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1961  Economy / Economics / Re: Crypto adoption index 2022 - Chainanalysis on: September 17, 2022, 08:01:45 AM

You can click on the above link to see the summary of the report. On the world map included, you can see the extent of the crypto adoption per each country. You can click on any country on the map to see the countries index score and rank.

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What is grassroots adoption of cryptocurrency?
Think of it this way: We could easily rank countries by raw cryptocurrency transaction volume, which would give you a straightforward view of where the most cryptocurrency activity is happening. But that’s not what we’re interested in. The goal of our index is to measure where the most people are putting the biggest share of their money into cryptocurrency. While institutional activity is important to that, we also want to highlight the countries where individual, non-professional investors are embracing digital assets the most. You can read our methodology below to learn how we do that, then keep scrolling to see the top 20 of our index. You can also see where any country ranks using the interactive map above.

Methodology used is based on five sub-indexes, 146 countries were ranked between scale of 0 to 1, the ranking from 0 which is the lowest score, to 1 which is the highest score. For the sub-index calculation, countries transaction volume for different services and protocols based on web traffic are estimated.

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In order to calculate our sub-indexes, we estimate countries’ cryptocurrency transaction volumes for different services and protocols based on the web traffic patterns of those services’ and protocols’ websites. Relying on web traffic data means that usage of VPNs and other products that mask online activity, but given that our index takes into account hundreds of millions of transactions, VPN usage would need to be extremely widespread to meaningfully skew our data. Experts we interviewed for the report generally agreed that our index matches their perceptions of the markets they operate in, giving us more confidence in the methodology.

The five sub-index used
On-chain cryptocurrency value received at centralized exchanges, weighted by purchasing power parity (PPP) per capita
On-chain retail value received at centralized exchanges, weighted by PPP per capita
Peer-to-peer (P2P) exchange trade volume, weighted by PPP per capita and number of internet users
On-chain cryptocurrency value received from DeFi protocols, weighted by PPP per capita
On-chain retail value received from DeFi protocols, weighted by PPP per capita

One if the key takeaways from the 2022 Crypto Adoption Index is that the overall adoption slows worldwide in bear market, but it remains above pre-bull market levels. But this is how crypto market has been, there are both bull and bear periods, the bear would follow the bull but as the adoption slows down in bear time, it is still above the bull time. This has led to the over increase in crypto adoption since bitcoin was created.

It's interesting to see how many of these are middle tier developing countries and it really does offer a good outlet for them. I've seen how American consumers get screwed over by endless fees and can only imagine what banks in some of these countries are able to charge - which had an even bigger impact when the customer has less money in local currency and overall earnings. At least the blockchain and crypto give the ability to keep driving down fees with new innovations, even if certain groups of miners will end up cornering most of the transaction fees eventually. It also helps people in these countries, which often have overseas family doing work, send money back without having to pay even more excessive international transfer fees that banks still charge.
1962  Economy / Economics / Re: How to be more effective working remotely. on: September 16, 2022, 07:55:09 PM
Working remotely is now a common thing, and some persons may quickly choose that option of work if offered by a company. Working remotely can become as hectic even more as working in the office if care is not taken. Before sharing tips on how to effectively manage working remotely, some major disadvantages and problems this can cause are;
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Distractions and lack of boundaries
Many people work from home because they want more time to spend on their hobbies or with their family. But the lack of a concrete boundary between work and home can lead to distractions such as interruptions by the kids or doing domestic chores during work time.
Knowing when to stop
As a remote worker, it can be difficult to know when to unplug and stop working, making work feel never-ending. In one study, 39% of remote workers reported working longer hours than they were supposed to.
Loneliness and isolation

