Hybrid sports betting house model. This model combines the trust and transparency of decentralized platforms with the efficiency and ease of use of centralized systems. How do you think this combination will impact the sports betting user experience? Will it increase trust and confidence, or are there potential challenges to be wary of?

Additionally, as blockchain and cryptocurrencies continue to disrupt multiple industries, what unique opportunities and challenges do you foresee for platforms like RITZ Sports Bet in navigating decentralized and centralized worlds?

Let's start a discussion about the potential of hybrid betting platforms in the crypto era. Share your insights, predictions and any questions

It's just YouTube, but today I ran across a video that mentioned a bitcoin HODL tax.

In order to stop bitcoin, authorities would have to shut down the internet which is impossible. So I predict that their next move is to launch enormous taxes to discourage people from owning bitcoin, and prevent mass adoption as competition for their corrupted CBDC's that still have to be launched. The purpose of their regulations is to take over the entire bitcoin market, of course. They will make you sell, either by launching huge taxes for ownership or by treating the owner of 1 BTC like a drug dealer (prison sentence).

So we need a gameplan against this.

~snip

Can I transfer the BTC from my current address, to an address that no government can ever link to me?

Your claim that the website is a scam seems baseless without concrete evidence. If you don't mind, could you post at least some screenshots? I've been playing here at bc.game for a few months without any issues. Verify such allegations with proof before labeling a site as a scam. Requiring a wager for that survey bonus is not a scam. However, the time I got my bonus by answering that survey had no wager requirement. Don't know about the 2nd batch.

One of the most important factor of a successful gambler is to know when to stop, most gamblers expecially the addictive type don't even know what is stop when it comes to gambling. So it's very important to;
* Stop when your losing is now getting to you.

* Stop when you are now feeling as is you can't do without gambling.

* Stop when you have a big winning, by channeling the money somewhere else so you won't lose it back to gambling.

* Stop when you are not even winning at all, it's not your thing.

* When your losing is weighing you down, stop and restrategize .

Overtime multiple debates have been raised concerning Bitcoin losing its adoption as a P2P currency. A lot users who transact with little amounts of Bitcoins during intervals seem to be in support of loss in Bitcoin P2P adoption. However some other users especially business men who transact non stop with Bitcoin on a larger scale, seem to have the opinion that the adoption rate is quite ok. Of course no one is happy when transacting with Bitcoin during periods of high conjestions as fees can be sometimes annoying.

Nevertheless, Bitcoin has maintained a nice reputation for so long it has now become a wise choice for investment, hence the term hodling. Hodling has also become a topic of interest for Bitcoiners due to its ease and nice returns as time goes on. Due to this Bitcoin now seems more like a nice investment than a P2P currency to a large variety of hodlers.

This is not to say that a lot of person do not  engage equally in both P2P transactions and Hodling. But to see what a majority of Bitcoiners view Bitcoin as. I added a poll to this post so I recommend you venture casting a vote on what aspect you use Bitcoin the most.

Don't forget to keep your keys safe

Some Bitcoin Core devs are already on payrolls of Bitcoin service providers (Blockstream being probably the most well-known example). When we talk about developer influence on the public opinion in the community, then quality -- i.e. that these devs are "respected voices" -- is also more important than quantity.

There isn't such a "number" or "limit". All decentralized systems can eventually degenerate. Bitcoin has however fortunately a quite good balance between powers, so the probability of a successful attack is much lower than it was in Ethereum where the rollback finally occured quite fastly.

What are you doing, pal/gal?

EDIT: satirical pseudo 'nazis' from "Starship troopers" are not really inspiring, though.

I was looking for some ETF news and apparently the VanEck one will pledge 5% of earnings to "Bitcoin core developers" during the next 10 years from the money they'll make on fees.

I imagined an hypothetical scenario where there is a massive hack or some sort of a disaster scenario where there are massive losses, and now those same good samaritans that are funding developers start pushing a campaign to engineer a rollback of the blockchain Vitalik style. What would happen? If in the future ETF holders become the 99% and 1% are self-custodians, then it will be on their interest to push this agenda. What if they have enough % of developers under their payroll, and enough people supporting it because they lost their money, and start pushing for a hard fork? What would be the game theory outcome scenarios at play here?

This could be applied to any other narrative to come up with a hardfork. Like, BTC pollutes the environment, let's go to PoS, or this and that. But the one I could see coming, is seeing a massive loss and then angry people wanting a rollback and start campaigning to pass laws that force developers to do this and so on. Most custodians are using Coinbase, but some will be self-custodians, Fidelity being one of them. I expect their efforts to pass such hardfork to fail, but who knows if like I said, most people in the future depend on ETFs and start pushing for laws to "protect investors" that force developers and miners to do rollback plans and so on. This sounds ridiculous now but you never know.

Actually I think the scenario described in the OP is perfectly possible if enough custodial Bitcoin services (ETF companies, exchanges etc.) collude and the community is so indifferent towards Bitcoin's original "values" that it accepts it.

Developers on a payroll can be an element in such an "attack". Not because of the needed skills for the code changes, e.g. to roll back a transaction (I think that even I could do that, even with VERY limited C++ knowledge), but because of the influence of renowned devs like the current Core group on public opinion in the community. We've seen that already in the block size debate. I think if most Core developers hadn't taken such a strong stance for Segwit and a restrictive block size policy, then the current "Bitcoin" could actually be BCash or even BSV (which in my opinion would have been a much worse outcome).

