When the brand has so much value, and the price is nevertheless low like in McDonalds, the quality must necessarily suffer. In the past, it was said that the secret to being able to make such cheap hamburgers was not that the quality was so bad, but that they did not make money from them, but from the drink and the chips you buy with them, much more expensive than they are really worth.

I don't know if this is true and if it will continue to be so, but I would say that their business model has changed radically, at least in my country. Now they charge very expensive menus with the excuse of other brands, such as stranger things or minions. But I wouldn't stop eating there very occasionally, I'd just buy what I think has real value and not brand name.

I hardly ever play slots but I think that there are some psychological mechanisms implied in that sensation that have to do with the proven fact that we end liking more the faces or people we are more familiar with. The same happens with songs, for example: I have plenty of times heard to a song for the first time and thought that it was bad, but end liking it after dozens of times hearing it.

Although I also believe that the opposite happens when it is repeated too much, and finally creating aversion. But for that to happen it has to take a long time, I suppose.

Qué buena información, de dónde has sacado esos datos?

Es verdad que al menos los cuatro que aparecen se trata de usuarios que únicamente postean en gambling con un promedio de 2,5/4 posts al día. Sin entrar en el detalle de la calidad de sus aportaciones, se ve claramente que dichos usuarios, o sus cuentas, están interesados únicamente en las campañas de firmas y el juego y poco o nada en Bitcoin, y en definitiva este es un foro sobre Bitcoin.

Entiendo tu opinión y la comparto bastante, yo reservaría los bans de cualquier tipo para casos más serios de spam, estafas, abuso de IA etc. pero también entiendo que se trata de una medida para evitar que el principal atractivo del foro pase de ser un lugar de referencia para debatir sobre Bitcoin a un lugar de referencia sobre apuestas con criptomonedas, en la que en muchas ocasiones ni tan siquiera se fomenta el uso de Bitcoin. Pues en muchos casinos las condiciones como el depósito mínimo o la comisión de retirada, por ejemplo, son mucho peores para transferencias de BTC.

Gracias Don Pedro Dinero por el aviso y la aclaración

Como aquello que decían de no alimentar al troll, a partir de ahora me aplico lo mismo con la inteligencia artificial y en lugar de comentarlo en el propio lugar, cuando tenga dudas lo comentaré por aquí o, si lo tengo muy claro, le daré a reportar.

Me voy a "empollar" también el hilo de referencia sobre el tema https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5456516.0. Hasta ahora no lo conocía o no le había prestado suficiente atención y parece muy clarificador

And by financial guarantees I imagine that you are referring to not only reserves but other types like insurances, endorsements…

Having money sitting still costs money, and in the case of large amounts, more. That is why I think that for me it would be enough to have that security, regardless of the real money in reserves. I also wouldn't mind, as has been discussed on multiple occasions before here, if the amounts to be bet were limited in cases where a potential win would pose a threat to business continuity of the casino.

I goes beyond than a populist opinion on this topic only and I think that the real problem is about a tendency to simplify by categorizing in black or white, good or bad, as a way to liberate the limited processing memory of some individuals, but which goes against truth.

Gambling poses real risks and has its own benefits too, some of them very well explained by the OP and completed by other users after him. To downplay the importance of both positive and negative characteristics of gambling is a reduction that borders on ignorance.

AI is making many people’s work easier, so easy that sometimes some of these people are not necessary anymore, but that’s another issue.

Anyway, I agree with the title of this thread, but apart from making traditional crypto scammers and hackers stronger, it also empowers people with little knowledge and very few scruples.

Oh, and just to point out: the article is not about crypto scams in particular:

It's incredible: although I didn't see it, apparently yesterday in the local news they commented on this issue, but when a friend of mine who was able to see it told me about this news it seems that they confused it with a Bitcoin base problem and not with something related to a specific device.

I am reluctant to think that a serious news program is capable of making a mistake of such magnitude, and, most likely, the person who has told me about it misunderstood what they said. But, if so, there are many more people who know less about the subject that my friend and who saw the news that must be thinking that something is wrong with Bitcoin.

That’s great!

