Accordingly to this article, athletes are more prone to developing gambling addiction than another individuals: Athletes and problem gambling: what do you need to know?

They present the following reasons to justify potential levels of addiction among players and athletes:

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  Players and athletes are technically more prone to gambling addiction due to the signs of compulsive gambling like winning expectations, energy levels, competitive spirit, and high IQ levels.
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  Athletes have higher tendencies of gambling because of their skill set. These people start gambling for the challenges and competitors attached to it but it adds to the risk of getting addicted over time.
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  The competitive spirit and potential have led the athletes to gamble in multiple forms. Along with these comes an additional addiction to alcohol and drugs. Gambling helps them financially and is highly lucrative. The cycle of addiction begins with wanting to get back what is lost which leads to more losses or wins and so on.
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  In the case of a normal person, after losing money in gambling, he might want to move to safer ways that would eventually help to recover his losses. Whereas, among athletes, it is a sense of superiority and power, and thus winning is the only option for them as they do not like defeat. More money is invested into gambling, and it goes on.  This is where their addiction begins.

It's not a secret many popular athletes had or still have issues with gambling addiction during their lifetime, which prejudiced their personal lives and careers. Is the mentioned competitive spirit a double edge sword, which helps the athlete to improve his performance, but at same time lead him to an insatiable desire for winnings that may end in a frustrated attempt of beating the casinos?

Or is it just bullshit and another attempt of distancing gambling sponsors from sports' industry? What do you think? Share your opinion, please.

I'm surprised every candidates are trying to farm some votes with bitcoin. It doesn't even look that same bitcoin hated by the establishment anymore. Now every politicians want to be crypto friendly and that is a reason to be concerned, because politicians aren't to be trusted and if they are in love with bitcoin it's because there is a shady reason for that. Soon we will see.

Actually they would be more helpful to crypto universe by just not interfering on it. Let the businesses and independent individuals incentivize the usage of bitcoin. Since the beginning it's working this way without any "help" from politicians or governments and it has been a great success.

I don't understand the obssession people have for ATMs since personal smartphones already fullfil the function of ATMs anywhere. All you need is internet connection and an account in a crypto app.

The excuse used by the minister of consumer affairs to pass the new rule can be only considered legit if they make another decree declaring their citizens mentally incapable, as only mentally incapable people wouldn't have critical thinking to distinguish what they should do and not do by themselves, consequently acting accordingly to what a celebrity tell them to do or practing an activity just because a soccer player displays it on his uniform.

In a modern civilized society proud of its advancements in social and economical sectors such decrees don't make sense. Why do authorities keep underestimating the capacity of their citizens managing their own lives smartly and efficiently without external interferences?

Yes, and I hate those pop-up ads opening after every click redirecting the user to different websites. What could be done in 1 second or so takes at least 10 seconds because of intrusive ads. That was one of the reasons I gave up on faucets with the exception of freebitco.in. If I could claim faster I wouldn't bother in receiving little amounts, because at least it would be possible to fastly claim at many different sites.

On the other hand, it's understandable they need this kind of source of income to maintain the site alive.

Seeking for a solution to make the experience more enjoyable for users, some faucets get inspired by freebitco.in and try to introduce the hi-lo game feature as well, but without success.

Well, I don't know if more than one person is allowed to operate a same account. If so, the excuse of having a brother or relative sharing accounts and consequently farming the faucet all day long because they can't create one for themselves due to the IP restriction could be used. But as many users were alredy blocked there must be another security measures to prevent such abuses from happening.

Glad that freebitco.in manages the situation very well. However, I feel sorry for another faucets which have been constantly drained and ended abruptly because of cheaters.

Hmm, thinking this way it doesn't look so bad, right?

But to say the truth I think this kind of advertisement is being more negative than positive for casinos. Everyone is aware about streamers using fake money to gamble and most opinions from the public I've seen reject this concept of propaganda. These guys are actually ruining their reputations as social influencers by pretending to gamble insane amounts of money they wouldn't for real.

