Yes, it's just a hype that generates income for project developers, through investments from delusional and speculative investors, and for news sites, through click bait articles, while generating media for any company or business which adds the keyword metaverse to their plans. In fact, metaverse as it's being promoted isn't different from any virtual games around.

If you want to live a gambling metaverse experience, you can just play GTA San Andreas and go to The Four Dragons Casino in Las Venturas. I'm sure it's much better and the experience much more satisfactory than any projects around can offer.

Indeed very bad results for african continent, considering the age of technology the world is living right now. Every person in the world should have free access to internet connection. Actually, that should be included in the human rights.

But I can't deny access to internet in Africa is increasing faster than ever! I can see this fact on practice, as more and more profiles from african people are appearing at social medias these days, at same time making more evident news related to the continent on the internet. In crypto community, african participation increasement is also very clear, although not from every countries.

I risk saying the tendency is to see those 20% which have access to quality and full time internet tripling to 60% in the next couple of years... Anyway, foreigner investors from another continents are needed.

I agree with you. 2022 has been being a harsh year for bitcoin. Since this year has started the lack of good news and positive price fluctuations is evident. I believe we are living preparation times for a buill run that is imminent and that can start at any moment. So for every holders it's important to keep bitcoin investments intact, although they should forget it for a while, not touching their wallets. That is a special advice mainly for those who may want to cut losses selling their bitcoins for a cheap price due to fear regards the currently market's conditions.

The main disadvantage in my opinion is the bureaucracy it creates for gamblers in order to start playing in a casino. When we sign up, we want to make an instant deposit and start playing without waiting for any pendencies, and unfortunatelly with KYC, the platform needs to approve our documents first until we have the certain our account will be 100% functional or not.
On the other hand, KYC is a standard procedure for most operating businesses right now, including the ones related to the crypto universe, so we can't do much about it. If casinos don't follow basic requirements asked by regulators, it won't be possible for them to work... It's a hard decision that totally disrespects gamblers' privacy, but I can understand it's necessary.

Bitcoin is supporting 40,000$ range price for two days already. That looks very good, but too early to say if this tendency is going to last longer or not. I would like to see what happens to bitcoin price in a week time period or so to conclude if this is a solid movement or just a common fluctuation that is going to be reverted soon, like we have seen recently during the first weeks of January.
The only thing I'm sure is that everyone should always hold some amount of bitcoin, doesn't matter the scenario. We never know when prices are going to change, so it's better to be prepared for it all the time.

These are shocking news revealing how far a son can reach to steal money from his own father. The case happened in Maryland, USA. Father and son were crypto investors and had already made some decent profit from their investments. The son, however, besides suffering from drugs addiction, wasn't satisfied with his part of the profit and wanted his father to cashout more money.

The father disagreed and said the son he should stop doing drugs instead. Upset, the son executed a plan where he poisoned his own father with a tea containing a high dose of benzodiazepines, which lead the man to fall unconscious, being found only 2 days later lay in his apartment and staying 4 days recovering on the hospital.

With the cellphone in hands, the son was able to access his father's funds and move two-thirds of the portfolio into ethereum, before being found and arrested. Now he is going to be moved to a rehab clinic for addicted. Glad the history didn't end so tragic as it could, as the victim is alive and recovered.

Son Almost Kills Father In Attempt To Steal $400,000 In Cryptocurrency

People will keep doing it because it's a calculated risk. The chances of success surpass the probability of ending caught. It's like those people who live in miserable countries and try entering first world countries illegaly. They know they can be arrested or even die on their way, but the uncertain of a better quality life, including all the risks involved, is preferable than having the certain of living on their homeland, as it doesn't proportionate any kind of development perspective, security, happiness and so on...

The same I could say about crypto and fiat. To not be able to deal with cryptocurrency nowadays heavily limits the financial personal development of an individual, since he wil be hostage of the fiat depreciative currencies and traditional banks' lobby.

Depending on the agreement when you get married, everything that belong to you will also belong to your partner and vice versa. That is possible...

But it's also possible that the agreement will only count as marital property what was acquired by the couple during the marriage. There are exception though, like the house where the couple lives, for an example. Doesn't matter if it was acquired before the marriage by one the parts. Since they live together there, the house becomes marital property as well and must be splitted in case of divorce.

Bitcoin, on the other hand, is another story, because besides being acquired before the union, it's untouched and not shared to the partner, so it can be considered separate property that will fully remain with the original owner.

Very well played match by Egypt. A weaker team has to know how to take the game from the beginning to the end, and that is how Egypt played with excellency achieving the victory after all. Knowing the adversary was much stronger in skills, they had to go through the longest and most patience demanding path.

For me it wasn't a big surprise, because right after their game against Morocco it was clear Egypt was putting all their effort and energy into progressing on african cup towards the final. Moreover, they are probably one of the most strategical teams of the championship, what puts them in big advantage against every opponents.

Now the final is going to be tough and unpredictable, although I'm inclined to believe in Egypt winning.

