John Oliver Uses $15K Beanie Babies and Rap Videos to Explain Bitcoin

Everything you don’t understand about money combined with everything you don’t understand about computers

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Reuters Launches Bitcoin Sentiment Gauge for Crypto Traders

Reuters Launches Bitcoin Sentiment Gauge for Crypto Traders

Thomson Reuters Corp is to track and analyze chatter about bitcoin on hundreds of news and social media websites to help investors looking for an edge in trading the world’s biggest cryptocurrency, the company said on Monday.

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What Are My Odds of Winning a Perfect March Madness Bracket?

What Are My Odds of Winning a Perfect March Madness Bracket?

The perfect March Madness bracket is elusive, to say the least.  In fact, one would stand a better chance of capturing the Lochness Monster or Big Foot then winning a perfect bracket in any March Madness office pool or NCAA Men's College Basketball Perfect Bracket contest.

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How to Use Bitcoin to Bet the NCAA Men's College Basketball Tournament

How to Use Bitcoin to Bet the NCAA Men's College Basketball Tournament

You can fund your online sports betting account using Bitcoin throughout the NCAA Men's College Basketball Tournament and withdraw using that cryptocurrency, then convert it into USD, euros, pounds or other money by connecting to your bank account.

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Asia Coin Cryptocurrency Rallies While The Bitcoin Price Index Struggles

Asia Coin Cryptocurrency Rallies While The Bitcoin Price Index Struggles

The Bitcoin Price Index has been struggling over the past week since Coinbase established a publicly traded fund on the U.S. Stock market.

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Google Cracking Down on ICO Ads?

While Google claims not to have any official policy against cryptocurrency advertising, some reports suggest that may no longer be the case.

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Hackers Target 400,000 Computers with Mining Malware

More than 400,000 personal computers have been attacked in a large-scale attempt to distribute cryptocurrency mining malware. The hackers used sophisticated trojans to infect PCs mostly in Russia, but also in Turkey, Ukraine, and other countries.

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BetOnline Looks to Restore Service Following Ongoing DOS Attack - UPDATES

BetOnline Looks to Restore Service Following Ongoing DOS Attack

BetOnline.ag, one of the world's largest online gambling sites, released a statement late Friday concerning ongoing outages that have crippled the popular website over the past six days. 

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Galaxy Entertainment in Trouble with Macau Labor Union

Galaxy Entertainment in Trouble with Macau Labor Union

Galaxy Entertainment owns one of six casino properties operating in Macau, China. According to a recent report on Casino.org by Kevin Horridge, it is now facing claims from the local labor union that it is forcing older employees to retire at the age of 60.

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Las Vegas Sands to Sell Pennsylvania Casino for $1.3 Billion

Las Vegas Sands to Sell Pennsylvania Casino for $1.3 Billion

Las Vegas Sands Corp. is selling its casino in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, to an American Indian tribe from Alabama.

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How Do Online Bookies Switch Their Bettors to Bitcoin?

How Do Online Bookies Switch Their Bettors to Bitcoin?

Some online bookies are having trouble getting their sports bettors to switch to Bitcoin. If you’re one of the bookies, you need to give your players a reason. Market the right message to bettors with these 3 reasons why cryptocurrency is best for betting.

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David Chase Working on ‘Sopranos’ Prequel Film

David Chase Working on ‘Sopranos’ Prequel Film

Warner Bros. Pictures says Thursday that New Line has purchased a screenplay for a “Sopranos” prequel from series creator David Chase and Lawrence Konner.

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State Sues Wynn and Board of Directors for Failing to Stop Sexual Misconduct

The state of Oregon has sued Nevada gambling mogul Steve Wynn and the board of directors of Wynn Resorts Ltd. for allegedly failing to act in the best interests of shareholders and stop sexual misconduct at the company, state officials said Wednesday.

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Bookie Getting Out of Jail Looking for a Book Deal

Bookie Getting Out of Jail Looking for a Book Deal

A bookmaker who was sentenced to five years in prison for running a sports betting website that earned hundreds of thousands of dollars will be released next week--and he wants to write a book about his experience!

