Topic: Why they need a license if bitcon is not money? - page 3. (Read 3051 times)

You are right and I agree with you that when anyone gambling on any site the person must follow their terms and there is no alternative whether that is regarding the KYC issue or something else. If the rules are impossible to follow then the person should avoid the site.

Yeah!  Of course, players come to provide their personal data when they are going to play at the casino without problems and in the event that the casino begins to require verification under the KYC procedure. 

But remember for yourself how unpleasant it was for you to take pictures with documents and send them to an almost unknown person, who in this casino is collecting Personal Data of clients, this is your data.  For example, it was very unpleasant for me to do this.  And I know for sure that this does not give clients any overly serious guarantees.  And leakage of personal data into the network is quite real and possible.  Thus, any KYC procedure disrupts your comfortable life.  And for some players who, for some reason, hide their passion for gambling, all this KYC is simply unacceptable.  But they also want to play comfortably and without problms. 
And this must be taken into account since we are talking about casinos with payments in cryptocurrency.

The government have tried to hinder the growth and future of Bitcoin due to the fact that they can't control or influence it as much as they can. What suprises them is that bitcoin has developed into a very valuable asset an since they sewn it's benefit sooner or later they'll have no choice than to adopt it just like El Salvador has done. Others can think what they want but just like gold and fiat Bitcoin is money (Digital currency).

 We've seen how it's now playing a big role in different industries and companies, thereby spending up transactions and used as an alternative to fiat currency especially in the gambling industry. And with time other countries that's failed to make it a legal currency would be forced on the long run. We've seen how many individuals who gamble are now turning to casinos and online sites that accepts bitcoin as a mode of transaction. With time many online gambling sites would adopt it also.

I don`t know how it works, but i think that such kind of license means, that casino must have enough fiat money to pay cryptousers. I don`t know how it is written, but the idea is about it.

Cmmon... Today we know that the democracy is the rule of the democrats.
El Salvador, Venezuela - these countries hasn`t their own currency. I mean serious currency. And about El Salvador - it doesn`t matter what currency they use, USD or BTC - they have no own currency and as result they have nothing to defend. Any country with their own money will never allow any concurrent.


If you have the only well in the village, will you be happy if someone else will has another? You print money. Will you allow someone else print money too? Why serious countries have to allow BTC?

In what country the main part of BTC is? Who crushed Binance? In what country main mining pools are located? Answer these questions first.
Where BTC more powerful? What it can do, that we can`t do using fiat? If i have $100 i can buy some food anywhere. If i have 100 USDT(or $100 in BTC) i must find internet and some freak who needs it.

No one can control Bitcoin which is why no government in any country will use it as the primary currency in their country instead of FIAT money. However, there is a possibility of using money as an alternative in the future. But who says that Bitcoin is not money? Bitcoin is much more powerful than FIAT money. So there is no chance to neglect it.  We are currently unable to use bitcoins directly for payment in every country, so we have to sell bitcoins and convert them to FIAT.  In this case, the government can make our FIAT transition truck. So how are we using bitcoin tax free?

For me, anyone or institutions that view bitcoin on the negative light is doing so based on their inability to understand what bitcoin is and the role bitcoin perform in the global financial system, and at to what extent have it effects becomes on those that adopted bitcoin both in the early time and currently timing.


If you checked bitcoin have hard a significant milestone a d at the same time bitcoin have always impacted it investor's positively more than the ratio of whatever negativity may be.

That's the way we Bitcoiners sees it. Bitcoin causes no harm and I believe that these so called oppressors are also partakers of Bitcoins freedom of decentralization but in the dark. In reality they claim to be haters and tries everything as possible to stop any business that deal more with Bitcoin. To be sincere, if they so much dont see Bitcoin as a form of money but as a form where criminal activities are carried out, then they shouldn't tax casinos who uses Bitcoin as a currency and stop imposing kyc on them. I believe countries that hasn't yet accepted Bitcoin and keeps chasing it away will never be able to understand what and how valuable Bitcoin is till it's too late. They might claim to have good reasons but I do think they are scared of what Bitcoin can do.

I don't see any reason for serious countries not to accept Bitcoin contrary to what you said. Like I always say, they should stop denying themselves the money due to them due to ignorance and excesses that are not being thought through. They should rather regulate and not castigate. If the US and the top-rated countries of the world could allow Bitcoin, I don't think we need more seriousness anymore because these countries are indeed serious. Bitcoin is not a necessary evil, it is just a means of transacting that is decentralised and that could call for some privacy and anonymity in some cases. Notwithstanding, the government can still make the casinos or any company dealing with Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies accountable in their country with strict regulations that should have been well laid down.

This is to avoid issues like cheating, illegal flows and tax evasion. My country turned a deaf ear to this and has missed billions of dollars in a few years even as the citizens continue to give free money to those companies. This is foolishness in my opinion, and in all good sense of thinking, if the countries can reason it through, they would know that regulation and strict enforcement would have taken care of the involvement of their citizens and the companies dealing with Bitcoin by making them accountable for transparency. They will have access to the inflow and outflows, now tell me, what else do they need to be serious countries?

It depends on what you definition of "acceptance" is, I think.
If we call about recognition and free circulation, then I would say most countries in the planet won't have any problems on recognizing Bitcoin as an asset. Even strange and undemocratic countries like mine (Venezuela) give some recognition to Bitcoin and it is legal here to use, mine and store Bitcoin as individuals.
On the other hand, there are countries which go further beyond like El Salvador, where they have started to accept Bitcoin as a legal tender. So you are implying El Salvador is not a serious country? I would disagree with it.

