Dunno, this number seems grossly overexaggerated to me, as they usually are when it comes to crypto adoption. I mean, I would love if its true, but I honestly doubt that 50% of people in Turkey owns crypto, and if you check the article Kucoin based that number on survey on 500 people only.

Looking forward to hear whta out members from Turkey has to say about this, do they have a feling that half the people around them owns crypto.

Personally, I do not mind a great fighter like Manny Pacquiao to perform again. But I also believe that it will be a better decision for them to give the young upcoming fighters an option to fight because they are the future.

But at the same time, we all know that a lot of people are going to show a lot more interest in seeing Manny Pacquiao fight, instead of watching young fighters. So that might be something to keep in mind. Probably the young fighters could have shown something great. If Manny Pacquiao is going to fight, we all know that the other fighters are going to be in the shadows because he will be taking that spotlight.

It is kind of easy just to find some trusted third party to serve as escrow, besides usually it is easier to bet with co workers than friends, since both people share paydays and know it is very unlikely they will just quit a job to run away from a bet debt.

Actually, at work I have seen people (including the very boss) to set bets with other employees, they always comply. I don't know, perhaps I just interact with people who are used to honor their debts and bets, It may be the exception and not a general rule.

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Even if Bitcoin was not a thing, people would continue to bet and gamble underground with FIAT. It is quite difficult activity to enforce in reality.

Also, I can understand people around you do not care about politics as you do, it happens around here as well. But people in India are still interested on national politics or they prefer to focus on daily problems which are not as transcendental as geopolitics? Is the average Indian fellow not into politics?

Yup, the result of the match has title implications.  A win for Namajunas means she leap frogs everybody else for Fiorot's spot going to the title.  Judging from the ceremonial weigh ins, I think she's metally all there but physically, I dunno...  Her cheeks look round and chubby like she had more like a vacation instead of a training camp.    Rooting for her tho.  But Fiorot is good.  It's an interesting match up.

So yeah...  Good luck to all your bets you degens.

Last call to jeremypwr's Multi Master.

UFC Fight Night 226 - Multi Master Challenge
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That's quite a big word mate, to say that Ngannou can shock the boxing world along with its spectators by upsetting the Tyson Fury in a duel inside the boxing ring which is the latter's sport. I know that there is a chance even if it's just slim but it's still too soon for it to say specially after knowing that the odds aren't in favor with the MMA fighter.

Tyson Fury may or may not face some troubles in this fight because Ngannou isn't an ordinary fighter as well but I know that Fury already have his eyes on the prize and will not underestimate his opponent because his undefeated record is on the line while Ngannou here have nothing to lose as after all, this is still his boxing debut and won't probably matter anyway because he's an MMA fighter in the first place.

Lol, maybe you are married wrong woman (joking, there are no wrong or right wifes, there are only yours  ). I am married, have a kid. Perhaps my wife is simply different. I have never heard nagging about spending money on gambling, crypto. I am not the only one who brings money to family. In fact, when I told her I dream about buying a motorcycle, and finally bought it (thanks to crypto). I have never heard anything like “choose either your hobby, or family”, “motorcycles are dangerous”, “think about your kid, I dont want to become widow”. That is why I dont understand why I should keep something in secret. I would better be open, because the truth will come out anyway.

In the modern world, everyone understands that cockfighting is a cruel entertainment and the governments of many countries should of course prohibit such entertainment.  

However, in those countries where cockfighting is their national tradition, such a ban is extremely difficult to introduce.  Any politician or popularly elected member of the Legislative Assembly of the country who proposes to legally establish bans on traditional folk entertainment always runs the risk of losing the support of the local population in the elections.  That is why many such politicians seem to constantly say that this is bad entertainment, but in reality they do nothing and just engage in demagogy.  None of them wants to lose the support of voters.  
That's why, as I think, it is so difficult to deal with real bans and cockfights in several countries of the world.

