I wonder why smart contracts still aren't heavily implemented by the gambling industry.There must be a reason for that.
I remember reading articles about smart contract games being really slow and difficult for development.
I'm not an expert in this field,maybe someone more experienced in smart contracts and game development would elaborate a little bit more.
Another problem with P2P games is the lack of players.I know about some small P2P games,where you have to wait for hours for another player to join the game and play against you.Nobody has the patience to wait for that long.
People have short attention span nowadays.It all comes to getting the attention of the player,hook him into the game and keep him entertained for as long as possible.
Games like "rock,paper,scissors" are pretty boring,if you play them more than a few times.
Good luck with your project,OP.

I can respect his opinion.Paper money are protected against counterfeit by adding a bunch of prerequisites,which make them harder to get faked.This is some sort of "encryption".
I don't see anything unreasonable in the opinions stated by those fiat financial experts.I actually expected all of them to shit over the concept of cryptocurrencies and repeat all the FUD stuff,which crypto haters keep saying.
Most of the cryptocurrency users have the same opinions about what will happen with Bitcoin/crypto after X amount of years.There are only two options-crypto will dominate the financial world or a better technology will replace all cryptocurrencies.There's nothing in between those two options.

The natural demographic growth of the developed countries is becoming negative due to cultural factors,not economic or social factors.Many young girls and women don't want to raise kids.
They want to stay focused on their career and have fun living a promiscuous dating life.
The negative demographic growth gets compensated by immigration of people coming from underdeveloped countries into the rich western world.
The reduced growth of the population isn't the biggest problem,the biggest problem is the change of the demographic structure of the population-increased number of elderly people and decreased number of youngsters.
Having more old people and less young people is a big problem for every country.
This means less taxpayers and more people,who will rely on the social security systems,which are funded by the taxpayers.

Problems like these will occur always,it doesn't matter if we are talking about a fiat service or a crypto service.
There will always be users complaining about stolen funds,missing transactions or hacked wallet accounts.
Sometimes it's the user's fault,sometimes the centralized service gets exploited by hackers.
I really don't believe that the government of El Salvador will try to steal funds from the Chivo wallet users.
This is what you get,when you have Bitcoin adoption,which is being forced by the government,without enough proper online security education among the people.
I hope that those problems with the Chivo app will be solved and more people will start using BTC without this app in El Salvador.
 

Yes,but there's a big maybe.
Insurance fraud is a thing and a simple smart contract cannot handle the cases of insurance fraud.
All the big insurance companies are hiring detectives to investigate cases of insurance fraud.Do you think that  a decentralized insurance platform can solve this problem?
You can't bypass the human factor in the insurance industry.
The insurance industry is heavily regulated by the state and I don't think that any government would allow smart contracts and decentralized insurance.
Loyd's in the UK is a pretty old insurance network,but I don't know about any other companies in the world,that are copying the Loyd's business model.There must be a reason for that.
Calling high level insurance "just a gamble" seems like oversimplifying.The insurance industry is more complex than you think.Those experts know how to calculate the risk.

So you have "lost your fight" against online bookies "which are 99% scammers",but you need a partner,which will help you win the fight against online bookies "which are 99% scammers"?
So your partner will miraculously make the online bookies to turn from 99% scammers into legit bookies,or you will find the 1% legit online bookies? This sounds like nonsense to me.
Are you suggesting matched betting.There are several matched betting platforms out there,but I forgot their names.You can do a Google search or Youtube search and you will find more info about matched betting.
 

I can say the same thing about Bitcon and this forum.
If it wasn't Bitcoin and the forum,I would have been bankrupt 4 years ago.
Young people and university graduates are having a hard time with finding a job everywhere around the world.
The levels of unemployment are going up in some of the developed countries as well.
Anyway,Bitcoin/crypto is an opportunity,you still have to put in the work,in order to get something out of this opportunity.
Bitcoin/crypto cannot give you financial freedom on a silver plate.
What Bitcoin-related jobs are you doing?Are they freelance,like programming,webdesign,etc.?
Good luck with your crypto freelance career in 2022.

Every price analysis is just an opinion.The analysis might combine and calculate several different factors and some statistical data,but that doesn't guarantee anything.Analyzing a market isn't mathematics,so 2+2 isn't always 4 on the financial markets.
Nobody can analyze the market and create a 100% accurate price prediction,that will happen for sure.
People aren't always rational.Perhaps some genius mathematician could create a formula or a theory,which will explain and predict how the financial market works,but this will happen in the future.
The beauty of the financial markets(both crypto,stocks,bonds and FOREX) is that the prices are unpredictable.Having predictable prices will ruin those markets.

I believe that the USA is the right place to grow a business and become rich,if you are in the IT industry or finance industry.You will face a hard time achieving any success in the US,if you are working in another industry.
Anyway,this is just a survey about what people believe and people's perceptions about the economy can be totally different,compared to the actual facts and data.
USA was the land of free entrepreneurship and economic freedom(or it was portrayed that way).
It surprises me that more and more Americans are becoming left-wing and want more wealth redistribution conducted by the government.
Perhaps this is caused by the giant student debt and the generation of young people,who are working in shitty jobs after graduation and can't payoff their student loans.

Trump also wasn't a very big supporter of the COVID vaccination,but now he is vaccinated and he supports COVID vaccination.
Trump was hating on China and the "Chinese flu",but he was(and probably still is) doing business in China.
What Trump says and what he is doing are two completely different things(sometimes it can be quite the opposite).
I wouldn't be surprised,if he secretly owns cryptocurrencies.
By the way,aren't Trump and Melania separated?

