This is what I found about this matter:

https://stake.com/pt/licenses

Do you know what party issued BC.game's license? I found it was Governor General of Curaçao.

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Maybe different licenses' issuers bring different outcomes on what countries the platforms can operate. These regulations are highly bureaucratic and full of different details on each of them. Or maybe, as others have pointed out, determined casino platforms aren't operating in certain countries due to the license itself, but other factors involved.

Rationally, that would be the right thing to do before making every decisions in life, however, the reality is different, because many people act by impulses and momentary desires they feel on the present moment, without measuring the potential consequences of their acts. These are considered irresponsible, immature, unstable individuals who will always find someone to guilt for their own personal mistakes, so they never feel bad about themselves.

And it's even more common among the new generations who don't accept following rules, traditions and want to do everything on their own way, consequently failing in the end, because they didn't listen to wiser old people who are more experienced in life and have already passed through many ways the youngs are knowing only now for the first time. Even worse is the fact these generations are arrogant, so they never apologize and admit their mistakes, causing the "blame game" you mentioned in your post.

Now you might ask, is there a solution for this social problem? I think at some point life teaches these people how to behave in a decent manner towards their pairs, accepting their responsabilities and consequences for their own acts. Although while they don't get conscious about it, the tendency is that things keep getting worse in their lives until they finally learn and improve.

I have already gone into gambling in order to collect enough money to pay bills, and it has actually worked for a while. Although the more you do this, closer you reach from the so feared long term, that is when gamblers can't overcome the house and start losing all the progress achieved so far. So, inevitably at some point it won't be possible to collect money to pay off debt anymore, therefore this practice is totally discouraged due to not being sustainable and due to creating more debt on long run.

I was lucky when I tried it, but unfortunatelly your friend wasn't right on the first attempt, maybe because he was too unlucky or because he didn't have a considerable bankroll size to allow him survive in the game for longer. Now he has to work even more just to recover the small sum of money he had before losing everything to slot machine. I hope it's going to be an useful lesson for him to not trust gambling anymore when having to collect money in a hurry to pay off debt. Everyone takes a lesson sooner or later from gambling and even though it's bitter, we have to swallow it.

Traditional banking system is already introducing Bitcoin and other cryptos to their platforms. They adopted cryptocurrencies, like all of us did, so there is a strong relationship between them, because the traditional banking system wants to take advantage of the profitability factor of crypto. They are just adapting themselves to the current circumstances of the world, so they don't become obsolete and overcome by common crypto investors.

Here in my banking app, there are many offers of crypto investments to start, from about 0,20$ on, which you can buy and sell at anytime, although you aren't allowed to move your coins or tokens to anywhere. It means you can just buy and sell them for fiat, inside the banking platform. How convenient it is for the traditional banking system to offer this to their customers... In fact, by investing in crypto through these banks we don't actually own our funds, as it remains on their hands during the whole process of holding.

Thankfully it's still possible to invest in crypto by ourselves, without relying on any middlemen services to keep our money. So, even though banking system is already into crypto, it doesn't mean you should make use of them when investing in cryptocurrencies.

Yes, if you can't risk you can't play, so there isn't how to win this way. What you have to keep in mind is how much you can risk. Even a little can be already enough to win, if you are lucky enough. The best example I can think about are lotteries, where people risk small sums of money and still have a slight chance of winning millionaire prizes. And small sums of money which represent the cost of a lottery ticket, can be afforded by almost every person, so in theory, everyone can risk, so everyone can win, although we know only few will achieve this goal, because the chances are tiny.

Every of us want to belong to the small portion of gamblers who will win. However, most of us won't belong to that group, so with that in mind, we start thinking if it really worths to take risks, because in most cases it's just going to be a waste of money. Then many people stop trying gambling, as they assume the fortune is just not going to hit them, while others still remain optimistic, despite the low chances at their favour.

And it is intriguing to think why some people remain so optimistic, even knowing they don't have great winning chances, while others get easily pessimistic and don't even give a try to gambling once in a while. These are extremely opposite views and approaches on a same matter, what makes me conclude gambling is something you love or hate.

It's a hard situation to solve, because it seems no matter what you tell this person, he is not going to give up gambling, because he is heavily addicted to it. And as far as I know, addiction can be only fought back when the individual suffering from this issue gives the first step, accepting the fact he has a problem which he can't overcome by himself, which is destroying his life, and therefore he need and want your help.

