Business/Financial

Craig Wright vs. Peter McCormack Libel Trial Gets Underway

Craig Wright vs. Peter McCormack Libel Trial Gets Underway

Meanwhile, the BSV Blockchain Conference is about to get underway in Dubai as the CoinGeek team gathers there.  Gaming is expected to take center stage.

Submitted by Aaron Goldstein on, May/23/2022

Betting Markets Indicate No Musk Takeover and Falling Twitter Stock

Betting Markets Indicate No Musk Takeover and Falling Twitter Stock

Elon Musk taking over Twitter seems like a 50-50 proposition at this point, but the people who crunch numbers for a living are giving it even less of a chance.

Submitted by Aaron Goldstein on, May/18/2022

Craig Wright’s Defamation Suit Will Proceed...Plus Calls for Hearing on TerraUSD's Collapse

Craig Wright’s Defamation Suit Will Proceed...Plus Calls for Hearing on TerraUSD's Collapse

The price of UST plunged to 10 cents last week, while Luna fell to "virtually zero", down from an all-time high of $119.51.

Submitted by Aaron Goldstein on, May/18/2022

Elon Musk Bets Still Available as Twitter Purchase No Longer a Sure Thing

Elon Musk Bets Still Available as Twitter Purchase No Longer a Sure Thing

Elon Musk says that $44 billion Twitter acquisition deal cannot proceed until there is proof provided that the social media platform has fewer than 5% fake accounts as BetUS continued offering betting odds on Musk, mostly tied to Twitter.

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Submitted by C Costigan on, May/17/2022

Inflation Still Near 40-year Highs as Bitcoin Drops Below $40K

Inflation Still Near 40-year Highs as Bitcoin Drops Below $40K

BetOnline trims its June 30 Dow Jones closing total by 250 to 32250.5 in the past 24 hours.

Submitted by Aaron Goldstein on, May/11/2022

Dow Rebounds a Bit After Tech Giants Lose $1 Trillion in Trading Over Last Three Days

Rebounds a Bit After Tech Giants Lose $1 Trillion in Trading Over Last Three Days

And Bitcoin continues its downward spiral, shedding another 3.2% off its price over the past 24 hours.

Submitted by Aaron Goldstein on, May/10/2022

California Moves to Embrace Cryptocurrency and Regulate it

California Moves to Embrace Cryptocurrency and Regulate it

California, which has a economy larger than all but four countries and where much of the world’s technological innovation is born, on Wednesday became the first state to formally begin examining how to broadly adapt to cryptocurrency and related innovations.

Submitted by Associated Press on, May/05/2022

Roger Ver Big Twitter Comeback

Roger Ver Big Twitter Comeback

You know him as the man behind Bitcoin Cash, but for the past year Roger Ver has mostly been quiet on Twitter.  Perhaps on news that Elon Musk has acquired the social media platform, Ver is back with a vengeance.

Submitted by Aaron Goldstein on, May/04/2022

US iGaming & Sports Books Can Accept Payment Via Nuvei

US iGaming & Sports Books Can Accept Payment Via Nuvei

Nuvei Corporation (“Nuvei” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: NVEI) (TSX: NVEI), tomorrow’s payment platform, announces today that it has joined with Fifth Third Bank, National Association, to bring real-time deposits to the U.S. sports betting and iGaming industries.

Submitted by Payton on, May/03/2022

Venture Capitalists Pile into Crypto with FOMO

With fear of missing out on the crypto wave, VC investment in such projects totalled $10 billion globally in the first quarter of this year, the largest quarterly sum ever and more than double the level seen in the same period a year ago, according to data from Pitchbook.]

Crypto investment was once a tepid toe in the water, but VC interest has surged in 2021. Full-year totals for 2019, 2020 and 2021 were $3.7 billion, $5.5 billion, and $28 billion.

Submitted by flash on, May/03/2022

Price Per Head for Dummies

Price Per Head for Dummies

A PPH service and provider is fundamental to running a sportsbook. Get a deep understanding of these solutions with this 'price per head for dummies' guide.

Submitted by C Costigan on, May/02/2022

Bookie Agent Profits

Bookie Agent Profits

Bookie agents are people that accept wagers on various sporting events and pay people when they win the wagers and collect from people when they lose the wagers. A bookie can either give players a set credit limit for the week to bet with or make players pay upfront before they make wagers.

Submitted by C Costigan on, May/02/2022

Certihash Joins Forces With IBM to Develop Enterprise Suite of Blockchain Info

Certihash Joins Forces With IBM to Develop Enterprise Suite of Blockchain Info

Certihash on Thursday April 28 announced a new project to develop “Sentinel Node”, the first of a suite of five blockchain-empowered enterprise utility applications, based on the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) cybersecurity framework.

Submitted by Aaron Goldstein on, Apr/28/2022

Where Can I Bet This Year's Kentucky Derby Online From My State Using Bitcoin

Where Can I Bet This Year's Kentucky Derby Online From My State Using Bitcoin

Bitcoin is now the most common form of payment used between players and online sportsbooks.   Around 75% of all transactions at BetOnline are via Bitcoin and this will include wagering on the Kentucky Derby.

Submitted by Don Shapiro on, Apr/27/2022

Can I Send Bitcoin From Texas to Gamble Online?

Can I Send Bitcoin From Texas to Gamble Online?

It is legal to use Bitcoin in the United States, and this includes Texas.  While you can send and receive funds to and from your online gambling account, it is important that you do so using a wallet, and not directly between an exchange and the gambling website.