Congratulations to Senegal, one of the best national teams of african continent. Who watched the first half of the match couldn't imagine there were going to be so many goals in the second half. Now they are going to try their first title on the history of african cup. I believe if they go against Cameroon for the final, they lose, but if they take Egypt it's possible to win...

Cameroon has a more agressive playstyle and Senegal would probably try to adopt the same strategy against them, what is a big mistake, because they don't have enough conditions to play at same skills' level. However, against Egypt it may work, as skills' level is similar and an offensive strategy may be able to break egyptian defensive lines without much prejudice to their own defense, just like Senegal did with Burkina Faso.

The casino will be always in profit, no doubts about it. But I can understand a gambler who sees a lot of benefits in cashback feature. As you said, if he loses 1000$ and the casino returns 200$ back to him, it means less 200$ the gambler will have to spend from his own pocket to keep betting. Moreover, being lucky it's possible to recover the initial loss with the extra 200$ given by the casino, who knows...

For daily gamblers I think cashback has a big impact on long run: they can play for longer, spending less.

Aren't people already living in virtual fake universes even without the called metaverse hype? Every mmorpg or dumb mobile app game are a kind of metaverse where people put hundreds or thousands of dollars on their accounts to upgrade their stats or make their characters look cooler. And it really works for developers, otherwise many popular online games which are alive for decades already would be dead at this time.

NFT just upgrades this ecosystem a little bit. So instead of only putting money on games without cashing out anything, now you will be able to sell your stuff as well if you wish at some point. For me there isn't any cons on it. That is actually pretty good and rewarding for people who spends their whole lives on virtual environments playing videogames.

I believe at least half of the world's countries would fit on this list for strict restrictions and regulations on gambling activity on their territories. Even USA, considered the land of the free, isn't free of such bans, as some states consider gambling illegal.

Interesting that all countries, especially the most severe ones, always have exceptions that don't make any sense at all, since gambling is gambling, doesn't matter the game you are betting on. Still, regulators believe slots or dice are harmful, but horse racing or national lottery aren't... What is the difference?

Yes, the most worthful way to use RPs is to accumulate 100K and exchange for 100K satoshis, without any doubts. However, not everyone has patience, hope, perseverance, enough money or referrals to reach that amount before using it, so they simply collect some thousands and start using it for extra wheel's spins or RP bonus. Since those RPs were given "for free", the mindset of "it's better than nothing" is common among many users.

When a team starts scoring at the first minutes or seconds (like in this case, Uruguay did at 50 seconds of game), it's hard for the opposite team to keep the morale high. Uruguay gave no chance for Venezuela which unfortunatelly wasn't able to play from equal to equal against "la selección celeste". It was tempting to bet on Venezuela due to the high odds and the bad performance of Uruguay on their last games, but it ended that the most expected and low profitable result was the best choice.

The scenario is looking better for Uruguay, but they aren't safe in 4th position yet. Peru may win next game against Equador and take the 4th place from them.

Fear only affects the small fishes which have no influence over bitcoin's price. If they sell their coins or not, it won't have any impact on bitcoin price at all... The problem are the whales moving huge amounts of bitcoins in single transactions. And they don't do this because they fear the market, rather they sell their coins because a more tempting opportunity is disponible to them (like the currently increase in interest rates in USA) in another market.

So, it's not fear the cause of bearish markets and crashes in price. It's just the lack of temporary interest from big investors for crypto universe because their money is generating more income by sitting somewhere else...

Many NFT projects started last year, promising to show some progress during this year of 2022 on their roadmap, but so far I haven't seen any results. I don't know if the bear market slowed down NFT projects' developers , but that is what it looks like. Maybe from the second quarter on updates regard NFT games will be introduced and shared with the crypto community.
There are many promises on this NFT industry, but too little was delivered to investors and enthusiasts for real. So we have to be careful to not believe in anything we see around, only investing in something you see working on practice. Beware of ponzi NFTs.

IMF wants to show the world what happens to countries which adopt bitcoin as legal tender. They are letting the message very clear: don't ever think about adopting bitcoin, because if you do this, you aren't going to have financial support from us anymore...

Blackmail on its purest form.

In fact what happens is that once governments embrace bitcoin for their own countries, they have to resign loans, international investments or any other kind of partnership with the establishment. It's a difficult decision to make, and I'm not sure if El Salvador is able to go ahead with bitcoin, because they totally depend on international help from IMF to pay the rising debt that might reach to 100% of their GDP soon if something isn't done to control it.

What?

This is the most absurd regulation proposal made by a government towards cryptocurrency so far. It's even more absurd than completely banning it as it was presupposed before. I guess in a situation where the investor loses money with crypto and NFT the government is also going to pick the loss in solidarity, compensating 30% of the lost amount back to the investor, right?

Such lunatic concept would only make sense this way...

Massive inflation usually comes side by side with high interest rates. So at the beginning it can be profitable for investors to keep and invest their money on that inflationary currency, just like a ponzi scheme is profitable for early investors, but completely ruins the economies of late ones or of those who aren't agile enough to exchange their money on the right time into a stable currency.

Real estate is great, but you have to keep in mind if it is a good choice to have a property in a chaotic country where massive inflation is a constant threat.