Wow, that is a real dream come true, I wish this practice was much popular around the world. As a tenant, who actively uses crypto and, therefore, holds most of the savings in crypto each time I have to pay the rent I lose at least around $50 on fees+exchange rate+money transfer through the card to the owner. That's crazy because it's like 1/5 of the total pay rent.
But I think for this to become a regular practice we need like 5 years at least.

I don't think that ETH Berlin hard fork upgrade will affect the frequency of gambling. Those who want to gamble always gamble, and high fees aren't much of a contributing factor here. Plus many casinos offer other options, different altcoins, so when the fees are skyrocketing you can switch to them.

If you're looking for a way to make money in a week, Bitcoin isn't really a good fit for it, because of a large market cap, but it's good for long-term investments. If you're looking for short-term trading though, it's best to use cheap alts with a much smaller market cap, like DOGE. You've probably seen how much they can change in price over a short period of time. But keep in mind that these tradings, while profitable if you buy and sell at the right time, are riskier, because if something can increase by 50% over 24h it might as well drop. Which is why, the fact that BTC isn't changing that much in price is actually a good sign.

Yeah, that definitely looks rigged. I felt uncomfortable just watching that, seriously, this is just embarrassing. And it's not just the way they're playing, but the expressions on the faces! When there's a real game you can see fear, excitement, disappointment, etc. Right here it can be seen that they clearly knew what was the outcome going to be. Sports players make so much money, why are they doing that to their fans? And risking careers?
Sometimes I think that these sportsmen are just pinned down to facts that they should play the game as planned and get threats, because I see no logical reason for this. How greedy can you be?

For me, there's nothing better than Poker if we're talking about skills games, but there are other options. There's also blackjack and, I'm quite surprised no one mentioned Spades, it also includes a lot of strategic thinking, no less than Poker, perhaps. And, of course, there's Yahtzee. While it includes dice, which brings an element of luck to the game - a strategy should also be applied and you need to make a lot of decisions, evaluate your risks, which is why to play this game it's better to understand probabilities first.

Why would he do such a thing? What's the point for a person, who put so much time and effort into creating something so genius and unique in destroying it? And I think Satoshi has enough profit anyways , so he wouldn't do that for money's sake. Plus for a person like that ideology is far more precious than money.
Also, such a drastic change in price would attract A LOT of attention, many people (including me) would love to use this opportunity to buy Bitcoins, so, in a time, the market would go back to normal, I guess.

Yes, but that's where the fun is, right? With people losing their Bitcoins the market will actually, in a way, become more stable, because those people, who were holding them could've succumbed to panic selling, for instance. Now, we can be sure that at least some holders will remain forever
While I actually feel sorry for people, who lost their wallets, generally and pragmatically speaking it's good.

Seriously? I was shocked by the statement that freelancing isn't considered serious and is perceived as a joke by society. They must have really old-fashioned standards then. IMO think it's all vice versa. In today's world, anyone who is something, who is good at (or at least wants to be good at) something has a desire for self-development and doesn't feel like working for some boss will eventually switch to freelancing.
Once again, it's a good example of why you shouldn't listen to someone else's opinion. Having a steady job and simply taking orders from someone is an easy way, a safe way, but it leads to nowhere. At most, you can get a promotion, but you'll never have something of your own. So I say yes to freelancing and to anyone who is brave enough to do it.

Before the covid I used both laptop and mobile phone, but I always liked laptop more, nowadays I don't use the phone for gambling at all. The phone was for situations like the ones you described, when I was bored, had to wait for someone, etc. I actually found that I lose less while playing at home, I don't know what's the reason for that. Maybe it's because home feels more safe, relaxing, less disposing to panic, and 90% of my losses are due to panic and rash decisions. While at home it's calmer and a better atmosphere to think, concentrate.

That's great, one more casino adopting crypto! And I, personally, don't think that conversion to USD on the account balance is bad, it's actually convenient in a way. If you gamble regularly and don't instantly withdraw all your winnings - it's good to get them fixed to USD, because with rapidly changing BTC price you actually risk losing money while it's on the website.

