That peak also called my attention. Of course a kind of hype was created on July 2020, but just lasted shortly. I believe it could have been due to a heavy advertisement marketing strategy of some casinos that made so many people interested in online gambling at same time. However, as we can see only bitcoin and crypto gambling searching terms kept rising during the following months.
Probably people started looking for online gambling and ended discovering crypto gambling more attractive after all, as all these searching terms are related, but bitcoin/crypto gambling is a kind of evolution compared to the first one.

I could be wrong, but I don't buy this. His mental disorder is more like a superpower then, because I don't see autists speculating money so smartly like him. People with mental disorders have many difficults in life due to their unstable behavior, especially in financial life. It's common to speculate wealthy and excentric people have some level of autism, but in every cases I have seen, it's nothing more than speculation.
Elon Musk didn't reach to the top 2 of richest men of the world being a fool, so it's really interesting how he made his business accept bitcoin as payment, but some days later he retreated and said bitcoin is harmful to the environment. Of course there are informations behind the curtains we don't have access.

The faucet is worthful too, because although you get few satoshis on most claims you still have a chance to get 200$ or the intermediary prizes for just one click hourly. For investors it takes less than one second, as they don't have to complete the captcha. The faucet is also a good way to introduce new people to bitcoin and a smart incentive to make people start investing in Freebitco.in.

I think we are seeing the size of Musk's influence on the market right now. I don't expect bitcoin will fall too deep, because the currency has grown to the level we see nowadays without his help, so it will survive and continue thriving without him anyway. The currently correction is a normal effect of Musk's fans cashing out their bitcoin investments and consequently influencing some other investors to do the same (the domino effect), especially the big speculators. I still fully believe in bitcoin and I'm sure if there is so much misinformation about btc, like the one Elon Musk throw on his public, it's because there are many people avid to buy bitcoins for a cheaper price.

When a casino asks for documents it's because they have to follow this regulation to operate their casino services legally. If the situation you mentioned happens and a high roller start being blackmailed by a staff member, the gambler can contact the responsible authorities and they will go after the casino and deal with the issue properly. On the other hand, in some cases the high roller wants to hide his winnings from authorities and this fact can be used by the casino to take advantage of the situation. In this case the gambler can't do anything, because he is also wrong and the blackmailers know about it.

If the casino is regulated and KYC is needed, users must also use the regulations in their own favor.

At this point I don't doubt he comes to twitter and start badmouthing dogecoin anytime. Maybe he really has future plans for his own crypto currency, as his goal is to colonize another planets, the appeal used to call the attention of investors may be that he is going to create the first Mars' currency or the first interplanetary currency.
Anyway if I were one of those whales following his tweets like they were sacred words I would be very careful, because to follow an unstable influencer like Elon is similar to investing in ponzi schemes.

So much possibilities on why Elon Musk retreated... I ask myself if he is trying to gang up with the beautiful people after going to that comedy TV show. He is blindly repeating the eco-terrorist speech that many of those celebrities globalists' sockpuppets repeat in sensible marketing propagandas full of catchphrases while ignoring the facts and the reality.
The guy was a bitcoin adopter and supporter, but after few days he is already spreading misinformation about the crypto currency. My only certain right now is that Elon Musk isn't a trustful individual.

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Once the official game result is announced and the gamblers who made the correct predictions are paid there is no turning back. The result may change later due to an issue like cheating, but the prizes won't be paid to the real gamblers winners and the bookmakers won't get the money back from the previously paid gamblers.

In horse racing there is a particularity though, because if the horse you bet is the winner, but for some reason the official result declares another horse as the winner you will still get paid by bookmakers. But the point here is that the official result comes after the results change. With cheating it's the opposite, the results change after the official result is released, after so much time of the race, so it isn't included on the particularity I mentioned and nobody else is going to be paid in this case anyway.

In my opinion to borrow money to gamble is a big red line, a very strong signal the gambler is losing control over his hobby and that something really bad is going to happen next. There are evidences that during the pandemic people tend to do crazy things more often than they would do in normal times and gambling with borrowed money is included on these things.
I believe it's due to the fact people become too lonely, what lead them to become stressful and impulsive. Gambling seems a good antidote to loneliness at first glance, but without proper management it becomes unstoppable and at some point gambling's budget will be gone and a loan will be needed to keep the gambler busy and entertained with something. When it happens it's time to stop and find another hobby for a while. At least until next month, when gambling's budget can be renewed.

I agree with you. This time I think bitcoin fall was mainly due to Elon Musk. The effect was instantaneous right after his tweet and news about it were popping everywhere on google. Regulations are a constant threat to bitcoin, but a drop in btc price like the one we saw yesterday isn't constant, so the cause must be sudden and it was indeed Elon Musk and Tesla.
If Binance were considerably related to the fall I think BNB would be worse than it is now, already +7,67% during the last 24 hours. Doing really well if compared to bitcoin which has grown only 2,46% on the last 24 hours.

