I get that everyone is all giddy and excited about the latest news of a breakthrough (getting more energy output than input in nuclear fusion) but we are still far from anything feasibly self sustaining. Lets not forget the two main issues:

1. Perpetual, uninterrupted fusion without melting the inner workings of the reactor and/or creating byproducts which hinder the fusion process. (Because it gets hot. Really hot.) We used to count the seconds, now we count the minutes. In the near future, reactors will be able to run for hours.

2. The fuel required for fusion is not that readily available to us in abundant quantities, (unlike fossil fuels or radioactive ore) and we can't get more energy out of fusion than we put in. Thats just basic physics. (If we make the fuel then we are putting the same amount of energy into the process of making the fuel (at minimum) as the energy we are getting out of the fusion itself. So that won't work.

The current hope is that we can mine the Helium-3 on the moon and use that for fuel.

As far as the question of investing turning people into gamblers goes, I think it seems very possible. But not just because of Bitcoin but rather the action of investing into something. That action alone is very similar to gambling because it has unknowable risks of losing money but also a probability of making money. Especially if said person starts trying out Daytrading and then trading derivatives... But the same can be said for investing in regular stocks. So bottom line the answer would be yes and no, you could become a gambler if you enjoyed the risky feeling of investing. But no, its not the fault of Bitcoin.

The other way around seems likely too, but on a lesser degree. I doubt investing is as fun as gambling is to a gambler. In fact, investing might seem long and boring to someone who is used to winning/losing instantly.

The only reason why Defi is acceptable in the eyes of most coiners is the fact that its so easy to use to swap for wrapped tokens. That way you can keep your funds out of an exchange and be completely self reliant. No third party is involved in your trades or your wallet holdings.

The bad news is that the underlying blockchain (BEP20 or ERC20 for example) is not as trustworthy or reliable as Bitcoin blockchain. And obviously it is not one and the same thing.

Its like giving someone a piece of paper with "1 Bitcoin" written on it and the person reassures you that that paper can be traded in for 1 Bitcoin at any time, as the piece of paper itself has an underlying Bitcoin reserve value. But its still not 1 Bitcoin. Just a voucher for 1 Bitcoin.

Should the underlying DeFI's blockchain fail for some reason, your wrapped token will become worthless and nobody will trade you 1 Bitcoin for it....

So whether or not you want to trust Defi is up to you. But one thing is certain: DeFi itself is trustless and verifiable. Just not without risk, depending on which blockchain you use.

I think tipping is mostly an American custom which most international people tend to ignore. Personally, I am ok with tipping, as a reward, if they did an extraordinary job or went the extra mile just for you. Otherwise there is no point. And quite right too! Why would you give someone a reward for no reason? There has to be a good reason, if you ask me.

Furthermore as far as live casinos are concerned, I am not a huge fan of them. It seems rather unnecessary and in smaller, unknown casinos a quite risky way to play. A game should be provably fair and have no/as few ways to exploit as possible. Both from the side of the gamblers and the casino owners.

If you are betting hundreds of thousands and have a lot of money, then tipping is not an issue.

I think there is a limit to which games can and cannot be transformed into a gambling version for casinos. For example, you cannot make chess into a gambling game. The reason is very simple. It is a game which can be algorithmically exploited by simple code bots. Thats why computers will beat even the best master chess players in the world. The game obviously needs a probabilistic nature to it. Otherwise how would it be gambling?

Casinos are probably aware of this and are very wary of which games they do and do not introduce to us. 

I believe that most of the scam accusations against casinos are just frustrated gamblers who made a big loss and are looking for a way to vent. And what better way than besmirch the reputation of the online gambling casino which took all their money? Its a bit silly but understandably quite a human reaction. That being said, sometimes there are scam casinos that get what they deserve when somebody exposes their scam. But that happens much more rarely than disgruntled gamblers letting off steam. So you should take any scam accusation, especially those without proof, with a grain of salt.

Congrats to MegaPari for the EG Nordics Award 2023 nomination! I personally have not known about this i-Gaming award but I hope when they announce the winners, there will be some good news for MegaPari

I am a bit confused on your website there is welcome bonus "on your 1st deposit up to 100 EUR" but on the right side it says "register and receive 100 Euro right now".

So do I have to deposit more than 100 Euro or less to receive the 100 Euro bonus or do I only have to register? OR do I register and then deposit ANY amount of Euros to receive the 100 Euro bonus?

