What makes it better than real decentralized exchange if it's centralized? I would be careful with such exchanges if it's not transparent, safe/secure, immutable, trustless/permissionless, privacy-friendly, censorship resistant, decentralized and consensus driven. Community consensus matters alot too otherwise nothing stops the owners from making secret harmful/harmless changes whenever they want.
By the way, what you described can be done very well & efficiently with decentralized exchange.

Bitcoin doesn't necessarily have to be backed by those assets (esp gold) in my opinion. It is special in its own way. It's hard money like gold.
You could however create tokens within a cryptocurrency network to properly back virtual/physical assets... and they would be specially designed for that purpose.

Part of the problems is lack of adherence to principles, and we don't actively and genuinely discourage these weak points of Bitcoin/crypto. People want to be rich/wealthy at the expense of the network. (you can still be rich running  well decentralized businesses, why not).

It's almost becoming a taboo to promote decentralization and proper use of cryptocurrency. If care is not taken, the wonderful features of real Blockchain/crypto will be chipped away little by little until they find themselves using a completely different tech that is totally centralized and controlled by those/things it was created to avoid/prevent. This is how nations deteriorate after being founded by good founding fathers and with good principles.

I think a reasonable numbers of supporters in the stadiums at the safe required level can still encourage the players.
  They could get the supporters abit close to the players so that they will feel more close to each other and be encouraged. The voices, presence, cheers, encouragement, etc would need to be felt more by the players

Your example with Gold coin is quite interesting.

Crypto( well decentralized crypto) is even a special case in my opinion but many still do not understand this or they choose not to understand. I wouldn't be surprised if a properly decentralized and well built crypto with advanced ecosystem also tax other nations/people and the nations tax it too when necessary.
It's way bigger than people think. Most are probably not aware of its great potentials and what it seeks to achieve hence the confusions, contradictions, abuses and deviations from proper/safe standards in the space. You can't allow centralization to control you without losing (or gradually losing) your freedom/sovereignty/independence.
Taxes can occur without losing your values/ideals to central powers.

It's also more convenient to bet online, I guess. If I were to start betting, I would most likely use the online ones more to avoid crowds/noise/distractions and probably for the convenience.
 I always assume that lots of people who use the physical ones also like the crowd and probably to socialize.

I think the government should set a proper standard for safety, responsible betting, moderation etc in the casinos especially  those that have no such standard/rules. That will likely reduce the tendency for casinos to take big risk in the crisis situation.
There should be few people in the casinos, and they shouldn't be staying too long to allow other customers to come in and bet. The casinos should be well ventilated if indoor and should include other safety measures.
A responsible government shouldn't be allowing its citizens to gamble or take too much risk in casinos. A "short bet" with small amount of money (depending on what the players can afford to lose) should be enough. And the games should be good/safe games.

When anarchy increases/starts worldwide, you don't join them,you flee to somewhere safe. (It's "bad spirits" in people at work . You don't join them in such situations).  This is why it's important to start preparing now. *We still have some time to prepare*. Lot of places will fall to the "evil one." But GOD will keep true believers safe.

True believers in CHRIST are your true family members. Those are the people you should be looking for and connecting with in order to live with them when the global crisis comes.

You seperate yourself from the world to join a true church of GOD.
Note that it's only in the church you can  have different people, ethnic groups, etc within your country coming together as One under CHRIST in peace and freedom. So, don't hesitate to join people from different backgrounds as long it's a true Church.

Not just that, it can easily be abused if there is no easy way to verify that the silver actually exists. Beside, the silver isn't supposed to be held in one centralized location in ideal crypto world... (plus the custodial problem in crypto). Another big problem is that many of such projects are likely not well decentralized.
These are part of the reasons I am skeptical about lots of the assets backed cryptos. It shouldn't  be too challenging to create really good physical asset backed ones

I mean weapons for killing people?
 Well, not really necessary, because GOD fights for HIS own, the true believers!
The Word of GOD is the weapon of a holy Christian, and his/her word is very powerful when uttered in holiness and according to the will of GOD.