A legit crypto casino would let the user withdraw the remaining balance of his account,after that account was banned/self excluded.This is the way to do business and to be honest with your customers.
A casino should keep the money of a gambler,only if the gambler had lost them by playing gambling games on that casino.Everything else (like blocking the funds in banned accounts) seems like robbery to me.
But that's just my opinion.
Or course,every crypto casino has it's own Terms of Service and some crypto casinos won't allow players to withdraw funds from banned accounts.In this case,it's the gambler's fault,because he didn't read the Terms of Service of the crypto casino.

That's a great project,OP.Keep it up with the good work.We need more people to start acting rather than sitting on the forum all day long.
I'm not sure that this is the right way of promoting the bitcointalk.org forum,since most of those homeless people probably don't have computers,internet connection and electricity.
Anyway,Christmas is a time for sharing and charity,not a time for consumerist orgy,buying stuff you don't need
and eating three days like a pig.Maybe that's why I hate Christmas nowadays.The meaning of Christmas has changed a lot.


He most likely isn't educated in crypto.He just got caught in the hype around those shitcoins/memecoins and he wants to make some easy money by buying low and selling high.

I don't get the point of all this.
What's the incentive for someone to buy a product,which costs 1898 euro from your Amazon wishlist?
Getting a discount or getting paid with BTC?
Will the buyer receive the product or he has to send the product to you?
There's something sketchy about this offer,but I'm glad that you don't mind using an escrow/middleman.


Purse.io was about to shutdown in 2020,but the company got acquired by another company,so they survived.
AFAIK,Purse.io is mostly about buying physical gift cards on Amazon,if your Purse.io account is new.I think that you can unlock the feature of buying other items on Amazon and getting paid in BTC after a few successful gift card deals,but the rates aren't that good.

The Turkish lira is going down due to the stupid monetary policy of the Turkish central bank(which is heavily influenced by Erdogan).The Turkish central bank keeps lowering the interest rates,while the right move to fight inflation and currency devaluation is the exact opposite-increasing the interest rates.
Erdogan is totally incompetent when it comes to monetary policy and he is kinda delusional and paranoid.
He keeps blaming some "foreign financial speculators" about the high inflation in Turkey.
Bitcoin has nothing to do with this and Bitcoin/crypto will NEVER be adopted in a country like Turkey.

What are you trying to say?What security systems and what kind of automatic implementation?
Do you know what a coordinated bank holiday means?It means that all banks block their customers from withdrawing any money in a certain time frame.


I don't think that any country,bank or payment system in the world would dare to "delink" the US dollar and stop sending and receiving USD transactions.
1.Nobody wants problems with the global superpower.
2.Most of the global transactions are in USD,so banning USD payments would isolate a country from the global economy and financial markets.This might have devastating effects over the economy of that country(if the economy of the country is open enough towards the global market).

I know that gambling addiction is a SERIOUS problem,but I can't imagine how the casino should be held responsible in this situation.
Basically every gambler can deposit and waste his money on a casino and then he could say "please refund my money,I'm a gambling addict,I don't know what I'm doing".
What happens with the gambling business,if all casinos decide to refund all the money?
If the gambler gets banned/self excluded from one casino,he could find another casino and gamble there.
Is the second casino's fault,that a gambling addict decides to waste his money there?
It seems to me that all casinos are guilty for gambling addicts,but this is the same as blaming alcohol and tobacco companies for all the alcoholics and smokers in the world.

I don't understand the VIP system at stake.com,but isn't this another way to hook the gamblers and make them stay and gamble on the casino?

Some people are more greedy than others.Some people want fast and big profits now.
Other people want slow,steady and predictable profits,which are happening in a long time frame.
Nobody is saying that "we need" the Bitcoin price to hit a big ATH.If it happens,that would be great,but it won't be the end of the world,if Bitcoin never hits a price above 100K USD.
There's no sense of urgency for Bitcoin to hit a certain price level.
There's no drama,if the Bitcoin price drops severely back to 30K USD,because there will always be the possibility for the Bitcoin price to recover and hit a new ATH.

I'm pretty sure that all the movies,which have a "progressive" and "liberal" message would win all the awards again.
Nowadays,Hollywood is all about politics rather than good cinematography.
I'm surprised that Will Smith has such big odds of winning the "Best Actor" award.He's a decent actor,but I don't think that he's that great.
Dune had received a lot of critical appraisal,but the Dune movies usually disappoint and they can't be compared with the book.
I remember the Dune movie directed by Davis Lynch in the 80s.It was a disaster.

This is meme material at this point.
Elon:Saying something about dogecoin.
Bitcoiners: "ELON THROWING SHADE AT BITCOIN AGAIN!"
Why do we keep being focused so much on this guy?He's just trolling.The only difference between him and regular internet trolls is that he's the richest guy on the planet and he's famous(obviously because he's rich).
You can't deny the fact that,at least he's consistent in his support for dogecoin.

Turkey is a great example for having an irresponsible monetary policy.
The Turkish lira collapsed a lot and many people in Turkey sold their lira for Euro,US dollars and Gold.
Unfortunately,I don't know how many people in Turkey sold their devalued national currency for Bitcoins.
AFAIK,the Turkish government and the central bank are extremely anti-Bitcoin,so not many people have decided to buy BTC.
Anyway,I don't think that Bitcoin can force governments and central banks to become financially responsible.
Countries like Venezuela are still financially irresponsible,despite the fact that many people are using BTC.