Keep in mind El Salvador before the wide adoption of Bitcoin had free circulation of United States dollars in the country, so we cannot argue they had only a weak Fiat, like we did in Venezuela.
When a country starts to accepts Bitcoin and recognize it as an assets which one could use as wager, it does not mean anything about the serious of such country, it only gives us an idea on the willingness of collecting taxes and regularizing an industry.

That sounds pretty bad outside cryptos but since we are here in crypto, I think it is only fine. If cryptos has advantages, it also has disadvantages and one of it is like that you said above. You are right about casinos with licenses and even if we say that most of them are trusted, they still can be weak in terms of other features. The decision of choosing a casino will only depend on us and we must take the consequences because not all casinos can have it all.

For me, I prefer the unlicensed one and I'm lucky that my experiences are all smooth. The good thing about playing in an unlicensed casino is it forces me to be extra careful, so I will only play with smaller amounts. That means, I can also lose less if I'm unlucky and I'm less prone to addictions.

I’m not sure if other countries have this law but we have a license dedicated for Cryptocurrencies services, either exchange, casino or anything that involved crypto services needs this specific license before they operate.

So even if Bitcoin is not considered as money, the giver is not blind to not see that cryptocurrency is backed by fiat currency which is money that’s why they have special license or bill that dedicated to regulate crypto services.

I don`t think that serious countries will accept BTC. They have their fiat money and it is enough for all purposes.
Taxes we get on the profit. And i don`t think that someone get a bill with BTC in it. No, we got taxes in fiat money. I don`t like it but it is correct - when you get any profit - you pay taxes.

I don't think i can also make use of a casino gambling platform that is not licensed, this means that they are operating under no regulation atmosphere and there is nothing that one can use in tracing them in case of anything happens and they take away our money or the website remain inaccessible, nevertheless, we should also not conclude that having license is a means of proof that we should rely and trust in any random gambling website, we need to further more on making research about them.

I didn't get you correctly due to the poor English, or perhaps you forgot to read and make corrections. Notwithstanding, did you mean you support the licenced ones or what? If yes, you've made the right bargain, but it is not an automatic endorsement of sincerity or serving you right. You might do yourself a better favour to actually verify them well if you can go through the stress, though it is not necessary. Some do this because many of these so-called licenced casinos are not actually licensed, it is a pure lie, and since they are using the pretended licenced numbers of weak regulators, that will continue to go unabated since those regulators will not even search for sanctions or to issue public warning.

Also, I love the remark that you eventually made here in relation to Bitcoin talk. Though, they can't entirely be trusted, but some of the casinos that are not licenced but advertised and vouched for here delivered so well since there were little or no complaints at least from Bitcointalk members. But like I said, it is not all of them and there are a few of them that people were unable to get their money from. So, serious care is needed here to avoid issues as well.

You might be right. However we can't deny that nowadays having a license is one of the few factors to say that the casino is legit. Although it doesn't necessarily mean they're not going to be a shady platform that can scam their players.

Anyway, even here the Government is not really into Bitcoin and still warned the citizens to be careful since it's an speculative asset. But they're requiring these crypto casinos to have a license. They just can't admit that crypto or Bitcoin to be a specific also works as fiat though it doesn't have a physical feature.

What he said is bullshit. As you said, countries often block access to these types of rooms, especially those that require a specific license to operate in the country. What happens is that they do not have control of all the rooms, and if a new one comes out today, it will take some time before they have news and block it. On the other hand, the blocking can be skipped. And the people who gamble in those cryptocurrency casinos with respect to the total who play in licensed casinos in the country are a tiny minority.

The problem here is that government cannot regulate bitcoin, though they have the control to regulate other crypto but not with bitcoin being inclusive, gambling is accepted in many countries, likewise bitcoin is legal for use in many countries as well, the lack of control is what makes government to always fight against bitcoin, but time will make the difference, they will soon accept that they are the same working for and kicking against their take as well concerning bitcoin and gambling acceptability.

yet ?licensed or not? Bitcoin is needed to gamble though the title should be changed in CRYPTO instead of
gambling itself because online gambling now has tons of altcoins accepted than just bitcoin because for us? the
problem in this matter is that when bitcoin and ethereum had congestions and the fees are really increasing so high.

I don't think they necessarily allow it, but they have yet to find the time and effort to actually block them. In my country, a lot of overseas platforms related to illegal activity based on our national law are blocked, and the list is getting bigger. I don't think it is efficient nor it will stop people from finding or launching new services though, but the government definitely wants to stop such things from happening. Not sure how other countries tackle this issue, I don't think having a license from Curacao or other offshore countries will help their cases anyway.

I don't think that's the general sentiment on this forum though. IIRC, some people shared articles about existing casino licenses and how the users can verify the license themselves. I think that's what this license offers, not necessarily ensuring they don't scam you or something similar. I don't think a crypto-based business should rely on blind trust tbh.

Nowadays digital payment systems are very popular and also cryptocurrency is used for digital payment. Different countries make different decisions about cryptocurrency. Although Bitcoin does not accept legal money so many countries. But it has exchange value and is used also as an online casino platform. It is a very complex question Who uses Cryptocurrency should be licensed or not. Bitcoin licenses have good and bad effects carefully considering this topic. Regardless of the decision, it is important for individuals and businesses to stay informed about any applicable legal requirements and to use cryptocurrencies safely and legally. The license ensures trust and belief for its users.