To effectively combat those issues, here are some tips;
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Find the right space
Whether it’s a room in your home, a shared workspace, or a favorite coffee shop, the environment matters when working remotely. Make sure temperature and noise levels are comfortable for you, you have plenty of space for your equipment, and it’s somewhere you’re not likely to be disturbed. Look for areas that offer natural light to help you feel energized.
Set a schedule
Working remotely often means more flexibility – so you might have more choice about when you do your tasks. But while this can be a very good thing, you might find that not having such strict deadlines means work bleeds into other areas of your life, which can be stressful. So it’s important to set yourself a schedule and stick to it as much as you can.
Get dressed
No, seriously. It may be tempting to work in your pajamas, but it won’t make you feel professional. And it’s not a good look on a video call. Clothes influence our mood and emotions, so wear something that makes you feel motivated, professional and confident. Getting dressed for work will also help you mark the distinction between work and home life, helping you switch off when the working day is over.
Plan breaks
With no prompts to take lunch and coffee breaks, remote workers can find whole days passing in front of a screen. Taking a break is energizing, especially if you can get outside, so set yourself a schedule and make sure every day features at least a walk around the block. If it’s not possible to go out, get some activity going indoors.
Communicate, communicate, communicate
Working remotely requires more communication – not less. Use instant messaging and group chat to stay in the loop with colleagues and projects, video call into meetings, and above all, check in with colleagues and managers.

That is so pretty solid advice on how to be more productive at home. Some people are able to do it better than others, some people think they can do it successfully but in reality they are underperforming compared to working in a more communal setting and others are just downright lazy who will use it as an excuse to avoid doing real work. Personally I feel a lot more productive going into work every day and having that separation, where you can leave the office after doing your hours, go home and switch off from work. If you're stuck in the same environment all day it can get rather depressing and you may end up losing track of hours.
1963  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: When betting becomes to high on: September 16, 2022, 07:37:10 PM
Have you ever had an experience betting in which you knew that you were going over the limits of you finances and still continued? I have one playing a game, it was absorbing plenty of my time and despite me knowing it, I was kind of hooked on it. It was not a financial problem, but left me wondering how easy is to actually fall into a bad habit and how difficult is to break it.

This is the sort of dangerous state that can lead you down some very dark paths when it comes to gambling. The sort of decisions that might have a huge upside but in reality the risk is probably stacked against you and can leave you in a dangerous position whether you win or lose. If you lose, you might be drawn back into gambling in a very weak attempt to scrape back some meagre winnings which don't compare to the money you put up. Some people also get attracted to the pain of losing, as weird as it sounds. If you win, you create a different type of buzz which is releasing all those happy endorphins and will encourage you to repeat that behavior in order to chase that high.
1964  Economy / Speculation / Re: Will Bitcoin hit 2022 low again? on: September 15, 2022, 09:56:44 PM
A Lot of damages have been done to Bitcoin in 2022, which is partly due to the economic woes of the world and high inflation plaguing global markets among other factors. The Crypto has been holding its ground tightly above the low of June 2022.

My question is, will Bitcoin hold the rest of this year above the low of June at 17625.00 or the level will be breached before 2023?

It certainly feels like Bitcoin has followed the general trend economy downwards, but the worst times are yet to fully hit. When there was lots of cheap and readily available money, people got carried away and poured it into these risky assets. Now the belt is tightening and crypto simply has not been around long enough to show that it can weather a recession. Covid was a bizarre case and the financial crisis occured a year or two before bitcoin was even created. It feels like we are yet to see the lows that are coming as people need to cash out.
1965  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Crypto Casinos vs money laundering. on: September 15, 2022, 05:23:56 PM
Let's be honest, money laundering is the best thing that can happen to a casino and there is where most of high rollers comes from. I have seen some rollers in the past that runs some huge scams and then go to the casinos to play with the scammed money and with that justify where they get the money from after hitting some huge wins.

Nowadays most casinos has KYC, but i don't think that is enough to stop the money laundering, what casinos should do is to investigate the source of the deposits to fight against this illegal activity, but that will not happen because is a win-win game from them.

So, what do you say, does crypto casinos really care about money laundering?

You'd be surprised at the level which the biggest crypto casinos operate. They go extensive lengths and do Blockchain analysis on all funds that pass through their systems for exactly this reason and be able to determine patterns that may indicate all sorts of criminal behavior. In some ways that is the biggest benefit of the Blockchain technology and once these gambling sites reach a certain peak they end up establishing a headquarters in a legal jurisdiction which will certainly take action against such crimes if found.
1966  Economy / Economics / Re: Savings during inflation on: September 14, 2022, 09:00:55 PM
Saving ones money is good but could be a disadvantage during inflation. During inflation, price of goods might have increased rending your saved money valueless. In 2020, a friend bought his middle generator at #46,000. I had the same amount but decided to save mine in bank. Last week, I decided to buy the same generator, just to check a store online to see price was now  around #85,000.

