This mostly happens due to people generalizing that anything in relation to the activity "gambling" is negative. It's like how the media portrays only one side of the story sometimes, and people would immediately believe it and never really bother trying to understand it deeply. Gambling isn't wrong, being addicted to it is. And in fact, any type of addiction is bad and would pretty much experience the same thing as what you would if you were under gambling addiction, if not worse. Moderation is something that should be practiced in pretty much everything.

China is a rather well-known country for the number of superstitions and the like that they have (and follow), wouldn't be surprised if gambling was one of them. It doesn't have any negative connotation as well so I think it's fine for them to do so. Especially if it's part of their culture, it might even turn out to be a family type of bonding thing (and would also be helpful to actually educate the family about knowing what gambling is). Heck, that might be a useful thing for people to start doing.

I do consider the process entertaining (for some games). Wouldn't really consider the process of waiting for a dice to roll entertaining after some point.

I mean ask yourself, would you find a competition with Dice to be fun to watch? Where it's basically instant and even if you argue about using many rounds to determine the winner, it's still a boring process to watch. Poker on the other hand involves quite a lot of factors that enhance its own appeal, making it entertaining for both the players and the people who watch them play. The fact that the people are able to compete against each other and where winning and losing can happen regardless of how good one's hand is (e.g. bluffing) makes it really entertaining for most people. It's like watching a dark horse get the top in a competition, an unexpected but welcome surprise.

I honestly don't think it's going to matter unless the developers/investors or whoever is actually in charge ( as well as the people who're going to participate, aka the players) move off from the idea that this is not a cash grab and is instead a community to be developed. Not to mention that a lot of gamers who aren't really keen on the idea (since they know people are just milking the idea without doing any actual development), and I say that it matters because the probable first group that would experience and test the development of metaverse are those kind/types of people imo.

It's nothing that weird, if we remove the fact that Elon/Tesla had a huge amount of coins, it's just a matter of an investor cutting his losses, especially if we consider how his (public) opinion has been pretty negative in the past months. He may convert again later on but I doubt he'd be able to bring that much hype compared to the first time he did it. I also wouldn't put it much past him not entering Bitcoin again when the market recovers, as I said, he's an investor/Businessman. If he sees the market as profitable again, then he'd probably come back.

I'd guess it's for self-satisfaction for me? I never really considered playing for money. Sure, I entertained the idea of me earning money if I won my bet, but never have I considered that it was a guaranteed event, more like it's just a nice addition to my self-satisfaction. I've always aimed for the win and the inclusion of money in the experience, it just adds more to the feeling that you get. I've always, and will always want to go for the win, not because of wanting money, but rather simply because I want to win.

More variety and the possibility of building up groups and community games that are more concentrated on group vs group instead of individual vs individual.

Honestly, this is more like developing into something in the middle between an mmo and a gambling game. I consider a LOT of games to be gambling games, just that most games considered as gambling directly use money and are more of an everything or nothing type, unlike other generic games which are more forgiving and give out other minor rewards even when losing. With multiplayer developing into the hardcore gambling games, there'd be a lot more competition which is more intense compared to regular games imo.

I'd recommend trying to make your own or hiring people to develop/manage the payment gateway to be used on your shop if you want it to be decentralized. Payment gateways are Centralized to help the process of conversion from fiat to crypto be a lot smoother since you may be paying in crypto, but that doesn't mean that the shop will store it as crypto.

On the Shopify note though, based on the link @Bttzed03 gave shouldn't the only gateways accepted be the ones listed there? Cause if so then I think looking for alternatives or developing your own wouldn't really do anything. I'm not familiar with how Shopify works so I might be wrong, feel free to correct me then.

Facts. Imo it's just that the development of advertising and commercialization has developed in a way where censorship may exist, but it isn't an effective way (or rather, doesn't work at all) to completely do its work. Actors are simply people under a contract, simple as that. By your analogy, I guess people who own gambling businesses are responsible for the deaths of a LOT of people, same with other vices such as alcohol and smoking.

Things are probably at this level because there's a different need for each gambler (ones that are addicted) need and that needs a different level of customization of assistance.

Nope. I'd consider land as any good land imo since development would come and surround it sooner or later. If you were able to partake and join in developing that land together with the surrounding lands, then you'd be able to make profits in the later years. Ofc lands have different values in themselves but that's a different issue imo, a land would always have value that you can take advantage of if properly done, especially with the amount of commercialization the world has already experienced.

