We need to get a proper perspective on this

When your lungs are irreparably damaged due to heavy smoking, your whole life will have long been ruined due to gambling. You can be a chain smoker for 20 years (and still be mostly okay as far as your lungs are concerned), but you can't be a gambling addict for the same amount of time unless someone else manages your finances (read, you can't waste all your money within a year or so)

And addiction, and especially a gambling variety of it, is not something you can just stop or give up since otherwise it wouldn't be an addiction. This is true for both smoking and gambling, but unlike the latter the former doesn't change your personality. No matter how much you smoke, you remain the same person. This is not the case with gambling as it does change your whole character and personality (and not for the better)


I know a lot of chain smokers who are not heavy drinkers (or just habitual drinkers, for the record)

That actually remains to be seen

The harsh truth is, gambling does affect us physically. Indeed, it is unlikely to cause lung cancer (though who knows, especially if you are a chain smoker, and partly or fully due to your gambling habits). But it still affects our mental health, and the negative consequences can be far worse than from cigars or smoking in general. People don't commit suicides because of smoking but they do because of gambling, apart from a host of other severe problems that literally destroy human lives in the most physiological sense of the word

I could even expand your thought further

The sheer amount of luck involved in this activity (or any other such activity) that no amount of skill or expertise can offset or balance out reveals the insightful truth about choosing one's life occupation (let's call it one's true calling). In simple and mundane terms, you should pursue only those career paths that ring true to your inner self, and resonate well with your natural propensities and inclinations. If this happens to be poker, then go for it

Well, opinions vary on this one

If you happen to live in a country other than the US or those which are part of the Eurozone (that have adopted the euro as their common currency), you are most certainly exposed to high levels of currency volatility. And that gives you a certain advantage that you can exploit by actively managing your cash portfolio through riding the fluctuations of the exchange rates in pretty much the same way we are doing that in crypto. Indeed, it requires that you follow the price dynamic but if you do you turn the tables, and now it doesn't feel like the worst scenario "at all" (in fact, it feels good enough to beat inflation)

Yes, they need to keep up

But does it mean that they should blindly follow someone's steps if it doesn't offer them any advantages? So to give everyone a proper perspective on my doubts, let's rephrase my initial question in the following way. What advantages and benefits will creating another currency in addition to an already existing one provide to a government? And please note that modern fiat is already digital for the most part anyway (the fact which I mentioned straight away), and it's been that way for a few decades already


How's that?

But what's in it for them?

They already have fiat which is already digital (and likely with some cryptography involved along the way) and which they can fully control. These rumors (of some government creating their own variety of cryptocurrency, mostly a Chinese one) have been circulating since at least 2015, but no one has yet explained why would they want that

Okay, someone could come up with the idea they want their own cryptocurrency to compete with Bitcoin but this suggestion assumes they consider Bitcoin a threat. However, if they really considered it a threat, they would likely just ban it and get done with that (as some countries already did anyway)

Addiction is a pathology

So if it is a love for something, it is a pathological love. And the pathological part of it refers to the fact (actually, two facts) that an addict can't willingly stop using or doing something and he understands that it ruins his love (corrected) life. I think it is an important addiction (corrected) addition

In this way, if someone tremendously loves a sport (or a spouse), or some other activity, say, fishing (or someone), but it doesn't hurt him, then we can't call it addiction. And thus we arrive at a conclusion that addiction is a self-destructive love for something (and gambling addiction fits into this definition perfectly)

I don't think it makes a correct analogy

Well, let's call it an incomplete analogy. And to make it complete, let's assume that you are not buying a simple ticket in order to watch a movie but rather a lottery ticket which allows you an entrance to the cinema. You may like the movie or you may in fact dislike it, but it doesn't really matter if your priority or hope is to win the lottery. So if this is the case, you are likely to start chasing your "losses" (unless you win, obviously). Pretty much similar to gambling

What would you really expect from this guy given his background?

Peter Schiff seems to be a famous gold bug advocating possession of physical gold:


So now it is because of dishonest gold dealers that gold has been massively underperfoming last years (or so it feels). Okay then. But let's not be too hard on him. It is difficult to maintain your composure when you see Bitcoin rising from "rags to riches", metaphorically speaking, in less than no time, while gold couldn't even beat the US dollar inflation during the last 40 years or so (you will remember that Dimon dude from JPMorgan). Gold is likely the best investment option if you want to preserve your wealth (well, maybe at some small expense but still), but when it comes to multiplying it (since this is what most of us are looking for), gold is definitely not an investment of choice