See the difference in price within 2 year. Bank can never put such difference as interest on the saved money.

CONCLUSION
During inflation,
👉👉always purchase all you need on time without delay to avoid rapid increase of such commodity.

👉👉Unnecessary saving should be avoided. Savings should only be made from excess income which one doesn't need at that moment.

Lastly, investing is highly preferable to savings.

While inflation is a big factor as you described it, we are still barely over Covid which broke all sorts of supply chains, many jobs were lost and in some countries people were very limited with what they could do for up to 2 years. Places like China, which produce all sorts of things - from the smallest of components up to the larger finished products themselves, is currently still undergoing a weird zero Covid strategy instead of just accepting it like the rest of the world. It's bizarre to see their huge manufacturing hubs shut down with very little notice after just a handful of cases, which can cause months and maybe even years longer disruption. The war in Ukraine is also causing basic staples like food and oil to go up, which has ripples all throughout the economy.
1967  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: How to choose an online casino? on: September 14, 2022, 08:49:02 PM
I've been playing online casino slot machines for a while now, and I'm looking for advice on which ones are the best. I like to play the ones with lots of different payouts and bonuses, but sometimes the games take a long time to load. Do you have any suggestions for me?

The only appealing thing to me personally in an online casino is the freebies, because anyone who gets drawn into actually depositing to play the games is just going to start down a deep and rather expensive hole that gets harder to climb out the longer you stay. There are lots of different casinos out there competing for your business and a lot of people pouring money into them, so you need to stay on of the wise people and just try to find as many little free games and promotions from each. I easily make a few hundred a year just doing the rounds every day on sites which have small bonuses running - some days I make zero, other days I've made a $100 from playing a free game, but it all gets withdrawn from the site eventually, not wasted.
1968  Economy / Speculation / Re: Bitcoin doesn't like high inflation either on: September 14, 2022, 08:31:11 PM
Lately, a number of topics have started to pop up,1,2 with users really questioning if Bitcoin has shifted its role (for some), and rather than a hedge against inflation it has become something completely different, and I'm thinking that there is general shift in this direction.

Today was the most awaited day of the week for all traders as inflation numbers were to be published and even crypto traders and crypto blogs seemed to echo one thing, lower inflation is going to be good for bitcoin price.

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Covering July, the data was due at 8.30am Eastern time Aug. 10, with expectations demanding it show that U.S. inflation had already peaked.
“CPI prints have been pretty pitoval for BTC price action,” Blockware lead insights analyst William Clemente wrote in part of a tweet about the event, adding that CPI would form a “big day” for crypto.

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Should the CPI rise above the consensus expectation for an 8.7% increase, assets on traditional and digital markets will likely fall in price on expectations of another interest rate increase after September’s Federal Open Market Committee meeting.

And the outcome of the announcement that rampant inflation has indeed cooled off, with
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"The Consumer Price Index climbed 8.5 percent in the year through July, compared with 9.1 percent the prior month, a bigger slowdown than economists had projected. "

 well, bitcoin didn't disappoint:

Let's not even try to think this was a coincidence, the spike was like ~3 minutes from the CPI number release, no, not even a chance of being something else, and the only news about crypto in the papers is that Coinbase has lost a billion last quarter, which I wouldn't call positive.

So, at this point, can we start thinking that, looking alone at the price and not usage or adoption or anything else, a good economy with lower inflation and constant economic growth is far better than the recessions, bloodbaths, economical wars that were supposed to bring the price to 1 million a piece since every starved jobless zombie would buy coins?