I'm surprised, he didn't gamble the money he won? That's how things usually go. I highly doubt someone who was quite addicted to gambling would suddenly stop and realize that they need to save money, they'd probably straight up go to gambling again after the money has settled in. Additionally, I think the only problem here would've been if his money was manually transferred physically? I haven't tried it but I'm pretty sure there should be a possible process for you to transfer money from banks even if they're from different countries.

Kind of late? Or is Shib planning to do something to bring out its hype once again so coins decided to do this or something? I don't even know people who use coins.ph as their wallet, I myself use it to simply convert my crypto to fiat if I need it quickly enough (not that any custodial wallet should be considered). I doubt listing Shib would do anything, whether it be this exchange or any other exchange out there. Not to mention that coins may be the largest exchange in ph, but I don't think most people even use it as such.

You DON'T look for tipsters on Youtube imo, that's just dumb. He doesn't even have many tips for you to watch, how can you even judge him as someone who knows how to beat sportsbooks (if possible, which I doubt), not to mention the number of views it has. If this channel was actually as good as you've said, then he should have way more views. I'd honestly just find a community for you to blend and join in and then find some tips from other players that you can converse, argue and debate. That would provide more insight imo.

Well, you're more likely to break even with it since you have some form of control or idea of knowing when you're about to lose or win, but profiting? Honestly, I don't even think it matters that much, Martingale isn't a strategy even for actually profiting, it's just for breaking even at most imo. So with that and the existence of house edge, no matter what the gambler would still lose out in the long run.

This process is Martingale, but the end result is kinda different? Is the writer of the article even familiar with or knows how to use at the very least Martingale? You are NOT likely to win imo, chances always reset to 50/50, and as o_e_l_e_o said, the big win at the end would only ultimately cancel out the losses you needed to reach that win, it's not a profit that would be worth it imo.

Buy assets that would help your money be saved against inflation. And since we're on a Bitcoin forum, I'd naturally recommend buying Bitcoin. Better do it now while it's still relatively early and the effects are still rather minor. The damage might just hit us like a truck later on by surprise after all.

Other than Bitcoin I'd recommend buying assets like gold or land, just don't let your money rot inside your bank account or something. That's something you should never do in situations like this.

Interesting. Most of the hate about crypto that China had was about Bitcoin since they couldn't control it, hence why they made their own. Afaik they don't hate cryptocurrency exactly, so them trying to integrate NFT's and Crypto would mean that they're probably planning on doing something to the ecosystem they'd use so that it'd stay firmly under their control. Though I'm more interested in how said integration is actually going to work though and if it actually has any uses aside from, well, being looked at.

Why wouldn't it, people believe it so some casinos capitalize on it by advertising they have it or they believe in it so people who believe it would actually chose said casinos to play in since well, it aligns with their belief or something along the lines. Some people have had a good experience with it though honestly, it's all just luck to me, nothing more, nothing else.

I have some habits I do, something like how choosing C on an exam would bring you the correct answer one way or another kind of habit, it's something I subconsciously do when a certain/specific scenario pops up or happens to me whenever I play.

They follow a general trend and Bitcoin stands as the one that pretty much they follow since it's still the top coin to choose (and would probably stay as one). Besides, the general sentiment on one part of the market would usually influence the other parts, so Bitcoin being down also inevitably brings up a negative sentiment (for the most part) in the altcoin department. Not to say that altcoins don't have their own market, the pumps and dumps still vary from coin to coin but most of the time it's infested with whales manipulating the amount a market would dump or pump.

That was one big bruh moment. I'd say it'd be better for him to go into acting but with skills like that I reckon he'd also be pretty bad at it.

That aside though, I'd want to give him the benefit of the doubt and say that it was an accident but... Only if it were on a idk, scale of a college or even highschool level at most. It just isn't possible to make a mistake like this in an official match when you're playing in an official match.

On the side of bookies though, I think they would've voided the bets for the entire match if match fixing were to be noticed? Cause if they didn't there's a high chance groups would take advantage of it and intentionally fix matches and make bets for profits.

I'm against it. It's a legal business imo with a pretty clear statement of how they earn money and how they offer their services to their users/customers. The main issue here imo is about addiction but really, it's an issue that affects both the user and the business, mostly on the user side imo.

It's already being controlled and regulated imo, but it isn't up to date. Especially with how easy it is to look up guides on how to bypass stuff, casinos should improve that system of theirs. They don't particularly do it since it doesn't really affect their profits and would only incur them costs imo.