I believe casinos should change their marketing strategy. Instead of giving fake money to streamers, just increase their payrates, so they will have to use real money in order to gamble. And of course, they will keep the bets under a reasonable and realistic size, because if the gambler makes huge bets, it will be blatantly obvious that is a fake gambling session leading to unconvincing marketing campaign in my opinion.

Indeed. In my country, for example, gambling is forbidden, but it doesn't prevent lots of people from betting. They just go to illegal houses or virtual casinos instead of the old legal physical casinos we had before the law passed. When the industry was considered legit, there were many people who legally worked in casinos and now these people are unemployed or have to work in the shadows of clandestinity.

In some countries restrictions happen for religious reasons, but in China's case I think it's more like a strategy to not let the population fall for addictions of any kinds (as even children are being prevented from playing videogames accordingly to OP). Addictions make people weaker, less productive, so chinese government wants to avoid that, just like they did with opium dens back in 1950's, when they totally erradicated the production and usage of opium.

To gamble it doesn't make sense, moreover the site already offers a kind of bot for gambling. What happens is that some people use bots to farm the faucet all day long. If they purchase the 100 RPs boost per claim (acquired in rewards tab), it's possible to profit extra 1100 RPs daily, plus the normal RPs users already receive by just claiming the faucet.
Also, I believe they attempt to run several accounts simultaneously, increasing the profit considerably if using that strategy in multiple accounts, although bankrupting the site at same time.

I've seen these protesters are afraid of receving their pensions and welfare in bitcoin futurely, so they want to make sure the government keeps the payments in dollar (the country doesn't have local currency), while demonstrating their insatisfaction with the digital currency and the low value of pensions paid to retired citizens by the government.
But of course, I think this protest is following a political agenda from the establishment which isn't confortable with the change in the financial system. The statement from supreme court of justice's member presented in OP gives a good clue about it. It really doesn't make much sense to say no to Bitcoin since no one is being forced to adopt it.

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The man below was selling badanas during the protest. Since the main complaint of the protest was poor pensions, lack of decent income for veterans and pensioners, I suppose he didn't profit a lot... Or is there anyone sponsoring protests like this to uneducate the population regards bitcoin?

It will be an important game for both teams in order to guarantee their positions in group H. Only a winning is interesting, because Slovakia is close at the third position with serious chances of reaching the top one if they win the next game against Slovenia and if Russia and Croatia tie their match. So Russia and Croatia need to put themselves in offensive position and score at all costs.
Furthermore, without the star player Modric, the game must be more balanced, giving Russia more chances to beat the adversary. I expect it's going to be an energetic game full of emotions with players putting a lot of effort for their national teams.

France is always unpredictable. Sometimes they are very good and sometimes they are really bad. It's actually hard to see the national team in an average position. For the next game I guess it won't be a difficult challenge for France, because the adversary Bosnia hasn't won a single dispute since 2019. They have scored only 1 point in two games, while France has won two games in group D, including one game against Bosnia last march already.

There isn't much at Bosnia's favour besides the fact french national team will be composed by many first-timer players, as the regular ones are treating injuries, or maybe Deschamps just want to preserve their strength, effort and energy for a stronger opponent ahead.

There are many clubs interested in David Luiz right now. Last news I have seen said Benfica gave up on him, because he doesn't fit the style of the coacher, Jorge Jesus, who prefers a defensive player with different characteristics (probably different team play behavior).

Hard to know precisely what is happening on the backgrounds right now because there are lots of speculations going on at different sites, but Sporting from Portugal is also trying a contract with David Luiz as are more 3 brazilian clubs, Flamengo, Atlético MG and Corinthians. However I'm not aware about the values offered by the clubs yet.

Actually Trump said he doesn't like bitcoin and that it looks like a fraudulent scheme. He said bitcoin prejudices dollar and he totally supports dollar currency as the main world's currency.
But you are right about the votes percentage. A bitcoin proposal isn't enough to push a candidate up in an election. What really matters in a political campaign is money. If the candidate has money plus influence to buy support from another politicians and from the people he wins, that is how it works. Proposals play a little role in political disputes. They are just smoke screen.