Which is weird because there were many preachers around here who claimed that Bitcoin was meant to be the savior, that the fact it could not be inflated due to it's inherent structure was one of it's most powerful attributes. Surely it should be booming right now, when the world is looking so dire with inflation everywhere? Well it seems that the underlying fundamentals of Bitcoin are directly attached to the wider economy, all that cheap money that was flooding the market in previous years found its way in and because it is in reality a high risk non-productive asset, it was always bound to be one of the first to collapse in value especially compared to ownership of companies in the stock market.
1969  Economy / Gambling / Re: Poker tournaments why tournaments in other games on: September 13, 2022, 08:46:03 PM
A lot of poker game tournaments have been announced on this board over time, and am I kind of wondering what makes poker games so inclined to the tournament and we don't see such competitions being announced for other games?

There are actually more and more tournament formats becoming active every single day in the form of esports. These are essentially a form of electronic game just like poker is replicating the real world card games. They're also getting more popular with bookmakers as they can have huge fanbases that could potentially be drawn into placing a bet with the right sort of prompting. You used to only see games like Dota and CS:GO on most gambling sites, but there are more modern games being offered now at some of the biggest sportbooks like FIFA. I expect this market to get even bigger over time, the trick is the ability to prevent any cheating so potentially only live events where no tampering can happen will be tolerated.
1970  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Ever heard of trifecta betting? on: September 13, 2022, 08:24:47 PM
I somehow stumbled on the word 'trifecta' and as interesting as the name sounds, I got interested and had to find a relationship that connects the word trifecta to betting.
The definition of a Trifecta is according to https://edge.twinspires.com/racing, the correct selection of the first, second, and third place finishers across the wire in the exact order.
Trifecta betting is popular in horse or greyhound racing. A small wager can have a big payoff due to the difficulty of accurately picking the top 3 finishers.
Whenever you place a bet on the three horses which you think will finish the race first, second, and third, in a specific order,  If they happen to finish in the correct order of which you predicted to win, you can win big!
The minimum stake for an online trifecta bet is usually either $.50 or $1 minimum.  Trifecta bets are available at almost all horse racing events around the world. It covers all breeds of racing which includes trifecta bets on thoroughbred racing, trifecta bets on harness racing, and trifecta bets on greyhound racing.
One can make a Trifecta bet online because it is legal and commonly used in the United States and most states around the world.
However, with recent cases of scams parading the online space, one is cautioned to use only legal, safe, and regulated websites like TwinSpires.com.
If one is faced with some of the more complex bets, Trifecta betting might just be another strategy to try out.
Let's discuss it!

It just sounds like a version of a parley or multi-bet, which is commonly found on every single gambling site out there. In fact, this type of bet is the most profitable for sportbook companies because gamblers are really poor at understanding the different odds that are involved in stringing together multiple bets like this. Anyone who has tried horse racing just a little bit will tell you how unpredictable the results can be, so while horse races generally offer much higher odds even on the supposed front runner, upset results are happen very often - if bookmakers cannot even predict the first horse over the line then how it a punter meant to pick three horses in a row over the line?
1971  Economy / Economics / Re: Flood causing economics crises on: September 13, 2022, 07:55:01 PM
As you know flood its part of world unfavourable environment. its has bundle of other reaction not in specefic area but around ecosystem. is flood fetching changing in economics? if yes but how!!!!!

Only this year we saw record high temperatures in many parts of the world - the thing about climate change is it is going to generate many more extremes. Not just heating up the planet, but also in a few places it will bring extreme cold, along with much more intense storms which may include even faster wind speeds or golf ball size hail. Floods is part of it too, because not only will these extreme storms spread water via rain, which can overflow rivers and dams, but it will combine with rising seas that occur due to the melting icecaps releasing huge amounts of frozen water. It also has a tendency to get worse, faster, because things like the permafrost melting will release a lot of CO2 which traps even more heat inside the atmosphere.
1972  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: FIBA's EuroBasket is rigged with a proof on: September 12, 2022, 08:11:01 PM
Proof:
https://twitter.com/cryptosfaucets/status/1569024965391056898?s=20&t=kMy7E-HY2yNV-jEnzESVJw

Seriously, how likely is it that 3 games in a row will end up 94-86 each one?

Is this truly a coincidence?!

 Cheesy Huh

Or perhaps we can all say that FIBA is rigging the games somehow using the referees or through something like that.


