Nope, how can a well treasured  wealth of a state be put to trash? unless they already found something that could replace it. For sure before they go too much out of the feature of money, they will just develop it and make it more useful and adopt to the future needs of the people. Government is clever, they won't just trash away what gives them power. 

So, where is he now? still a gambler? Why warn him that gambling would wreck his life if you are the one who bring him/her there?. Anyway, I think control is all up to the gambler himself, no one can tell you how to do it since you are the one in the position of what you are doing. If you see your self getting out of control after losing, gambling is not for you and probably you are already abusing your self.   

Don't forget that we are not one and the marketplace is not just what we see. There are other marketplaces down there. But anyway, I don't see bitcoin dying if it is being banned by the government. It thrived to situation like this, well, I think it will survive like this. Exchanges might be gone, but we still can sell it via other bitcoin user. 

Probably that's worst. If that's the economy in your country, probably it will take time before it could recover unless your leader has ways to fast track those solutions his/her subordinates has to solve this. I am sure each country has a contingency plan each time such as like this happen. Care to share what country you are from? 

So what do you want it to have? very loose? No, that's not how to run a payment system. You should protect both of your client, bet it the buyer or the merchant. Your reputation will be ruined if your service sucks and you didn't do anything to protect them.

As a man, it should be your priority. Sooner or later you will have a family so you really need it. Even if it costs you 90% or all your bitcoin. If you spotted a house for sale and you can afford it, then go for it, don't hesitate. That is a very nice gift you could keep for yourself and soon for your family. If you could buy it with bitcoin that's good, or if cash out from bitcoin, it's just fine.

You can always do both and both looks like gambling. Investing is also risky, same as gambling. But anyway, if you wanna go long on investment, don't go with altcoin, go for bitcoin, that is way more practical. Keeping an altcoin is also risky, some of them die easily... With bitcoin you already saw it's track before, so probably in the future it will be like that, it will go up and down.

I haven't heard any, but for sure, if bitcoin is going to be use to bribe a government official, it's going to be anonymous since you can deny an address. But there will come a time that those who were bribed will convert bitcoin to fiat, and that is where everything will start. If you use the money to buy luxury cars or whatever, it will be noticeable and that is where investigation will come and all your properties will become questionable and papers will be asked if you declared it and if it is taxed. Unless when you convert your bitcoin to fiat you use another bank account not related to you or any of your family member or a bank account in other country.

However, if you are an ordinary man with wealth, why hide it, you could just tax it and you are free.  

I love this one.  

No, that's impossible that bitcoin would take down the economy of each country, in fact it could bring more money income to its citizens.

This is the reality. Probably the government will be looking at bitcoin as a tool for the criminals to make  it easy for them to move.

I don't see pornography as a problem except if what the porn site is showing are those children being molested or shows like that.

I've heard this before in many gamblers. Most of them pray that they could win big and they would stop gambling and half of their win will be donated in  charities and others to make their family happy. The truth is, it never ended like that. Most of them after winning would have a good time and later on go back to their gambling habit and forgetting about their promise and worst forgetting about their obligation to their family.

I look at it as like saving. It's just in the form of bitcoin. But it could be viewed as an investment too if you are an investor.

If you are very sure about where you are going to invest your money, then it's good to invest it, just like what you've mention, many already speculated that the price would skyrocket this year, and that is true, and those who believe and invest in bitcoin, probably having a good time now. Sad to say not all of us have that strong faith on bitcoin and also, we are after the safety of our money, so we save it.

IMO, If we have to base 2018 from this past years increase, probably it will be more than double, but if would base it with the current price and what's happening in the network and in the community, the exchanges, and everything that may happen this year, the negative parts are always the talk and the good progress of bitcoin is not being talked about, probably the price would still be roaming around this price and would probably reach $2000 but I am not sure if it could go higher than that. 

Funny but I look at your comments are the same.  But anyway, your suggestions are great, it's just that, I found it to be not so good for a man who is in his working age. I'd rather have many jobs to keep me busy than to travel and enjoy my life now. Usually the reason why we gamble is because there is money in it, though we don't still consider it as a main source of income.

So instead of travelling, or whatever, find a job, work hard, and earn a lot, that way you won't waste your time. 

Fiat will always be there, as long as it is being distributed by the government, then it will be there, unless the government decided to remove it in circulation and change it with something else.


That's not a problem anymore, when fiat would really disappear, that means the government has come up with something to replace it.

Actually the time that I started using bitcoin, I earn few cents a day and that is already a great help to me that year, I have no business yet, but in my life, it helped me.

Nope, I need to convert it to fiat to be useful, and not everyday, but usually every week if I am in need of extra cash and my salary is still few days away.

How come that there is no reason why you became addicted to gambling? there should always be a reason, if you do a thing for no reason, it means that thing is nonsense. Actually I don't see any difference between a newbie become addicted and a gambling addict that continues to feed his habit. Both of it are dangerous and both kind of gamblers could steal, sell drugs or whatever way to make easy money to feed their desire.

If I have to do a crime and want to sell something illegal, I won't use escrow, I'd rather sell it directly to the person who wants to buy than to put it in the hands of escrow. Paying it directly, I'll give you the contraband but before I release the keys, send me the amount, you still have time to check the items while I am waiting for the confirmation. Usually, like what we see in movies, criminals when they have transactions with other criminal, they do it themselves without any third party.

You have a point there. Probably it will take time before the world will be saturated on news about bitcoin and its uses. There are still people who live in the forest and count their metal coins when buying something in the market. There are also those people who can't even afford to buy their own gadgets to have an access to internet, and worst, there are still people who don't have a bank account and are paid over the counter by their employer.

That means you have plenty of vacant time, let me guess, you are a student? I too do it at home, but not all the time. There are times that when I sit in my computer I am just finishing up some take home unfinished papers. Definitely, don't play gambling outside or if it is not in your personal computer. That's a little awkward to gamble at internet cafe's.

Offline or day jobs are great to make money. However, not all country have the same wages. Some has lower pay specially in countries where economy is not good and capitalist rule the business industry. Online jobs, I doubt if you can make .1 BTC a week, that would mean a lot of micro jobs and if not, a very good skill or a larger capital to start with.