I think there needs to be some clarification and updates to be made on OP article if this will truly be relevant as expected because some data and statistics were drawn from past years experience on how the government approach the use of bitcoin, mining and the entire cryptocurrency itself, on the same vein, it is better to put it that in most of the countries listed, bitcoin is legal to be used by the people but not as legal tender, which means it's not against the law to use bitcoin but the government doen not support it commercial banks in using it, in these countries, we cannot say that bitcoin is banned, banks are only banned from using it, while only few had banned bitcoin and crypto, countries like india, Ghana Mexico are still soft about bitcoin, Mexico is only regulating mining environmental impact, but they are quite aware people are using bitcoin for transactions.

Chances of winning ain't that high. Also, avoiding addiction depends to the gambler himself. This is a good thing no doubt but would it work 24/7? 'coz gambling provider won't be earning that much to sustain this "program"if that's the case, and if not then that should already be an answer to the question. However, as I've said, it depends on the gambler whether to get invokved that much to gambling activities or not. As long as such drive to win and be rich in an instant or to get back with losses, are there then we cannot expect less. But mentioned activies will indeed lessen the the tendency of players to engage with betting problem is it won't be open always for players who would want to play and win, also prone to abuse.

I know you're joking with this, but some people actually hates someone who win and not giving them any tip. Well, I am the one who hates and gets annoyed to the people who's waiting for someone to win to beg for a tip. I knew a lot of people who's like this in a physical casino. When they're drained they just don't go straight to their homes to rest, instead they will come and gather around you and try to give you some advices while you are trying to place a bet so when you eventually win, they'll going to ask for a tip then until they can pool enough money to play another for round.
I don't know if people like these exist in other countries, but this seriously annoys me. Having an online casino where we can play at the comfort of our home is an advantage to avoid this kind of people lol.

Still dont understand why I should keep gambling in secret if I gamble with my own money. I should not be shy of it or feel uncomfortable. That is just stupid. I dont keep in secret if I buy beer, bread or something, but I must hide that I spend money on gambling. If a person hides that he gambles from his family, then there is something fishy with his funds, or something wrong with his mind.

Certainly!

The first big change is financial control, nobody doubts that. Those who know how to control their impulses and place bets responsibly will not compromise their financial budget with this type of entertainment. That alone should be reason enough to motivate others to gamble responsibly.

However, more than that, playing responsibly also allows the gambler to have a healthy lifestyle, knowing that in addition to gambling in front of a computer, he can enjoy his wife/husband/children, go out with friends, taking a walk in the park, etc... having a social life is also very important and unfortunately people addicted to gambling often do not have that.

Finally... mental health. Those who don't worry about debts and manage to entertain themselves with other things, live less stressed, acquire fewer diseases and live longer.

Yup. If she's mentally in the right place on Saturday, she's my favourite.

I think Bob Arum only said that because he wanted to hype Inoue but the truth is Inoue could not break Pacman's record of the being the only boxer to achieve that fate, 8-division world champion. Inoue is just a 3-division world champion and so many big names just one or two division up of the super bantamweight division which i think are hard to defeat.

Inoue is one of Bob's cash cow at the moment so he will say whatever good things he could say when the press are around.

I just hope that Bob would let his ward fight Casimero very soon.

I would be lying to myself if I would say that I'm not excited that BlackRock wants to be involved in Bitcoin and use it as an investment vehicle. BUT at the same time, we truly can't deny the FACT that custodial entities, if large enough, could be very dangerous for the future of the network.

^ Well, I definitely know that if Connor McGregor was actually going to fight in December, the UFC was definitely going to do a great deal of marketing about that. We all know how Dana White absolutely loves Conor McGregor. So if he was actually fighting, the UFC was definitely going to talk a lot about it. And at the same time, I think we should understand that these are just people who want to see Conor McGregor fight again. They are the ones making these types of videos or spreading these news. And sometimes it is also the newspapers who want to increase the traffic on their pages.