Without this initial stage, I fear there isn't much you can do for him, besides enforcing a compulsory rehabilitation. This is a drastic measure, and every other alternatives should be tried first before going this far, but once you conclude they don't work, I don't know anything else to be done for this individual.

Meanwhile you could grab his attention to another activities which don't involve betting. Maybe taking the person to holidays or vacation for weeks or a month can make a big difference on his life regards changing bad habits and building new positive ones. If this person is so important for you, I believe you wouldn't bother putting so much time and effort to accompany him during this process.

I think you used the right word there: usually, what means that we don't know every single details about the teams and players. If someone from the team, like players, coach, medical support and so on, use an information the public wasn't aware about in their own favour to place a bet, then it's considered inside gambling. That is an unfair practice, since the gambler is betting aware of an information the rest of the gamblers don't have access in no other ways, so they are in disadvantage.

At least, that is what I understood from the quote you shared above.

Anyway, it's a very sensitive point, because people who work on the backgrounds with the team will always know something else the public doesn't know. It may not be even a lesion issue, but an emotional problem the player is facing with his family or wife and few support members know about it. So of course they can use this information at their own favour when placing a bet, or tell someone to play for them following their guesses. And it would be innocence from our side to think it's not happening in a frequent basis in sports betting.

Do ponto de vista político e social, os cenários são bem parecidos. População desesperada por mudanças, ciclos de corrupção intermináveis, autoridades na condição de semideuses sobre a terra mandando e desmandando...

A questão é que o mito brasileiro começou com tanto gás como o mito argentino: corte de ministérios, estado mínimo, fim do toma-lá-dá-cá, acabou a mamata, moralização do estado brasileiro sem mais acordos espúrios com a esquerda e o centrão.

No entanto, esse teatro durou por volta de 1 ano, ou até menos, já que ainda em meados de 2019 o senador Flávio Bolsonaro começou a articulação para enterrar a CPI da Lava Toga, se aliando, portanto, ao sistema que juraram combater, aderindo a inversão de valores que criticaram, e traindo todos aqueles que acreditaram nas propostas de campanha do então candidato Jair Messias Bolsonaro.

Depois disso, foi só ladeira abaixo... Incluindo a recriação de ministérios para os mercenários do centrão, indicação de figuras ligadas ao petismo para o judiciário, indo na contramão da tão aclamada política econômica liberal, bem como fortalecendo as velhas estruturas nefastas do toma-lá-dá-cá, inversão de valores e corrupção.

Em Banânia, ou Bostil, como outros já o chamam, não poderia ser diferente, já que o mito passou 4 anos preparando a cama para o "Retorno do Jegue", sustentado por seus idólatras que passavam pano para cada traição executada, e que resultaram em estruturas de estado ainda mais espúrias nos dias de hoje do que aquelas que causaram a revolta popular entre 2015-2016, culminando no Impeachment.

Portanto, eu creio que há chances reais do que aconteceu aqui se repetir na Argentina. Os elementos da fórmula são praticamente os mesmos. A população se distrai fácil com pão e circo, que para os dias atuais poderia ser traduzido para mitadas ou lacradas.

Not only Holy Bible, but also eastern philosophies, such as Yin-Yang, have always presented men and women as different from each other, although always complementary, since one need the other to live in balance. Along the time, differences between them, especially regards social roles, have been decreasing considerably, what is undoubtedly good, since women conquered individual rights and got recognization for their deeds and skills inside the society.

However, this feminist movement has lost its legit purpose once their legit goals were achieved by the XX century to become a left wing extremist conglomerate of embittered, rageful and sick minded individuals who don't want social equality anymore, rather they want superiority towards men. They don't act to build, but to destroy and spread strife between the sexes. Thankfully, wise women who keep their essence don't fall for such rageful movements. They don't give up on their femininity, loveliness, grace and every other attributes which are exclusive of female beings, and therefore make them unique, different and unequal from men, as it has been always supposed to be by natural rules.

If everyone was equal and there wouldn't be differences between sexes, what would motivate men to get inspired and fall in love for women, then? The consequences of the implementation of these noxious political and ideological agendas are the subversion and annihilation of the beauty containing in the world.

I would invest in old tokens, because this way I can analyze if they have come to stay or if they are just boosted by temporary hype. New tokens are dangerous, because you never know, as they haven't passed through the test of time yet, and most of them are blatant scams or speculative assets which won't keep the price for too long until dumping to minimal price levels forever.

