Yes, without the clubs and good game there'd be no fans, but in the end, who is it that really sets the mode? If the fans refused to go on a game for some reason - the clubs and players would lose the money. On the contrary, if the players and/or clubs refuse to participate or change some things significantly - what will the fans lose? Entertainment. But fans have got plenty of other things, other games, other entertainment, while for the players the game is, basically, everything. Thus, it's in their best interest to act as the fans want in order to hold the audience and earn money.

To put the fiat days behind us we basically need to rewrite the current economy, because it can't function without fiat. And crypto can't be a substitute for fiat either, it's not controlled, no one pays taxes, right? So either there should be a totally new system, where no one controls the money flow and everyone is free to do with their assets whatever they want (sounds like anarchy at this point), or crypto should co-exist with fiat.
I think, for now, crypto is best for public use, for private companies, but when it comes to some serious global financing problems - for now until anyone figures out how to make this work with crypto (to keep everything stable, avoid any untaxed and shady transactions), fiat remains a better solution.

When will the countries that ban gambling finally understand? While they're taking away such entertainment from people - underground casinos will keep popping up. They basically have 2 possible decisions: either legalize the gambling business and have control and profit, or ban and deal with such law violations for the rest of their lives, while everything flows out of control and all the money goes somewhere else.
Now, I realize that gambling is prohibited by Islam, but isn't there a way to still make this work? For instance, the Qur’an bans all the games, that are dependent on chance, maybe the governments of Islamic countries could've at least legalized those games, which aren't entirely dependent on chance? That would be at least something.  

The blockchain network is pretty loaded right now, which means - if you want your transactions to be processed you gotta pay a lot. Also, it's not local, the transaction fees are equal everywhere, you do realize that your transaction can be processed by some miner thousands of miles away from you, right?

Though, $40 seems extremely high, even for times like now. Something tells me that you probably loaded your crypto wallet with many small deposits in the past, thus, increasing the weight of your transaction, which resulted in a higher fee rate.

In the future, use segwit, like many advised you here, and check the mempool if you don't want your transaction hung up.

China is a technically very developed country and accounts for a very large % of Bitcoin purchases. In addition, the biggest Bitcoin mining farms are in China. It's about time they've changed their attitude. Although, all this "investment alternative" stuff seems somewhat befogged.
Perhaps, after all these years the government finally realized the whole potential of cryptocurrencies, and now, considering that China is already involved with crypto they're willing to make an economical profit out of it.

Up until recently, I guess, nobody realized what a big impact a pandemic can have on the world economy. A couple of years ago they probably wouldn't put it that high on a scale. But weapons of mass destruction, come to think of it, may not have such a big impact, as a pandemic.
Whoever intends to use weapons of mass destruction would use it locally, probably just as a tool for threat and intimidation, to show the power and seriousness. But there's no point in wiping out half of the planet, everyone knows that. So this would probably end in millions of people dying, local disaster, but, as cynically as it may sound, the world would carry on and nothing would happen on a global scale. While the pandemic affects all of the countries at once.

I would put this risk somewhere near "Weapons of mass destruction", but lower, around 3.5 on this scale. The likelihood of a Bitcoin hack or problem with a financing network on a global scale is very low, but the consequences of such events would be severe. Money is everything in our world and too many people and companies lately are involved with Bitcoin, thus, such an event would have a very serious impact on the global economy.

It seems like the BoE only thinks about Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in terms of digital money, completely disregarding all other features. Those who are still new to cryptocurrencies or are prejudice to Bitcoin might buy that, but I don't think it's going to work with the current crypto users. People won't exchange independence, decentralization, and privacy for stability.

I'm actually surprised by the number of people calling the market bearish right now. I thought we were past these times and people learned to be more reasonable and see the full picture.
Apparently not.
It's because of such thinking the panic selling occurs. But no matter, Bitcoin has too big of a market cap right now to worry about people panicking.
The majority (not by the amount of people, but by the number of coins held) will stay with BTC, so it's going to be fine, I don't think we will see significant price declines anytime soon.

IMO the best way to arrange notifications is to make an option for users where would they like to receive them because not all people have separate emails for entertainment and work. Many people also have work emails but still don't use them. In such a case - too many notifications may be pestering. Another solution may be if the user doesn't log in for too long - automatically switch from internal to email, to make sure they won't miss something important, e.g. ToS changes and so on.

