See? This means AI will eventually replace developers/programmers, and even software engineers. It might replace casino staff as well. All in an effort to help reduce costs and increase efficiency. Since AI is regulated, it will only do what it's permitted to do. So if it's integrated in gambling sites, it will only serve as a companion for gamblers and the house itself. Not a "tool" to help anyone cheat and game the system.

We're already seeing some gambling sites with an AI-powered chatbot, so the future is already here. For complete automation, decentralization, and provably-fairness, using a combination of AI and smart contracts would be best. Just my two sats.

I would say up until now, only few casinos can do it instantly without a doubt. As long as there are no problems with your KYC docs and you haven't violated any of their terms. But if some casinos will take a pause, for me, it is understandable as we are talking big amount of money. And it can really have impact on their vault especially for small casinos.

The concept of gambling as a form of mental sports refers to the deployment of mental strength in some skill-based games and without physical display of strength or fitness.

Games like Chess, Blackjack, poker and even Sports betting fits in this criterion since professionals employ some good strategies, calculations and even critical analysis before taking the decision on your next line of action. These mental involvements stretch your mind and success in them is a product of strategy, constant practice, psychology and accurate decision under pressure.

There are yet other similarities between these mind sports and physical sports activities like

• Tournaments: Poker tournaments like WSOP features professional poker gamblers who assemble to compete against themselves and take away a big reward
• Rankings Most professional gamblers are ranked in terms of earnings, recognition and achievements
• Viewership Poker tournaments have some great viewership when televised and this shows it's value and entertainment prospects. Locally when professionals play Chess or drafts, they always assemble a little to semi-big audiences showing it has spectators
• Mental discipline: Such as analytical thinking, emotional control, decision made under pressure and even training programs since professional gamblers spend time to refine their skills by constant practices and experience just as athletes

I can't believe that I'm having to ask this question in an international forum. I'm English. I was born in England of English parents who were also born in England. I'm proud of this, and of my heritage and the achievements of my country. I'm not proud to be thought of as British. Recently there has been an upsurge in the flying of the cross of St George, and the treasonous UK government has vilified this. I've been given such a flag, and I'm displaying it in my van as a protest against its banning. It annoys me that the Welsh, Scots, and Irish are allowed to be proud of their heritage ( which they should be ), but we English are called racists if we declare that we are English. I believe that everyone should be proud of their heritage, and when you  lose that, you lose a major part of your identity and personality.

What do you guys think? Am I a racist for flying the flag of my country?

For many gamblers, until you leave, you will remain a gambler and will eventually turn to an addict if you don't put a wage and limits to yourself. I think what have made gambling so interesting to people is the money attached to it. Because it has monetary value, gambling has become more lucrative and the patronage have boosted massively due to the financial aspect that comes with it. I know and agree that gambling is fun, but guys, do you think it is the only fun part that have brought about the big name and attention gambling has gathered? I don't think so. The majority of the people gambling are engaged in it because of its financial benefits.

I used to watch a lot of video interviews with addicted gamblers. They told me how they went through treatment and one thing struck me. More precisely, this thing is quite natural in relation to addiction treatment, as I understood later, but I did not immediately understand the logic. We are talking about weaning from gaming. I thought that weaning from gaming would most likely only work in very advanced cases, when the player is at the bottom of a financial crisis or on the verge of suicide. Then weaning from gaming would most likely work well. But if this is not the case, then what is the benefit of weaning from gaming? Perhaps the logic is to create positive habits in a person. But, in my opinion, this does not allow us to identify the main reason for gaming and work on it. In my opinion, the real reason is that a person has a naive desire to get rich on gambling (, but he does not have even the slightest competence for this and it is more than likely that they will not appear. This is if we are talking about sports betting. If a person wants to get rich on casino games, such as roulette, and does not want to know anything about risk management and money management, then weaning from games is really necessary. And what do you think, does refusal to play (deprivation) contribute to recovery from addiction or is it useless?

Once excitement is already there, to me, it gives me the thrill and wanting to gamble more. I'm losing my self discipline with that but it knocks me out whenever I start to have a losing streak. It's good on my end that it wakes up whenever I feel that way. Because setting up yourself before you gamble is needed that you'll have your own book and rule to follow. Easy to say sometimes that we can control ourselves but, once you're already on that momentum, I doubt that you'll have that control anymore.

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So the question is, "Is there really no way out for gamblers to stay fit and in control?"  Is gambling addiction inevitable??   If winning and losing lead to addiction, how can we maintain our sanity?
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Bruises on his hands and swollen ankles - two symptoms of heart problems especially since he is on blood thinners.

MAGA has been posting images of Trump that are a few days old.  Vance is apparently so excited he's out couch shopping.

What do you guys think?   Is the self proclaimed most successful person in the world about to hit a reality check?

That is why I liked stablecoins which were fairly decentralized as the original concept of Dai by Makerdao was. It was over-colateralized by Ethereum and people were free to engage with the smart-contract and issue as much stablecoins as they desired, as long as they had enough Ether to give as collateral, there were no centralized power and the smart contract was open source, for anyone to see and verify, it was a step in the right direction, but people preferred to rely on centralized Fiat backed coins instead, now we could be about to see the consequences of it...
Obviously exchanges and hot wallets will asked by regulators to comply and switch all the capital of their depositors to those centralized networks, without asking the owners of the tokens.