When picking a token to invest, I would check their features and advantages by holding. One old token I like and represents one of the reasons why I go for old tokens is FUN, as it gives extra benefits for holders inside freebitco.in platform. However, these benefits are mainly for BTC holders, so you have to have both currencies in order to make this investment worth. Each case is unique, therefore you have to analyze by yourself if a determined token is going to fit your needs and goals inside crypto market.

For me it's more interesting to go for old tokens, but maybe for a new investor who is starting from zero, it might be interesting to risk on the new ones, since they can present superior percentage price increasements. In every cases, it's not advisable to put a big portion of your budget on tokens or altcoins in general. I wouldn't invest more than 5%-10% of my portfolio on them, what means 90%-95% should be always invested in BTC currency.

There are many challenges people face when accepting Bitcoin as payment on their businesses:

• High transactions fees;
• Low Bitcoin adoption by customers;
• Prohibitive regulations by local government;
• Preconceptions by the population uneducated on Bitcoin and crypto matters;
• Uncertainties and instability about future potential regulations in countries where there isn't a legislation towards Bitcoin yet;
• Volatility of Bitcoin currency, demanding from businesses' owners to constantly exchange their coins into fiat, in order to keep their money's value on short run and avoid high fluctuations.

When adopting Bitcoin as payment method for your business, you have to be conscious it's only going to affect a small portion of your customers, while the vast majority is just going to ignore it. From the profitability point of view it doesn't make much difference for the seller yet. Maybe in the following years it might start changing for the better, but as far as I know there are no expectations regard it.

Now that everyone in that area already know OP is a Bitcoin enthusiast, I fear there isn't much he can do... He could say it was an isolated event, where he used all the BTCs he had to pay for the childbirth, discontinuing further purchases of Bitcoin later on, but since he is constantly proudly speaking of Bitcoin to his community, and teaching them the basics, how to invest for the long term and so on, it would be hard to make them believe he gave up on BTC investment...

If he has enough money to move to another area, it would be a good idea, like you suggested. Preferentially to a place where being a BTC enthusiast doesn't put a target on his head immediately, although it's easier said than done, because people have deep roots on the areas where they live and have grown side by side with their families for different generations. To leave everything behind is a hard decision only very detached individuals are able to do. Now he has to measure how risk it's for Bitcoin Junior to live and grow up in this place, having everyone around knowing they deal with BTC, especially after next bull run, which is going to boost BTC's price to even higher price ranges.

Yes, it's quite frequent in our society that people resort to addictive behaviors in order to avoid traumas from the past, mainly when feeling bad about themselves. That is what we could call "Escapism". Through escapism, people escape from their "selfs", that is, from their awareness conscious state, into a more physical state limited to bodily's sensations, silenting their minds (the aversive conscious state of mind) while the effects of the addictive activity are active on their bodies, causing anxiety, adrenaline, but also that excitement and thrill people like to feel.

That is how they forget who they are momentarily. And they feel like they need doing this, because those traumas are part of who they are, so they want to avoid it at all costs. However, that is not how they should deal with the issue. As you said, they manifest there is a mental suffering through gambling, although they should talk to family, friends and therapists about the problem in order to find a definitive and concrete solution for the traumas, instead of escaping from it forever, through disfunctional behaviors.

Mental health is one of the hottest and most important topics of our time. I believe step by step people are putting their preconceptions aside and accepting the fact it's healthy and positive for everyone to take some sessions with a psychologist who will help them to understand themselves better and resolve problems from the past which are buried deep inside, but generating negative side effects on their daily lives, such as addictions.

Actually, everyone is a little bit crazy in some aspects of their existences, so there shouldn't be any preconceptions by attending to a professional to try improving those aspects, or at least acquiring more self-knowledge. It's always good to have someone to talk about what you think, feel and wish, especially for lonely people who are only exposed to trolls and low-life individuals on the internet.

The fact gambling is entertaining is exactly due to the possibility of making profit through this activity. If you remove the chance of making profit entirely, it's not going to be funny anymore for most gamblers, otherwise, most people would play demo mode or free gambling apps from playstore, instead of playing at the real casino platforms. And by saying that, I don't mean people play solely for the chance of making money. There is a set of elements involved, anyway, which make this activity rewarding, even when losing on long term.

