does not stop like other activities, because gambling cryptocurrency is done
on line. So only need internet connection can be done at home, even according to a survey that I read cryptocurrency gambling
in this pandemic corona situation is increasing in the number of users.

Remember that OP is asking about the effect of COVID19 in "CryptoCurrency Gambling" and  not Physical gambling so how can people fear about virus if you only plays in your House?how can you be affected?

I believe that People must play online for now and in this case will bring positive effect in Crypto gambling because the players and crypto that may use will increase and will circulates Good .

I think the pandemic of corona virus or COVID-19 has an effect of cryptocurrency gambling because as you have said a lot of crypto casinos have increased the number of their users because people have a lot of free time for them to play gambling in crypto casinos since they don't temporarily don't have jobs.

They have effects also how about sports betting how they starts bet if we don't have any sports activities because it's all cancelled.
But the onlin gambling crypto does not affect in bad ways because they have some people who play more because of the lockdown to their country and they discover the online gambling for sure for those player of the traditional.

I agree that I do not think that the coronavirus can have any effect on crypto gambling It's a great time to gamble from sitting in the lockdown. If everything is off due to the virus, it is temporary However, crypto casinos will never close Since it is online-based we can easily overcome the bad situation by making a profit by gambling The popularity of crypto gambling is increasing due to the lockdown People are participating in the game more and more.

Markets are down by 25% or so, tens of millions have become unemployed. After all this, do you really think that the pandemic will have no impact on the gambling sector? If people are having less money available to spend, they are going to scale down on "luxuries". You can'r expect people to spend money on gambling, if they are facing difficulty in making payments for utility bills.

Their is no guarantee in gambling that you will end up making profits. So be careful and do not make this as a income source because in the end you will know that you had spent too much money and lost it and may even get addicted to it and it will have another serious issues to you. So play for enjoyment and to entertain yourself.

The effects of the covid-19 outbreak did not only occur in sports gambling, almost all gambling sectors experienced extraordinary effects, Since this epidemic has destroyed various countries, the tax revenue from the gambling industry has dropped, the economy has collapsed, for now the biggest tax revenue from casinos has been lost.

In my country, the casino industry's gross revenue has fallen sharply by 50% since entering 2020, especially in soccer sports gambling, which has a profound effect on economic growth, in the field of gambling.

However, it is not impossible for gambling companies that are now turning to the virtual world, online sports betting gambling sites that take over the profession and offer virtual matches such as: bigo, virtual casino and also poker.
This is done to deal with existing sports gambling addicts.

If the situations are like now, I think it is better to stop the sports activities event for a while until the situations are under control. Yes, the online crypto gambling does not affect because the crypto gambling is available on the internet so people can still play crypto gambling games from their home while they still stay at home. The crypto gambling games can attract more people to moving from traditional gambling into online gambling.

Lock down restrictions are getting lifted in most parts of the world. Do you think that once physical casino are opened people will visit them or are they happy playing gambling in online casinos ? Some people may not go to casino again and hence physical casino may lose some of their customers.

Both, because there are gamblers who like to play in a physical casino and online casino at the same time, while there are gamblers who also like to play solely in physical casino and this is good if the casino industry will resume its operation as it would help our struggling economy right now.

I know there is a risk but if they will be able to manage the risk with their measures, why not give them a try.

^ Probably not, at first the COVID-19 will have a decrease in the numbers of players in gambling sites, and worse with physical casinos including sports betting will definitely go down to zero because no sports events will be held and physical casinos are closed in areas where lockdown are being implemented. People probably start to think of saving their money for the necessities in a short period of time. Those who experience boredom and stress after a few weeks of being quarantined at home they will tend to find ways on how to reduce it and that is by going to online casinos especially those people who are not new in this type of gambling in fact even other players who are fond of playing in physical casinos and sports bettors may get into. Or probably diverted into online gambling and that will give a huge increase in cryptocurrency gambling users. Because we have so much time at home and we cannot even go out as often as we want then people who would try cryptocurrency gambling may even turn into an addiction and may leave their physical casino gambling activity behind for the idea that it will be safer to play gambling online instead of doing it outside their home and be exposed to COVID-19.

It has greatly affected my hustling for other source of my income being an adent soccer lover particularly English premier league where I gambled to earn some money however since the suspension of that league die to covid 19 it has been zero earning s

It's being lifted but there are still some restrictions, Here in the Philippines the lock-down are being reduce to some areas but still those casino till an't operate and the public transportation is still not being operated. The government are making it slow so it would be safer to all of us. But still I know some underground casinos that is still operating here. I hope those people will discover the online gambling so they are not going to risk their life for just a game.

The effect of COVID to crypto gambling is absolutely good, since more people are going to discover it because of the lock down to some part of the world. More players for gambling website's  :)

On the other hand, people who gets tired of missing gambling could possibly find alternatives through online gambling, with this, it has a direct impact to the growth of online gambling as more and more gamblers change their platform from physical gambling to online or crypto.

But still, there's no article online that I find legit that shows statistics about the growth of online gambling due to covid. Meaning, it is just theoretical to say that online gambling is getting popular because of COVID. But, cryptocurrency gambling is getting popular by itself, because of its features.

