Yes, since casino bankroll investments aren't worth anymore I think freebitcoin.in's one is the best option for now. In my opinion 4% yearly is pretty interesting, because dividends are being paid in bitcoin, what assures extra safety as you don't need to convert your money into an unknown altcoin which can crash without recovery chances anytime. Moreover I doubt there are better traditional investment for fiat with minimum investment of 12$ (proportional to 30,000 satoshis). There is also the possibility of increasing this yearly percentage by holding FUN tokens inside the platform. For investors looking for a low risk investment in crypto universe that is a very good opportunity.

The initiative must comes from the addicted individual, otherwise it will be a big waste of time and money. The family, relatives, friends or doctors can't force someone to stop gambling. Only the gambler can take the decision and only then ask for his loved ones' help. There are cases of addicted people who were sent to rehabilitation for long periods, but without any positive effect, since it was the family which was forcing this situation and not the addicted person who wanted to go by himself. Family can help by incentivizing the gambler to seek for help, but if it doesn't happen it's not their fault at all.

Exact numbers are hard to be found, but the percentage of winners must be between 3% and 5% of the total number of gamblers and their winnings are most probably due to jackpots, big wins they have hit once in life. Nowadays, with the trend around crypto gambling, many people claim to be profitable gamblers, especially the youngs, but it's important to notice to be a profitable gambler means to win on long run, what takes several years and not just few bets.

I've seen some statistics from 2020 about UK's gamblers where almost 30% of them claimed to be winning more than losing, but this percentage decreased as the age of participants increased. What means the confidence young gamblers have about their winnings decrease as they grow older, as they finally hit the long term.

Natural herbs have healing properties that shouldn't be wasted, but it doesn't mean they should be used in innapropriate ways. Anyway, the main issue presented here isn't the drugs usage itself, but the coop relationship that was established between the called libertarians and the potential drugs dealer who approached the community.
If that was really the case, the police was just doing their legit job and the community members victimizing themselves. I believe there are no excuses to maintain a relationship with a drugs dealer since this kind of people is involved in the most atrocious acts against civilized society.

Online gambling guarantees two main advantages: you don't get infected by coronavirus and you can use your crypto currency to play. Unfortunatelly physical casinos don't accept crypto currency yet, being only possible for crypto adopters to play at online platforms. That is not an issue though, because there are many decent platforms to try which surpass land based casinos in some aspects, especially if the gambler is an enthusiast of promotions and giveaways. Furthermore, it's clear online platforms like Stake offer a wide range of betting sports and categories which will be hardly found at a physical casino.

For casinos I think it's somehow dangerous to keep their funds in stablecoins or dollars, because if crypto market skyrockets suddenly, they will lose a lot of money by converting their funds into bitcoin in order to let their customers withdraw their balances, what happens really frequently when bitcoin is rising.
It looks safer to just keep every deposited amount by players in its original currency, and only exchange liquid profit to another currencies such as stablecoins. So if a gambler deposits 1 BTC, that 1 BTC will remain held by the casino until the gambler orders a withdrawl or until the gambler loses that money playing. This way Bitcoin can hit 1000$ or 1,000,000$ that the casino won't have any issues in paying the gambler back, if needed.

The governments want to make people believe regulations will make crypto currency users' lives easier, but it's just propaganda. I can't say for now if there will be less taxes if bitcoin was considered currency instead of asset by authorities, because less taxes is never the goal of governments. They always find a gap to introduce something new that you must pay, justifying it is for your own good.
For bitcoin, neutral/gray area was the best moment in history, when people could deal with it without any complications and government's intromission like the ones blatantly seen in USA right now. And I believe the difficulties faced in USA aren't due to the lack of regulations, but the introduction of abusive ones.

Since it was created, bitcoin has been working fine as currency or investment, and even in case of criminal activities people behind these acts could be tracked without any current regulations, so why to change something that was doing well already?

I think nothing of that was needed. It just creates more difficulties for who wants to invest and work with crypto currency. So far, crypto universe has been a great place to be because it is accessible and easy to be introduced, especially due to not being legal tender. Look how absurd is that proposal of being necessary to have the government's permission to start mining crypto currency.
Those who have been here since the beginning should be proud of being part of such a wonderful age of crypto currency. Because now things are just going to get worse and worse with growing governmental influence and regulations that don't respect the individuals and their appeal for less bureaucracy.

That is a very good signal for crypto currency. Sectors of society like this are the ones which we need to see adopting crypto, because they are highly demanded by the common citizens in a daily basis.

With the popularization of internet access everywhere, scenes like this one are going to be become a lot more common from now on. But I believe P2P transactions are still a daydream. If crypto payment method is going to be highly adopted, it's probably going to be done through a third party platform that may work as a crypto bank or something like this, so the transactions can be done instantly without paying expensive fees.

It's hard to take a side on this situation, because we don't really know if it's pure power abusing from authorities or if the source of the money used by the members of this community was really result of shady activities. One of the strongest points presented by the police was that libertarians were exchanging with a drugs dealer aware about who the man was, since he was an undercover agent and exposed it later.
Sadly these news seem very hidden from the traditional media vehicles. I would like to see it more in evidence by popular sources of information, in a way more people could see and understand this situation better.