For many people it's hard to understand this reasoning, but I believe if they put themselves on more wealthy gamblers, they would understand. Those gamblers aren't playing because they are in urge for money or profit. But they like the idea of playing and having a chance to earn money. If they lose, however, it's not going to be the end of the world, because money isn't an issue for them. So they will leave the casino with less money on their pockets than they came in, but they will also leave satisfied for having some fun while playing the games, interacting with other gamblers, having some drinks or meals.

We don't need to exclude one factor from gambling to remain solely with another. Both (chance of profit and fun) are complementary.

Gambling addiction might be only one element inside a domestic violence situation. It can never be pointed as the primary cause. As you said, the cause is emotional instability, which has violence and gambling addiction as consequences. Addiction can potentialize an aggressive behavior, but it's important to notice this aggressive nature was already there, even before the addiction was developed, what can be identified along the life of the person, since childhood. A violent individual shouldn't avoid only gambling, but every other actvities which may lead him to addictive behaviors as well, besides seeking for treatment to improve his coping skills towards life's adversities.

Personally I wouldn't like people around calling my son Bitcoin. It sounds like mockery. I believe when parents choose a name for their children, people have to respect it, and call them by the right name. However, I think the one who has to say if it's fine or not is your son. Does he feel uncomfortable being called Bitcoin, or does he like it and feel proud? If he enjoys his nickname, probably there won't be any issues at all, as he won't feel bad about it futurely. Maybe for you it has a special and positive meaning, since it was through BTC his childbirth was paid.

Of course. People are making predictions on the outcomes of such competitive activities, therefore they are gambling on the potential results of the matches in order to know who is able to guess it correctly. That is what we call sports betting. It's just another category inside gambling industry which has become really popular nowadays through online apps and the sponsorship these platforms destine to sports' industry, especially soccer's leagues and championships.

Every events we don't have 100% assurance about their results can be bet on, and this very act is considered gambling.

No. It's necessary to match legal name and birth date. And later, your Coinbase account must match the same data you gave Celsius in order to be paid.



As you can see, this is the error message displayed when I access my Celsius account. However, this platform is so cunning, that they dare displaying an error message with the exact same legal name provided and legal name on the document, plus date of birth provided and on the document.

There is no error, neither a single letter misplaced.

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Well, the point is that customers didn't update and confirm their data because they weren't allowed to by Celsius. It's not customers' fault, because they have been in touch with the platform's support for months, without any replies from the other side. There are prints which can easily prove Celsius has neglected customers in order to not pay them. But you are right, I wouldn't count on the court, anyway.

This is a populist statement. CBDC and digital dollar are the same. If the government wants, they can seize your whole funds from your banking account at any time, as it has already happened in some countries like mine in the past, without the need for any CBDC in the process.

The creation of CBDCs is meaningless. It won't make any difference at all for us, unless the government enforces its usage and forbids the adoption of decentralized currencies such as Bitcoin.

For governments, yes, because they want the monopoly of cryptocurrencies for themselves. It's interesting for them to impose the usage of a centralized cryptocurrency they control for the masses, while discouraging or forbidding the usage of Bitcoin currency, for an example. But for us, average crypto enthusiasts, living on our own, independent from parties, ideological groups, land lords and politics, it's not necessary the existence of CBDCs. I would avoid it, like I avoid fiat.

Yes, the times when scams were solely perpetrated by anonymous individuals are gone. As crypto industry has evolved, more elaborated concepts of scams have appeared. Now it's totally possible to be scammed by a regulated company, which has a staff team and CEO everyone knows the faces, names and addresses. FTX and Celsius are good examples of that. Sam Bankman-Fried, from FTX, even had legitimacy from news' portals which interviewed him and shared his exotic, humanist and philanthropist lifestyle. Alex Mashinsky from Celsius was always vocal and belligerent against traditional banking system, saying "banks aren't your friends".


All the notoriety, regulations and self-propaganda did help their businesses to conquer the trust from a larger audience than usual anonymous scam ponzi schemes from crypto industry were used to, but they didn't prevent these platforms to be so scammy like any other anonymous ponzi scheme from past years...

If this whole story leaves a lesson, it is to not trust anyone, including crypto entrepreneurs and authorities plus their regulations, as they don't give you any guarantees in the end. Therefore, always go for self-custody when storing your coins, or at least the biggest portion of your funds.