Proof would be an undercover journalist recording the coach of each team stating that they're going to force the outcome before the game. You have provided proof of nothing but a statistical anomaly which is bound to crop up over time. Just the same way you might find 5 premier league matches turn up zero goals scored in a row - these players supposedly worth tens of millions cannot score goals, their only job? In reality if you care to type "Average points in a eurobasket game" and just browse the results, you'll see it is pretty much the average for a basketball game to end up within the 200 points scored range - which almost perfectly fits with the numbers you have presented. People have a great habit of seeing patterns where there are none, and three examples out of hundreds of basketball games played each year is a shockingly bad example and nowhere near evidence of anything.
1973  Economy / Economics / Re: The Impact of the Capitalist System on People's Economic Practices, Really? on: September 12, 2022, 08:02:07 PM
The capitalist economic system is a system in which private business actors own and control property according to their interests. An important factor of the capitalist economic system is the profit motive according to Adam Smith's theory. In his book entitled "Wealth of Nation", he explains the concept of laissez faire and the principles of the invisible hand.

Just imagine, if we invest $5.390,11 in bitcoin or in altcoins, if the return on investment is maximum and we do it at the right time, then to make one house no more than 1, 2 or 3 years running time, without having to wait for repayment annual fees that run according to the agreement. Of course, the investments that we make also have the impact of risks and losses, if someone does not understand the pattern and the right time to enter the market, this problem is related to knowledge, which may be learned before starting an investment.

With this last paragraph it would seem that you don't necessarily understand or translate the all the information you've gathered from the concepts of Adam Smith across into the cryptocurrency realm. It was never about investing, it was essentially just gambling. Investing means you can look at a huge swath of available historical information and make a balanced decision. The people at the point you describe never knew that Bitcoin would double in value, nevermind multiply ten fold - because Bitcoin had simply only been around a few years which is not a sound basis for making a judgement of it's value. If that same amount was invested at the height, you would have lost 60%+ of the value of your money so far, but the same rabid crowd were still preaching that it will keep going back upwards.
1974  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Bonus Abuse: Who is to Blame? on: September 12, 2022, 07:27:20 PM
So I was reading this article where a recent study showed that 71% of online gambling merchants have reported an increase in promotion abuse over the past year.

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After surveying 1,700 fraud and payment professionals based at online gambling platforms, the study found that 62% of all types of online merchants had suffered an increase in fraud over the past 12 months. These operators detailed significant impacts on revenue as a result of online fraud.
Promotional offers are a common tactic employed by online gambling platforms to attract customers; such offers include loyalty rewards, sign-up bonuses and free bets.
Savvy players make use of multiple accounts and different IP addresses to exploit these promotions, finding loopholes that result in heavy financial losses for the companies targeted.
Another form of fraud that has seen an increase is online payment fraud, with 67% of merchants reporting a rise in payment details being taken from customer accounts. The high traffic of the websites involved can make it difficult for companies to clamp down on fraudulent activity.

I was sitting and wondering, there will always be bad actors in online gambling but who is to blame, the customers/fraudsters or the gambling merchants? Are the customers/fraudsters getting tech-savvy or are the gambling merchants getting complacent in checking and testing their website for loopholes? Don't these online gambling operators anticipate these frauds while building their websites? Why don't they invest in a robust fraud detection system before the fraud happens and not after?
I ask again who is to blame for the increase in bonus abuse, the customers/fraudsters or the online gambling operators?

In reality gambling companies don't get any benefit from people abusing the system and in fact pay large amounts for teams that seek to stamp it out. The sort of people who go to great lengths to take advantage and abuse the system of bonuses tend to stray into many grey areas, which then lead further on to pure criminal activity. These sort of cheaters will often go to extreme lengths if they perceive the ability to squeeze free money out of a company and we must remember that a single dollar has a very different value in different countries. If somebody is able to make say $300 dollars by jumping through numerous, but repeatable, hoops.. then they could potentially live an above average life in somewhere like Venezuela.
1975  Economy / Economics / Re: Rebuttal: Rich Mindset vs Poor Mindset on: September 12, 2022, 07:12:56 PM
This topic is borne out of the pain I feel when I hear/read that the rich are better than the poor. I have met with a lot of poor people, and I could feel their pains and destiny wastage as their knowledge, wisdom and dreams are being chattered due to the lack of resources and opportunities around them, not due to their mindset. Not that these people are foolish, lazy, not energetic or time conscious, but many are just unlucky with the country or environment they find themselves. Even many of the so-called rich people extract their ideas and successes from the poor, only to take the glory, honour and riches, which is the most painful part.

