I don't think that this is a bullish news. Promoting gambling is always wrong, I think. I understand that the aim of the post is to tell that peer to peer is used for the online gambling sites but this is not new. I know that since two years ago this technology was adopted from such sites. I have no proof or link to put it here but even my news may not be true, this kind of news which promote gambling in some way, according to me, is wrong.
It's bullish dear because there are a lot of money in the gambling scene, A LOT !!
Latest poker sites were using online banks like Neteller, Skrill and such. But Bitcoin would be a killer here
I don't agree with you about the gambling and you reasons to consider bullish those. But everyone has its ideas and the world is beauty because is different.
The key is volume in this area, and I have to say I see a ton of BTC thrown around.
But I think that not every ton of bitcoins can be important. I cannot say that the bitcoins of Silk Road are important. The bitcoin without the moral is nothing according to me. In this case we are not in the same situation because the regulated gambling is legit but near of that, I think, yes. I'm sure that most people play to earn and lose the money of the everyday bread hoping that one time will have jackpot only trying without stopping themselves. Maybe the problem is the person itself but i see that the gambling has the power to convert to many people like the above person. And this is wrong. As for me gambling is wrong and must have very severe rules for this kind of "entertainment".
This not a very freedom and liberty based mindset. Which is what Bitcoin was born from.
Look man we all have personal beliefs. But requiring strict punishment for gambling fits right into a dictatorship of regulation. Bitcoin is freedom from everything, (in theory). People come to this space to free themselves of the over reaching hands of regulation.
You might not agree with gambling. But people are adults who make their own decisions. Those decisions my be horrably but that is not our place or the governments place to stop it. All that BTC going into gambling is pumped back into the ecosystem to pay labor, services, licensing, advertising, ect. So gambling sites actualy make a ton of volume in the space (
good or bad not the issue).
What we see is transaction and as long as that continues to go up we are growing.I am repeating the same thing and we will continue forever with this discussion because we think different. For me that money which become from gambling are not money become from the freedom of everything (which is a concept that don't have sense and I will explain this below) but from the doing bad. I don't agree this conception even this can grow the transactions or the "power" of bitcoin. I cannot accept the dirty bitcoin. I will fight for the cleanly bitcoin and only for that. Only this bitcoin can give or pay "labor, services, licensing, advertising, ect". The other bitcoin give or pay only pain and death.
I think that for you the dead of Silk Road it is a disaster for bitcoin. This a very big wrong thinking. This thinking can destroy bitcoin.
As for the concept of freedom from everything this is a concept which don't exist. Your freedom exist since this freedom don't touch mine of Fakhoury's freedom. In that moment you need to stop. If you don't stop are the authorities which stop you. Why? Because you are touching my freedom. And my freedom have the same importance as yours. Exactly for this reason you have no right to touch my freedom. In this way your freedom is not an "EVERYTHING FREEDOM". It is LIMITED FREEDOM. By the rules. We live in society and we must respect the rules of the society. If you want everything freedom you must live forever only with yourself in a mountain, in a forest, in a desert or in another place when no one live.