ONLINE GAMBLING WILL BE BANNED IN THE PHILIPPINES

[wuvdoll]

They might be able to censor and ban online gambling with fiat but good luck banning online btc gambling  

Yes they can only shut down physical casino and fiat based registered casino but it will be impossible for any country to stop bitcoin casino. They dont have fear about their citizen lossing being addictive but they care more about the tax they are not getting from these casinos.

Yes, as long as technologies support human to evolve, government will get problems. We should not ignore that government is not caring about people's health and wealth. I believe every government is highly responsible for it's citizen's welfare. I like to appreciate Philippines government's decision on gambling. I wish my country too to follow Philippines government's stand on gambling.

[Betwrong]

I have visited PH before, I have seen many real casinos there, but they don't allow online gambling? Doesn't make sense, maybe the government only cares about taxes.

Wow, I didn't know they have casinos in Pnilippines. Then the ban looks really weird. But then again I think we have the same situation in the US: many casinos and banned online gambling. Taxes make the governments rich so yeah they care about them.

[carlfebz2]

I have visited PH before, I have seen many real casinos there, but they don't allow online gambling? Doesn't make sense, maybe the government only cares about taxes.

Wow, I didn't know they have casinos in Pnilippines. Then the ban looks really weird. But then again I think we have the same situation in the US: many casinos and banned online gambling. Taxes make the governments rich so yeah they care about them.

Casinos in Philippines  do exist very long time  just like in other countries. As they said the newly elect President  would ban all those casinos that he will implement and for sure it would happen maybe  they would  have a hard time  to those person  that would gamble in the internet maybe they could also stop it but it would take time.

[danskepankki]

I have visited PH before, I have seen many real casinos there, but they don't allow online gambling? Doesn't make sense, maybe the government only cares about taxes.

Wow, I didn't know they have casinos in Pnilippines. Then the ban looks really weird. But then again I think we have the same situation in the US: many casinos and banned online gambling. Taxes make the governments rich so yeah they care about them.

Casinos in Philippines  do exist very long time  just like in other countries. As they said the newly elect President  would ban all those casinos that he will implement and for sure it would happen maybe  they would  have a hard time  to those person  that would gamble in the internet maybe they could also stop it but it would take time.

Many asian sportsbook have licnese of PH, PH is the biggest gambling country. Even bodog has PH license, to operate their asian business.

[mindrust]

Wow too bad for Philippin fellas. They can't actually ban crypto gambling though. As long as bitcoin wallets are online, people will find a way to gamble. They can ban websites but people will use vpn's and proxies. The thing is, they will fail.

[bithasher]

Anyway it was source of making money for site owners not common players. I think this is your opportunity to stop gambling or get rid of this gambling habit and should be thankful to your government. Real players have land casinos where they make money. Online gambling is for small level gamblers like us. You should be happy or keep loosing money using some vpn services in gambling. You still can have access through many ways.

[ayesha sadiqa]

i personally have no idea about that, but if it is in their policy then they will banned on line gambling, but i personally do not think so because i have my cusion there in philippine and according to whom gambling is allowed there, so i thing they will allow allow online gambling.

[hatshepsut93]

Anyway it was source of making money for site owners not common players. I think this is your opportunity to stop gambling or get rid of this gambling habit and should be thankful to your government. Real players have land casinos where they make money. Online gambling is for small level gamblers like us. You should be happy or keep loosing money using some vpn services in gambling. You still can have access through many ways.

Brick and mortar casinos have significantly higher house edges, meaning players lose there even more than in Bitcoin casinos. But there are lots of other online gambling sites that are not provably fair, so their owners are likely to cheat. Anyway, Philippines government have no right to tell people how to live their lives, today they hunt gamblers and drug addicts, tomorrow it will be opposition, bloggers and just people who happened to tell a joke about the president.

[zimmah]

This might actually be good for bitcoin, because it will be easier to just gamble on bitcoin sites in the Philippines (it will be nearly impossible to ban those websites).

Even if the Philippine government will place some firewall or regionlocking, it's not very hard to access the gambling websites with proxies or via tor or something. And since you use bitcoin for payments, it doesn't matter where you live, easy to just gamble in secret.

[Galer]

This might actually be good for bitcoin, because it will be easier to just gamble on bitcoin sites in the Philippines (it will be nearly impossible to ban those websites).

Even if the Philippine government will place some firewall or regionlocking, it's not very hard to access the gambling websites with proxies or via tor or something. And since you use bitcoin for payments, it doesn't matter where you live, easy to just gamble in secret.

Yes I agree with it If the user use Virtual Private Network (VPN in short) or others application or proxies server they can access Bitcoin Casino and gambling website so the user can start play and play again.