The reality is exactly like you said, especially on this virtual universe, but at same time I understand the gambler because it must hurt a lot to lose thousands of euros in just one night, so it's normal that he becomes angry over the casino, that just called the police for him when he told about his desire for killing himself after the huge loss.
However there is nothing the gambler can do besides stop gambling forever, what I think it's the most recommended option for him, or he can learn how to control himself next time, although I don't think it's a good idea for him to gamble again, because someone who loses 20,000 euros in few hours has serious self-control issues. So it should be avoided at all costs.

I believe the best place to seek for help is at the respective public department of your city/province. I know it as social assistance or welfare department. The employees working there will guide suffering individuals to proper treatment, what doesn't include only gambling addiction, but also any other kind of addiction or social problem as well.
These employees are supposed to know better than anyone else what are the treatments disponible on the region and can also work as middlemen between the citizens and the clinics, spas and doctors.

Although it doesn't work on long run I don't know any better strategy that could be used to maximize the time a gambler spends playing games like dice. I've already tried an another one called Parlay too, but it was much worse than Martingale. I think when it comes to strategy gamblers don't have much to do besides playing Martingale variances.
The truth is that the goal of these strategies isn't to give the gamblers a guaranteed profit after a session of gambling, but to let them play for the longest time as possible without going bankrupt.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but these streamers and youtubers' statistics will still be in loss on long run even if they are using fake money, unless the house edge is modified in their favor for marketing purposes. In that case it would be a very serious situation. However if they are just being paid to advertise the casino brand, playing by the normal rules, it's normal they aren't going to risk their own money, right? Otherwise it doesn't make sense.
I just think in such situations the streamer/youtuber must state on his video description that it's a paid advertisement video, so the public will be aware the casino is sponsoring the video, consequently it will be a partial video in favor of the house.

If people are still disturbed by this marketing strategy I suggest them to stop listening to youtubers and stick only with the house edge and impartial feedbacks from independent reviews sites when choosing a casino to play.

I feel bad for what he has done. I thought crypto community could really count on him to help promoting it and engaging new people to crypto currency. But he actually managed to destroy all the good he has done for crypto in just one tweet. I don't solely blame him though, because crypto currency is all about decentralization and freedom, while what people have done was to idolize Musk and put him on a demigod position, going totally against what crypto currency was meant for. A man who has so much influence power over his kind isn't the root of the problem, but a consequence of the first, that is the idolatry and lack of personality of the masses.

It's shocking to see how people allow themselves to be manipulated. I don't know if others know this expression, but it's the called *cattle*: unable to think and act by themselves, always waiting for a superior command to go with the herd without questions.

Now I really don't know what is the catch of Elon Musk. Or he is a fool, an irresponsible, a sockpuppet of globalists, or he is a very machiavellian person, just playing with prices to see how powerful is his influence on the market and of course, to buy the dip. I can't believe a guy like him didn't know about the sustainability of bitcoin mining and operational costs stuff before he started investing and promoting it on the social medias.

Well, as a holder it's always sad to see bitcoin falling, and on the other hand, as a potential buyer, bitcoin near 10,000$ is a great opportunity to buy more coins. The point is that in order to purchase bitcoins, investors like me need to have fiat disponible on that exact moment, what isn't a guarantee. In this case it would be a wasted opportunity. So I really don't know if I would be happy.

In the first post I'm saying about bad news that appear during bear seasons and impact bitcoin much more negatively than those bad news which appear during minor corrections and bull runs.

Unfortunatelly many gamblers who don't share their hobby to their families are the ones who suffer from addiction and will hardly be able to control themselves and be responsible when gambling. This situation is boosted by the pandemic and becomes worse as social interactions become less frequent and people tend to stay at home isolated also from their family members.
Those guidelines provided by OP are very important and I think it's already a matter of public health. Instead of forbidding gambling, governments should be working with public campaigns to promote those hints and advices to the population in general, so such informations can reach to problem gamblers who are not active in forums like this.

There are advantages and disadvantages in bitcoin hitting 10,000$ and I really can't think if I would be happy or not for that. The point is that you can see the bear and the bull market always in a positive way if you think the glass is always half full. It's possible to benefit yourself from an expensive bitcoin price, by holding or selling and from a cheap bitcoin, by accumulating more coins.
On the other hand, a bear market isn't totally positive. You can buy cheap coins and that is really good, but this market's season also causes a lot of bad news about crypto currency and many investors are discouraged to invest in bitcoin, what prevents the called mass adoption from happening, may also slow down many crypto projects, while bankrupting others.

Who would need bitcoin or any other kind of money in a world like this? It looks like people would have everything they need to live confortably, without even being necessary to work in order to survive and thrive. Since most human's necessities would be supplied freely, financial trades become near to useless. If it really happens someday the last of your worries will be bitcoin and this extreme equality mania.

It's quite hard to buy something with bitcoin for me right now due to the lack of sellers accepting it as payment method, but the most notorious item I have bought with btc so far was in fact a bitcoin hardware wallet.
I felt really glad to be able to finish this purchase with bitcoin and I would like to do this more often, paying with bitcoin for another products.