Our Weapon is Spiritual
We are in the New testament... We are living in the spirit and our weapon is spiritual.
You have to be holy to have the spiritual powers/weapon (which is totally from GOD), and it is thesame power Adam and Eve owned in the garden in their holy state before losing it to sin.
If you always please GOD, HE will always fight for you, you wouldn't need to worry about physical weapons.

Physical weapons are basically for those weak in faith and they are way less powerful than the spiritual ones which is freely given to us by the ALMIGHTY.

Interesting.
Guess that is not the same as randomness because some price movements aren't that random. The word (probability) fit the market activities though.
I think you can still predict the market fairly ok with enough skills/experience. Charts can sometimes be predictable with their zigzaggy up & down price movements... More like "if the market dips, there is high probability/chances it will go back up"

Guess the chances for home teams are high because they feel at home and the pressure/cheering from supporters is pushing them to win. Besides, the players will likely play harder to impress their supporters and community.

 Imagine wrestling without the audiences... the motivation will be low for the wrestlers. They will probably perform well without the audiences if there are other incentives to get them perform.
So, maybe the footballers incentives (without audience) have to be modified abit to reward them for playing well

There are alot of values in its fundamentals or principles. Decentralization is one of the most important part of them. Without the decentralization, we will have alot of the vices or abuses associated with centralized currencies taking place on the network. The decentralization makes breaking or going against network rules without the participants consent (consensus) harder. There are other really valuable principles of Blockchain like transparency, immutablity, censorship resistant, privacy/anonymity, permissionless/trustlessness, security etc

Well, am abit careful with the words used on the post, so I wouldn't approve if the purpose of opening in a crisis time like this is to "gamble".
I don't see anything wrong with gaming though, as long as the games are safe and players bet responsibily(and not gamble). Gambling esp in crisis period doesn't sound right to me
Hope the safety measures are sufficient.

We the people under CHRIST are the Church (the body of CHRIST). You don't call physical building the body of CHRIST, do you? The dictionary definition of "church" is not really correct.

The Church is currently alive and not closed like many say. Church buildings are closed in many places but the true church is alive. The closed church buildings don't prevent the church (us) from gathering "safely" outside.

Well, Bitcoin is programmable. It should be possible to build a well decentralized and efficient applications ontop of it to solve the inheritance problem.
In regards to lost coins making bitcoin lower... that also makes the supply less which in turn increases its price.  Satoshi said something in this regard:

"Lost coins only make everyone else's coins worth slightly more. Think of it as a donation to everyone." https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=198.msg1647#msg1647

This doesn't really sound like a sustainable way to mine Bitcoin. What happens if the price of oil shoots up? Miners start looking for another cheap energy sources in other to be profitable? I think it's better to miner with clean energy that has long term "stable price".
 By the way, the focus of miners should be to mine with clean renewable energy so they don't lose the argument in the future that Bitcoin is fair for the environment. If they try to make the oil environmental friendly with some sort of technology, that could still increase cost

Is the "BigOne" an exchange? Doesn't sound established... so I would be careful if I were you till am sure. Besides, not a good idea to leave a lot of funds on custodial exchanges.
Not enough details on the "fixed term deposit". https://bigone.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/900000930363-USDT-Fixed-Term-Deposit
Doesn't look too convincing by the way

Problem is that you don't escape problems by gambling or taking big  risk... You're simply creating more chances for problems by gambling.  You escape problems by doing mostly things that are productive and beneficial to you in that particular situation.
Rather than gamble, people should bet responsibly with little amount or what they can afford to lose, especially on games that are, good, safe,

Problem is that you don't escape problems by gambling or taking big  risk... You're simply creating more chances for problems by gambling.  You escape problems by doing mostly things that are productive and beneficial to you in that particular situation.
Rather than gamble, people should bet responsibly with little amount or what they can afford to lose, especially on games that are ,  good/safe & beneficial.

Oh, you mean the typical staking in poker/betting and not crypto staking? 

Anyway, I thought it's a full cryptocurrency poker site. I wonder how easy using fiat currencies will be on the site.
Your main post kind of look different today.