Real Madrid was really generous to increase the offer from €180m to €200m since the last negotiation, and even after that PSG didn't accept the offer. It makes me believe PSG didn't want to sell Mbappe since the beginning. PSG wants him to play at least one season partnering with Messi and Neymar, composing a top tier 1 unbeatable trio.
Is this approach more profitable for PSG than the offer made by Real Madrid, or is the symbolic meaning of this trio for the history of soccer and PSG itself more important than financial profits for the club?

Yes, you guessed right, that is what I mean. If the gambler's mind isn't in order it's too dangerous to take loans. He might even start borrowing money from safe sources, like a relative, a bank or something like this, but once the debt keeps rising and he can't figure out how to paid it back, he will keep searching for new sources and at some point only private lenders, mobsters will take the risk of lending money to this person.
Then it's when the situation becomes really dangerous, because these people won't solve a non-paid loan issue through a legal action in a court. They go after the gambler and his family and in worse cases, well, you know what I mean.

That is a good point. For some time bitcoins held by terrorists may be safely hidden, but money isn't useful if stored forever. Sooner or later, as this money is moved, it will left some tracks and intelligence department of USA plus their allies will find it and everyone else involved on the financial operations. Furthermore, funds held in bitcoin must have came from somewhere else, what means there is also a fiat origin that can be tracked.

It would be worse if the funds were held in paper money. Then I would say it is helping terrorists, because that is the only kind of money which leaves no traces. Ironically, it's the favorite method of storing money of politicians.

That is totally right. Many countries live under total political instability nowadays. It happens because we have a very splitted population inside a same country. Half of the population doesn't agree and wants the opposite of the another half of the population. It leads to a hostile climate, which affects the society negatively in all aspects: social, economical, professional, ethical...
One of the main consequences is the lack of interest from investors for those countries, because they don't know how it is going to be the next day, as they be affected by sudden abusive regulations. Since it's a risky deal to invest in such countries, they just prefer to move their money to places where they can find stability, a pacific society that literally speaks the same language.

Just like investors, bitcoin can be also negatively affected by those same regulations. I believe a solution would be if unstable countries were finally splitted in half or more, like the old kingdoms of Europe, so each citizen could live on the territory he agrees with the political spectrum.

Yes, because bitcoin's volatility many governments don't want to incentive or make it legal. They say it's too risky to use bitcoin as currency or investment. Actually that is the only government's excuse that makes some sense.

Well, bitcoin isn't totally anonymous. Businesses paying their employees in btc would have to report the data to the government and pay taxes anyway. Furthermore, employees' btc addresses would be attached to their owners as well, so nobody would be able to hide their wealths.

People still need to take some risks in order to profit from bitcoin, but if the government really fears fiat may become useless if bitcoin becomes accepted as legal tender, it's the proof they really don't believe fiat is a good option when another alternatives are offered to the population. That means they are aware fiat is weak, fragile and just want to forbid anything that could replace it to preserve the currently system.

Worthless proposition from worthless authorities. Gamblers won't stop gambling and going into debt because credit cards and advertisements are going to be censored. There are another ways to acquire credit to gamble and I would say they are much more dangerous if compared to credit cards... Or maybe these gamblers can just move to another country to play without any problems.

If the people who introduced this ban were really worried about gamblers, they would firstly worry about the mental health of the players and help them with that. That is the root of the problem.

But what about the called meme coins? They are useless, don't offer any useful feature to adopters, investors know about it and still invest on them anyway, pumping their prices to ridiculous levels. That is an evidence any altcoin has some chances of returning decent profit to investors on short run. However I agree with the altcoins options you mentioned and I think serious investors should really stick only with solid crypto currencies.
A good way to check if an altcoin worths the investment is to check for what reason people are using it. If there is a real demanded product behind the coin I would say it's a good investment.