Submitted by Aaron Goldstein on, Apr/27/2022

Gaming Continues to Dominate as BSV Tops 20 million Transactions

Gaming Continues to Dominate as BSV Tops 20 million Transactions

The BSV blockchain continues to shatter records as it has reached yet another remarkable milestone of 20 million transactions in a single day this past week.

Submitted by Aaron Goldstein on, Apr/23/2022

Find Netflix Betting Odds

Find Netflix Betting Odds

Company witnessed a sharp dip in its stock price the week of April 18 after reporting the first loss in subscribers in over a decade.

Submitted by Aaron Goldstein on, Apr/21/2022

IPv6 and the BSV Blockchain: "Will Make it Unstopable"

Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the most recent version of the Internet Protocol (IP), the communications protocol that provides an identification and location system for computers on networks and routes traffic across the Internet.

Submitted by Gilbert Horowitz on, Apr/14/2022

Cryptocurrency Expert Gets 5 Years in NKorea Sanctions Case

Cryptocurrency Expert Gets 5 Years in NKorea Sanctions Case

A cryptocurrency expert has been sentenced to more than five years in federal prison for helping North Korea evade U.S. sanctions.

Submitted by Associated Press on, Apr/13/2022

Find Jobs in Cryptocurrency, Blockchain Industry

Find Jobs in Cryptocurrency, Blockchain Industry

The job field in cryptocurrencies and blockchain continues to be in high demand.  Skills needed typically include C++, Python, and Javascript for developers but many companies and organizations employ those with entry level experience as well.  Bitcoin mining has become especially popular. 

Submitted by Aaron Goldstein on, Apr/13/2022

Blockchain 4 Gaming Conference in Warsaw Announced Plus CoinGeek Hits Miami for Hugely Successful Weekend

Blockchain 4 Gaming Conference in Warsaw  Announced, A Look at CoinGeek Popup BitArcade in Miami

Our friends at CoinGeek were in Miami Beach for Bitcoin 2022 and so were we.

Submitted by Aaron Goldstein on, Apr/11/2022

Nick Szabo is Not Satoshi

Nick Szabo is Not Satoshi

Szabo is a computer scientist, cypherpunk, cryptographer and an expert in C++ coding. He is also a legal scholar with a background in cryptocurrency theory.

Submitted by Jagajeet Chiba on, Apr/06/2022

Missing Thodex CEO May Face 40,000+ Years Behind Bars in New Indictment

Missing Thodex CEO May Face 40,000+ Years Behind Bars in New Indictment

Faruk Fatih Ozer is accused of disappearing with around $24 million in user funds from the crypto exchange, which ceased operating a year ago.  Actual losses may be as much as $2.6 billion.

Submitted by Jagajeet Chiba on, Apr/05/2022

John McAfee’s Life as an NFT on the BSV Blockchain

John McAfee’s Life as an NFT on the BSV Blockchain

The colorful and controversial late British-American computer programmer, businessman, and two-time presidential candidate, John McAfee, lives on as none other than an NFT.

Submitted by Aaron Goldstein on, Apr/03/2022

This Week's Gambling 911 Most Hated: Peter McCormack

This Week's Gambling 911 Most Hated: Peter McCormack

The visceral reaction to one Peter McCormack from the BSV Nation is something we rarely see to such a lopsided degree.

Submitted by Jagajeet Chiba on, Apr/01/2022

Peter McCormack Fails to Pay Dr. Craig Wright: Court Demands Answers

Peter McCormack Fails to Pay Dr. Craig Wright: Court Demands Answers

Plus British Finance Minister Rishi Sunak is expected to announce a new regulatory regime for crypto in the coming weeks, sources tell CNBC.

Submitted by Jagajeet Chiba on, Mar/27/2022

HandCash Goes Back to its Roots: Instant Payments for Gaming

HandCash Goes Back to its Roots

HandCash provides a solution for instant payments across apps and games, worldwide.  It is a leading wallet provider for the Bitcoin SV ecosystem that is best known for its pioneering approaches to make Bitcoin as user friendly as possible.

Submitted by Aaron Goldstein on, Mar/21/2022

Biden Signs Order on Cryptocurrency as its Use Explodes

Biden Signs Order on Cryptocurrency as its Use Explodes

President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed an executive order on government oversight of cryptocurrency that urges the Federal Reserve to explore whether the central bank should jump in and create its own digital currency.

Submitted by Associated Press on, Mar/10/2022

Kleiman v Wright: Court Adds Interest to $100M Judgment, Bringing Total to $143M

Judge Beth Bloom has granted a request by Ira Kleiman’s attorneys to add pre-judgment interest to the $100 million awarded to W&K in last year’s Kleiman v Wright lawsuit.  Wright's attorneys had not objected to the addition of prejudgment interest.

Submitted by Aaron Goldstein on, Mar/09/2022

BitConnect Founder Indicted Over $2.4B Ponzi Scheme Has Vanished

BitConnect Founder Indicted Over $2.4B Ponzi Scheme Has Vanished

Satish Kumbhani, the indicted founder of BitConnect, has vanished.   US authorities have no idea where he might be.

Submitted by Aaron Goldstein on, Mar/08/2022

Breaking News

Why Do iGaming Sites Gamify Themselves?

Why Do iGaming Sites Gamify Themselves?

The world of online gambling has witnessed a significant rise in the gamification trend within iGaming sites in recent years. Gamifying iGaming sites refers to the process of incorporating game-like elements and mechanics into online gambling platforms to enhance the user experience.