This is nowhere near "biggest news of 2022". I did read about this a few days ago and it was nothing special. 15 Million dollars are a teeny tiny blimp and the bank itself had nothing going for it except its reputation of being very very old. So there is absolutely no need to start connecting things that are not there in order to build up a large conspiracy theory which ends up being a giant nothing-burger.

If anything the gesture was symbolic or a bad investment decision. It has got to be one of those two things, I believe.

Live casinos, in my opinion, are less secure than their virtual reality cousins and are therefore more or less heading towards redundancy. I also do not trust a lot of small time live casinos (Except I do trust live casinos which have been audited and offered by big, well known casinos).

Its not that live casino providers "don't gain shit from rigging games" (although, lets be honest, they do!) It just worries me how easy it is to rig live games. We as the Bitcoin community have always preferred to verify over trust. So why should we trust an older version of gambling? I just do not understand it.

Why are you guys saying its a trap pump? If anything this seems like insiders buying in after hearing some good news which is yet to be revealed.

I think you guys mean the Turing Award, not the Nobel Prize? Because there is no Nobel Prize for computer science. It does not exist. The Turing Award is however the "Computer science Nobel Prize" or is at least regarded as highly. If you were to ask me, I would say Satoshi Nakamoto, whoever and wherever he might be, we applaud him for his amazing achievement!   Because computer science is indeed a science. A branch of experimental mathematics, like physics but more meta, you could say. It does not get the respect it deserves due to being a new science.

*Hanged. Hung is what every man wants to be.

Reading the other replies in this thread, some people seem to agree that bonus buys might be kind of an illusion, it would seem. A Fata Morgana of the gambling world. Obviously you could just bet more money in the first place and you would also win more money, so what is the point of a bonus buy other than marketing purposes and enticing you to bet more than you would have in the first place? I think in cases where bonus buys actually bring you in more money then there must be mathematical proof for that.

Hard to do when everything relies on slight differences in probabilities. 

Well yes, if you actually read my post you would notice that is exactly my point. So them serving different purposes, although they are based on roughly the same technological concept of blockchain, is the main reason why comparing Bitcoins with altcoins has absolutely not point whatsoever.

In fact, I even mentioned in my previous post that DeFi is a very promising area of altcoins. So obviously I am not against all altcoins. But Bitcoin is Bitcoin and altcoins are altcoins (crypto). Meaning that no single altcoin will be able to overcome Bitcoin as #1. Because they are two different things.

I do not believe that using an AI for prediction of gambling or sporting events is a good idea. Not only does it take away all the fun of gambling from you but it will not give you the result you are looking for. Why? Because there are too many variables and predicting an outcome is technically impossible. Even if you were to use an artificial intelligence.

And since when have we started thinking that our current, modern AI technology is anywhere near ready enough to compete with the human mind? Sure it can calculate faster but so can an ordinary windows 98 computer from the 90s. I am not satisfied enough with AI progress to trust it with my money.

Web 3 is the next generation decentralized internet. Although I would be very careful around anyone using the term to promote their own business. Most of the time they are just trying to sleezily advertise their platform but their platform is something which has to do with the current web 3 hype. But the reality of the situation is that most of these projects have absolutely nothing or only something minimal to do with web 3. It is always best to do your own research and have a bit of a technical background so that you know when somebody is trying to dupe you with hype-words.

It would seem to me that he is talking about Poincare Recurrence. Basically a physical concept of "If you made a monkey type on a keyboard for an infinite amount of time, at some point in time, the monkey would coincidentally type out any book that has ever been written." Except in this case, with conservative entropy systems returning to the initial state. Billions of years are not anywhere long enough to achieve this.

Here is a good read on the Poincare Recurrence: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/94122/is-poincare-recurrence-relevant-to-our-universe

What's up WO, I'm just here to remind you that Bitcoin is the OG and will remain king of the cryptos. Forget all the altcoin FUD, BTC is the only one that matters. #HODL4LIFE!

At some point we will be chatting to AI's and not even know it. Or maybe that is already happening.

You provided proof that you have a legitimate source of income worth $500. That was all they asked for, and all the proof of salary they need. As long as they do not have evidence that that money came from laundering or drug dealing, terrorism or etc., then you are ok. The casino will not have legal grounds on taking your money or freezing your withdrawals.

That being said, I would rather stay away from a casino that demands such in-depth, personal documents. A good casino would have to have a very large amount of distrust in one of their gamblers to ask for such documents. If they imposed such a degrading interrogation on everyone, they would lose their user base really quickly...