A good friend will try to help you control your emotions. If you have a really big and lucky win you may want to try to double or triple it, risking good money because of greed. You're most likely going to lose it. A good friend would try to stop you and a good friend would succeed, otherwise the friendship sucks. With online casinos you don't have this. Sure you can chat with other people and your friends at the same time, but this interaction is on a much lower level and has less influence on you. Online casinos make it easier to become addicted and it makes it easier to lose your money faster.

Why did they need to buy a company that is listed on NASDAQ for this? Anyhow, HYPE performance has been consistently good much better than most new L1s that are selling the same old.

Good examples, but those prices are probably a scam. You know the government doesn't care since it is not spending its own money, and they get different kind of kickbacks. The drone is probably really costs than $1M and that is being generous for the sake of the argument. Still the short term future is gonna be in methods and technologies for disrupting the drones. 

The price decreasing from $108k to $100k is not a shock. It is normal market behavior.

You can consider it close to immune. There was a time where China banning Bitcoin every few days crashed the price. These days, even a risky war barely makes it move downwards a bit.

For addicts it is hard because many refuse help. You can't really forcefully help those that don't want your help in most cases. In any way, helping addicts on a mass scale is impossible. The best would be limiting the availability of things that are addictive.

That doesn't make much sense, you can't launder corrupt money in an underground establishment that is illegal. Money laundering requires a legal establishment with which one can legalize money from illegal activities.

I don't think this will last forever. We just live in times where an unexpected advance in military technology has kind of shocked the landscape. They just need to redesign existing systems to better resist small drones, and create better counter measures.

All money that is spend on the military is a waste.

Incorrect. That is only true for Bitcoin and a few altcoins, for most of crypto the opposite is true. Most tokens including stablecoins can be frozen at any time by the token issuer.

Understanding the house edge is not enough. Online casinos often have much lower house edge, but because playing is so fast and easy people lose their money faster even with smaller house edge. It does help to know it and compare between different casinos to pick a better one, but overall it is not enough. Managing your bankroll is crucial here. If you create an allowance that you never cross, then you can't create issues for yourself no matter what happens.

This is fantastic news. While some may be dismissive about the part that requires an exchange to be approved by the government, the rule has complete sense. More countries should follow suit, and encourage the use of crypto. Their economies would benefit from it. I wasn't expecting such a positive announcement.

The local people have to push towards adoption where they live. Most of these places won't onboard themselves. They need help and pushing and the other hand promotion so that is it known that they accept crypto. If they accept it but no tourist knows about it, nobody is going to use it. It costs an additional $0 per month to accept crypto.

Every single major token on altcoin networks can be blocked and frozen too. Instead of seeing this as a red flag for stablecoins, it should be seen as a red flag for these so called decentralized blockchains.

Yes the EU is turning into a totalitarian commie shithole. Only leftist idiots that are afraid of reality are still dismissing it.

These threads and questions are stupid in my opinion. You as in the OP and everyone in this thread has burned money on useless shit in your life many times. If you can waste $20, why would someone not waste $2M? Wealth is relative, $20 for you can be the same as $2m for someone.

The chance of this address having a generated private key is 0. The vanity address is too long.

They are not deceiving themselves. Currently the world is too dependent on the US dollar and Euro, and because of that they abuse their powers. To create a world in which more major currencies compete against each other will lead to an improvement in this situation. Imagine this scenario, there are 10 currencies that each have 9% and the rest of the market share is shared by all other currencies. When there is so much competition it is a huge risk to abuse your power as you will erode your market share quickly because everyone has better and many alternatives to choose from. A digital Yuan will help them move towards this goal, and they have to do it in any case or they will be left behind.

That said, people have a generally world view of CBDCs. They do not compete with Bitcoin, they compete between the existing fiat currencies. So the Yuan CBDC would compete with other CDBD like the Euro one. Alternatively said this just increases the competition against fiat currencies, that is it.

There is no paradox here. This is a medical situation of someone who is sick. One problem with addicts in recovery is that they have the trouble of accepting that they have ruined this activity for themselves for the rest of their life.It is the same for drinking, doing drugs, gambling and other addictions. Once you get addicted, if you want to quit you must quit for the rest of your life. You can never leisurely enjoy it again. It is your fault for putting yourself into this position, and now you must accept the consequences of your actions.

An ex-addict can never control himself with his previous addiction.

Luck is not a thing, what normal people refer to luck is just beneficial statistical outcomes. You can't outsmart something that isn't alive. Most things in gambling have strategies that can be employed to improve your odds. Improving your odds is not trying to outsmart luck, it is giving some steroids to your luck. Learn the difference.

It is never going to happen. There are two types of concerns that people generally have, and one is a group that contains things like this. It sounds like a valid concern, but it is not. Nobody is going to allow any corporation to become that strong.

Firstly, it is just private companies partnering with other private companies. It does not mean that much. Second, I agree with you that most of these partnerships are empty marketing ideas that eventually lead to nowhere.

SWIFT is terrible and slow, but the reason that they keep it how it is is because they have complete control over it.

Nothing is stable, and irrational fear is not something that we should cater to. Besides, something that has upward price movement can never be considered stable.

They move slow. Where many people are involved in the decision making process, it is always much worse as there will be individuals who think that they are very smart but in fact they are dumb dinosaurs. As these people die and generations keep changing, Bitcoin is going to win. All it takes is for 1 big corporation to adopt it, and the others will start fighting to do the same. Time is on our side.

You can't ban decentralization, that's the whole point of decentralization. What it will do is just push people to develop better solutions for accessing these things and having anonymity. It will have a negative impact on the market price for sure, but it will never be able to prevent people using it. Even with a blanket ban there would be millions of people who will continue to use it.

Highly developed humans think about things like freedom under any conditions, lowly developed humans think about the next meal at McDonalds.  Plenty of people used Bitcoin when it was still illegal in their country, nothing is going to change about this.

Why would it not be? People take stupid risks for all sorts of useless or even personally damaging behavior. Bitcoin is freedom and nothing comes even close to it. How much would you risk for freedom if not everything?

This scenario is extremely unlikely because there are already too many big players involved. They won't let the government make them lose a lot of profit. Incentives are on Bitcoin's side.

Precisely some unique features won't make it win the race, plus there will always be regulatory pressure for something like this. As far as I am aware, some older DEX platforms are also trying to develop on-chain order book similar to hyperliquid. They have a good advantage now but they must use it wisely.

Most of altcoin developers are extractive. 

While I do like how hyperliquid is developing, I would be conservative about my praises if I were you. As we have seen with crypto in the past, many so called saints turned into devils including our famous "Bitcoin Jesus". Let's observe the situation and development for a longer period of time as they build up more reputation.