Probably these people are hurted because they have lost the early days of bitcoin when it was cheap as 1$. Since they didn't make profit from bitcoin and always badmouthed the crypto currency, all they can do for now is to hope it dies. Pay attention and you will see people like this mostly appear at commentary sections of several sites and forums spreading negativity when we are facing a crash, dump, dip in the market.
But once bitcoin starts recovering, they just fade out until they smell a new opportunity to blame bitcoin again.

In my opinion it's not a good investment because as you said, it's overvalued. I prefer to invest in practical things that actually have a real function in life, so the value of the item can be easily explained and understood. Digital art pieces in NFT format opens large margins to pure speculation, what is very dangerous for investors.
What makes a masterpiece a real masterpiece is its originality and uniqueness which so far I haven't found in virtual art works. Modern artists appeal to common elements of the daily life to represent their works and sell it for thousands or millions of dollars. It doesn't make sense at all if you exclude the money laundering possibility.

Bitcoin isn't strong as currency because most businesses don't accept it as payment and not because transactions take too long to get confirmed. There are many things I could pay with bitcoin and wait several hours or even days to have my transactions confirmed without any problems, but unfortunatelly I just can't. So I have to exchange my money into fiat first in order to use it, what is very pointless since I could be using that money in bitcoin. I believe if more services adopted bitcoin as payment we would see an exponential increasement in btc usage as currency.

However it's important to highlight I'm not talking about any kind of services. It must be daily high demanded services and businesses by common people, not some fancy or excentric brands.

I ask myself if Malaysia would also destroy bitcoin hardwares in case of seizing funds from criminals dealing with the crypto currency in that country. Because if they did it with mining equipment, it's not unlikely they would do the same with bitcoin itself. As I see it was done as propaganda against bitcoin, to impress the local population to stay away from activities which involve crypto currency, like mining. When a government destroys something (books, guns, piracy content or crypto mining equipments) it's because they want the population to fear that specific thing they are burning or destryoing, so people will stay away from that.

It's impossible or near to impossible to break the code and even if it would happen there are many employees around following gamblers' progress in real time. If a machine is bugged, they will fastly shut it down and call a technician to repair the issue before someone else can start playing on this machine again.
 
On the other hand I know some people who are customers of a casino or another and they have a favorite machine to play during a specific period of the day when attending to these houses, because they suppose during that time the machine gives more rewards. Well, I'm sure something like that is possible in programming, but I'm not sure if it really happens in casinos.

Some might even say a determined machine likes them very much, so it's going to reward them more often. But this is already too much to be taken into consideration.

To worship material elements is heresy. These people are putting money beyond God, what is a serious mistake. The correct is to be thankful to God for the money (bitcoin) they are having the opportunity to earn and grow along the years. Without any doubts it's a great gift to be an early bitcoin adopter and I believe if something like this happens in someone's life it's because God really blessed them or is trying to teach something through it.
But there is a big difference between being thankful for bitcoin or trusting its potential and being a bitcoin believer (in a religious sense).

It reminds that story of the golden calf found in The Bible, which started being worshiped by the israelites when Moses went up to the mount to receive the Ten Commandments. Since he took some time to come back, his people in despair lost hope, patience and started worshiping the golden calf, just like these people worhip Bitcoin now. Ironically bitcoin is sometimes presented as or within a bull, just like the calf statue during the biblical times.

I believe women participation in gambling industry is probably the same of men. I see both genders very involved in gambling. Women and specially old ladies love slots machines, cards, lottery and bingo games.
It's easy to conclude that just by going to a land based casino or by watching some movies which display gambling scenes.

Meme coin mania is a indicator of how people are inconsequential with their money. Instead of investing in something worthful they play with their money putting it in coins which don't have any real value, just for kidding. It looks like they don't worry about their money at all. Unfortunatelly many investors who can't waste money follow these hypes and end losing funds they couldn't afford to lose.
In my opinion this kind of investment should be avoided, since it is just an upgraded version of old ponzi schemes.

Probably not, because most people aren't able to take the decisions you mentioned. There are complex subjects governments face daily and there are specialized people to solve these subjects and keep the country working. If you put the common citizens to solve technical subjects through voting it is not going to work, because these people have no idea how things really work or should be done.
Also, a smart contract system like that would kill any secret intelligence service the country has, because everything would be public. Furthermore, a country like this would be really vulnerable to foreigner sabotage/influence. Extremist systems aren't a good idea and an extreme democracy is equally bad or even worse than a tyranny.

Money imposes limits or open doors in your life depending on how you have disponible. So it's a fact it will influence on your mood and I believe to tell the opposite is a lie. Everyone wants to dispose of an enough amount of money to fullfil their goals and achieve their dreams and if they aren't able to do it, a feeling of failure will take control of them, influencing the mood.
Of course there are also some people who can't get enough of money. The more they have the more they want without limits, being always in a bad mood, because nothing can satisfy them. That is an extreme behavior that shouldn't be misunderstood by the common financial difficulties and their effects on mood faced by most people in the world.