Perhaps, once the physical casino is opened again, I hope people can hold themselves for not visiting the casino because the virus is still out there. People need to be careful, and if they want to visit that casino, they need to make sure the place is safe, and they can give protection to each people who visit that place.

People can still play online casino at any website, whether it is a crypto gambling site or fiat gambling site to avoid the virus. But with the lockdown restrictions are going lifted, that makes people still worry if they want to go to someplace. Perhaps, people will use a new way to protect them in the social community or when they are in the public area.

The important part here is the casino management mate because they are the one who will implement the safeties of their players.

First is to pursue social distancing as this is very import5way to at least not having near contact to.each other.

And also the sanitized and disinfecting and also more supply of alcohol to use for every players.

Last is letting small volume of players at least 1/4 of the casino house capacity.

Yes, I agree that the casino management needs to make sure the safety of each player or people who come to their casino. Social distancing is one of many ways that they need to apply in their casino to prevent the infected virus. Or they can use the other way to make other people feel safe from having contact with other people.

Sanitized and disinfecting is a must available on their casino so people can wash their hand after they touch anything. But I am not sure that only a few people who want to come into the casino since many people feel bored to stay at their home since at least 2 months ago.

I think that the pandemic process increases the interest in online casinos and because of many convenience, this increase in interest reflects positively on the websites that provide casino services with crypto money. I think that the customers of physical casinos, which have been closed for about 75 days, have now got the habit of gambling online. On the other hand, I also think that this audience can permanently gamble online.


It would not be right to expect high transaction volumes in each service because players usually take care to choose popular services in their field. In addition, since each service offers different game advantages, the players make the site preference distributed and can use more than one website. Therefore, it would be wrong to expect high trading volume and game volume on each website.

however, that does not apply to gambling addicts...
Gambling addicts are certainly waiting for the casino to open again, and there is also a big possibility that casino owners will make good marketing strategies to attract their customers, like our casino is free from corona or free food for new customers and so on.

It depends on the compliancy of the casinos, the government will impose restrictions like social distancing, the minimum number of people that can play in the casino, and they might use covers or division for every player that are going to play, of course, there should be disinfection whenever a gambler leaves the table.

Gamblers still want to play and casinos must create revenue to support its business, they can only do this if they are compliant.

And what all that have with crypto gambling? With or without corna its the same for us here. Physical casinos and their gamblers suffered from corona big time, but we crypto gamblers had more free time for gambling. And that's the big difference between real and online gambling. Online you don't face with many restrictions, with choosing crypto for online gambling you get privacy and easy access.
Most of us who gamble for crypto will continue with that, we will not return to fiat gambling, and for sure we are not coming back to physical casinos. Corona can't touch us!

Some would still gamble in physical casinos as online gambling gives different than gambling in a physical casinos, especially if a gambler is really investing his time more in physical casinos, even if the virus is still here but the casinos will open, I'm sure a lot of people will do the usual things they do.

However, for fiat online gambling, I think crypto gambling is better, I was once a fiat online gambler but when I tried crypto gambling, I never come back in fiat since I find crypto gambling easy and it's competitive to fiat gambling sites as well.

effects of coronavirus is an impact on all industries including gambling for all kinds of sports have stopped this led to a game betting on gambling stopped all this makes gambling less attractive again to make betting on platform betting this effect affect all types of jobs throughout the country.

It will not be less attractive if the betting is done in online, maybe the sports will lose their income from the people who usually go in the venue since if they will resume, they will do it without a crowd but that would make the sports betting industry live again, because people can still watch live online and gamble at the same time.

Gambling is not much affected by covid 19 but since people loses their jobs and source of income, therefore they spend less on gambling. Apart from that no online casino closed in this lockdown and people had easy access to gambling activities.

Online businesses such as gambling will definitely have a huge impact in revenue because people will be unable to use money and to go outside cause they might get infected or be transmitted with the virus using tangible paper money even discover Cryptocurrencies and how it is excellent in terms of speed and security.

That's the bottom line, we discovered crypto gambling and there's no returning to fiat. Once we all were fiat gamblers (at least we as older generation +35), on and offline fiat gamblers! Now even if I would have fiat for gambling I would buy some crypto and I would gamble with crypto!
Experience is different, but as I get older I enjoy comfort of my home more than I enjoy dressing and going out. Physical casinos will always be there, for people who like that, for new generations to get a taste of it, but for many of us that is a thing of the past!

Their revenue drops this First Quarter and it will be the same on the Second Quarter of the year because of the virus.

Because of it, the number of gamblers who are gambling in their sites right now went down because they don't have work right now where they can get some funds for gambling. They can't go out in their respective homes because of the lockdown that has been imposed and because of this they don't have any money to use for gambling.

It will go back to normal (new normal) when there is a vaccine that is created.

Nope.. from what I have seen, till now cryptocurrency has got very little benefit from the ongoing COVID 19 pandemic. I would say that the overall impact has been negative. Exchange rates have gone down during the last couple of months, despite the block reward halving which kicked in just a few days ago. This is perhaps the first time that the market didn't got any boost from the block reward halving event.