Ok, guys.... don't bite my head off, there were nothing under the Press section and I think this is major news, so I decided to post it here for the people that will look for something under the news section of this forum.

I will do a search on the forum to see if I can find the other threads discussing this and then I will close this thread, if it is not adding value to the discussion. 

There is a saying that says, "The biggest trees, always catch the most wind" and this is so true for Binance... because they are one of the largest Crypto Exchanges in the world.

We know that it is a centralized financial institution, so the enemies in government will always target the big guys first.. because they know it will have the biggest impact, if they can bring it down. 

Well, Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) are actually just a digital version of Fiat currencies, so regulators will have no problem if people use it at casinos. It will even help them to track money laundering and also to gather information on people's tax obligations.

This was actually developed to counter the affect that Crypto currencies has on the financial sector and I think they will introduce this as the "only" digital currency that will be legal in the future. (It will totally destroy any form of financial privacy) 

No, that is a easy cop out for some people that has this problem. Most addictions have some link to the hormones in our brain...and gambling is one of those. The brain will secrete certain "feel good" hormones when we do certain things, like using drugs or the adrenaline rush that we get from gambling.

So people will get addicted to that adrenaline rush, which is a substitute for other things that they do not get from life. You will often hear about someone being addicted to one thing and when they stop with that thing, it is normally replaced with something else. (Eg. Smoking and food)

In a way, Elon Musk did this to get back at the people that were in charge of Twitter, after the whole thing about him and market manipulation accusations that were brought against him, with the Dodge coin and Shiba debacle. 

I think he thought that he would scare them with the buyout offer and then they took it seriously ..so when he pulled out of the deal, they went after him and he had to honor the deal in the end. 

ChipMixer, which was launched in 2017, was formally taken down on March 15 over its involvement in money laundering activities. German authorities seized four servers, around 1909.4 BTC and 7 terabytes of data.

Source : https://coingeek.com/coin-mixer-chipmixer-taken-down-by-global-authorities/

Now, this is my concern...and nobody is really talking about this... What data are stored by these Mixer services? I was under the impression that ZERO data are stored about the mixing of tokens/coins.... but yet ... 7 terabytes of data were seized.

Disclaimer : I am not concerned about this, because I do not use Mixer services for criminal activities.... but I do use them to break the chain between my main hoard and the other wallets that I use for my daily needs.  

No, there are no "reported" virus that can infect hardware wallets... so you can discount that. In all probability ...the hardware wallet were intercepted by someone during the transport from the supplier to Amazon and they opened the box and somehow retrieved the "seed" or "private keys" for the wallet.

I have seen a video where they extracted information with special hardware from the hardware wallet, but they have to have physical access to the device to do it.  

It depends on what "source" the wallet are using to determine the price, because the price on exchanges differ from country to country. We used to do some arbitrage between exchanges, but the price difference is so small.. that it was not very profitable.

I worked in Africa a few years ago, when the Bitcoin price was almost $300 higher on their exchanges, than what it was on all the other exchanges, but only locals could access those exchanges.  

Well, you can add the top 20 best performing Crypto tokens for the last 7 days if you really want to add value to your site.    It is after all a tool that will assists people to make a more informed decision on their Crypto trading.

I also tried it on several browsers and it was working fine. You might add a statement somewhere that says ..." Site is working the best with XXX browser" after you tested it. 

I think it is unfair if you lost say $10 000 and then suddenly win say $5000.... and then they expect you to pay taxes on the $5000 that you have won, but unfortunately that is how it is working in my country.

The online gambling provide nice bet history for you to use, but they do not want that, they are just interested in your winnings. I have heard that they are in the process of changing this, because they want to tax crypto winnings as capital gains. 

I follow a 80/20 strategy, where I convert 20% of my income to Bitcoin, so that I can "use" Bitcoin as a currency to buy food at local food vendors that are willing to accept Bitcoin as a payment option.

The other 80% are hoarded for speculative and investment options to profit in the long-term. We have to find ways to support Bitcoin as a payment option or it will not generate enough transactions in the future to sustain miners. 

Do you think Peer-to-Peer sharing services all went down, when one of these sites were targeted in the past? No, new sites popped up like mushrooms to take it's place.....and that is what is going to happen with all the mixer services that are targeted.

Let's not forget that the IT industry are very adaptive in nature... so people will develop something new to replace current mixer services to make it more difficult to take it down. 

I work on contract in many third world countries and I see what malnutrition does to people, so I will not recommend people going on a diet like that for extended periods. People should eat a balanced diet that meets their daily nutritional needs, if they can... so add some fruit and sugar and more protein to that meal. 

Some of the people in the rural towns are doing wonders with the little amount of money that they earn...but they still eat a very balanced diet. (Trading crops and skills between each other)

I also saw that some people in the US that are living off discount coupons and barely paying for food. (Some even manage to get money back from the shop, if they work it out correctly) 

The thing is.... not all people using mixers are using it for criminal activities. I use them to "clean" my coins, because I do not know where it originated from and if it is linked to crime, if I will be implicated. 

The mixers will prevent "anyone" to fire up a browser and then to navigate to a block explorer and to trace everyone back to their hoard. Do you think "everyone" can do that with cash? (So why should it be illegal if you have pseudo anonymity when you use cash?) 

I think if casinos can give AI enough data, it can do the same filtering that humans do to detect Alt account abuse. They can also be used to identify and "red flag" money laundering strategies and patterns , so that this can be reduced.

It will be interesting to see if this can be done in real-time and how fast the casinos can react on this output. I also want to see how scammers will react to this and what happens if there are false positive results. 

I wonder if this has been done on purpose to confuse people and to get them to believe that unlicensed casinos are actually operating under a valid Curacao license?

Did anyone contact the Curacao license board to see if this is a legit validator? I have also seen some casinos using some sort of sub-license agreement to operate several casinos under one license. 

Yea, I think the casinos can also benefit from the AI, because it can use the AI to find "holes" in their security and also in the algorithms that they are using. It must be used preventative to stop exploits, not when they are already found and exploited.

I am very curious to see if AI are more clever than humans to spot these "exploits" and to see how it will react when it founds it. (It would be great if it would go into White hat hacker mode and report it to the casinos)

Let's be honest.... online Poker is not the same as real 1on1 Poker, so there are not a lot of skill that can help you with online Poker. Yes, you need the knowledge about the game, but you do not have the ability to analyze your opponent to show you what their "tell" is or even to count cards.

In the end.. all online games are based on "luck" and some skill to know how the games work and what combinations to play. Any DICE strategies and Martingale type strategies are worthless. 

Yes, even if you manage to use AI to predict the correct Sport bets, you will not be able to get away with it for a long time. The bookies are resourceful and the casino will restrict or handicap your account, once they flag you as a professional. 

The saying... "The house always win" is so true for many other reasons than simply finding a way to beat the system. They have counter measures to react, when they see unnatural betting, so you will lose in the end. 

Have anyone been sucessful with the Dicebot on Stake.com, because I tried it before and they say they changed the API or something and after that it stopped working?

I hope "die seuntjies" can give me a "lekker" answer to my question, because Dice is killing my budget on Stake.com. Hope you guys have a nice day. Oh, I hope you can read between the lines without saying too much, if you know what I mean...