Traditional drinking and drugs along with those who like games of recreation and fancy are behaviours that can lead towards gambling. After a while that becomes greed and turns into a problem, especially for those with addictions or poverty.
Basically gambling starts slowly for most then reaches higher tiers, depending on a persons life situation their attachment to it variates.

To prevent a double spending attack, at times the network can take more than 10 minutes to validate the transaction and if a block is not found quickly then in order to ensure that their is no mistake between two different communicating transactions to different addresses being propograted exchanges use 1 to 3 confirms before confirming the amounts.

Happy thanksgiving for those that celebrate this holiday, believe it's mostly the US.
Hope its a good day with your friends and family.

Today, November 26, 2015, Finnish leading BitcoinCT r:  6 companies Bittiraha.fi and Bitcoinkaupat.com opened the first Bitcoin ATM in the largest shopping centre of Finnish capital. The Bitcoin ATM (BTM) network building is not just a hobby for Bitcoin companies in Nordic countries, now they make serious steps to make Helsinki the Bitcoin capital of Europe.

Today citizens and guests of the capital have the opportunity to buy and sell Bitcoin using a new two-way BTM located on the second floor of the Itis shopping centre in East Helsinki.

"Itis is one of the highest profile locations possible where you can install a Bitcoin ATM,” wrote Bitcoinkaupat.com's Aleksi Vitakoski in the official press release. “If my hunch is right, this will be a big step in making Helsinki the Bitcoin capital of Europe."

Nordic countries show their growing interest in Blockchain technologies and Finland is a top-3 country per capita in Bitcoin usage globally. With the new Bitcoin ATM in Itis both companies hope for more merchants to begin accepting Bitcoin in the nearby area.

http://cointelegraph.com/news/115743/the-first-btm-opens-in-finlands-largest-shopping-centre-itis

This should probally be moved to speculation or Bitcoin discussion as there are no news articles here.

That is a strong discovery range, at present the predicted is still +14 for now, but there was a bit of price appreciation today before BBF so maybe difficulty will move up, I'll hold an opinion on that until Friday sales are processed by merchants though.

Bitcoin Difficulty: 72,722,780,643
Estimated Next Difficulty: 82,828,549,627 (+13.90%) 
Adjust time: After 1539 Blocks, About 9.9 days 
Hashrate(?): 568,888,961 GH/s

Phones are less secure given that most users will jailbreak it
One malicious app, or simply losing the phone can cause bigger issues it is also why services such as Blockchain.info and other wallets recommend not storing large amounts on phones simply because their is risk there.

I'll chip in as well since 7/8 of my comments were deleted I'll have to clean my inbox spam later, that said seeing the trend above he is just cleaning up all commentary in the Press section in his self moderated topics, all that remain are his posts and quotes in which Chmod commented on one of the deleted posts.

Well it doesn't hurt that Putin said he wishes to resolve this tactfully using diplomacy.
https://www.rt.com/op-edge/323366-turkey-russians-feel-betrayed/
That said he is irritated about the jet and is putting pressure on Turkey and how it trades with ISIS oil and other products although that has been known by everyone for a while.

Meanwhile Bitcoin carries on absent a WWIII scenario this is pretty neglible.

Thanks for the share I have a question since your also the OP and article writer, I was wondering how you would set up a node to vote for a particular BIP proposal say for example BIP 106 etc, and by extension it does make me a bit concerned that their will be fake nodes run to promote false usage (by defintion of user) I recall XT did that for a while back, that said the network can always use more connection points.

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As we know, there have been many BIPs (Bitcoin Improvement Proposals) which try to propose the next best algorithm for increasing the block size. As a node operator, you have the ability to choose which version of the bitcoin protocol your node will run. If you agree with a certain BIP more so than another you can run your node with the included BIP and other miners will see that.

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I agree a 128 GB card is best for the future although at present I see it reported as 47 GB but it might be my accounting is off somewhere
https://www.quandl.com/data/BCHAIN/BLCHS-Bitcoin-Blockchain-Size

What can I say people are lazy when it comes towards these type of things, I'm sure that there are a lot of individuals who are getting coins at the last minute just in case they want to get some goods, afterwards what people and merchants decide to do with their coins will depend.
Although since part of that volume is Chinese and it's not singles day maybe the Chinese are interested in some online Bitcoin deals ha-ha
Or MMM ponzi it continues lol.

Is it possible to reserve a spot in this signature campaign as Bitcoinblackfriday will expire well Friday it should be within the 5 day enrollment period assuming their are no issues with BBF.

I also have a follow up question similar to Mirana's I see 35 Slots available in total counting all ranks and the maximum is 100 posts counted in a month with 0 as the minimum but assuming that more than 3 users hit the cap of 100 counted posts, what criteria would be used to determine tiebreakers. Example % of posts in the gambling section of the forum divided by the total posts, an analysis of cumulative total posts in the period or possibly the speed at which they reached 100 etc.

It depends
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-budget-101/spending/

Based on the pie chart, cutting the military spending to less than half the discretionary spending would cut a bit of the margin which can be put towards interest as well as finding efficiencies in social security and labor, targetting tax margins gets a big sum but can be politcally deadly but then again Trump is doing well at present so maybe it can get done.
However either way it looks like it would be hard to get cuts done and gain efficiencies.

No it would be the opposite in my opinion a Price rally as people stock up on Bitcoins before black friday, a price drop after the merchants convert the Bitcoins back after black friday sort of a double dip effect.

As long as the exchange does not declare bankruptcy gets rescued by a scammer and moves to a new platform all in a matter of days we should be alright, I did feel it was pointing out that a DDOS technically was not what took out mintpal it was a buyout.
Time does tell with these types of issues so it's best to presume the worst and give them some time to resolve.

Well maybe not Kraken your right about that but to be fair many people thought Mintpal was fairly trustworthy at the time because of Alex Green who was really Ryan Kennedy.
That said your right it's not fair to point fingers if one exchange is having issues cryptsy while the other one is running smoothly enough kraken and Ver is also running forum.bitcoin.com so having the Bitcoin domain and running a scam with kraken would be strange stuff.

It's a bit interesting to see a dark market self regulate itself in regards to weapon sales.
That said the sentiment is certainly there in the wake of another attack on Paris unfortunately I assume the trade just moves elsewhere.

Well as long as they remain as competitive or even slightly better when they give out deals than the sites that take Visa and Paypal they can get a good edge with the difference in margins.

That said 150 choices all revealed on Friday I am looking forward to some good deals

Ditto, there are some stores that are doing pre-black friday deals and seem to be skipping black friday in the US according to the news, but I guess in order to be fair in Bitcoin everyone is starting off on the same start with the same list and the same limited quanties.

Exchange collapse and lax security and trust protocols unfortunately come hand in hand.
As long as exchanges remain centralized in some form and not entirely decentralized sites can run away with a users funds.
Gox, Vircurrex, Bitfunder, Mintpal, Cryptsy the list goes on.