For this misconception (at least to me), I concluded to put this piece together so that I can read an honest opinion directly from you people. Correct me if I am wrong; the poor is better than the rich, only that they are not privileged.

Conclusively, there is a lot of nonsense going on online that the rich have it better in terms of timing, management, expertise and all that. But I will always disagree with most. The only peculiarity is that the rich have money and privileges, which is why it seems as if they know and do better. Many poor people are better than the rich in terms of many things but are only unfortunate that they are poor, especially when they find themselves in a very bad country. While some lucky ones still find their way to the top, and some rich people become poor due to mismanagement."

The link to the original post: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5411835.msg60925934#msg60925934

What many rich don't understand, especially those who have been born into it rather than earned it (surprisingly common) is just how hard it is for people on low incomes to do any type of meaningful saving - the idea of investing would be a pipe dream. Any chance that lower income people get to save money is often overridden by immediate demands which will wipe out smaller saving pots that might have taken a long time to accrue. There is also the idea that it is expensive to be poor. People on higher incomes might spend $250 on a pair of work shoes that last three years, as opposed to those with less income who are forced to spend $100 every 9 months because they wear out a cheaper version much quicker.
1976  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Rakeback and promotions for limited time on: September 11, 2022, 08:48:06 PM
Some casinos give gamblers the opportunity to earn extra satoshis by rewarding them a small percentage of the total sum of money gamblers have wagered on the platform. It's a kind of cashback feature which greatly varifies in values from one casino to another and depending the game (poker offers the highest rakeback percentages I've seen). Besides this feature, from times to times, special promotions with similar rules and benefits to players may appear aiming to raise the popularity of the website, and incentivizing people to spend more time and money at the casino.

Do you take advantage of these features or do you think they don't worth? Do you have any strategies to play and increase your profit through rakeback or do you just ignore it? By your experience, have rakeback ever been profitable for you?

Any personal experiences you can share are appreciated!

These are commonly offered by casinos both online and in the real world in order to entice players in. It just goes to show how profitable and potentially addictive gambling can be if these mega gambling operations can effectively give away free money to "buy" you as a new customer. They expect you to burn through the initial perks, get dollar signs in your eyes from a few decent wins and pour more money back into their site. Clearly there must be logic in it and they must be making huge sums if it's this sustainable. You'll find that they will offer welcome bonuses but after that the promotions tend to get much more technical, because they don't tend to reward long term customers anywhere near the same - you're in their trap already.
1977  Economy / Economics / Re: Which city deserves to be the blockchain capital? on: September 11, 2022, 08:07:16 PM
Many major and minor conferences occur worldwide for people to gather and discuss blockchain development and the crypto industry. Everyone can find a lot of helpful information and make the necessary acquaintances during such events. According to our research, the list of cities hosting the most events in 2022-2023 is topped off by:

  • London - 26 events;
  • New York - 25 events;
  • Rome - 20 events;
  • Dubai - 16 events;
  • San Francisco - 13 events;
  • Miami - 13 events;
  • Singapore - 10 events.


Like Satoshi, we should all be humble and not seek out fame, so creating such a label will always be fraught with difficulty and is totally unnecessary. The amount of events these places hold is completely redundant in meaning as well, because they could be super small or super large, they could be garbage or high quality, so it has no bearing on how useful they are. It is best to see innovation happening all around the world because there are almost 8 billion minds coming up with good ideas every day and they should not be stifled due to their location. Besides, with so much activity taking place online these days and work at home being so big, everyone is becoming more scattered already.
1978  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: The Rise of Mobile Gambling Is Leaving People Ruined and Unable to Quit on: September 11, 2022, 08:03:14 PM
One of the better pieces published on gambling addiction that I have seen.

