That is a nice short article from you. Interesting that you briefed the history of virtual poker since the first game which ran in Atari and could be played by up to 4 players until the first poker site available from 1998 on. And I liked the fact you explained about provably fair poker differentiating poker rooms, where you play against other players, from table rooms, where you play against the house, while showing some examples of provably fair poker sites for those who might be interested in playing the game after reading your article.

Glad we have crypto casinos, because without them provably fair algorithm wouldn't be possible to be applied for real. That ensures gamblers have a more positive experience when betting, brings more legitimacy to the industry and strengths crypto gambling against fiat gambling.

May I ask what blockchain games do you know? And if you have played them?

You don't need to care about blockchain technology or any other keywords to play a game of that kind, just like you don't need to care about games' engines, development or any other technical informations or characteristics to play games in general.

Those who play blockchain games do this for different reasons: extra income is a big attractive, what doen't mean all of them are trying to get rich by speculating few assets at a high price, but there are also competitive players who spend lots of money to reach the top of a server's ranking and/or to oppress another players, exactly like in regular online games and in real life. Moreover, considering how miserable the world is, to get traction is just a matter of time, because there are millions of people looking for extra income and if it's possible to make it through a video-game they will go for it without any doubts.

Actually, "play to earn" isn't an exclusivity of blockchain games. You have people making money even from the most popular and famous online games, although it's illegal by the rules.

Of course the government is the biggest issue here, because they are the common element between rich and poor parasites. There are only parasites from both species because there is a corrupt government behind feeding them with the taxes paid by another citizens.

The analogy works perfectly if you highlight the government's participation on the scheme, but it's inaccurate to label riches as parasites just because they don't want to pay taxes to feed the real parasites (the government and the ones patronized by them, being them rich or poor).

I don't think bitcoin will bring the chaos, because the chaos is already here and now. That is how I would define the economical situation of my country and I believe many will agree on this matter taking their own countries in consideration. And so far bitcoin is bringing order to this chaos, not in large scale, but in small dosages for every individuals who have found in bitcoin a solution for their personal financial challenges and obstacles which couldn't be overcame if only the fiat alternative were disponible for them.

The true profit comes when you bet on the underdog and he wins, but in order to make a decent prediction you need to know more details besides the odds. So in this case, since we can't have access to more statistics it's safer to pick the favorite fighter, preferentially not risking too much money on this fight, as it is a "shot in the dark".

It's also important to notice what tournament category this fight belongs. As we know, the less remarkable the tournament and the participants, the higher the chances of a fixed match. Personally I would avoid betting in low tier, unknown tournaments and athletes for this reason.

Steam is in a comfort zone making a lot of money already without any competitors at their heels, so changes and innovative adoptions aren't considered a need for them. Maybe in some years when blockchain games start playing a bigger role on the gaming scene they will be forced to make some adjustments, but by there I don't expect anything to happen.

I just think they are a a bit selfish, because with blockchain games, earnings opportunities could be also disponible for players and not only for the Steam platform and developers, especially considering players invest a huge amount of time on videogames (if not their entire life), but Steam doesn't really care about it.

5% fee is too expensive. In my opinion it doesn't worth to use ATMs because besides the transactions costs involved in a normal bitcoin transaction you also have to pay an extra to maintain the machine's costs and generate some profit for its owner. Possibly that is why the fee is so expensive. It's an interesting idea to be an ATM owner though...

It's risky indeed, but when people make a living from crypto universe, sooner or later they don't have any choice besides telling someone here or there they deal with bitcoin, as it's part of our social relationships to talk about facts of routine and work to others.

In this case I think it's important to always minimize the impact of bitcoin in your personal life. Usually people ask if you are able to earn a decent amount of money from crypto, so the answer should be something like: not too much, just the minimum necessary for monthly expenses.

By doing this you are relatively safe, because you won't be considered a precious target by bad people around. The key point here isn't to deal with bitcoin, but the emphasis you give on how much money you make from it, just like in any conversation about your fiat income, for an example. And of course, nothing regards personal finances or businesses (being bitcoin or not) should be shared in social medias where anyone can have access to.

Yes, I agree with you, otherwise it doesn't make sense to invest in FUN tokens anymore, unless you are a big bitcoin investor who will benefit from the extra daily interest feature over your bitcoin balance, because it's no longer possible to rely your investment on the wheel's returns.

Now besides FUN price going down you can't recover your investment decently through the wheel too. I know the site can't give more money than they earn and that it's their right to change rewards' rates anything they want, but it's an undeniable fact it's a quite frustrating situation for investors.

Nobody buys FUN expecting the rewards will be drastically reduced overnight.

Barcelona is still trying to renew the contract with Dembele, however it's his agent who is delaying the renovation, because from january 1 on he will be free to negotiate with another teams. By doing this, Dembele can receive better paying offers from another clubs, as Barcelona is also trying to decrease his wealthy wage for the next contract.

The main speculation I've seen is that Newcastle is a potential destiny for Dembele, as his agent has already made some contacts with the club regards this matter and also because Newcastle has very propitious financial conditions right now to afford a player like him much more than Barcelona which is suffering serious financial difficulties.

