Quote from: Twinkledoe on March 08, 2020, 03:01:37 AM

This is true. With the uncertainty surrounding our environment, if you are a gambler, you will prefer to play online rather than risk yourself from the virus. This is the advantage of online gambling sites. No physical interaction with the players.
And with this epidemic, macau casinos were losing millions of dollars everyday when they shut down last month.
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Though they are re-opening, I don't think many gamblers will go to the casino because the risk of getting infected is still high. The cure is not yet in full blast though there are already promising vaccines being developed. ...
This situation will add from the long list of advantages of playing online.

But then not everyone are interested with playing and gambling online especially those who are already addicted onto playing in physical casino environment. There are still gamblers whom had found online gambling a hoax. Also, with huge money comes with a huge risk and online gambling requires big deposits as well depending upon the budget of a gambler, AND most gambling sites and even exchanger platforms do have transaction fees that varies depending the amount of what to be transacted (which most have found annoying).

Quote from: Darker45 on March 08, 2020, 03:14:35 AM

Quote from: Shimmiry on March 08, 2020, 02:51:50 AM

But then think of it. Casino is a common and usual place where people do often make contact not only by oral communication but also with touching bank notes, casino coins, and even dices and other things used in betting. Therefore, there is a huge chance that COVID-19 would drastically decrease the physical gambling and do somehow can change gamblers' physical gambling onto digital one. And with that, it can somehow increase the community of overall cryptocurrency.

At the very least, those patrons of closed casinos might get curious and try gambling online. However, online gambling does not automatically mean crypto gambling, so the current situation does not necessarily mean an increase in cryptocurrency gambling community. It might, though. Also, it is different gambling online and gambling in physical casinos. Those who have been physical casino gamblers for a long time might not really find it interesting gambling in front of the screen. Finally, many casinos are tourism-based. Macau, for example, is offering grand gambling experience to visitors. Failing to get into these casinos might not really bring them online instead. Many of them are there for the unique experience.

And it is somehow ironic that they fear being infected never fear losing their bets instead. LOL. But then the idea is simple, why not be the gamblers take a stand to somehow help the world and keep it from the spreading virus right? Like in Singapore where the residents themselves are disciplined enough as they clean everything around them with only initiative. Right?