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Judge Rules That Cryptocurrencies Are Like Commodities

Judge Rules That Cryptocurrencies Are Like Commodities

The ruling is part of a fraud case in Brooklyn against New York resident Patrick McDonnell and his company Coin Drop Markets.

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Japan Penalises Several Cryptocurrency Exchanges Following Hack

Japan Penalises Several Cryptocurrency Exchanges Following Hack

The Japanese government is slapping penalties on several cryptocurrency exchanges in the country, after JPY 58 billion ($530 million or roughly Rs. 3,250 crores) of virtual coins were lost earlier this year from hacking.

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Win Magical Money and Bitcoin Playing The New Wild Spells Slots

Win Magical Money and Bitcoin Playing The New Wild Spells Slots

When you look at the title, it is easy to think that we are talking about witchcraft. That is not the direction we want you to perceive the article. The correct perception should be that if you are interested in knowing about your future, your day ahead of you and everything that is happening in the next minute. That is what we’re talking about.

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Bwin Casino Goes Rogue: 'Unethical Terms for Progressive Jackpot Payouts'

Big name online gambling operator bwin has been slapped with the dreaded "rogue" label this week after long established watchdog site CasinoMeister.com warned of the company's "Unethical terms for progressive jackpot payouts".

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Bittrex Exchange Adds Tether Competitor TrueUSD

Bittrex Exchange Adds Tether Competitor TrueUSD

As the saying goes, don’t keep all your stablecoins in one basket. Over-reliance on tethers could prove costly to an exchange such as Bittrex if U.S. regulators were to crack down on the controversial stablecoin.

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Bitcoin Tanks on News That SEC Wants Crypto Exchanges to Register With Agency

Bitcoin fell Wednesday, dropping below the key $10,000 level after the Securities and Exchange Commission said it will require digital asset exchanges to register with the agency.

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Nevada Rep Requests That Online Gambling Stay Legal

Nevada Rep. Dina Titus has written to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein requesting that he not reverse a 2011 ruling by the Obama administration that online gambling within states did not violate the Wire Act.

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Slumping Las Vegas Strip Looks to Turn Things Around

Every gambler falls into a slump from time to time. This is just the nature of the game. However, sometimes it works the other way around with the gambling halls falling into a slump of their own.

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Report: Hacked Mt. Gox Funds Linked To UK ‘Shell’ Company

The now defunct cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox allegedly used a UK “shell” company to launder some 650,000 BTC (equal to about $6.9 bln at press time) prior to its abrupt closure.

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CNBC: Bitcoin Exchange Coinbase Launches the Dow Jones of Cryptocurrencies

Coinbase has announced it is launching a weighted index fund for cryptocurrencies.

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Intertops Celebrates 20th Anniversary Online

Intertops Celebrates 20th Anniversary

Long time Antigua-based online gambling site, often called the “first ever to launch”, is celebrating its 20th year online.  The company itself has existed for 35 years.

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Manicurist Accuses Casino Mogul of Sexual Misconduct

A woman who says she regularly performed manicures on embattled casino mogul Steve Wynn on Tuesday filed a lawsuit accusing him of sexual misconduct and the company he founded of endorsing his behavior.

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Vegas Congresswoman Asks US to Preserve Internet Gambling

Vegas Congresswoman Asks US to Preserve Internet Gambling

A U.S. congresswoman whose Nevada district includes the Las Vegas Strip asked the federal government Tuesday to keep internet gambling legal.

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Woman Arrested for Fourth Time Running Illegal Internet Gambling Biz

Man Arrested for Fourth Time Running Illegal Internet Gambling Biz

Officers made one arrest and seized at least 13 computers at the sparse site on the first floor of 634 E. Main Street in Stockton, California Monday. 

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Romanian Poker Player Wins 888poker Live Bucharest Final 2018

Romanian Poker Player Wins 888poker Live Bucharest Final 2018

The champ sits down for an interview

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What Are The Best Online Slot Machines To Play For Money and Bitcoin?

What Are The Best Online Slot Machines To Play For Money and Bitcoin?

Have you ever wondered what the best online slot machines to play for Bitcoin or real money? Play Slots 4 Real Money has researched what the most popular online slot machines. 

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