It is possible that the form of addiction described here is a hybrid addiction. Its a cross between gambling addiction and internet addiction. With mobile phones being an enabler.

Reading some of the quotations I actually started to feel sorry for some of these people. Usually I consider gambling addiction to be a lower priority than substance abuse. But knowing how easy and convenient the internet makes things. It has to be an extremely difficult temptation for those suffering gambling addiction to resist.

Treatment for these types of addictions would also be difficult. If only due to the necessity of owning and carrying a phone in this day and age.

What can be done for these types of addicts? Even if they had no phones. There are still so many enablers around in the form of free WIFI and internet cafes.

Perhaps treatment centers would be located in remote areas with no internet access? That seems like it could represent a good first step. But of course the second they returned to modern society. There would always be the temptation to revert to former behavior. Which could be tough to resist.

It seems like different age groups need to be handled in different ways, but ultimately the best solution would be a worldwide gambling register that somebody could sign up to and self exclude themselves from every single gambling activity for a specified length of time. Gambling, like many addictions, can be tricky to break free from and many people are so stuck in one environment that they do not see any ability to change. Deep down, it does require the solid will from within to be able to beat it, because even short term solutions will eventually require you to think about gambling differently - to realize that it can be very detrimental to your finances and accept you should never go near it if you cannot handle it responsibly.
1979  Economy / Economics / Re: Is the pet industry recession-proof? on: September 11, 2022, 07:55:18 PM
Over the past months, the world has been ravaged by inflation and people are losing their purchasing power due to the high cost of goods and services. So many sectors of the economy are in a deep recession that has resulted in business failure. The pet sector is also suffering from inflation. In June 2022, pet food inflation in the U.S. reached 10.3%, Canadian had 8.1% and Europe has 8.8%.

But when it is expected that during an economic crisis, people would pull back on spending on their pets, it turned out the opposite. According to research by Edge by Ascential, the pet industry is forecasted to reach $281 billion by 2023. Many economists believe that the pest industry is recession-proof. In the past two recessionary dips of 2001 and 2008, pet spending actually grew unabated each year by 7 percent and 5 percent respectively. Moreover, it has followed a steady trajectory of growth over the past 30 years.  It's rare to find a sector that offers both growth and defensiveness in recessions like the pet industry.

Reasons for the growth of the pet industry

Pets are now part of the family: There are now around 108 million dogs in the United States– roughly one dog to every three humans. In the U.S., 70% of all households now own a pet (an increase from 56% in 1988), which means there are now more households with pets than children. The bond between pet owners and animals is getting closer. Everyone is treating their pets like children.  

Thirty years ago, dogs couldn’t come into the house, then they were allowed in the bed, and soon they will have their own room. With pets increasingly viewed as members of the family (even often taking the place of children as millennials wait longer to get married and have kids), spending on pet-care has consistently grown.

You gave an impression of everything that happened when the country was not in recession and while some of it does make sense, what we've seen recently is an anomaly. The Covid recession spawned all sorts of societal changes, like much more working from home, spending more time stuck at home (sometimes in the garden) and being socially isolated - which spurned a massive uptick in people adopting pets to help keep them company. Sadly that effect seems to have worn off and like the fickle people we are, many people have now switched back to working in the office and unfortunately some others have decided that they are unable to care for the animals they made such a big commitment to and have started abandoning them.
1980  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: What is the best way of contact steamers who do live stream their gamble? on: September 11, 2022, 07:41:35 PM
Hi guys! I need some good streamers who do live stream their gamble. So what is the best way of contacting them? If you know about it, or you have a good list of streamers please share. Or if you are a streamer you can contact me, and we can make a suitable deal for streaming. Thank you.

Surely you can see the chat functionality that accompanies most streamers? They also usually have information boxes with methods of contact, or maybe you could go ahead and make a private donation to their paypal address with your question attached in the comments. You're better off going out and finding streamers who fit with what you need than asking for requests here, because this place is at best going to have a handful of possibly popular streamers, but there are people out there on places like Twitch and Youtube with potentially hundreds of thousands, even millions of regular viewers instead. You might also want to state that you'll pay in fiat as so may have no interest in Bitcoin or other crypto.
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