Please, add me also among those you’ll keep in mind next time for future tasks too

Bienvenido tiptopcl, no hay muchos usuarios chilenos, pero siéntete como en tu casa.

Y bienvenidos también el resto, aunque un poco tarde esta bienvenida por mi parte. Gracias, porque entre todos hacemos este lugar

I have had that same impression since 2017-2018, when I should’ve swapped some of my coins before the imminent colapse of many of them, but because of the doubts that arose about the safety of stablecoins I didn’t more a finger and lost some good opportunities.

Stablecoins are a great way to freeze the value of your coins at times of great fluctuations in the markets, and it should not be scary to use them occasionally, measuring the risks, but I would add that one should hold as little as posible for the shortest time possible, at least if we talk about Tether.

I get that the story in the OP is just an excuse to talk about our contemporary world and many of you are trying to find analogies between them, but I do not know to what extent the exercise will not be sterile.

In the modern globalised world self sufficiency seems imposible because each nation specializes in what is most competitive, export it, and import the rest. Autarky in the XXI century is a rarity only in force in regimes like North Korea, and even they trade with other countries like Rusia, China or India to name a few.

Although we tend to think that most people are capable of using a VPNs and simple solutions like that, I guess that you are right that many individuals would simply quit gambling if they have to face such difficulties. In that sense the pandemic helped reduce technology gap and many more people are able to gamble online that before, but it didn’t eliminate it, and it is not the same to gamble when you have everything in your favor as to do it if they put obstacles in your way.

Yes I think the same, although at first I didn’t understand very well what bonuses and minimum deposits were they talking about, everything is clear now. I must confess that I was even willing to deposit $20 to give the casino a good try, but if it is not necessary I will try with the $5 bonus first (there is always time to deposit more later).

A cricket noob here too, but as I can see, although the name of the competition sounds like the most serious (can you think of a more powerful name that Global Super League??), I see that in fact it is very new and, according to the event’s entry in the Wikipedia here, its first edition was as recent as in 2024.

Hosted by Guyana and with only five teams, I’m not surprised to see that they won the last two editions.

Another lesson that I have learnt in the last years is not only focus in the money you use for gambling, but even more important, in your time and attention while gambling. Because you can be winning and still dedicating too much time and efforts to gambling you should be using somewhere else. The more you gamble, the more prone you’ll be to continue gambling, so set your limits in that sense too.

Hace un par de días que leo en el apartado de noticias esta cuestión y es muy grave ya no por los mil bitcoins, que también, sino por lo que comentabais de expectativas frustradas. Y es que es cierto que desde aquí se ha dicho siempre que ser tu propio banco conlleva una responsabilidad adicional pero las herramientas disponibles para el almacenamiento en frío venían a mitigar muchas de las molestias de la auto custodia… hasta que pasan estas cosas.

JoSerra, respondiendo a tu pregunta, no tengo una respuesta pero visto lo visto ya no confiaría en un solo proveedor y repartiría mis monedas en dispositivos diferentes. Aunque ya no es solo una cuestión de vulnerabilidad de wallets, por lo que comentábais de la IA, sino de todo tipo de código.

This is a key point I don’t fully understand yet, and although I can think in ways to incentivize people work in certain jobs (you can romanticise a profession enough to convince people to give even their lives for them, like soldiers but also other professions that are very sacrificial, like surgery or nursing). Education and culture play a role there. But for how many people would it be enough with that, if it is not attached to a economic reward, is a total mistery.

I think that this topic could be linked to this other recent one because in both we are talking about trying to convince someone so he becomes aware of the need of slowing down. The difference is that, in that topic, the gambler was, in addition, aggressive.

As I mentioned there, I don’t think there is a best time to talk to them, but I would simply stay available for them and, when the time comes, be there to hear them, understand their motivations and, patiently, try to share with them a different perspective. But more that convince them, I think that they are the ones who must convince themselves.

First, I don’t think that those addicted to gambling are always aggressive, the melancholic type is also quite common.

If I was you I would keep talking to him but perhaps I wouldn’t push him too much and I would simply accompany him. He may not want to listen to what you have to say, but I don't think it's a good idea to leave him alone either, and your mere presence and understanding may be enough for him to rethink his habits in the future.