I'm from eastern Europe. In the soviet era noone could own private property, everything was belonging to the state. Then, the state rationed food to you, allowed you to use one of their homes in exchange for labour, allowed selling produce on government-controlled prices, and buying in predetermined quantities.

So let me ask a question. When you buy a home with all your life savings, does it become yours? What makes it differ from the soviets? I mean, obviously they recorded your rights to the building on paper, and now they record it in digital databases. But is it REALLY that different? You don't truly own either. It's all the government's promise to let you access it and keep away whomever should not access it, until they don't.

The only thing you truly own is bitcoin. The rest are promises.

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What do you guys think? Have you seen any metaverse projects of late? If yes, kindly share; if not, you can give your opinion on this.

1k return on 10 k investment in few months is not bad at all. You are getting much more to what you will get if the money was kept in bank account.

To be fair, that is true for car manufacturing and phone manufacturing in most cases. Whatever requires a chip basically, like GPU's for example. Because if you need to buy chips, you are going the giants like Nvidia and car companies and all of that, instead, you have to build your own, which costs 20+ billion dollars, and takes many years of R&D which you may never catch up.

So why deal with that business, when you can just get it from other nations for cheap, put low tariffs on those special items, and get it for cheap. Hell, some people around the world (forgot the nation, was it Thailand?) can get iphones cheaper than Americans. Because chips are near, factories are near, so it's cheaper that way instead of traveling all through many oceans.

Something funny happened to me this night I thought I should share.
I am an apologetic gambler and I don’t shy when people know I am a gambler so I discuss my games to people when I want to, this is an interesting story and has a happy ending because I won.

I played some games in sport betting from yesterday and I had a game left today a game in the Italian Seria A between Cremonese and Sassuolo, I went with Cremonese 2up that is if Cremonese at any point in the game leads Sassuolo by 2goals I win, here is the twist and the funny part because I thought I played it 2up like I did others but I did not, Sassuolo was up by two in the first half so I checked and saw the game was still running. Then I discussed it with my friends and they ask me to cash out but I refused then Sassuolo turned the game around and Score two goals. My friends made life hell for me by mocking me but later on Cremonese scored in the added time to win the game. I flexed hard on my friends after the final whistle.

I don’t usually leave a game when I see a good cash out but I trusted my guts and won. Have you had experience where you choose your opinion over logic advice from friends and won or lost let’s hear it.

Have you ever had a time in the casino where you started strong on slots, maybe even felt like you were on a roll for a while, then suddenly hit a losing streak that wiped out everything? I’ve noticed that no matter how good the start is, I almost always end up losing it all in the end.

That kind of pattern makes me wonder, are these games secretly rigged, or is this just how slots work because of the RTP (return to player), which is usually around 97% or even lower?

When you’re stuck in a losing streak, it really makes you doubt if it’s only bad luck, or if the system is built so you can never walk away ahead.
What do you guys think? Is it pure probability catching up with you, or do casinos tweak the games to make sure you lose eventually?

What really makes a gambler lose? Is it greed? Well it is the illusion of control. Illusion of control leads to continued gambling and the more a gambler plays the more the casinos win, right? As a gambler, you should be able to identify these illusions so you can at least get a hold of yourself.

We often think, deep down, that we can control how we win. No matter how many proof we are presented with that the casino always wins we always think that we can overthrow this theory that applies to everyone. Then it gets justified when we actually win so we will continue playing thinking we can actually decide when to win.

If you get statistical and logical, you will remove these thoughts and you will not become overconfident or superstitious.

I don't really understand why they would do such a thing, unless there are regulators behind all this choice for these stablecoins.

It could be a plan to force people who desire to continue to use their stablecoins to move to more centralized protocols, for the sake of keeping control over users and exchanges.
Anyways, as it stands, one can only hope most of users won't fall for this and stay with stablecoins being offered in Ethereum and Tron.

In the end, the direction of Blockchain as a liberating technology depends almost exclusively on all of us...
This is very bad news... Everyone using those two stablecoins should know about this.

So I moved back to my rural hometown after long years of building a career in the capital city, met up some friends I haven't seen for ages. Hanged out, got to my story and their first question was where did I buy my house. I told them I didn't, I'm in a rental property like I've always been. It was strange at first but then I realized I was their idol, the "rich guy who made it". Then got on to other topics. "So what car do you have?" I told em, I dont have a car. "Fuck it bro, at least did you travel the world?" - Not yet. With 3 questions and 3 answers, I made their whole world view collapse. "Are you even wealthy bro?" Yessiriam. I consider myself wealthy. What makes a man wealthy? Having options. If I'd like, I could buy the house, buy the car or travel the world. I didn't because it's not financially the right decision, at least it wasn't at that moment.

There was a question a few days ago here, someone coined what could be the biggest problem with economies. This is one of them, for sure. People can't differentiate assets and liabilities. They think they own the house, they claim they own the car, and in the meantime they're in utter debt. People strive to take on liabilities instead of building wealth which consists of assets (favorably hard or income-generating assets). They discount their time, become corporate slaves just to keep up with the illusion of their lifestyles they ought to show to the outside world.

And I see this everywhere. The four of us in the room all came from the same school. Same age. Same opportunities. Three wheeling in heavy debt, trynna keep it up with side hustles. One with a positive balance who never needs to be a corporate slave again.