Obviously, all of them are important, but I agree with you, that fans have the most influence. Nowadays, when it comes to any product or service and, basically, anything that brings profit the most important thing and the first thing that businessmen analyze is market demand, which is determined solely by the consumers.
Extrapolating this on sports business would lead to the conclusion, that it's indeed fans that hold all the power.

YES. That's very annoying. At first, I thought that he was a huge Bitcoin supporter, but then he started with all these inconsistent posts and bs, like that investing in Bitcoin wasn't his idea in the first place, he's only an engineer and has nothing to do with the investment team, and then with Doge. I used to believe him, but now I'm starting to see how he tries to manipulate things, and that's disappointing 

Alts can follow BTC decrease in price for many reasons, but that doesn't mean that there's a correlation between them. For instance, one event (e.g. someone intentionally spreading panic, in an attempt to lower the confidence coefficient among people towards cryptocurrencies) can influence both Bitcoin and alts, only Bitcoin is, firstly, more susceptible to many factors, and secondly, is more noticeable. Due to this, it might seem as if alts go after Bitcoin, while in fact both of them were simply suffered from the same cause.
Right now, as people are getting to know the crypto world a little better, I think, there is actually a chance that alts market won't behave similarly to Bitcoin and some may even switch to them, while things with BTC aren't too good. This is why altcoin season may come.

The gamblers won't listen. Telling your short story sounds like a good idea, but that seems just like what OP did and it didn't give any positive result. The problem is that a gambler who's chasing losses won't stop no matter what. If they were in their right mind - they could've understood what's happening and see what's coming themselves. But in such cases, it's almost like talking to a kid, you tell them to learn from your mistakes but they keep thinking "that happened to you, that won't happen to me". And here we go.

While the fake license doesn't necessarily mean that the casino is a scam, in this particular case the enlisted casinos are probably scammers or semi-scammers. I've read an article here, which describes it in more details: https://casino-howto.com/blog/how-to-verify-curacao-gambling-licenses-easy/
It says here that many casinos that use fake Curacao licenses try to look like other websites and make only small, hardly visible changes in the domain name, and then they probably steal your money. Otherwise, why pretend to be someone else? That looks like a classic scam, there are also many exchanges that scam in just the same way.

Why DOGE all of a sudden? It's not like crypto users split into two separate teams: doge and btc. At least I don't think that's happening.
One of the main reasons for negative feedback on Bitcoin right now may be high fees and hung transactions, people tend to get angry about it.
Also, it may be caused by newcomers, who purchased Bitcoin on hype and now feel disappointed because it's not quite what they expected. Especially decreasing price and, once again, the fees may frustrate them.

On one hand, it's good that companies like PayPal and Mastercard are willing to accept cryptocurrencies and make steps towards adoption. On the other hand, it more and more feels like they're all trying to turn cryptocurrencies into some sort of web money. People should know about the pros of crypto, such as privacy, full control, decentralization. If they all link crypto to bank accounts (which is inevitable, right?) and make the transactions through credit cards, this poses the question: what's the point of such cryptocurrency use? Will it still be crypto? 

I doubt that many leagues will join them, because the idea of such self-established, though not directly, but assumably, superiority is repelling and might not be taken well by others. Especially after the UEFA, Premier League, and the rest stated their non-approving position. Of course, they're probably seeking a financial profit here, but in the end, it can result in a war between the Super League and the rest and both will suffer losses from it.

I often hear these stories and see people on gambling websites losing thousands of dollars in a matter of minutes, I can't even imagine what that feels like. Once I've lost around $100 just like you. At first, I lost, then I was chasing the loss, tried to win, then my biggest mistake - when I won I thought that I can maybe win some more and ended up losing everything and that felt horrible. But that's nothing compared to your losses and all these debts.
But I have a strict rule in my life - whatever happens never borrow money. That way you can only lose that what belongs to you, but at least you won't owe anyone anything.
It's good of you to share your experience here. Hopefully, people won't repeat your mistakes.

Yeah, but from that point of view Poker also isn't the best choice, because computers can calculate the best decisions in poker as well. But I see now, that's what OP was stating in the first place. IMO these calculators mean nothing because in games like Poker and Yahtzee the calculated best decision isn't always the right one. I remember my experience in playing Poker with bots, which were programmed for these very best decisions and they suck.
 
Any skilled player can outplay these calculators because it's not only about playing with the best odds, sometimes it's about knowing when to take the risk, which is also a skill.
 
I'm starting to think that what OP asked for is actually impossible because for any games that require skills the best option can be calculated (in one way or another), and the only games that can't be solved like this are those, which depend purely on luck