That depends on your purpose

Cash is good for making emergency expenses, so if you keep a certain percentage of your wealth in a stable currency as cash for a "rainy day" (say, in the US dollars), it can be a worthy store of value after all, even despite a small loss of purchasing power over years. In other words, you can easily make up for that loss of purchasing power by adding something to that stash of cash as your wealth grows in years and value

This matter had been discussed extensively in the past

And there seems to be not a lot of areas where the blockchain-based solutions can be applied to, and which wouldn't be subpar to already existing ones. Technically, blockchain is a distributed decentralized database, so it is nothing new (its application as a ledger for a digital currency is, though). Where such a system offers substantial advantages, it is already in use (under a different name, obviously). In short, don't fall for the hype

С этим можно поспорить

Если мы посмотрим на историю битка и топовых альтов, то ценник практически никогда медленно не рос, а вот падал он в течение достаточно длительного времени. Так было в 2017 году, когда биток и альты выросли за какие-то считанные месяцы, а потом сползали весь 2018 год. Так произошло и в году нынешнем, когда весь рост уложился в какой-то одинокий месяц, а отдышаться мы не можем до сих пор. Поэтому следует полагать, что эта тенденция или зависимость продолжится и в будущем

I'm not sure if that has anything to do with Internet

Unless you are on mobile or something. Did you check your betting speed in the Autobet setup? The slider should be moved to the right (well into the red green glow) if you want to get extreme speeds. If anything, I confirm that I'm able to get as many as 3-4 rolls per second without sacrificing anything, like CPU cycles or bandwidth (but I have a pretty fast computer and Internet access). And my base bet amount is set at the minimum possible

When I wrote my reply, I thought about that

But even on the forum, where people can't see "the face, shaking hands, or twitching eyes or whatever" of their fellow posters, emotions are often boiling and going over the top (which even this thread clearly shows). So if you, as a casino operator, can somehow make people feel the emotions of their peers (let's call it live experience), you will be able to make games more skill-ready and less luck-based (not to mention making them more interesting and absorbing overall). That's basically the idea behind the chat-rooms but there must be plenty of other options and approaches to make games more interactive, more human if you please

Так не об этом вообще речь

Я же недаром привел цитату от Маркса (зачеркнуто) Марка (Твена, а не Цукенберга). Все смотрят насколько упал хешрейт за последние полгода, на целых 146%, да. Красивые цифры, не за горами похороны, че там. А то, что этот хешрейт с начала 2017 года вырос на 9500% - это мало кого волнует. Как говорится, хоронили лайт - порвали два баяна. А сколько баянов порвали при похоронах битка - не одна музыкальная фабрика обанкротилась (зачеркнуто) обогатилась

New stats are here:



As I mentioned above, there was not enough variance to book handsome profits during the last 10 days (if you consider 11% of pure profit during that timeframe not good enough, of course). On the other hand, I'm still rolling, and this is definitely a good thing without any reservations or doubts

Stay tuned and follow the thread!

Rome wasn't built in a day

They are now adding more features to dice, and that's okay if you ask me. At first, it was slow and crashing after some time with out of memory errors, eating tons of cpu. Now it is fast, rock-solid, and easy on the cycles. If they instead decided to add more games without making just one working, that would only hurt their image as people tend to remember negative things more strongly and in greater detail. Have you not noticed that folks here are no longer complaining about technical issues with dice itself? Now it is more like "why that dude won so much and we don't know what his username is?"

I'm curious as to what makes you think so

Does it mean that all big time entrepreneurs are scammers, or only great entrepreneurs among casino owners are scammers? In other words, are casino operators scammers by default unless proven otherwise? I think most of them would honestly and passionately disagree with this view, especially with the part about scammers. Note that I don't say that you are necessarily wrong or anything to that effect, I just want to understand your train of thought, how you came to think that way

It think it depends on a casino's approach to this

As I tend to think (I don't say that I'm 100% correct), if a card game is not against the house alone, i.e. there is more than one "human" player in the game, it should involve a certain amount of skill in the way poker does. So no matter what kind of game it is, it is not just pure luck, at least as long as human factor is involved

For example, you may not be lucky to get the best hand but you can bluff and still win in the end (you can either wait or force the pace). To put differently, it greatly depends on a particular implementation of such a game and if the interface allows things like bluffing (through chat or otherwise)

I would probably wait it out

If the casino in question doesn't claim back the amount, I think after some time it can be rightfully considered as ours. Really, how do we know it was a mistake on their part? If it is, then they will find out and take it back. If they don't, we can safely assume it is not a mistake, and then we can do with that jackpot what we want. After all, it all turns around luck, doesn't it? So think yourself lucky and be a good samaritan