[deadsilent]

If theres a will, theres a way. If you really want gamble online there is always a way to do that. Use vpn when doing gambling so they cannot detect you and get arrested. But you are scared of getting caught, better stay away from online gambling. Our administration is doing fine right now. As filipino, i will follow their rule

[NetFreak199]

The newly elected President Rodrigo Duterte wants to stop the online gambling here in the Philippines. Its because they cannot collect tax from it and they don't want people to become addicted to it. What is your side ?

Well its already happening now, we need to follow the laws of our country if it's illegal do not play online gambling , but if you really want to gamble there is many ways if you want, be sure that no one else will know.

[machinek20]

Its a bad news, gambling is one of the greatest entertainment for me, but unfortunately gambling also can cause a lot of problem, so i can agree if the government want to forbid gambling, but eventhough the government forbid it, there will be alot of people use trick to be able to play online gambling

[Xanidas]

there will be alot of people use trick to be able to play online gambling

trick is not needed IMHO, since cryptos are not considered as money yet here in the Philippines, this are not yet covered by the said law and it is really hard to trace bitcoin transactions if its going to a gambling site or not

[ultrloa]

This might actually be good for bitcoin, because it will be easier to just gamble on bitcoin sites in the Philippines (it will be nearly impossible to ban those websites).

Even if the Philippine government will place some firewall or regionlocking, it's not very hard to access the gambling websites with proxies or via tor or something. And since you use bitcoin for payments, it doesn't matter where you live, easy to just gamble in secret.

Yes I agree with it If the user use Virtual Private Network (VPN in short) or others application or proxies server they can access Bitcoin Casino and gambling website so the user can start play and play again.

Vpn might be helpfull for that but i dont think it will be more effective but it can be block if government will take some action regarding to it. Bitcoin are quite popular in philippines and i will not surprise if they will discover some illegal liabilities regarding on bitcoin and casino its because the government knows bitcoin as illegal money. And also our wallet provider wich is coins.ph have already counter measure and disallow gambling transaction on their wallet transfer thats why some other user's experience some locking of their wallet since some of them are known gamblers. Maybe it will be the basis for government to block all vpn gambler users.

[BTCevo]

I think it is too sudden to know all of these things. If I not wrong gambling on philipines is legal to their country right? Why now after the new president election they want to ban it? Doesnt make sense to me, and it will be freat for bitcoin then because most of them will us bitcoin and price will be higher too but who know the future, if their presient knoes this, I just wondering what will they do to bitcoin then

[Mr. Big]

I think it is too sudden to know all of these things. If I not wrong gambling on philipines is legal to their country right? Why now after the new president election they want to ban it? Doesnt make sense to me, and it will be freat for bitcoin then because most of them will us bitcoin and price will be higher too but who know the future, if their presient knoes this, I just wondering what will they do to bitcoin then

In what I've read last time in the newspaper, it is said that it is because online gambling sites do not pay tax to the government and it is hard to find them just to make them pay.. It is not a threat to bitcoin, only to online gambling, besides it is a good action, aside from the usual problems in the Philippines that was talked about now, gambling is also one big problem...

[gabmen]

I don't think gambling will be banned entirely in the Philippines. the reason the president would like to have this banned is mainly because the government is having a hard time taxing online gambling institutions. I think they will find a way around this and not by banning it because a lot of people in the Philippines are in a way doing online gambling.

i also think the same way mate this action will only to take place with those online casino business which been operated without proper taxes so the President only wants to stop those who's taking advantage on it, so banning everything is not possible just those who's not following the government rules.

I like how you think dude yes that is exactly the same thing that thought about. a lot of these online casinos do not have the proper permits so they are not being taxed correctly. it doesn't mean that gambling will be banned or prohibited in general

[princetotti]

I have visited PH before, I have seen many real casinos there, but they don't allow online gambling? Doesn't make sense, maybe the government only cares about taxes.

Wow, I didn't know they have casinos in Pnilippines. Then the ban looks really weird. But then again I think we have the same situation in the US: many casinos and banned online gambling. Taxes make the governments rich so yeah they care about them.

Casinos in Philippines  do exist very long time  just like in other countries. As they said the newly elect President  would ban all those casinos that he will implement and for sure it would happen maybe  they would  have a hard time  to those person  that would gamble in the internet maybe they could also stop it but it would take time.

Yeah, Genting casino is near the airport, and there are many resort casinos in the Manila center, also other cities.

[Shinpako09]

Good thing Mr. President change his mind now. He will now allow online gambling like e-games, etc but the place must be far away from church and school and of course proper tax. https://news.abs-cbn.com/video/business/08/26/16/duterte-payag-na-sa-online-gambling-pero