I think it's better to be introduced to gambling by parents than by some unknown rogues on the streets. At least you know you are acquiring reliable informations from your father that will help you managing your bankroll during a gambling session and if a father spots his son isn't dealing with gambling properly, help can be found earlier, what will prevent negative consequences in the life of this individual.
Furthermore his son is 17 years old already, not a kid anymore. In this age people have the ability to learn the risks implied in gambling, what is inevitable in this modern world where there are constant incentives to this activity through gambling ads frequently seen on the internet, television and even on the streets.

Every players in a situation like this have their own personal reasons to not accept playing for their original national teams and in my opinion their decision should be respected by others because we don't know the difficulties, challenges and experiences they passed during the initial period of their lives that lead them to make that choice.

In my country there is also a professional player who refused to play for the local national team. Instead, he played for spanish national team. I don't remember exactly if it was in 2014 or 2018 world cup, but I do remember when Spain played and this specific player carried the ball my countrymen booed him on the stadium and I felt disgusted for that behavior.

Patriotism, love for the country can't be imposed to someone. It must be conquered daily with good examples coming from those who rule the society and the elder ones. But when it doesn't happen, naturally the younger generations will fell nothing for their homeland, especially when they have better examples living in foreigner countries.

This guy is thirsty for power and his imagination has no limits when trying to find new strategies to centralize things that should work in a decentralized way. It's painful enough to be a Facebook user nowadays, as the platform wants you to agree with several new terms they create every few months, without mentioning the constant attempts in collecting users' data, probably to resell to someone else.
It makes me think games launched by Zuckerberg would follow the same annoying methodology, while giving this man more power and influence yet. That is very dangerous in my opinion and I think there is so much potential and professional independent companies or developers working on projects for future Metaverse games that his "help" isn't needed at all.

I wouldn't say essential, but bitcoin helps a country to develop itself. If you take El Salvador as an example, there is more money going into the country's economy due to remittance operations adopting bitcoin instead of using banks, which charged abusive fees. Without paying abusive fees, citizens have more money to spend with things they enjoy, what will consequently help the local businesses and economy to improve.
And when you have a strong economy it's a signal the country is evolving. It means the country will have more money to invest and offer better opportunities for its citizens and also for foreigner people who might be interested in investing there.

I think we can already say the whole situation involving Facebook's crypto currency is a never ending novel. I'm hearing about it for years and so far it hasn't been launched yet. From times to times they come with something new, which ends delaying their crypto currency development. And there is actually a lot of uncertainties about this project yet, so that a partner project featuring Facebook's digital wallet called Novi, got tired of Libra or Diem, and decided to go ahead with the stablecoin Pax Dollar, initiating a pilot test in USA and Guatemala.

It seems Novi is going to be the focus of Facebook and Diem may stay in second plan.

For me it was expected bitcoin was going to keep rising. Pay attention to the signs our society is showing right now. Governments don't know what to do to save the local economies, fiat currencies are breaking, banks keep oppressing average citizens and people want an alternative to preserve their financial life healthy. Bitcoin looks a good option, and then we have a chain of adopters which reaches to all spheres: individuals, businesses and even countries.

So you might ask why bitcoin and not an altcoin then. And I think the answer would be it's a matter of reputation and notability bitcoin has conquered.

Russia is an important energy provider for Eastern Europe. They have energy in abundance especially from gas and coal sources. The prices stay around 0.064$/kWh. It's half of the energy's price in my country, and although it looks great for me for that reason, I don't know if it's an attractive price to set up mining farms or if it should be even cheaper.
The negative side is that renewable sources of energy are almost inexistent in Russia, what could lead many people to criticize this move from russian government and bitcoin once again, just like we have seen in another countries.

There is a method scammers use to lure people into paying that subscription fee. First, they start sending games' results to common people for free. But actually, they select a wide range of people and send different possible results for a same game to each of them. This way some will receive the correct result, while others will receive wrong results.

So, close to the date of next game, scammers pick the people who received the correct result information of the previous game and send them new results predicting the next match. Again, some will be told team A will win, others will be told it will be a draw and others will be told team B will win.

Week after week scammers will do this and at some point, those individuals who are constantly receiving the correct results will feel tempted to subscribe to the scammers' services. When this happens, informations about the games stop arriving at their mailboxes/emails, as scammers have finally accomplished their goal.

Let's see what happens with the price. As you mentioned new features and competitions I remembered XFUN will be launched on Polygon network together with its own XFUN casino, which will bring poker and sports betting scheduled for the first quadrimester of 2022 and also a feature called "Casino Lay Staking", which I believe is similar to investing in casinos' bankrolls.

I've just had a very bad result too: from 75 spins got only 700 and few RPs, 1200 and few tickets, 700 and few satoshis. I should have taken a print of that, but I was so frustrated that I just closed the tab.

Those bonus WOF spins looked a potential investment (besides RPs, we have also to invest time on it), but now I see it is entirely gambling.

Regulations are already on the way and practicality will depend on the kind of regulations that we are going to have. Fair and simple regulations help the practical aspect of bitcoin, while bureaucratic and abusive regulations make people have negative experiences when dealing with bitcoin, what will consequently impact mass adoption negatively.

About stability I just hope it isn't a requirement, because if it is, mass adoption isn't going to happen, as nobody can control bitcoin's price artificially to make it stable. Bitcoin exists as an alternative to the traditional currencies' system. If it had to work following the same model of fiat currencies there wouldn't be a reason for bitcoin to exist at first place. The volatile nature of bitcoin must be accepted by everyone who uses the crypto currency.