While I think that a global corporate tax is a good idea, because it's fairer and will prevent companies from doing business in other countries, where it's cheaper, I doubt that many will agree to that. Like you said, it's an economical advantage for them, why should they lose this opportunity, so that the US can make more money? I fear that Biden's decision to impose higher taxes may turn out bad and scare away corporations. 

I agree that due to limited supply hodlers will become rish, but that doesn't go in favor of OP's assumption, because only the ones that hodl a lot of Bitcoins will become rich enough to retire and stop working. And that's not possible due to the limited supply. Assuming when we reach the 21 million bitcoins point and everyone has 1 Bitcoin, that'll only be around 0,3% of the world population, which is hardly enough to have an impact on the economy. But even in such case people won't stop working, because 1 BTC isn't such a big money. Needless to say, this scenario isn't possible, because some people will hodl way more than 1 Bitcoin, leaving less to the others.

Yeah, you're right herein, I shouldn't have used the term use, I meant hold.
But there's not enough for everyone to hold and, therefore, be rich, that's my point  

I think, for now, the only solution to make sure BTC or other crypto is inherited is just to look ahead and do everything beforehand, and this includes not only showing your relatives where you keep the password and the seed phrase but explaining and showing several times how to use it, exchange, etc. as well.
Don't give up. It's 100% that your brother kept his private key somewhere, look into his notebooks, txt files on the PC, and alike. It would be a pity if this money was lost due to the inability to access the wallet...

Do you mean by "hijack" taking control of? There's no way any government could do that. They can enforce a ban, but even that can't stop people from carrying out transactions, the ban will have consequences only if you connect your wallet to a card, otherwise, they can't track you.
There could be, in theory, a 51% attack, but the Bitcoin hash rate is too big, so I hardly think that's a possibility.

The best way to sort out a Ponzi is to make it go through a recession and see what happens - they'll collapse because when there's an economical crisis no one invests and the companies can't pay off the investors and lure the new ones. What are we facing now? Crisis. Did Bitcoin collapse? No, it's growing.
Simple as that.
I wrote a post about it recently: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5320505.0
And there are plenty of other threads and articles dedicated to this issue, simply read some of them and you won't have any more questions.

Less than 2.0 in decimals I consider short. Why is always picking short odds riskier? I've never heard of such a thing. I don't play a lot, but so far picking short ones turned out not so bad for me.

Yeah, I referred to the popular ones. Of course, some strategies are good to follow, like the ones that help you manage funds, or help in picking the right odds.

Neurologist

I honestly hate the way Madoff's lawyer defends him, even though it's his job. As if we should all of a sudden feel sorry for Bernie Madoff because they didn't let him die alongside his family? Seriously? No man is?? He ruined people's lives!! Thousands of lives! And not just ruined, but some of them committed suicide and didn't have the pleasure of living till 82 years.

Check this: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/28/charles-murphy-investor-burned-by-bernie-madoff-jumps-to-death.html
And that's only what we know of.

And regarding this As a father and a husband - he should've thought about his family in the first place, because his son, sadly, also took his life. And his family will get accusations and despisal for the rest of their lives, even though it's possible they haven't been implicated in these schemes.

He did wrong and paid for it. No doubt that Madoff was smart and intellectual, if only he used his gifts and abilities for the greater good...

It's a fair and logical point, but only if almost everyone on Earth buys Bitcoin and becomes rich, which is, obviously, impossible. There is a limited amount of Bitcoins and, in addition, different people hold a different number of coins, some may have 1-2 and some hold more than 1000. Thanks to the limited amount of Bitcoins and diverse demand - Bitcoin will keep growing with increasing adoption.
Also, this can only be the case, once again, if literally everyone (or the vast majority) uses Bitcoin, only then there can be an impact on global productivity.

Thanks for the tips, I use quite a few of them myself. To what you've mentioned here I can add:

- mainly play short odds; while it won't bring a lot of money right away, it's less risky, perfect for beginners, and will bring profit in the long-term perspective

- don't stick to "betting strategies", they will lead to a quick loss

- if you're a frequent player, consider house edges in your calculations

- at least know the basics of probability; many players wrongly assume that if the odds are 1:1 this means that approx. every 2 bets they will win and therefore place big bets. This is wrong!! Odds only make sense in the long run