Miners will follow the chain where they believe the value "is at" - if there are several options, they'd chose the one they think the community as a whole would pay more money (or other values) for a coin. Here, colluding services providers could be a big problem, not only because they directly demand Bitcoins, but also because they have also influence over the community's "collective opinion", above all over the more indifferent part of the Bitcoin users - those who only want to invest in Bitcoin and don't care that much about the deeper qualities like immutability.

However, if there are enough influencial voices in the community insisting exactly on these "deeper" qualities, then I believe the "attack" would fail, like BCash failed.

Sports betting arbitrage is a strategy in which a player takes advantage of discrepancies in the odds offered by sportbetting sites to obtain profit. Have any of you tried to make money this way? what difficulties did you encounter? What bookmakers did you use? Have any of you had problems with bookmakers because of this? Why does it bother them anyway?

Have you been faced with this kind of gambling problem? If not this particular one, what other annoying incident have you ever experienced in gambling?

On that video, what happened was that a dude from South Africa was gambling on a casino site known as Betway. The guy staked ZAR 277.08, and when he started the round, he got about 4,870.24x multiplier, which doubled his staked amount up to ZAR 73,059, which is about $3,900+. he lost the money because he was unable to cash out before he crashed.

In my case, I have not actually experienced any situation like that, apart from the usual disappointment you will experience with a club after you place a bet on them, believing so firmly that nothing will stop that club from winning, but they end up losing.

I was scrolling on my social media feeds one day until a very close friend of mine showed me a meme vid. We usually send memes to each other as our little way of communicating which I think some of you guys will get, but this one not only cracked me up, it also kind of opened my eyes at how fucked up Brick-and-Mortar Casino Enjoyers could be if they tried.

GIRL SITS AT CASINO SLOT MACHINE CHAIR TO PEE

Watching this "meme vid" or whatever made me curious enough to dig into this little rabbit hole where I see casino gamblers, particularly those who play slot, go bonkers and I mean like literal mental while playing slots. I mean most of them are depicted to even claw at the screen as if it's going to do anything.

I gotta say man, I know gambling for some people is bad but when they say it's bad I didn't think it'd be this worse lol. Oh well, all the more reasons to avoid the land-casinos I guess.

As we enter the 2024, many people are making plans on how to achieve financial success and personally I have decided that trading will be one of my area of focus. I'm gathering information on how to go about it. Your opinion will be highly appreciated.

I agree the world is not completely black and white there are also grey areas where lawyers are to explore
this is why there are some holes in the law because the law is followed word for word
but if there is a chance that it can be perceived differently then a crime can be justified

I've invested some money in it and waiting for its growth but it's kinda stable rn. Also I'm wodering should i invest more moeny in it or no. When do you think it will grow and will it grow at all? Really want to hear the opinion of some more experienced traders

As a businessman or salary earners here are tips on how to stay poor in life.

1. Spending your money on unnecessary items immediately the money arrives. Trying to prove a point to people by living a standard that is above your pay grade.

2. Live on one source of income. Everyday of our life our responsibilities and challenges keeps piling up accumulating without consideration to our financial capability. The economy and cost of living continue getting worsen. So in order not to be able to beat this piling settle comfortably on a single source of income flow.

3. Become an extremely cheerful giver/lender to friends and family. A wisdom quote I read somewhere said, "if you want to lose your friends and family lend them money".  Keeping doing this and you going to be successfully poor.

4.Learn how not to mind your own business, making every events around you your concern even when it doesn't affect you. It's a nice way to make cool enemies. Etc.


I trust you all get the sarcasm as conveyed.

if you ever played runescape, then this game will reminds you since it's actually same but with different characters. This game also has 0% house edge, so it all depends on how good your character and you can maximize the profit if you win.

Unfortunately I don't really know with the other casino that offer PvP games.

Many youtubers and friends share their referral codes/affiliate links, saying you will get bonuses, real money, or free spins. but I wonder if casinos give extra help or benefits in some different situations.

For example, when someone wins a big multiplier and multiplies their account by 100x, then some casinos take a long time to process the withdrawal, or they may not even give the money. however, some say that if you sign up using a good affiliate or influencer affiliate code which have huge audience, then you won't face these type issues. also, if you promote the casino using your referral link, they might not hold back your withdrawal because you helped them get new customers.

is this kind of things is considered shady practice, or is it considered fair in the online gambling world?

Terms and conditions and KYC are all good, they keep both parties in good understanding and guarantee and also increase the level of trust and help know the customer, nevertheless, casinos could still use it as a weapon, and they are at their discretion to do and undo in the case of KYC asking. I have even seen the casinos that claim they are no-KYC but later ask for the completion of KYC from certain customers, and if you asked them why, they would say in some rare circumstances if they suspect a customer. You should know that something is fishy.

This is mostly because the customer is winning or good at what he does, they will now see him as a threat to them and will continue to make excuses to either kick him out or not to pay his money. I said all that because it is all about the terms and conditions when you ask most of them, and these terms and conditions are often too big for many to read, even some who try to read them might not fully understand most of them. Despite that, we should just try, it is good to read them and get acquainted with where we commit our money, nonetheless, it will not exonerate anyone completely from the rod of the casino as they might be using it as an excuse for one thing or the other. All that is good is to work with a casino that is somewhat good and trusted by many, maybe you will not have any issues with them.